PALME R
SURPLUS & 2nd HAND SHOP
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VALLEY ELECTRIC
C OATS in
COVERT
SUEDE
GABARDINE
PLAIDS 0 PLAIN COLORS
INCLUDING FOREST GREEN
SUITS in
COVERT
GABARDINE
GLEN PLAID
BROWN - GRAYS - WINE &
FOREST GREEN
ALL WITH THE 'NEW LOOK
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BUILDING MATERIALS
CEMENT
PAINT
HEAVY HARDWARE
PITCH FORKS
POTATO IBASKETS
HITCH HIKING BY PLANE
Mrs. 3thel Kavanaugh and daughter, Dorothy,
wanted very much to leave their "'’’oat River
homestead and do same shopping in Iforer,
They had 2* miles of rough beach ahead of
them, but started out with the same forti-'
tudo as on other similar trips. This time,
however, Lady Luck was with them, for they
hadn’t ,r,one far when Red Br.llantine hove in
sight with his plane. Noticing the two
womon plodding down the rocky beach, he '
flow low to investigate. The gals thumbed
him down and he landed on a sandy bar near
by. It was only a matter of minutes until
they woro shopping in the local stores.
Airplanes arc really eliminating isolation,
says the Homer Homesteader,
WALKS -SEWARD TO f AIRMAN KS
Hanley 15, S’ onzoy, Northern Life Insuranco
Agent in Alaska, has completed his trip by
foot from Seward to F-.irbanks nnd is non on
his rotum trip—by foot again.
This is the fourth time that !?r. Sweazey
has walked from Seward to Fairbanks. His
first trip was in 1.935 at whieh time he
stopped in the Matanuska Valloy,
This time he left Seward on July 12 and
stopped along the track at Suntrana and
McKinley P jk; Besidos selling Insuranco
while onroute, ho fished and picked berries
both blueberries and lowbush cronbcrrics„
Ho shipped 20 gallons of berries to the
Statos and smaller amounts to friends in
Alaska besides giving somo away locally
where he picked.
3 fore starting the trip up the railroad,
Mr. Sleazy had eemo from Si attic in Juno
with Dr. C.Sorl Albrecht,Cor missioncr of
Health, to Hainos ovor the Highway. From
there ho rode to Valdez with some Michigan
boys nnd thence on to Seward to begin his
hiko.
Mr. Si'onzy has been in the V 3 ley several
times since 1935 nnd has made tho acquaint
ance of many V llcy people.
JULY-PEAK MONTH FOR TRAVEL
The. peak month for 1948 travel to Alaska
via the Alaska Highray ras in July rhon
2126 persons cleared through tho customs
office at 'felt Junction,
The folioring figures have boon mado avail
able by the Customs Offico far the year of
IS 48:
J nuary, 205 persons; February, 334; March,
1212; April, 1062; May, 624; June 1817;
July 2126; and August, 1718
Mrs, Oscar Eeylund has been in Anchorage
recently rrith her mother. Mrs. Hanson,rho
has had an opera-.,ion on her eyes, lira,
Bcylund he 3 ceen back and forth oetreen
Palmer and Anchcrago several times because
of h*r mother’s illness, but believes she
is getting better non.