Spring Smiles on Fbkx,
Vailey in Like Degree
The season in the Fairbanks
area is nearly as advanced as it
is in the Matanuska Valley, Don
L. Irwin reported this week, up
on his return from a visit to the
Fairbanks station. Experimental
plantings at the northern sta
tion are nearly completed, he
•said.
Dr. Allan Mick, in charge of
: soils work for the experiment
: stations, has just returned from
Fairbanks. He was accompanied
by Paul Martin. Winston Laugh
lin and Curtis Dearborn, who as
sisted in getting the year’s ex
perimental work organized there.
Let's keep our Valley green this
year. Make sure that cigarette is
out.
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Miss Joyce Gregg, nurse at the
Valley Hospital, will leave soon
for a two weeds’ vacation in the
states. Miss Gregg will spend her
leave at her home at Edmonds,
Wash.
Ralph Mason, district engineer
of the U. S. Geological Survey,
who is stationed at Juneau, was
a Valley visitor this week. Mr.
Marsh, who stayed here on Tues
day and Wednesday, termed his
call iust a “routine visit.”
GOODYEAR
Tires Batteries
Fan Belts Floor mats
Battery Cables
Auto Accessories
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Goodyear Associate Dealers
Palmer
Tost's Service
Moore's Garage
West Side Service
Anchorage Highway
Goat Creek Garage
Moose Horn Trading Post
Wasilla
Smith Automotive Service
Richardson Highway Alaska Highway
T. E. Hyke, Copper Center Riverside Tourist Camp
Big Timber Lodge
Gakona Roadhouse
Glenn Highway
Sheep Mountain Inn
Meekin's Road House
Norm's Garage
E & M Garage
Eureka Road House
Duffy's Tavern
CO-OP GARAGE
Palmer, Alaska
Farm Teachers
Adjourn Conference
To the Valley
Territorial instructors of the
S veterans’ on-farm training pro
i gram, who were conferring in
Fairbanks this week, adjourn to
the Valley today. Sixteen strong,
the farm teachers in company
with their own teacher, Dr. Lynn
| O. Hollist of the department of
I agriculture of the University of
Alaska, will open a one-day ses
| sion here tomorrow.
They have a conference pro
I gram that begins at nine a.m.
and last until three p.m. They’ll
i hear Neil Fritchman, chief of
the VA’s vocation, rehabilitation
and education program; Don L.
, Irwin, director of Alaska Experi
ment Stations; I. M. C. Ander
• son, area supervisor of the Farm
ers’ Home Administration; James
Hurley, general manager of the
Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Cor
i poration; and Charles Wilson,
j territorial conservationist of the
! Soil Conservation Service.
On Monday, Mr. Hollist will
take the 16 instructors who come
I from all over Alaska, on a tour
of the Matanuska Experiment
! Station.
GOVERNOR IS MUM
Nothing but a deep dark, si
| lence has been beamed from Ju
neau in answer to wires sent last
j week to Governor Ernest Gruen
ing by the Valley Chamber of
Commerce, with reference to the
I construction of a territorial office
! building. President Clair Stock
j said a tracer wire was being con
; sidered. and probably will be senl
j later this week, if no answer
| comes today.
STEELE HOME
DAMAGED BY FIB*
The Valley’s most serious fire
| in many months partially de
| stroved the home of Don Steele
last Monday afternoon. The
; Steele home, located next to the
Jack Cope farm, was newly built
i and still was not entirely com
plete when it burned,
i Fireman A1 Hagen estimated
j that the blaze resulted in $1,000
| structural damage, but he said
the home could be made livable
j again by the re-celotexing of the
: interior.
Damage to personal effects and
furniture was extensive, particu
larly to clothing packed in suit
; cases and ready for the Steele's
planned visit to the states. Water
: was the major cause of damage.
Cause of the fire apparently
i was a bacon rind simmering on
! the back of the kitchen range.
* Mrs. Steele left the kitchen to
work in the garden and did not
I discover the fire until she glanced
up to find her home wreathed in
: smoke. Flames were breaking
i through windows and doors by
| the time the fire fighting equip
j ment of the Valley Volunteer Fire
Association arrived. Volunteers
fought for an hour before the fire
was controlled.
In reference to country fires in
' particular, fire truck driver
j Johnny Gore has a particular plea
to voice today: “Let the tr.yck
| go first,” he asks. “It can mean
, the difference between saving a
! home and losing it.”
Mr. Gore was slowed to almost
walking speed when driving to
the Steele fire, because of the
| clouds of dust rolled up by ve
; hides speeding down the road
: before the fire truck.
Coffey Insures Everything—
Remember?
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