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MAY 17. 1953
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VOLUME 6, NUMBER 34 .
PALMER, ALASKA, THURSDAY. MAY 14, 1953
PRICE TEN CENTS
Valley to Get $322,666.87 Produce Orders
E. P. McCarron to
Deliver Address at
Graduation Tonight
Commencement exercises to
night will climax high school acti
vities for 26 graduating seniors of
Palmer High School. The program
will be presented at 8 p.m. in the
school auditorium.
E. P. McCarron, of the Terri
torial Elks Association and Fair
banks Elks lodge will deliver the
address.
Valedictorian Geraldine Kind
gren will present “Man With A
Cause — And How.” Miss Kind
gren has participated in various
activities throughout her school
ing in addition to high scholastic
grades. She has been active in
student council work, pep club,
cheerleading, class plays and
other activities.
Robert Hartman will deliver
the salutatory, “The World We
Face.” In addition to high-school
grades, Hartman also has been an
active student throughout his
school years in such activities as
chorus, class plays, student coun
cil work and various sports.
Music for the processional and
recessional will be played by Miss
Dolores Mattila. Invocation and
benediction will be offered by
Rev. Edward Imme. The school
chorus will follow the invocation
with two selections. “Alaska’s
Flag” will be sung by Lowell
Krise, graduating senior.
Presentation of awards will be
make by superintendent of schools,
William Zahradnicek, followed by
the presentation of Elks awards
to be made by Richard B. Smith
of Anchorage, secretary of the
Territorial Elks Association.
Presentation of class will be
done by Harry Wimmer, with Mrs.
Mary R. Washburn to make the
diploma awards.
The high school chorus will of
fer another number, “They Call
It America” previous co the a
warding of eighth grade diplomas
by William Elliott.
Fair Board Seeking
Volunteer Assistants
Volunteer assistants in all de
partments are needed for the an
nual Matanuska Valley Fair, AT
ba Brooks, fair association presi
dent announced this week.
“We hope to make up the Fair
premium book early this year,” he
said, “and would like to get all
departments planned and sche
duled before that time.” Anyone
interested in offering their time
is asked to contact Brooks or
other board members. All super
intendents and assistants will be
given free admission to the Fair
plus two free meals each day.
A new department is being con
sidered for this year’s fair, it was
announced. A frozen food depart
ment suggestion met with appro
val of board members at a meet
ing held May 11, with appropriate
awards to be given to winners.
Inquiries are out now, mem
bers said, to try and acquire the
services of a carnival for the an
nual event. Other special features
will be announced later.
BUREAU OF MINES
START TEST DRILLS
Test drilling has been started
for this season by Bureau of
Mines. They are working in the
Buffalo Mine and Moose Creek
areas. All information gathered
during these tests will be con
solidated with the rest of the
drilling program conducted in the
Matanuska coal field. A drill
crew, Boyles Brothers Drilling
company has arrived from Salt
Lake City and are conducting
drilling operations.
Front Row: Class Advisor, Mrs. Margaret Cope, Mary Ada Lee, Charlotte M. Barry, Mary Jane Clark, Mary Ann Mears, Mary E.
Colberg, Marilyn J. Macek, Patricia Dickson, Margaret J. Cope, Barbara J. Bentti and Geraldine F. Kindgren.
Second Row: Lowell D. Krise, Dennis L. Buzby, Monte M. Larsh, Garry J. Davey, Ronald L. McNeese, Clyde Chastine, Stuart
H. Dreghorn, John D. Barnhardt and Robert P. Hartman.
Third Row: Kenneth E. McKensie, George R. Geiwitz, George T. Worledge. Lyle P. Jones, Daniel L. Wolf, Jack D. McKechnie,
John E. Brown, Oliver D. Brewer and Ira B. McKinley.
Miss Dickson and Clyde Chastine withdrew from school after the above photo was made.
RTA Group Expects
Completion of
Telephone Survey
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Members of the local Rural
Telephone Association attended
the meeting of the Central Alaska
RTA organizing committee held
at Chugiak May 8. The organiza
tion is sponsored by the Central
Alaska community clubs.
Lew Hanks reported this week
that the local group has decided
to work as closely as possible
with the organization. The dis
cussion of joining the group was
not encouraged by those attend
ing from the Valley, he said. Such
a move would have to meet the
approval of the present local
membership.
In regard to the local applica
tions, Hanks said that the com
mittee was attempting to clean
up the last of the sign-up cam
paign being conducted throughout
the Valley and that tabulations
were expected to be started this
week. The only area not entire
ly canvassed is the Fairview re
gion.
Hanks this week issued another
appeal to those who for one rea
son or another have not been
approached, to drop in the MEA
office and sign an appication
blank. The application will be
going into Washington as soon as
possible and if additional appli
cants names have to be added
on a suppliment, it may delay the
loan application, he pointed out.
ANCHORAGE VOTES BOND
Anchorage voters approved a
$2,500,000 bond issue for the An
chorage Independent School Dis
trict, with 621 voting for the mea
sure and 121 against. The vote
will be official when returns are
canvassed.
According to figures presented
at the May 5 City Council meet
ing, sales tax returns for the
month of March amounted to
$4,030.42. Increasing a little over
$280, April returns totaled $5,
312.44. Other revenues included
$102.50 in court fines and $18
in building permits.
Refuses Reopening
Of Marshal’s Office
The Justice Department has re
fused to reopen the deputy mar
shal’s office in Palmer, S. A. An
dretta, Administrative Assistant
Attorney General, recently in
formed Delegate Bartlett. Neces
sity for economy was given as the
reason for the decision.
In urging reconsideration,
Delegate Bartlett pointed to the
fact that Congress last year made
special provision for. additional
deputies in Alaska and appro
priated funds for extra men. The
Delegate expressed doubt wheth
er closing the Palmer office actu
ally effcted an economy or wheth
er another officer was added to
the staff elsewhere.
When in Washington recently,
Mayor Hagen met with Andretta
to urge the Valley’s needs for
the peace officer.
FIRST FOREST FIRE
DESTROYS 440 ACRES
Members of the local Fire
Guard station were called out on
their first “active” fire of the sea
son late Friday night when a
fire burning on Lazy Mountain
near, Wolverine Creek was re
ported.
John Bowers, forestry aid and
Darwin Heine, fire control man,
said this week that the fire was
apparently caused from an aban
doned camp fire. Eight men work
ed from early Saturday until Mon
day afternoon before the 440
acre fire was declared out.
With the approach of the fish
ing season ater this month, fisher
men, hunters, prospectors and
picnicers are urged to be sure all
camp fires are extinguished be
fore leaving them. Careless use
of matches and cigarettes in the
woods have also started fires, they
pointed out.
Public picnic grounds are main
tained by the local station at Big
Lake, Finger Lake, Moose Creek,
nd King River. These grounds are
equipt with picnic tables and fire
places with hearth rings for out
door cooking.
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BERT'S DRUG ENTERED;
$75 IN BILLS STOLEN ‘
Sometime during the early
morning hours Bert’s Drug
store was entered and $75 in
bills was stolen.
The break was discovered
this morning by Geraldine Gra
nath, fountain clerk, when she
arrived at work and discovered
the window at the back of the
fountain broken. Cash registers
at the fountain and in the sun
dry department had both been
opened and the money stolen.
City police chief, Bernard
Bouwens and the Alaska High
way Patrol are working on the
case. Nothing else was believed
to be missing.
CITY’S FACE
GETTING BRIGHTER
Seven truck-loads of debris were
collected on three streets by city
employes and the mayor the first
two days of Palmer -Clean-Up
week.
Nearly all of the rubbish was
picked up in the street or within
ten feet of property lines,'Mayor
Hagen said. City employes work
ed Valley, Matanuska and Bailey
Hill streets in their efforts to help
clean up the city.
Wednesday collections in the
hospital, ARA and CoOp housing
areas were conducted by mem
bers of Palmer Kiwanis and the
CoOp truck. Today members of
the Moose are scheduled to han
dle the areas of west Colony and
south Wasilla streets, wth help
from the Fire Guard Station.
North Palmer will be taken care
of tomorrow and Saturday will
see a general city-wide coverage
for last minute collections.
Saturday afternoon the youg
sters in the Valley who have part
icipated under supervision, in the
Clean-Up campaign will be a
warded free ice cream by the
CoOp and a free show from the
Valley Theatre. 1
Hugh Johnson
WillllHertd
Trade Conference
Hugh Johnson, economist at the
Alaska Experiment Station, leaves
Palmer Saturday enroute to Ta
coma and other points in Wash
ington and Oregon.
At Tacoma he will represent
Alaskan Agriculture at the gene
ral conference of the Pacific
Northwest Trade Association on
Monday, May 18. The theme of
the conference is “Our North
Country.”
Leaders in trade, industry,
transportation, finance, tourism,
power, mining and government
will be attending from United
States and Canada. Governor B.
Frank Heintzleman will open the
Monday meeting with a keynote
address.
From Tacoma Johnson will
travel to Corvallis, Oregon for con
ferences with enconomists at Ore
gon State College and then on to
Ephrata, Washington for. several
days study of settlement problems
on the Columbia Basin project.
At Ephrata he will visit Soil Con
servation Service and Bureau of
Reclamation offices as well as
settlers, to gather ideas for use by
farmers and settlers in Alaska. He
expects to return to the Valley
around the first of June.
TUNNEL WORKERS MAY
BETTER OWN RECORD
“It looks like a record month
in tunnel driving,” L. F. Wiley,
project engineer on the Eklutna
Project said this week.
This past week 540 feet of tun
nel were driven he said, with the
highest daily record estabished
Monday when 115 feet were dri
ven. Last month the men broke
their record by driving over 2,
000 feet and Wiley said it would
appear now that the total May
figure will far surpass that num
ber.
Work crews seem more stable
now, he said in explaining the
better progress, and working con
ditions are better. “They may
even hole through by November,”
he speculated.
FAIRBANKS AND
ANCHORAGE BIDDERS
TO RECEIVE BALANCE
Valley potato producers who
were among apparent successful
bidders on military contracts for
' the entix-e Alaska area will fur
nish better than half the $543,993.
; 30 worth of potatoes to military
establishments at Elmendorf AFB,
Fort Richardson, Ladd AFB, Eiel
son AFB, Big Delta and Whittier.
Potato prices ranged from .0573
at Elmendorf in October, to .0880
for the month of June at Big Delta
and Eielson AFB. Three new An
corage growers took a total of 530
ton as did Glen Woods of Palmer.
Highest amount received by lo
cal bidders was 1,011 ton by the
Matanuska Valley Farmers Co
operating Association. Other in
dividual local grower's were Lor
en Weiderkehr, 100 ton; Francis
Johansen, 115 ton; Hugh Adams,
115 ton; Eugene Reid, 100 ton and
Melvin Sanders, 51 ton.
Two Fairbanks bidders were
also apparent successful bidders,
including the Tanana Co-Op who
will furnish 1,249 ton. Husky Gar
dens of Fairbanks will furnish 99
ton. Anchorage bidders were Wil
son, 100 ton; Weimer, 215 and
Evenson, 215 ton.
Successful Valley bidders on
beets, green onions, cabbage, let
tuce, rhubarb, turnips and car
rots were the M.V.F.C.A., Weid
erhehr, Callison and Newby. No
cauliflower, broccoli or radishes
could be supplied by valley grow
ers as ceiling prices established
by the army were too low. The
price of celery is still being ne
gotiated and additional bids are
expected to be called for on 15
bags of potatoes.
Total value of potato and pro
duce bids amounted to $631,842 -
37 of which $322,666.87 will come
to the Valley.
PROPOSES GARBAGE
COLLECTION SYSTEM
Members of the city council
were approached at the regular
meeting held May 12 by W. E.
Cook who is interested in starting
a full scale garbage and rubbish
collection business in the city of
Palmer.
Cook proposed that his business
be given exclusive rights to pick
up garbage and rubbish in thg
city; exclusive use of the city
dump, with care of same to be
assumed by him and use by others
on permit only. He proposed that
the service billing be done by the
city, as it is in several other
Alaskan cities, with Palmer to
receive a percentage of the gross.
Mayor Hagen referred the matter
to the street committee for fur
ther study. Cook agreed with a
suggestion that such a proposal
be offered in bid form.
Ordinance No. 18 was read for
the first of three readings. The
lengthy ordinance sets up the
governing of public health and
sanitation in the city of Palmer,
authorizing the creation of a
oard of health, appointment of
a health officer and the control
of communicable diseases, sewage
disposal, garbage, barber and cos
metological establishments, refuse
accumulations, food sanitation,
dairy farms and milk plant sani
tation, hotels, rooming houses and
dormitories.
Two subsequent readings will
be required before the ordinance
becomes effective.
Melvin Haugan, telephone
inaintainence man, was given a 30
day notice that his employment
by the city would cease. The not
ice was signed by Mayor Hagen
and Councilman Joseph Gallant,
chairman of the telephone com
mittee, following an unanimous
decision made by the mayor and
city council members.
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