Wasilla P-TA Nets
$160 From Benefit
Approximately 150 persons en
joyed the P-TA sponsored spagh
etti dinner and basketball game
that followed at Wasilla Novem
ber 8.
E. L. Line was official referee
for the game between the "old
men” and the young men. Final
score found the young men on
the short end of the 20-19 score.
However, rumored reports say the
"old men” introduced a few pre
viously unheard of_ regulations
such as playing six men at one
time. With Pat Carter as center:
Ray Bergman and C. E. Henry
as guards and Johan Johnson and
Bill Cotilla as forwards the "old
men” played the first and third
quarters without replacement.
The Alumni team filled in for
them during the second and final
N quarter. A repeat game is schedu
led for another night this week
with the “old men” promising to
abide by the established regula
tions.
Proceeds from the dinner and
game amounted to approximate
ly $160. The money will be used
, for the purchase of audio-visual
aids for the school children.
ELKS PLAN DINNER FOR
OFFICIAL VISITOR;
CANDIDATE INITIATION
A dinner in honor of District
Deputy, Grand Exalted Ruler Hal
Gilfeller of Seward will be held
by the officers of Palmer Elks
Lodge No .1842 November 19 in
the Co-Op club room, at 6 p.m.,
it was announced this week.
Gilfeller will be* accompanied
by his wife and a delegate com
mittee. Following the dinner, at
which the local lodge officers
k wives will be guests, an initiation
for 19 candidates will be held dur
ing a regular meeting in the Elks
quarters at 8 p.m.
Following a recently establish
ed regulation, regular meetings
will be held in the new quarters
' every Wednesday night.
DUCK STAMP SALES SOAR
TO NEW HIGH IN 1952
All previous sales records for
Federal “duck stamps” were shat
tered during the year ended June
30, 1952, Albert M. Day, Director
of the Fish and Wildlife Service
recently announced.
A total of 2,167,767 stamps of
the 1951-52 issue was sold to
hunters of migratory waterfowl,
conservationists, and philatelists,
according to the final figures sup
plied to the Fish and Wildlife
Service by the Post Office De
partment, the agency responsible
for distributing and selling the
stamps.
The 1951-52 total represents an
increase of 264,123 over the 1950
51 figure of 1,903,644. For the
fourth straight year, California
headed the list, with a sale of 173,
136 stamps.
Sold for $2 at post offices, the
proceeds from duck stamp sales
help finance the Federal Govern
ment’s waterfowl refuge and law
enforcement programs. Every in
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CONSERVATION
NOTES
By Lew Hanks
It has been a mild and also wet
fall. This has been an advantage
to several farmers in the land
clearing program. In connection
with land clearing I have received
some interesting data.
The population of the railbelt
area has increased during the past
few years more than 9,000 per
year. Hugh Johnson of the Ex
periment Station has calculated
that it would take over one third
of an acre per year to grow Alas
ka produced vegetable products
for each person in the area. It
would take almost three fourths
of an acre per year to produce
one person’s total consumption of
the products, including milk and
meat that can profitably be pro
duced here.
To boil the thing down, if we
were filling the local market with
Alaska produced products we
would have to clear between
three and six or seven thousand
acres of land per year to keep up
with the increased population.
We’re clearing a lot less than
that. In other words we’re steadi
ly losing our potential mzfrket be
cause of lack of production.
It costs a lot of money to clear
land. We can cut that cost by
slashing and utilizing timber be
forehand.
If land is cleared properly it
can be gotten into maximum pro
duction sooner than otherwise.
If you can keep the timber, grass
and topsoil out of the stump row
it’s also a lot cheaper to clean up.
Topsoil is fine on the field. In
the stump row the main thing
it does is cause a man to lose
his religion when he tries to bum
the thing. Also, don’t donate your
newly cleared field to your neigh
bor. Leave those windbreaks.
PALMER ELKS RECEIVE
AWARD AT CONVENTION
Four members of Palmer Elks
lodge attended the fifth annual
Elks convention held in Cordova
November 6, 7 and 8. They re
ported a very successful conven
tion with regular meetings held
twice daily by the delegates.
Those attending were: Mr. and
Mrs. Leonard Kygar, Johnny
Reed, Harold Dunn and Don De
Land.
Receive Recognition
During the convention Palmer
Lodge was given the Territorial
Elks Association award for the
most successful youth activities
program. The local lodge sponsor
the very active Teen-Age Round
up group.
dividual over 16 year of age who
hunts migratory waterfowl is re
quired to have on his person a
stamp of current issue with his
signature written across the face.
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course there is a definale saving be
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year by feeding your cows the best.
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VFW Holds Colorful
Parade in Anchorage
Scores of military, patriotic,
fraternal, church and civic or
ganizations, including a team
from the Matanuska Valley Post
No. 15 American Legion, joined
the line of march in the Armistice
Day parade sponsored by the
Veterans of Foreign Wars in An
chorage November 11.
Judge Anthony J. Dimond gave
the keynote address and awarded
the Eisenhower trophy to an Al
aska National Guard unit in a
ceremony held on the reviewing
stand In front of the Federal
Building.
Following the parade of VFW
Denali Post and Auxiliary were
hosts to the invited guests at a
buffet luncheon. A public Armis
tice Day dance was held during
the evening by the American
Legion in the Legion Log Cabin.
Students to Give
Puppet-Show At
P-TA Meeting Tuesday
In commemoration of National
Education Week the program for
the P-TA meeting November 18
will honor the teachers and chil
dren of the Palmer school sys
tem.
Each home room has several
projects during the year that
create the special interests of the
pupils. One of these, a puppet
show based on “Snow White” will
be presented at the meeting by
some of Mrs. Henning Blunck’s
fourth grade students.
Following the business meeting
and early refreshments, parents
will meet with the teachers in
their respective rooms. All par
ents of Palmer school children are
invited to attend the meeting.
Public Invited to Play
Alaska's Favorite Game
The public is invited to play
Alaska’s Favorite Game every
Thursday night in the new Elk’s
quarters, it was announced this
week. Twenty games an evening
are scheduled with many beauti
ful and useful prizes awarded
each week. Playing starts prompt
ly at 8:30 with a jack-pot game.
This week’s jack-pot prize will
amount to $113.
A special evening is planned
for November 20 when the lodge
will award 20 turkeys during the
evening.
Planned as entertainment for
the entire community, the lodge
will continue the weekly event
throughout the winter months.
ALASKA FUR SEAL
SALE PRICE UP
Alaska fur seal average an in
crease of 31.6 per cent at the
October 13 St. Louis semi-an
Homemakers' News
To the Martin Olson family at
Wasilla, “living off the country”
means stocking a fruit and vege
table room and home freezer with
a large* variety of all the food re
sources of Alaska. To win the first
award of the National Garden In
stitute, Mrs. Martin Olson put up
631 pounds of caribou, moose,
spruce hens, beef, clams and sal
mon. She canned and froze four
teen kinds of vegetables totaling
361 pounds plus about one thou
sand pounds of potatoes.
Her fruits included a variety
of cultivated anc^ wild berries and
rhubarb, and w'dre put up into
sauce, catsup, juice, jelly and jam.
Her report shows a grand total of
2315 pounds of food not including
the 80 glasses of jelly.
Mrs. Olson has had years of ex
perience in food preservation, yet
it remains an ever satisfying ad
venture to her to see the shelves
and freezer locker fill up with the
prime products from her garden,
field and stream.
In her vegetable and potato
storage she uses an electric fan
occasionally to keep the room
ventilated. When harvest is past.
Mrs. Olson can look back on work
well done and forward to enjoy
able meals all winter with very
little extia work.
The award was a beautiful sil
ver covered vegetable dish donat
ed by the National Garden In
stitute. The winner last year was
Mrs. Bertha Meier of Anchorage.
Other contestants who received
certificates were Mrs. Rodney
Johnson of Sutton and Mrs. Mark
Lee of Skagwaiy. Mrs. Lee dis
covered that the meats put up in
her freezer locker had cost her
$137.50 but had a market value
of $437.26—a profit of $299.70.
Many people in Alaska “live
off the country” and have a
chance next year to enter the con
test to win this annual award.
nual auction sale, it was reported
by the Fish and Wildlife Service.
The grand average for all fur
seal skins at tne UccoDer saie
was $105, an increase of $23.73
over the April grand average of
$81.27.
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Man Suffers Fatal
Heart Attack at Alpine
Gerald D. England, 46, was
found dead in his bed at the Al
pine Inn dormitory November 11.
He had been in apparent good
health up to the time of the dis
covery, having been seen by other
occupants of the dormitory earlier
that morning. Death was caused
by a heart attack.
Previous to his employment at
Alpine .Inn, England had work
ed at Watchtower Inn and is be
lieved to have been in this area
for quite some time.
He is survived by a sister, Mrs.
E. I. Merle of Seward and his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. George T.
ANNOUNCEMENT
I wish to announce that
as of September 2. 1952, I
transferred my interest as
a limited partner in the
Palmer Cold Storage and
Locker Service to Harry E.
Ryan and Walter F. Coop
er, who are the present
sole owners of this com
pany.
Charlie Waller
England of Gabriel, California.
The body was removed to the
Anchorage Funeral Home pend
ing further arrangements.
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