ALTOGETHER NEW TYPE OF FILM
PREPARED FOR JOHN DEERE DAY AUDIENCE
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Here is a typical scene from "The Ace Ranchero". the western musical comedy
which climaxes this year's John Deere Day program. The picture contains
plenty of the hard riding and hard shooting that audiences, young and old.
love to see in a good western.
Reporters—
Notebook
An interesting post card was
received this week by Dorothy
Saxton from George Belfontaine
(known to his many friends as
"Frenchy” Fountain), of the won
derful vacation he is enjoying
with his sister, neice and nephew
in Halifax, N. S. He wrote of a
canoe ride he had taken and of
the very mild weather he is ex
periencing. This is his first trip
Outside and first visit with his
sister for a score of years.
Among three seniors at El Dor
ado Kansas high school who have
been named semi-finalisits in the
National Merit Scholarship com
petition, is William E. Wimmer,
son of Mr. and Mrs Harry L.
Wimmer, former Palmerites. He
is listed among 7,500 high scorers
on the Scholarship Qualifying
lest, a nation-wide aptitude exam
given in 14,000 high schools.
Mrs. Kay Hitchcock, recently
named chairman of the Alaska
Party Divisional Committee, and
son Nels, left this past week-end )
for College, Alaska where Mrs. I
Hitchcock will enroll at the Uni- <
versify. Nels will attend the Fair
banks schools.
Roscoe Taylor of the Alaska
Agriculture Experiment Station
agronomy department, leaves
Monday for the states where he
will attend meetings at Purdue
University in Indiana; Chicago,
Brookings, South Dakota; and a
conference in Madison, Wiscon
sin, with Dr. James Dickson who ■
spent time here this past sum- j
mer. Taylor expects to return
around February 20.
Second Lieutenant Robert E. |
Harris, a 1951 graduate of Palmer
High School and a 1956 graduate
of the University of Idaho, grad
uated 10th out of a class of 188 j
from B.I.O.C. School at Fort
Benning, Georgia. Lt. Harris is :
now undergoing airborn para
chute training at Fort Benning
following which he will go to
Texas for pilot training in light
aricraft and helicopters. Harris
js a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Harris of Eska.
Mrs. Kyle Turner and son
Wayne have returned home fol
lowing a vacation spent in Colo
rado where Wayne had an oppor
tunity to visit his grandparents.
During their visit a big family
reunion was held.
A group of friends from Big
Lake and Palmer went up to Lit
tle Susitna Lodge January 14 and
helped Vic Cottini celebrate his
birthday.
LOCAL SKI CLUB
RE-ACTIVATES
The Matanuska Ski Club has
been re-activated and plans are
being made for an active and in
teresting ski season.
At the present time the club
has several pair of ski boots, made
available through Civil Defense,
for training purposes. These
boots will be loaned without
charge to persons interested in i
learning to ski.
The new rope tow in the Lit
tle Susitna area is operating :
every Saturday and Sunday and I
is attracting skiers from both the i
valley and Anchorage areas. The
tow is under the supervision and
operation of Harvey Cooper and
Robert Bronson, both experienc
ed skiers. It is planned to offer
instructions for beginning skiers.
Membership fees in the Ski
Club have been established at $1
per year and may be purchased
from a number of members or on
the ski hill. A membership meet
ing will be held on a Sunday eve
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to help build up morale. j
Chief Bouwens states that,
“their new organization will set ■
up a fund account to handle mon
ies derived from donations, par
ties, dances and other fund-rais
ing events, to be spent by the or
ganization in building up a bet
ter fire service”.
Chief William Barnhardt states
that the “Butte fire fighters wel
come the money. His organization
is rather new, but volunteers are
enthuiastic and the money will
be well spent”. He added that
the Butte organization has from'
20 to 30 men showing up for
drill which indicates the spirit of
the Butte area people in develop
ing a better fire department.
Hagen reported that the money
which was donated to the two
fire fighting groups came from
dances, parties, and dues from
former members. Individuals and
merchants paid from $10 to $50 a
year for fire protection. The old
association fought fires from Sut
ton to Knik; from the Butte area
to Fishhook. The old fire associa
tion wras responsible for reduc
ing the immediate area rating
from a Class 10 to a Class 7 rat
ing, prior to the incorporation of
the city. !
One-Act Play
Conference
Here Next Week
Palmer High School will host
the first annual Western Alaska
Activity Association One-Act
Play Conference on Friday, Janu
ary 31 in the Central School gym
nasium.
Six Alaska high schools will
be competing for two “outstand
ing play” awards which will be
made. Lee Salisbury, head of thg
University of Alaska speech de
partment, will arrive in Palmer
Thursday afternoon and will ser
ve as critic during the presenta
tions.
Participating schools are Kodi
ak, Valdez, Seward, Wasilla,
Fairbanks, and Palmer. EaPh !
school will present one one-act
play in either comedy or drama.
Three of the presentations will be
done in that afternoon and the
balance that evening. Each play
will be of 25-30 minutes duration.
Admission will be $1 for adults:
50 cents for high school students,
and 25 cents for lower grade stu
dents. *
Miss Elizabeth Gaines, high
school English teacher, will di
rect the Palmer play.
This is the first Play Confer
ence to be sponsored by the
W.A.A.A. and it is planned to
make it an annual event.
ning next month, the place and
date to be announced.
In addition to skiing at Little
Susitna, a great number of hunt
ers are out on snow shoes looking
for the wary ptarmigan. Tony
Covich has a little ditty he 'ells
about the rock ptarmigan sing
ing “come up and get me” and
the willow ptarmigan in the val
ley singing “try and find me”.
The area is providing fun for
all members of the family and the
Ski club is hoping that adults
will offer transportation to^lhe
many youths who are anxious to
get up on the ski slopes. A “col
lection point” will be designated :
as soon as possible and persons
planning to hunt or ski or just
go up and watch the fun. who
will offer a lift to the youths ;
will be appreciated.
Officers of the club axe Bud
Campbell president; Ralph Farns
worth. vice president and Rene
Nielsen, secretary-treasurer.
OBITUARIES
RAY C. PERRIN
Funeral services for Ray C.
Ferrin, 60, will be held at 1 p.m.
Saturday, January 25 at the
Church of God on Matanuska
Street. The service will be in
charge of members of the Palmer
Loyal Order of Modse.
Mr. Ferrin, who was born in
Jackson, Wyoming April 14, 1898,
died at Valley Presbyterian Hos
pital January 22. A resident of
Alaska since 1935 Mr. Ferrin op
erated a bus service in the gold
mining areas during the earlier
years and at times was employed
in the construction field. He was
also an employee of the Matan
uska Electric Association and for
the past two years served as
stewart at the Palmer Moose
lodge. A prominent member in
the Moose lodge, he held a life
membership. At the time of his
death he held a 25-year member
ship in the Idaho Falls B.P.G.
Elks lodge in Idaho.
Survivors include his wife Hel
en, a son Woody who resides in’
the States, a step-son, Jack Leek
of Palmer, his mother, Mrs. Edith
Ferrin and four brothers and five
sisters, all of Jackson, Wyoming
and three grandchildren who re
side in Palmer.
All members of the Palmer
Moose Lodge are asked to meet
at the lodge Saturday at 12
o’clock noon, from where mem
bers will attend the funeral ser
vice in a group.
Pall bearers will be Charles
Hodson, Thor Johnson, Irving
Lozier, Louis Burcher, Ray Mc
Kechnie, and Ralph Moore, all of
Palmer.
Graveside services at the Pal
mer Cemetery will be conducted
by members of the Palmer BP.O.
Elks lodge.
Funeral arrangements are in
charge of the Palmer Funeral
Chapel.
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MAS. CARL DURAND
Funeral services for Mrs. Carl
Durand, 63, who resided in An
chorage, was held Tuesday in the
Central Lutheran Church. The
Rev. A. Herbert Mojourd officiat
ed. Members of the Oddfellows
who were pall bearers were:
Archie Moffitt of Palmer; George
Maher, Charles Maher, Merrill
Chitty, John Campbell, and John
LarricK oi /vncnorage. mrs. uur
and died at Providence Hospital
in Anchorage on January 17.
The Durrands were one-time |
residents of the Matanuska Val- ,
ley, moving here from Puosky,
Minn. Later when Mr. Durrand
became interested in gold min
ing in the Talkeetnas he moved
the family to a permanent resi
dence in Anchorage. Mrs. Durand
who is survived by her husband,
leaves a host of friends in the
valley. Two daughters reside here
with their families; they are Mrs.
Stanley Zaborac and Mrs. Miles
France. Two daughters, now liv
ing in the states, Mrs. W. Garri
son of Bemidji, Minn, and Mrs.
Maurice Johnson of Upland, Cali
fornia, arrived in Alaska prior to
their mother's death. There are
two sons, Hohn H. Durrand of
Whittier and Charles D. Durrand
of Anchorage. Twenty grandchil
dren and one great-grandchild
survives as well as two brothers
who reside in Minnesota.
Known as a wonderful mother
and friend, Mrs. Durrand was
active in service to others out-,
side the family circle. She was a
Past Noble Grand of the Rebekah
Lodge in Anchorage, a member
of the Women of the Moose, and
was active in the Jack Henry
American Legion Auxiliary.
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