Merit Scholarship
Exams to Be
Conducted April 29
The National Merit Scholar
ship Qualification Test, which is
now administered during the
junior year in high school, will
be given at Palmer high school
on Tuesday, April 29, according
10 Mildren Siddall, director of
guidance.
The National Merit Scholar
ship Corporation administers the
nation’s largest independently
supported college scholarship
program for high school students.
In the 1957-58 academic year, it
provided more than $5 million
worth of four-year scholarships.
The amount of the scholarship
is determined by financial need,
and is renewable annually with
out further competitive examina
tion.
This national program, which
embraces all U. S. territories and
possessions, sends thousands of
deserving students to college—
fhudents whose unusual talents
might otherwise be wasted due to
their inability to finance the in
creasing cost of higher education.
The 1958-59 testing program is j
designed to provide more service
to participating students and
schools. While it will still serve
primarily as a preliminary
screening instrument to select
thousands of scholarship winners^
the program has several new
important guidance and educa
tional planning features.
These additional benefits will
be best realized by testing at the
end of the junior year rather than
at the start of the senior year.
These new values are such that
many students will want to take
the test for purposes of educa
tional or vocational planning,
even though they do not expect
to win a scholarship.
All students will receive a re^
port of their scores. These test
results will enable students to
understand their present acade
mic strengths and weaknesses,
will give them facts with which
to plan their senior year, will
help them to decide about going
to college, and will enable them
to select college courses of study
in which they are most likely to
succeed. *
All high school students in their
second-semester junior year or
first-semester senior year are
eligible to take the test. Students
can be enrolled in any public,
private, or parochial school in
the 48 states, the District of Col
umbia, Alaska ,the Canal Zone,
Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or the Vir
gin Islands. The charge for tak
ing the test is $1 per student,
payable on the examination day.
In event of financial hardship,
a limited number of students will
be tested free. Tests will be given
from 9 a.m. to noon in all par
ticipating high schools, April 29.
WOMEN OF THE MOOSE
TO MEET ON MARCH 25
All members of the Palmer
Women of the Moose are asked
to take white elephant items to
the regular meeting on Tuesday,
March 25. The items may be
wrapped or unwrapped and will
be used as prizes in Alaska’s fav
orite game which will be enjoy
ed following the meeting.
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Middle-Aged Traffic Terror
By Ernest Tucker
Courtesy of The Chicago American and Traffic Digest and Review
A bunch of high school kids, celebrating a football victory,
were riding around in cars, shaking crepe-paper pompons out
the windows, blowing horns and shouting. They were having a
good time. Pretty noisy, but as far as I could see they weren’t
doing any harm. .
The middle-aged man who was giving me a life in his expensive
car didn’t see it that way.
“Confounded smart-alert kids!” he growled as he edged his
way over the yellow line to the wrong side of the street, so he
could get ahead of a line of cars waiting for a red light at an
intersection.
“They oughta be barred from the streets, the way they go
around as if they owned the place,” he said, with his eyes on
the stop light, inching forward into the crosswalk so pedestrians
had to detour around him. “Why don’t their parents teach them
manners?”
The light changed from red to yellow and he roared away,
making a fast left turn in front of traffic coming the opposite
way so that four cars had to slam on their brakes.
“If I caught a kid of mine acting like that I’d tan him good,”
he said, leaning on his horn so a young mother pushing a baby
carriage, crossing the street on the green light, had to back up
hastily,
“Trouble with kids nowadays,” he went on, “is no discipline.
No manners. No respect for anybody.” He maneuvered carefully
as we came to another stop light, brushing past a parked car and
into the curb lane so he could get ahead of three other cars
waiting in line.
The noisy kids vanished, but the man was still growling. “Wish
I had those youngsters for a few days. I’d teach ’em.”
He made a jet takeoff and neatly cut out the car beside him,
then slowed down to a crawl, straddling the white lane-marker.
“Showed him didn’t I?” he said, smugly, turning right from the
middle of the street. As he dropped me in front of my house,
he suggested: "Why don’t you write something about the way
those kids were acting? Might wake some people up.” A good sug
gestion, I told him. Here it is.
HOMEMAKER’S
NEWS
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Happy Valley Club
Our homemaker club met at
Mrs. Shirley Webb’s March 12.
Reports on workshop were given
and flower reports were passed
out.
Mrs. Erwin Schomburg was a
guest and two new members
were welcomed. The next meet
ing will be at 11 a.m. at Mrs.
Vivian Goodrich’s home. A pot
luck dinner will be served. All
members are reminded to take
needles and thread for sewing;
and seeds or flower slips for ex
change.
Gold-dusters
Fourteen members met at the
home of Phyllis Long March 12.
Members voted to incorporate
into the Club’s constitution and
bylaws seven revisions governing
membership in the club. A stand
ing membership committee was
created, to be composed of the
following members: Jane Payne,
chairman; Mary Lou Marsh,
Phyllis Long and Betty Crowther.
Project leader for the evening
was Norma Benson, who spoke
on house plants and perrenials.
Members exchanged ideas and
plant cuttings.
Following the meeting, lunch
was served by the hostess and'
Ina Norbo, co-hostess.
The April 9 meeting will be
held at the home of Martha Rti
tan. Each member is asked to
take at least one article for a
white elephant sale to be held
during the evening.
Palmasilla Club
Homemakers of the Palmasilla
club met in the home of Marta
Frost on March 11. The topic dis
cussed was “Perennials are house
plants”. There were seven mem
bers present.
The next meeting will be April
8 at the home of Evelyn Mielke.
New methods in home sewing
will be the meeting topic.
Big Lake Club
The Big Lake Community Club
meeting was held March 12 at
the home of Mrs. Lawrence Lew
is. Discussion and plans for dis
play of a Pennsylvania Dutch'
crocheted all-wool afghan in the
areas of Big Lake, Palmer, An
chorage, and Wasilla. Ten per
cent of the proceeds from the dol
lar donations will be given to
the Valley Presbyterian Hospital.
The afghan will be awarded May
1 at 2 p.m. from Teeland’s Shop
ping Center in Wasilla.
Mrs. Lewis w7as voted publicity
chairman and historian for the
club.
Regular meetings will be held
on the second Wednesday of each
month.
For Hire Vessels
Must Carry Radios
The Federal Commission en
gineer in charge at Anchorage
advises that the March first dead
1 line has now passed which re
quires compulsory radio insalla
tions on board vessels carrying
more than six passengers for
hire. All such vessels must now
have on board and posted in a
prominent and accessible place
in the vessel a valid Communica
tions Act Safety Radiotelephony
Certificate issued by the Com- j
; mission.
Owners of vessels not already
certificated or contacted, are ad
vised to call the FCC office at
Anchorage for further informa
tion.
Republican Women
Lend Support to
Local Candidates
Support for valley candidates
for the Territorial Legislature
was voted at last Monday’s meet
ing of the Womens Republican
Club. The organization will run
weekly advertisements in the
local newspaper and in the two
Anchorage newspapers, as well
as on the screen of the local
theatre from now until the pri
mary elections on April 29.
The ads will contain the names
of the three Republican candi
dates: iM. D. Snodgrass, Doris Mc
Kinley, and James Frey. Mr.
Snodgrass is running for the Ter
ritorial Senate; Mrs. McKinley
and Mr. Frey for the House of i
Representatives.
It has been announced that ab
sentee ballots are available at the
office of U. S. Commissioner
Dorothy Saxton. Absentee ballots
may be obtained by those who
will not be in their voting pre
cinct on April 29.
Efforts will be made by the
Womens Republican Club to en
list more members for the forth
coming busy election year, and
to follow the actions of the legis
lature while it is in session Janu
ary 26 to March 26, 1959. Valley
legislators in Juneau will be able
to mail official daily reports of
proceedings so that members
will be able to help defend good
laws and promote new legislation
as needed.
The next meeting of the club
will be held April 21 at 1:30 p.m.
at the home of Mrs. Don Irwin.
All Republican women are invit
ed to attend.
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pieces
Table linen
GIFTS
Thursday. March 20. 1958
Record Crowd
Attends 99’s
Fly-In Breakfast
Approximately 360 fried eggs
(all sunny-side up) were served,
along with that many hot cakes,
and thieve slabs of ham, by mem
bers of the Anchorage Chapter of
Ninety-Nines, an organization of
women ffilots, at a fly-in- drive
in breakfast staged at the Ma
tanuska Valley Airmens’ CD
quonset hut at the Palmer air
port this past Sunday. Visitors
numbering 177 registered for the
breakfast, many of whom flew
their planes into Palmer for the
event.
Listed among the participants
were members of the Anchorage
Sports Car Club who were en
route to a sports car race held
at Big Lake Sunday afternoon
and members of the Anchorage
Volkswagon Club who conduct
ed a rally on their return trip
to Anchorage.
Approximately 35 visiting air
craft owners from Anchorage,
Kenai, Spenard and other areas,
set down on the Palmer airport
for the event including several
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K,OCAL CAP CADETS
TO VISIT ELMENDORF
Members of the Palmer CAP
Cadet Squadron have been invit
ed to visit the Elmendorf Air
force Base as guests of the
Elmendorf CAP Cadet Squadron
on Saturday, March 29. Also in
vited are the local squadron’s
drill leader, Mrs. Margaret Betts
and the squadron’s chaplain, Rev.
Victor Urban.
The local cadets will be leaving
Palmer around 11 a.m. and meet
at the Aurora School on the base
at 2 p.m. A special drill session
will be presented by the Elmen
dorf cadets.
twin- engine models and amphib
ians. Planes began arriving at
7:30 a.m. and continued until
shortly after noon. A number of
valley residents also attended.
Clinton Stewart, P. O. Box 797,
Anchorage, was awarded an Air
boy radio which was offered by
the Ninety-Nines as a prize.
Members of the 99’s who did
all the preparing and serving
were Pat Gilda, president; Helen
Stoddard, Pat McGee, Marion
Zaley, Aria Cumby, Ruth O’Buck,
Carol Pierce and Liz Krakau.
Vote April 29 for
M. D. Snodgrass for Senator
Doris McKinley for Representative
Janies Frey for Representative
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NOTICE
Tax Assessment notices for 1958 City of Palmer and Pal
mer Independent School District property taxes have been
mailed to owners last known to the tax office. The assessment
rolls are complete and open to the public with the exception
of a supplementary roll of personal property not filed upon
by the owners, and to be filed by the assessor.
Protests of valuation should be made first to the assessor,
and Territorial law now requires a written protest in dupli
cate, on forms available at the tax office, be filed by April
15, 1958 in order to be heard by the boards of equalization. _
Equalization hearings will be held at 8 P.M. May 13, 1958
in the Council chambers for the City of Palmer.
Equalization hearings will be held at 8 P.M. May 14, 1958
in the board chambers at the High School for the Palmer
School District.
The copies of land description and title data enclosed
with many assessment notices ate to serve two purposes.
One, to enable owners to add to or correct the information
we have on their property, and two, to show what property
the tax lot number represents. FUTURE TAX BILLS AND
NOTICES WILL NOT DESCRIBE LAND BEYOND THE
DESCRIPTION APPEARING ON THE 1958 ASSESSMENT
NOTICE. Keep the land record copy for reference.
WM. WAKELAND, Assessor
Palmer Independent School Disi.
City of Palmer
The engine was making a wide sweep around a table leg,
pulling a long train of six cars: The tender — a box car loaded
with marbles — one flat car with five clothes pins — a stock
car with a pig, two sheep, a pair of rabbits, and a black cow—
and finally Junior's little Red tractor riding piggy-back on
the little red Caboose.
Meanwhile — Ma and Pa and all the rest of the Valley
Grown-ups were gathering at the Palmer Depot to watch the
JOHN DEERE TRAIN come in, just loaded down with FINE
QUALITY JOHN DEERE FARM EQUIPMENT that lasts longer
and makes your work easier. Ask your neighbor, he knows.
What was that??? You bet we finance—
BROOKS EQUIPMENT GO. John Deere Representative
for
N. C. Co. of Anchorage