LIBRARY
JUNEAU
VOLUME 10. NUMBER 40
PALMER, ALASKA THURSDAY, JULY 25. 1957
PRICE TEN CENTS
Community College
Interest Being Surveyed
Forms are being distributed
throughout the valley this week
m an effort to determine the ex
tent of interest in the organizing
of a Community College in this
area.
The survey is being conducted
by a committee appointed by the
Palmer Board of Education, con
sisting of James Hurley, chair
man; Rev. Bertran Rutan, Rol
iand Snodgrass, Stewart Durrant,
and Mrs. Charles Marsh.
To help determine whether or
not such a college is needed, and
the subjects that might be taught,
interested persons are asked to
fill in the form and mail it to
the high school office or the Ex
tension Service office by July 31.
Additional forms may be obtain
ed from either of those places,
at the Matanuska Valley Bank or
the office of The Frontiersman.
The committee points out that
the Anchorage Community Col
lege was established in 1954 with
an enrollment of 385 persons, and
has since grown to 700. It is
planned to pattern Palmer’s insti
tution along similar lines, begin
ning on a modest scale. Affilia
tion and accreditation with the
University of Alaska will be
sought.
The questionnaire carries a
Mst of suggested courses that
might be made available to area
residents. The committee points
out that it is likely that a course
will be offered only if 10 or
snore students enroll and if quali
fied instructors are found. Other
suggestions, regarding courses,
are invited.
"SOME DAZE . . "
Seems as though last week wras
e bad one for a certain reporter.
She reported a wedding reception
to be held in one place, when it
was being held in another; made
an error in the Trading Post ad
and inadvertently neglected to
mention that Gene Reid presided
at the Chamber of Commerce
meeting in the absence of the
president. Sorry, sorry, sorry.
VASES FOR YOUR
SUMMER
ARRANGEMENTS
9 Footed rose bowls
All sizes
9 New Ceramics
• Milk Glass
Telegraph Delivery Service
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Cash and Carry
f BROWN’S CLEANERS
HOSPITAL EMERGENCY
PHONE NO. Pl-2010
Due to an error the emer
gency telephone number listed
on front page cf the MTA
telephone directory is incor
rect. The number listed
(PI-2000) is for the business
office which is closed even
ings, holidays, and Sundays.
Because of the limited staff at
the hospital it is not possible
for nurses on duty to always
hear the front office telephone
when it rings. The correct
emergency number is PI-2010.
An attempt is being made to
correct the situation, mean
while all emergency calls
should be made to the PI-2010
number. It was suggested that
all telephone subscribers make
the correction on the front of
their directories.
New Ordinance to
Control Gasoline
Sales Along Streets
Following a request of the
Bureau of Public Roads, an or
dinance prohibiting gasoline
pumps and customer's cars en
croaching on side walks has
been prepared by the Palmer
City Council and has had the
first of three readings.
The request was made by the
BPR as part of the preliminary
plans necessary before paving
is done in Palmer. The proposed
ordinance reads as follows:
No gasoline or other pumps
shall be located, installed or
maintained in the sidewalk space
along any street or alley and
the location or maintainence of
such pumps beyond the building
line or lot line is prohibited. No
gasoline dispensing pumps shall
be hereafter installed closer than
12 feet to any street or alley
line. All apparatus for the servic
ing of motor vehicle shall be so
placed that any and all motor
vehicles can be serviced while
standing upon the property of the
service station with no part of
the vehicle projecting over the
sidewalk area.
Annual Flower Show ;
To Be Held Aug. 4
Everyone who has a flower
garden, and all those interested in
seeing flowers, are invited to
participate in the Palmer Garden
Club flower show which will be
held on Sunday, August 4 in the
high school cafeteria, from 1:00
to 5:00 p.m.
It is hoped that this year’s show
will have one of the greatest var
iety of flowers ever shown locally.
“Cavalcade” has been chosen for
the 1957 flower show theme, and
exhibitors are invited to submit
arrangements following the sug
gested theme. Copies of the rules
and regulations may be obtained
from Garden Club members.
Johnnie's Surplus
NOW
Serving the valley with Health Foods
“Health begins in the kitchen”
Box 849, Palmer Mile 47V2—Palmer Hiway
nntBmmm
Reading left to right: Larry Dearborn, Leland Stainbrook,
Lief Kopperud, Stephen Merrick, Aaron Huston, assistant
advisor; Pholia Liebing, Jerry Combs, Barry Dearborn,
Tom Williams, Duane Anderson. Jamie Wright, Ernest
Stineburg, Karl Schreiber, Jerry Fogg, Bob Johns, and
Wayne Huston. —Photo by Advisor Dearborn
EXPLORER SCOUTS
CARRYING OUT
BUSY SCHEDULES
Eight Explorers of Explorer
Post 857 attended Camp Gor
such from June 14 through June
20. Sixteen merit badges in arch
ery, cooking, camping, canoeing,
life saving, marksmanship and
pioneering will be presented to
these Scouts tonight at the Ex
plorer’s Dance being held at Elks
hall at 8 p.m.
Since organizing last April
Post 857 has come a long way.
The eight charter membership has
increased to 22. These youths
have held weekly meetings—so
cial, vocational, business and
service—-in turn as prescribed by
the Explorer program. Often this
busy schedule requires two nights
a week to fulfill their programs.
It was their privilege to use the
Buckner Field House at Fort
Richardson weekly for three
months for swimming instruction
and# practice. The Explorers have
expressed their thanks to all per
sons who made the program pos
sible, with special thanks to
swimming instructor Benyish. As
a result of the emphasis on swim
ming, four youths earned their
swimming merit badges and three
received their life saving merit
badge.
Currently the Explorers are
taking a Red Cross first aid
course under the direction of Po
-iice Chief Bernard Bouwens.
(This standard course will be fol
lowed by the advanced course.
These instructions will entitle
the youths to the first aid merit
badge and entitle them to carry
the Red Cross first aid card.
Members of Post 857 are grate
ful to the many persons serving
as merit badge councilors and to
those who assist them in trans
portation and committee work,
and to the Palmer Elks Lodge
which sponsors the unit.
Serving as advisors to the
group are Curtis Dearborn, ad
visor, Ray Huston and Aaron
Huston, assistant advisors.
Plan to Complete
’57 Scout Campaign
Ed Smith, of the Boy Scout
Fund Campaign, said this week
that it is hoped that the cam
paign may be brought to an im
mediate close. Persons or or
ganizations wishing to make con
tributions to the fund may do
so by leaving them at the Mat
anuska Valley Bank, care of Kyle
Turner. The donations may be
made during banking hours, or
after, Turner said.
ANYTIME is CLEAN-UP
TIME. Let’s all help “BEAUTIFY
PALMER”.
Palmer Youth Aboard
USS Canberra Cruiser
Midn. 3/c J. Howard Esslinger
On a summer training cruise
aboard the guided missile cruis
er USS Canberra, Midn. 3/c J.
Howard Esslinger stands a lookout
watch. Esslinger is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Clayton Esslinger of
iBalmer and a student at the U. S.
Naval Academy.
Midshipman Esslinger visited
Santos, Brazil, July 2-10 and was
scheduled to arrive at San Juan,
Puerto Rico, July 20. He left
Norfolk, Va., June 13 after partic
ipating in the International
Naval Review at Hampton Roads
June 12.
The midshipmen are scheduled
to complete the cruise at Norfolk
August 6 after gunnery training
exercises at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba.
CITY SEEKS BIDS
FOR CONSTRUCTION
OF WATER WELL
The City of Palmer has invited
bids for the drilling of a new
water well on the City’s reservoir
property. Sealed bids will be re
ceived by the City Clerk until 2
pjn., August 7, 1957, and then
publicly opened.
The project consists of perform
ing all work for constructing,
drilling, casing, developing, test
ing and sampling one water well
of 10-inch diameter with a mini
mum depth of 140 feet or deeper
at the direction of the City, until
satisfactory water is obtained.
Plans, specifications and other
contract documents are open for
public inspection at the office of
the City Clerk and may be ob
tained upon deposit of $10, all of
which will be returned to plan
holders upon the return of plans
and "pecifications postmai-ked
not later than 10 davs from tht
date of the bid opening.
City Employees
Get 20% Increase
DAVE RUSH STRICKEN
WHILE AT WORK
David Rush, about 35, of Pal
mer died suddenly this morn
ing while at work at the Evan
Jones Coal Mine. Rush was
operating a “pay-loader” in
the mine yard and was strick
en sometime after 11 a.m. Fel
low workmen noticed him
slumped down in the machine
and summoned the comlhunity
ambulance and a doctor. He
was pronounced dead by the
doctor and removed to the
Palmer Funeral Chapel. Fun
eral arrangements are pending.
First Half ’57
Property Taxes
Due August I
Real and personal property
owners are reminded that the
first half of their 1957 taxes for
the City of Palmer and the Pal
mer School District must be paid
or postmarked on or before
Thursday, August 1, to avoid pen
alty and interest. Under the new
law the entire bill falls delin
quent if the first half is not paid
on time. Unpaid taxes are delin
quent on August 2.
Tax bills and payments may
be taken or mailed to the Tax As
sessor, Box 1757, Palmer. Tax
payers are requested to write sep
arate checks for City and School
District bills.
MATT ONKKA NAMED
TO HIGH ELKS OFFICE
Matt Onkka, charter member
of the Palmer Elks Lodge No.
1842, and its first exalted ruler,
has been named District Grand
Exalted Ruler for Alaska, West
by H. L. Blackledge, grand ex
alted ruler who was named to
that high position during the re
cent Elks Convention in San
Francisco.
One of Onkka’s first duties will
be his attendance at the District
Deputy Conference to be held in
Salt Lake City on August 24. At
that time he will take his oath of
office, receive his official com
mission and his instructions for
-his duties during the year ahead.
Onjtka has served as a trustee
of the Territorial Elks Associa
tion for a three-year term; serv
ed two terms as Exalted Ruler of
the Palmer lodge from October,
1951 to April 1952 and April 1952
1953, and attended the Grand
Lodge Convention held in New
Yok City in 1952.
The new District Deputy’s area
will include six lodges; located in
Anchorage, Fairbanks, Cordova,
Kodiak, Seward, and Palmer.
Oggie Heibert, manager of Sta
tion KTVA, was guest speaker
at the Palmer Kiwanis meeting
this past Monday. He spoke on
the mechanics of operating a tele
vision station. Next Monday Dr.
Richard Washburn will speak on
alfalfa pollination.
Full-time city employees have
been granted an increase in pay
amounting to 20 percent in all
departments. The increase was
approved following a recommen
dation of the budget committee of
the City Council as presented on
July 23. The increase is effective
as of July 1 and will continue
| though the 1957 fiscal year.
'The increases constitute the
following changes in wage scales:
Street Department, increased
from $626.66 per month to $751.
98; Water Department same
scales; City Clerk, from $600 per
month to $720; Secretary, 'from
$1.75 per hour to $2.10 per hour;
Police Chief from $616.66 per
month to $735.98, patrolman from
$516.66 per month to $619 98. The
total figures represent approxi
mately $661.28 total increase per
month.
FIRST ANNUAL
M.TJl. MEETING
SLATED FOR AUG. 3
All members of the Matanuska
Telephone Association are re
minded of their first annual
membership meeting which will
be held in the Central School
gymnasium on Saturday, August
3, with registration to start at
6 p.m. The meeting will get un
der way at 7 p m., according to
Phil O’Neill, secretary of the as
sociation.
The main purpose of the meet
ing will be the election of a new
board of directors. The nominat
ing committee, appointed by the
directors several weeks ago,
named 10 members of the asso
ciation as candidates for the five
offices to be filled. They are as
/ollows:
FROM PALMER: R. j. Hed
dles, Virgil Eckert, Robert War
ner, George Crowther and Eu
gene Reid. WASILLA: John
Shaw, Harold Dinkle. CHUGLAK:
Einer Huseby, Earl Ray. SUT
TON: Harvey Hiber, Rudy Yer
bich.
Additional nominations may
be made from the floor at the
meeting.
j Directors of the association
whose terms expire at the an
nual meeting are: Lew Hanks of
Palmer, president; A1 Withey,
Palmer, vice-president Phil
O’Neill, Sutton, secretary-trea
surer; Eugene Reid of Palmer
(completing term of John King
who resigned earlier this year),
and James McDowell of Chugiak.
Tenure of office for directors
elected August 3 provides for
staggered terms, with this first
election to name the director re
ceiving the largest number of
votes to a three-year term; the
next two highest votes will de
termine directors receiving two
year terms and the next two will
receive one-year terms. At each
subsequent annual election two
directors will be elected—the
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