THE HOMER HEWS
1 Alaska’s Largest Mimeograph Weekly
Published every Thursday in Homer, Alaska
Sill Saver, Editor and Publisher
' thjr Raver, Compositor
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tfe have worked in numerous business establishments, large
nnd snclle and it has been our observation that one person
pfoteTup aU mail in nearly every case and it nas tnunediate
£ opened by a responsible person in the office end sortec
According to its value or dejartment.
If the president thinks our suggestion unsound, ne rec
o^end that he make inquiry 'of local businessmen as to ho;
Zl is handled. We feel quite sure that to a mart they nil..
say that the mail should be picked up from the post offlc,
bygone person daily and taken directly to the HJD o.fice ^
be logged. _____
LITTLE PLANS
One of our good readers recently sent us a clipping ffcm
a national magazine expounding a philosophy which die main
tained would be a wise one to adopt in our community affairs*
The clipping was concerned with the making of plans* The
writer said that he had observed that people who make little
plans—little achievahLe plans—usually accomplish more than
the dream lads who hitch their wagons to a star® He noted
that the successful ones do not stop with the little achiev-'
able plan, they plan another which they achieve and another
and so on.
The writer noted an expression of Robert Moses, New York
City’s brilliant park commissioner, whose slogan is "Have a
limited objective.n Accomplish that, and then go on to an
other, he says. He works that way and has built the New York
City parkway system on that plan*
we think that there is considerable merit in such a plan
and must admit that we have been guilty of considering plans
far beyond pur means instead of planning works that could be
carried out with existing means*
Perhaps the community, too, has on occasion dreamed dreams
that were way out of reach of the means that exist in this
area.
Yes, there is something to be learned from the idea of
making little plans—little achievable plans—by each of us
as individuals and by all of us acting collectively as res
idents, of the Homer Area*
GETTINGTHE MAIL
Uith full knowledge that we will be ccnsiderbd "trouble
paters” etc., we would like to make a comment or two on the
practice of picking up the PUD mail#
We were rather surpirsed Monday night to see Gene Browning
enter the PUD office just before the meeting and take a hand
full of PUD mail out of his pocket and place it on the desk.
TrTe gathered from the .short .comse'rvation that followed be
tween the president and the .PtD manager, that it is the prac
tice of the president to pick up the PUD mail from the post
office daily and take it to his heme, delivering it to the
PUD office at his convenience.
It seems to us that this*' is an extremely poor practice
from a business standpoint# We fail to see why anyone but
the manager should pick up and log . the mall in. The only
conclusion that we can draw from the action of the president
is that the manager is not to be trusted. If such is the
easey we would certainly have to disagree with the president#
By the same token, we do not believe in any way that the
president is not to be trusted. He is a respected citizen of
the comnunity, but we believe that his practice of picking up
the mail just isn’t good business# .
BUY BY THE CASE
And say BYE BYE ~fc©
your high food bills.
When you pay cash its
COST PLUS 10$ AT THE
HOMER FOOD
CENTER =
__ Suggests you bring in
-- SLEEPING RIGS, DRAPES
and other heavy items
, _ NCT7 - before the
-- SPRING RUSH,’
NEED FUEL 01 L?.
PHONE 24 0
PLANT HOURS SALES OFFICE
12:00 - 2 p.m. NEXT TO BANK
Mon. Wed. Fri.
STANDARD OIL PRODUCTS
anchor point
Mrs* Doris Faraday and ®n
Joe have arrived from the
states, and are visiting Mrs.
Faraday*s sister, Mrs. George
Carr.
The folks on the North
Fork Road, the Mutches and
Joe Brandon all have electri
city*
The movie, MThe Crimson
Pirate”, rhich ?;as to have
been shorn last Friday trill
be shorn this Friday, Febru
ary 18 - at 7 i30 at the Keel
ers* The Anchor Point P-TA
iTill meet preceding the movie.
iayne Fellers^. rho is kee
ping the Anchor Point General.
Store for the Clark Petersons
reports that a recent letter
from them states that they
rill return from the States
in the oarly sprihg*
The George Carrs are pros
pering to move onto their
homestead this reek.
The Anchor Point Homemak
ers enjoyed a delicious lun
cheon At the homo of Mrs. Bob
7/illiams on Tuesday* Mrs*
Gertrudo Frohne shored some
very beautiful pictures of
Mt. McKinley uild flowers*
Mrs. Alice Eason ras ap
pointed chairman fbr the rum
mage sale to be held in Homer
on Feb* 23. in conjunction
.rith the Homer Homemckcrs*
KiVal Wilson, sho resides
uith the Larrence Keelers,
uas in Anchorage this mek
"here he underwent an opera*
tion on his nose. He trill
return homo this ueck*
1
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OMER
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RjlAD ycor jester
THE 20TH
50 ATTEND DINNER
Approximately 25 Homemak
ers and their - husbands at
tended the Valentino's Da;*
dinner Monday evening at th
school cafeteria. After the
dinner the beautiful ooioi
slides of - Alaskan flowers
found in the Mt. McKinley re
gion wore shown by Mrs. Ger
trude Frohne of Anchorage*
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ON HONOR ROLL
Nelda Colleen Wythe,
daughter of Mr* and Mrs* L.
C* Wythe cf Homer, is on the
honor roll for the first
semester at the University of
Alaska, according to Dr, Noil
W. Hosloy, dean* Nelda is an
arts and letters ' freshman
student at the university.
RARE PLANTS HERE
A shipment of live orchid
plants was received this week -
hy Mrs* H^rry Foyer and Mrs.
Jim Calkins, who plan t$
raise the rare flowers as s
hobby* They are believed to
be the first live orchid
plants in Homer*
The plants were flown up
from San Francisco, leaving
there Monday and arriving or
Wednesday^ plane*
The plants were especially
selected for cooler tempera- ’
tures and will do well be
tween 50 and 65 degrees, Mrs*
Feyer said, and will be grown
indoors* One of the plant’s
already has a bud, according
to Mrs* Foyer*so. Homer should
soon have its first live or
chid blossom*
PLAYGROUND FUND GROTS
The playground equipment
fund'is steadily growing, ac
cording to Merrill Hatcher, •
with a total of $80*30 having
been collected,*
The money comes from the
donations put in the red-cap
jars by people using tele
phones of business houses*
The school pi-ms to purchase
a slide for use on the play
ground* •
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