CONSTITUTION TO BE PRESENTED
BY JAMES HURLEY AND P-TA PANEL
icsmenB oi me vaney area
are invited to attend the Palmer
P-TA meeting slated for next
Tuesday night, February 21, at
the cafeteria in the new high
school, at which time the pro
posed Constiution for Alaska will
have it’s first local discussion.
James Hurley, area delegate to
the Constitution Convention, will
present the Constitution and an
swer questions. In addition, a
panel of four, plus a moderator,
will discuss several sections of
the Constitution. Lucille Mick
will moderate the panel discus
sion.
John Shaw will take up Declar
ation of Rights, Judiciary, Initia
tive. Referendum and Recall, and
General Provisions; Betty Mean
will take Legislature, Apportion
ment, and the Apportionment
Schedule; Richard Jones will
take Executive, Finance and
Taxation, Health, Education and
Welfare, and the schedule of
Transitional Measures; and James
Wilson, Sufferage and Elections,
National Resources, Amendment
and Revision, and the Ordinances
on which the people will cast
their votes. Mrs. Mick will take
up Local Government.
Each of these sections will be
briefed in layman language, fol
lowing the presentation.
Audience participation in the
discussions are planned as time
permits. Committee members
have requested that those with
specific questions present them
in written form so that they may
be turned over to the panelist
who is speaking on that particu
lar article of the Constitution, and
to be considered at the time the
article is being discussed.
Hurley, as one of the 55 dele
gates who drew up the proposed
Constitution is pledged to help
the general public become ac
quainted with the Constiution.
This will be the first public meet
ing of this type since his return
to the Valley last week. By the
time the public will be asked to
vote on the Constitution (April
24) it is hoped that every voter
will be familiar with - the con
tv nts cf the proposed Constitu
tion. The program is being pre
sented by the Palmer P-TA to
help the public become familiar
with the Constitution text, to
know and understandt it before
going to the polls. Among dis
cussions at the meeting will be
the Tennessee Plan, through
which proponents hope to pro
gress toward Statehood for Al
aska.
VO SELLA V. HUGHES
BETROTHED TO
PAUL D. BARNHARDT
At a Valentine Day dinner held
Tuesday evening at the Lazy
Mountain Children’s Home, Rev.
and Mrs. Kenneth R. Hughes,
director and matron of the Home,
announced the engagement of
their daughter, Vosella Vivian
Hughes to Paul D. Banrhardt,
son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Bamhardt, operators of the Barn
hardt Sawmill.
Several guests were present in
the dining room at the Home
which was decorated for the oc
casion with hearts and cupids.
Following the meal, the Rev.
Hughes read the announcement
in rhyme from a Valentine writ
ten especially for the occasion.
Kenneth L. Hughes, brother of
the bride-elect, read the an
nouncement from the Anchorage
paper.
The bride-to-be, who was bom
and reared in Alaska, attended
Palmer High School and gradu
ated from King’s Garden High
School in Seattle. She attended
Seattle Pacific College for one
year and at present is employed
at the Alaska Agricultural Ex
periment Station laboratory in
Palmer.
The bridegroom-to-be, a mem
ber of the 1950 Palmer High
School graduating class, served
with the U. S. Marine Corps
shortly after graduation and
spent 13 months on active duty
in Kora.
Miss Hughes has chosen for
her wedding day the twenty-sec
ond wedding anniversary of her
parents, June 23 of this year.
The marriage will take place in
i Palmer, following which the
couple plan to make their home
in Palmer until next fall when
the bridegroom-to-be plans to
enroll in college.
More, not fewer, fighting men
are needed in a push-button war
of the atomic age, General Be
dell Smith told Congress.
*4»porters~
N&teJtaok
Visitors in Palmer on Wednes
day of this week were William
H. Poe, Ross Kinnamon, Art En
gebreth, and George Ketten, all
of the First Federal Savings and
Loan Association of Anchorage.
The men explained their Associa
tion is a home-owned banking
system.
The Mariners’ club of the Unit
d Protestant Church turned the
showing of the wildlife movies of
McKinley Park into a benefit
show for Ken and Jennetta
Hughes, whose home burned last
Friday. Although the night of
the movies a Matanuska was
blowing, 70 persons were in at
tendance and a fund was turned
over to the couple. Anyone wish
ing to give the young couple a
hand getting back on their feet
may send money to the church
treasurer, Winston Laughlin, or
place their gift in the offering
plate on Sunday, marked for the
fund.
The junior high Westminster
Fellowship of United Protestant
Church will have a Valentine
party on Friday evening, Febru
ary 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the church
assembly hall. All seventh and
eighth graders and their invited^
guests are invited.
Dick Hendrickson and Philip
Edleman, members of the Palmer
Radio Club, this week successful
ly passed examinations and re
ceived their general operating li
censes. A month ago John Mears,
also a club member, passed his
exams. There are now three li
censed radio operators in the
Valley. The club is scouting for
new members. All interested per
sons are invited to attend the
next regular meeting, February
23, 7 p.m., in the club’s new
quarters in the old MEA building
in the Co-Op shopping area.
A pre-nuptial shower is being
planned tomorrow night at Moose
Hall for Jean Saulsbury. The
party will begin at 7:30 and all j
friends of Miss Saulsbury are in
vited to attend. Mrs. Verrall Mur
ray and Mrs. Dorothy Trudell
will be co-hostesses.
Xi Eta and Theta Chapters, Be
ta Sigma Phi, will hold regular
meetings on Monday night, Feb
ruary 20. Xi Eta members will
meet at the home of Betty Rice.
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DON'T GET CAUGHT
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This man isn’t entirely losr—not if he can still hear the truth and fight back. Big business is
continually trying to spin its web of confusion about our locally-owned rural electric cooperatives,
but the web can be swept away by facts.
Those who would destroy cooperatives h.rve found the only way is through spreading confusion—
linking half truths and innuendo. But tney can't spin their web around those who know that:
• The cooperative way, free enterprise at its best, is as American as apple pie and corabread.
Every co-op member has one share and one vote
• Locally-owmed and locally-controlled non-profit rural electric cooperatives pay out millions of
dollars in local and state taxes annually
• Rural electric co-ops are responsible for raising the standard of living for its members—60me
4-million farm families
• Rural electrification has contributed greatly to the increased business of local merchants—
throughout the nation, rural electric co-op members nave spent more than $12-billion on elec
tric appliances and equipment alone
• Rural electrics create business for utility industry'—about 50% of the electricity used by co-op
members is purchased from commercial utilities
• Wirhour the farmers’ initiative in organizing co-ops to serve their electrical needs, rural America
might well be in the "dark ages" or paying outrageously high prices for electrical energy
• Rural electric co-ops have made possible higher quality food and fiber for the nation in peace
and war
"Electricity is Your Best Buy“
ELECTRICITY IS CHEAPI
Mataaaska Electric km.
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Theta members will meet at the
home of Pat Sandvik. Both
meetings have been called for 8
p. m.
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An umbrella girl quilt, hand
made by Mrs. Carl Meier, will be
awarded at the Beta Sigma Phi
style show in April, members of
Xi Eta Chapter announcd this
week. The quilt is on display in
the window at Betty’s. Tickets
may be purchased there, or from
Xi Eet members. Proceeds from
the sale will go twoard the chap*
ter’s community fund.
To date nothing has been learn
ed on the whereabouts of Den
nis Johnson’s trumpet which has
>een missing from the high
school since the first of the
month. The Johnsons have offer
ed a $25 reward for it’s return.
Police are this week checking
hock shops in Anchorage in an
attempt to trace the missing in
strument.
Police Chief Bernard Bouwens
said this week a watch, which
was found near the depot rail
road crossing, is now at the po
lice station. Owner may pick it
up there by making proper iden
tification.
Mr. and Mrs. Simon (Jack)
Newcomb and two children, left
Palmer last week enroute to
Ocean Lake, Oregon where they
.plan to visit Mr. Newcomb’s
mother for awhile. Their future
plans were indefinite when they
left, however, Jack said he will
i return sometime in April on busi
ness. The Newcombs have lived
in the valley a number of years
and up until recently Newcomb
was affiliated with Ronald Snod
grass in the dairy business.
Members of the Altar and Ros
ary Society of St. Michael’s Cath
olic Church, will hold a regular
meeting at the home of Mrs.
Robert Pippel on Monday even
ing, February 20, beginning at 8
p.m.
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Hodgson
were guests of honor at a fare
well party held at the home of
Mr. and Mrs .Emil Gansehow on
Saturday evening, February 11.
A buffet lunch was served by the
hostess. Those present included
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burkholder,
air. and Mrs. John Weisenberger,
and Mr. and Mrs. A1 J. DeJulio.
The Hodgsons are planning to
leave Palmer around March 1 for
Iowa.
Amy Line, five-year old daugh
ter of Superintendent of Schools
and Mrs. Ernest Line of Wasilla,
returned to her home last night
following a brief stay at Valley
Presbyterian Hospital where she
was taken following a fall at
school.
LOCAL MAN INJURED
Martin Kalwies is a patient in
Valley Presbyterian Hospital
where he was taken following an
accident in the woods near the
Kalwies farm last Tuesday eve
ning. Kalwies is suffering from
mutiple fractures of the right leg
received when he was pinned to
the ground by a falling tree. It
is not expected that Mr. Kalwiea
will be able to become active
again for possibly eight months.
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