Girls To Romp
On Maple Court
This Winter Too
Palmer girls and women are
also planning to participate in
the winter program of athletics
here. Last Friday evening a
group of nine girls, all former
basketball players of Palmer
high school, met to organize a
town team.
The group will be sponsored by
Bert’s Drug Store. Neal Wright,
store owner, has agreed to pur
chase suits for the team.
Practice sessions on the gym
floor two nights each week are
planned, but no definite schedule
has yet been established.
Neither is it known what op
posing teams will meet the Palm
er women’s team this winter. It
is hoped that engagements can be
booked with the local high
school, Wasilla and Anchorage
and Fort Richardson teams
Rfrs. Ethel Lyons, third grade
instructor at the Palmer school,
has been chosen coach of the
group. Mrs. Lyons said yester
day that she hoped to have play
ing dates for the first games of
the season ready very soon.
Although nine prospective
players were present at the or
ganizational meeting at the Co
op fountain last week, the team
will welcome additional squad
members, Mrs. Lyons said. Oiher
women interested in the game
should contact Mrs. Lyons for
full details of practice dates.
Those dates also will be an
nounced in the Valley Frontiers
man as soon as they are fixed.
Flies Outside
Matt Perkins of Palmer flew
Outside this week on a quick
business trip Mr. Perkins ex
pects to be gone for only a short
time. He went to Pacific coast
points.'
Rains Douse
Moose Plans
Decause it rained in Palmei
last week, there will be no auxil
iary" of the Palmer chapter of the
Loyal Order of Moose organized
just yet.
That recent downpour has
been blamed for a variety of ills,
but it seems the ladles who had
hoped to make up the charter
group of the Moose auxiliary
have a bit more to complain of
than most.
Members of the Moose lodge
have been promising the women
of their family that they could
have a lodge, too. In fact, they’d
gone, on record for a date no
later than this fall.
In order to make a place for
the ladies’ meeting hall, mem
bers of the Moose got busy and
dug a basement. The plan was
to move the present Quonset hut.
which does duty as Moose hall,
over the basement. The men were
then to move downstairs while
the ladies took charge of the
present hall.
But the rains have changed
thoge plans now. With the base
ment still un-housed when the
recent moist spell began, it soon
began to resemble a well in ap
pearance. The advent of still
more water weakened the moral
fiber of the whole structure, and
one side wall finally tumbled
down.
Remedial steps on the part of
members of the Moose lodge are
still pending
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Health Team Finds—
EYE CASES HELPED
WITH VITAMIN A
New Employe
Begins Work Here
Newest addition to the staff
of the Alaska Rural Rehabilita
tion Corp., and newest resident
in Palmer this week is Mrs.
Genevieve Hilderman. Mrs. Hil
derman arrived in the Valley
only last Friday, and was al
ready at work in the ARRC of
fice at 9 o’clock Saturday morn
ing.
Mrs. Hilderman will be sten
ographer-bookkeeper for the
ARRC. She comes to the terri
tory from Des Moines, Wash., a
small town outside of Seattle.
Her son Tony, who will enter
the fourth grade in Palmer, ac
companied her north.
The two made their initial trip
to Alaska by steamer, and Mrs.
Hilderman says there can be no
grander introduction to Alaska
when the weather is right. It
even stopped raining in Ketchi
kan several hours before the Al
eutian docked there she report
ed
A new manager to fill the po
sition vacated recently by Don
Irwin and later by Mrs. Kay
Hamby has not yet been appoint
ed. Both Mr: Irwin and Mrs.
Hamby will' be connected with
the headquarters office of ex
perimental station work in Alas
ka. Mr. Irwin is to be director
of experiment stations.
Mrs. Hamby said Saturday
that until a new manager is in
residence in Palmer, she will re
main in the ARRC office. She
expects the announcement of
the new appointment to be made
shortly however.
Coffee Insures Everything—
Remember —Adv.
Buy The Frontiersman
Travelling with a portable
laboratory cased in boxes, three
members of a health team stud
ying the relation of nutrition
and eye diseases have just com-,
pleted a three-months survey.
Nearly 1,000 cases were studied
in the towns of Unalakleet,
White Mountain, Kotzebue,
Point Hope, Kivalina and Sela
wik.
Members of the health unit
making the survey were Miss
Christine Heller, nutritionist for
the Territorial Department of
Health, Dr. Carroll Shukers, nu
tritionist of the University of
Arkansas, and Dr. John R. Tot
ter, biochemist of the University
of Arkansas.
Conclusive announcements are
not yet ready, but Miss Heller
has stated that cases of eye ul
cerations treated with Vitamin
A showed definite improvement.
The group travelled from
town to town in the Bering Sea
area, setting up their lab in
schools of the Alaska Native
Service. Teachers and nurses
helped with the work by re
porting eye cases.
Some foods were tested for
vitamin A content, and the liv
ers of seal, whale and tom cod
were found to be excellent
sources. The yolk of the seagull
egg was also found to be rich
in vitamin A.
Other vitamin-sources in the
Bering Sea area were discov
ered in salmonberries, rose hips,
sour dock, firebush and willow
greens.
Go Oulside
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carson,
formerly of the Shamrock
Bakery, left for the Outside
recently.
Coffee Insures Everylhing—
Remember —Adv.
Patrolman
Will Check
Local Cars
The vehicles of Palmer drivers
will be checked this week for
head and tail-light and brake de
ficiencies, highway patrolman
Wesley Gilman warned yester
day.
Mr. Gilman said the rapid ap
proach of winter, with its at
tendant driving hazards of fog
and heavy rains and snows, mgke
regulation equipment absolutely
necessary. And by regulation
equipment he means one tail
light and two headlights In good
condition for each vehicle.
A warning to non-resident mo
torists was also issued. Outside
license plates are given a 90-day
visiting period of use in the terri
tory. If a visitor stays longer
than that time, he must purchase
Alaska plates. It was pointed out
that should the visitor accept em
ployment before the 90-d a y
period is up, he forfeits the right
to use the state-side plates.
Mr. Gilman, one of two high
way patrol officers assigned to
the Anchorage area, will spend
this week in Palmer checking
vehicle equipment.
He said that no Palmer patrol
man had been appointed to re
place the officer who recently
Hospital
Ins and Outs
Members of the staff of the
Matanuska Valley Hospital took
a well-earned rest this weekend,
when all patients were dismissed
from the hospital.
Among those who returned to
their homes this week were:
Mrs. Eugene Marsh, Palmer,
Mrs. S. D. Flackenstein, Wasilla,
Miss Patricia Worden. Anchor
age, and Mrs. Glen BeLong and
son of Palmer.
Road !s Okay
Two rough sections of road in
the Palmer area were reported
soft but passable today. The re
cent Moose Creek overflow,
which washed out fill near the
bridge, has been almost com
pletely resurfaced by the Alas
ka Road Commission.
The area below Chugiak is
improved, but still requires
carefully driving over the 150
foot construction area.
transferred to Ketchikan. He
does not anticipate that replace
ments before spring.
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