VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
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Entered as second class matter on Oct. 21, 1947, at the post office at
Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Viola Daniels .-.Editor
Barbara Carter .Wasilla Correspondent
Mrs. Jack Thatcher .Valdez Correspondent
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DANIELS—In the Lion’s Den
Another year and the national day of our dead is
at hand again. Across the nation, fraternal orga
nizations, veterans' organizations, civic organizations
and grief-conscious relatives have weeded, mowed,
raked, seeded, sowed and watered the nation's ceme
teries, the homes of the dead.
On Tuesday, in solemn parades these relatives and
those who were once friends, classmates and fellow
men, will wring the last drop of conscientious self-satis
faction from the ritual and ceremony v/hich honors
the dead. And for most of the services and ceremonies
to be solemnized across the nation on Tuesday, the
reason for honor is because the dead are dead.
? Becausee they are removed from us, they have
gained in wisdom, gained in kindness, gained in com
passion. We fashion a small paragon of humanity in
our memory, drop a few salt tears above it for remem'
brance, and tuck the image away to await another
day, when custom says it is time once more to honor
our dead.
And so Memorial Days come and go, and they
mean little more to most of us, after the duty hours of
preparation in cemetery cle^n-up chores and the pre
scribed moments of conscious and public remem
brance, than another red-ietter day on our calendar.
Yet it is a day that could shape the lives of each
*of us for the year ahead, if we could dedicate some
part of it as a personal memorial within ourselves. The
fact that death has come to someone near to us is
nothing in itself. -It's a fact that faces us all, a day in
evitable as our school commencement day, our birth
day or our wedding day.
If, on Memorial Day, we might spend some time
remembering those things the dfead ones lived for,
while they were with us, then we think there would be
a more truly memorial day among us. We believe the
best memorial that any man or woman may have, is
the memory in someone's heart, of the job they wanted
to do, tried to do, and left unfinished.
To us, Memorial Day is a day when we renew again
the memories of those we lost by remembering again
the jobs they left for us to do. The things they stood
for, the things they wanted to accomplish and didn't,
the things they left us to finish for them—those are the
memories that belong in our hearts on Memorial Day.
It is a day in which we should remember those
things they didn't do, and a day for us to remember
all the things we have yet to do—our job and theirs
together. The time is short and we have a double task
to finish before we leave an uncompleted job as some
one else's memorial. That's the thought that we wish
every ceremony next Tuesday could bring home to us.
Memorials are within us—they are with us always.
There's nothing that anyone can say, on any day set
aside in which to say it, that can make the memory
any stronger than that which we carry in the place of
the dead within ourselves.
Mr. Irwin Returns
From Fairbanks Meeting
Don L. Irwin, director of the
Agricultural Research Adminis
tration, returned late this week
from attendance at the board of
regents’ meeting of the Univer
, sity of Alaska. Mr. Irwin attend
ed the Monday commencement
exercises at the University while
in Fairbanks.
Dr. C. E. Albrecht of Palmer,
who only recently returned to the
Valley, flew back to Juneau fol
lowing the board of regents’
meeting.
FARMERS TELL OF
CHANGES THEY'D LIKE
IN SOILS PROGRAM
Palmer and Wasilla farmers, at
the invitation of Lorin T. Oldroyd,
director of Extension Service, re
cently appointed committees to
recommend changes in the soil
conservation practices program.
The committees, made up of two
members in each of the Palmer
and Wasilla soil conservation sub- i
districts, plus one independent
farmer from each area, met last
week to draft their recommenda
tions.
Palmer farmers Harold Thuma,
Bill Roark and Clair Patten could
suggest only minor changes in
the present program. They said
they'd like some changes in ex
isting seeding rates and would
like to see nitrogen added to the
fertilizer lists of phosphate and
potash, for which farmers can re
ceive payment.
Wasilla farmers made a num
ber of recommendations, most of
them dealing with problems of
land clearing. They asked for a
payment of 25 cents per cubic
yard of earth removed for drain
age ditches. They also asked pay
ment for snow fencing work in
winter to prevent drifting.
Wasilla farmers further recom
mended that the total amount of
funds available to this area un
der the soil conservation practices
program be increased. They
asked that the existing land
clearing portion of the program
be enlarged and that present lim
itations on acreage be removed,
with the entire provisions of this
portion of the program being put
on a pro-rata basis.
The farmers’ recommendations
have been forwarded to Mr. Old
royd for his consideration.
Go to Bristol Bay
Mrs. William Schimml left re
cently for Naknek and the Bris
tol Bay fishing grounds. Her hus
band expects to follow shortly,
for the fishing season in the bay
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ih; basement, stoker;
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Anch. Highway. For
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August only.
LOTS OF LOTS
ACREAGE
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area. They expect to be back in
Palmer in early September. Dur
ing their absence, Mr. and Mrs.
William Gulbranson are occupy
ing the Schimml apartment in
the Ward Bldg.
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