THE FRONTIERSMAN
Entered as second class matter on Oct 21. 1947. at the post office
al Palmer. Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 1*79
T. 0 SCHMIDTKE MILDRED JOHNSON
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I AM A SICK AMERICAN
(EDITOR'S NOTE; The following is a reprint from a
North Dakota newspaper, received by a local resident.
It originally started as a letter from a resident of San
Francisco to Paul Terry. Director of Education for the
Copeley chain of newspapers.)
I am one of the Americans who heard Mr. Khrushchev
tell our nation that my great-grandchildren will grow up
in a Communist world. For some time now, this has bother
ed me. 1 am not a brave man—not even a big one. I suppose
I would have to admit that I am, among my own neighbors
and in my own culture, the typical, average, well-educated,
genteel suburbanite, to whom family, the mortgage, and
security have been the all-important items.
I am now 50, and soon my wife and I will see the first
of our three children married. I paint my own house, repair
my own car, grub my own devil grass, and nurse a modest
savings account at the Bank of America. I am a law-abiding
man on the quiet side, and dissension makes me terribly
nervous. Frankly, I am the kind who simply doesn’t have
it in him to fight anyone ever.
My wife had me cleaning out an old trunk in the stor
age room the other day, and I ran across the huge old fam
ily Bible that I hadn’t thought about for years. My great
grandmother had kept a journal of the trip across the great
Plains with a wagon and oven when she and great-grandpa
were youngsters coming out to settle in California in the
great migration. Great-grandma wrote about it as the wild,
new land, rich and abundant in mythical proportions.
On the trail she wrote of sickness and hunger, and heat
and cold, and dust and thirst, and the deaths and births like
beads strung together on a thread of hope—hope of free
dom and a land of plenty for their children yet unborn. And
when she viewed the new land, she wrote in simple word
pictures of the cities and farms and schools, and happiness
that would some day bloom in the greatness of the vast new
land. She wrote of her tomorrow and my today.
The ink was badly faded, but the message was clear.
As I read, I began to think about America and being an
American and what it all stands for; and I thought about
our enemies and what they intend to do to America, to
those rich lands and farms, to the cities and the people, to
its freedom and its hope.
And, suddenly, I realized that I am a sick American. I
mean really sick. I am sick of panacea and of backing up. I
■am sick of reaction where there should be initiative. I am
sick of bureaucrats who tell me that my enemy is not really
my enemy and that I should live together with murderers
and tyrants. I am sick of government that hasn’t the guts
to clean traitors out of its own offices. And I'm sick of be
ing a nice, patient guy about it. I am sick of placidly accept
ing excuses instead of successes; of being a silent gentle
man about it for fear of controversy. I am sick of my coun- !
try being ridiculed all over the world. I am sick of pink
fingered diplomats and lily-livered politicians who place
personal career above the fate of the Flag.
I am sick of 40 years of relentless, creeping, cancerous,
Communistic godlessness that never once has wavered
from its avowed purpose of conquering that Flag and seeing
it trampled in the mud under Russian boots. I am sick of
my genteel desire to stand pat and pray while the enemy
advances.
I am sick of educators who teach tolerance of subver
sion and of clergymen who would have me quail at the
specter of battle and turn my cheek in fear of what our
enemies might do.
In all honesty, the thing of which I am most sick is the
man who let these things come to me: myself.
And by the living God who made me, Sir, I am a sick
American who intends to get well.
FED-UP CITIZEN
Y’ALL GOME and
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IN THE
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Thursday, Sept. 11, 1952
Palmer's city council acted (
last night to insure early com
pletion of the city's new water i
system and approval by Alaska
Public Works of a request for
a loan to modernize the sewer |
system.
Nearly 200 people filled
the United Protestant Church
to capacity Sunday night to
attend the special "Recogni
tion Service" honoring the
Valley's teachers and nurses.
* * *
Back from a trip Outside are
Neal and Marie Wright, and
daughter Bridgie.
• * *
High Ridge, out-of-this world
home of Fred and Sara Mach
etanz. was the scene of a love
ly tea given Saturday afternoon
to honor Mrs. Machetanz’ moth
er, Mrs. Horace Burleson of
Johnson City.
* * *
As of this week it looks
the gravel work on city
streets will have to wait un
til next year. All summer the
city has ben waiting for the
promised loan of a gravel
loader. The loader has been
broken down and prospects
for its prompt repair appear
ed dim to councilmen dis
cussing the situation at the
City Council meeting last
week.
• ♦ *
Leaving Monday for an ex
tended trip Outside are Maud
Hosier and her mother, Mrs.
Edith Benson. Arriving in Seat
STEPOVICH APPOINTS
CAMPAIGN ASSISTANTS
Mike Stepovich, Republican
candidate for governor, has an
nounced the appointment of
Senator Brad Phillips of An
chorage as his state campaign
chairman, and Anchorage Busi
nessman Jack Clawson as his
state finance chairman.
Phillips is in the tourist busi
ness, and Clawson is part-own
er of the Mt. McKinley apart
ments and secretary-treasurer
of the Swalling Construction
Co.
Stepovich visited the Alaska
State Fair on Sept. 2 and 3.
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: Clifford McConnell
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tie by plane, they will pick up
a new car and ramble across
country to New York. Maud
plans on being back before the
Christmas rush.
* • *
Property of the Matanuska
Valley Telephone Co., Inc.
will be offered at public auc
tion Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 2 p.m.
by the U. S. Department of In
i ternal Revenue.
*
Thirty-two will come by
air and 16 by water, Co-Op
Manager Fred Zieke reported
early this week on the travel
orders for 49 Holsleins that
are migrating to the Matan
uska Valley from farms all
over the Pacific Northwest.
The Palmer Independent
School District board, meeting
in special session last night to
consider awarding the contract
for construction of the new ele
mentary school in North Pal
mer, decided to confer at an
early date with low bidders
Stock and Grove of Anchorage
before making the award.
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25 MOOSE BAGGED
IN CORDOVA AREA
The moose hunting season
was successfully concluded in
the Cordova area late the
afternoon of Sept. 3 when the
25th moose of the season was
bagged by a lucky hunter, ac
cording to Loren Croxton, re
gional game supervisor.
Isolated by rivers and glac
iers the Cordova plains area
was not populated by moose
until 1949 when the U. S. Fish
and Wildlife Service began the
placement of the animals. Dur
ing the ensuing 10 years, a to
tal of 20 moose were released in
this area, including six males
and 14 females.
The population has steadily
increased until today it is of a
huntable size. Although a total
count of the animals has never
been made, estimates of ap
proximately 175 moose are in
dicated, Croxton said.
A moose hunt was not held in
1961, but in 1960, 25 moose were
taken. All were males, a stipu
lation also required of 1962
hunt participants.
Money may still talk, but
most of us can’t get within
shouting distance of it today.
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Hi-School Hi-Lites
By Robert Corbin
Members of the four high
school classes met Friday, Sept.
7, to elect officers for the school
year 1962-63.
Bob Bissett was elected sen
ior class president; Gene Rum
ple, vice-president; Teddy Buz
by, secretary; and Pete Galla
gher, treasurer.
President of the junior class
will be Paul Steiger, with Stan
ley Smith serving as vice-presi
dent, Holly Schroeder as sec
retary, and Marsha Miller, trea
surer.
Steve Cook was chosen soph
omore class president; Liz
Schreiber, vice-president; Nan
ette Schupp, secretary; Marsha
Spickerman, treasurer; and
Tacey Nelson, sergeant-at-arms.
Ralph Hulbert was elected
president of the freshman class,
and Bill Demming was chosen
ST. JOHN
LUTHERAN
CHURCH
Rev. R. H. Fritz, pastor
Palmer, Alaska
f'I-5-2E45
Divine Services 11 KX> A. M.
Sunday School 9:45 A.M.
vice-president. Jackie Mclntire
will act as secretary: John Ste
phan, treasurer; and Dean Tay
lor and Gary LaRose, serg
ants-at-arms.
* * *
Freshman initiation week
began this week with the fresh
men being subject to wishes
of the seniors.
* » *
A dance will be held Friday
in the high school cafeteria,
from 8 to 12 p.m. to welcome
all freshmen to P.H.S. All high
school students are urged to at
tend this first dance of the
season.
EXPERIENCE
Experience proves that one
corner of an eternal triangle
eventually gets knocked off.
TWJVTVWW n n o .1 n .. .. ..
i Wasilla §
I Assembly of God :
* *
* Rev Paul E. Riley, *
* Pastor *
J:Sun. School - 10 a.m.^
| Morn. Church Serv. 11 a.m.*
*Even. Serv,_7:30 p.m.|
* Prayer and Bible *
^ Study, Wednesday 7:30 p.m.*
* Phone FR-6-3161 *
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Sunday School—10 a.m.
Sunday Worship—11 a.m.
Sunday Evangelistic
Service — 8 p.m.
OF GOD
Old Time
Preaching
Pastor
Norman Jones
Wed. Prayer. Praise &
Bible Study — 8 p.m.
Sunday 8 — 8:30 a.m.
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"MARCH OF FAITH"
LIFE'S LABORATORY
Have you ever thought of your life as a laboratory?
There are no test tubes and no scientific textbooks to aid
us in our study, but we’ve been given other aids more im
portant still. We call them God’s formulas for living.
ARE WE AFRAID? Then we may test the Christ-given
formula, “Be not afraid, only believe.”
ARE WE LONELY? Then we reach for the promise
of the Lord, “And lo, I am with you alway . . .”
DO WE DOUBT THAT GOD CARES? Then we can
analyze for ourselves the message of the Christ, “God so
loved the world that He gave His Son ...”
These are only a few of the formulas for our lives.
To test them we must first know them. The v_,uurch is
ready to teach. We shall need direction also. The Church
offers us the help of consecrated pastors and leaders.
Let’s go to Church and learn the transforming power
of God’s formulas in the laboratories of our lives.
Sunday
Proverba
16:1-9
Monday
Mark
6:35-43
Tuesday
John
14:16-21
Wednesday
John
14:22-28
Thursday
Matthew
28:16-20
Friday
1 John
3:1-7
Saturday
I Timothy
4:6-10
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ALL FOR THE CHURCH
The Church U the greatest factor
oa earth for the building of char
acter and good citizenship. It is a
storehouse of spiritual values. With
out a strong Church, neither de
mocracy nor civilization can sur
vive. There are four sound reasons
why every person should attend
services regularly and support the
Church. They are: (I) For his
own sake. (2) For his children's
sake. (3) For the sake of his com
munity and nation. (4) For the
sake of the Church itself, which
needs his moral and material sup
port. Plan to go to church regu
larly and read your Bible daily.
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