"VOLUME 10. NUMBER 52
PALMER, ALASKA THURSDAY. OCTOBER 24, 1957
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PRICE TEN CENTS
VALLEY SPORTSMEN
WILD GAME DINNER
SET FOR SATURDAY
Final plans are underway for
the Matanuska Valley Sportsmen
annual wild game dinner which
will be held in the Central school
gymnasium Saturday, October
26.
All committee members are
requested to be at the gym by
10 o'clock Saturday morning.
Members are reminded that
tuckets for themselves and their,
fluests are available at Maud’s
Flowers in the theatre building.
All assignments have been
made and members are urged to
have their game dishes at the gym
tefore 6 p.m. and to be sure they
take enough to provide for their
guests. For the first year, there
will be no meat cutters provided.
Jt is believed by the committee
that if the roasts and other hot
dishes which will have to be cut,
are cut at home and wrapped in
foil, that food will remain hot
j-onger, by eliminating the wait
ing period while the cutters pre
pare the dishes..
Entertainment is being plann
ed.
CHRISTMAS SEAL FUND
HELPS DECREASE
HOSPITAL X-RAY LOSSES
The local Tuberculosis Seal
Sai© committee has mailed a
check for $100 to the Valley
Presbyterian Hospital to help re
duce the hospital deficit charged
to “free” X-ray services. The
great majority of these X-ray ser
vices were given under the Al
aska Department of Health tu
berculosis control program in
which X-Ray check-ups of posi
tive reactors to the tuberculin
test and T!B contract permit early
detection of the disease and pre
vent its spread.
The action of the committee
followed revelation at a recent
meeting of the Matanuska Val
iey Chamber of Commerce of
specific service items for which
the hospital has not been, reim
bursed. As explained at a re
cent meeting of the local Health
Council, the Alaska Department
erf Health, through contract, pays
the hospital a specified amount
for each X-ray authorized. This
amount covers roughly one-third
of the cost to the hospital—in
cluding overhead—for the indi
vidual services the remainder has
to be written off as a “free ser
vice”.
The local Christmas Seal Sale
chairman, Mrs. Rose Kirsch re
marked: “Part of the local Christ
mas seal contributions remain in
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BUY HER A CORSAGE
FOR THAT SATURDAY
NIGHT DATE!
MAUD'S FLOWER SHOP
Theatre Bldg. Phone 3601
MAKE APPOINTMENTS
EARLY FOR A PRETTY
HAIR-DO FOR THE
DINNER OR DANCE
VALLEY BEAUTY SHOP
LAVONNE JOHNSON
Phone 2041
REGULAR
ENTERTAINMENT
Discontinued until
Further Notice
DUE TO THE FLU
PALMER MOOSE
University’s Free
Mining Course
Opens This Week
The University of Alaska’s
mining extension program open
ed at the high school in Palmer
last night. Registration was held
and a movie on “Stories of Oil”
was shown. The course is being
taught by Hugh Matheson of the
University staff.
All interested persons, high
school age and older, are invited
to attend the course which will
be held each week-day night for
four weeks. Matheson said this
week that from 7 to 8 p.m. lab
classes: will be held and from 8-9
p.m. there will be lectures. If the
classes are large enough,. another
lab class will be held from 8 to
10 p.m. which will allow two
groups to attend the course. He
also stated that these hours may
be changed to conform with the
wishes of the majority of those
attending.
The instructor pointed out that
no particular background is nec
cessary to attend the classes. A
number of informative films will
be shown during the course,
along with mining equipment
which will include a gieger coun
ter and rock samples and speci
men. During the course, if the
students wish, field trips may be
arranged on week-ends. Persons
making at least 75% completion
of the course will receive a cer
tificate at the end of the four
weeks.
All interested persons are in
vited to. take the course. Also,
Matheson said, if there are inter
ested persons who can not attend
the entire course, they are more
than welcome to drop in on as
many sessions as they can.
Tax Properties
Sold at Auction
Tax sales held by the City of
Palmer and the Palmer Indepen
dent School District this week
were well attended and all pieces
of property not redeemed prior
to the sale, were sold.
The City sale was held on
Tuesday morning with Ken Fos
ter successfully bidding on Bl. 3,
Lot 11, and Bl. 2 Lot 21 in the
Sherrod Subdivision for a total
of $183.81. Bl. 1, Lots 8 and 9,
were successfully bid for by Ped
er Stadem for a total of $434.91.
Only one lot went for a sum
higher than the starting bid.
The school district sale was
held the following day, with sev
eral pieces going for many times
the starting bid which was based
on the taxes owed plus, penalty,
interest and cost. School district
successful bids were as follows:
John Martin, Lot 15, Langes
Holiday No. 1, $50; Section 25,
SE| SE£ SEi, $15; and Section 23
SE| NE* NEi, $56.37. Jerry Har
rison, Section 28, SW|, $450. Mer
ritt Long, Section 21, SWJ, $250.
Kenneth and Marion Foster,
Woodland Park, Lot 11, bl. 1, $61;
Daniel Contini, Huntley Hts., Lot
2 and 3, $120. Palmer Independ
ent School District, Matanuska
Townsite, Lot 8, blk. 2. Norma
Sweeney, Gov’t, lot 21, $105. Gust
and Aletha Schiebl, Section 23
NEi NWi and Eh NWi NWi, $150.
Norma Sweeney, Section 26,
Gov’t, lot 17,, $100. Richard and
Norma Marshal, Section 14, Si
NWJ SWi NEi, $55. A. W. Egvet,
Section 4, S210, N240, W178.0
E678.0 NEi, $125. Peder Stadem,
Lot 5, blk. 1, Lot 6, blk. 1; Wood
land Park, Lot 10, blk. 1; Sec
tion 23, N£ NWi SEi NEi, $155.
Rodrick Williams, Section 4,
SWi SWi; Section 5, SEi SEi,
$460. John Weisenberger, Section
4, N£ SWi; Woodland Park, Lot
11, blk. 1, $155.
L. C. Stock was auctioneer for
the city sale and Jack Ward of
Anchorage was auctioneer for
school district sale.
COUNCIL
NOTES
Under new business, members
of the Palmer City Council auth
orized the Mayor to sign agree
ments with the Bureau of Public
Roads during the October 22
meeting.
One agreement regards right
of way, and public utility en
croachment agreement. The other
provides for maintenance of a
part of the Territorial Federal
aid highway system within city
limits. Under this agreement the
City of Palmer will perform all
normal maintenance ' including
but not limited to: Snow removal,
sanding, paving repair and patch
ing, storm drainage maintenance,
bridge maintenance, shoulder
maintenance as required to keep
the highway in the same condi
tion as constructed and safe for
travel and use by vehicular and
pedestrian traffic. The work is to
be performed by city with city
equipment, with the City to keep
accurate costs accounts, by which
BPR Will remimburse the city.
The sum of $20,000 has been ear
marked for the Palmer area by
BPR.
Mayor Kenneth Lynn presided
at the meeting which was attend
ed by Councilors William Zah
radnicek, Ray Lancaster, Charles
Logsdon, Sam Cotten, and Ber
tram Duff.
* * *
A white birch gavel, made and
presented by Ed Ueeck was used
by Mayor Lynn for the first time
at the October 22 meeting. This
is the first time a gavel has been
owned by the city.
* * *
Billy May appeared before the
douncil asking adjustment on his
tax assessment. May was assessed
the full amount when his pay
ment fell delinquent and he
sought release from the entire
amount on the grounds his pro
perty was sold in March. May
was released from payment of
the past six months providing he
paid the first six months, plus
penalties and costs.
New regulations regarding the
size and net weight of garbage
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Residents Invited
To Annual Meeting
Of Kings Lake Camp
Valley resklents are invited to
attend the annual meeting of the
King’s Lake Camp, Inc. next
Tuesday evening, October 29.
The meeting will take place at
7 p.m. at the Elmendorf Air Base
Officer’s Club, beginning with a
filet mignon dinner at $3.25 per
person.
King’s Lake Camp is a non
profit camp operated for the
benefit of organizations serving
young people of the Valley and
Anchorage areas. Membership in
the corporation is open to all
interested people but one need
not be a member to attend the
annual meeting. It is hoped that
many Valley residents will attend
and become acquainted with the
program and development of
King’s Lake Camp. Users of the
campgrounds last year included
the Girl Scouts, 4-H, YMCA, El
mendorf Youth Fellowship and
Presbyterian, Lutheran, Episco
pal and Church of God church
groups.
Developed over the past twenty
years into one of the finest fac
ilities in Alaska for summer youth
camping, the King’s Lake Camp
and corporation is constantly
seeking to expand its facilities
for the benefit of more and more
young people. Because of its ac
cessibility from Palmer and Was
illa, many young people of the
Valley have made use of the camp
over the past summers and sev
eral winter weekend conferences
have been held there. The inter
est of Valley residents will insure
the continuation of a developing
program for their own youth.
Reservations for the annual
meeting should be made by noon,
next Monday with any of the fol
lowing: Mrs. John Shaw, Lew
Hanks, Victor Urban or Bertram
Rutan.
BAND CONCERT
TICKETS STILL GOOD
Lee Plumbley, school band
master, said this week that all
tickets sold to the school band
concert which was to have been
held tomorrow night, will be
honored when the concert is
presented at a later date.
TWO VALLEY 4-H'ERS WIN CHICAGO TRIPS
Three Alaska 4-H members will
be represented at the 36th Na
tional 4-H Club Congress in
Chicago, December 1-5. They are
Betty Jo Wilson of Palmer, Le
Koi Heaven of Star Route, and
Katherine Kyte, Ketchikan.
These trips are the result of
national contest in boys and girls
club work and are sponsored by
nationally known business firms.
This announcement was made
this week by Marian Larson,
newly appointed Territorial 4-H
leader.
Betty Jo Wilson, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilson, re
ceives her trip through the cour
tesy of Standard Brands, Inc.
She was named the top bread
demonstrator at the All-Alaska
4-H Fair. Miss Wilson has been in
4-H club work for seven years
and during that time has includ
ed three years in the baking pro
ject and the past three years in
meal planning. Her demonstra
tion this year emphasized the
proper technique and the impor
tance of kneading in bread bak
ing.
LeRoi Heaven, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Foster C. Heaven, outstand
ing gardening 4-H club member,
receives his trip through the
courtesy of the Allis-Chalmers
Manufacturing Company. He has
been in 4-H club work for seven
years and for six years has been
enrolled in gardening. During the
current year LeRoi had one and
one half acres devoted to his
I vegetable garden, plus one and
one half acres on which he raised
potatoes. For the past five years
he has furnished vegetables for
j home use and for preserving thr
ough canning and freezing. Inj
addition to learning how to raise
the vegetables, LeRoi is also con
cerned with proper marketing. He
is a member of the Matanuska
Valley Farmers Cooperating As
sociation in Palmer. He expects
his garden to bring him a profit
more than $1,000 this year.
Katherine Kyte eight years 4-H
club member is the clothing achi
evement winner for the territory.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. R. M. Kyte of Ketchikan.
Coats and Clark Inc. are sponsor
ing her trip. During the past year
Kathy has made eight garments.
She has been particularly active
in junior leadership work and has
helped the club grow in her com
i munity.
These three winners will be
accompanied to the Congress by
the Territorial 4-H leader.
In addition to the above men
tioned, prizes, two more valley
4-H’ers won territorial Swards.
Audrey Dinkel will receive a $100
bond, courtesy of Montgomery
Ward Co. for her girls’ home ec
onomics record and Vadney Bled
soe will receive a fountain pen
and pencil set, courtesy Thomas
E. Wilson for his meat animal
project.
Palmer Men Named
In Alaska
Moose Association
Two Palmer men were rimmed
to offices in the Alaska Moose
Association during the convention
held in Petersburg last week;
Leo Lucas was named vice
president from Westward Alaska
and Bud Collins was named trus
tee. The men are members of the
Palmer Loyal Order of the
Moose. Other officers of the as
sociation are Leonard Evans of
Juneau, president; Harold Zeii
ger, vice president from South
east Alaska; Don McGraw of
Sitka, secretary-treasurer; arid
the following trustees: L. B. An
derson, Fairbanks; Eske Eskeson,
Anchorage, James Webber, Sr.;
Cordova; George Jorgenson,
Juneau; Frank Wooten, Peters
burg; Cliff Anderson, Craig; and
Robert Sapp, Ketchikan.
The Association unanimously
passed a resolution calling for
immediate statehood for Alaska;
a marine highway connecting
Southeastern Alaska towns; com
pletion of the Copper River High
way linking Cordova to Alaska’s
road system; early completion of
the Anchorage - Wasilla - Huston
road to Mt. McKinley; and sup
port for a highway from Juneau
up the Taku river valley and
from Wrangell up the Stikine
river valley to connect South
east Alaska with highways to the
states. Delegates asked repeal of
the portion of the Walter-McCar
ran Immigration Act that per
tains to U. S. citizens leaving Al
aska. They supported immediate
establishment of mental health
hospital facilities in Alaska.
The 1958 conference will be
held in Fairbanks.
CAUTIONS AGAINST
"TRICK OR TREAT"
THIS HALLOWEEN
Dr. Arthur J. Col berg city
health officer, today cautioned
parents against permitting chil
dren to participate in “trick or
treat” outings next Thursday
evening. Although this wonder
ful nigh', of fun comes but oace
a year, Dr. Colberg stated he felt
it too risky at this time for mix
ing of families and exchange of
foodstuffs, sweets, and the like.
Children who would be travel
ing from neighbor to neighbor,
seeking “treats”, would be con
tacting homes were illness is
prevalent . . . germs and virus
could easily travel from family
to family in this manner, he
pointed out.
About three years ago when a
number of cases of poliomylitis
were reported in the valley area
a similar suggestion of no trick
or treat was well received by the
community.
FIELD WORK STARTED
BY ASSESSOR'S OFFICE
John Cole of Anchorage has
been working out of the tax as
sessor’s office this past week as
field man in assessment work.
Replacing him in the same type
work next week will be Bill De
Hart, also of Anchorage.
The special field assessment
work was authorized at the re
cent meeting of the Palmer
Board of Education following a
report by William Wakeland, tax
assessor-collector, that the work
was very essential so that assess
ment records may be brought up
to date. The work is expected to
take about 60 days.
COMFORTABLE
Steam Heated Rooms
$40 Month
Hyland Hotel
2 blocks from Post Office
SCHOOLS EXPECTED
TO REOPEN
M£XT MONDAY
... i ,
Because of the continued in
flpehza incidence in the Palme'
arleai 'Palmer schools were not re
opened on Tuesday of this week
as1' 'pjr^Viously planned. School
officials decided to keep the
schools Closed for the balance of
this ‘ week following discussions
with .local physicians and the city
hCatth officer.
i t 'Following recommendations of
Dr.' ‘Arthur J. Colberg, city
, heafth j officer, nearly all public
gatherings have been postponed.
. Postponements of events schedul
ed ' prior to today included the
twd . .Seta Sigma Phi chapters,
Christmas Workshop, Boy Scout
: and tub Scout activities, the
Civil' Air Patrol cadet meeting,
arid 'Others.
In addition postponements have
been’ announced for the follow
ing: October 24: Grange booster
night; Homemakei's Achievement
Day (tentatively re-scheduled for
October 31); University of Alaska
Alumni Association. October 25
School band concert. Key Club
assgm^ly; Anchorage student
council visit.
Cancelled out is the final foot
ball' grime between the Anchor
Xge’ Eagles and Palmer Moose.
Lt. Margaret Betts announced
the CAP cadet meeting is now
scheduled for the evening of No
vember 5. Cadets are asked to
watch the bulletin board at the
high school for further informa
tion.
Many of the events will be re
scheduled and announced as soon
as the new date is determined.
MORE DONATIONS
MADE TO HOSPITAL
Employees at the Co-Op
Creamery will again this week
pay the milk bill for the Valley
hospital, it was announced today.
This is the second week that the
employees through personal do
nations have paid the bill.
The American Legion Post has
contributed $50 to take care of
the bill rtext week. The money is
being donated from their Child
Welfare Fund.
With the capacity patient load
at the hospital the milk bill has
been running about $10 per day.
Other recent donations to the
hospital include two loads of po
tatoes, one each from Henning
Blunck and Max Sherrod.
Work and equipment to repair
the hospital sewer line was re
cently donated by Homer Hayes,
Jack Zimoske, Mac’s Plumbing
and Heating and the Co-Op
maintenance department.