MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. CREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1942.
Irene Dunne, Patrick Knowles In Sunday Comedy
Judy Canova On Holly Screen
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, 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-
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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.
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Making a soldier out of Judy
Canova is a man-sized Job, but
hilarious Jerry Colonna and
golden-voiced Allan Jones will
attempt to do Just that In 'True
to the Army," howling army
camp comedy which comes to
the Holly Theatre Sunday for a
three-day run.
"Dudes Are Pretty People,"
another stream-lined comedy
from the makers of 'Tanks a
Million," will play as the com
panion feature, with Joan Wood
bury and Noah Beery, Jr., in
starring roles.
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Cleveland (UP) The exploits
of America's sharp-shooting sol-
C...t and the hard-hitting motor
torpedo boats seem to be affect
i..g the amusement parks. Park
managers In Cleveland report
that the two concessions show
ing the greatest Increase in
business this season are the
shooting gaveries and the motor
bo:' rides.
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