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W. J. Sweetman Retires from Federal Service

William J. Sweetman of Palmer has retired after 37 years of service with the U.S. government. He received a certificate from Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman in recognition of 37 years of service as a federal employee prior to his retirement on March 9, 1968.

The experiment station employee left Palmer to join Mrs. Sweetman in Arizona. However, they plan to return to Palmer to spend the summer.

Mr. Sweetman came to Alaska in 1943 from the Bureau of Dairy Industry, Beltsville, Md., to develop a program of research and service in animal husbandry at the Alaska Agricultural Experiment Station.

At that time, the station was being reorganized as a cooperative venture between the University of Alaska and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

One of Sweetman's first objectives when he arrived in Alaska was to organize a cooperative artificial insemination program among local dairy farmers.