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L I 3 R A r
JUNEAU
DON'T FORGET
REGISTER TO VOTE
IN OCTOBER 7
SCHOOL DISTRICT
BOND ELECTION
The Frontiersman
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF THE MAT ANUS K A VALLEY
VOLUME 11. NUMBER 47
PALMER, ALASKA THURSDAY, SEPT. 25, 1958
PRICE 15 CENTS
PUBLIC HEARING FOR BOND DISCUSSION
ONLY 9 DAYS LEFT
FOR REGISTRATION
FOR BOND ELECTION
Only nine days remain during
which voters of the Palmer Inde
pendent School District may reg
- ter for voting in the October 7
: nd election, it was pointed out
t xiay by William Wakeland, tax
assessor-collector.
Voters are reminded that they
r ay not vote unless their names
appear on the register which will
e checked at the polls October
7. The only way a voters name
will appear on the register is if
fee or she has registered before
t p.m. on Saturday, October 4.
Early registrations were urged
■oy Wakeland in the event only
tne husband’s or wife’s name ap
pears on the tax roll. If both
. antes appear on the current tax
. .1, registration is simple, the
r an and wife each sign their own
name to the register and are eli
gible to vote; however, if only
one name appears on the tax roll,
* •r..y that person may register and
fee eligible to vote. Wakeland
printed out again, that it may be
posisble to add the second name
: the tax roll, and thereby make
:: possible for the second person
* also register. He pointed out
that this could take a little time
and for that reason it is imper
ative that voters check the tax
rfei immediately and register at
< •" ce.
The tax assessor repeats with
i-.eat urgency, that all taxpayers
r *st register, in order to be eligi
i* to vote. Out of several hun
’ ■ d potential voters in the Pal
. er Independent School District,
.v -s than 200 persons have regis
* red to date. There will be no
i.xther opportunity to register
after the 6 p.m. deadline October
- he added, and only those who
r avo registered, may vote.
ARIA REPUBLICANS
INVITED TO ATTEND
ST ATI-WIDE CAUCUS
Republican Senator Gordon Al
lot t of Colorado, one of the lead
ing fighters for Statehood for Al
.'ka, will be the keynote speaker
at the pre-convention caucus for
Alaska Republicans that opens in
.Anchorage Saturday, it was an
nounced this week by Robert
Croseclose, chairman of the
State Central Committee.
The two-dav state-wicre cau
cus will be held Saturday and
Sunday at the Forest Park Coun
try Club in Anchorage and all
'..uterested area Republicans are
invited to attend. The caucus will
begin at 10 a.m. Tickets for the
banquet to be held Saturday gt
l p.m. may be obtained at the
d OOF.
EXCAVATING DITCHES
CESSPOOL
Gravel — Topsoil
OWEN MOFFITT
Ph. PI-2795
SAVE!
ON YOUR
CLEANING
CERTAIN GARMENTS !
1 for the
L price of I i
Gash and Carry
{BROWN’S GLEANERS!
< WE GIVE GOLD STAMPS J
l Closed Saturday Afternoons ]
j<; Bureau Checking
1; New Transmission Line!
;! There was a short interup- j
;! tion of power this morning 5
> while the M.E.A. crew cut in- |
to the emergency line for a ?
l| 24 hour period to permit the ?
!; Bureau of Reclamation time to <
!; check their new line. <
iilks C P Benefit
Dinner-Dance
Set for Saturday
Plans for the annual Cerebral
i Palsy Benefit dinner-dance have
been completed and all Elks are
urged to pick up tickets for
themselves, their ladies, and their
guests as soon as possible. The
benefit will be held Saturday
night, September 27, at the Pal
mer Elks home, starting at 6:30
p.m. Proceeds from the annual
event will go to the C-P fund.
A varied program is planned
j to follow the dinner, including
j organ selections by Patricia
| Black, the awarding of a special
: C-P benefit prize; and dancing.
The dance will begin at 10 p.m.
! and a good orchestra has been
i secured to furnish the music.
Fall Meeting
October 4 for
Wcmen Voters
The Palmer Provisional League
of Women Voters will hold their
Fall membership meeting at 1
p.m. on Saturday, October 4, in
the Matanuska Electric Associa
tion meeting room.
Mrs. Paul Crews, president of
the Anchorage League of Women
Voters, will be one of the speak
ers. Mrs. Allan Mick and Mrs.
Ragnar Haaland will present
panel questions and answers)
with “Home Rule” as their sub
ject.
All League members and other
interested women of the valley
are cordially invited to attend.
Kids Day Program
Slated for Saturday
Several Palmer youngsters will
be heading for Elmendorf Air
Force Base Saturday morning to
i participate in the Kiwanis Kids
Day annual observance. Two bus
ses will be leaving Central School
playground at 7:30 a.m. Saturday,
September 27. All youngsters
named to participate, as well as
their alternates, are requested to
be at the playground before 7:30
a.m. Members of the Palmer Ki
wanis Club will accompany the
children on their trip to Elmen
dorf.
The annual program is sponsor
ed by all Kiwanis Clubs through*
; out the States and provides a day
of entertainment and fun for the
i children.
I __
FAIR QUEEN HOME
FROM CALIFORNIA TRIP
Muriel Hanks, queen of the
1958 Matanuska Valley Fair, re
turned to Palmer this week fol
lowing a week spent in Los An
geles, California as the guest of
the local Junior Chamber of
Commerce. Miss Ranks was
awarded the expense-paid trip as
a prize for having been chosen
queen.
Miss Hanks brought a number
; of souvenirs back to Palmer and
! was full of enthusiasm over the
many thrilling and interesting ex
periences she had in California,
which will be reported next
week.
Returning with the queen was
her mother, Mrs. Lew Hanks, who
accompanied her daughter on the
trip.
FOUR SEEK
TWO 3-YEAR
COUNCIL TERMS
Two additional city residents
have filed their intentions to
seek election to one of the two
three-year terms on the Palmer
City Council which will be filled
by the selection of city voters
Tuesday, October 7. They are
William Zahradnicek, incumbent,
and Ralph Koslosky. Although j
other petitions have been report- j
ed circulating about the city, no !
others have yet been filed. Clos- i
ing time will be 5 p.m, tomorrow^
September 26. Persons wishing to
file must do so before that time, j
Zahradnicek, Palmer school
superintendent, will seek re-elec- j
tion to the office he has held the
past 5 years. He was first named
to complete an unexpired term
of O. K. JKincaid and then elected
to a three-year term in 1955. This
is the first time Mr. Koslosky
has sought election to a city of
fice. His brother Jan Koslosky (
has served on the council the ,
past there years and did not seek j
re-election. The candidate is a |
| member of the Valle'y Hospital '
I Board of Directors and affiliated
j with the Koslosky Department
i store.
Two other filings were made
! last week, the first by Alfred V.
| Hagen, former city mayor and
I councilor and owner and opera-*
tor of the Valley Theatre, and
Jack Maze, manager at Hartley
Motors, Inc., and a member of
the first Palmer Independent
School District Board of Educa
tion and present assistant fire
chief. This is the first time he
has sought an elected city office.
The election will be held in the
Co-Op rec hall on October 7 be
tween the hours of 8 a.m. and
7 p.m. No prior registration is re
quired of qualified voters.
!
PLANNING MEETING
SET FOR LOCAL
CUB SCOUT PACK
A planning meeting for Cub
Seoul Pack 354 will be held in the
cafeteria of Central School at 8
p.m. on Monday, September 29.
All Den Mothers, committeemen,
and parents who have boys of
Cub Scout age are invited to at
tend.
City Attorney
Sees Nov. Hearing
In Tax Gass Appeal
In a letter to the City Council
and Mayor Lynn Tuesday night
City Attorney John Shaw specu
lated the case of the City of Pal
mer vs. Alfred V. Hagen, now
before the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals in San Francisco, will
cost the city approximately $2,
000.00.
Attorney Shaw stated he was
unable to attend the meeting in
person but wished to bring the
Council's attention to the fact that
he is in the midst of prepaid
briefs and argument, spending
most of his time in Anhorage in
order to use the Anchorage law
library for research and prepara
tion.
Shaw pointed out that law
briefs, records and legal argu
ments have to be reduced to writ
ing and printed in book form,
with the cost of printing expect
ed to run up to $500. In Appel
late Court cases it is essential
that an attorney go to San Fran
cisco for the hearing. He added
that the hearing in this case pro
bably will be held in November
or December of this year. The es
timated cost would include trans
portation, expenses, printing, and
attorney fees.
By motion the Council voted
the sum of $5,000 be set up as a
fund for the costs of the City of
Palmer vs Alfred V. Hagen. Of
this sum, amounts over $2,500 are
to be approved for payment by
members of the budget committee
and the mayor.
mi. nagen dppeaieu 10 me
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
following his conviction and sen
tencing January 6, 1958, in Dis
trict Court, Anchorage, on a
charge of failure to file his sales
tax returns for the month of Aug
ust, 1956 in violation of Ordinance :
No. 40. He was given a $300 fine j
and a 30-day sentence, of which
29 days were suspended, leaving
one day to be served in the fed
eral jail. He had previously been
convicted in the City Magistrate’s
Court in November, 1956', at which
time he appealed a fine of $50 to
the District Court. This was his
second conviction, having been
convicted in Magistrate’s Court of
a similar offense in 1955, at which
time he received a suspended
sentence.
COUNCIL NOTES
Mayor Kenneth Lynn and
j Councilors Ray Lancaster, Wil
(iiam Zahradnicek, Sam Cotten
and Jan Koslosky were present
at the September 23 meeting of
the City Council. Guests included
Mrs. Robert Hardesty, and Art
MiHikin of Anchorage.
Mrs, Hardisty requested an op
inion regarding a concrete slab
in front of the gas pumps at Tosts
Service. Because the asphalt was
put down before the concrete slab
was poured, it would now mean
digging up that section of the
new paving; the slab was not
poured earlier, she pointed out,
j because they could not get per
mission from the contractor to
j do so. Council members stated
j there is a protective paint now
available and that it would not
be necessary for the Hardistys
| to have the slab put in, in view
j of the fact that the pumps may
be moved in the future and that
| the asphalt is now down.
Mr. Millikin presented litera
ture to the Council for their study
on a front-end loader.
A letter from Roger Ernst, as
sistant secretary of the interior,
informed the City officials that
an amendment or regulations
t would not be necessary for the
City of Palmer to secure land for
j sanitary fill purposes and that his
j office has notified the Bureau of
j Land Management of this opin
| ion. CounciImen authorized the
city clerk to make application for
the land to be used as sanitary
| fill.
Councilor Lancaster stated it
is hoped that test pumping on
the new water well will be start
ed this week. It will be neces
sary to check the draw-down be
fore the type of pump to be used
will be determined.
* * *
A motion was passed to adopt
Ordinance 31, changing Section
38 or Ordinance No. 12. making
it manditory that anyone wish
ing to dig in the city streets, side
walks, crosswalks, etc. must first,
obtain a written permit from the
office of the city clerk.
I # * *
The budget control resolution
j was read for the second time and
i accepted by the Council.
* * *
Improvement District 3 was
discussed regarding sidewalk in
(Continued on page 5)
I REPUBLICANS
TO MEET SEPT. 30
There will be a meeting for > s
all Republicans of Precinct 1 !;
(inside city) on Tuesday, Sep- !;
tember 30 at 8 p.m, in the Val- !;
ley Theatre. All Republicans j|
are urged to attend. j! j
Palmer to Host
School Board
’59 Convention
Palmer will host the 1959 con
vention of the Association of Al
aska School Boards, according to
Ed Smith who recently returned
from the 1958 convention which
was held in Ketchikan.
Smith, who was named vice
president of the Association, for
the coming year, stated the con
vention was very informative
and constructive, with meetings
held Monday ✓ through Friday.
One of the highlights was a talk
by Carl Munk, attorney from
Oakland, California who told
school board members assembled
that “ . . . too many board mem
bers figure all they are required
to do is act on the budget and
buildings . . . that’s not all,” he
added, “read your obligations
and adhere closely to them; pay
attend!ion to your school curri
culum, not by trying to ‘run’
them, but know what is being
presented.” Smith described his
talk as “brilliant.”
Included in the sessions was a
review of curriculum and pro- i
gram of vocational guidance. In j
speaking of guidance, it was
pointed out to the school board
members that many persons I
think only of vocational guid- ]
ance, and overlook the impor- J
(Continued on Page 8)
FIVE FILE FOR
SCHOOL BOARD
Five residents of the Palmer
Independent School District have
filed their intentions to seek
election to the one five-year term
open on the Palmer Board of
Education. They are:
H. P. Gaza way, economist' with
the Alaska Agricultural Experi- I
merit Station, who makes his |
home within the city; Mrs. Joyce j
Kerttula, wife of Jalmar Kert
tula and former Palmer school
teacher; Lew Hanks, incumbent,
district agent for the Palmer Ex
tension Service; Richard H. An
derson, meter specialist with Ma
tanuska Electric Association; ancT
James A. Cottrell, dairy farmer, j
Voters of the entire School Dis
trict are reminded that on Oc
tober 7, in adidtion to selecting 1
one of the above named persons j
as their choice for the board of j
education, they will be asked to
vote on the $300,000 bond pro
posal for school construction. All
voters must be registered to be
eligible to vote on this proposal
and the deadline for registering
is 6 p.m. Saturday, October 4.
PLANNED TO HELP
EXPLAIN AREA
SCHOOL NEEDS
To help explain why taxpayers
in the Palmer Independent
School District are being asked
to approve a $300,000 bond elec
tion for school construction pur
poses, a question and answer*
sheet is being prepared which
will be sent home to parents of
Palmer school children. The in
formation is being presented so
that voters may make a decision
and so that they may become
better acquainted with the needs
of the Palmer schools prior to
a public meeting which is to
be held in the high school cafe
teria on Tuesday, September 30
at 8 p.m. All taxpayers are urged
to attend this meeting.
First of ail, all taxpayers are
urged to register at the office of
the tax assessor prior to Octo
ber 4. This mu|t be done, by law,
for the voter to be eligible to
vote on the bond issue. Also by
law, it requires 65 per cent of
the persons voting to authorize
a bond issue. The information
points out that as of September
1958, class rooms, including all
basement rooms, in every school
building are being used. In Cen
tral school several regular base
ment class rooms, the cafeteria
and an improvised remedial read
ing class room are being used..
Considered a fire and health
hazard, basement class rooms are
not considered satisfatory. This
year enrollment was increased by
62 students, or two class rooms.
Plans for school construction to
take care of present crowded
conditions include the building o#
six elementary class rooms im
mediately, and a multi-purpose
room as an addition, to Swanson
School, and to add high school
class rooms, a gymnasium and
auditorium at a later date. Swan
son school was originally design
ed as a 12-class room unit. The
multi-purpose room and cafeteria
at Swanson is planned so that
the building unit will be self
sufficient. Averaging 30 pupils to
a room, the six new class rooms
will serve about 180 more, with
the total for the building, 300.
The construction would be paid
for from a Federal grant of $81,
000 and from the sale of bonds
amounting to about $208,000. The
district will be bonded for only
the portion or amount of the
$300,000 needed.
Additional information pertain
ing to the bond election will ap
pear in next week’s paper.
STOP AT THE
HYLAND HOTEL
in Palmer
First-Class Rooms
$45 per month
for an evening of fun & good dancing music<
i "Pick" Wood Trio I
> <
: SATURDAY NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 27
S
\ Playing ai the )
Palmer Bar i
1 <
> /
"-Whitey's Swingsters,