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VOL. 9
PALMER fAL/l£KA.
SETTLER
VALLEY NEWS
NOVEMBER 14.1946
NO. 40
VICTOR C. HARDER
KILLED IN. ACCIDENT .
Victor C. Harder, Cap Harder, passed away
Sunday morning at 7:30 in Anchorage as a
result of injuries he sustained late Sat
urday afternoon while unloading a tractor
from the Betts^Brothers* truck.
Th6 accident occurred in the driveway of
Mr. Harder’s fam i*M*h is located between
hero and Was ilia. As reported to usi the
tractor jumped from the unloading trucks
and turned bottom side up pinning Mr.
Hnrdor, *$&> *fca|IWk the tractor, beneath it.
He was rushed to the Matnnuska Valley Hos
pital immediately, but dho to the absence
of X-ray facilities here, the Phillips'
Ambulance of Anchorage was called and ho
was taken to Anchorago for treatment. There
was nothing that could be done,howover,"as
he was suffering from internal injuries.
The uppor right thigh and lower pelvic
region had boen crushod badly.
Victor C. Harder was bom on February 26, .
1900 at Camp Gorardoau, Missouri. Ho has
been in Alaska for over ten years and has
resided in Anchorage and the Matnnuska
Valley, Several years ago he married Miss
Pearl Martin, a teacher in the Palmer Ter
ritorial School. They havo one adopted
child, a boy six years old.
While Cap Harbor was in the Valley during
1935 end 1936, he built tho St. Michael's
Catholic Church, * , ,
He leaves to mourn his loss, his wife and
son.
ARMISTICE DAY PROGRAM HELD MONDAY EVENING
Armistice Day was observed in Palmer on
Monday evening in the Community Hall, It
was sponsored by the American Legion Post
No. 15.
Although the Legion sponsored the program,
it was the school that actually furnished'
the entertainment. Mrs. Timothy Hbnnessy,
Music Instructor of the School, was in
charge, and cooperating with her were'Miss
Mary Marfeh of the Fourth Grade and Mr.
Tompkins, Social Science teacher in the
High School.
The program opened with a Hag Drill given
by the Fourth Grade and Mrs. Hsnnessy at
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THE PUBLIC HEALTH
NURSE
Six hundred dollars must be raised in the
Valley if wo arc to have a public health
nurse here, reports the Matanuska Valley
Health Council. This sum supplements the
amount the Territory provides for the '
Nurse’s salary and if it is not raised,
Palmci* will not have a public health
nurso. Lottors aro now in the mail asking
every resident of the Valley to contribute
to this causo.
The public health nurse is an integral
part of the Valley community health pro
gram—an essential link in the‘process of
making and kooping people woll, imong
her fields of scrvico ore: helping tho
handicapped to gain health and security;
1 giving bedside care to tho sick at homo;
supervising the health of tho family;
helping women prepare for motherhood and
assisting them with care of tho infant
and tho pro-school child; teaching and
protecting health in the school; control
ling the spread of tuberculosis and other
communicable diseasos. She is the inter
preter of medical knowledge and techniques
for the public.
Our now public health nurse brings to the
Valley an excellent background for her ■
work - both experience and training.
Miss Ruth'Clemctson was born in Duluth,
Minnesota. She received her Bachelor of
Science degree at the University of Min
nesota*, completing the five-year nursing
courso, Her hospital training was taken
at Minneapolis General Hospital where sho
specialized in public hoalth. She spent
ono-half year with the Infant Welfare in
Duluth and then worked two and ono-half
years as public health nurse with tho
Minneapolis Community Health Service. At
the YWCA ift Minneapolis, for one and a
half years, she taught classes for expec
tant mothers.
A typical day for Miss Clemotson might run
as follows:
A.M.
9:00-Bath demonstration to new mothor.
Discuss care of baby,
10:00-Visit Mrs. X whoso little girl is
lethargic'and pale and disinterested
in school. Discuss family diet,
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