Anchorage Club
Schedules Races
At Wasilla Tuesday
Motorboat races on Lake Wa
silla are scheduled again this year
by the Anchorage Outboard. Club,
it was announced this week by
Mrs. Alice Johnston, club secre
tary. The races were first sched
uled last year, and were so en
thusiastically received that the
Anchorage Club plans to make
the affair an annual event.
Mrs. Johnston said a minimum
of three boat races is planned, as
well as water-skiing and other
stunting events. Several new club
members are racing this year, and
the race is also open to any non
club member who wishes to en
ter, the secretary said.
Non-members may make ar
rangements to participate in the
races by getting in touch with
JVI. H. Young, club commodore, at
.Box 2447, Anchorage. Commo
dore Young can supply all infor
mation concerning safety equip
ment, entrance fees and racing
rules.
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Miners’ Union, Moose Lodge Tell Sponsorship
Of Queen Contestants for Coming Valley Fair
Two more queen contestants j
for the Matanuska Valley Fair
were announced this week. They
are Vivian ‘‘Babe” Meier, spon
sored by the miner’s local at
Jonesville and Barbara Hecker,
sponsored by the Loyal Order of
Moose.
Lillian Loberg
Lillian Loberg, earlier an
nounced as the candidate of
Northland Pioneer Grange, could
not be reached for an interview
until this week. Lillian is 16 years
! old, and will be a senior at Pal
mer High School next term. She I
has lovely red blonde hair, brown
eyes and a very fair skin and is
an athletic five -feet, six and a!
> half inches tall.
Lillian works in her mother’s
store, Loberg’s Variety, and fills
in as cashier at the Valley Thea
tre on Saturday and Sunday. She
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Lauritz Loberg, a colonist family.
Lillian enjoys all outdoor
sports, and she equally enjoys
playing her saxophone.
She says she’s going to do ev-!
erything she can to win this con
test because “I’d like to see the
Grange get the $100 to go toward
the new building, and I also j
would like the $200 wardrobe l
they’re going to give the queen.”
Vivian Meier
Vivian is a last year’s gradu
ate of Palmer High School. She is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Meier of Palmer, owners of
Palmer Transfer. She is 18 years
old.
Vivian is a bit of a career girl i
at heart, for she is keenly inter
ested in her job as a stenographer
at the Agricultural Research Ad
ministration. Her plans for the
future are unannounced, but she
says she does intend “to keep on
working this summer.”
Vivian has brown hair, blue
eyes and a radiant smile. Her
favorite recreation is swimming.
The mine union’s candidate
asked to be allowed to express
her appreciation to her sponsors
for their choice of her.
Barbara Hecker
Barbara Hecker, Moose choice
for a queen's crown, could not
be reached at press-time. How
ever, Barbara, a last week’s grad
uate of Palmer High School, is
no newcomer to Valley queen
contests. She was a finalist in
the fair’s contest last fall.
Barbara is short, plump and
pretty. She has brown-blonde
hair, clear grey eyes and a fair
skin.
There is rumor that still a
fourth queen candidate was se
lected in the Valley this week,
but no announcement had been
made at press-time._
All announced queen candi
dates will be introduced at mid
night Saturday at the calico and
jeans dance which opens Palmer’s
Colony Day celebration. (Calico
means queen candidates, too. Aw
ful is the penalty reserved for
a queen contestant who reports
in an evening gown, warns pro
gram chairman A1 Hagen).
NURSES HONOR
HOSPITAL HEAD
Valley nurses this week hon
ored Miss Edna Davis, hospital
manager, at a dinner given at
Spring Creek Lodge. Miss Davis
has resigned her position at Val
ley Hospital and will leave for
the Outside about June 15.
Dinner guests gave Miss Davis
a beautiful cigarette lighter as
her going away gift.
BABY HAS PNEUMONIA
John Church III, infant son ol
Mr. and Mrs. John Church of Pal
mer, entered Valley Hospital this
week for treatment of bronchia]
pneumonia.
VISIT IN STATES
WASILLA—Rodney and Jerry
Cottle and their mother, Mrs
Vincent Smith, left Wasilla last
Monday for a visit with friends
and relatives in Pennsylvania.
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FARM DOINGS
IN THE VALLEY
By Lew E. Hanks
H. S. Bauer has consented to
take charge of the dairy exhibit
at the Matanuska Valley Fair this
fall. Now we are certain of a top
dairy exhibit this year. Mr.
Bauer was selected by the Mat
anuska Valley Breeders’ Asso
ciation.
Neil Miller returned from Ju
neau May 12 to attend a Veterans’
Training Conference. He will
drive back to Haines May 28 and
take the ferry to Juneau. His
family will accompany him and
make their home at Juneau for
the present.
Have you noticed the height of
pastures that have been fertilized
as compared to tnose with no
care?
Don Irwin and Ivan Branton
were in Fairbanks this week
where they attended commence
ment exercises at the University
of Alaska. .
The Alaska Road Commission
is replacing the bridge over Wa
silla Creek on Fishhook Road.
The road has been blocked this
week.
The Cub Scouts are providing
a movie at the Colony Day cele
bration. Bring the kids and rest
your tired dogs in support of a
worthwhile movement.
Dexter Stegemeyer of Wiscon
sin and Alvin Ingram of Alabama
arrived Sunday to assist Tom Day
I on the Soils Survey of the An
i chorage and Chugiak areas. Sleg
j meyer and Ingram are seniors at
i the University of Alaska. This
soils survey will begin next week.
Max Sherrod drilled one field
to grain directly in the stubble
without plowing. He seeded it
early. The stand looks excellent
and is way ahead of the weeds.
Looks like a very good practice
for land subject to blowing.
Archie Moffitl is retiring from
! his farm. His son, Owen, is tak
ing over the dairy. He will have
to be up early in the morning to
! follow his father’s footsteps,
j The Anchorage area is develop
! ing agriculturally and will soon
j make its influence felt on local
! markets. Several new growers
| are going into commercial vege
; table production and also into the
production of certified seed pota
toes.
Plants such as cabbage, toma
toes and cauliflower should be
SPORTSMEN NAME
FISH FRY, GAME
DINNER HEADS
Committees for the two big
events of the year for the Mata
nuska Valley Sportsmen — the
summer fish fry and the fall game
dinner—were named at the club’s
last board of directors’ meeting.
These members will work out
details of the plans for the fish
fry. to be held in July:
Mr. and Mrs. William Roark,
Eob Burkholder, Bill Hoskins.
Mr. and Mrs. James Carroll and
the members of the board.
Exact date for the fish fry has
not yet been announced. It is
tentatively planned for “about
the middle of July,” according to
club president Bill Smith.
Club members who will serve
on the game dinner committee
include:
Mrs. Izola Sims, Mrs. Nina
Stock, Mrs. Gertrude Felzien, Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Winegarner, Mrs.
Marie Westenbarger, Mrs. Esther
Brock, Viola Daniels, Mrs. Karla
Duff, Eugene Kirsch, Frank Gag
non, Roy Brock, Bob Burkholder,
Bill Cook. Ben Cabo, Ralph Dye,
Harry Duff and Bud Lacher.
These committee members will
meet with the board of directors
on June 12, to work out assign
ments for the annual game din
ner. The committee meeting ytill
be called to order at the indoor
range at eight o’clock.
Cordova Sportmen Are
Looking Forward to
Moose, Duck Dinners
Both moose and duck will be
featured on Cordova menus in the
years ahead, if plans formulated
by the recently organized chapter
of the Izaak Walton league there
are carried through. Chapter
members plan to sow wild rice for
feed for goose and ducks and to
stock the hills behind the town
of Cordova with moose.
As an initial experiment a
young bull moose was turned
loose in the area last fall. Club
members report he wintered well,
and they are now making plans
to import a mate far the animal.
hardened off by withholding
water and heat for a week or two
before planting.
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