: Reporters—
Notebook.
Hartley Brothers Motor Co. was
the recent successful bidder, at a
figure of $3,522.85, for supplying
the Anchorage school district with
a new one and one half ton truck.
L. F. Wylie, Bureau of Re
clamation engineer, was guest
speaker at the Anchorage
Chamber of Commerce meet
ing Monday of this week.
Pvt. A. Dale Roetman, husband
of the former Beverly Larsh, both
former Palmerites, recently gra
duated firt in his class at the
Army Engineer school at Fort
Belvoir, Virginia. Roetman. was
employed by Palmer Cold Storage
before moving to Mt. View. •
Betty Jo Wilson, Ruth Henry
and Sandra Driggars were visi
tors in The Frontiersman one
afternoon this week. Their in
terest was in typesetting, one
of the requirements for a Girl
Scout proficiency badge. :
Mrs. Fred Sruening of Maple
wood. New Jersey arrived in the
Valley this week for a two-month
vacation with her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Pinkham of Faith Hill Home.
This is Mrs. Struening’s second
visit to Palmer, having made a
visit with her husband last sum
mer.
Don Ingalls flew idt Cordova
this past week-end where he
conducted a meeting of the
Legion of Moose. He reported
seeing ewans, ducks, geese and
robins while enroute, indicating
Spring has arrived around Cor
dova.
Richard Jones, manager of the
Matanuska Valley Bank will go
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to Sitka next week where he
will attend the Banker’s Con
vention to be held in that city.
Mrs. Jones will accompany her
husband.
There will be square dancing
in the basement of St.. Micahel's
Church Monday evening. April
25. The public is invited to at-.,
tend.
Roscoe Taylor, agronomist at
the Alaska Experiment Station
has returned to Palmer following
a week at Fairbanks where he
started planting-plans for the
coming year at the Experiment
Station at College. Arvo Kalio,
horticulturist at the Fairbanks
station journies to Palmer with
Taylor, planning to return to the
northern city this week..
James W. Wilson was of
fically sworn in as Territorial
Commissioner of Agriculture
this week. Wilson, who makes
his home in Anchorage, was for
mer manager of the Matanuska
Valley Farmers Cooperating As
;ociaiion. The office will be mov
ed from Fairbanks to Palmer, the
center of the agricultural lands.
Chet Leibing is the owner of
two Brown Swiss cattle, a bull
and a heifer. This is the second
Valley farm to own this strain,
Louis Pinkham has a heifer sent
to him by his parents from
Maine.
Cecil Bates returned to his
home Monday from the Valley
Hospital. He was injured while
at work on the Eklutna Project.
Minstrel Show—
(Continued from page 1
Jane Slaughter, make-up; Robert
Johns, curtain; John Weisenber
ger, lights; James Snead, door
men and ushers and H. J. Hodg
son. seating' and cleanup.
On stage everybody, curtain
going up.
Council Votes—
Continued from page 1
be put in ,the area posted and
future violators be prosecuted.
The road has been cleared many
times, only to have rubbish dump
ed in the middle of the road a
few hours later, he added.
Phone Wires Discussed
In referring to the present
status of city telephone wires on
MEA poles, Councilman Kincaid
asked MEA manager Cy Brewer
whether or not MEA was in favor
of the city using MEA poles un
der present conditions. Brewer
told the council that they are not
and never have been in favor of
this use. When asked if the ad
dition or cross arms and cables
would be satisfactory, Brewer
said he believed anything that
would be up to code would be
satisfactory and recommended
the city consider the u«e of open
wire and insulators. This would j
MRT MEMBERSHIP
BUILDING UP
Committee members of the
ivfatanuska Rural Telephone as
sociation have been busy this
past week getting signed applica
tions from new members. In
many cases, workers reported
poor road conditions have pre
vented many house calls but said
applications have been coming in
regularly.
Anyone interested in obtaining
membership is invited to contact
be less expensive than cable, he
pointed out ,and would take long
distance spans. In this way, a full
effect would be felt by the switch
board. If the city could get the
field wires in good shape, an im
mediate effect would show on
the board, he said. Members of
the telephone committee will pr
sent recommendations at the next
meeting.
1
Lew Hanks, committee chairman,
the MEA office, or Larry Mooers.
Application blanks are available
at the MEA office and from com
mittee members. .
Announcement was made this
week that it is the opinion of the
committee that there will be no
toll call charges for perons in
outlying areas.
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