a warm glow to the scene include
a beautiful window design at the j
Matanuska Valley Lodge by Mrs. i
W. Smith, and a gaily decorated |
Christmas tree in the windows of '
the Dee-Jay shop.
Santa Claus is scheduled to ar
rive tomorrow afternoon at 3
o’clock at the Palmer Drug store.
He is coming to town early this
HERE FROM ANCHORAGE
Robert Claire of the Anchorage
office of the Department of In
ternal Revenue, spent the week
here on business.
year so that for the first time
here children of the Valley and
Palmer may have their picture
taken with him.
Tf;
} CONSERVATION
I NOTES
By LEW HANKS
Well, we’ve had a snow recent
ly. No wind, either—at least not
at the time this column was writ
er*. That snow looks pretty nice
on the ground—covers up all the
wind erosion we could see last
week. It also contains a bit of
water that I’m sure we can use
next spring. It sure would be
nice if we could keep it on the
fields until then.
I have just finished reading an
article on snow ridging in North
Dakota. Ridges of snow were
thrown up about 20 to 30 feet
apart. Graders, snow plows or
any implements that would move
snow were used. This practice
kept the snow on about 8,000
acre that were ridged last win
ter.
Soil moisture could be in’short
supply next spring if the weather
is at all similar to last year. Virgil
Eckert tells me he never saw the
soil go into a winter as dry as it
was this year. If by ridging snow
we can keep it from blowing
away we might gain a lot next
spring. Incidentally, while you
have snow cover the soil doesn’t
blow either. It also might keep
the snow from piling up in the
east-west roads.
The practice increased grain
and flax yields in North Dakota
about 10 per cent by conserving
the moisture.
It has never been tried here
on a field basis. Maybe it won’t :
work so well. Maybe it will. It !
won’t cost much to try. Think it ;
over.
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Yuletide Decorations in School
Windows Add to Pre-Holiday Scene
I Yuletide decorations, Palmer’s;
i blanket of snow and a promised i
visit by Santa Claus tomorrow j
afternoon bring the realization
that Christmas is but a little more
than two weeks away.
School windows on all floors
at the front of the building dec
orated to carry out an attractive
Yuletide design, add an especial
ly happy note to the pre-Christ
mas scene. Each room facing the
front of the building has designed
its own decoration to carry put
the overall theme. A special com
mittee for the attractive decora
tions is comprised of faculty
members Miss Doris Nique, Miss
Betty Kreutz and Miss Nettie
Smith.
The decorations are but a part
of the Christmas program planned
at the school. The day-long fes
tivities will start Friday morning,
December 22, with Christmas car
oling. From 10 a.m. to 12 noon,
children from the different ele
mentary grade home rooms will
sing the carols in the corridors of
the school. At 2 o’clock that af
tei’noon parents and friends will
gather in the school auditorium
tor a three-part program to be
oresented by the students. The
orimary grade will give a pro
gram as the first part; a play by
toe eighth grade will be the sec
ond part. The third part will con
sist of the presentation of the
story of the Nativity, portrayed
by colored slides and accompanied
by Christmas carols sung by the
entire school. There will also be
appropriate Bible readings. The
slides are from the collection of
the Rev. George Geiwitz.
Other decorations that also add
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