School Ends Year
With Meet, Picnic
The track and field day of
Palmer grade school pupils, ori
ginally scheduled for last Mon
day, was postponed until yester
day morning. Students gathered
at the track to compete for 225
prizes in the morning, and then
scattered to classrooms at 11:30,
to' set out on the annual school
picnic.
After picnicking throughout
the day, all pupils checked in at
their classrooms for the last time
this term, to pick up their report
Eighth grade pupils were com
pelled to abandon plans for a
Tuesday graduation, when a last
minute ruling from the office of
the commissioner of education
required that eighth grade ex
aminations be graded in Juneau.
Grade students will receive their
diplomas by mail later in the
summer.
High school seniors ended their
student days in Palmer at com
mencement exercises held in the
gymnasium last night. They
gathered for a final class re
union at a banquet served in the
Rec Hall following graduation
exercises.
Quarters formerly occupied by
the Palmer Library were decor
3 Convicted, 2 Acquitted
In Commissioner's Court
Wayne Keeling, charged with
Larceny in the theft of a wheel
and tire, pleaded guilty in a
commissioner’s court trial last
week and was fined $25. Lester
Armogast and Carl Richards,
also accused in the complaint,
were acquitted because of insuf
ficient evidence.
Armogast. tried later on a
charge of speeding, was found
guilty and fined $25 by Commis
sioner Dorothy Saxton. James
Cornett also was charged with
speeding in a Monday trial, and
was fined $20.
ated in the class colors of red
and silver, for the senior dinner.
Silver menu place cards were
decorated with Alaskan violets,
class flower.
Wasilla School held combined
high school and grade com
mencement exercises at 1:30
yesterday afternoon, with Fath
er James Snead of Palmer the
speaker for the occasion. Flo
Alice Dinkel was Wasilla’s only
high school graduate. There
were 12 grade students grad
uated into high school.
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Clayton Esslinger, accountant
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ers Co-operating Association,
last v^eek was appointed to the
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by acting governor Lew Wil
liams. The board is expected to
hold its first meeting in Juneau
some time next month.
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Mr. and Mrs. Arlo Martin of
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son on May 3. The baby, first . , ~
for the couple, was born at the
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