VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
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Entered as second class matter on Oct. 21, 1947, at the post office at
Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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Mrs. Harry Wimmer and dau
ghter Nancy, left by plane for
Kansas November 8. They will at
tend the 50th wedding anniver
sary celebration of Mrs. Wim
mer’s parents.
The William Renfro family
of Anchorage were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Jones last
Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Sherrod left
Monday for the States. They are
driving out and will visit friends
on the way to St. Louis where
they plan to attend the 45th an
nual convention of the Vegetable
Grower’s Association of Ameri
ca, being held November 4 to De
cember 4. They plan to spend the
Christmas holidays with Mrs.
Sherrod’s mother and family in
Indiana and with Mr. Sherrod’s
family in Michigan.
Richard Blue of the Exten
sion Service received a letter
this week from Bo Larssen,
Finnish IFYE delegate who
spent several weeks in the Val
ley this summer. He is in Mary
land and expects to leave for
his home December 1 aboard
the S. S. United States.
Johan Johnson a Fairview
Road farmer is stealing the march
on local television set owners by
receiving very good test patterns
and programs from the Anchor
age station. His farm is situated
on a hill directly in line with the '
broadcasting station.
Moore's Garage, on ihe Ma
tanuska road, is open for busi
ness again. The garage has
been enlarged and completely
rebuilt of cement and steel.
Ralph Farnsworth is working
there as mechanic.
Mrs. A1 DeJulio leaves Satur
day by air for Seattle on a busi
ness and pleasure trip. While
Outside she plans to visit rela
tives.
Fred Zieke, Co-Op general
manager and Clayton Esslinger,
comptroller, spent a few days of
last week in Fairbanks on busi
ness for the Co-Op association.
Don Ingalls and Ralph Moore
attended a Legion of the Moose
meeting in Anchorage November
7. They report that the next cere-;
monial is to be held in Cordova '
December 5 and that a large dele- i
gation from Palmer and Anchor-]
age are expected to attend. Local
Moose Legionnaires who wish to
make the trip should contact
either of the above men.
HOMEMAKERS CLUB :
NOTES |
Cheechako Club
The regular meeting of the
Cheechako Homemakers’ club
was held November 9 at the
home of Marne Hanks with 16
members and two guests present.
Following the business meet
ing Marylou Rideout, home dem
onstration agent of the Extension
Service, gave Christmas idea
demonstrations.
Homesteaders Club
Members of the Homesteaders
Homemakers’ club met Novem-1
Matheson. Roll call was answer -
ber 11 at the home of Marion
ed with Christmas gift ideas, j
Thirteen members and one guest
were present. Jean O’Neill gave
a very interesting report on the
Short Course at the University of'
Alaska which she attended.
The program for the year was ;
planned and plans for our Christ- j
mas party were made. The party i
will be held at Joyce Leppanen’s
home on December 9 at 7:00 p.m.
Refreshments were served at
the close of the evening.
GIRL SCOUT LEADERS
PLAN TRAINING MEETING
All Girl Scout and Brownie
leaders are reminded of the lead
ers training meeting to be held
November 18 at the home of Mrs.
Charles Wilson. New leaders and
all Brownie leaders meetings will
begin at 10 a.m., with other lead
ers to meet at noon. Mrs. Mar
jorie Bailey of Anchorage will
instruct.
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IFYE YOUTH WRITES
HOME FROM ECUADOR
(Editor's Note: Roger Woods,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Wdods
i of Palmer has been sending in
teresting, informative letters to
his parents pertaining to his visit
at Ecuador as an International
Farm Youth Exchange delegate.
From time to time, parts of these
letters will be printed in The
Frontiersman through the cour
tesy of Mr. and Mrs. Woods. Fol
lowing is the second installment.
Friday morning (noon)
Spent the morning with the j
point 4 people. Took a lot of j
pictures. Guazaquil is a city of
about 300,000. It is for the most
part, very dirty and poor. There
are quite a few American cars, j
They drive at night with only
their parking lights on. A city
ordinance forbids bright head
lights because they cause acci
dents. There are no stop signs or j
lights. It is a constant game be
tween pedestrians and cars, and J
between cars and other cars for
that matter, to see who can make
the intersection first. I haven’t
seen any accidents, surprisingly
enough.
Shops have a completely open
front onto the street. Some of
them are nice — clean — and
some are not. Stamps are not
sold by the post office, but in
private booths on the sidewalk
surrounding the P. O.
Sunday morning.
Friday night we went to dinner
at Keenani (Point 4). We had a
typical Ecuadorian dinner we
were told. It consisted of arroz
con polio, platinos fritos, ensalada
of tomatoes and avacados and
onions. Arrozcon polio is Spanish
rice with chicken, platinos fritos
and the banana-like platinos slic
ed and fried: the tomato and ava
cado salad was good. For des
sert we had narajilla pie. (Pro
nounced Nah-rahn-HEE-ya). It is
undoubtedly the tastiest thing
I’ve ever eaten! Narajilla is an
orange like fruit. The pie was a
cream filling job. Looked like
butterscotqh. Sure was good. Af
ter dinner quite a crowd of grin
gos congregated, and everyone
sang Episcopalian hymns.
Yesterday we went up to the
Camara de Agricultura. and from
there to their farm. They have 1
several nice Brown Swiss bulls,
some goats, swine and one Ken-,
tucky mule. They are crossingi
Brown Swiss with Brahmas on a
very small scale.
In the afternoon we took a trip
to Daule, where the government;
has an experimental farm and 1
school. It was very poor in com
parison to the Farm in the Valley,
but it was quite the thing here.
They teach about 30 students a
well rounded curiculum. Soil an
alysis, chem, English, math, etc. 1
They have rice, corn, bananas,
mangoes, platinos, oranges, lem- !
ons, guavas, limes, pineapple, I
watermellons, onions, to mention !
a few of the things. They are '
very proud of a Farmall M and j
a couple large International Har- ;
vester cats and a few pieces of ;
machinery. ;
Rice is a very important crop ;
here. They plant and transplant
by hand. The peons are of small !
statute generally but they are !
very strong. Each can take about
200 pounds from truck to boat
on his shoulders. At the water
front we see people loading ban
anas, husking coconuts with hat
chets. loading rice, etc. There
are melons and fruits of every
type along the streets; they dry
cocoa beans on large tarps on
the streets. Burros are walking
aimlessly about everywhere, both '
in the country and in the town.
The food here is different of
course. Our first breakfast was
of bread .butter, jam, hot milk,
and orange juice. After the first
time, I let go the hot milk and
ordered a “tortilla natural” in
addition to the rest of it. That’s
a plain omlette—good. This morn
ing I had a “tottilla con caner
ones” which was very good. That
is a shrimp omelette.
Yesterday as we were going to
Duale we stopped for lunch. We
had beer and platinos which were
sliced thin and fried like potato
chips. Platinos are just like ban
anas except green. The beer is
pretty good, considering that we
are afraid to drink water most
places and are thirsty. After visit
ing the farm and school, we strap
ped at Pascuales on the way back
Wasilla News
by Peggy Beits
Mrs. Jack Maley was a patient
at Valley Hospital last week
where she received treatment for
burns.
* * *
U. S. Commissioner May Carter
performed two marriages at her
home in Wasilla on Saturday, No
vember 7. The first ceremony
took place at 1:30 when Laura
Harris and Jack T. Timbes were
married with Mr. and Mrs. Edgar
P. Bailey as witnesses. Mr. and
Mrs. Timbes are both Anchorage
residents. Annabelle Coots and
Glendale G. Taliaferro, both of
Anchorage, were united in mar
riage at 4:30 Saturday afternoon
in the presence of Mr. and Mrs.
James L. Read as witnesses.
* * *
William Otcheck has been re
cuperating from an operation in
Providence Hospital.
* ♦ *
In observance of National Edu
to supper. Pascuales is a restaur
ant in the Village of Pascuales.
It’s quite a spot. It is open in the
front, with tables around an area
for dancing. There is a bar in one
corner and a door to a kitchen in
the back wall. Very high up on
the inside is a balcony where a
band plays into an amplifier.
The racket was deafening. They
don’t know what soft music is
down here. They seem to think
that a volume knob on a radio
must be turned all the way up.
There we had supper of chicken
soup, “sopa con polio,” which
was hot spicy broth with a raw
egg broken into it; it’s really
quite good. We also had a “tam
al en banana” which is a modi
fied tamale of ground corn and
raisins and onions, etc. baked in 1
a banana leaf.
The temperatures are cool here
—they fluctuate very little from
about 73° this time of year.
The exchange rate of the dol-;
lar for the sucre is about 1 for |
17.45. The Ecuadorians are giv
ing us 100 sucre per week for;
aur personal expenses. They pay
Eood and lodging also while we
are in own and we get that at
the haciendas also. I bought a.
nice pair of boots for about $8.00 j
American; 130 sucre. Saw a!
?uana (lizzard) about 41/s feet
long yesterday. Our hosts said
they are going to take us to;
Playas this evening. It’s about j
aotel. Will spend a day there be
30 miles. On the ocean—nice
"ore we go to the haciendas.
Don’t get anxious if you don’t
jet a letter for a few days. Some
times they run us until we’re
lead and sometimes it may be
lard to get a letter out.
The people have no respect for
:ime means nothing. They are
/ery inefficient by our standards,
vith no ability to plan ahead or
;o organize. Get on well here
hough. I think the people here
let a pinched expression on their
aces from trying to figure ouj
vhat th^ other is saying.
Rog
Additional news from Woods
will be printed in The Frontiers- !
nan as space permits.
cation Week, the Wasilla School
will have open house in the class
rooms Friday night in addition to
the regular P-TA meeting. Regu
lar classwork and some art work
will be exhibited, Mrs. Clarence
Borden, chairman of the commit
tee for the evening, said yester- j
day. After the business meeting
a film will be shown and refresh
ments will be served. Miss Louise
Potter is assisting Mrs. Borden j
with posters and other arrange
ments.
* * *
Rehearsals for the V. F. W. and
Auxiliary play, “The Woman
Next Door’ will be presented
sometime this Fall, are reported j
coming along fine. The play is i
under the direction of Mrs. Paul
LaPort. Members of the cast in
clude: Charlotte Alderman, Clif
ford Alderman, May and Pat
Carter. Peggy Maley, Mike and
Patsy Carson, Jean Dryden, June
Nunley and Richard Cottle. Mrs.
Roy Morrison is in charge of
make-up.
* * *
Wasilla Homemakers met with j
the Palmasilla Homemakers-Club ]
at the home of Mrs. Martin Ol
son, Monday evening. They heard
reports from Mrs. McClendon and
Mrs. Lois Winegarner on their
trip to Fairbanks to attend the
Short Course offered for home
makers at the University of Al
aska.
New leader of the Wasilla Girl
Scouts s Mr. Jack Maley, who
will be assisted by Mrs. Teddy
Mommsen. The girls will contin
ue to hold their weekly meetings
at the Wasilla Roadhouse. Mrs.
Maley is replacing Mrs. Bill Ko
tila, Scout leader for the past
year.
* * *
Mrs. John Polis is new Brownie
leader with Mrs. Jean Dryden as
her assistant. The Brownies will
meet at the Polis home every
Wednesday from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Mrs. Paul LaPort was formerly
Brownie leader.
* * *
Vaughn Wilson visited in Fair
banks over the week-end. He was
accompanied by his mother, Mrs.
Wilma Wilson and Marilyn Drag
seth.
* * *
Visitors from Knik during the
week were Mr. and Mrs. Mel
Bjorn and son, Chrs.
MRS. ANNA S. OHNSTAD
Mrs. Anna Staxrud Ohnstad,
66, longtime Valley resident, died ;
in her home on Star Route, No- (
vember 10 following a lengthy J
illness. !
She is survived by her hus-!!
band, Henrik Ohnstad, one son, !
Thorvald Ohnstad of Anchorage j I
and a daughter, Mrs. Dick Lynch I
also of Anchorage and one sister, j
Mrs. Gudrun Kjorlong of Port-!
land, Oregon.
Funeral services will be held
Sunday afternoon, November 15 j
at 2:00 p.m. in St. John’s Luther-!
an Church. Rev. Edward Imme
will officiate at the service.
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PALMER BASKETBALL
PLAYERS TO MEET
FT. RICHARDSON FIVE
Palmer High School basketball
players will get their first actual
work out tomorrow night when
they meet a team of Fort Rich
ardson high school players on
the Palmer court.
Coach Rooert Crites said this
week that it will really be a game
to see what the boys can do.
With the exception of a few
players, the team this year is
made up of first year players.
Only Don Ingalls, Ben Ross and
Ray Winegarner are lettermen
and will be on the first string
Friday night along with Fred
Wilkes of Wasilla and Don John
son.
There is a marked lack of
height on this year’s team. Jerry
Hemmer, who looked promising
for this season, leaves soon for
the States as did two other play
ers earlier this month.
During the Thanksgiving vaca
tion the teacher and Coach Crites
will fly to Kodiak where they
will play on November 27 and 28
FRIDAY — SATURDAY
NOVEMBER 13 — 14
Shows: 7:15 and 9:00 p.m.
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"UNDAY — MONDAY
NOVEMBER 15 — 16
Show 7:15 and 9 P.M.
Sun. Mat. 2:00 p.m..
against the Kodiak City team
I who this year joined the Class
! A league. The railbelt series
| opens on December 9 when An
I chorage and Palmer meet on the
; Anchorage court. Anchorage is
| reported to have a very strong
| team this year.
MINERS TAKE EXAMS
The Territorial coal miners ex
amining board met at Anchor
age for the first time last month
and gave exam inations to 14
! coal miners who wished to qual
I ify for first or second class
“papers.” A coal miner must
prossess these if he wishes to
| be a boss or foreman when the
| position is .available. Nine of the
< miners passed the examination
which will be repeated for those
interested next year.
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