Tri-School Meet
Is Postponed
To May 14
At the request of W. W. Lah
num, high school principal in
Anchorage, the Railbelt track
and field day, to be held in Pal
mer, has been postponed from
May 7 to May 14, Walter Free
man announced this week. The
meet is to be followed by after
noon softball games and an eve
ning fight card in the gym, Mr.
Freeman said.
Present plans, which still are
tentative, call for the track
meet to get under way at 10:30
a. m. on the fourteenth. New
track equipment, including jave
lins, discus, pole vaulting and
high jump equipment, have been
borrowed from Fort Richardson
for the occasion.
Following the track and field
events, there will be a softball
tournament among competing
schools. Wasilla and Anchorage
will participate, and it is possible
that Seward also will send a
squad.
In the evening a fight card
that features high school stu
dents from Wasilla, Palmer and
Anchorage, will get under way
in the gym at 8 p. m.
Native Property to Be Taxed
Property held by natives, even
as that held by all other Alas
kans, will be assessable under
the new property tax law, it was
decided last week at the An
chorage meeting of the newly
created board of assessors. The
assessors were not sure whether
their ruling was legal, but they
intend to proceed on that basis
until a case is brought into court
as a test.
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Moose Round Out
Week's Activities
At Bingo Party
Last week was Loyal Order of
Moose week in Palmer, if no
where else in Moose-dom. The
week began with last Saturday’s
banqdet at the Moose Hut,
where 80 guests were served. The
event was “most successful” ac
cording to secretary Don Ingalls,
who gave all credit to the plan
ning committee. That committee
was made up of Mr. and Mrs.
Claude Carroll, Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Moore and Mr. and Mrs.
Sherman Crosby.
Next event on the Moose pro
gram was the showing of the
film on Mooseheart, the child
city, at Palmer School on Mon
day afternoon. The picture, in
company with another on Moose
haven, was shown at the Valley
Theatre on Tuesday evening.
The week’s Moose activities
culminate in a bingo party, to
be held at the Moose Hut tonight
at 8 o’clock. Proceeds go to the
building fund, Mr. Ingalls said.
Open House Planned
For Valley Hospital
Hospital Day on Thursday,
May 12, will be celebrated at the
Valley Hospital with an open
house between the hours of 2
and 4 p. m., it was announced
this week by Mrs. Harry Rice.
On that day all members of the
Association, as well as other in
terested Valley residents, are in
vited to visit their hospital.
It is hoped that the new X-ray
equipment will be installed at
that time, and that all interior
remodelling will be completed.
Mrs. Rice and the hospital
management urge that everyone
take this opportunity, on Hos
pital Day, to inspect the recent
improvements and renovations
made at the Valley Hospital.
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TOSrS SERVICE
TO VISIT THIS SUMMER
Dr. Ralph Hawkins, assistant
director of experiment stations
at the University Agricultural
College of Tucson, Ariz., a for
mer classmate of Don Irwin’s,
will visit Alaska this summer,
Mr. Irwin learned this week. Dr.
and Mrs. Hawkins plan to drive
north for a visit with the Ir
wins.
Health Course Abandoned
It has been decided to be too
late in the year to begin instruc
tion in a proposed health educa
tion course for the Valley, Miss
Elizabeth Moxley, health educa
tion consultant, announced this
week. The course had been
planned for the benefit of Pal
mer school teachers and other
interested adults, and was to be
conducted under the Extension
Service of the University of Alas
ka. It is not now known whether
the course will be presented here
next year.
Gustofsen Named
Fairbanks Conservationist
John Gustafson, a Fairbanks
farmer, has been named soil
conservationist for the Fairbanks
district, it was announced this
week by Charles Wilson, terri
torial conservationist. Mr. Wilson
goes to Fairbanks this week for
a beief period, in order to ini
tiate Mr. Gustafson in his new
duties.
The new district conservation
ist, who has lived at Fairbanks
for some time, is a graduate of
the University of Nevada. He has
had considerable experience in
range work in Nevada, and more
recently has been employed by
the Fairbanks experiment sta
tion.
Larsons Have Son
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Larson
of Palmer became the parents of
a baby boy, born at the Valley
Hospital on April 30.
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