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The Frontiersman
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF THE MATANUSKA VALLEY
VOLUME 10. NUMBER 46
PALMER. ALASKA THURSDAY, SEPT. 12. 1957
PRICE TEN CENTS
MEETING SET TO AIR CITY MANAGER PUN
ONE PETITION
FILED FOR
OFFICE OF MAYOR
A petition, carrying the re
quired number of signatures, has
been filed in the office of the
City Clerk for Kenneth W.
Lynn, seeking the office of may
or in the October 1 city election.
Lvnn is manager of the Palmer
Piggly-Wiggly store.
To date this is the only petition
filed for the office of mayor or
the two offices open for the city
council ,although it was reported
at least one petition is being cir
culated for city council.
The opening date for filing pe
titions was September 11. All pe
titions must be filed by 5 p.m.
on September 20. It is always
urged that petitions be filed be
fore the final hour in the event
there are not enough qualified
signatures on the petition.
Questioned this week Mayor
Charles W. Wilson said he wi\l
not seek re-election to his office.
Councilman Alfred V. Hagen
and Robert Peterson whose terms
expire on October 7, have stated
they will not seek re-election to
the council.
dominations for candidates to
the position of councilmen or
mayor must be done by petition
only, in accordance with require
ments for such nominations. A
petition must be signed hy 25
qualified electors of the City of
Palmer. Forms for such nominat
ing petitions are available at the
office of the City Clerk and will
tie furnished to interested elec
tors upon request.
The annual general election
will be held in Palmer on Tues
day, October 1 between the hours
of 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. with the
polls to be set up in the Co-Op
club room. Election officials nam
ed by the City Council on Sep
tember 10 axe Clara Buzby, Hal
een Ingalls, and Kathleen Moore.
At the same time ‘ the election
to fill vacancies in the city coun
cil and office of mayor, voters
will be asked to vote yes or no
tor the council-mayor-city man
ager form of government.
| ATTENTION!
CERTAIN GARMENTS
i 1 for the 4
j; L price of I
ON LIKE GARMENTS
Gash and Carry
j; CROWN’S CLEANERS
HOME ECONOMICS
COURSE OPEN FOR
INTERESTED ADULTS
Registration for adult classes
in home economic courses is still
open, William T. Zahradnicek
announced this week.
During a survey to determine
adult interest in special courses
16 persons indicated their inter
est in these home ec courses and
arrangements have been made
for special classes for all per
sons interested.
Classes will be started as soon
as a required number of persons
(around 10) have signed and
paid their tuition fee of $25 per
half year for the course. If the
necessary number of persons do
not sign up for the course, the
tuition fee will be refunded,
Zahradnicek pointed out.
All persons interested are ask
ed to call at the high school of
fice for registration forms and
further information on the Vo
cational Home Economics cours
es.
Minimum class time will be
twice a week, two hours per
session. The first eight to 10
weeks will be devoted to foods;
in December and January the
courses will revolve around crea
tive work. The second half year,
to start the latter part of Janu
ary and run through May will
include courses in how to make
a room more liveable and effic
ient and clothing construction
and selection.
849 STUDENTS IN
PALMER SCHOOLS
As of tkis week there are 849
students enrolled in the three
Palmer schools. There are 213
in the high school, 502 in Central
School and 134 in Swanson
School. Each school is seeing an
increase in enrollment again this
year. There are now four first
grades, plus the progressive first
grade. Last year 197 students
were enrolled in the high school,
at this time. At the close of the
school year a total of 818 stu
dents were attending the local
schools.
Eleven school buses are handl
ing the big task of getting Pal
mer’s rural students into classes
on time and back home at the
close of the school day. These
buses are being driven by the
following area residents:
Bill Whitfield, Bus No. 1; Her
bert H. Caulkins, No. 2; Ralph
Miller, No. 3; L. M. DePriest, No.
4; Johan Johnson, No. 5; Hugo
Rasmussen, No. 6, Claude Want,
No. 7; Albert Compton, No. 8;
Archie Moffitt, No. 9; Joan Ash
by, No. 10; and C. O. Huntley,
No. 11.
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REMINDER
Any type of construction, remodeling, or
moving of buildings within the city, re
quires a City of Palmer Building or Moving
Permit. Persons planning such actions
should contact the City Clerk.
Signed BUILDING OFFICER
City of Palmer
ANCHORAGE DAY
PLANNED BY
CHAMBER MONDAY
An All-Alaska dinner, complete
with rolls baked from local
grains, will be served next Mon
day noon when the * Matanuska
Valley Chamber of Commerce
observes Anchorage Day at a
noon meeting to be held at Elks
hall. Local vegetables, meat and
dairy products will be featured
in the meal to be prepared by
women members of the North
land Pioneer Grange.
Anchorage Day has become an
annual event for the local Cham
ber and is slated at this time of
the year so that Anchorage
Chamber members and their
wives may not only see the val
ley harvest, but may partake of
the famous vegetables now at
their best.
All Chamber members of both
cities and their wives, or hus
bands, as we as all other inter
ested persons, are invited to at
tend the meeting. Reservations
are to be made at Bettys’ in Pal
mer by Saturday. The luncheon
will cost $1.00 per pilate.
A program is being planned
which will include words of wel
come from Stewart Durrant, lo
cal Chamber president, and from
William Zahradnicek, city coun
cilman who will represent the
mayor who will be out of town
on that date. A tour of the val
ley is planned following the
meeting.
Decorations are in charge of
Mrs. Richard Jones who was ask
ed to select her committee.
SECOND POLIO CLINIC
SEPTEMBER 20 & 21
The second polio vaccine clinic
will be held in Palmer on Fri
day and Saturday, September 20
and 21, announced Ed Smith, lo
cal Polio Foundation representa
tive.
Arrangements have been made
to hold the two-day clinic in
the cafeteria at the high school
between the hours of 6:00 and
9:00 p.m. on each date. All per
sons who reecive their first im
munization shot last month are
urged to take their second injec
tion of Salk polio vaccine on one
of the two dates. Persons who
have not received any of the re
quired three injections are urg
ed to take their first shots dur
ing this clinic and persons who
had second shots at least seven
months ago are urged to finaliz
ed their series at this time.
All children and all pregnant
women may receive this vaccine
free of charge; a charge of $1.00,
to cover expenses, is made for all
other adults.
The Salk vaccine is being
made available for this second
clinic, as it was for the first,
through the National Founda
tion for Infantile Paralysis,
Smith pointed out. This Foun
adtion is supported in part by
contributions made by valley
residents during the annual
March of Dimes campaign.
Leaving from Wasilla this
morning, via ARR, for the Uni
versity of Alaska were Richard
Freeman, Dale Wahlen, George
Sharp, Steve Colberg and John
Mears—all PHS graduates.
FINAL CLASS TONIGHT
FOR FLYING CLUB'S
GROUND SCHOOL
Robert Mason, chief tower
operator for the Anchorage
area, will be guest speaker at
the final class of the Matanus
ka Valley Flying Club’s
ground school this evening.
His topic will be “Field Con
trol and Radio Procedures”,
and all students of the ground
school are urged to attend.
The meeting will be held at
the Quonset Hut at the air
port at 8 p.m. tonight.
FIVE-YEAR TERM
OPEN ON SCHOOL
BOARD THIS YEAR
On October 1 voters in the
Palmer Independent School Dis
trict will be asked to cast their
ballots for their favorite candi
date for the one five-year term
on the Board of Education which
is now open for filing.
Unlike city nominations per
sons seeking a position on the
school board are not required to
be nominated by petition. Inter
ested qualified persons are invit
ed to file a declaration of inten
tion to run for the position by
signing a declaration paper at
the high school office. Intentions
to run for the five year term,
which at present is held by Bill
Roark, must be filed at the
school office by 5 p.m. on Sep
tember 26. Qualifications for the
office appear in an advertisement
on the legal page of this issue
of The Frontiersman.
The Board of Education meets
at the high school the second
Wednesday evening of each
month.
Present members of the Board
are Ed Smith, Mrs. Jasper Skok,
Richard Jones, Lew Hanks, and
Roark.
Polls of the school district elec
tion will be set up in the Co-Op
club room and will be open from
8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on October 1. All
voters in the school district will
vote at this one polling place.
Election officials will be named.
PROPERTY OWNERS
URGED TO FOLLOW
NEW TAX LEGISLATION
All owners, buyers and lien
holders of property are urged by
l William Wakeland, local tax as
sesor, to take advantage of re
cent Territorial legislation re
garding taxes.
According to Wakeland the law
now states that taxes will be
assessed to the owner of record,
which is the party holding the
last recorded deed. It further de
clares that the owner of record
may direct the assessor to send
the tax bill to another person.
In other words. Wakeland said,
the buyer under contract can re
ceive the tax bills, but the real
owner’s name must appear on the
tax roll also. A mortgage holder
may receive the tax bills if the
owner so specifies.
In connection with this the as
sessor would like to remind own
ers that an unrecorded deed can
be rendered worthless simply by
the recording of another deed to
the same property. Many people
apparently do not realize this,
he said. A deed must be record
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Hearing Scheduled
On Closing of
Experiment Fur Farm
Dr. Allan Mick director of the
Alaska Agriculture Experiment
Station leaves Monday for Pet
ersburg where he will discuss
at a public hearing ways and
means of getting by on reduced
funds in the fur research pro
gram. Attending the hearing will
be Governor Mike Stepovich,
Senator James Nolan of Wrang
ell, and a representative of the
Ketchikan Chamber of Com
merce.
Sir. Mick will be accompanied
by Dr. David V. Lumsden and
Dr. E. C. Eltin, both of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C.
Following the meeting in
Petersburg the trio will go to
Fairbanks to report to Dr. Patty
at the college and review the
program in that area. They plan
to be in the local area from Sep
tember 20 to the 24th.
In the event it doesn’t prove
possible to reduce the Petersburg
work, it will be necessary to re
duce work at the Matanuska Ex
periment farm in order to bal
ance the budget, Dr. Mick stated.
The revision of programs is nec
essary because of increased costs
of operation and lack of increase
in operating funds.
Local Bars Observe
New Closing Hours
Patrons of the local liquor es
tablishments became aware on
.Sunday that closing and open
ing hours are being adhered to
in the city of Palmer.
Following a regulations set by
the Territorial Board of Liquor
Control, which became effective
September 3, hours of closing in
incorporated municipalities with
population of 750 persons, local
liquor establishments are follow
ing the following regulations:
No person shall sell, offer for
sale, give, furnish or deliver any
intoxicating liquor in any incor
porated municipality having a
population of 750 or more per
sons, as measured by the 1950
census, between the hours of 2
a.m. and 10 a.m. on week days
and 3 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Sundays
and 3 a.m. and 10 a.m. on holi
days. Holidays shall mean those
legal holidays specified in Sec.
1-1-6, ACLA 1949.
The new regulations went in
to effect following a recent Court
decision in the case of the City
of Anchorage vs. George D. Y.
Woo, whereas the Board of Liqu
or Control of the Territory of Al
aska is charged with the duty of
regulating liquor sales within
municipalities.
VOTERS URGED
TO MAKE PLANS
FOR ATTENDANCE
Through arrangements being
made by the Matanuska Valley
Chamber of Commerce a public
meeting will be held in the high
school cafeteria on Monday, Sep
tember 23 at 8 p.m. to discuss
city manager form of govern
ment.
The public is urged to arrange
their calendar of events so that
they may attend this informative
meeting which is being sponsor
ed by the Chamber so that city
residents may become acquainted
with this type of government.
City Manger George Shannon
of Anchorage will be in attend
ance at the meeting and will be
accompanied by a former mem
ber of the Anchorage City Coun
cil. The gentlemen will explain
to the audience how the city
manager form of government
functions in our neighboring city
and residents will have an oppor
tunity to hear both the pros and
cons of the proposal which is be
ing made to local voters in the
October 1 election. Mr. Shannon
will speak primarily on city
managers—their duties and re
quirements and the part played
in city government. The former
Council member will give- city
views on the subject.
New Agronomist
At Experiment Station
Dr. Leslie Klebesadel has re
turned to the Matanuska Valley
to accept the position as agron
onjist with the Experiment Sta
tion, filling the vacancy created
by Ray Bula’s departure two
years ago. Valley residents will
remember Klebesadel as “Buzz”.
He worked at the Experiment
farm in 1949 and 1953 while com
pleting his schooling. He recent
ly received his PhD in agron
omy at the University of Wiscon
sin. He was accompanied to the
valley by his wife and they will
make their home in the former
Eklutna project housing area on
Springer Road.
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