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Valley frontiersman., 1952-05-08
Valley to Get s377, ,000 in Mitury Produce Contracts
LocGl Potdfo Growers 10 Furnish f, ,470 Tons At .053-.O735 Per Pound

Announcement this week of low bidders on military pro- duce contracts for Fort Rich ardson. Elmendorf Air Force Base, and Whittier revealed that Valley farmers have an almost certain market for their spuds and green vegetables that will bring them total of nearly S377,- 600.
 Among the low bidders an- nounced for potatoes to be sup piled from September 1852 thro- ugh June 1853; and beets, cab bage, carrots, celery, lettuce, and turnips for the duration of the local season, there was only one producer who does not represent the Valley. He is an Anchorage grower who will furnish 23O,000 pounds of potatoes to Fort Rich ardson for the month of Novem- Der. Potato prices varied from .0525 for the Anchorage grower to a high of .0735 for the Co-Op's May-June shipment of 68,000 pounds to Whittier.
 Coop Gets High for Spuds
 The Coop will furnish 15 tons of potatoes monthly to Fort Rich ardson for all but four Of the ten months. for a total contract price of S92.230 Contracts for furnish ing I5 tons monthly for seven months to ElmcndOrf AFB and q total of 204 tons for six months use at Whittier, brings the Co., Ops spud total for tHe three mili- tary installations 10 S2I3. .g85 for it's potato contracts alone. The Coop prices were far above those asked by other low bidders. Starting at ,0GI per pound for September. the prices are pro gressively higher throughout the year until the high of .0735 IS reached for May-June Whittier. The June price to Elnendorf AFB and Fort Richardson was .O73.
 Glenn Woods. who after the Coop will furnish the most po- tatoes 10 the three military in- stallations, will receive the Fort Richardson contracts for Febru- ary, March, and April and the Elmendorf contracts for March and April for a total of 575 tons al .0541 per pound Two other local low bidders on potatoes were Lorin Weiderkehr, who will furnish 115 tons of potatoes to ] Elmendorf AFB in November at
 Continued on page 4
Valley frontiersman., 1952-05-08
VETERANS 0k.FARM TRAINING PROGRAM ENDS THIS MONTH

The Veterans Administration institutional-on-the-farm train ing program will be terminated in Alaska at the end of this month.
 This information was forward ed to all Veteran instructors in Alaska by the supervisor of the program, Lynn Hollist. Classes will continue until the program closing date, May 31, 1852. At this time the program in which ap- proximately 75 Valley Veterans have been enrolled most of them for the past three years will be terminated at least year ahead of the earliest expiration date for the planned four-year program.
 The program has been admin istered in Alaska under a con- tract between the University of Alaska and the Veterans Admin istration. Lynn Hollist, Director of the University of Alaska Ex- i tension Service. was selected as supervisor and the four-year farm training program was integrated with that of the Extension Ser vice.
 The recent issue of the so- called '120-hour rule" was instru- mental in bringing about the can- cellation of the contract between the University and the Veterans Administration In his letter tc the VA, President Ferris Moore said: '' the '180 hour rule vii disqualify so many trainees iron subsistence payments that 1t be. comes impractical to continue thr institutional on-the-farm training program.
 Tn Alaska" Moore explained part time rather than full-timt farming is largely the rule. Thi: , Is because of the highly seasona nature of agricultural operation! here. To disqualify a man as { farmer because he exceeds 16t hours of work off the farm ever though these may be wholly within the seven ron-agricultura months of the year, means tha Veteran farmer trainees would not have signed a contract fol the (program) at all"
 President Moore further justi fled the University's termination of the program on the basis O there not being enough qualify ing trainees in each area neces sary to continue such program.
 Regarding the retroactive ap plication of the 180-hour rule Moore made it clear to the Vh that the University considers i illegal. citing the Constitution 0. l Continued on page 10
Valley frontiersman., 1952-05-08
New City Mayor and 6 counciImen 10 Be Elecied Next October

Residents of Palmer will elect a mayor and an entire new City Council on the first Tuesday of October. according to the provi- SlonS of the new ordinance which had it's first reading at the Coun- cil meeting last night.
 Entitled An Ordinance Gov erning Elections and Elected Of ficials, Designating Their Terms of Office and Providing Notices of Election and Vacancies, the new city law establishes the Oc- tober election date in accordance with the practice being adopted by most Alaskan cities and which was provided for by Territorial law during the last session of the legislature. One of the best req sons for having municipal cleo tions at this time is that it per mits an elected council to draw up a budget for the city's fiscal year and to collect revenues to carry out such budget. Otherwise an elected council might find it. self hamstrung by its predeces- sor's budget.
 Terms of Office
 In addition to general instruc- tions as to how to hold municipal elections and the parliamentary procedure for conducting Council meetings and the business of the city, the ordinance establishes three-year terms for six council men and a two-year term fOi mayor. All seven offices would be filled directly by the qualified electors. Although six councilner would be elected next October two Of them would be elected foi three-year term two for two-yeal terms, and two for one-yea; terms. Thereafter, two council men would be elected each year The mayor, according to the or dinance. would be elected in odd numbered years. Thus, the mayor elected next October would pro bably be elected for a term ot only one year.
 Nominating petitions with sig natures of 9 qualified elector! of Palmer would be necessary fol all candidates. Electors signature!
 Continued on page 10
Valley frontiersman., 1952-05-08
MAYOR RETURNS

Looking younger and refresh ed, Mayor Carl Meier, was back on the job last night, presiding over the City Council. He said he had lost fifty pounds during his trip Outside for medical treat ment, and he appeared to be right.
Valley frontiersman., 1952-05-08

IN WASHINGTON, D. C. last week the U. s. Supreme Court approved (6-3) the practice of re- leasing children from school clas- ses for religious instruction, pro- vided the instruction is held out side the schools.
 In explaining the difference be- tween this decision and that in the famous McCollum case of 1948, Associate Justice William O. Douglas wrote for the major ity: "In the McCollum case, the classrooms were used for reli- gious instruction, and the force of the public school was used to promote that instruction. Here the public schools do no more than accommodate their schedu- les to a program of outside reli- EiOGs instruction. No one $ forced to go to the religious class room, and no religious exercise of instruction Is brought to the classrooms of the public schools We find no constitutional requirement which makes 1t nec- essary for government to be hos tile to religion and to throw it's weight against efforts to widen the effective scope of religious ln- fluence."
 IN FAIRBANKS last week vot- CTS approved a s250,000 bond is- sue for a water treatment plan- a S1OO,000 bond issue to finance telephone expansion, and S2OO- 900 bond issue for street paving and new sidewalks. A proposal to sell city-owned property at Weeks Field for reported con- struction of a large housing pro- ject was approved without vote to spare.
 IN CORDOVA drilling will start soon for an oil well at the Katalla- Yakataga field nearby, according to a report confirmed by William T. Foran, geologist and Northern Development Com pany official. Qualified experts have expressed the opinion that great oil reserve may lie in the Cordova area. A shallow well produced to some extent until the l93Os when fire destroyed the equipment.
 IN ANCHORAGE a recount on the city's sales tax vote Tuesday, April 29, revealed that the pro position lost by nine votes. A total of 1,260 had voted for the tax and 1,046 had voted against it, but a 55 percent majority was necessary for passage. Mean while, a recount was authorized for the school sales tax votes for the Anchorage School District. This proposition lost by Al votes although 2,2s4 voted for the mea- sure and only 2,126 against 1t.
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-03-27
ST. MARKS LUTHERAN CHURCH
PEW IILTIIER


$3.50 a. M, Church School. Classes
for all age groups.
1O:45 a. M, Worship service. Ser
mon, THE Passion of Prayer" Infant
baptisms.
mon, "Travelling Companions"
Nursery for children during the
church hour.
p. M, Luther League.
Wednesday, Lenten service at the
Methodist Church.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-03-27
Dan Folk, all of Grantsville.

Dan Folk, all of Grantsville.
Attending the Oakland meeting
were f. S. Duckworth, Albert Camp,
Grantsville; Harry Collier, Carl b.
Bowman, Thomas II Taylor Harry
L. Kamp, Walter II. Fratz, Oscar
Harman Clark Kolb, Walter E. Har-
man, Marvin G. Calls, Claude Fike,
Paul Miller, all Of Accident; Wilbur
Myers, Ross D. Sewers, Milo Wilson,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-03-27
Attend Board Meetings

A large number of Garrett county
farm cooperative members attended
regional board meetings in Oakland
and Cumberland.
Attending the Cumberland meeting
were w. Harold Miller, Guy S. Stan
ton, John Hershberger, f. L. Jacobs,
j. A. Beachy, Leslie J. Stanton and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-03-27
OUR FATHERS HOUSE

AltamOnL. ma.
REV. JOHN J. ATWELL, Rector
10 a. M, Church School, each Sun
day.
IL a. M, Holy Communion, 2nd
Sunday each month.
II a, M, Morning Prayer all other
Sundays.
st. Johns Chapel
Deer Park, Md.
1915 p. M, Church school every
Sunday.
6 p. m, Young Peoples Fellowship,
every Sunday.
p. M, Holy Communion LIST Sun
day of each month.
p. M, Evening prayer Bird and 9Th
Sunday of each month.
6 p. M, Boy Scout meeting every
Thursday.
Z p. M, Choir practice every Thurs
day.
700 p. M, Friday, Lenten services
every Friday until Good Friday.
1880 p. M, Girl Scout meeting every
Thursday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-03-27
ST. PAUL'S METHODIST CHURCH
DENVER c. PICKENS, d. D., Minister

$3.50 a. m., Sunday School.
1890 a. m, Nursery for children Of
pre-school age.
10:45 a. M, Morning worship. Ser
mon subject, THE Spirit of Jesus"
Anthems by the Senior Choir will be
80 Saviour Hear Ne by Gluck- REG
ger and Lamb of God" by Christian
sen.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-03-27
CHURCH OF ST. PETER THE
APOSTLE

REV. FIR. MICHAEL X. CARNEY, Pastor
Sunday: Masses 8 and 10 a. m.
Confessions, Saturday 5 to 6, 1880
to $3.50 p. M, and Sunday morning
before masses.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-03-27
Sunday Services in the Churches
Of the Community
ST. MATTHEW'S EPISCOPAL
REV. ALFRED ]. HAINES. Pastor

500 a. M, Holy Communion.
$3.50 a. M, Church School.
II a. m, Morning prayer and SER
mon.
During Lent on each Wednesday
at 10 a. m. there will be a celebration
of Holy Communion and Litany with
instructions at 1880 p. m.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-03-27
BITTINGER LUTHERAN PARISH
CURT II. RUNE, Pastor
Jennings

Jennings
9:45 a. M, Service
1915 a. m. Sunday School.
Tuesday, April /: Missionary So
ciety.
Bittinger
10 a M, Sunday School
II "A. m, Worship service.
p. m, Luther League.
Friday, April 1 Missionary Society.
Meadow Mountain
500 p. M, Service and showing Of
the South American film, Young
Church Growing"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-03-27

Paul Bowers, Swanton; Lenwood
Bittinger, Mt. Lake Park.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-03-27
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

EIghth stroot. UaKTand. MD.
Robert b. Sampson, from Eastern
Nazarene College, Wollaston, Mass,
will be here for the services Sunday.
10 a. M, Sunday School.
IL a. M, Morning Worship.
6:30 p. M, Young Peoples service.
1880 p. M, E|ening service.
Tuesday, 1880 p. M, Midwcek
prayer service.
Saturday, 1880 p. M, Broadcast fol-
lowed by prayer service at Union
Holiness Tabernacle, Third street.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-03-27
OAKLAND GOSPEL MISSION

Third and Pennington Streets. Oakland. Md
Services for this week:
Regular services Friday evening at
7:3O.
Sunday evening, 1880.
Cottage prayer meeting at the home
of Rev. Farley Foster, near Under
wood, Thursday evening at 1870. Rev.
B. j. Lockhart will be the leader,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-03-27
HOLINESS PENTECoSTAL

REV. PAUL POLAND. Minister
10 a. m., Sunday School. II a. M,
Worship service. 1880 p. M, Evan
gelistic service Wednesday, 1870 p.
M, Prayer Meeting.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-03-27
SAND FLAT
ASSEMBLY OF GOD

10 a. NJ, Sunday School.
II a. NJ, Morning worship.
7:45 p. M, Evangelistic service.
Tuesday-Preaching and prayer
7:45 p. m.
Cottage meetings nightly as an
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-03-27

McKeldin declared the Dixie anti
Truman Democrats were sparkling the
greatest rebellion since 1861 in that
area
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-03-27

MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK
EV.-UNITED BRETHREN
GEORGE w. SIMPSON, Pastor
Paradise
10 a. M, Worship and sermon.
II a. M, Sunday School.
McHenry
10 a. M, Sunday School.
11:15 a. M, Worship and sermon.
Loeb Lynn
10 a. M, Sunday School.
7 p. M, Adult c. T.
7:45 p. M, Worship and sermon.
Thursday, 1880 p. m, Prayer SER
vice.
SwantOn
10 a M, Sunday School.
II a. m.., Worship and sermon.
7 p. M, Youth Service.
7:45 p. M, Evangelistic service.
ST. JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH
Red House. Nd.
DONALD X. GALLON, Pastor
9:45 a. m., Sunday School.
10 a. m, Worship with the sermon:
THE Hard Task of Forgiveness by
the pastor.
Nursery for small children con-
Quoted during this hour in the social
room.
Wednesday, Red House Circle,
morning and afternoon. Catechetical
class, 1880 p. m.
Friday-Choir rehearsal, 7:45 p. m.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-03-27

of Revival meetings.
Sunday, March 80, 10 a. M, Bible
School session. 7:45 p. M, Evangelis
tic meetings.
Monday, March 81, 7:45 p. M,
Evangelstic meetings.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-03-27

MT. LAKE BAPTIST CHURCH
REV. W. c. ROGERS. Pastor
10 a. M, Bible School.
IL a. M, Worship and service.
7:45 p. M, Delegation of members
to attend Evangelistic meeting at
Ferndale Church.
Ferndale Baptist Church
Friday, March 28, 7:45 p. M, First
Evening star., 1952-10-25
Take Nv Word for 1t By Fronk Colby

Cleveland: Recently you stated:
Wrong: Every citizen should
own their own home Right:
Every citizen should own his own
home" In your right" example
you nave slipped into common
error Of redundancy. Whose home
would a citizen own If it were not
his own?
Answer: ". If it were not his
own?" HIM. See "Own, adjective
Webster's New International Die
tionary, Second Edition.
Ontario: In our shell plant we
have the word "bourrelet" as per-
tanning to a section of the 6-inch
or 155-mm. shell. No one seems tc
know what the word means.
Answer: It's a French word that
means, literally, "a circular turban-
like pad worn to protect the head.
In your case, however, bourrelet
Idesignates the circular ridge of the
shell by means of which the rifles
of the gun cause the projectile to
spin. Buorrelet is pronounced
boor-leh. An acceptable English
form is "burlet," pronounced: BUR-
let.
Los Angeles: Not long ago one OF
your readers submitted "scrunched'
as the longest one-syllable word in
English. Had he scratched a bit
deeper and stretched his research
Evening star., 1952-10-25
Venue Change 10 Be Asked
lin Carper-Taylor Case

Attorney Myron Ehrlich said
said last night he will ask District
Judge Burnita Shelton Matthews
for a change of venue in the Car
Taylor narcotics conspiracy
case.
The lawyer said he will argue
for the change of trial site on
November 7, after Election Day.
Mr.. Ehrlich pointed out the date
was important because he intend
ed to summons officials from all
the local newspapers, radio and
television stations and the Satur-
day Evening Post magazine. The
officials, he said, will be too busy
on Election Day to testify.
His purpose, Mr.. Ehrlich said, Is
Ito attempt to prove the two po-
|licemen received so much adverse
publicity it is impossible for them
to get a fair and impartial trial
in this area.
1t. H. H. Carper, former head
of the Narcotics Squad and his
chief aide, Sergt. William Taylor
were indicted after congressional.
| Investigators heard testimony
from dope peddlers that they haC
paid the pair protection money.
Evening star., 1952-10-25
Two More Men Held
In Stolen Mail Bag
Case in Alexandria

Two more men were arrested
in Alexandria yesterday and
charged with stealing a bagful of
mail.
They are Edward j. Croson, 25,
a painter, of the 1000 block of E
street Sc, and Thorvald Johnson,
I29, a truck driver, of the 1900
block Twenty-ninth street Sc.
Both are charged with stealing
a mail bag September 80 on Circle
Hill road in Alexandria.
Postal inspectors and Secret
Service agents said they believed
yesterdays arrests concluded the
case of the disappearing mail
bags.
Two other men were arrested
October II after a mail bag was
stolen that day from a Parkfair-
fax mail box.
They were Robert Lee Johnson,
80. of the 1900 block of E street
lS.E., a brother of Thorvald, and
Gerald Craig Feagans. "a, of the
5000 block of Crawford street NE.
Postal inspectors said present
charges against all four men are
confined to the September 80 and
October II thefts. They indicated
other mail bags had disappeared,
however.
Several mail bags have been re-
covered, inspectors said.
Postal inspectors said the two
men arrested yesterday and those
arrested a week ago apparently
worked in teams, and all knew
each other. The same license plate
was used on automobiles involved
in both thefts.
Croson and Thorvald johnson
waived preliminary hearing before
United States Commissioner STAN
ley King at Alexandria and were
held under $4,000 bond for grand
jury action.
Evening star., 1952-10-25
Oysters.

Tradition is stubborn. Even to
this day, the idea Of not eating
oysters unless the month contains
an r remains. This month is when
the demand for the oyster climbs.
oysters contain vitamins A, B, C,
D and G in appreciable quantities.
It is important that we eat more
fish, and since oysters contain so
many vitamins, we can and should
include them more often in our
diet.
Our forefathers, thinking Of the
Old World oyster whose eggs
Matched within the shell, making the
oyster gritty and disagreeable dur
ing the summer months, decided
without scientific knowledge, that
the vast oyster beds they saw were
like those left behind. They de-
creed when they could be eaten.
However, science revealed that the
American oyster fertilizes its eggs
in the sea water outside the parent
shell. The microscopic baby
oysters each develops its own shell
The parents may not be as plump
and well favored, but they remain
an excellent food.
With perfect refrigeration, sani-
tary care In preparation for market,
Evening star., 1952-10-25
Natures Children By l'''o" Co. Athsy

we may have oysters the year
around.
When first out of the egg a baby
oyster resembles, under a magnify
ing glass, a minute thimble with a
hairy belt around its middle. At
this tender age it is extremely ac-
tive. Swarms move about on the
surface of the water The tides
and currents move them miles
away from the scene of their birth.
Within IS days their carefree ex-
istence ends. Some mysterious urge
induces the young oyster, which now
has a shell and swims upright, to
drop to the bottom. Here he moves
about to find a clean object on
which to anchor for life. After
establishing a firm foundation, by
pressing himself to the surface by
an adhesive glue he elects, he grows
rapidly. Food is obtained by filter
ing vast quantities of water through
the gills. In two to five years he
has acquired market size.
Through his growing period he
must escape the ravenouS starflsh
which hunts for oyster beds, con-
Suming millions of them. There are
other foes oyster planters are
forced to fight off. America has
the largest and finest oyster beds in
the world.
Evening star., 1952-10-25
A Minute Test of Your
NeUS knowledge
NEWS QUIZ
BY Tom Henry

/. BILLIONS-What is the
United States public debt that
has risen to the highest point
in six years?
2. SUBS-How many sub
marines is Russia said to have
ready for use in the Atlantic
in case of war?
3. MIL TONE What
birthday did Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt celebrate recently?
4. PILOT - Casey Stengel
has signed new two-year
contract with the New York
Yankees. How long has he
been managing the club?
5. QUOTE-What was the
World War II job of DR.. Van
nevar Bush, vino said: And
remember that no weapon can
permanently remain an in
Strument to our advantage
alone?"
Answers.
/. The debt has reached
1854 billion; six years ago it
reached a record high of $279
billion. 2. More than 100 subs
equipped with "snorkel'
breathing tubes. 3. Her 68th.
4. Since 1949. 5. Director of
the Office of Strategic Re-
reach and Development.
Tom Henry's "Quiz EN-" ap-
pears every Sunday in This
Week Magazine with The Star.
Evening star., 1952-10-25

7 need not have screeched back at
him that splotched is equally long.
Answer: I'm sure he now feels
properly squelched.
Toledo: The dictionary defines
"bimonthly" as "once in every other
month" Then why, in the name of
Noah Webster, does 1t define obi
annual" as occurring twice in every
|year?"
Answer: The reason is that the
freniside BIZ forsnicks the octaput
into a copacetic verb-form ]
think.
Distributed by McNaught Syndicate, lnc.)
Evening star., 1952-10-25
to Fly Again

The first serious attempt to re-
vive Germany's aircraft industry
is to be made by the Junkers
Co. (headed by DR.. Kurt Ade-
nauer, nephew of the chancellor)
which was responsible for building
most of Germany's wartime Luft-
waite, with headquarters in Kas-
sci.