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Club, of which Jeff Harker is
president. A charge will be made
for the grandstand during this
program.
Family Day Dance
Starting at 10 p.m. the first of
three dances planned for the
four-day Fair will be held in
Central School gym, with Whitey
Pullen and Chick Adams band
furnishing the music. Admis
sion will be at half price, in line
with the family rates which ap
ply on opening day only. Per
sons are invited to “come as you
are” to this dance, which will
be informal.
Four-H Day
Saturday will honor the 4-H
programs, with Missionary Wal
ter Phillips to offer the opening
prayer. Present at the opening
exercises will be the Fair host,
Lew Hanks, district Extension
agent, Frances Hulbert, home
demonstration agent, LeRoy Hea
ven, Ida Hoskins, Audrey Dinkle,
and Robert Boyd, 4-H leaders,
and Sharon (Downing) Fritz,
1956 Valley Fair Queen, and the
seven 1957 Valley Fair Queen
contestants.
The program will open with a
Little League baseball game,
Palmer vs. Anchorage, at 10:15
a.m. At 1 p.m. the U. S. Navy
Band and U. S. Marine Drum and
Bugle Team will offer a concert.
Starting at 2 p.m. will he horse
racing, staged by the Arctic
Trails Riding Club, followed by
the first of the rodeo which will
have two shows a day for three
days. These are paid grandstand
events. The rodeo will be con
tinued, starting at 6 p.m. This i
will be the final event for the J
Fair until 10 p.m. when the cor- I
onation ball will begin in the
school gym. Following the crown
ing of the Queen at midnight, a
grand march will be held.
Governor's Day
Sunday marks Governor’s Day
and was so designated in hon
or of Governor Mike Stepovich
who will be presented to the pub
lic following opening exercises at
noon. The Rev. James P. Snead
will offer the opening prayer on
this date. The Governor, who will
be the house guest of Dr. and
Mrs. Lee McKinley while in Pal
mer, will be on the fairgrounds
to meet and greeli fellow Alas
kans and visitors throughout the
day and at 2:30 will address
fairgoers. The Navy band will
offer a concert shortly after the
Fair opens on Sunday. At 1:00
the NCCO Footlighters will pre
sent a variety show at the fair- •
. grounds. They will present an- ;
other program that same evening
at 8 p.m. in the school gym.
During the afternoon the AAR
CA rodeo events will be held at
3 p m. and again at 6 p.m. De
tails on the rodeo will be found
elsewhere in the paper.
Labor Day
Elder Stewart Durrant will of
fer the opening prayer on Labor
Day, the fourth and final day of !
the 1957 Fair. Speakers for the*
Labor Day program will be
James W. Wilson, territorial com
missioner of agriculture and
Thomas Moore, of the territorial
feedration of labor.
At 12:30 p.m. the Obedience
Training Club of Anchorage will
put their dogs through tiieir pac
es in front of the grandstand, fol
lowed by a demonstration of ar
chery by the Bowman’s Club of
Alaska, Anchorage. The live
stock parade and auction will
follow just before the Riding
Club horse races and the AARCA
rodeo. The final events in the
rodeo will be held at 6 p.m. with
the awarding of Fair prizes to
follow. At 9 p.m. the Palpner
Moose Lodge will set off a gigan
tic display of fireworks and the
fair will wind up wi^h a West
ern Dance at the school gym,
sponsored by the Rodeo Cowboys
Association.
Throuhgout the grounds fair
goers will see thousands of items
on display and exhibit. Many
special displays are being plan
ned by commercial, educational,
and oranizational groups.
This promises to be the biggest
Valley Fair in history.
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Valuable Gate Prizes
To Be Given at Fair
Valuable gate prizes will be
awarded at the 17th annual Ma
tanuska Valley Fair each vof the
tanuska Valley Fair starting Fri.
Prizes include a fishing set
rod, reel, flies, hooks and other
apparatus), donated by the Ma
tanuska Valley Farmers Cooper
ating Association: station wag
on air mattress from Hartley
Motors, Inc., five pounds of po
tato chips from The Alaska Pota
to Chip Co.; case of Royal
Crown Cola from the Royal
Crown Colo Co.; two Waterman
pen from Commercial Stationers;
$5.00 flower order from Maud’s
Flowers; and other valuable gifts
will be awarded.
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For all you mothers with girls
going back to school, do take time
to come in and see our selection
of Jantzens for the girls from
size four to 14 and 34 to 40
Skirts, woven and knits, wool
blend and cotton Kayak cloth,
prints, plaids and plains. A fine
selection. v
The chinchilla-soft Banlon
sweaters for girls from infants
through sub-teens just ari'ived
and will be on displr” by the
time you read this.
Raincoats and slickers for both
girls and boys are here, too, and
very attractive without being ex
pensive.
At long last we have small
shoes—up through size 6 in a
good selection of styles and col
ors.
And for you gals who have
Aeen asking for warm corduroy
robes—we have a few in.
See you soon,
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only one rider staying on the re
quired length of time. ‘‘Home
steader”, “Yellow Fever” and
“One-Eyed Riley” are among
horses riders will be attempting
to contest.
Bob Zigler, one of the high
point riders in Fairbanks, came
to Alaska for the rodeos from
Center, Nebraska. Other riders
who are here for the events in
clude Roy Goodrow of Aget,
Colorado who held the Amateur
Saddle Bronc championship in
1948-49-50-51; Bull Bullenger
from Cody, Wyoming, whose
specialty is bareback riding and
bull riding, has competed in con
tests all over the States; Bob
Hazelwood from Nebraska; Bob
Adair of California; Joe Vincent
from Florida, Ron Doty of Mon
tana, Russ Vernon from New
Mexico, and Glen Bonton, now of
Fairbanks are among the rodeo
cowboys who will be competing.
Other riders are expected to en
ter events from throughout Al
aska.
One of .the most thrilling
events will be the wild horse
race. Cowboys work in a team
of three to a horse. Horses are
released from shoots simultan
eously with halters and long rop
es attached. Each horse must be
held and saddled by the teams;
one member of the team must
ride the horse to the opposite
end of the arena where the team
must then remove the saddle and
race back to the starting line.
In the calf scramble young
sters form teams of three or
four. Calves are turned loose at
the opposite end of the arena
and the teams must return the
calf-without the use of ropes,
bridles or other assistance, to
the opposite end.
At the close of the three-day
rodeo a registered Shetland
Pony, Black Knight, will be
awarded to some lucky person.
All riders are invited to enter
the Grand Entry which will be
held just prior to the opening
of the rodeo. The invitation is
extended to all riders, whether
or not participating in the rodeo
events. Members of the Arctic
Trails Riding Club of Palmer, the
only organized riding club in
Alaska, will participate in the
Grand* Entry and will fly their
club flags.
The rodeo association’s presi
dent said it is hoped to make
this an annual event in the Ter
ritory — with rodeos staged
throughout Alaska during the
season and the championship
events held at the Valley Fair in
the fall. He said it is also the
hope of the association that a
permanent arena can be built
and that he can winter his stock
■in the valley.
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WASILLA NEWS
By Jane Brown
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Barnes had
week-end guests from Califor
nia, the Wittieh family, friends
they hadn’t seen for twelve years.
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The Wasilla Grange No. 2 and
the Wasilla Library Association
invite everyone to attend the
dinner to be served every day
during the Fair at the Fair
Grounds. Anyone who has free
time may also offer their ser
vices.
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Heinie and Mrs. Snider enter
tained guests from Holland this
past week.
M/Sgt. Eloy Garcia, stationed
at Eilsen, is home for a week
getting the house ready for win
ter and playing back yard me
chanic.
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Alice Hjellen returned home
this week form Providence Hos
pital where she had undergone
leg surgery.
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Regular meeting of Wasilla
Grange No. 2 will be held at
the Ted (Mommsen home Septem
ber 5, due to the V. F. W. Aux.
Rummage Sale every evening
September 5 thru 7 from 7 P-M.
to 10 P.M. at Grange Hall.
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Ray and Mary Bergman were
in Anchorage Monday doing
some shopping for school and
Mary was fitted with new glass
es for second grade work. Look
out kids.
Mrs. Martin Betts is home
after several weeks stateside.
Peg attended flying school and
visited her family in New York
State before returning home.
She attended school at Miami
Nat. Avia and Educ. workshop
in Oxford, Ohio.
Didn’t know the Fair could
keep anyone so busy until now,
find it doesn’t help when the
temporary pen for the pig turn
ed out to be his permanent home,
he outgrows the thing and is
discovered running all over the
yard, that settled we headed for
town and the Chamber luncheon
with Queen Candidate Mary
Hoffman and the car decides to
run out of gas on the Knik
River Bridge, nothing unusual
about it, one of our local citizens,
waved, went on by. Well Mary
arrived in time for lunch any
way and we’re home safe if not
sound. See you at the Fair.
Ruth Reenheimer, new teacher
at Wasilla, this year, arrived on
Tuesday via Alaska highway.
Drove up with her sister and
mother. He sister will teach at
Chugiak and Mrs. Reinheimer
will return to her home by
plane.
: Reporters—
Notebook
Jean McMahon, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. McMahan of
Palmer arrived home this past
Sunday for a summer vacation.
Miss McMahan graduated from
the University of Washington on
August 23, having completed
her degree requirements in three
years by attending school during
the winters and summers. She
plans to return to the University
in October to work on her mas
ter’s degree.
Visiting in Palmer for the past
week has been Ivan Gaines of
Rogers, Arkansas, father of Eli
zabeth Gaines, high school tea
cher. Mr. Gaines’ trip to Alaska,
which was his first, has been his
fond hope for a long time and he
has been enjoying sightseeing
trips since his arrival. He is
visiting with his daughter and
Katherine Steele, a Palmei
school teacher, who recently
bagged a moose from which Mr.
Gaines has been enjoying his
first moose steaks.
Leach Bettine, father of Doro
thy Saxton and Robert Bettine
of Palmer, is making a fall visit
at the homes of his daughter and
son. Mir. Bettine makes his home
in Washington.
NOTICE
We wish to thank the people
of the Valley for the kindness
and sympathy extended to us
following the loss of our son.
Mr. and (Mrs. Dewey Welch.
NOTICE
I will not be Responsible for
any bills contracted by White
Spot Cafe prior to August 26.
1957.
IVAN C. TOLMAN
ST BARTHOLOMEW
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
SERVICES EACH SUNDAY
11 A.M. LEGION BSMT.
CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES
to the
MATANUSKA VALLEY FAIR BOARD
and all other personnel who have given lime
and effort to make this year’s Fair bigger
and beHer
Frontier Bar
CONGRATULATIONS
and
j BEST WISHES
jfjjf to the
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Palmer Automotive
Let’s Go Hunting
THE EASY WAY
'Wasilla, WillowT Kashwitna. Talkeetna! With Ihe tang of autumn
in ihe air those names conjure thoughts of good moose hunting.
The best hunting can be reached by
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
Season Opened
August 20th
The "AuRoRa daylight stream
liner, leaves Anchorage and
Fairbanks daily (except Tues
day) at 8:30 a.*i., taking you
through the heart of Alaska's
moose belt. Why not go hunt
ing the easy way, aboard a re
clining seat coach of The Al
aska Railroad. Step off the
train where you know the
hunting is best.
Start the Day Right
You can eat a man-sized
breakfasl in Ihe dining car of
the "AuRoRa" when you start
your hunting trip! Also, count
on a good dinner when yon
return. Ala carte and club
meals and beverages served.
Fishing’s Still Good, Too
Don't forget that although it's hunting season, you can still go
fishing. In fact, some say the fishing's belter because so many
sportsmen are out with a oun instead of a rod.
Sportsmen! Inquire from our
ticket agents about free baggage
checking aboard trains for your
camping outfits. They'll go in the
baggage car and will be put off
when you get off to hunt or fish.
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