VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
Entered as second class matter on Oct. 21, 1947, at the post office at
Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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Letters to the Editor
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA.
College, Alaska.
Office of the President.
I have read with careful attention the article of April 27. 1951,
in the Valley Frontiersman, concerning the location of a College of
'Agriculture at Palmer and was most unhappy in not being able to
attend the Colony day program recently held in Palmer as I had
planned to comment on the suggestion then. I was stricken with
a rather sudden illness at the Board of Regents meeting and was
confined to the hospital for several days and ordered to cancel all
my engagements for a week. I hope that before too long, there will
be an opportunity to visit Palmer and meet with you and Mr. Snod
grass to discuss the matter further. In the meantime, there are a
number of points we might bear in mind prior to our meeting.
(1) I have urged and will con
tinue to urge the Board of Re
gents to establish a College of Ag
riculture at the University of Al
‘ aska which will be comparable to
our present School of Mines. This
school would utilize the talents of
our existing three departments:
academic department, agricultur
al experiment stations, and exten
sion service.
(2) In order to have an ade
quate College of Agriculture, it is
of course necessary to offer a
-complete collegiate program to
meet acreditation requirements,
and not just merely offer a few
courses in agriculture. If one ex
amines the university catalogue
under agriculture, it becomes ob
vious that a necessary part of the
curriculum includes courses in the
fields of English, physics, mathe
matics, military science, chemis
try, economics, public speaking,
and electives from other fields in
addition to the courses in agricul
ture themselves. Presumably the
f statement regarding the present
budget in the April 27th Fron
tiersman refers to the courses in
agriculture only. But to these
must be added the other funds
spent in the biology, wildlife,
~ home economics, research and ex
tension service programs in order
to give a true picture of what is
currently available to University
of Alaska students in agriculture
at the present time. In locating
the College of Agriculture at Pal
, mer, Homer, College, or in any
other location, it would obviously
be necessary to make all of these
courses available in order to have
an adequate curriculum that
would be accepted by other uni
versities offering similar training.
The University of Alaska must
serve the entire Territory and do
it the most effective way with the
budget approved for this purpose.
With the aid of Administrative
Assistant for Agriculture Lynn O.
Hollist, I have a proposal of my
own which will require regent
approval, by which the University
of Alaska I believe may be better
able to serve the entire Territory
in agriculture; and I look forward
to discussing this with you and
Mr. Snodgrass and others before
submitting it to the regents as a
definite proposal.
Cordially yours,
TERRIS MOORE,
President.
Dear Sir:
Please forgive me for taking
the liberty of writing you, but I
have been trying to locate a lost
brother and I have reason to be
lieve he is in Alaska.
His name is Robert Earl Tid
rick, light brown hair, blue eyes,
5 ft., 4 in., age 39, wears glasses.
He is a skilled mason by trade,
does carpentry, pipe fitting work.
He served four years in India dur
ing World War II. I have not
seen him for four years as he just
dropped out of sight.
We have an aged mother who
is on her death bed and is just
hanging on thinking and praying
he will come home. Would it be
Coffey Insures Every Thing
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RARE WOOD DUCKS
SHOT BY POACHERS
U. S. Deputy Marshall Bill Bou
v.ens is mourning wood ducks
and warning shooters.
For years a family of these rare
birds nested in the trees near the
cemetery pond. In the nest in the
trees the young were hatched and
then Mama Duck would fly them
down on her back, to teach them
the waterways.
And then, one day, Mama Duck
was gone. And no more fuzzy
ducklings in the treebranch nest.
And then the drake was missing.
“Kids or irresponsible persons
with rifles,” muttered Bouwens.
“The wood ducks have been here
for yqars and some brainless
youngsters or others smart-alec
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Let me lay my hands on the guil
ty persons and they will face
charges.”
possible for you to check the
unions or tell me where to write
so I might locate him.
I am a worried sister,
Mrs. Jesse Roberts,
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San Diego, Calif.
Coffey Insures Everything—
Remember?
Chemicals Used
To Kill Brush
Edging Highways
Experiment with chemicals to
kill brush along the highways,
shortcutting and simplifying the
old procedure of bulldozing, is
underway by the Alaska Road
Commission on roads out of Pal
mer.
We’ll start on the main roads
first.” Oliver Onkka, head of ARC
said yesterday.
Purpose of the brush clear
ance is to eliminate winter drifts
which block the highways and
feeding roads.
Commenting on road conditions
Onkka said Hatcher’s Pass should
be open about June 18th. Now
there is 33 feet of snow in the
saddle of mountains, probably
with many washouts. That road
probably will be passable July 1.
On the Wasilla road there are
about 20,000 yards of dirt to move
in the big job of straightening the
road. That probably will be com
pleted in about two weeks.
The road from here to Anchor
age is reported in “fine condition”.
“The Commission is right on
the line for present upkeep and
future planning,” Onkka said.
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