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PALMER, ALASKA
PERMIT NO. 3
November 30, 1951_» No. I4.6
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Word was received in
• Anchorago recently that
Raymond Sanford, Alaska
field representative
for-the American Social;
Hygiene Association,
has been called to New
York to take an import
and assignment at the
association’s head
quarters. He will re
port for his new job
-December 1st.
For nearly three
years Sanford has trav
eled throughout the
Territory, frofci Barter
Island to Ketchikan and
from the Chain to Fair
banks, to promote fam
ily life education, law
enforcement and vener
eal disease control as
a part of the American
Social Hygiene Associa
tion's national defense
activities.
"Ray Sanford's down
to-earth experience in
Alaska will be of great
value to the nation as
he takes up his new as
signment in the States',1
Dr. Walter Clarke, ex
ecutive director of the
American Social Hygiene
Association, said in
New York City, today.
Dr. Clarke added that
Sanford's experience in
Alaska will enable him
to carry on a realistic
educational program of '
great value to the Arm
ed Forces and to bring
to the people at homo
a clearer understanding
of the problems con
fronting service per
sonnel in Alaska.
BUY CHRISTMAS
SEALS TODAY
OQIRM'S SUII
SETTLEmETli DERR
Settlement of the
Dairymen suit ovor the
19^4-5 operations is al
most concluded* Last
Friday, Ed. Davis, At
torney for the Co-op
was allowed judgement
against the individual j
dairymen for the sums \
that they had received j
in 191+8, plus interest !
from that date and cern
tain court costs*
The total amount re- i
ccived by the dairymen 1
in I9J4-8 was nearly
$32,0(30, and with the
Interest"and court
costs to date, this
now amounts to over
$1+0,000*
The Co-op has deter
mined the amounts due
it, and several dairy
men have already made
payments. Others are
being processed. Add
itional court costs
will be assessed to
those who do not make
payments immediately.
This has been a long
drawn out case and has
been tried on both the
District Court, in An
chorage and the Dis
trict Court of Appeals
in San Francisco,
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F H A A DM IN i 5 IK ATl V L
C fi ICIA l TC AFKiv’l
Mr. Bruce Downey, Ad
ministrative Assistant
to the National Admin
istrator of the FHA,
will' arrive in Palmer
•from Washington, D.C.
on December 10th., ac
cording to advice giv
en Co-op officials last
week. Mr. Dowhey was
in Palmer in the fall
of I9I4.8 and made plans
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UP. LADIES To MEET
with MART MAK'THAS
The United Protestant
Ladies 1 Aid and the Mary
Marthas will have a
joint meeting at the
Church Monday evening,
December 13th., at 8'o
clock.
The ladies plan a
Christmas program, and
ask yo*u to please bring
your Thank offering in
an envelope to put
under the tree..
The offering will go
to the hospital^fund.
DO YOU WANT
TELEPHONE SYSTEM
Mr. M.D, Snodgrass
asked today that all of
those persons who real
ly want a Rural and
Community Telephone Ser
vice, to please get
your post card filled
out and mailed at once.
There is a lot of
preliminary mapping and
recording work to be
done, preparatory to
making application to
the REA for service to
the Matanuska Valley.
Eighty per cent of
the replies received to
date, v/ant telephone
service. But not e
nough signers have re
sponded to warrant call
ing for a public meet-t
ing.
Emergencies ‘come
quickly—sickness and
accidents—fires, do
not wait for anybody.
Telephone service v/orks
for safety and prosper
ity and happiness. Op
portunity for a good re
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