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ALASKA DAY
October 18, 1867
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VOLUME 9, NUMBER 52 -•
PALMER. ALASKA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1956
PRICE TEN CENYS
C OF C TO SPONSOR STREET PAVING FORUM
Special Milk Program Extended to Terr.
Delegate E. L. Bartlett was ad
vised this week in a radiogram
from Acting Secretary of Agri
culture Earl L. Butz, that the
special milk program is being ex
tended to Alaska.
The message to Bartlett read;
“I am pleased to advise you
that the special milk program is
being extended to the Territory
of Alaska. Recent studies com
pleted by Territorial officials and
the Department indicate that the
objectives of the program will
be served by extending it to
schools and child-care institu
tions in Alaska. Arrangements
will be concluded with Territor
ial officials for the inauguration
of the program as rapidly as pos
sible.”
Bartlett said he has been work
ing with Commissioner of Educa
tion, Don Dafoe, John Dapcevich,
chief accountant for the Depart
ment of Education, and Territori
al Commissioner of Agriculture
James Wilson, in seeking to have
the Department extend the pro
gram to the Territory. Primarily
intended to reduce milk surplus
es, the law provides that surplus
milk will be purchased by the
government for use in schools
ana otner institutions.
The extention of the program
to Alaska has been sought for
the past several months. In April
of this year H. P. Gazaway of the
Alaska Agriculture Experiment
Station, in cooperation with the
Matanuska Valley Farmers Co
operating Association and * ttee
Seward Dairy conducted a survey
in the Palmer and Seward sch
ools to determine what influence
a lower price on milk would have
on the consumption. Without ex
ception the response was greater
than had been anticipated. Find
ings from this survey were turn
ed over to the Territorial Edu-v (
cation Department and the Sec- i
retary of Agriculture in Wash-!
ington, D. C. The local Chamber
of Commerce sent letters urging
that the program, in force thro
ughout the States, be extended |
to Alaska. I
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SPORTSMEIv .£MINDED
OF DINNEP OCTOBER 27
Members c the Matanuska
Valley Sportsmen are reminded
that a week im this Saturday
is their p< , lar annual wild
game dinner Ml assignments for
the dinner hould be filled as
closely as ossible, and if the
member is unable to attend in
person, every effort should be
made to send the assignment
along, Ben Hudgins, general
chairman said this week.
Tickets >r the dinner should
be pureh ed as soon as pos
sible and may be obtained at
Maud’s Flower Shop as well as
from officers. Entertainment is
being arranged by Ed Bellringer
and it promises to be as good if
not beter than the fine programs
presented in the past. Members
of the Fish and Wildlife Service
will be i Hed to attend the din
ner.
I MAR a OINTMENTS
NOW * i SPORTSMEN
DINNfc OCTOBER 27
VALLEY BEAUTY SHOP
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BANQUET AND BALL
WIND UP 4*DAY
MOOSE CONFERENCE
Following four busy and sue*
cessful days of meetings, the
Twelfth Annual Conference of
the Alaska Moose Association,
came to a close in Palmer Sat
urday night with a banquet at
the high school and a conference
ball, held at Moose hall. Approxi
mately 300 Moose members,
Women of the Moose, and invited
guests attended the banquet dur
ing which the newly installed
oficers of the Association were
honored, and trophies awarded
to outstanding Moose members
and lodees.
Harry Howard of Mooseheart, |
Illinois, Supreme Lodge repre-1
sentative, announced that the
Sitka Moose Lodge team was the
ritual contest winner with a total
of 566.75 points out of a possible :
600 points. Individual awards in
this division were given to Past
Governor William Servell of
Sitka, with 97 points out of a pos- j
sible 100: Governor Ward Adams, j
Sitka, 93.75; Junior Governor Joe 1
Appley, Sitka, 96.25; Prelate ]
Murray LaCour, Sitka, 95; Orator
Harry Pollen, Sitka, 94.50; and
Sergeant-at-arms Francis Glea
son of Cordova, 94.75.
Juneau Moose Lodge was
awarded the membership trophy
for it’s membership increase of
13.23 percent.
Donald Ingalls, Jr., out-going |
president of the Moose Associa-1
tion, pesented a check for $500 j
to Harry Howard to be used in j
any way desired at Mooseheart,
the Child City, which is sponsor
ed by Moose lodges throughout
the States and territories.
Introduced at the dinner were
AnnaBelle Appley of Sitka, out-1
going Deputy Grand Regent who
expressed her thanks to the
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PUBLIC INVITED TO
PREACHING MISSION
AT U. P. CHURCH
The second annual week-long
Preaching Mission of the United
Protestant Church of Palmer be- i
gins this Sunday morning thro
ugh October 28. There will be
services every evening at 7 45,
except Saturday. This year’s
guest speaker is the Rev. Richard
Blair, minister of the Westminis
ter Church of Rochester, N. Y., a
church of 1400 members.
Rev. Blair, whose church has
been in correspondence with the
United Protestant Church for
many years, will arrive in Anch
orage tomorrow accompanied by
ministers who will be participat-1
ing in the Anchorage preaching
mission in Presbyterian churches
the same week. Twenty-five
churches throughout Alaska are
cooperating in this effort.
There will be a special em
phasis each evening, according
to the Rev. Bertran Rutan, pastor
of United Protestant Church, who
added that everyone is invited to
each service.
Monday night will be Family
Night, with a pot-luck supper at
6:15. Tuesday is Church Officers'
Night; Wednesday, Mens’ Night;
Thursday, Ladies’ Night; Friday,
Community Night, and Sunday,
Youth Night. Special music, a
nursery for young children, and
after-service coffee hours are be
ing planned. Rev. Blair’s ser
mons for this Sunday are en
titled: “Let Go Your Anchors’’,
at the 11 a.m. worship service,
and “The Need of the Hour” at
7:45 p.m.
CO-OP HIRES SALES
AND PROMOTION MAN
The Matanuska Valley Farm
ers Cooperating Association an
nounced this week that a sales
and promotional manager has
been added to their staff. He is
Edward B. Hamm, a graduate of
Georgia Tech University, who
//ill be working out of the An
chorage office.
Prior to coming to the Co-Op
Hamm, who has his BS degree in
business management, worked
for the Coe® Cola Company for
over 20 years and joins the As
sociation with considerable ex
perience. He came to the terri
tory two years ago to manage
the distribution of Coca Cola in
the Anchorage area and is well
acquainted with both the milit
ary and civilian trading areas.
“We are certain Mr. Hamm will
become a very valuable and es
sential part of our coopera
tive, and that good will and in
creased sales will be the result
of his efforts”, Stewart Durrant,
Co-Op general manager, said
this week.
Watch Those Spuds
Warns Agriculturists
Frost damaged as much as 30
percent of the tubers in some
late harvested potato fields in
the Matanuska Valley, it was an#
nounced this week. Samples of
several potato lots revealed that
some growers were putting at
least five percent frozen tubers
into storage. Experiments at the
Matanuska Experiment Station
showed that grading of badly
frosted lots before storage did
not eliminate all of the damag
ed tubers.
Experiment Station personnel
warn that growers should keep
a close watch on their bins for
l ly evidence of heating. Dam
aged potatoes should be graded
out and the rots eliminated. If
the excess moisture is removed
by ventilation of storage, the
frozen tubers will dry up and
cause no further difficulty. When
wet spots develop, they said, bac
terial soft rot may start and
spread to healhy potatoes. In ad
dition to providing adequate
ventilation, the tops of potato
pi’es should be levelled off to
prevent moisture from conden
sing on the “peaks” they added.
CO-OP TO CELEBRATE
20TH ANNIVERSARY
In observance of their 20th
birthday anniversary the Ma
tanuska Valley Farmers Cooper
ating Association is planning to
have a birthday party which will
be in the form of an open house.
During the afternoon of Sun
day, October 28, the public will
be invited to drop in the office
building and have refreshments
and get better acquainted with
the present membership as well
as with original members of the
cooperative, Stewart Durrant Co
Op general manager announced
this week.
A birthday cake and all the
trimmings will be featured.
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COMMERCIAL PERSONAL ,i
IMMUNIZATION CLINIC
TO BE HELD FRIDAY
Valley residents are remind
ed of the immunization clinic
which will be held for adults
tomorrow at the health cen
ter, located in the Valley Pres
byterian Hospital, Myrtle
Spencer, public health nurse,
will be in attendance to ad
minister either booster or
series of typhoid shots. The
clinic will be open from 1:00
to 4:00 tomorrow afternoon
and from 5:00 to 7:00 tomor
row evening. All adults in the
valley area are invited to
avail themselves of this ser
vice.
HARTLEY’S DONATE
FORD FOR STUDENT
DRIVER TRAINING
A student driving course will
soon be made available to Pal
mer High School students, it was
announced this week.
The offer of a 1957 five-pas
senger Ford sedan (Custom 300)
made by Hartley Motors, Inc. was
this week accepted by the Pal
mer Independent School District
education board. The firm will
retain ownership in the car but
f will allow full free use of the
vehicle during the entire school
term. Insurance on the car and
students will be furnished by the
school.
The car will be completely
equipped with all the Ford safe
ty features including seat belts,
padded dash and sun visors, rear
and side mirrors and will be!
c’early marked as the Palmer I
High School Driver Training car.
Hartley’s name, as the contribut
ing merchant, will also appear j
on the car, according to William !
Zahradnicek, school superintend
ent.
At the close of the school term
! the vehicle will be returned to j
j Hartley Motors. At the begin- i
ning of the next year’s course
i the same car or a 1958 model will
! again be provided for the train
| mg course.
The course will be an elective
j subject at the high school and
more complete plans will be an
nounced as soon as the course
is fully laid out, Zahradnicek
said. Qualified teachers are
available for the course, he said.
The instructor must have 40
clock hours of class room and
driving instruction to qualify as
a teacher. The course to the stu
dent will be of 18-week duration
: and will allow' the student to
: earn one credit, providing the
entire course is completed.
The car will be equipped with
dual controls, for which permis
j sion to use the dual control was
| received from the American
Automobile Association. The
j AAA was the originator of the
dual control driver training idea
I and it’s emblem also will appear
; on the car.
Zahradnicek said this week
that the course will be started
within the next few weeks.
MOOSE LODGE TO
KEEP BLOOD TYPE
LIST OF MEMBERS
All members of the Palmer
Moose lodge are requested to
notify Ralph Moore of their
blood type. A complete roster of
the members and their blood
types will be kept at the lodge
and made available to the hos
pital or in an emergency at any
time.
Democrats Win
Throughout
Third Division
Territorial election returns in
dicate the following persons
have been elected:
THIRD DIVISION: Ralph E.
Moody (D) and Victor C. Rivers
(D) to the Territorial Senate.
They will serve with J. Earl
Cooper (D) and Alfred Owen
(D), holdover senators. In the
House of Representatives James
Norene (D) Earl Hillstrand (D),
Victor Fischer (D), Dorothy
Awes (D), Helen Fischer (D) Ir
win Metcalf (D) appear to have
been elected.
Ken Johnson (D), Irene Ryan
(D), Russell Young (D), and Sea
born Buekalew, Jr. (D), re-elect
ed. No Republican candidates
i/ere successful in their bids for
House or Senate seats, nor was
the lone Independent candidate.
Delegate to Congress E. L.
Bartlett led his Republican op
ponent by a two to one margin;
Frank A. Metcalf (D), carried
about 1.000 votes more than his
opponent for the position of
highway engineer. The only close
race in the election was between
Democrat Gerald Williams, seek
ing reelection to the Attorney
General post and Republican
William Sanders. However, Wil
liams apparent lead will be re
tained and his reelection is vir
tually decided. Former Governor
Erhest Gruening (D) has retain
ed his lead over John Butrovieh
(R) in their race for the U. S. j
Senate six-year term under the
Alaska-Tennessee Plan. Demo
crat William Egan likewise led
his opponent in their race for
the four-year term. U. S. Repre
sentative position under the Al
aska-Tennessee Plan is expected
to go to Ralph Rivers, (D), who
carried a safe margin over his
Republican opponent Charles
Burdick.
NEW ORDINANCE
PROHIBITS PARKING
IN SPECIFIC PLACES
The attention of motorists is
drawn to the new City of Pal
mer ordinance which prohibits
stopping .standing, or parking in
specified places.
The ordinance states that no
person shall stop, stand or park
a vehicle, except when necessary j
to avoid conflict with other traf
fic or in compliance with the
directions of a police officer or
traffic control devise, in any of
the following places:
A: On that portion of a side
walk improved for pediestrian
use. B: In front of a public or
private driveway. C. Within an '
intersection. D: Within 15 feet of i
a fire hydrant. E: Within 10 feet !
upon the approach to any flash- j
ing traffic beacon, stop sign or
traffic control signal located at
the side of a roadw'ay. F: With
in 20 feet of the driveway to any
fire station and on the side of a
street opposite the entrance to
any fire station within such dis
tance as is properly signposted.
G: Alongside or opposite any
street excavation or obstruction
when such stopping, standing, or
parking would obstruct traffic.
H: On the roadway side of any
vehicle stopped or parked at the
edge of curb of a street, except
for the expeditious loading and
unloading of commercial vehic
les. I: At any place where offi
cial signs prohibit stopping. All
provisions of Ordinance No. 38
in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed.
PUBLIC TO BE
INVITED TO
PARTICIPATE
Following a talk by Mayor
Charles W. Wilson, members of
the Matanuska Valley Chamber
of Commerce this week author
ized the executive committee to
set up plans for a public forum
at which the proposed paving of
city streets will be discussed and
any questions that residents have
presented to a panel at the meet
ing.
Mayor Wilson pointed out that
only about 10 or 15 percent of
the city’s eligible voters turned
out at the reecnt election during
which a $200,000 bond issue pro
posal was presented. Eighty-five
percent of the voters either did
not understand the proposal or
didn’t care enought one way or
the other to even vote, he said.
“A certain number of vRTers
will be unalterably opposed to
any improvement of this type,"
he said. “I for one want to do
something to make Palmer a bet
ter place in which to live”, he
added.
In speaking to Chamber mem
bers Mayor Wilson gave a brief
resume of the proposed paving
project. He stated that the City
officials first began thinking
seriously of paving when it was
learned that the Alaska Road
Commission (now the Bureau of
Public Roads) announced their
intentions of paving a 24-foot
strip of highway from the Glenn
highway to the Wasilla road. ”It
was obvious that the edges of
this 24-foot strip would be brok
en down within a very short peri
od of time, from street mainten
ance work and from vehicles
driving off and on while parking.
The City proposed to be ready
at the time the ARC called for
bids for the paving job and go
in with them, paving from curb
to curb in that section and ex
tending the paving down Colony
street through the heavily trav
eled business section.
“That is why the bond issue
proposal was made.” he stated.
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PUBLIC INVITED
TO ANNUAL BAZAAR
Committees working on St.
Michael’s annual bazaar are
hoping that this will be one of
the biggest and most successful
ever staged, according to Rich
ard Foley, general chairman.
New games, features, booths and
a wide variety of attractive and
valuable prizes are planned for
the bazaar which will be held at
E’ks hall this Saturday nigjit,
starting at 7 p.m. and continuing
until midnight. At midnight four
valuable prizes will be awarded
to end the evening of fun which
has been planned for every mem
ber of the family.
Refeshments will be sold dur
ing the evening and will include
homemade cakes, as well as
other goodies. Coffee and pop
will be available as well. The
sales booths, which will be set
up around the hall, will fea
ture such favorite items as cos
tume jewelry, aprons, fancy
work, religious articles, souven
irs, and novelties. There will of
course be that very popular
booth, the fish pond, designed
and sponsored to please the
youngsters.
As at all the past bazaars, ad
mission will be free, and the
public is cordially invited to at
tend. '"We hope that all mem
bers of each family will be able
to attend”, Foley said this week.
“This is one public function to
which the children may be taken
and the entire family participate
in an evening of fun and enter
tainment.”