SEWARD BPW GIVES
$500 LOAN FUND TO
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA
The Seward Business and Pro
fessional Womens club recently
established a $500 loan fund at
the University of Alaska. The
scholarship committee will ad-;
minister the fund which will be i
available to some Seward stu
dent. The loan will not carry an
interest charge and will be made
only for the purpose of fees,
books, room or board. Mrs. Laura
E. Jones, University registrar,
pointed out that such loans can
prove to be of tremendous value
;j deserving students who other
wise might be forced to drop
school because of financial dif
ficulties.
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CAN DESTROY YOUR VALUABLES
. . . but NOT if you place them where thev rightlv
belong: in a safe deposit box in our vaults. Walls of steel
and concrete will guard your valuables from fire, loss
and theft. Worth many times the small rental cost is
your peace of mind in knowing that your securities, in
surance policies, jewelry and other precious possessions
are SAFE!
MATANUSKA VALLEY BANK
Daily 10 A.M. - 3 P.M.
Open Thursday Evenings 6-8 PJ4.
PALMER. ALASKA
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Noiehooh
Over 50 Palmer young people
enjoyed an evening of fun Mon
day evening at the roller-skating
party sponsored by the Senior
high and Junior high Westmin
ister Fellowships of the United
Protestant Church. Leaving Pal
mer at 5:15 the group had the
Rainbow Rink in Anchorage re
served for almost three hours.
The rink management comment
ed on the fine behavior displayed
by the youths and invited them
to return whenever possible.
Transportation was provided by
Mdmes. Brewster, Sweeney, Wil
son, DeVries, Crites and Mssrs.
Mick, Rowland, Barnhart and
Rutan.
Members of the Palmer Kiwan
is Club held their luncheon meet
ing at Grange hall this week,
with women of the Grange cat
ering.
The Eastern Star silver tea,
> held this past Sunday to help
raise funds for a scholarship, was
a success, according to a com
mittee member, who on behalf
of the chapter, expressed thanks
to the public for their participa
tion.
Lewis Geiwitz was recently
named president of the Church
of God (Matanuska Street) board
of trustees. Geiwitz was re-elect
ed to the board. Others serving
with him will be O. C. Huntley,
vice-president; Lewis Pinkham,
secretary; T. A. Moyer, treasurer,
and John Martin, trustee. The
meeting was held at the Pink
ham home.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Ingalls left
for the States on Tuesday of this
week. They plan to make their
trip by car and will be visiting
in North Dakota.
Helen Kurtz is employed in the
dental office of Dr. Paul Jaeger.
Jean Onkka is employed in the
same office afternoons,
Members of the Kiwanis Club
Kids’ Day committee have an
nounced the following valley
youngsters as winners in the
Kids’ Day talent contest: Andy
Postishek, Angeline Hecker,
Micky Louis, Ernest Steinberg,
Susan Moffitt, and Dorothy
Campbell.
Mothers of pre-school children
are reminded that a Well Con
ference will be held at the Health
Center in the Valley hospital
next Tuesday afternoon, October
23, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
On Wednesday and Thursday
of next week Public Health Nurse
Myrtle Spencer mill be at the
Wasilla School from 1:00 to 4.00
p.m. to conduct an immunization
clinic for adults, "typhoid boost
ers and series will be offered.
William ZahradBicek, school
superintendent, wll leave to
morrow for Cordora where he
will attend the Western Alaska
High School Activities Associa
tion meeting. The Association is
composed of representatives from
j schools throughout western Al
aska. Next week he will attend
an administrators conference
which will be held in Juneau
October 22, 23 and 24.
i Hallie Sansel is now on the
hospital staff as a nurses' aid.
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Essling-1
er are on a trip to the Seward
Montague Island area with a
party of Anchorage friends. They
hope to get in some deer hunt
ing while in that section.
The new’ spur track into the
Co-Op’s new warehouse has been
completed and the warehouse is
expected to be ready for use
within 30 days.
Communicable diseases in Pal- j
mer reported to the Alaska De j
partment of Health for the week
ending October 12 listed only:
one case in this area, a case of
roseola infantum.
Miles L. Rice, 23, iron worker
on a White Alice project at Hom
er, is a patient in Providence
Hospital, with a broken thigh
suf fered when a skeleton tower j
collapsed October 13. The hos
pital reported Rice in “good " i
condition.
James Wilson, commissioner of ;
agriculture, is expected back in
Palmer tonight from a trip to
Juneau where he attended a
meeting of the Alaska Develop
ment Board.
An instrument landing ap- j
iroach system for the U. S. Air
Firce to be constructed at Elmen
dorf Air Force Base and nearby
Point MacKenzie is being offer
ed to contractors for competitive
bidding by the Alaska District;
i Corps of Engineers. The bids,
under Invitation 57-24, will be
j opened Nov. 15 at 11 a.m. in the j
i Anchorage office of the Alaska
| District on Elmendorf Air Force
' Base.
PHS GRADUATE WINS SI50 SCHOLARSHIP
Professor Lola C. Tilly, head of ,
the University of Alaska home
economics department, has an
nounced that Jean Burke, for
mer Palmerite, and now of Eiel
son Air Force Base, is the winner
of the S150 Anchorage Home Ec
onomics Association Scholarship
for 1956-57. Miss Burke is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
W. Burke and is a home econ
omics sophomore at the Univer
sity.
The Association bases the
award ability in the home econ
omics field, scholarship, leader
ship, and need.
Miss Burke’s mother (Hannah)
graduated from the University of
Arizona where she, too, majored
in home economics. She now
teaches the subject at the Eiel
son school. While the family re
sided in Palmer, Mrs. Burke
taught in the Palmer school &
Prior to attending the univer
sity, Miss Burke was an active
honor student at Palmer High
School from which she graduat
ed in 1955.
COLLEGE STUDENTS
TO TEACH IN
ANCHORAGE SCHOOLS
University of Alaska education
department students will begin
practice teaching in Anchorage
public schools next semester, Dr.
William K. Keller, department,
head, disclosed this week. He
reached this agreement during
a conference in Anchorage with
public school administrators.
Dr. Keller explained that the
education department’s expand
ing program provided a heavy
load of practice teachers in the
Fairbanks schools, and the ar
rangement with Anchorage will
both relieve this load and work
to the mutual benefit of the uni
versity, Anchorage and the terri
tory.
Bread Pastries
AT YOUR
LOCAL GROCERS
ORDER YOUR DECORATED
CAKES BY PHONE
Palmer 2181
Palmer Baking Co.
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KELLOGG
Rice Krispies 2 t..59c
AUNT JEMIMA
Corn Bread Mix 1° 38c
LIBBY’S, SWEETENED
Orange Juice 2 fi 45c
BAKER’S,, BREAKFAST
Cocoa y2ib
2 vt 57c
KELLOGG’S, RIBBON
Gro-Pup
BEST WEST
Sweet Peas
WEST HAVEN, FREESTONE
Peaches
400'S
Kleenex b„34c
CAMPBELL'S
Tomato Soup 6 i„ 89c
KOSARITA
Prices Good
OGTGBER 19, 20 and 22
LIBBY’S
Corn Creole
SOUTHERN STYLE
LIPTON’S, GREEN
Tea Bags «*„49c
BOOTH’S
Halibut ^.69c
PURE
Ground Beef 2ib>. 98c
LUNCHEON
Bologna n. 49c
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