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Palmer, Alaska.
April 13, 1951
No. 15
PRLfTlER IflCCRPORflTES
With electors already standing in line
when the polls opened, voting started at
8 a,m. sharp in the Palmer Drug Store Bldg
whieh was designated as the polling place.
No# 1 ballot was cast by ^.V, Hagen,
candidate for city council. Following at
his heels were James Simpson and Jack Maze
in that order.
Every effort was made to get eligible
, voters to vote. sound "truck" toured
the proposed corporate limits urging every
one to get out and vote.
As each person voted, ho or she was tag
ged with a gold ribbon. Free transporta
tion to the voting place was provided for
all v/ho requested it.
The 18 candidates who filed for city
council drew the follov/ing votes j
Ci'JtL H. leEIZR 208
...V. H..G£N 189
LLOYD W SEVERNS 187
DR. ..LL.N MICK 185
C x. GuJCDVIK 168
FRLNK BROWN 159
STEVE WLRD 157
Oliver Onkka 151
..1 J DeJulio 145
Lathcryn Wilson 136
Latt Perkins 133
B R Bouwens 101
J L Sullivan 86
R Lancaster , 85
Betty Kears 66
Bob Peterson 66
..1 Ling 65
Ray ..dams 55
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llflilLIII EXTEUDED. PERIL id.
Juneau-..laska merchants have until
..pril 30 to prepare their base period re
cords for complying with the ceiling price
regulation, the office of Price Stabiliza
tion announced this week.
Former deadline was ..pril 1, but the
Territorial office at Juneau asked for an
extension to give ..laska business men more
time to prepare their data.
The regulation says retailers must pre
pare and keep available in their stores,
sufficient records to establish the dollar
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health council news
Last week we mentioned that the Territor
ial Deportment of Health BCG Program would
be brought to Palmer the first week in toy.
Although the BCG clinic will be open to all
people living in and about Palmer, not
everyone attending it will be vaccinated
with BCG. First a tuberculin patch test
will be given. This will be read at the
clinic 48 hours later. Those who reacted
positively will not be given the'vaccine,
since they have already built up some re
sistance to tuberculosis. Those reacting
negatively will be given the BCG vaccine.
Like the small pox vaccination, the BCG
vaccination does not confer peripanent im
munity. Its effect will last anywhere
from one to ten years. .. negative tuber
culin test will show that the immunity has
worn off. Unlike the smallpox vaccination,
BCG does not guarantee total immunity.
However, studies in communities where tu
berculosis incidence is high, have shown
that people who have had the BCG vaccina
tion have a significantly greater chance
of resisting the disease than those who
have not had the vaccine.
More about BCG vaccine in next week's
paper.
TO THE V..LLEY SETTLER: -
Last Friday, five children were playing
on the railroad crossing, letting the
spring waters run by. This is a nice play.
Water, in the spring, holds more attrac
tion for children than candy.
BUT THE POOR OLD R.ILRQhD ENGINE C.JJNCT
DCDGE.
Your daddy owns a nice shining car that
weighs about one ton. This engine weighs
one hundred and three tons. So, imagine
103 more cars on top of your daddy's car.
..Iso, this engine was pulling one thousand
nine hundred and fifty-five tons of coal.
So, suppose your daddy was pulling one
thousand nine hundred and fifty-five cars
behind him. ..Iso, this engine was pulling
a coach that weighed ninety tons,--add
ninety more cars behind the one thousand
nine hundred and fifty-five cars for your
daddy to pull. Then too, the little red
caboose weighs twenty-five tons. Now, add
one hundred and three tons for the engine,
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