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YOU LUCKY GALS:
Count Your Blessins
Women today, whose most difficult washday chore may be
getting the soap carton open, can get some idea of how fai
•things have improved since great grandma’s day from the
following item out of the past.
It s an authentic Kentucky “receipt.” in its original spell
ing, for washing clothes, contributed by a reader to the Colo
rado Interstate Gas Co. magazine:
1. bild a fire in back yard to heet kettle of rain water.
2. set tubs so smoke won’t blow in eyes if wind is pert.
3. shave one hole cake soap in bilin water.
4. sort things, make three piles. 1 pile white. 1 pile cullord
I pile work britches and rags.
5. stur flour in cold water to smooth then thin down with
bilin water.
6. rub dirty spots on board, scrub hard, then bile, rub cul
Tord bift don’t bile—just rench ard starch.
7. take white things out of kettle with broom stick handle
'then rench, blew and starch.
6. spred tee towels on grass.
9. hang old rags cn fence.
10. pore rench water in flower bed.
11. scrub porch with hot seapy water.
12. turn tubs upside down.
13. go put on cleer dress—smooth hair with side combs—
brew cup of tee—set and rest and rock a spell and count blessins.
—The Daily Times (Melbourne, Fla.)
MEDICARE AND SDCIAL SECURITY
Lost sight of in the debate about the cost of putting
medical care for the aged under Social Security is the
dollar cost to the individual. Tax Foundation, Inc., says.
For example, a 20-year-old entering the work force
next year and working 45 years will pay $9,798 into
^Social Security at present rates. If care for the aged is
wadded, he will pay out $11,199.50 during his 45 year
career.
The measure's proponents estimate benefit pay
ments and administrative expenses will be about $1.1
billion for the first year. This will rise to about $2.6 billion
by the year 2006, they add.
Opponents have come up with different estimates
They say the first year cost will be $2.2 billion, and that
toy 1983 the annual cost will be $5.4 billion.
VALLEY DELEGATES GET ATTENTION
AT PIONEERS OF ALASKA CONVENTION
Matanuska Valley delegates
' dt the Pioneers of Alaska con
vention in Ketchikan last week
representing the newest Igloo
and auxiliary in the state, were
singled out as the babies
among the oldtimers by hav
ing two kewpie dolls suspend
ed from their place cards in the
meeting room.
The bushel of monograrnmed
Matanuska Valley potatoes
«aken to the convention were
a sensation, the delegates re
ported. Although convention
BUTTE, MATANUSKA
DEMOCRATS TO CAUCUS
The Matanuska and Buttt
precincts (the old Palmer Pre
cinct No. 2) will hold a Demo
cratic caucus Monday. Oct. 22,
p.m. in the Palmer Grange
hall.
Officers will be elected for
■each precinct to serve for the
arext year.
Coulee Dam’s central spill
ways create a waterfall half as
'wide and twice as high as Nia
:jjra Falls.
planners had asked to have
them served at the banquet,
auxiliary members from all
over the state claimed them as
personalized mementos of the
Matanuska Valley.
Among resolutions passed at
the convention was one recom
mending the construction of
another Pioneers Home north
and west of the Gulf of Alaska
in addition to the home at
Sitka.
The visiting pioneers enjoy
ed only partly cloudy weather
and saw only a half day of rain
during the four days spent in
Ketchikan.
Many of the long-time resi
dents at the convention were
past 90 years of age. an<jl “still
going strong after midnight,”
Ed Ueeck reported.
The Matanuska Valley dele
gation returned here Oct. 15.
In the group were Ted Buzby,
Ed Ueeck. Mrs. Heinie Snider,
Harriet Kepler, and Mrs. Har
old Moore. Igloo No. 31 was in
stituted March 11, 1962, and
Auxiliary No. 11 was organized
on Sept. 30.
THE AMERICAN WAY
POLITICAL FOLLY r
National Review reports:
"Do you want to know what
it means for the economic de
velopment of Latin America to
have a Communist base in the
Caribbean? These figures will
tell you: 1) In the decade of
the 1950’s net new non-govern
mental U. S. investment in La
tin America averaged $250 mil
lion a year. 2) In 1960 it was
$95 million. 3) In the first
quarter of 1961, it was $50 mil
lion; second quarter, $93 mil
lion: third quarter, one mil
lion: fourth quarter.—(minus
three) million. 4) 1962 con
tinues at a close-to-zero rate
($5 million in the first quarter;
figures not all in. but about the
same in the second).”
The National Safety Council
has designated 14 railroads as
winners of its Public Safety
Activities Award. Among the
activities thus recognized are
cooperation with local safety
councils and civic groups, off
the-job safety programs for em
ployees, participation by rail
road personnel in community
I safety activities and attention
| to public safety in advertising
! and public information work.
. . .
Congressman Johansen of
! Michigan views the Cuban
j problem: "If. in the phrase
j being heard in Washington
i these days, we must hesitate
: to act in Cuba because Rus
sia has a rope around our
neck in Berlin, ‘how long will
it be before we dare not act
in self-defense anywhere in
the world because Russia has
‘a dagger at our heart' in
Cuba?"
Commercial aviation’s first
transatlantic passenger flight,
in Pan American World Air
ways flying boat Dixie Clipper,
took 29 hours and 20 minutes
from Port 'Washington, New
York, to Marseille, France. In
that same amount of flying
time, the Jet Clipper America,
chalking up the airline's 100.
)00th transatlantic flight, flew
from New York to London,
Frankfurt, Munich, Istanbul,
I Beirut, Teheran, New Delhi,
Bangkok, Hong Kong, Tokyo,
and Honolulu, and was air
borne en route to San Francis
co.
Senator Bennett of Utah
says: “Congress has been too
willing to buy votes by making
changes in social security
benefits which just were not
financially feasible. We must
not compound the mistakes of
the past by making similar
mistakes today. Those who say
that participation in the social
security medical care proposal
will establish a right based up
on the money the participant
has paid in are misleading the
public. The benefits will bear
no relationship to participation,
and we will be saddling our
future generations with a ter
rible burden, one which may
threaten the destruction of the
social security system itself.”
A World School to foster
the People-to-People aims of
. international understanding
and global friendship has
been proposed by General
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Speaking in Stockholm dur
ing his recent European tour,
j the former President envis
ioned "a new and different
kind of clearing house for
world thinking, teaching and
learning in the vast field of
human relations."
Farm and Ranch magazine
says: “There are ah estimated
36 per cent fewer farms, 20 per
cent fewer people on them,
now compared to 1954. But it
isn’t the successful farmer who
has headed for town. Those
who have stayed on the farm
are buying more than ever be
fore. The per-capita income, as
well as farm expenditures, is at
an all-time high. Value of land
and buildings is up 81.6 per
cent.”
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Thursday. Oct. 18. 1947
Member of the board of di
rectors of the Valley Fire As
sociation will hold an import
ant meeting next Tuesday
evening. The directors will
gather in the basement of the
Valley Theatre at 8 o’clock.
First on the order of business
to be undertaken will be the
discussion of plans for con
struction of a fire station in
Palmer.
Members of St John Luth
eran Church of Palmer will
celebrate the tenth anniver
sary of the founding of the
church with a banquet in the
church basement. Charter
members of the church will
be guests of honor for the oc
casion.
An exploding oil tank which
caused severe cuts and burns
about his face, hospitalized Ce
cil “Blackie" Wilson, Wasilla
garage owner, last week. Mr.
Wilson was welding an empty
tank when the accident occur
red.
Bargaia Ceatar
Clatas far Wiatar
After a successful summer of
operation, the Matanuska Val-j
ley Crippled Children's Asso
ciation has closed its Bargain
Center in the Center Theatre
building for the winter. Mrs.
Lowell Simpson, president, said
this week.
“MVCCA wishes to thank the i
public for the donations and
support given to the Center.”
the president said. The project
earned a total of $864, she ad
ded.
The local chapter has, in the
the past two years, concentrat
ed on speech and hearing pro
blems, and has provided ther
apy valued at $3,102 for 67 chil
dren. In addition, the MVCCA
therapist has conducted sur
veys in the Palmer, Wasilla.
Chugiak, and Eagle River
schools, screening 198 children
for hearing and related disord
ers.
This has been made possible
by the support given the Easter
Seal campaign, the fair booth,
the Bargain Center, and indivi
dual contributions from Valley
people, Mrs. Simpson said.
ACCA meetings are open to
the general public.
It is 5887 nautical miles from
Portland and 6038 nautical
miles from Seattle to New
York City via the Panama
Canal.
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The urgent need for an in
vestigation of types of incor
poration possible to Palmer
and the Valley was the princi
pal topic of discussion at Wed
nesday’s meeting of the Valley
Chamber of Commerce. Alth
ough discussion in some detail
at a former meeting, the matter
was revived on Wednesday,
when Harry, Wimmer, repre
senting North Palmer water us
ers, reported that residents of
that area were planning to or
ganize.
• • •
Members of the Anchorage
chapter of Women of the
Moose will be in Palmer on
Oct. 19 to install the newly
elected officers of the Palmer
chapter, it was announced
this week by Ralph C. Moore,
secretary of the Moose lodge.
The Palmer Auxiliary of the
Moose lodge has just recently
been granted its charter.
Valley residents will get a
prevue glimpse of the new
streamliner tram just imported
by the Alaska Railroad, it was
anounced by W. C. Mau, head
of the Valley Chamber of Com
merce. Two days before the
sleek blue and gold Diesel-pow
ered unit is brought out to
perform lor assemDied Anchor
age officialdom, the train will
be in Palmer.
ST. JOHN
LUTHERAN
CHURCH
tev. It. H. Fritz, poitor,
Fainter, Alaska
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Divine Services 11.00 A. M.
Sunday School 9:45 A.M.
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AvailaMe frw FU
Free inspection stickers are
being offered to all Alaskan
aircraft owners by the Federal
Aviation Agency to help re
mind them of the date of their
next periodic aircraft inspec
tion, according to FAA head
quarters in Anchorage.
The sticker is a silver-color
ed plastic tape overprinted in
blue and bears the FAA seal
Each is three inches square
and closely resembles an auto
mobile inspection sticker.
Its use is not mandatory, but
FAA urges all general avia
tion owner-pilots to take ad
vantage of this new service
which reminds them of the
month and year in which the
periodic inspection again be
comes due.
Stickers may be obtained
from the flight standard offices
at Anchorage, Fairbanks, and
Juneau, authorized FAA in
spectors, airframe repair sta
tions, and manufacturers who
perform periodic inspections.
Renewals may be obtained at
the time of the periodic in
spection.
PLENTY OF GEYSERS
Shared by Idaho, Wyoming
and Montana, the 2,213,207 acre
Yellowstone National Park has
more geysers than all the rest
of the world combined.
TMUMTS
OF A
LATUM
Noah's Ark
The largest wooden vessel
ever built was constructed by
Noah, under divine direction
with proportions so meticul
ously correct, that even in
modern times we cannot im
prove upon them. This enor
mous boat ivas built upon dry
land, and Noah was laughed
to scorn by his carpenters
and shipwrights. He preach
ed incessantly during the one
hundred years of construc
tion, but none of the work
men would listen to him.
Then the deluge came, and
they perished dismally. Eight
feet of fossilized mud at Ur
bear mute evidence of the
historic fact.
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Just for a moment, close your
eyes and picture the scene in your
childhood home that you liked best.
Was it the music box in the front
room, the grandfather clock, the
large, fragrant kitchen? Whatever
you are thinking of, your memory
is a treasure chest of things you
hold dear.
Let your mind wander further.
You will remember not only loving
scenes and favorite objects, but
family and friends, their ways,
their thoughts, their talk. God and
His goodness were mentioned
often. Prayer was a common ftrac
tice. There was faith and trust and
a feeling of security.
Sunday was a special day, and
all activities were centered around
the church and the home.
Come back to the present a mo
ment. The Church was home to you
then! It can be your home now; a
place of worship where the heart
remembers and rejoices.
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