Interested Group
Is Talking Plans
Feeling that many of the Val
ley’s more pressing problems and
in particular the problem of a
central meeting place for teen
agers, would be settled by the
erection of a community hall, a
group of local residents recently
began to formulate tentative
plans for such a building.
Plans are still only in the
formative stage, and sponsors
are unwilling to release the idea
for publication until it can be
more thoroughly developed.
However, present thinking
would make of the hall a type of
teen-town on one floor, with the
remainder of the building open
for rental to local service and
fraternal organizations. Its use
would be restricted, and intoxi
cating liquors would not be sold
on or near the premises.
Wonts 80 Acres
For School Site
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be requested in the new budget.
He estimated that the building
could be completed in a year,
once the appropriation is made.
Once the institution is estab
lished and operating, it will have
an approximate budget of $300,
000 annually, he reported.
Asked why the school was
seeking a location in the Valley,
the ANS head replied that he
felt it was better for the children
to learn to live with white
neighbors, and to be exposed to
white culture, since they must
live in competition with the
white race after they leave
school. He added that a Valley
location also would make it pos
sible for the institution to raise
some of its own food.
A certain percentage of chil
dren from the school would ex
pect to enroll in Palmer High
School, after completion of the
eighth grade, it was reported.
The children will come primarily
from families, where one or both
parents are patients in the ANS
tuberculosis sanitarium, expect
ed to be built in Anchorage, or
the children may themselves be
out-patients of that hospital.
Theatre Annex Will
Give More Office Space
(Continued from Page 1)
full length of the present thea
tre, and adjacent to it.
Construction at the Annex is
expected to be finished within
a month. It is possible that three
of the spaces will be occupied by
May 15. Mr. Hagen said he was
negotiating with an Anchorage
merchant, but was not at liberty
to announce his name at this
time.
Mr. Hagen’s further plans for
the block in which the Valley
Theatre is located include the
building of a cement sidewalk
around the property this sum
mer.
Mrs. Don Irwin entered the
Valley Hospital for surgical
treatment last week. She still
was hospitalized at press-time.
Board Won't Change
Mind on Teachers
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teacher were subject to change,
and that if such change took
place, a new application might
be looked upon with favor by a
new administrator. He declined
to make a statement to the com
mittee of what changes the
board sought. He said he felt it
was a matter which should be
discussed only with the individ
ual in question.
Mr. Woods admitted that the
manner in which dismissals and
resignations were handled by
the board might have been more
diplomatic. He pointed out that
while the board may recom
mend.the re-hiring of a teacher,
that recommendation must be
based upon the report of a
trained educational observer,
which board members are not.
The board president criticized
the present attitude of the peo
ple of the Valley, saying he felt
it was ill-timed, since most had
not bothered to make sugges
tions to the board concerning
their teachers, until the con
tracts were issued. Clyde King,
Jr., pointed out that most of the
community’s residents had felt
the school was running smoothly
this year, and had taken it for
granted that almost all of the
staff would be returning.
Mr. Maze outlined the work
with the teen-agers accomplish
ed by Mr. Dillon, and said he
felt those achievements alone
warranted a contract renewal.
Mr. Woods replied that the com
mittee was “more interested in
the community than in the
school,’’ but the committee
unanimously denied that saying,
“not in the community and not
in the school, but in the chil
dren.”
Asked outright if anything
could be done to get the board to
reconsider its decision with re
gard to Mr. Dillon, Mr. Woods
said, “No argument has been
brought forth tonight that would
be sufficient cause for such ac
tion. We have nothing to invali
date the evidence we have had.”
However the board chairman
did make a suggestion. He said
he felt 'the people of the com
munity might best assure the re
turn of the teacher by making
their support of him known to
the new school superintendent,
when he comes. That superin
tendent, whose name is not yet
announced, is expected to be in
Palmer early in June.
The meeting concluded with
Mr. Woods’ assertion that “No
facts brought out here tonight
can conceivably change our
opinion, but the facts brought
out in a conference with Dillon
could change that policy.”
The committee meets again
next Monday evening to further
consider the matter. Committee
members include: Mr. Hurley,
Mr. Maze, Bernie Bouwens, Mr.
Curtis, Paul Martin, Clyde King.
Jr., Ralph Moore and Viola
Daniels.
COFFEY INSURES EVERY
THING—REMEMBER/
Typewriter Pays Off
For Valley Tailor
Joe Hudock, Valley tailer, this
week learned that a short story
he has written has been accept
ed for production on the Philip
Morris Playhouse. The story,
“Spoils for Victor,” formerly
was produced on a “Suspense”
program with Dane Clark in the
starring role.
Mr. Hudock, who wrote exten
sively in Hollywood before com
ing to Alaska a year and a half
ago, said the story was one he
had done before coming to the
territory. He has not been at
work on new productions recent
ly, but is now attempting to
adapt an earlier novel to Alas
kan atmosphere.
“Spoils for Victor” is to be
transcribed on May 27, but when
the transcription will be heard
by Alaskans is not known. The
Philip Morris Playhouse is not
regularly scheduled on either
of the two Anchorage stations.
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