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The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1957-12-12

There are Az million tractors
on u. S. farms, Az million cars,
ga million trucks, l million
combines, 100000 corn pickers
and 715,000 milking machines.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1957-12-12
New High School, Standards Adopted
And To Become Effective, Jan. |, 1853

The minimum high school Standards recently adopted by
the filed today with the secretary
by E. Holt superintendent of public instruction and
secretary of the state board
The must be filed in the secretary
states office The standards become effective january 1855
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1957-12-12

Without adequate water in the
soil a crop can be slowly starv-
ing to death because it can't
absorb the minerals needed for
growth, say Ohio Agricultural
experiment station agronomists.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1957-12-12
Mrs. ArabeIIa Archer Observes Her
96th Birthday With Hospital Party

Arabela Archer celebrated her 96h birthday anniversary
the Rose hospital Cleveland but she's looking the
date with Cleveland Plain Dealer
Nov. 25, 1861.
Archer, who lives
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1957-12-12
Honor Roll and Perfect Attendance
Students For Evansville Named

The honor roll perfect attendance students for the Sarhs
vile school announced this week by Principal Joseph
Fields and COMPLIED by the teachers They follows
The frontiersman., 1957-01-24
Services Held for Mine Victims

The body of John E. Fowler
was sent from the Anchorage
Funeral Chapel to Pleasant
Grove, Utah for services.
Fowler was veteran of World
War IT and had been a resident
Of Palmer for five years. He was
a member of the Palmer Elks
Lodge.
He IS survived by his father,
John W. Fowler of Antlers Creek,
Oklahoma; four brothers, Sam
Fowler of Anchorage, William A.
Fowler of Member, New Mexico,
Baxter Fowler Of Modesto, Cali
fornia, Oscar Fowler of Superior
California; four sisters, Mrs. Edre
Heaton of Cortez, Colorado, Mrs.
Inez league of Pleasant Grove,
Mrs. Iona Kirk of Modesto, Cali
fornia, and Mrs. Ethel Kimbsy
of Palisades, Idaho.
Funeral services for Nick Uze-
lax, Al, were held at ! pm. We'd
nesday at the Church of Jesus
Christ of The Later Day Saints
with Stewart Durrant officiating.
Pallbearers were Moose mem
bers Leo Lucas, Ted DeLand and
Ralph Moore, also Hugh Adams,
Kenneth Wallace and Bud Gro
yer.
Members of the Moose Lodge
conducted a service at the Church
and were in charge of grave-side
ceremonies.
Uzelak, a native of Bingham,
Utah, has been a resident of AL
aska for six years and a member
of the Palmer Moose Lodge.
The frontiersman., 1957-01-24
C OF G Forum
Draws Small
Group City Folks

A small, but interested group
of city property owners turned
out for the street paving forum
sponsored by the Valley Chamber
of Commerce at the high school
gym cafeteria, last Thursday
evening.
Chamber of Commerce Presi-
dent Stewart Durrant opened the
meeting, briefly explaining the
forum was planned to create
greater interest in the city paw
ing project and to clarity the
$2OO,OO0.00 bond issue being
sought for street improvements.
City Council members present
to answer questions from the
audience were Mayor Charles
Wilson and Councilmen AL Hagen,
Ray Lancaster and William Zah-
radnicek; City Clerk Claire Stock
and Attorney John Shaw.
Mayor Wilson reiterated his
many previous statements that
Palmer should avail itself of the
wonderful opportunity to save
substantial sums of money by
paving at the same time the
Bureau of Public Roads lays the
a #. strip from the Glenn High
way down Valley street to the
Wasilla highway.
ts'It seems to me that Palmer
cannot bypass this opportunity to
obtain first class engineering ser
vices at enormous savings to city
taxpayers. The Bureau of Roads
will have all necessary equip
ment here to do an excellent job
of paving, and I, personally feel
we should take advantage Of the
situation"
Jack Daum of Anchorage, Alas
kan representative for National
Securities Bonds Association of
Seattle said his firm could very
easily sell the bonds to Territorl-
al investors.
7 A suggestion by Mr.. Daum that
retirement of the bonds be eX-
| tended from 10 to Is years to al
low more time for payment was
adopted under Amusement of At
torney Shaw.
The frontiersman., 1957-01-24
Central Office
Exchange Equipment
Being Installed

Two Kellogg factory trained
telephone technicians, Max Gle
ments and Dale Hanson of Chi
cago, have been in Palmer since
January 8 and are installing
equipment in the new Palmer
central office telephone exchange,
according to MIA manager, Rob
ert Partridge.
Tentative completion date is set
for March %. The decision was
made at a conference of MIA
officials, the installers and Mr..
Earl Sisk, REA's Northwest Dis
trict field engineer who was here
from January 16 to Is on a rou-
tine inspection trip.
While here Mr.. Sisk also as
sisted the MIA staff with tele
phone number assignments.
A mimeographed, temporary
telephone directory for all oper-
able phones is now ready and
copies may be picked up at the
MIA office.
The frontiersman., 1957-01-24
PLANT PATHOLOGIST
GIVES CERTIFIED
SEED FIGURES

Plant PathOlOgist DR.. Charles
Logsdon of the Alaska Expert
ment Station staff announced this
week that approximately 1913 tons
of certified seed potatoes are
available to Alaskan farmers for
spring planting.
These figures were released
after the pathologist made a po-
tato inspection and survey trip
to Fairbanks and the Kenai area
within the past week.
Farmers in the area should
place their acquisitions early for
the certified seed potatoes before
they 60 on the commercial mar
ket and the stock is depleted,
admonished the pathologist.
In Kenai DR.. Logsdon also at
tended a Crop Improvement AS
ISOLATION Board of Directors meet
ing, before returning to Palmer
Tuesday evening.
The frontiersman., 1957-01-24
PALMER MAN
CRUSHED BY
FALLING TREE:

Lester Croft 50 year odd Pal
mer man was seriously injured
January Is when a tree crashed
on him in a wooded lott near the
city limits.
Croft, an employee ofsthe, Davis
Sawmill, was trying to- free a
lodged tree when it. gave way
and pinned him underneath.
The accident occurred at To- am.
Wednesday and it. was approx
mately $3.50 pm. before Croft re-
gained consciousness. He nanag-
ed to free himself from the tree
and crawled to- his truck, a dis
lance of some 700 TT.
He was discovered at 10 am.
Thursday morning by one of the
mill workers and taken immedi-
ately to the hospital.
Croft suffers a compound leg
fracture, broken collar and pelvic
bone, crushed chest an da paraly-
zed left arm. He also suffered
from severe freezing of the face,
hands and feet.
He is a patient at the Valley
Presbyterian Hospital.
The frontiersman., 1957-01-24
Farm Forum Program
Committee Meets

The Program Committee Of the
third Farm Forum met at the
Extension office January Is. Rus
sell Oberg, t. M DePriest, Eu-
gene Reid, Faith Krause, Frances
Hubert, Pat LaWton and Lew
Hanks were members present.
Farm Forum dates were sug-
gested for March i, 2, and 3. A
program similar to last years was
recommended.
DR.. Lane Moore of the Dairy
Research Center Of Beltsville and
Miss Stanley Hunter of the Fed
eral Extension Service are ex-
pected to attend the Forum.
Professor G. L. Fitch, Secretary
Of the American Vegetable Grow
ers Association and a long time
contributor to The Packer has
also been invited.
Subjects suggested for discus
sion at the Forum were Grade A
requirements and Dairy santa
ton, maStitis and Brucellosis
control, new machinery, market
trends in vegetables and milk, mil
itary buying, what's new in vege-
CONTINUED on Page 81
The frontiersman., 1957-01-24

Funeral services were held this
week for the five miners who
were victims of an explosion at
the Evan Jones Coal Co. near
Palmer.
A joint service was held for
Philip Doherty, Glen r. Wore, and
Sam Kwandahl Wednesday at
II am. in the Palmer Funeral
Chapel. The Rev. James P. Snead
officiated.
Pallbearers for the three were
Richard Diedrich, Walter Mayr,
Charles Shaver, Primo Tirapelli,
Glen Marshall and John Bartanen,
friends of the deceased.
Glen r. Wore is Al years old
and had been a resident of SUIT
ton, Alaska for some time. He is
survived by three children.
Sam Kwandahl, 56 was a resi-
dent of Palmer.
Philip Doherty, 38, Of Palmer is
survived by his wife, 3 sons,
Philip r., Paul A., and Mark FL.
all of Palmer; by his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Paul Doherty of County
Donegal, Ireland; four brothers
Neil, Paul, Harry and Pat also
Of Ireland and John Doherty of
Modesto, California.
He is also survived by two sis
tiers, Mrs. John Scudder Of San
Francisco, California, and Miss
Eugene Doherty of New York.
Following the services the body
was shipped to the Ridgeway
Funeral Home, in Smithfield, Ohio
for burial.
The frontiersman., 1957-01-24
March Of Dimes
Moving Along
III Slow Pace

Suggestions for speeding March
of Dimes collections are still be-
ing considered according to cam
paign committee chairman Ed
Smith. Dimes are coming in rath-
er slowly.
1--WE would like to see the lit
tie silver pieces roll in a little
faster, said Smith. However,
we are not complaining. We feel
people in the Valley will do the
best they can to meet our quota, =
added Smith.
Quotas for the past four years
had been set at $1,000 yearly.
Even though there are no resi-
dent polio cases here, there are
two former valley youths receiv-
ing expensive medical treatment
in the States. Added to this is the
cost of manufacturing and distri-
button of polio vaccine which
makes the drive a dire necessity.
To date contributions have been
received from Beta Sigma Phi,
the Butte, Riverbend and Glacier
View Homemakers' clubs and
Moose and Elks lodges, each OF
whom turned in completed dime
cards.
Plans are still being considered
for March of Dimes Dane
The frontiersman., 1957-01-24
VALLEY RESIDE:NT IS
INVITED TO CITY
PLANNING MEET

Proposed planning for the
ity of Palmer will be discussed
at tonight's public meeting which
will be held in the High School
cafeteria at 8 pm.
Elmer Gagnon, director Of the
Alaska Housing Authority, VIII
explain the Federal program for
city planning under Section 7Ol
of the Housing Act of 1854.
Under this Act the federal gov
eminent pays for half Of the
cost of developing a comprehen-
sive program for communities.
Accompanying Mr. Gagnon
will be John Kumb city planner
and AHA technical assistant.
Valley residents interested IN
good city planning are urged to
attend this meeting.
The frontiersman., 1957-01-24
CITY COUNCIL
HAS SPECIAL.
MEETING FRIDAY

Mayor Charles Wilson has call
ed special meeting Of the Coun-
ell in the basement room at City
Hall for Friday afternoon at 2
I'm. Routine business from the
postponed regular meeting will
be discussed and disposed Of as
well as canvassing the special
bond election votes, in Tuesdays
election.
The council will also consider
and pass on petitions for i'm
provement districts which can
now be set up as a result of the
overwhelming-l12 for and 81
against-votes cast for the bond
I'd indebtedness.
Three petitions are already on
file in the city hall. These cover
Colony street from Matanuska
Hotel south to Wasilla street; an
other takes in Railroad Street
from Hartley Motors to Coop
Avenue and from Coop Avenue
from Railroad street to Walker
Ave. The third is from Matanuska
Hotel to Steve Wards Corner.
month.
ANY petition received after
noon Friday will be considered
too late for the summer paving
program" said the mayor.
The frontiersman., 1957-01-24

CLEARS path
FOR ISSUANCE OF
CITY BONDS

The $20O,O00.00 Bonded indebt-
edness was voted In, by city bal
loteers in last Tuesdays Bond
election.
Total of Isl votes were cast,
112 for, 81 against and three bal
lots disqualified.
The result is quite contrast
to the previous election results
on the same issue when the vote
stood "a for, 70 against, resulting
In failure of passage because it
lacked the tworthirds majority.
The victory clears the way for
city officials to issue general OBJ
legation bonds in an amount not
to exceed the $20O,OOO.00.
The money will be used for
street improvements such as ex-
tensions, widening, paving and
curling, 1t also allows for acquiS-
ition OF public works, sewers, and
drainage facilities.
City property holders are now
in position to ask for improve
ment districts after they have
filed their petitions.
People desiring paving better
get on the ball with their petit
tons. First come, first served.
said Mayor Charles Wilson.
Three petitions have already
been filed with the city clerk.
One calls for paving of Railroad
street from the Glenn highway
south to Coop Avenue; anoth-
er designates from Coop Ave
nue. from Railroad Street east to
Walker Avenue which comprises
virtually all the Coop area. The
third is from Matanuska Hotel
to Steve Ward corner.
Petitioners are reminded that
only 500 Of the property, by
valuation is required over sigma
lures in order to obtain an i'm
provement district.
When paving is completed, pro-
perty owners are assessed for
two-thirds the cost; city pays one
third.
Petitions filed after Friday
noon January Is will not be con-
sidered according to Mayor Will
son.
The frontiersman., 1957-01-24
Chamber OF Commerce
Holds First
Breakfast Meet

Chamber Of Commerce board
members held their first break
fast melting in the Rec hall at
z am. Monday. Present were
President Stuart Durrant, Vice
president Eugene Reid, secretary
treasurer Lucille Mick and direc-
tors Jim Hurley, Dick Jones, Ed
Smith, Betty Mears and Caroline
Shields.
The Board agreed to contribute
$50 to the steering committee to
be allocated as their share Of the
expense of preparing the AVA
tourist brochure. Decision was
also made to make further scon-
tributions to the legislative cam
paign committee working on ac-
QUESTION of the mental health
hospital.
An appropriation of $500 from
dues collected in 1856 was ear
marked for promotion and adj
vertising of a "Buy-at-Home''
campaign.
The Board also decided tenta-
lively, to purchase an additional
5000 AVA tourist brochures
They felt the 5000 free copies
received from AVA would not be
sufficient. Decision however, will
not be made until proofs are sub
mitted for approval.
Committees and their chairmen
were appointed for 1857 as fol
lows:
Tourist Committee, Betty
Mears; Aviation, Ralph Farms
Continued on Page 81
The frontiersman., 1957-01-24
ALASKA SOIL
CONSERvATIONISTS
CLOSE conference

Semi Annual conference of the
Alaska Soil Conservation Board
opened in the Soil Conservation
office in Palmer for a two day
session, last Monday, and con-
tinued through Tuesday.
ConservationiSts from Fair
banks, Anchorage and Kasiloff
discussed and formulated plans
for soiH surveys and land CLASH
fication programs for future de-
velopment of the Territory.
Progressive work was done to-
wards coordinating Soil Conser-
walton official sources and the
sub-districts personnel who deal
directly with farmers.
The conference went on record
recommending and seeking reap
pointnent of Commissioner of
Agriculture Jim Wilson, when
the new governor takes over.
Also on record went authorize
ton of letter to Delegate Bart
lett requesting that he continue
his efforts to have Alaska placed
under the Reclamation Act of
1902. The Act carries the provi-
sion that a certain percentage of
money collected by the federal
government from its land, oil and
gas leases be deposited in a re-
clamation fund to be allocated to
various stateside irrigation and
other water projects wherever
the need arises. Alaska is not
covered by the Act. The conser-
vationists and Delegate Bartlett
are striving to rectify this appar-
-ent.inequality.
Other matters on the agenda
given workshop consideration
were.
Maintenance and construction
Continued on Page 81
The frontiersman., 1957-01-24

Among surviving relatives are
his wife Alene and two daughters,
Mrs. Joe Lentz, Jr. of Anchorage
and Roberta Uzelak, a Palmer
High School student.
The men were all killed in an
accident which occurred shortly
after 10 am. Friday, in a slope
mine which was owned by Evan
Jones and operated by an indie
pendent group of miners.
The mine was shaken by two
explosions which were only
seconds apart. 1t is believed that
all five men met instant death.
The frontiersman., 1957-01-24
Planning Committee
TO Meet FRIDAY

The entire planning committee
for the Farm Forum will meet
tomorrow night.
The meeting will be held in
the Extension Service office at
8 pm.
All committee members are
urged to attend.
The frontiersman., 1957-01-24

FOR FAST RESULTS TRY A
FRONTIERSMAN CLASSIFIED
The frontiersman., 1957-01-24
BRUCE GRAHAM
APPOINTED INSPECTOR

Bruce Graham has been APP
pointed Inspector by the Alaska
Department of Fisheries. He will
be checking licenses and inspect
ing lakes and streams in this area.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-22

| torium. Program: Tournament Of
In MemorIam MaSyar ofszas. de
eassIzIns ET ssmnSonI ri5s6ird Suits
Opus So, Dyorak.
The Agriculture Symphony
Orchestra opened its ninth sea-
son under DR.. Frederick Fall
Monday night with an excellent
program featuring a fine work
by a brilliant young Franco
American composer and a
neglected masterpiece by An
tonin Dvorak.
The highlight of the first half
Of the concert was a surpris-
ingly eloquent reading of Serge
de Gastyne's two elegies for
voice and orchestra entitled I'm
Memoriam Magyar Orszag,
composed as a tribute to the
Hungarian spirit after the
tragic revolt of October, 1856.
This is a sincere. affecting
work, plainly written at white
heat. The mezzosoprano soloist,
Grace Bradford. held herself
with the dignity of a young
Marian Anderson and sang with
affecting simplicity and good
musicianship.
1t was refreshing to see that
this was not a first performance
of the de Gastyne work, which
had been previously done in
Washington earlier this year by
the United States Air Force
Symphony. The biggest prob
lem for a young composer
even one whose rise to fame has
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been as meteoric as de Gas
tyne's-is not the first, but the
second and third performances.
There are many conductors
who will do a work if it has the
glamourous tag world pre-
miere" attached to it. but what
happens. regardless Of merit,
once that sales point is lost.
All too often. the work itself
Is lost.
The elegies are worth rehear-
ing. and this reviewer, for one,
is grateful to DR.. Fall for the
chance to listen to them for a
second time before this recol-
lection of the first performance
had completely dimmed.
Just before intermission, Mr..
de Gastyne was presented with
a plaque of st. Stephen, symbol
of Hungarian freedom. The
presentation was made by
Hama Meszaros. a winsome
miss in authentic Magyar dress,
in behalf of the American
Hungarian Federation.
DR.. Fall then turned his at
tention to the exceptionally
lovely Dvorak Fourth, one of
the most ingratiating inspira-
tons of the Czech master. Why
the New World" so completely
outranks it in popularity is be-
yond this reviewers imagina-
ton.
The orchestra has never
sounded better under its con-
ductor's skillful direction.-I. L.
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i onstrated last year. he is q
virtuoso Of absolutely first-ratt
calibre. and an artist worth
listening to as well.
Mr.. Entremont's vehicle was
the Rachmaninoff Second Con-
certo. that sprawling master
piece literally written under the
hypnotic urging Of a psychiat-
rist which has hypnotized audi
ences for more than so years
now.
The pianist's approach to the
work is calculatedly cold, a lit
tie aloof, full of steely power
one might almost say truly
Gallo in its polite reserve. And
yet this is exactly the treat
ment that Rachmaninoff, who
trembles SO frequently on the
brink of sentimentality, needs
to come to full life. The con-
certo sounded fresh and clean
in Mr.. Entremont's killed hands,
and DR.. Mitchell's delicately
balanced accompaniment was a
constant delight.
The rest of the bill consisted
OF the Cellini Overture and
Daphnis and Chloe No. 2, both
showpieces Of the National
Symphony. another reading of
John Vincent's Symphony in D.
I must say that, after two hear
ings Of the new piece in two
days, it still strikes me as a
solid, unpretentious and genu-
inely eloquent addition to the
modern American repertoire.
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Entremont Heard
In Bonus Role
BY IRVING LOWENS

National Symphony Orchestra,
Howard MITCHELL. conductor. Soloist::
Philippe Entremont, piano. In Lis
ner Auditorium Program: Benve-
nuto Cellini Overture. Berlioz: Piano
Concerto No. 2 in c minor, OPUS rs,
Rachmaninoff: Symphony in D, Vim
cent: Daphinis and Chloe. Suite No.
Patrons Of the matinee anc
Prince Georges series of the
National Symphony Orchestrs
were treated to a bonus yester.
day in the form of the brilliant
23-year-old French pianist
Philippe Entremont, who viii.
not appear in the regular con.
certs until December II anc
10.
II you weren't at Lisner OF
Richie yesterday. put a rec
circle around the December
dates. because you won't want
to miss Entremont. AS he dem.
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NEWS OF MUSIC
By DAY THORPE

Anert Fuller. harpsichord: Isadore
Cohen. violin. Institute Of Contem-
gram: Sonatas in B minor and &.
X 296, Mozart.
Nearly is years ago. two
friends, Ralph Kirkpatrick and
Alexander Schneider of the
Budapest Quartet, discovered
one night how good Mozart
sonatas sound when the key
board part is played on a harp
sichord. and also how rounded
and satisfying is a program
made UP of Bach and Mozart
sonatas. The next day the two
played the music for the late
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge,
and encouraged by her delight,
started a duet tour that lasted
several years that brought Mo-
cart and Bach keyboard and
fiddle conatas to 100 or more
cities and towns all over the
United States.
The harpsichord was not
unknown before this, but it is
fair to say that its present tre-
i1lendous popularity as a cham
Der music instrument had its
inception at these recitals.
Last night at the Corcoran
Gallery. Albert Fuller, the most
brilliant of Mr.. Kirkpatrick S
pupils, and Isadore Cohen, for
many years a colleague of Mr..
Schneider, played chamber
music together-in fact played
Bach and Mozart sonatas. 1t
was a scene deja-vu.
Mr.. Fuller, a native Wash
ingtonian now living in New
York, came to the harpSichord
by way of the organ and the
extreme delicacy and dexterity
OF his playing shows it. The
art Of the harpsichordist and
the organist, like that of the
pickpocket. is digital fraud, for,
far more than the piano, the
two older instruments must
stand on what they can imply
rather than actually express.
Mr.. Fuller is a master of the
creation of the illusion of a
dynamic range that doesn't in
fact exist, of an almost vocal
legato and of rhythmic va
riety which is really the skill
ful use of several degrees of
Staccato.
Mr. Cohen, who has been
heard here frequently at Dunn
barton Oaks is a fiddler of
unusual technical distinction
and an artist clearly in SYM
pathy with his partner. The
sheer sensuousness of the sound
OF violin and harpsichord in en-
semble is for one of the more
agreeable noises of chamber
music and last night the vio-
lin was a perfect conversation
alist. Perhaps it talked a bit
too loudly during the first
theme of the D major senate, a
passage which, in any event, is
almost impossible to make un-
derstandable on a harpsichord.
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NEWS OF MUSIC
Horpsichord land Violin
Aqoin Well Poired

Mr.. Fuller has been an
nounced as harpsichordist on
several releases Of the new
Washington Records label. Rob-
ert Bialek, head Of the COM
pany. was in the audience last
night, doubtless thinking of his
signed contracts with satisfac-
tim
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Agriculture Group
Opens Season

Agriculture Symphony Orchestra,
Frederick Fall, conductor. Soloist:
Grace Bradford, mezZosoprano. In
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Audi