UNIVERSITY BB TEAM
TO GO STATESIDE ;
PALMER MAN ON TEAM
For the first time since the
"birth of the University of Alaska,
30 years ago, an athletic team
'will represent the University in
stateside competition.
This season’s team is composed
of boys from Alaska. Among the
12 men who will leave Fairbanks
the night of December 19, is
Wesley Eckert of Palmer, six
foot, one inch forward. Son of Mr.
and Mrs. Virgil Eckert, Wes is
former captain of the Palmer
High School basketball team and
has been alternating with Joe
Ninnis of Juneau at center and
forward on this year’s University
team. According to the ‘‘Players
Sketch,” Wes is considered a good
passer and a fairly consistent
scorer. His rebounding is a big
help and with more experience he
is expected to be one of the bet
ter ball players ever turned out
at the University of Alaska.
This season, the University is
averaging 72 points per game for
seven games against an opponents
average 53 points per game.
When the team reaches the states
it is probable that some of the
stateside competition could be in
for a rough night.
However, because of the lack of
college competition here; the
small floors: the inexperience and
excellent chance of “shakes”
after never having played before
more than a few hundred people,
the boys are going to have to
play better than they’ve ever
played before.
The feeling in Alaska, is win,
lose or draw, the stateside trip
is a fine thing. It will create in
terest in the University, the Ter
ritory and the people. Who knows
what the future holds. Some day,
the University will hold a right
ful place in the athletic picture of
the United States.
Tentative games schedule for
the stateside trip is as follows:
Dec. 22: Willamette University;1
Dec. 25 or 26: University of
Washington; Dec. 27: Pacific
Lutheran College; Dec. 28: East
ern Oregon State Teachers Col
lege; Dec. 30: Whitman College;
Jan. 2 and Jan. 3: Whitworth
College. The “Polar Bears” will
leave Fairbanks December 19 and
return January 5.
CHRISTMAS CANTATA
TO BE PRESENTED
BY CHURCH OF GOD
The Cantata, “A Gift Supreme”
will be presented by the Church
of God choir Sunday evening,
December 21, during a holiday
program planned to start at 8 p.m.
Children of the Sunday School
will present a program previous
to the Cantata.
Church members will take
Christmas gifts for the church
baskets to be distributed to needy
families in the Valley.
The public is invited to attend.
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DECEMBER 21—22
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SURVEY PUBLICATION
ISSUED BY BLM
Local surveyors will be inter
ested in a new publication of the
Bureau of Land Management en
titled RESTORATION OF LOST
OR OBLITERATED CORNERS
AND SUBDIVISION OF SEC
TIONS, 1952, Secretary of the
Interior, Oscar L. Chapman said
today.
The pamphlet is a supplement
to the manual of surveying in
structions issued in 1947 by the
Bureau of Land Management.
The Director, Bureau of Land
Management, under the supervi
sion of the Secretary of the In
terior, has complete jurisdiction
over the survey and resurvey of
the public lands of the United
States, including the Territory of
Alaska.
After title to a piece is granted,
jurisdiction over the property
passes to the State; the Federal
Government retains its authority
only with respect to the public
lands in Federal ownership.
Where the lands are in private
ownership it is a function of the
local surveyor to restore lost cor
ners and to sub-divide the sec
tions.
Surveying corners are of great
importance to local and national
economy, for these are the foun
dations on which rests title to
homestead lands, small tracts, and
other lands that are to pass into
private ownership.
“That foundation on public
lands is also necessary before the
timber can be harvested, oil and
gas and other minerals develop
ed, the grazing lands administer
ed, or the wildlife and recreation
al uses managed in the best in
terest of all the people. Under
the law, public lands must be
surveyed and the corners on the
boundaries of those lands estab
lished before many of the man
agement phases can be under
taken,’’ Director Marion Clawson
said.
He states in the foreward to the
pamphlet:
“We know that it is becoming
more and more difficult to re
cover the evidence of the survey
corners established many years
ago, and that the processes of
proper restoration of lost corners
sometimes are not clearly under
stood. We hope that the material
in this pamphlet will serve to
answer many of the questions in
the minds of those engaged in
this work.
“In addition to the subject
matter indicated by the title, we
have included an explanation of
the methods found by experience
to be generally successful in the
retracement of the lines of the
public land surveys and recovery
of evidence of the comers and
other marks of those surveys.
“A limited amount of addition
al material has been added in
response to frequent inquiries on
the subject of meander lines and
riparian rights.”
Copies of the publication edited
by Donald B. Clement of the
Bureau of Land Management’s
Division of Cadastral Engineering
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CONSERVATION
NOTES
The Territorial Board of Alaska
Soil Conservation District meets
this week in the Soil Conserva
tion office at Palmer.
This board at present consists
of Clarence Hoffman and Howard
Estelle of Palmer, and Bert
Stimple of Fairbanks. The board
is appointed by the Governor.
Representatives of each Soil Con
servation Sub-District in the
Territory also attend the semi
annual meetings. The board sets
the policy and provides a work
plan and program under which
the Soil Conservation Service op
erates in the Territory. The S.C.S.
can only operate in an era by re
quest and under the direction of
such a board.
One of the basic policies of the
board is that of providing guid
ance to settlers. For this reason,
and with the assistancet of the
Bureau of Land Management,
over a million acres of climatical
ly suitable land in the Territory
have been mapped and classified.
Its capabilities for agricultural
use have been determined and
recorded. This information is on
file in the Soil Conservation Ser
vice Territorial office at Palmer,
recorded on aerial photographs
and is available for use by all in
terested parties. The Alaska Soil
Conservation District is publiciz
ing this information as fast as
funds permit. Plans are being
made by board members to con
tinue these surveys as an inven- j
tory of our agricultural resources, j
There is a great deal of land in
this Territory that is suitable for
farming. I know, I’ve walked
over quite a bit of it myself. I
have the detailed soils informa
tion on a lot more of it. The area
we have mapped now is less than
half the areas we believe to con
tain sizable bocks of farm land.
There is a lot of mapping yet to
do. Some day Alaska farms will
feed a lot more people than we
can imagine. The Territorial
Board of the Alaska Soil Conser
vation District is doing its part
to accomplish this purpose.
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in U. S. Commissioner’s Court
December 8 following his plea of
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Patrol.
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CHRISTMAS PROGRAMS
Special services are being
planned for the Christmas season
at the United Protestant Church,
Rev. Brian H. Cleworth reported
this week.
Christmas Sunday, December
21, the services include: Sunday
School at 10 o’clock with classes
for all from three years of age
through adults. At 11 o’clock,
morning worship with Christmas
music and message, “God . . .
Loved . . . Gave.”
Sunday evening at 7:30 the new
Cantata, “Glory to God” will be
presented by the choir under the
direction of William Rempel.
Soloists with the choir will be
Miss Lois Thompson, soprano;
Miss Margaret Conway and Mrs.
Irene Cleworth, contrlto; Duane
Huntley, tenor and Leo Getsgo,
base.
The Sunday School program
and party will be held in the
church Monday evening at 7:30
p.m. A social time will follow the
program. All children and parents
are invited to the program and
social.
Christmas Eve there will be an
hour long service of Candlelight
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