BERT VERRALL TAKES CROSS-CITY
TRACK TITLE FOR SECOND YEAR
yerran, winner of the 1956
Cross-City Run, captured the title
for the second year, when com
peting with 17 fellow members
of the high school track team.
Verrall was hard-pressed by
Donald Shaginoff, a freshman,
who was closely followed by
Jess Wilson. All i7 starters fin
ished the race.
On Saturday the Palmer track
men will meet the Anchorage
team in a dual meet in Anchor
age. Members of Seward’s team
also may compete. The weight
events, to be held at the high
• school, will start at 10 a.m. Field
events are slated for 1:30 p.m. at
the Buckner Field house on th|
base.
The following list are the PHS
trackmen and the events in which
they will participate:
Bert Verrall, 100-yd. dash; pole
vault; 440 relay. F. Loyer, discus
and shot; D. Spanogle, discus and
shot; T. McIntyre, high jump and
broad jump; M. Leek, pole vault,
shot, 100-yd., 440 relay; H. Roush,
100 and 220 yd. dash. L. Trow
bridge, high hurdles, low hurdles,
broad jump, discus, 880 relay; G.
Sharp, high jump; D. Shaginoff,
880, mile; E. Jacobson, 440, 880;
D. Parks, broad jump, 880 relay;
B. Diana, 880- relay, 440 relay;
R. Freeman, 880 relay, 880, mile
B. Compton, discus, shot; D.
Wright mile, 440; J. Wilson, 440,
880; L. Lucas, shot; F. Gagnon,
low hurdles; E. Evan mile, 880;
and B. Myers 220, 100-yd dash.
The track teak will leave Pal- I
mer on May 3 and travel via bus
to Fairbanks where they will
compete in the Western Alaska
Track Meet on May 4.
Local Hotel Named
Official BSP Hotel j
Members of the local Beta
Sigma Phi will next Monday j
night hold a cocktail hour at the
Matanuska Hotel from 6:30 to j
7:30 p.m. during which time,
they will present to the hotel
owners a framed certificate
which designates the Matanuska
Hotel as an official Beta Sigma
Phi hotel. *
The local hotel is one of sev-.
eral hundred hotels throughout:
Alaska, United States, Panama,
Canada, England, the Canal Zone
and Hawaii which were designat
ed as official hotels and which
will be included in an official
BSP hotel-motel guide.
Hotels and motels listed in this
guide will accept Beta Sigma
Phi membership cards as identifi
cation, the same as a credit card
is accepted. The membership
cards will secure for members
all the courtesies and hospitality
of some of the finest hotels in the
participating countries.
Other hotels designated in Al
aska are the Westward Hotel, in
Anchorage and the Baranof Ho
tel in Juneau.
CUB SCOUTS PRESENT
PROGRAM ON INDIAN
LORE AT PACK MEETING
Indian tribes and tribal dances
were enacted by Cub Scouts at
their Pack meeting held April 12
in the high school cafeteria. This
was the Cubs’theme for the past
month and their presentations re
presented study and work done
in Cub Scout meetings.
Plans were made to attend the
Scout Exposition to be held in
Anchorage on May 4.
Cubmaster Jack Maze has an
nounced that a Webelos Den is
now formed for those boys who
are ten and one half years of
age. The purpose of this Den is to
help prepare Cubs for the Boys
Scout program.
During the Pack meeting
awards were made to the follow
ing Cubs: John Sherman, Gary
LaRose, Craig Puddicomb, Frank
Knapp, John Stephan, Robert
Bush, Russell Hoffman,. Larry
Carson, and Samuel Cotton, bob
cat awards; Frank Knapp, John
Stephan, Robert Bush, Marty
Sherman and Ralph Hulbert re
ceived wolf badges.
BALLROOM DANCING
CLASSES BEGIN
Ballroom dancing classes have
started and this week the junior
dancers will meet April 27 at 7
p.m. in the Legion building,
across from the hotel. Because of
the Music Festival being held in
Anchorage this week-end the sen
ior classes will not be held. How
ever, those in the high school
class who wish may dance with
the junior high class this week
There is still room in both
clases for a few more students.
Adults wishing to help form an
adult class this spring are urged
to attend directly after the junior
class at about 8 p.m. It will take
six couples to form a class.
NEW LAW MAKES
UNIFORM DISTRICT
TAX ASSESSMENTS
Legislation recently signed into
law by Acting Governor Weino
Hendrickson spells out in detail
new proceedures and limits gov
erning tax assessment and col
lection by public corporations,
which includes cities, school dis
tricts and public utility districts,
according to William Wakeland,
tax assessor.
The intent of the law, Wake
land stated, is to make assess
ments uniform among taxing7!is
ricts and rectify certain other
weaknesses of previous proceed
ure.
Palmer and the Palmer School
District are fortunate in conform
ing quite closely with the new
law which takes effect July 1,
the assessor said. One of the big
gest changes will be a different
system of foreclosure and sale.
It is simple and more economical,
he pointed out. The taxing eor- I
poration will be given title to
land after a one-year redemption |
period following the court order..
There will be no public sale and |
two-year redemption period as
before.
Because of the new regulations,
Wakeland pointed out, the joint
city and school district 1955 and
earlier delinquent roll now in
court will probably be combined
with the 1956 delinquent roll and
all advertised together. When this
is done he said, will depend part
ly on how soon attorneys for tax
ing districts interpret the new law
for practical use. It is expected
that foreclosures will be adver
tised and completed by early fall.
Owners of delinquent real pro
perty are reminded by Wakeland
that advertising costs are passed
on to them.- j
Many delinquent personal pro
perty owners have not been sued
for collection because there was
the final remedy of applying ex
cess money bid for their real pro- .
perty to the personal taxes, the
assessor stated. This is now no |
longer the case, he added. The as- !
sessor will be forced to file a
great many more personal Suits
in U. S. Commissioner’s Court if
delinquent personal property tax
es are not paid up very soon.
Some actions have been filed for
1956 taxes. These actions cost the
taxpayer a minimum of $20 when
they are filed, even if they never
go on to judgment.
A visit to the assessor’s office
might save delinquents quite a
sum of money, he concluded.
FIND GOOD USE FOR
JUNKED VEHICLES
Vic Falk, Jr., anil Wilson Woods
of the Butte have been picking
up junk cars throughout the area
the past few weeks and have
cleared the city of some 30 junk
ed car skeletons. They are drop
ping them along the Matanuska
River bank in an attempt to
prevent some of the erosion which
has caused so much trouble to
residents of that area.
ANCHORAGE VOTERS REFUSE
2 PERCENT SALES TAX
Voters in the Anchorage area
turned down a 2 percent sales
tax this week by about 400 votes.
Residents within the city limits
voted in favor of the measure but
votes opposing the proposal, in
the aeras outside the citv, turned
the tide. Increased property taxes
have been announced by the offi
cials as the only way they may
now increase the revenue neces
sary to operate the city and
schools in regards to barest needs.
Anchorage is the only sizeable
city in the territory which does
not have a sales tax.
FATHER OF LOCAL
RESIDENT PASSES AWAY
Mrs. Paul Martin of Palmer re
ceived word this week of the
death of her father, William E.
Granger, 78, of Westboro. Mas
sachusetts. Mr. Granger passed
away at the Marlboro Hospital on
* ":1 following a Short ’Urvogg.
He is survived by his wife, two
sons, and his daughter, Mrs.
Martin, as well as four grand
children and two great-grand
children. Interment took place in
Sherban, Massachusetts.
STARLENE HARTNER
Private funeral services were
held on April 22 for Starlene
Hartner, infant daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Edwin Hartner of Was
illa, who died shortly after birth
at the Valley Presbyterian Hos
pital April 20. The Rev. Bertram
Rutan conducted the service at
the Palmer Funeral Chapel and
interment followed at the Palmer
Cemetery.
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■ij Notebook |
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Clark of
Lazy Mountain left, last week via
airliner for Detroit where they
will pick up a new automobile,
then drive to Los Angeles and
Seattle to visit friends and rela
tives before driving home some
time in July.
The Ed Hartner family moved
to Wasilla on April 1. The Hart
ners recently purchased the How
ard Nichols farm on Schrock
Road.
Watering of the city streets
started early this year because of
the extreme dust conditions. Even
with the watering the housewives
testify that the powdered silt still
filters into the homes to create
the summer-long battle.
Mrs. Janelle Moorhead, nation
al P-TA vice president from Re
gion Seven, was a visitor in the
Palmer area on Tuesday of this
week. She was a guest at the
Lee McKinley home at noon and
met with Palmer P-TA officers.
Stewart Durrant, Co-Op gener
al manager, and H. P. Gazaway,
marketing specialist with the Ex
periment Station, were visitors to
Homer and Seldovia last week in
connection with projected plans
for a milk processing station in
that area.
Mrs. Clayton Esslinger return
ed to Palmer this past week-end
following a trip to the States dur
ing which she visited with her
son Howard Esslinger, midship
man at Annapolis.
Dick Campbell, editor of the
Alaska Legionnaire, published in
Juneau, was a Palmer visitor
Wednesday of this week.
Cub Scouts of Den 2 and 6 were
taken on a tour of the City Fire
Hall and showed the fire fighting
equipment by Fire Chief Joseph
Gallant on Tuesday of this week.
Each of the boys were presented
a junior volunteer firemans card.
Leo Lucas has started work in
an area near the high school
which eventually will be an ath
letic field. The field will eventua
lly be approximately 350 feet by
60 feet. Windrows are going to be
left to prevent snow drifting.
Members of the PHS ’57 gradu
ating class enjoyed their “skip
day’* last Week Thursday and
Went by bus to Thunderbird Falls
and Portage. A picnic lunch,
which the students cooked over
campfires, was enjoyed and they
returned in time for the “Twirp”
dance held by the freshmen that
evening.
The Robert Partridges, former
residents, have written several
Palmer friends of ideal weather
they have enjoyed in California
the past month. At the present
time they are located in Los An
geles and enjoying the beach at
Malibou. They send their regards
to their many valley acquaintan
ces. Partridge was former man
ager of the Matanuska Telephone
Association.
Dr. Allan Mick, director at the
Alaska Agriculture Experiment
Station, returned to Palmer today
following participation in the
Oregon State College 18th annual
biology colloquium. Dr. Mick pre
sented a paper on “Arctic and
Subarctic Agriculture.’’
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ACCA Chapter
May Be Established
In Valley Area
Faith Krause, temporary repre
sentative for the Alaska Crippled
Childrens Association, reported
this week that Dr. Harry Briggs,
ACCA executive director, has ex
pressed an interest and desire to
start an ACCA chapter in the val
ley that would retain a major
portion of funds collected here for
the community’s own use for crip
pled children and adults.
“If we were fortunate enough
not to need the money for indi
vidual cases it could be used for
therapy equipment for the local
hospital”, Mrs. Krause stated.
Interested persons, parents of
crippled children, or afflicted ad
ults are asked to contact Mrs.
Krause at the ARR depot for
further information.
The Easter Seal campaign of
the ACCA has received to date
$125.86 from Palmer residentsg.
Mrs. Krause reported. Coin col
lectors placed in business houses
the past month produced $41.36
of that amount and $84.50 was re
ceived through appeal letters.
“We hope that unanswered let
ters will still come in,” Mrs.
Krause said, “and that Palmer’s
contributions reach a total of
$200”.
Fisher Flour Mills recently em
barked on a selling campaign
that will also contribute to the
ACCA. Each Fisher product has
a “proof of purchase” seal at the
top of the package that will be
worth 10 cents to the ACCA if
turned in at their local grocers.
Housewives are asked to check
their cupboards for all such lab
els, remembering this when they
next purchase flour products. It
is hoped many thousands of dol
lars may be raised in the terri
Firemen Galled Out
For Grass Fires
Grass fires caused what the fire
department terms “dry runs” this
past week, when gusty winds
whipped the fires out of control.
In two cases the residents invol
ved had the fire under control by
the time the trucks arrived, and
in one case, the fire was put out
by a group of youngsters.
Fire Chief Joseph Gallant again
this week urged all residents to
exercise great care in burning
their refuge and anyone desiring
to burn grass around their pro
perty is requested to contact
either the chief or leave his name
at the office of the city clerk.
The volunteer fire department
will cooperate with all residents
in burning off the dr^r grass
which is a great hazard at, this
time of the yeter, Chief Gallant
said.
MOOSE LODGE PLANS
MEMIORIAL SERVICE
All members of the Palmer
Moose lodge, their wives and
members of the Women of the
Moose are invited to attend me
morial services which will be
held Sunday afternoon, April 28
I at 2:30 in the lodge.
The annual Moose service will
be held in honor of all deceased
memebrs of the Palmer lodge.
Services will be conducted by
R. C. Collins, governor, and other
officers of the lodge. This is the
first time this memorial service
has been held by the local Moose
organization.
tory through Fisher’s offer.
“It isn’t often Outside business
take such an interest in Alaskan
health problems”, Mrs. Krause
said.
Fairgrounds Exempt
From Property Tax
Although no taxpayers appear
ed in person at the City of Pal
mer Board of Equalization meet
ing held Wednesday night Coun
cil memb^*s took action on three
protests which were made by let
ter.
Council members voted to ex
empt the Matanuska Valley Fair
Association from property taxes.
The property had never before
been taxed anc[ following a dis
cussion Council members voted
to exempt tax payments for an
indefinite period. It was pointed
out that the Matanuska Valley
Fair is a betterment of the com
munity; that payment of taxes
would work a hardship; that the
Association does not have a
marketable title to the property;
that the buildings are all or in
part taxable but owned by many
groups; and that the grounds are
used by the entire community
and the Palmer schools. x
The tax assessor’s assessment
on a house was upheld by the
Council. The house had been re
valuated by the assessor and this
was protested by the owner.
The third protest asking for a
waiver on a small tax amount
was approved.
Members of the Palmer Inde
pendent School District board of
education will be sitting as a
Board of Equalization on Wednes
day, May 1, at 8 p.m. in the office
at the high school.
STYLE SHOW REMINDER
Women in the valley are re
minded of the Beta Sigma Phi’s
annual style show which will be
in the school gymnasium next
Friday evening, May 3.
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