Wasilla
News Notes
By Jane Browne
Dennis Reed, youngest son of
Mr. and Mrs. R. Reed of Willi
waw Lodge is recuperating at
home following surgery at Val
ley Presbyterian Hospital.
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Leo Nunley has moved back
to the Wasilla area from Clear.
He is now employed at Elmen
dorf.
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Clara's Cafe opened unoffici
ally last Saturday evening, fol
lowing the junior-senior prom,
by popular request. The crowd
moved in on Clara's for a pizza
party. While the remodeling
isn’t quite finished, Clara's is
open for business.
Oscar Tryck. long-time resi
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back for the summer months.
Mr. Tryck has spent the past
three winters with his family
in Anchorage.
Another sure sign of Spring
is the arrival of Carl Johnson
of Anchorage, retired Alaska
Road Commission forman. Carl
spends his summers in the
Wasilla area, taking up resi
dence at Williwaw Lodge.
Susitna Post 9365 to V.F.W.
held their regular meeting last
Monday evening at the home of
A1 Hjellen. Plans were formu
lated for the annual Memorial j
Day parade and services. The
public, as well as other organ
izations, is invited to partici
pate. Following the meeting re
freshments were served by
Auxiliary members.
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Helen Carter, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Carter, is
valedictorian, and Patricia
Berry, daughter of Mrs. O. T.
Hobson will serve as salutator
ian.
Spraying Project
Being Planned
In Lake Areas
Members of the newly organ
ized Wasilla Businessmens' As
sociation last Monday evening
formulated plans to help elim
inate some of the mosquito and
bug menace in the Wasilla
area this season.
Spraying will be done in an
area starting at the west end
of Lake Lucille and continuing
to the east end of Wasilla lake.
Residents of Wasilla proper
, and on each side of the lakes
| will benefit.
A series of three flights is
planned, when insecticide will
be sprayed. The charge per
family will be $10, it-was an
nounced. Contributions, by
check or money order, will be
accepted by any of the mem
bers of the association. A
house-to-house canvass is
planned. Wes Hart of Hallea
Lodge is project chairman.
The association is making
plans for an airport project,
hoping for improvements at
the Wasilla airport.
The next regular meeting
will be held at 8 p.m., May 14
in the fire department quonset
building, next to the fire hall.
Programs WiH
Conclude Wasilla
School Activities
Sunday afternoon, May 13,
begins activities for the final j
week of school in Wasilla.
Baccalaureate services will !
be held at 2 p.m. in the Wasilla
high school gymnasium the
Rev. Robert E. Bergeron of El
mendorf Air Force Base will
address the graduates.
On May 14 at 7:30 p.m. the
Wasilla Parent-Teacher As
sociation will hold open
house at the Wasilla High
School. Students will be pre
sent to show off their new j
school. At 8 p.m. on that date
awards will be presented to
students by the P.T.A. presi
dent and Veterans of Foreign
Wars commander. Refresh
ments will be served.
Wednesday, May 15, at 8 p.m.
eighth-grade graduates will be
guests of honor at graduation
ceremonies to be held in the
Wasilla elementary school
gymnasium. The guest speaker
will be George Ed Smith, presi
dent. State Board of Education.
Refreshments will be served at
the close of the program.
High school seniors will be
guests of honor on May 17 at
8 p.m. when Commencement
exercises will be held in the
new high school. Guest
speaker will be Dr. Don Da- j
foe, superintendent of Anch
orage schools.
The public is invited to at
tend all of these school activ
ities.
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Mothers To Be Honored
Throughout Land on Sunday
Honoring mother at least
once a year with a special day
goes back many centuries.
The Greeks started it with an
annual tribute to Cybele. moth
er of the gods, held on the Ides
of March. The custom was later
introduced to Rome about 250
B.C.
Mothers in Medieval Europe
were honored on the fourth
Sunday before Easter. Sixteen
th Century England changes
this Sunday to "Mothering
Sunday,” a day when children
went to see their mothers, tak
ing along trickets and cakes.
The pages of history contain
many tributes anti memorials
to motherhood — which proves
that “the hand that rocks the
cradle is the hand that rules
the world.”
When Abraham Lincoln be
came President he said of his
mother: "All I am or ever hope
to be I owe to my angel moth
er." His mother’s last words to
him were: "Be something.
Abe.”
Probably the greatest tribute
in literature paid to mother
hood was by Joaquin Miller in
his poem, "The Bravest Battle:’’
The bravest battle that ever
was fought
Shall I tell you where and
when?
On the maps of the world you
will find it not:
It was fought by the mothersj
of men.
Man-made memorials to
motherhood can be found in all
corners of the world. The Taj
Mahal of India, for example, is
a monument to a mother Shah
Jehan built it in memory of
Mumtz Mahal, his favorite
wife.
The most important tribute
to mother in modern times oc
curred in 1914 when President j
Wilson signed a Congressional
Resolution making the second
Sunday in May a national holi
day “dedicated to the memory
of the best mother in the world, !
your mother.”
FIRST tribute to mother- !
hood was made by the ancient
Greeks, who worshipped Cy- j
bele, mother of the gods, with
an annual tribute held on the !
Ides of March.
Co-Op Gives
Chicks Away
Some 2Go families of the val- ,
ley area have new baby chicks j
at their houses. The Co-Op
Building and Farm Supply Pal
mer and Wasilla stores gave 10
free chicks away to all inter
ested families this past Satur
day In no time at all, the 2.000
little chicks were cheeping in j
new homes.
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