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UNDER HOUSING ACT
Approval of Federal loan and
grant funds to the City of Fair
banks for carrying out its central
downtown urban renewal pro
ject was announced this week by
L. R. Durkee area representative
of the Housing and Home Fin
ance Agency. An allocation of
$1,839,219 in temporary loan
funds is being made available to
Fairbanks to carry out the clear
ance and redevelopment project
‘and a capital grant of $858,889
has been set aside as the federal
portion of the completed under
taking.
The urban renewal project in
Fairbanks is being carried out
for the city by the Alaska Hous
ing Authority, M. G. Gebhart, ex
ecutive director.
Thirteen acres of blighted resi
dential structures adjacent to the
central downtown area of Fair
banks will be cleared and 160
buildings removed. The rede
velopment of the project will
bring about additional space for
ALTAR SOCIETY
PLANS HAM DINNER
A public ham dinner is being
planned by members of the Altar
Society of St. Michael’s Cath
olic Church. The dinner will be
held July 24 in the church base
ment. The dinner, to be served
family style, will be served be
tween 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. Tickets
may be purchased from society
members or at the door on the
24th. Adult tickets will be $1-75;
children under 12, 75 cents.
commercial structures, sound
nulti-family residences and a
public area that is very much
needed for utilities and public
buildings. Eighty families now
living in substandard homes will
be assisted in finding decent, safe,
and sanitary housing in Fair
banks.
Durkee stressed that the cen
tral downtown project in Fair
banks is the first Alaskan pro
ject to complete planning and
get into execution under the
Housing Act of 1954.
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Peaches 2 ,„ 71 c
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jj Notebook
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Colliver are
visiting at the home of Mrs. Col
liver’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Les
Mears. The Collivers were ac
companied on their trip from
Yerington, Nevada, by Mr. and
Mrs. Craig Damon, who are mak
ing their first visit to the Ter
ritory. Mrs. Colliver is the for
mer Maryann Mears.
Duane and Phyllis Quellette re
turned to Palmer this past week
end, following a year spent in
Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. Quellette, a
former Palmer school teacher,
will be teaching in the local sys
tem again this coming year.
Visiting in Alaska with the Ouel
lettes is Mrs. Elsie Hick of To
ledo, mother of Mrs. Quellette.
Dr. A. H. Mick, Alaska Agricul
ture Experiment Station director,
is at College this week where he
will meet Otto Croy of the Fed
eral Extension Service, Washing
ton, D. C. who is in Alaska re
viewing experiment programs
throughout the territory. Croy
expects to be in Alaska for about
six weeks and will visit all field
offices during his stay.
C. Ivan Branton ol tne -aiasxa
Agriculture Experiment Station
is spending a few days in the
Fairbanks area.
Communicable diseases report
ed in the Palmer area for the
week ending June 28 included
one case of chickenpox; two
cases of measles; and six cases
of mumps.
Mrs. Anna Skoblikoff of Chi
cago is making her first visit to
Alaska and is spending a sum
mer vacation at the home of her
son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Sam Reiger. Mrs. Skobli
koff made her trip to the terri
tory via airline travel.
Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Byers of
Wasilla left this week for Rapid
City, So. Dakota where they plan
to spend the coming winter. The
Byers plan to return to the val
ley in the spring.
Mayor and Mrs. Charles Wilson
returned to Palmer last week, via
the Alaska highway. The Wilsons
spent part of their time Outside
I visiting in Oregon. Their daugh
ter Betty Jo returned to Palmer
fens week.
Guests at the July 8 meeting
of the Palmer Kiwanis Club in
cluded Bert Stimple and Phil
Johnson of Fairbanks; Benny
Leonard, Anchorage Kiwanian,
and John Nash of Palmer.
Tom Dickerson of Palmer, a
patient, at the valley hospital the
past few weeks, *was transferred
to the Woodhaven Rest Home in
Anchorage on Monday of this
week. The transfer was made
with the Community Ambulance.
The Rev. James P. Snead pas
tor at St. Michael’s Catholic
Church in Palmer and chaplain
at Pl-ovidence Hospital in Anch
orage, left Monday, via PNA, for
Seattle and Portland. He plans
to visit at the home of his par
ents in Oregon and may go on to
San Francisco, and Los Angeles,
returning to Alaska August 8.
Ira B. McKinley, son of Dr. and
Mrs. Lee McKinley, is among
more than 1380 Reserve Officers
Training Corps Cadets from col
leges and universities throughout
the western United States, Hawaii
and Alaska who are attending the
annual six weeks summer camp
at Fort Lewis, Washington. Mc
Kinley is a student at the Uni
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Cubs and Fathers
Plan Dvernight
Campoul July 12
The annual Father-Cub Over
night Campout for area Cub
Scouts will be held tomorrow
evening at Duffs, it was announc
ed this week. Fathers and their
Cub-sons are asked to meet at
Central School at 7 p.m. and go
to the campsite in a group. Cars
will return to the Little League
diamond for those boys who are
playing ball tomorrow night.
They will leave for the camp
site as soon as the game is com
pleted.
Each Cub and his father
should take sleeping gear, tents,
eating utensils, and a sack of
cookies. A bedtime snack of cook
ies and orange juice will be serv
ed. Breakfast will be furnished
by the Pack and will be served i
in ample time for returning to
town before working hours.
No Cub Scout will be allowed
to attend the campout unless he
is accompanied by an adult. All
Cub Scout dads are urged to at
tend with their sons. This is the
third year that the fathers have
planned an overnight trip for the
boys and has become one of the
highlights of the year. The Cub
have been looking forward to an- j
other night of fun with Dad.
TWO FOREST FIRES
REPORTED OVER
4TH OF JULY WEEKEND
Only two small fires were re
ported to the Palmer Fire Guard
station over the Fourth of July
week-end according to Michael
Leach, forester. Both fires were
apparently the result of careless
ness Leach said, one caused by
either a carelessly thrown cigar
ette or firecracker and the second
by a neglected campfire.
versity of Alaska. Attendance at
the camp is in conjunction with
their college ROTC training and
prepares the cadet for commis
sion as a second lieutenant in the
U. S. Army Reserve upon gradu
ation from the university.
Phil Johnson of Fairbanks was
in Palmer this week to meet
with the State ACP committee
which met on Monday.
By Wes Lancaster
The hero of the movie was a
tobacco-sucking, liquor guzzeling.
gambling-fevered, jitterbugging,
sexually immoral, law-breaking
profligate. More and more this is
the type of person held up to our
youth as the ideal, the clever life
Add to this the contempt for
the will of God and the lack of
reference to His law as the crit
erion; the lying, stealing, hatred,,
greedy exploitation of others, sel
fish ambitions, violence, filthy
talk, etc. that fills the publica
tions in which our community
and nation is now bathed, and
increasingly characterizes modem
life, and it becomes apparent
that we are selling out to false
values!
We are living for unworthy
ends and giving our first affec
tion and allegiance to something,
other than God, which is idolatry -
It breaks the first commandment
which is to “love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart, soul,
mind and strength.”
Thru all of history this roacr
has led to destruction for the na
tions that followed it. Leader
ship passes from the nation that
becomes immoral and disobedient
to God. The end of this road is
the loss of freedom and justice
and leads finally to chaotic hor
ror—hellish terror. This is the
road down which we are plung
ing, and bragging about it!'
The only answer is prevention
and the only real prevention is to
love and obey God. I would rath
er live for Christ and have per
sonal salvation and world peace
than to trust the futile schemes
of men to bring the world back
from’the ragged edge of self-des
truction; WOULDN’T YOU?
Pd. adv.
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Ice cold milk provides food nu
trients that actually help the.
body relax and feel refreshed
ice Cream is America’s favor
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flavor, food value and ease of
preparation. *
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