Harry Campbell, Jr., Tall and Tired,
Returns From Scout Tour of States
Palmer’s Jamboree Scout, Har
ry Campbell, Jr., came home to
the Valiev on Tuesday of this
week, after a
month’s tour of
the states. He
was glad to be
back and so
tired he wants
nothing so
much as a rest
in order to re
cuperate from
his once - in - a -
lifetime vaca
tion, which was
his first venture
outside of the
Anchorage area and the Valley.
Harry says Jamboree activities
and sightseeing tours for the
Scouts kept -him so busy every
minute that he hadn’t time to let
Valley folks know how much he
was enjoying the trip. However
he prepared a day by day diary,
and he’s going to present a be
lated account of the trip, piece
meal, in the next issue or two of
the Frontiersman.
Although Harry’s home now,
the last written account the Fron
tiersman had of him was his stop
at Valdez. We pick him up at
Cordova in mid-June:
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June 15
We arrived at Cordova on time
at one in the morning and left at
six that same morning. We en
tered the Gulf of Alaska about
*3:30 a.m. I got seasick at 10 a.m.,
and was sick until we left the
Gulf at 10:30 the following morn
ing . All except four of the Scouts
fm the boat were seasick.
June 16
I didn’t do much all day except
play shuffleboard and watch the
scenery go by.
We came to Juneau at eight
p.m. and went out to Mendenhall
Glacier. Then we went on a
kind of tour to see some of the
sights around the outskirts of Ju
neau and to look around the town.
We went back to the boat to leave
at 11:30 that evening. I got a new'
roommate from Sitka.
June 17
We arrived at Petersburg at
eight o’clock in the morning and
Hooked the town over. (It wasn’t
much.) We went back to the boat
for lunch and then drilled on the
Petersburg school grounds for
two hours.
June 18
We did nothing but sail, eat
and play shuffleboard today. We
saw a wrecked ship, the North
Sea, at eight o’clock tonight.
June 19
We had to wear our Jamboree
uniforms for the first time today.
We had Stunt Night tonight. Our
patrol, the Igloo, which is led by
Gerald Shaw of Juneau, did the
Cremation of Sam McGee. The
stunts came off very well.
June 20
We arrived in Seattle at seven
o’clock in the morning, ate a
small breakfast and left the ship.
We went to the Y.M.C.A. We
looked the town over until noon,
when we came back to the “Y”
for lunch, and then went swim
ming.
Later we went out to the Uni
versity of Washington on .a bus
and toured the place. We came
back to the “Y” and stayed for
the night.
June 21
We did nothing but wander
around town until two p.m., when
we departed from Seattle on the
Great Northern Railway.
June 22
We arrived at Glacier National
Park at eight o’clock in the
morning. Nineteen busses took
all of the Scouts on the train on
an 85-mile tour of the park. We
saw a Blackfoot Indian ceremony
and dance.
June 23
We passed through North Da
kota today. There are lots of nice
farms and very many hills. We
arrived at St. Paul at six this
evening, and went swimming in
Lake Phalen. Then we went
sight-seeing.
June 24
We arrived at Chicago early
this morning. There I met E. T.
Kennedy, a man my dad and
mother met by correspondence.
I ate breakfast with him and then
went to his office. I saw where
Red Grange, the famous old-time
football star of Illinois, has his
office.
We went to Lincoln Park Zoo,
where I saw Bushman, the fa
mous gorilla, and many other an
imals. We came back to the Mer
chandise Mart and looked around
until lunch. After lunch we went
out to Comisky Stadium in hopes
of seeing a good baseball game,
but it was rained out just after
the first inning.
We stayed at the Stadium until
the rain stopped, and then took
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CERAMICS WORKSHOP
To prepare for the workshop i
in ceramics planned for the Val
ley’s Homemakers clubs this fall,
four Valley women visited a cera
mics workshop in Anchorage last
Tuesday. Women who inspected
the Anchorage project included
Rusty Dow, Marjorie Hoskins,
Ann Brown and Marylou Lash
brook.
The workshop is sponsored by
the Anchor Homemakers Club in
Anchorage and is set up in a
garage. For the past several
weeks, club members have been
working in clay under the leader
ship of Mrs. Ed Gardner and Mrs.
William Manley.
The Valley visitors watched
while molds were made, slip
poured, the molded article re
moved from the mold, and the
fired and glazed ware w'as painted
Mrs. Dow is to present a dem
onstration on the use of clay at
the next meeting of the Sour
dough Homemakers Club.
If Valley women are interested
in ceramics, the workshop will be
set up in Palmer in the fall.
the elevated train over the stock
yards and down to Lake Michi
gan. We ate supper at Mr. Ken
nedy’s house. After supper, we
saw the municipal airport and
then came back to the station at
midnight, where I boarded the
train en route to Columbus, Ohio.
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Remember?
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Farmers Asked to Teil
Ext. Office of Progress
On Soils Practices
Farmers who have received
approval for payment for soil
conservation practices this
year, but who cannot complete
the work by Sept. 1 as re
quired, are requested to notify
the Extension Office immedi
ately, Extension agent Parker
Lester announced today.
Mr. Lester said the Sept. 1
deadline is an absolute must,
and that if farmers cannot
meet it, they should relinquish
their approval to someone who
can. He estimated that at least
one-third of the farmers who
applied for payments this year
were refused, because of insuf
ficient funds.
Coffey Insures Everything!
Remember?
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EXPERIMENT STATION
PUBLISHES CIRCULAR
ON ALASKAN FORAGE
A new circular, ‘'Better Forage
for Alaska,” has just been pub
lished by three men of the Mata
nuska Station, it was announced^
this week by Don Irwin of the’
Agricultural Research Adminis
tration. Authors of the publication
are Dr. William Sweetman, dairy
husbandman, H. J. Hodgson, agro
nomist, and Dr. Allan Mick, soil
scientist. The pamphlet is avail
able for distribution here at the
Extension Office.
The publication points out the
most economical method of mak
ing field-dried hay and silage i?i
Alaska and tells, on the basis of
experiments conducted at the
Matanuska Station in 1948 and
1949, the least expensive hay pro
duced in Alaska.
“Better Forage for Alaska” was
printed in Palmer by the Mata
nuska Press.
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READY RIGHT-OF-WAY
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"Gandy Dan:-' aj s hpy ' ' ' seclion hands who protect some 530
miles of important Alasl.a fl ;ho:;u cx n cing the territory from the sea to the
interior.
A day in the life of a gandy danc~ a day spent doing jobs like surfacing,
lining and gauging rails, yanking out old ties, removing shims, clearing brush and
doing maintenance work.
It is a job that is never done. And it's all work. Tools of the trade are sledges
and shovels, spikes and mauls. These instruments require skill and brawn to operate.
In the winter 50 below temperatures nip at seclion laborers and in summer
parasites and mosquitoes, the size of grasshoppers, gnaw at their flesh.
But for all their discomforts, the gandy dancers are a proud lot. It is their job
to keep the rail line open and in first class condition. This assures shippers of
prompt delivery and passengers pleasant, safe passage.
Now days the gandy dancers are busier than ever. More and more trains are
whizzing past at a faster clip bringing Alaskans the best transportation service on
wheels.
Gandy dancers are serving you just as much as the freight house trucker or the
engineer in the cab. Service has improved ten-fold and for the gandy dancer, and
The Alaska Railroad, no job is too big.
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