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Valley frontiersman., 1951-01-05
CONSERVATION
 NOTES
By Lew Hanks

I have a few more things this week on elections.
 The Wasilla Soil Conservation Sub-district is holding elections this week for supervisor. The bal lot box is at Teeland's Store. If you live west of the Seward Meridian, you are in the Wasilla Sub-district. South of it is the jumping off place so why worry about 1t. We'll, to get back to elections, if you're Wasilla and occupy three acres or more get out and vote this week. Candi- dates are Mel Bjorn, Chet Burden, Earl Combs, Harold Harris, Hen ry Hanson, c. L. Byers, J. Levan and Glenn Tellman.
 If you're Palmer, vote next week. The ballot will be at the extension office. Candidates are Bill Roark, Leonard Kyger, Paul Nelson, Robert Webb, Glen Woods, Merle Anderson, Ray Newell and Johan Johnson. The men you vote into office will be the men l have to work under so make your choice.
 A forage clinic or school will be held January 25th at the Pal rner Grange Hall under the joint sponsorship of the Palmer and Wasilla Soil Conservation Dis tricts, the Northland Pioneer and Wasilla Oranges, the Extension Service, the Experiment Station, the Soil Conservation Service and anyone else that wants to get into the act.
 Here will be chance to bring in those samples of hay or silage and find out what's good or bad about them. The Grange ladies will sell refreshments at noon. It will start between g and 10 am. and be over about 4 pm. A com pleted program will be given next week. We might even be able to give you movie on silage tramping.
Valley frontiersman., 1951-01-05
Ladies Aid Extends invitation 10 Church Dinner on JonuorY 14

Plans for pot luck dinner to be held at the United Protestant church this month were discussed at the regular meeting of the Ladies Aid this week. The pot luck dinner will be held follow ing church services on Sunday, January IA, with members of the Ladies Aid to furnish meat and potato dishes, Mrs. John Raker, publicity chairman, announced today. Others are asked to bring vegetables, salads or desserts, Mrs Raker said. All the people of the Valley, both members and non-members of the United Prot estant church are cordially In- Yited to attend the church serv- ices and are welcomed to the pot luck dinner following, the pub licity chairman announced.
 Committees for the dinner were appointed at the Ladies Aid meet ing, which was held January 3. Mrs. Vera Rorrison is chairman of arrangements for hot dishes. Mrs. Thelma Cope has charge of coffee making and Mrs. Rose Nelson will be in charge of set ting the tables.
 At the business meeting which followed a covered dish luncheon at noon, the Ladies Aid voted to hold an extra meeting each month for members to accomplish more sewing and fancy work. The date chosen for the additional monthly meeting was set as the second Monday of each month. The first
Valley frontiersman., 1951-01-05

of these meetings will be held January 8 at the home of Mrs. Rose Nelson at 7:30 pm.
 The next regular meeting of the Ladies Aid was set for Febru ary 2. The luncheon committee appointed for that meeting is Mrs. Rorrison, Mrs. Nelson and Mrs. Mildred l.. Smith.
 Reports were also given at the meeting on Wednesday of this week by Mrs. Sara Moffitt, treas urer, and Mrs. Thelma CIpe on an executive meeting of the Unit ed Protestant Ladies Aid which was held at teh omeh of Mrs. Amy Irwin on January 2. Officers attending that meeting were Mrs. Irwin, Mrs. Nelson, Mrs, Cope, Mrs. Moffit, and Mrs. Raker. Re treatments were served by the hostess.
Valley frontiersman., 1951-01-05
Music Appreciation Group Meets Jan. II

An interesting program, which should be most appealing to mu- sic lovers of the community, was announced today for the next meeting of the Music Apprecia- ton Group. Recordings to be heard on the program are Stra- vinsky's 'Petrouchka" and Grieg's First Concerto" Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors" will also be presented on the program follow ing the musical selections.
 The meeting will be held at the James Kinder home on Thurs day, January II, at 8 pm. Every one who enjoys music is extended a cordial invitation as attendance is not limited to any particular group.
Valley frontiersman., 1951-01-05
Henning Bluneks Host
 G0Io New Yeor's Por%v

One of the gayest and most en- joyable festivities held here over the New Years week nd was an Alaskan" party at the home of MT. and Mrs. Henning Blunck for members of the Palmer school fac ulty and their friends. The party, held on New Years Day, started at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon with sled riding for the guests who coasted down hills on the Blunck farm.
 At pm. dinner was served with the main course of moose meat provided by the hosts. The guests brought covered dishes to provide the trimmings for the gala dinner.
 Colored slides on trips taken by the Bluncks over the Alaskan highway and other scenes of Alas ka were later shown by the hosts. The evening was concluded with games and charades.
Valley frontiersman., 1951-01-05
VETERANS FARM TRAINING CLASS MEETS JANUARY 8

The Veterans Farm Training program for 1851 will get under way here with the next regula- meeting on January 8, Eugene Kirsch, director, said here this week.
 The Veterans class meets every Monday night at 8 pm. at the Rec hall Gold library). There are now A veterans enrolled in the classes which are conducted by the University of Alaska.
Valley frontiersman., 1951-01-05

Among those attending the party were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stassel, Mrs. Nancy Wade and daughter, Carolyn, Miss Evelyn Heinrich, Miss Betty Kreutz, Mis-
 Barbara Rumball, MT. and Mrs Rankin Tippins, MT. and Mrs. Harlow Hodgins, Joe Hudock, Dave Algarin, MT. and Mrs. Will liam Zahradnicek and their son, Bill, H. Truax and Elmer Ubert.
Evening star., 1951-12-13

Table Model with Power Plus Chassis

Imagine delivers the set that has earned the ap-
of millions other television has achieved SUCH naton
wide acceptance and great RCA Victor fea
lures The RCA Victor Talbot has all the
quality features RCA Victor desirable converts
ffy with 45 in to become TV phono combination Nog
could be gift keeps giving with the quality OF the
RCA Talbot hurry to Georges, see it and MARVEL
Evening star., 1951-09-10
This and That

It's long lane that has no turning,
but that saying doesn't apply to Brooke
vile road.
Spell it with an "E"
Brookeville road has many turnings, so
many from Western avenue to Bradley
lane that it must have had its origin
as cow path.
Cows never go home in straight line
If they can help it.
Cows in Chevy Chase, Md?
There were plenty Of cows there until
recent years.
Brookeville road. as Templeton Jones
has found out, rambles and turns and
almost twists, as it takes its placid mar
row way through the residences Of this
happy suburb.
Jones has gone in for walking.
The road was his favorite place when
he moved out from the city 20 years ago.
It Still is, but he finds he must walk
with more care now. OF course, he's a
few years older.
1t was at least 10 years since he had
walked this way, when one afternoon
he decided he needed more plain walk
ing.
PedestrianiSm is an ungainly word, but
very good thing, as more persons ought
to find out for themselves.
Templeton Jones had known 1t for
years, but the force Of circumstances,
the weather, maybe bit Of lazineSs,
kept him from walking.
Evening star., 1951-09-10

"space stations" Of the sort that Russia according
to what German engineer has Just told the
Congress Of Astronautics in London, Is trying It's
best to build ahead Of the Western Powers
"Space stations" that would dangle hundreds Of
miles above the earth and serve as bases for all
kinds Of military surveillance or sudden over
whelming push-button attacks on target coun-
tries in any part Of the globe.
Although it may not be one of the develop
ments that has awed Senator Young the creation
OF such artificial heavenly bodies is by no means
out of the question. Actually as far back as 1948
the late Defense Secretary James Forrestal dis
closed that our Army, Navy and Air Force were
then actively interested in an "earth satellite
vehicle program" and had co-ordinated their eff
forts under central guided-missiles project
That was three years ago, and great progress has
been made in many fields-including weapons
in the meantime. The truth is that nowadays
almost nothing seems too fantastic to be real,
whether it be on land, at sea or in the sky.
Evening star., 1951-09-10
BY Charles E. TroceweH

He had succumbed to the universal
motor malady, to walk no more than he
had to-which isn't very much.
Il X
Jones came around the corner of the
old Corby mansion and Strengthened out
along Western avenue. with the churches
to the right of him.
The entrance, the very beginning of
Brookeville road. is narrow.
At one time there was a sign on the
left of the road saying Twenty miles in
this village" and another sign on the
other side declaring Thirty miles," so
you took your choice.
Jones was too busy lodging cars to
notice whether there was any sign at
all, but it would have made no difference,
because nobody pays any attention to
signs any more.
ooh, these Maryland motorists!"
Jones wondered why the structures on
Maryland motorists (moSt often heard
in the District). Maryland motorists are
just the same kind Of people as motorists
in the District Of Columbia. Most of
them came from there.
X
Jones has always been stickler for
walking on the proper side of the road.
The pedestrian may not go to the
extent Of wearing a white shirt, eSpe-
cially in the daytime, but he should face
oncoming traffic, according to Jones.
Though he resolutely sticks to this, he
Evening star., 1951-09-10

sometimes feels that he would do better
to have traffic coming at his back.
He believes that the average motorist
heSitateSsto run man down from the
back, but has no such hesitancy from
the front
Templeton Jones made one discovery
on this trip.
Hitherto, in all his walkings, he had
Strengthened himself up, stepped out and
really walked.
All the experts" even those who
wrote books on the subject, said walking
should be done with vim, or not at all.
"Step, out. man." sneered the books.
Don't walk in q lady-like sissif1ed
fashion. Put some pep into it,"
Jones had obediently put pep into it.
He had stepped out. He was no sissy,
no, sir.
What he found out this time was that
walking is more fun and probably Just
as good for you, il you walk the way
you want to walk.
Jones fairly shambled
He took short steps, he Slouched, he
hung his head, almost in shame (hoping
that none of the athletes saw hirn) and
forgot all about the rules.
When he got home, he realized that
he had actually enjoyed his walk. De-
spite the fact that q truck almost got
him at one Of the curves, he had found
walking fun at last. Templeton Jones
had become an expert. himself.
Evening star., 1951-09-10

or you can hail a japanese cab If you
wish. We were going to the Tokyo
Yokohama area. To date, more than
$4,000 have taken their leave in this
sector.
Enlisted men go to hotels operated by
Army Special Service or to pls es of
their own choosing. officers, company
graders like myself, usually go to the
Prince ShimaZo House, a quiet, man
sionlike place atop hill at the out
skirts Of Tokyo.
We could have gone to any number
of hotels high in the Japanese noun
tains or to some resort. The Army oper-
ates a dozen of these throughout Japan
for enlisted men and eight for officers.
They're easily accessible by low-fare
trains.
Some go directly to r. and r. centers
at Osaka, Japan's second largest city,
or at Kokura on the southern isle Of
KyuShu.
Almost every one telephones home. It
costs 1890 yen-$12 American money :
for the first three minutes. For each
additional minute. it's 81 more. If it's
8 collect call, it takes Is per cent for
taxes at the other end. But at any cost,
it's worth it.
Phone company workers-and they're
all apanese-advise placing the call "a
to 36 hours in advance. You put in the
call, then notify them where you'll be
Evening star., 1951-09-10
.Defense Department Photo.

when it goes, through. I called my par
ents in Washington from my hotel.
The connection-except for an oc-
casional "mushi-mushi'' Japanese for
"hello') was fine. It was 80 am. in
Washington and 4:30 the next after
noon in Tokyo.
Sightseeing, shopping and just plain
tapping up the luxurieS Of life-eating,
drinking and dancing-make the clock
spin. There's much to see in Tokyo
the Imperial Palace, the Gina, the Diet
Building, the Dai-Ichi Building (head-
quarters for Gen. Ridgway and the Far
East Command) and scores of other
places.
There's so much to do that before
you realize it the five days are up and
you're on the way back. This means a
return trip to Camp Drake, trading in
those fine dress clothes for fatigues and
your rejuvenated weapon and night
without sleep.
1t was wonderful while it lasted. Even
the return trip-knowing you're head
ing for the battlefront and all its dis
comforts-takes little away from it.
AS ! sat there in the plane, chaperon-
ing % Greek soldiers, IA Thailanders
and 6 Americans. all loaded with gifts
and other reminders OF their stay in
Japan, couldn't help but feel bit
proud Of my part In the United Nations
fight for freedom.
Evening star., 1951-09-10
Far East Struteuist

1t is folly to think that we can with
stand continued onslaught of 200 mil
lion Russians and 500 million Chinese
and Koreans welding modern weapons
and under the absolute dictatorial con-
troll of Stain and Mao. Such a struggle
would eventually bleed us white and
bring on an atomic war and universal
destruction. Therefore, we must concen-
trate much of our effort in helping the
discontented $50 Of the Russians and
the Chinese to fight their own dictators
and enslaverS.
It is no secret that the Chinese Com
munists are planning. with the help Of
Kremlin. to organize an army of to
10 million, twice the size of the Soviet
Russian Army, in proportion to its huge
population of 500 million, and to invade
and conquer not only Indo- China, Bur-
ma, Thailand, FormoSa, the Philippines,
Evening star., 1951-09-10

Japan. but also the United States, Can
ada, Australia.
John Hay, one of our greatest states
men, said: 1--WE will do everything We
can for the integrity of China, and hold
on like grim death to the open door,"
To put a permanent end to Commu-
mist aggression in the Far East. on which
Stain counts heavily in his quest for
world domination, the Communist con-
troll over the Chinese must be broken,
and now is the best time to do it. But
it must be done by the Chinese anti
Communists of Formosa and their guer-
rillas on the Chinese mainland who are
anxious to fight for freedom now be-
cause they have already had foretaste
of Communist misrule and slavery.
S. Sidney Bromberg.
Ridgefeld, N. j.
Evening star., 1951-09-10
Comfy of Nations

An encouraging atmosphere Of healthy CO.
operation among the nations Of the free world
exists today as the stage for international con-
sultation is shifted from San Francisco to
Washington.
Most important perhaps of series Of con-
versations scheduled to begin here this afternoon
is that between the Foreign Ministers of the
Western Big Three-the United States, Great
Britain and France. As now planned todays
meeting will be between our own and the British
representatives, tomorrows between us and the
French, and on Wednesday there viii be the first
Joint session of all three. It is appropriate that
these meetings are to be conducted on what is
described as highly informal plane but 1t Is
both constructive and significant that long
and diversified list of subjects is to be brought
under review.
The core of Western strength rests today in
these three powers, not only In a military and
economic sense but in moral meaning as well.
The completeness of their collaboration and the
degree to which they can resolve natural differ
ences on friendly and trusting basis Solidif1es
this strength and provides the best possible ex-
ample to the other nations associated with them
in maintaining the common front so essential
to the freedom of all. Behavior OF this kind
constitutes leadership not pressure, and it will
be SO recognized.
Scheduled during these same days in WASH
ington are the sixth annual meetings of the
boards of governors of the International Bank
and the International Monetary Fund. Coming
up next month at Ottawa is conference of the
North Atlantic Treaty nations-at which time
Greece and Turkey are expected to receive
formal invitation to become full partners in
that defense community. During and between
these meetings Of policy nature there will be
others on the operating level calculated to i'm
plement the overall mutual objectives. The de-
cisions reached and the progress made in these
various consultations should contribute substan-
TALLY to the common welfare
Evening star., 1951-09-10
He's No Yes-Mun

Your editorial. "Mr. Truman Speaks
for ALL" is rather presumptuous. He
doesn't speak for anyone in my house.
If he hadn't coddled the Communists
In this country-Alger Hiss, red herring.
denying Congress files on Condor, ETC.
and If he would stiffen up enough to tell
the CzechS to release Oats or face the
consequences. then we might 60 along.
But he follows the same old policy of
appeasement.
What do the thick-skinned Reds care
about few insults? Really tough treat
ment Is what they need. Truman should
have sent the Czech ambassador right
back where he came from.
c. v. Weinberg.
Editors note: What Mr.. Truman said
was that the best way for Czechoslovakia
to improve relations with the United
States was to send Mr.. Oats home.)
Evening star., 1951-09-10
Letters to The Star
Pe1a-nGnaes may be used if letters carry
10riters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.

crate flag displayed as a campaign ban
ner in local election in suburb of
Washington; have heard a local poll
tician speaking under the aegis of this
banner. tell people Presidents, voters,
and taxpayers In the State for Is years,
but who came there originally from the
North: Nobody can come into this
State and have anything to say about
the way we run our affairs"
Those who thus encourage sectional
ism. distrust and dissension may be do
ing so unwittingly. but they are giving
direct aid and comfort to the most dan
gerous enemy of the United States. They
are singing the theme song of the Com
munists.
Evening star., 1951-09-10
First Day at School

This is her great adventure: a small Girl
Thrust suddenly into strange new
1Uorld.
Noto her bright, unbounded self must
enter
A uniueTse iDleTe she is not the center.
Here she tDiH look tUith an unteigned
surprise on
A UGSt 71e,u land, discouer a horizon
Beyond her gathered 1Dorld OF ~" and
"me,"
A Dorld she had not eoen guessed
could be.
! tDish her luck, so sure, so stUeet, so fOe,
So brinlnsipg Nth jog in being Gltpe,
And send her forth into the great un-
knotDn,
So eager, AllsIspecting, and alonei
Moe WinkIer Goodman
Evening star., 1951-09-10
MoroI Indignation

In a recent speech, former President
Hoover pleaded for a return Of the old
virtues. Some of these old things" he
said, 'are slipping badly in American
life. And if they slip too far, the lights
will go out in America"
If we really believe in the old virtues,
in truth, honor and decency, let US say
so. Let us not be guilty of what Ella
Wheeler Wilcox describes as "the sin
of silence when should defend" Right
will prevail, Mr.. Hoover said, because
moral indignation is on the march
again"
How can we express our moral in
dignation? Number one, and the most
important. is the ballot box.
Elsie King Moreland.
Many in high places seem to be oper-
ating with the theory that the Lord
helps those who help themselves"
The inclination of people to grab
leads me to think they believe that If
they take all they can get their hands
on. willynilly, God supports them in
their acquisitive propensities. This is
contrary to Christian doctrine, which
gives the impression it is more blessed
to give than to receive.
We apparently nee6 policy that will
stand for all time to come, that we all
agree to and abide by. Our morals are
slipping more and more, and have never
been good since mankind appeared on
earth. Man has been a careless. grasp
ing critter, cruel and thoughtless, from
the beginning, as witness the cave man
who dragged women about like mad
COON. Homo sapiens was and still is a
belly-laugh and considerable of head
ache. Where are dignity and manhood?
Arthur Robert Brown.
Hollywood, Calf.
Evening star., 1951-09-10
The Fantastic Can Be Real

lot of cryptic and creepy talk has accom-
panied the unanimous vote of the Senate Appro-
priations Committee to give the Defense Depart
ment an additional SIS billion for the purpose Of
building up the Nations air power The net
effect of the talk has been to put extra emphasis
behind President Trumans recent statement
that the United States is producing fantastic"
new weapons that would be capable OF wiping
out civilization in an all-out war.
The President, according to Republican
Senator Milton R. Young-a member of the
committee-has not exaggerated in the slight
est. Mr.. Young has heard top-secret testimony
about the things that are being developed, and
along with some of his colleagues he apparently
has been awed almost to the point Of being dumb
founded by the devastating" nature OF the in
ventions. As he has put it, "They are not atomic.
They are something new and different They are
something even more startling than germ war
fare . They are new and terrible weapons OF
war that are just beyond imagination. They cer-
tainly would be deterrent to any possible foe."
Mr.. Young has gone on from there to say
that these fantastic" new destroyers-not A
weapons and presumably not the hydrogen bomb
can be delivered by air power Accordingly, the
huge additional outlay approved by the commit
tee for the Defense Department may be assumed
to be directed in large measure toward developing
them as fast as possible, and in as great guam
tity as feasible, as part of the Nations overall
effort to expand its military aviation and be SUI
preme in the sky. Moreover, the money involved
like the 50 billion invested in our wartime
atomic projects to be made available to the
Pentagon on kind of blank-check basis, to be
spent as seen fit by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and
the President That fact in itself tends to suggest
that the whole undertaking has unusual signif1-
canoe and impinges upon the strange and lurid
out-of- -thiS-world domain of Buck Rogers, Flash
Gordon and similar interplanetary characters.
AS for the precise nature of the undertaking,
nobody in the know is saying. But "air power
is a broad phrase. 1t is broad enough, for ex-
ample, to include things like intercontinental
rockets and guided missiles that could make
pioted bombers obsolete. Or it might even include
Evening star., 1951-09-10
U. S. Shore in D. c. Costs

May I call attention Of real estate
taxpayers and members Of Congress to
q recent news item they possibly over
looked? 1t stated that taxable real
estate has decreased in this area: that
the real estate tax Is the largest
single source Of income, and as Of
1851 the q. s. Government owns 1870
Of District real estate. This is untaxable.
as Is a small amount Of property be-
longing to the District and tax-exempt
religious, educational and charitable
organizations and embassies. Real es-
tate taxes collected from private owner
ship at the last reckoning amounted to
$119, ,158, ,507.96. The U. s. Government
contributed q measly $40 million.
If may prophesy, If Congress passes
the change in form Of government mis-
named Home Rule, Congress will use
it as an excuse to say grandly, 'We
have given you Home Rule Ha-Ha)
now you can pay all expenses Of the
Federal Capital" It is only with national
representation, with voting represent
ative in both houses Of Congress, we
can hope to get the q. s. Government
to pay its fair share of the cost Of the
Federal Capital, the Nations Capital,
one-han.
Cornelia III. Hill,
Chairman, National Representation,
D. c. Federation Of Women'S Clubs.