SETTLER NEEDS
EDITOR
To the people who have been courteous or
should I say curious enough to ask the,
fate of the Valley Settler, since the
editor resigned several months ago, here
are a few facts to bring the readers up
to date:
The Settler has been moved from the Hat
chery building to the Co-op General Office
building. It now has the office formerly
occupied by Mr. Wilson, General Manager.
We are sorry that it has been necessary
to reduce* .the size of the paper and we
assure the readers that as soon as the
vacancy, created by the resignation of
Mrs. Dorothy Bell, former editor, can be
filled, we will restore the paper to its
original ten sheets or more.
We wish to extend our apologies to ad
vertisers #10 have been dropped for the
past several weeks.
H. Z. B.
ATTEND? ANNUAL MEETING
Willian T. Zahradnicek, Palmer School Sup
erintendent, is in Juneau this week at
tending the annual meeting of Alaskan
school superintendents. He plans to re
turn on Sunday.
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A son was born October 18th to Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Puhl. The little boy weighed
6 lbs. 8 oz. Mr. Puhl is employed in the
Co-op warehouse.
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Shute of Gulkana. The little girl, named
Carol Shelly, arrived October 13th, weigh
ing 7 lbs. 6 oz.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Barnes of Wasilla also
have a new daughter, born October 1,3th,
The name chosen for the little girl is
Judith .Maryann, she weighed 6 lbs. lit oz.
CONFER . .WITH OR. PATTERSON
Wednesday morning, two members of the Board
of Directors of the Co-op and the General
Manager met with Dr. C.M. Patterson and Dr.
Bailey for an informal discussion on the
water situation. The position of the Co-op
■was discussed and the facts of the unpleas
ant situation were gone over. It was gener
ally agreed that the Co-op was not respon
sible for the water supply for Palmer and
it should have financial aid in improving
the safeguards for the purity of the water
supply.
It was admitted that so far there is no
positive proof''that the water supply is
dangerous at present, but it was agreed if
further tests show that we do have a dan
gerous situation, then something should be
done immediately.
If the citizens of Palmer believe that steps
should be taken to change the present system
then they should call all persons interested
and work out some equitable plan* When and
if the meeting is called and there seems to
be some plan that mil be practical for all
interested parties then we feel sure that
the Co-op will do its part.
In the meantime it will not be of any help
to the community for irresponsible persons
to rush into c ontroversy with rumors and
statements that have no sound backing, lets
get the facts and then sit down and try to
find a solution. Persons who are holding
responsible positions with the Territory
should be sure they are on safe ground be
fore they rush out and sound an alarm that
may be a dud. However the officials of the
Co-op are so used to abuses of this kind
that they are not too worried about cam
paigns of this nature. In times like this
there should be cooperation to secure need
ed changes when definitely harmful condi
tions are found that endanger the public
health. We are all interested and lets
work together.
CRR