Matmi a ska 'Pallet/ r^ioneet
C_''61°I30/N. Latitude ' ’ *' 14SP 15' W. Longitude
14SP 15/ W> Longitude
Vol. I
Palmer, Alaska,_October 17, 1955
No, 9
CAM? PERKINS RAPIDLY
BECOMING A GHOST CITY
All summer there has stood on the
wide flat below town a city of tents
arranged with military precision in
orderly rows.
Monday morning much of the white
canvas came down and only gaunt lum
ber frames remained of the homes in
which two hundred transient workers
had lived. By evening, they too had
disappeared and almost half of Camp
Perkins was a thing of the past.
The camp functioned as a complete
unit since its establishment. It was
a city by itself, and among its in
habitants one could find men from
* every walk of life; men who were ex
perts in their various lines, but be
cause no work was to be had in the
States had drifted into California
and Washington emergency relief
camps, and had volunteered for ser
vice up here when the call was put
out for men.
Some were lucky and fell into
familiar jobs -- barbering, shoe
making, sign painting, or perhaps
auto and tractor repair work. Oth
ers took what came along. A type
writer and accounting machine re
pair expert swamped on a truck, A
finished musician piled lumber, and
a teacher from a mid-western college
dug ditches.
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It has been a lull summer ior all
of them, and though some got way out
of step -- sold their clothes for
money with which to buy whiskey and
raised hell in general -- many were
of a different stamp and are going
back with what they have earned in
tact. It isn't much, to be sure, but
enough with which to buy a few self
respecting months of independence
away from a bread line.
That is what some of them will do,
and they are the ones we would like
to see come back on the job -- if
there are to be transient workers
here next spring, and Came Perkins
is to be born again.
That many prefer Alaska to what
they left in the States is evidenced
by the fact that some two hundred
volunteered for the thirty odd jobs
which would last out the winter.
Another contingent leaves by the
next boat and the last will be out
before the first of the month...and
Camp Perkins will be dead. Even the
bears who have fed nightly at the
garbage dump are now holing up.
ITALI0-ETHIOPIAN PEACE
IS NO'; A FORLORN HOPE
From London as well as from
Rome, come reports indicating
that not even a European war can
now stop Italy from at least at
tempting to carry out its cam
paign against Ethiopia.
The Italian army continues its
air bombing of enemy military
centers and from all indications
is preparing to take Addis Ababa,
American interest in the dis
tant struggle has been sharpened
by a Paris report that France and
Great Britain are asking Washing
ton if the United States will
restrict imports from Italy if
■ sanctions against Mussolini are
applied by the League of Nations.
HUNT RECEIVES IMPORTANT
RULING FROM WESTBROOK
Lieut. Col. LeRoy P. Hunt is
in receipt of a telegram from
Col. Westbrook which is of in
terest to all colonists. The
message reads:
ANY ADDITIONAL COLONISTS DE
SIRING RETURN SHOULD UNDERSTAND
THAT UNDER RULES OF WPA THEY ARE
NOT ELIGIBLE FOR EMPLOYMENT
UNDER WORKS PROGRAM AND THAT FED
ERAL RELIEF THEIR STATUS WILL BE
DISCONTINUED IN NOVEMBER.
FIFTY OJJAKSS JIGGLE MONTANA
All you have to do to mix a
drink in Montana is to nut the
ingredients in a shaker and stand
still. Tot a quake do the work,
Helena is the focal ooint for
the tremors and over fifty of
thorn have shaken the capital city
in the oast four days. Consider
able oroperty damage has been the
result and many families have
moved away until the disturbances
e.re over.
If a olan suggested to Wash
ington by Alfred Lomen of Nome
is acted upon, CCC workers will
next year prospect for Alaskan
gold under federal grubstakes.