Pioneer Band’s
Spring Concert
Well Received
The annual spring concert, pre
sented at the gymnasium last Fri
day evening, was well received
by a small but appreciative crowd.
A well-balanced program of mar
ches, concert pieces and specialty
numbers were offered by the stu
dents under the direction of Lee
Pluxnbley, bandmaster.
Various students of the band
were featured in several of the
numbers. In the concert piece,
“Libestraume,” Allyn Wilson,
J. C. Harder of the eoronent sec
tion and Jim Cottrell trombone
player took the leads; in Ruben
stein’s “Melody in F,” the trio
and Bythel Compton, trombone
player, were featured. Elizabeth
Shook, band member, was student
director for Romberg’s “Stout
hearted Men.” A bass sextette,
consisting of J. C. Harder, Allyn
Wilson, playing coronets; John
Maze bass horn, William Wimmer
and Colin Mick, baritone; and
James Cottrell, were featured in
Verdi’s “Trumphal March.”
“Song of the Fisher Boats”
featured a clarinet quartette com
posed of Elizabeth Shook, Muriel
Hanks, Karen Aklestad, and Faye
Persinger.
In the popular number section
of the concert Colin Mick play
ed the baritone lead in the num
ber, “Home on the Range”. “Syn
copated Clock”, a novelty num
ber, was well planned as the fin
al number of the program.
The senior majorettes perform
ed as an esemble and drum maj
The Hassle of M.E.A.
By Bob Klem
My thanks, Old Friends!
For you did come thru,
With a thundering 5 to 1.
With grur^ and growls
And shuddering howls
To add to the evening’s fun!
A little bit late
But we cleared the slate—
And we’re willing to clean it
more.
And until we are dead
We will watch the heads
That rolled as we settled the
score.
The old walls shook
With our bright clean ire
Our wrath was as bitter as gall
Like unto the wa<y
Of the Olden Days
When we packed this fine old hall |
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When the chips are down
You do come thru
And I feel good inside
We had our way
We had our say
My friends I am filled with pride.
orette Muriel Hanks performed
a solo baton twirling number. A
little trouble with the shoulder
cords on the majorettes new uni
forms was the only flaw in their
presentations. iMajorettes are Joan
Stephan, Evelyn Cook, Karen
Aklestad, Pat Shaefer and Faye
Persinger.
Three of the numbers present
ed in the program are those to be
played by the Pioneer Band in the
music festival in Fairbanks this
week-end. They are Olividotti’s
concert march, “Hall of Fame”
Leoni’s “Chapel Shrine, and
Rachmaninoff’s “Prelude in C
Minor”.
Local Riflemen
Take Honors in
NRA Championships
The following results are scores
from the 1956 NRA National In
door Rifle and Pistol Sectional
Championships which were this
year sponsored by the Matanuska
Valley Sportsmen. The sectional
was held at Fort Richardson
April 7 and 8, during which the
team championship in rifle was
won by the Matanuska Valley
Sportsmen with a 1542, beating
out the Tanana Valley Sportsmen
of Fairbanks by the total offhand
scores. They were tied with the
Fairbanks shooters by total.
In the rifle section 86 compet
ed. Robert Harlow of Ft. Richard
son was named Alaska Small
bore Champion with his total of
779: close behind with but one
less point was Noel W. Woods of
Palmer. John Guitar of Fairbanks
placed third with 777. Prone posi
tion winner was Leroy Shelbal of
Fairbanks, 200-20X; second, K.
Westenbarger of Palmer 200-20X.
Sitting position winner, John D.
Harris of Eska, 200- 17X; second,
Robert Harlow of Ft. Richardson,
220-16X. Kneeling position win
ner, Noel Wood, 196; second,
Dana Niemann of Palmer (high
woman), 196.
Standing position, Harlow', 187;
second, Guitar, 184.
Mary-Louise Johns of Palmer
was high woman aggregate win
ner with 764 and she was also
sharpshooter winner with the
same total.
In the pistol competition Gerald
Mitchell of Fort Richardson took
the Alaska Smallbore Pistol
Championship with a total of 839.
IN AND OUT AT THE
VALLEY
PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL
Hospitalized at Valley Presby
terian Hospital this week are:
Erwin Doyle, Mrs. Oscar Kertulla,
Ole Johnson, John Bugge, John
Dunlap, Paul Aklestad, Mrs. Carl
Meier, Glen Vore of Jonesville,
Mrs. Chester Maleski and infant
son of Healy, Mrs. Lawrence
Larson and infant twin sons,
Charles Osborne, and Sally An
derson, (10 yrs. old).
Patients in the hospital who
are now out include: Steve Pro
kopenff, Jr., (7 yrs. old), George
Venne, Sr., Gloria Hollman of
Wasilla, (8 yrs. old), Joseph Bid
ondo, Mrs. Rolend Blank and in
fant daughter, Mrs. Raymond De
Priest and infant daughter, Earl
Myers of Sutton, Frank Colobuf
falo, Charles Shaver, Mrs. Grace
Tyone, Connie Huppert (8 yrs.
old), and Mrs. Winston Laughlin.
Noel Woods of Pa.mer placed
second with 833 and Thomas
Hudson of Fort Richardson was
third with 825. Forty-one pistol
shooters competed in this section.
Slow fire winner was Noe)
Woods, 181; second, Hudson, 177.
Timed fire winner, Gerald Mit
chell of Fort Richardson, 194:
second Glenn Baker of Ladd AFB.
193. Rapid fire winner, Thomas
Hudson of Ft. Richardson, 191:
second Mitchell, 187. Three stage
winner, Mitchell, 282: second.
Floyd Coleman of Ladd AFB, 279.
The team championship in pis
tol went to the Chugach Rod and
Gun Club with a 1097 total. Ladd
Air Force Base placed second
with 1096.
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Alaska Chamber
Meeting Set for
Apr! 19, 20, 21
Subjects of wide interest and
broad appeal will be discussed at
the Alaska Chamber of Commerce
which will convene at Ketchikan
April 19th and continue through
April 21. Two members of the
Matanuska Valley Chamber of
Commerce are expected to attend
the meeting. Governor B. Frank
Heintzleman, will open the ses
sions with a discussion of the sta
tus of Alaska’s development.
The subject "Improving Our
Business Climate” will be discus
sed by Harry A. Lintz, California
district manager of the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States.
Scheduled to address the Friday
luncheon meeting is C. C. Dun
can, general manager of Special
Projects, Long Lines Department,
American Telephone and Tele
graph, who will talk on the sub
ject of the new Alaska Cable. Thg
Friday afternoon session will in
clude an address by Perry H.
Taft, Pacific Coast manager of the
Association of Casualty and Sure
ty Companies since 1948. He will
j speak on the subject of insurance
in business. Also appearing on
I Friday afternoon on the subject
of relationships between indus
tries and communities is Albert,
Arnst managing editor of THE
LUMBERMAN.
Other speakers include Walter
Kirkness, senior biologist, Alaska
Department of Fisheries on the
subject of "Blocked Watersheds- -
Military to Mark
Armed Forces Day
Saturday, May 19
The Air Force and Army in the
Anchorage area jointly announc
ed this week that Armed Forces
Day will be held at Elmendorf
Air Force Base and Fort Richard
son on Saturday, May 19.
The Armed Forces Day pro
gram is arranged so that visitors
will have an opportunity to view
an army review and paradrop at
Fort Richardson in the early af
ternoon and an aerial demonstra
tion at Elmendorf Air Force Base
later in the afternoon.
Both installations will hold
“Open House” throughout the
afternoon of the 19th and the
public is invited to visit both
Fort Richardson and Elmendorf
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be on the Saturday agenda,
speaking on the subject of the
Civil Works Program of the Corps
of Engineers and its effect on
the economy of Alaska. The Sat
urday evening banquet speaker
will be Honorable P. A. Gagliardi,
minister of roads and highways
for British Columbia.
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Vote YES on the proposed Constitution Tor
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“We the people of Alaska, grateful to God
and to those who founded our nation and
pioneered this great land, in order to secure
and transmit to succeeding generations our
heritage of political, civil, and religious
liberty within the Unled Slates, do ordain
and establish this constitution for the State
of Alaska”. (The Preamble)
(Free copies of the constitution may be ob
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