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vol v I
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J~c.nuc.ry 2, 1956
Nos• 19-20
HOLIDAYS A PLEASANT INTERLUDE AT END OE BUSY SUMMER AND EALL
The
'lonths
biers«
Christmas holilr.ys formed a welcome break
of steady work for the colon!s
The arrival of Santa Claus an.l his
in the monotony of six
ts, uroject laborers an! oil set
Connany's Christmas shin startc
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nut on their show and
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Everyone enjoyed th
big time came for the youngsters
Santa, Patron Saint of Childhood
his huge lord of 68S aresent?
ter filled the roughly nonsec
istributed nresents
entourage from the Alaska
the season off when they
at the- big new Community
songs and musical numbers, but
when their old friend,
started distributing
Shouts and hrnpy laugh
in hail_
the entertainers left to fill their engage
Eklutna and ^jichorrge more gifts were lis
rifts from the Junior Red Cross of Seattle
and Roebuck
,nd those
merits at
tribute!,
•and San Francisco, from Sears
purchased with the local fund donated for the purpose
-1together there must have been in the neighborhood of
two thousand packages handed out to the happy chilire
Christmas day passed quietly with many neighborly
mgs for the usu.,1 feast* New Years, too, was
in Palmer, any heving gone into Anchorage, with
remaining hieing off to Wasilla for the big
gat he:
quiet
tnese
Dance
Carnival
What changes have taken place in the Matanuska
Valley during the lest seven months of 19351
T'There moose .end be'-r roomed undisturbed Inst Hay
there ere now comfortable homes, Where Indian end
prospector trails meendered through stends of l-~.ce
’ ire birch end sturdy spruce, gravelled roods now car
ry the'traffic of a busy communitye
Felton's store, his log home, end the box car rail
road station have lost themselves on the fringe of a
tustling town that can boost of over thirty buildings e
tents too numerous to count,,
;he mounting sun rays of the vernal equinox will
and i
fell on
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completed school and hospital that will be
the envy of every city in Alaska.
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The night sun c
summer rail warm
J} the earth and coax
/r from our fertile sol.’
/ such produce as will oc
vince a skeptical world
that we are living in on?
of the garden spots of zY
world.
THE KNTANU3KA Y/.L.LET
COKES INTO ITS O1 rN IN
1936
"PIONEER" T I SEES NO"' N
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