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THEME OF GRADE
SCHOOL PROGRAM
The public is cordially invit
ed to attend the elejmentary
school Christmas program which
will be presented in the Central
School gym Wednesday, Decem
ber 18 at 1:30 p.m.
The program will be presented
by students of Swanson School
who have done considerable
work on their properties as well
as the program.
The setting for the program is
in a Christmas card shop, and
the following “cards” will be
presented:
“Christmas Song”, Grades two
and three; “A Santa Claus
Dance”, first grade; “A Christ
mas Melody”, accordions and
flute; “Santa’s Toy Orchestra”,
first grade; “Frosty”, an action
song, fourth grade; “Skater’s
Waltz”, second and third grade
girls; “Rudolph”, another action
song, fourth grade; “Drill of the
Toy Soldiers”, second and third
grade boys; “Highland Fling”,
third grade girls; and “The True
Christmas Story”, a play by
members of the fifth and sixth
grades.
There will be no admission
charge made and the public is
invited to attend.
ATTENDING PARENTS'
50TH WEDDING
CELEBRATION
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jones of
Palmer are in Lyden, Washington
where they will participate in
the golden wedding anniversary
celebration of Mr. Jones parents,
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Jones of
Lyden.
The elder Mr. and Mrs. Jones
were wed December 25, 1907 and
for five years in the early 1903’s
made their home at Copper Cen
SORORITY PLANS
CHRISTMAS PARTY
Members of Xi Eta and Theta
Chapters, Beta Sigma Phi, will
join for a Christmas party next
Monday evening at the home of
Marne Hanks. The party will be
gin at 8 p.m. and all BSP mem
bers are invited to attend.
Refreshments will be furnished
by the two chapters and enter
tainment is planned, including a
prize every game for which all
persons attending are asked to
take a white elephant.
During an exchange of gifts
secret sisters for the past year
will be revealed.
All members planning to at
tend are asked to meet at the
Matanuska Hotel at 7:30 p.m. to
form a car pool.
LICENSE PLATES
ON SALE MONDAY
License plates for 1958 go on
sale throughout the territory
next Monday, December 16. In
Palmer they may be purchased
at the office of Dorothy B. Sax
ton, deputy tax collector.
Applicants are reminded that
new rates apply for the 1958 li
cense plates and that they must
take the 1957 registration certifi
cate or certificate of title with
them wiien applying for renewal
of registration. If they are not
taken at the time of application,
a $2.00 fee for a duplicate regis
tration, in addition to the fee for
the 1958 license, will be charged,
ter, Alaska.
Also making the trip to Lyden
for the obeservance will be three
daughters who live in Washing
ton, D. C-, Los Angeles, and Seat
tle, respectively. Another daugh
ter and a son will be unable to
attend the celebration which is
being held December 15.
(Mrs. Richard Jones has been in
Lyden since early this month.
She and her husband plan to re
;urn to Palmer next week.
Local Legionnaires
Named to
National Committees
Four residents of Palmer have
been appointed as members of
National American Legion Com
mittees by John S. Gleason, Sr.,
National Legion Commander.
The appointments were announc
ed this week from Alaska De
partment Legion headquarters at
Juneau by Joseph M. Briones,
Department adjutant of The Am
erican Legion. Briones said that
a total of 75 Alaskans were nam
ed to national committees this
year, an all-time high of recog
nition for Territorial Legion
naires.
From this area, the following
appointments were made: Execu
tive Section: Dr. Foster R. Sims,
Child Welfare Commissions, Gen
eral Memberships: Everett Ped
erson, Rehabilitation Advisory
Board; Fred Everett, Jr., Mem
bership and Post Activities Com
mittee; and Richard E. Demming,
National Security Training Com
mittee.
The appointments were ap
proved last month in Indiana
polis, Indiana, at a meeting of
the National Executive Commit
tee from recommendations made,
by Alaska Department Com
mander Robert N. Druxman of
Auke Bay, and Herald E. String
er of Anchorage, Alaska’s mem
ber of the top Legion body.
DINNER-DANCE
SLATED FOR ELKS
On Saturday evening Palmer
Elks and their ladies will hold a
dinner dance at Elks home, with
dinner to start at six and continue
until eight o’clock. Following the
dinner a color movie, provided
by the Fish and Wildlife Service,
showing an all-game hunt in the
Yukon, will be shown.
The dinner-dance will be $2.50
P-TA CHRISTMAS T
MEETING TO BE
HELD IN GYMNASIUM
The December meeting of the
Palmer Parent-Teacher Associa
tion will be held in the Central
School gymnasium, instead of the
cafeteria at the high school. The
meeting is slated for Tuesday,
December 17 at 8 p.m. All par
ents and friends of Palmer stu
dents are cordially invited to at
tend the meeting.
A short musical program will
be presented by members of the
high school chorus prior to the
business meeting and Don Irwin,
long-time valley resident, will
reminisce the first Christmas
with the Matanuska Valley col
ony.
The business meeting is ex
pected to be kept to a minimum.
Refreshments will be served at
the close of the meeting.
SLIDE COLLECTION
TO BE SHOWN
SATURDAY EVENING
Tickets are still available from
valley nurses, or may be pur
chased at the door, for the show
ing of Alaska slides which will
be held in the high school cafe
-teria Saturday, December 14 at 8
p.m. Mary Rowley, public health
tives in various areas in Alaska,
nurse in the valley area, will
show slides which she made dur
ing her years of work with Na
including Anvik, Bethel, and St.
Lawrence Island. Persons who
have viewed the slides report
them to be very interesting. Miss
Rowley spent several years in
these villages and has first hand
knowledge of their ways of life.
per plate; those attending the
dance only, will pay $2.00 per
couple.
All Elks and their ladies are
invited to attend.
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Christmas Services
Planned at United
Protestant Church
Christmas worship services
and holiday activities of the Un
ited Protestant Church begin this
coming Sunday and continue
throughout December.
This weeks’ advent sermon,
based on one of the Biblical
characters of the Christmas story,
will be “Have You Lost Your
Sense of Hope?”. The Sacra
ment of Infant Baptism will be
administered at the 11 a.m. ser
vice. At 8 p.m. Sunday the wo
men of the church will have their
annual Christmas program, in
cluding carol singing, viewing
Henry Van Dyke’s famous story,
‘The Other Wise Man”, worship
and refreshments.
“The Year They Forgot Christ
mas” has been chosen by the Rev.
Bertram Rutan for his Christ
mas Sunday morning worship
service December 22. At 7:30 that
evening the annual Sunday
School program will be present
ed in the sanctuary, with many
age groups participating.
The Christmas Eve candlelight
service will take place on Tues
day, December 24, at 9 p.m. In
cluded in this service will be
the choir’s presentation of Fred
Waring’s arrangement of “The
Song of Christmas”. Mrs. Max
Sherrod will be organist and Pat J
Black pianist.
The month will end with a
New Year’s Eve family fellow
ship in the social hall, starting
with a pot-luck supper at 6
ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
SERVICES EACH SUNDAY
11 A. M„ GRANGE HALL
p.m., followed by a showing of
Walt Disney’s technicolor film,
“So Dear To My Heart”.
The Senior High Westminster
Fellowship group of the church
will serve its public spaghetti
supper at the church this Satur
day evening to enable members
to attend the senior high three
day conference at College at the
end of the month.
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