CREDIT UNION
ANNUAL MEETING
SET FOR JANUARY 23
The Matanuska Valley Federal
Credit Union annual member
ship meeting will be held on
Wednesday evening, January 23,
it was announced this week. The
meeting will be held in the new
meeting room in the basement
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of the Co-Op general office at 8
p.m. All members are urged to
make plans for attending the
meeting as the annual reports
will be made; the dividend de
clared; and election of directors
will be held.
FOR FAST RESULTS TRY A
FRONTIERSMAN CLASSIFIED
Neither Snow
Nor Rain...
Nothing can dampen your spirits these cold dreary winter
days when you have an automatic laundry. Those days of
trying to outguess the weatherman will be gone forever . . .
no more frost bitten fingers . . . no more worries about your
clothes getting an unwanted second washing with muddy
water from a sudden rainstorm . . . and best of all, no more
lugging heavy wet clothes out to the line—and back again.
All this extra work and worry is so useless when you can
have an automatic laundry that can do a better job of washing
for you in just a few minutes.
You'll be the envy of the neighborhood with your new.
automatic laundry equipment. Your friends will wonder
how you can keep your family in such clean fresh clothes
and still have Ttiine for those important outside activities.
See about getting a new automatic washer and dryer right
away. And when you're shopping for laundry equipment
check with your Willie Wiredhand Dealer. He can give you
those little extras in quality merchandise and service that
will mean so much.
Matanuska Electric Assn.
"Electricity is Your Best Buy"
ELECTRICITY IS CHEAP!
TURK MURPHY HERE
TONIGHT; PURUS
INVITED TD ATTEND
Turk Murphy and his band
will make a one-night appearance
in Palmer and that night is to
night. Everyone in the entire
Matanuska Valley and points be
yond is invited to turn out and
hear this exponant of Dixieland
jazz. His program will include a
variety show as well as music
for dancing.
Murphy and his troupe are be
ing brought to Palmer through
the courtesy of the Matanuska
Valley Bank, Matanuska Valley
Farmers Cooperating Association,
Piggly Wiggly Store, and The
Frontiersman. There will be no
admission charge but donations,
which will go to the valley hos
pital, will be accepted.
Starting at 8 and continuing
for two hours Murphy and his
crew will present a Dixieland
concert. From 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.
there will be Dixieland dance
music along with a variety of
novelty acts.
Murphy has been called “a pur
ist San Francisco jazz player”,
interested in music almost as
soon as he could read notes.
From his grandfather a hoe-down
fiddler who also played cornet,
ne received conet lessons when
he was eleven. He then switched
to tombone, and got a good deal
more instruction at high school
in Williams, California. A four
leter athlete, he became known
as “The Terrible Turk” while
playing varsity footfall.
Turk attended Stanford for one
semester, then became a band
stand musician. He played with
several bands until 1940, when he
joined Lu Watters original
Lerba Buena band as trombonist
and assistant manager. Both he
and Watters had a deep feeling
for authentic New Orleans jazz
and their band soon became one
of the most popular in San Fran
cisco.
After he broke away from Wat
ters in 1950 Turk spent four
years in the Navy. He has spear
headed the recovery of San
Francisco and Dixieland jazz. Al
though he doesn’t like his music
to be thought of as Dixieland,
he has helped it tremendously
by association.
According to Columbia records,
San Francisco jazz hasn’t yet
reached its peak. This will not
surprise anyone who has heard
Turk play. Both those who re
member jazz as jazz originally
was and moderns who are fam
iliar only with progressive rock
and-roll, will appreciate his
smooth rhythmic style. From
spirituals and blues, through bal
lads and marches, to modern
dance music,
Council Notes
No regular meeting of the Pal
mer City Council was held on
January 8 because a quorum
could not attend.
At a special meeting held
January 3 members of the Coun
cil amended the sales tax ordin
ance to clarify the section refer
ring to the penalty date. The
amendment fixes the 10th of the
month as the date the sales tax
returns are due. They become de
liquent after that date. Wording
in the original ordinance appear
ed ambiguous and had caused
some misunderstanding.
The amendment provides also
a method for those firms who do
not complete their bookkeeping
before the 10th of each month
to apply for permission for a lat
er filing date. This must be done
in writing and approval must
come from the City Council.
This provision was made for
those Stateside firms and others
whose bookkeeping systems are
so set up to make earlier filing
a hardship.
Following a request from a local
firm to interpret Section five of
the sales tax ordinance regarding
sales of $500 or over, the Council
authorized City Clerk Clair Stock
to mail this interpretation to
local firms. The ordinance reads
(in part) that the $10 tax cover
ing the first $500 of a purchase
is concerned with the construe
tioix of a building or residence or
puchase of one single machine,
car or boat. It does not grant an
exemption on all purchases over
$500 of any and all commodities.
Placing the responsibility for the
interpretation of this section of
the ordinance upon the city, num
bered certificates are available
in the office of the city clerk,
granting exemptions under Sec
tion five of the ordinance. No
exemptions are to be given to
any purchaser without the cer
tificate and certificate numbers
are to be used on sales slips.
Because the next regular meet
ing falls on January 22, the date
of the special bond election, the
meeting has been tentatively set
for January 24 in the afternoon.
Rate Study
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quarterly payments on the mil
lion dollar REA loan. These pay
ments amount to around $8,000.
Because MEA has not yet drawn
the full amount of this loan pay
ments are lower than if they
were paying on the full million
dollars. Payments on this loan
were started the last half of
1956. The Association paid off
two notes amounting to around
$85 thousand the latter part of
December,
FORMER PENN. STATE
AG ENGINEER NOW AT
EXPERIMENT STATION
Ralph U. Blasingame, head of
agriculture Engineering Depart
ment of Pennsylvania State Col
lege for 33 years, is spending six
months with the Alaska Agricul
ture Experiment Station in the
agriculture engineering depart
ment, working with C. Ivan Bran
ton.
Blasingame has a long history
of agriculture engineering. Fol
lowing hs retirement from Penn
State in 1952 he spent the next
two and one half years with the
University of Puerto Rico agri
cultural experiment station. Dur
ing his long career he has many
times been on “loan” to vari
ous agencies and schools includ
ing a year in Shrivenham, Eng
land where he was sent by the
War Department in 1945 to work
with the engineering department
of the Shrivenham American
University. He was president of
the American Society of Agricul
ture Engineers, has co-authored
a number of papers and reports.
While staying in Palmer the
visiting engineer is living at the
Lodge.
Palmer Schools—
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teachers and what they call ‘in
terest groups’. Therefore as a
a parent and citizen, you should
write to the Legislative Council
in Juneau or your Representative
and ask that the Commissioner’s
budget be restored as a minimum
program for schools”, the super
intendent told the audience
which was made up of parents
and teachers. Zahradnicek re
minded them that the Commis
sioner’s budget was set up as a,
minimum program only and did
not include a proposed teacher’s
raise.
The school superintendent
pointed out that no Legislator
wants to raise taxes. “It must be
pointed out to the Representa
tives and Senators that we, as
parents and taxpayers, urge them
to make every effort possible to
determine sources of increased
revenue in Alaska. If their con
stituents write or otherwise in-.
dicate to them that money must j
be raised from some tax source,
other than local they will have
something to go on. They will
know what the people themselves
want done, he added.
Letters may be addressed to
; R&porters—
Notebook
Mrs. Paul Jaeger and six chil
dren, family of Dr. Paul Jaeger
of Palmer, arrived in the city last
week and the family is now at
home in Pioneer Apartments
Mrs. Jaeger and the children ar
rived from Phoenix, Arizona.
Stewart Durrant, Co-Op gen
eral manager, and Ed Hamm„
sales promotion head, are in the
Fairbanks area this week map
ping out plans with the Tanana
Valley farmers and merchants
for the coming year. They expect
to return to Palmer on Saturday..
The Chugiak Volunteer Fire
Company women’s auxiliary will
hold a bake sale January 19 at
the Market Basket from 1:00 to
7:00 p.m.
Mickie Lewis, 12-year-old son*
of Mr. and \Mrs. Chuck Lewis,
was a guest on Whitey’s Western
Swingsters television show this
week over station KENI, Chan
nel 2. Mickie played his steel
guitar and sang.
WANT TO VOTE?
CHECK TAX ROLL
FOR YOUR NAME
William \yakeland, city and
school district tax assessor, is.
this week bringing the city tax
roll up to date. All women who*
wish to vote in the January 221
special bond election are urged
to be sure their name appears orn
the tax roll. According to terri
torial law, eligible voters in as
bond election are those whose
names appear on the last tax as
sessment roll. It was pointed out
that it is each individual’s per
sonal responsibility to determine
whether or not their name ap
pears on the roll. Forms are
available at the tax assessor’s
office upstairs over the Valley
Bank for those whose names de
not appear on the roll.
Among requirements for the
City to sell bonds is a legal*
opinion on the legality of the vot
es. Therefore it is necessary tha*
each person voting be sure his
of her name appears on the tax
roll. This must be done prior to*
January 22, and should be done?
immediately during the time*
Wakeland is bringing the roll up
to date.
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the Legislative Council at Jun
eau.
Zahradnicek spoke to the
group following the showing of
a film which was sponsored by
the Palmer Education Associa .
tion.
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