hospital to gain
FROM AUXILIARY’S
CONTEST APRIL 27
Anyone who can bake a fine
cake—with the assistance of Bet
ty Crocker—and can pen a few
lines to be used as a slogan, is
invited to enter -the American Le
giofi Auxiliary’s contest which
will be held Saturday, April 27
at Koslosky’s Store.
All cakes must be baked from
a Betty Crocker cake mix. En
trants need not be a member of
either the American Legion no* i
t^e Auxiliary. Accompanying
each cake must be a box top from
the cake mix and a slogan of 25
words or less, completing the fol
lowing: “I want to bake a cake
to help celebrate the American
Legion’s birthday because. ...”
The winner will be selected on
the basis of the slogan and will
receive a $5 cash prize from the
local Auxiliary Unit; the slogan
will be entered in the Territorial
contest from which the winner
will receive a Betty Crocker cook
book and the territorial winner
will be entered in the national
contest in which the prize is a
free round-trip for two to Europe.
Cakes and slogans will become
the property of the Legion Aux
iliary and the cakes will be put
on sale at Koslosky’s Saturday
morning, with proceeds from the
sale to go toward the Auxiliary’s
valley hospital project .
Winter Trip Topic
At Kiwanis Meeting
Don Irwin, former director of
the Alaska Agriculture Experi
ment Station, now retired, was
the guest speaker at the April 22
meeting of the Palmer Kiwanis
Club. His topic was some of the
highlights of his and Mrs. Irwin’s
recent trip throughout the States.
Members of the Palmer Kiwan
is Club will sponsor a safety-check
on all valley vehicles. This pro
ject will be under the supervision
of the Territorial Police and all
local garages and service stations
will be invited to cooperate. Some
type of sticker will be issued to
car owners following the safety
check.
Again this year the Kiwanians
in the valley will sponsor a Little
League baseball team.
Marvin Slaughter, president of
the local club, has been named
delegate to attend the Kiwanis
District Convention which will be
held in British Columbia in Sep
tember.
FOR FAST RESULTS TRY A
FRONTIERSMAN CLASSIFIED
HOMEMAKER’S
NEWS
Buile Glut)
The 'Butte Homemakers’ club
held its regular meeting April
18 at the home of Violet Sherman
with eight members and two vis
itors present. The visitors were
Mrs. Bach of Palmer and Lu
Sandvik, one of our old members,
who will be going to Valdez to
live.
Diana McKechnie demonstrated
the new method of putting in a
zipper. Three groups were ap
pointed, one for making new cur
tains for the club hall, one for
cleaning up the grounds and one
to see that flowers are planted.
Everyone is to help with safety
methods and clearing fire haz
ards. Plans for the tea were dis
cussed.
Next meeting will be held at
the Butte Hall May 16. Mrs. Hip
py will be hostess.
Glacier View Club
The Glacier View Homemak
ers club held its March meeting
at the home of Ruth Estelle, with
10 members and one visitor pres
ent. Marylou Rideout led the dis
cussion on short cuts in home
sewing.
The club met at the home of
Lillian Eckert on April 16 with
six members present. Mrs. Ride
out gave a demonstration on a
new method of sewing in a zip
per. Plans were made for the
Homemakers’ Tea and for the
club’s apron project. The next
meeting will be held at the home
of Jessie Klem May 21.
Cheechako Homemakers
Members of the Cheechako
Homemakers Club met in the
Craft Room of the Extension Ser
vice for their April meeting. Roll
call was answered with comments
on whether or not “home sewing
pays”.
Letters were read concerning
the Safety Project Contest and
Roadside Beautification Contest.
Except for a “clean-up day” in
May, no definite plans were made
for either of these projects.
We were each requested to con
tact five women who are not
members of a homemakers club,
inviting them to join a club and
attend the annual Homemakers
Tea, slated for May 9. We are to
report on the number of contracts
made at our next meeting.
Frances Marcus was appointed
chairman of the recreation com
mittee, she will be assisted by
Marjorie O’Mary and Ida Statler.
We hope to do some ceramics,
011 painting and metalwork.
During the evening members
stitched aprons wihch will be
sold at the fair.
Ida Statler gave a book review
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SOMETHING GOOD!!
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Homemaker Club
Sponsoring Clean-Up
Contest for Youths
The attention of all youth
groups in the area is draw to an
offer being made by members of
the Gold Dusters’ Homemakers
club.
“Who would like to add $25 to
their club treasury?”, members
asked this week.
The Gold Dusters are sponsor
ing a clean-up, beautification con
test in connection with the Pal
mer Garden Club’s “Beautify
Palmer” project. The contest is
open to any youth group from
school age up to and including 20
years.
Entries will be judged on orig
inality, amount of work done,
time spent, and benefit to the
rcommunity.
Registration for the contest
should be made at the Extension
Office between May 1 and May
31 and at that time rules for the
contest may be obtained. Records
could include pictures, scrap
| book, and written reports.
FRIENDS INVITED
I TO WEDDING FRIDAY
St. John’s Lutheran Church
• will be the scene of the candle
| light ceremony that will unite
i Arlene Benson, daughter of Mrs.
Irene Benson, and James Lee
Bragg on Friday evening, April
26 at 8 p.m.
All friends of the couple are
invited to attend the ceremony
and the reception which will fol
low at Elks hall.
on “Oh, Rugged Land of Gold”.
Refreshments were served.
Frances Marcus will be hostess
next month with Dorothy Hurley
as co-hostess.
Riverbend Club
Clara Buzby was hostess for
the Riverbend Homemakers April
13.
Esther Kirsch presented the
program by demonstrating the
new method of putting in a zip
per. Other simple sewing skills
were discussed.
Mary K. Doherty was appoint
ed visitation chairman. Esther
Kirsch and Vera Rorrison will
prepare the table centerpiece for
the exhibit at the Homemakers
Tea.
Concrete suggestions for home
and roadside beautification were
made. Further action will be tak
en on these suggestions next
month.
R^emary LaRose will be hos
tess*! the next meeting May 15.
Palmasilla Club
The Palmasilla club met April
9 at the home of June Oberg. Six
members were present. Council
report was given by Evelyn
Mielke and a report on the pro
gress of plans for Palmer beau
tification was given by Eleanoi
Brooks. Further plans were made
toward our project of beautifying
the Legion building yard. Help
toward beautifying our roadsides
was also discussed.
The forthcoming tea was dis
cussed as was home demonstra
tion week. Refreshments were
served.
Yes, even most
NEW cars need wheel
balancing jobs
wheel balancing fob
with a modern Hunter Balancer
pays for itself fast. That’s true be
cause unbalanced wheels pound
your tires to an early death—
and increase wear and tear o»
the front end of your car.
Toe get more pleasure out of
driving —greater comfort*
smoother riding, easier steering
when you get o wheel balance
fob done with the modem Hunter
Balancer. Yours will be O safer
car on the highway, toow
HARTLEY MOTORS
FW and Auxiliary
i’ian Installation
Of Officers Saturday
Joint installation of officers
will be held in the Wasilla Com
munity Hall on Saturday even
ing April 27 by the Susitna Vet
erans 9f Foreign Wars (Post No.
9365 and the Susitna Post Auxil
iary.
Frank Sorenson, past com
mander of Susitna Post, will be
installing officer. John Polis will
be installed as commander. Other
officers to be installed include
Neil Browne, senior vice-com
mander; Wesley Hart, junior vice
commander; Floyd Perkins, quar
termaster; Robert Johnson, post
advocate; Clyde Poisel, chaplain;
Kenneth Humphreys, surgeon;
ILeo Nunley, three-year trustee;
Ray Bergman, adjutant; Kenneth
-.Humphreys, officer of the day;
Pat Carter, patriotic instructor;
Thomas Moyer, nistorian; Frank
Sorensen, service officer; A1 Hjel
len, legislative officer; and Law
rence Larsen, C. Adcock, color
bearers; and Kenneth Humphreys,
bugler.
IMrs. Mary Poison a past WW
Auxiliary president will be in
stalling officer for tne Auxiliary.
Mrs. Pat Hjellen will be installed
as president for the coming year.
Serving with her and to be in
stalled in office Saturday evening
will be Jane Browne, senior vice
president; Mary«Bergman, junior
vice-president; Carol Lambert,
treasurer; Jean Polis, secretary;
Margaret Garcia, chaplain; May
Carter, conductress; June Nunley,
guard; Charlene Perkins, one-year
trustee; Myrtle Osborne, two-year
trustee; and Florence Flecken
stein, three-year trustee.
Following the installation re
freshments will be served.
A card form used to record
freight revenue statistics of The
Alaska Railroad has been voted
by International Business Ma
chines Corp. representatives as
one of the best eight used on the
west coast. The card was submit
ted by John W. Schuett, IBM dis
trict manager in Anchorage, at a
PUBLIC INVITED TO
NEAR PATHOLOGIST
Dr. Michael Bieme, pathologist
on the staff of Providence Hos
pital, will be guest speaker at the
Alaska Nurses Association meet
ing, Friday, April 26, at 8 p.m. in:
the Central School cafeteria. Dr.
Bieroe’s work is concerned with
medical assistance in criminal in
vestigation, accidental death, sui
cide and homicide. He will speak
on the subject, “Legal Aspects of
Medicine”. <
Dr. Bieme is the first civilian
pathologist to do full time work
in the territory and it is hoped
that anyone in the community in
terested in understanding more
about this type of work will take
advantage of the opportunity to
hear Dr. Bieme and feel free to
ask questions.
reecnt San Diego meeting of
IBM’s 100% Club, representing
the company’s offices from Alas
ka to Texas.
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