Sportsmen Dine On Moose, Marmot Tomorrow
CLUB’S THIRD ANNUAL
SAME DINNER TO BE
HELD IN GYM AT 6:30
Heinz’ 57 varieties of food will
pale in the shade when members
of the Matanuska Valley Sports
men assemble for dinner tomor
row night. The Sportsmen will
dine on 92 different kinds of Alas
kan game, fish, fowl, berries and
sauces.
The all-Alaskan dinner is the
third annual event staged by the
club. Sportsmen are planning to
sit down together with 250 fel
low members and guests at 6:30
tomorrow evening. And when
they do, they’ll have their choice
from a menu that ranges from
porcupine to marmot. For those
with less exotic tastes in food,
there’ll be plenty of the more
commonplace moose, bear, sheep
and goat fare.
Sportsmen look forward to a
very particular dinner delicacy
this year. For the first time, buf
falo was on the assignment list
of three club members. Today,
the dinner committee wasn’t ab
solutely sure that the buffalo
would materialize, but, in com
pany with others of the member
ship, they’re hoping.
Tickets for tomorrow’s dinner,
which may be attended only by
club members and invited guests
(and one invited guest per mem
ber is the absolute limit) are on
sale at the Co-Op Fountain. Late
comers also may purchase their
ticket at the Gym door tomor
row evening. The ducats cost
$2.50 each.
Members of the kitchen com
mittee remind the dinner provid
ers that all food must be cooked
and ready to serve, except for
carving, when brought to the
school lunchroom. They ask that
food be in that lunchroom by six
o’clock at the latest. Serving is
scheduled to begin at 6:30, and
carving must be finished before
food goes on the table.
Following the dinner, members
and Valley guests will join in a
dance. The dance is scheduled to
begin promptly at 9:30 tomorrow
evening. Schaeffer’s Orchestra
will play.
Committee members who make j
tomorrow’s dinner possible are: |
Decorations—Gertrude Felzien,
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Kyger, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Gagnon, Maud
XlUblCI , JLJili
and Duane Goodrich.
Table • decorations—Nina Stock,
Gene Kirsch. Mr. and Mrs. RalDh
Dye, Mrs. William Hoskins, Mr.
and Mrs. Ben Cabo, Mrs. Karla
Duff, Rodney Head and Mrs. F. R.
Sims.
Kitchen—Esther Brock. Mane
Westenbarger, Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Burkholder, Mrs. Harold Wine- 1
garner. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Good
rich, William Cook and Clarence
Bell.
Carving — Roy Brock, Bud
Lacher, Bob Burkholder and Vir
gil Eckert.
Dance—Clair Stock, Tom Lepak
and Viola Daniels.
Diet of Alaskan Pets
Receives Attention of
Fish Conner in Territory
One Alaska packer, the Resur
, rection Bay Co., in Seward, is
producing some of those 1,931,757 i
cans of pet food processed in the
United States last year, it was
reported recently by the Fish and
Wildlife Service. The lone packer
is the only man in the Alaska
salmon industry who utilizes
some of the fish by-products for
pet food.
The Seward firm, operated bv
Marvin Viale, has been packing
cat salmon since 1946, its man
ager reported.
Natives Are Jailed
For Shooting Moose
WASILLA—Two Pitman na
tives, Happy Nicolai and John
Stump, received a six months’
jail sentence on each of two game
law violation charges this week.
The case was tried before U. S.
Commissioner May Carter of
Wasilla.
Charges were pressed by Holger
Larsen of the Fish and Wild Life
Service,-who accused the pair of
illegal possession of moose and
transportation of illegal moose.
Stump and Nicolai were sus
pected of selling the meat, but
that fact was not proved.
This week’s sentence was the
third Nicolai has received for
game law violations and the sec
ond for Stump. At one time
Stump’s car was impounded,
when he was caught marketing
illegally taken moose. At that
time he was found to be selling
moose to an Anchorage restau
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HUNTERS BRING
26V2 TONS OF GAME ,
TO STORAGE LOCKERS
Reduce 52,884 pounds of wild
game into wrapped one-pound
packages, and the reason for the
midnight oil burning at Palmer
Cold Storage becomes very plain.
More meat, including moose,
caribou, goat, sheep and bear,
found its way into Cold Storage
lockers this season than has ever
been stored before in a single
hunting season. This year’s meat
volume far exceeded last year’s,
which was reckoned a good year,
too, as hunting seasons go.
The 26 V2 tons of meat brought
in during the just finished hunt
ing season were divided this way:
Moose, 38,306 pounds;
Caribou, 14,028 pounds;
Goat, sheep and bear, 550
pounds.
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FWS Use Radar, Still
Can’t Find Where
Wild Goose Gees
Last year radar showed Fish
and Wildlife Authorities the di
rection of flight of migratory
birds congregating at Cold Bay,
but even radar couldnt trace
them to their ultimate destina
tion. Nobody is sure where these
birds, brants and a small variety
of Canadian goose, go on their
southern migration.
However FWS men ar bgck at
Cold Bay this season. This time
they’ve brought a trap, in which
they hope to catch birds for
banding purposes. They hope, by
I this time next year, to know
[ where the goose and brant spend
their annual vacation.
The birds, an estimated million
and a half strong, are at Cold Bay :
now, fattening on the eel grass,
seeds and swampberries of the I
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Short Course Postponed
Because of Polio
Valley homemakers will have
to go unschooled for some time to
come. The polio epidemic at Fair
banks has forced the indefinite
postponement of the short course
scheduled for late October at the
University of Alaska.
Fairbanks clubwork has ceased,
too. until the polio outbreak is;
curbed.
surrounding tundra. In early No
vember they’ll be off on. their
long flight'south to an unknown
destination.
The million and a half birds ;
Cold Bay. the largest single co..~
centration on the North American
continent, thoroughly surprised
the FWS. So did the fact that
more were arriving every day.
The Cold Bay count revealed
more birds than had been esti
mated for the entire west coast.
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