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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. CREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1942. Irene Dunne, Patrick Knowles In Sunday Comedy Judy Canova On Holly Screen ... E ".- 'T-flCaS NEEDED Seven-Year-Old Federal Pro' i- ) -it ; ject Stirs Widely Varying . Opinion As To Success. PAGE TWO , Br William I Worden !' Palmer. Alaska, July 29. (Wide World) It i seven years now since 199 (arm families, most of them (rom the relief rolls of Wisconsin. Minnesota and North Dakota, were sent to hew homesteads in the virtually untouched wilderness of Matan uska valley by the federal gov eminent. i And this year, despite pro tests, personalities, dissension and disappointments, Matanuska is producing vital vegetables, jnllk and meat for Alaska when the territory needs that produce more than at any time since the gold rush. Many Opinions If you ask two or three hun dred residents "what Is the mat ter with Matanuska," you will get almost as many different answers. You will hear successively: That most Matanuska valley 'colonists are loafers and wasters, )unfit for farming or anything else. i That the colonists never had chance to get out from under government red tape long enough to grow anything. , That the Matanuska project 'never will return the govern ment's original investment. ' That the cooperative which operates the creamery, restaur ant and other stores in the col ony, is inefficient and the root of the colony's evils. " That the farm purchase con tracts are drawn to keep farm ers staggering under impossible debt loads and to prevent them from willing their property to .their children even if they do clear their debts. Kids Best Crop That the best crop raised in Matanuska valley is kids. ' You will also hear some hardy soul admit he considers the pro ject a success, the officials ef ficient and the farmers industrious. Somewhere between these views, typical of the dissension which never has quit the valley even In its most productive year, lies the approximate truth. Of the original 199 colonists, perhaps 100 still are in the val ley, although some no longer have any connection with the farming project. When the colonists came to Matanuska, they signed con tracts providing that the government-financed Alaska Rural Rehabilitation corporation would furnish each family with a 40 acre farm, help to clear it and build houses and barns, and fin ance the family until the farm could be put on a producing basis. The valley they came to was strange place to most of them a forested (latland lying In a rough circle of 13 miles diam eter, cut by two icy glacial rivers. The colonists were awed by the snowy semi-circle of Chugach and Talkeetna moun tains around their new home. The town of Matumiska acta ally was no town at all. Only a weatherbeaten railroad sta tion. Inefficiency Appals Some colonists lived Idly In tents while paid workmen built their homes. A commissary gave almost unlimited credit for everything from Ice cream cones to farm machinery. Hundreds of milk cans were stored in the open before there was a cow in the valley Auto mobiles worth perhaps $2U0 or 300 were hired by government representatives at $100 a month nd kept for a year. The cost of those first wild months to the government can not be gauged accurately be cause o( complicated accounting The lowest estimate anyone in the valley will offer now is $3, 000.000. Others run twice that high. Whatever the cost, the pro ject was in operation in less than a year and Matanuska peas. potatoes and caobage appeared on the market in Anchorage, closest city to the new project. Storm Breaks The real storm did not break until the rehabilitation corpora tion presented its bills (or that first year's orgy of buying, plus the necessary expenses of estab lishing the farms. Estimates had been made that each family would owe be- .,'.--r:':'-...-i : - . . 1 Comedienne Irene Dunne and I handsome Patrick Knowles form a new romantic team In "Lady In a Jam," new comedy hit which comes to the Craterlan theatre Sunday for a three-day stay. Ralph Bellamy, Eugene Pailette and Queenie Vassar have roles with Miss Dunne and Knowles. tween $3,500 and $4,500, pay able over a 30-year period. When the bills were added the lowest was Just under $4, 000, the highest well above $12, 000 and the average about half way between. After outcries that could be heard in Washington, commis sary and hospital bills were wiped out, and additional credit was given to the colonists. No longer are the liberal terms or the outright gifts of 1933-36 available. Today a new comer must pay rent for a year and prove his intentions and ability before the rehabilitation corporation will sell to him on anything like the original terms He must farm the land, be long to the Co-op the Matan uska Valley Co-opcrntlng as sociation and sell through it and pay regularly on his indebt edness. He cannot simply hold the land as an investment. Bible School Pupils Receive Awards At Jacksonville Keel Jacksonville, July 29. (SdI ) The first Vacation Bible school held in Jacksonville for a num ber of years closed Snturdav with a picnic. Friday evening a graduation program was held In the church. Those having perfect attendance were award ed a diploma and those missing one day were given a certifi cate. Those In the primary de- i partment receiving diplomas were Alice Atherton. Pauline McCloud, Joan Qyln. Alvln Sales, Dclores May Lynn. Bcttv Hoffman, Charles Mitchclmore. Vernon Glcason, Gary Aldcn. Those in the primary recelv Ing certificates were Phyllis Mclntyre, Donna Davles, Car men Davics, Virginia Johnston Charles Johnston, Lora Lee Ste venson. Donald Coggins, Dclores Coggins. Glen Backcs, Manuel Buck, Andy BJorn, Betsy BJorn Gary Burgess, Charlotte Reed. Gene Reed, and Maries Ann Rasrby. Juniors having perfect attend ance were Anita May Backes. Beverly June Backes, Buelah Leona Miller, Ann Ditto, Mil dred Johnston, Mary Hinderer, Ray Johnston, Pauline Hardy. Bobby Joe Ruth, Richard N'e dermeyer, Mary Beth McCurley Dale Fick, Pauline Buck. Mary Alice Ryan. Arnold Niedermey er. Emmett Johnston, Vi into Miller, Paul Hardy, Kenneth Sales. Colleen McCloud, Alfred Glcason, Frank Ditto. Lynn Bernston. Mary Llnd, Mary Ber riman, Pauline Wilcox, Norma Jean Backes. Lucille Gladys Brown, Rita Grvibbs, Elsie Dell Brown, Peggy McCurdy, Pau' Wilcox, and Betty Conlry. Jun iors receiving a certificate were Jack Allen. Johnny Hinderer. Gerald Grubbs. Gordon Wntlit. Jimmie Gleason, Vera Conlcy, Arthur London, Ann Louise Zattlin, Donald Wendt, Wilma "Fantasia" Coming To Rialto O Wilt Dlnuv Profe Sadie Twinkletoes, Minnie the Mooch and a couple of the girls trip the light fantastic in Walt Disney s eagerly-looked-forward- to cartoon feature, "Fantasia which comes to the Rialto The atre Friday for one big week. It is filmed In technicolor. Mclntyre, Thomas Wright, Glo ria McGinty, Bonnie Shafer and Bobby Van Galder. Closing time for Cluslfltd Adi S . m. Too lat to Classify 13.30 p. m. U. S. production of steel In the first half of 1942 amounted to 42.5 million tons or Just a fifth below the output for the full year 1917, the biggest steel year in World war I. YICK SO HERB CO. Harb ramadias allavlats disorders ef goitre, stomach, lungs. IWar. heart, kidnay. bladder, prostata gland, pilas. catarrh, tinus. asthma. tism. Kitmi, Stomach ulcar constipation, lum bago, bronchitis, hay itttr, and iamala com plaints. Daily 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. 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