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MRS. ETHEL M. KING
uneral services were held
r!ern°°" at the Palmer
Funeral Chapel for Mrs. Ethel
May King wife of Alvin King of
Palmer, who died at Valley Pres
byterian Hospital March 14 short
Jy after being admitted suffering
Th? a self-mfllcted bullet wound.
T e Rev. Wesley Lancaster of
the Church of God conducted the
services wmch were held at 1
P-m. Visitations were held at the
chapel from noon to 1 p.m. There
Profusion of floral pieces.
Mrs. King, who was bom in
Jdernedo, Oklahoma December 16,
2900, came to Alaska from Ore
gon in 1939 and lived in Wrangell
and Anchorage before moving to
Palmer 17 years ago. In 1943 she
married Alvin King and together
they operated the Palmer Auto
motive. For several years, prior
to the community’s acquisition of
►an ambulance, the Kings operated
ipne of their taxi vehicles as an
emergency vehicle and many tele
phone emergency messages were
delivered by the Kings as a ser
vice to the community. Mrs.
King had been in ill health for
several months.
In addition to her husband
. Mrs. King is survived by a bro-i
ther, Y. B. McKnown and a
half-brother Harold Becktel of
Seaside, Oregon.
Interment took place in the
Palmer Cemetery. Pall bearets
were: Gordon Nelson, Carl Sch
lichtig, Harry Liebing, Richard
Jones, John Reed and William
Freeman, all of Palmer.
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Senior Play
Well Presented
The cast of the senior play, “Me
and My Shadow” presented a
very fine performance at the ma
tinee and evening showing of the
senior’s annual class play last
Friday. Mildred Conkle portray
ed the role of Shadow and her
fixation for Roy Harrington, a
role played by Steve Colberg,
provided many embarrassing sit
uations for Roy and humor for
the audience. The role of Dr.
Bruce Douglas was well done by
Richard Freeman. Leann Hoff
man, taking the part of the Har
rington’s noisy neighbor, disrupt
ed the plans of Douglas and Har
rington several times while they
were trying to get rid of Shadow
before Mrs. Harrington’s mother
arrived. Supporting the presenta
tion in their roles were Roseann
Branton, as Mrs. Harrington;
Durain Curtis, her mother; An
netta Sawby, teen-age maid;
John Mears as an East India my
stic, and Larry Trowbridge,
country sheriff.
The seniors are to be compli
mented on their fine presentation.
GAREPEN CLUB SPEAKER
TO TALK ON
SOIL MANAGEMENT
Paul Martin of the Alaska Agri
cultural Experiment Station will
be guest speaker at the March 25
meeting of the Palmer Garden
Club. His topic will be soil man
agement. The meeting will be
held at 8 p.m. in the Extension
Service office and all interested
persons are invited to attend. Mrs.
Rose Johnson will demonstrate
an arrangement. Roll call will be
answered with bulbs for spring
planting. Hostesses will be Evelyn
Bush and Dorothy Anderson.
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Public Invited to Semi-Formal Dance
The public is invited to attend
the Green and Gold semi-formal
dance to be held tomorrow night
in the basement of the Latter Day
Saints church located on Springer
road. This is the first public so
cial event held by church mem
bers in their recreation room, and
considerable time is being spent
decorating the room in following
with the dance theme, “Stairway
to the Stars”.
An Anchorage orchestra will
furnish music for dancing from
8:30 to midnight. A floor show is
planned and light refreshments
will be served.
Admission will be $1.50 per per
son.
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FORMATION OF DANCE
CLASSES BEING SOUGHT
A course in tap and ballet
dancing will be offered in Palmer
this summer by the Columbany
School of Dance of Anchorage if
at least 30 children are enrolled,
it was announced this week.
Instructors from the Anchor
age dance school will teach chil
dren age three to 16. Specific age
groups will be formed if enough
children are enrolled. Otherwise,
it was stated, the idea will have
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to be dropped, at least for now.
The instructors would like to
start the classes in April. They
will be held once a week until
Fall and the fee will be $35 for
the summer course. Parents in
terested are asked to contact Mrs.
Bob Jensen, Box 1226, Palmer,
as soon as possible.
Arthur Wilton, new agrono
mist at the Experiment Station,
was a guest at the March 18
meeting of the Palmer Kiwanis
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