IfflEfl (iriEEJIflG, APRIL 14.
Plan tc attend the annual meeting ef the
M.t .nueke Electric AS30ci .tion, Inc., on
April 14, 1951» at 8 r.m., at the P lmer
High School Auditerium. There will be r.n
election of five Directors, annual reports
prizes, movies end refreshments. Thi3 is
your "REa" Electric Co-op. Give it your
support by ttonding the annual meeting.
YUKON RIVER'S BRUJ.-UP, KELPS A.C.C.A.
which timekeepers rate as among the worldfe
moot accurate.
The larger of the two has a 15-inch dial
a.nd is eloctricr.lly operated. a pin on
the side of the big clock will trip the
pendulum the second the tripod on the Yu
kon's ice starts to move.
The manually operated small clock will
give a double chock on the time. Special
locks have been constructed in the cases
of both clocks so there can be no inter
ference with the time.
Sponsored by the McKinley Foundation,
Inc., a non-profit organization, the Yukon
River Break-up guessing contest will re
sult in the Alaska Crippled Children's
association getting one-half of the pro
ceeds and the lucky gucsser getting on&
hr.lf .
./hen Mr. Don Knudscn of the Mel inloy
Foundation went to Fort Yukon, he hunted
through the various diaries of old timers,
government employees, etc., to determine
the time of the break-up during the past
ten years. Following is the completed list
as compiled by Mr. Iinudscn:
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
194a
1949
1950
^pril
May
May
May
May
May
May
May
May
May
May
29
9
6
3
8
20
11
7
13
18
12
5:06 p.m
3:11 p.m
10:31 a.m
6:12 p.m
11:42 a.m
2:18 p.m
4:26 p.m
9:47 p.m
11:36 p.m
5*22 a.m
The closing date for depositing of tho
dance tickets in the containers is i.pril
10th., 1951* Tickets for the big Yukon
River Ball at anchorage may be obtained .
locally at Bert's Drug, Koslosky's and the
Co-op office, according to Mrs. N. Swoboda, 1
who is working with Mrs. M. Koppin in stag
ing the Break-up Ball for the benefit of
the -..C.G....
CLUB GIVES LIBRARY DOTM
The Riverbend Homemakers Club presented
a gift of $50. to the.Palmer Library this
week. The money was raised through the
raffling of a quilt which was made by the 1
members of the club as their civic improve
ment project for the past year.
The Club wishes to thc.nk tho many Valley
residents who bought tickets for tho ro.ff
lo. Kiss Louise Kellogg, who held number
176, was tho lucky recipient of the quilt.
Mrs. Richard Jr.shburn, representing tho
club, presented the gift to Mrs. Earl Gra
ves, President of tho Library ^association.
flwmy iws BfliHRonmis
Exposition Press of New York received a
call this week from Washington army brass
ordering 600 'bathrooms. Tho man who made
tho call sounded a little dazed, as, if he
had a strange feeling that the ..rmy was'nt
the ..rmy any more.
Exposition's publisher, Edward Uhlan, re
assured him that the orde-r was* for copies
of "Bathroom's Down the Rail" by ./m. Cam
eron Johnston, a humorous story of what
happened ’./hen mother took in boarders,
which Exposition Banner Books will publish
on March 3°th.
"Thank God they're books," the ..rmy man
said. "I was trying to figure out how I
was going to transport 600 bathrooms with
out disconnecting the plumbing."
Johnston, an. employee of ..retie Contract
ors now working in Point Barrow, ..laska,
’./rote "Bathroom's Down the Hall" to while
away his spare hours at the construction
camp. The U.S. ..rmy got an advance peek
at the book and ordered 600 copies for its
libraries to lw.lp GI's to while away their
hours in camps all around the world.
Johnston has packed a bockful of chuck
les into his reminiscences of his mother's
rooming house back in Britton, S. D., the
locale of "Bathroom's Down the H 11."
The book is a leading title of imposit
ion Press Banner Books, the now trade pub
lishing division of imposition Press of
New York.
Priced \t $2.50, the book c-.n be ordered
through loc 1 ..laska bookshops or direct
ly from the publishers, imposition Press
B nner Books, jBb Fourth ..venue, New York
16, New York.
FLIES TO CALIFORNIA . .
Parker Lester, territorial agricultural
agent, left hero March 21st., by plane for
Los ..ngeles, California, where he will
spend Easter. If■time permits, he'will
visit Corvallis, Oregon and Denver, Colo
rado, before returning to the Valley.
Mr. .nd Mrs. Walter B. Huntley plan to
return to Palmer for Easter. Mrs. Huntley
flew to Juneau last Friday to visit with
Mr. Huntley who is in tho Senate.
The next meeting of the Sourdough Club
will bo held at the home of lira. H Thuma,
on the Matanuska Road. __