NORTH PALMER STORE
Phone For Deliveries
Wt are as near to you as your nearest phone
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A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT
of
★ Groceries
★ Fresh Vegetables
★ Fresh Fruit
★ Meats
★ Case Goods
★ Ice Cream
Open Daily from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Order Your Easter Lilies NOW
HAMS for Your Easter Dinner
and
A complete selection of fresh-frozen
Vegetables and Fruits to complete your menu
including
Peas Lima Beans
Asparagus Succotash
Broccoli
PALMER COLD STORAGE & LOCKER SERVICE
NOTICE TO ALL FARMERS
Please make arrangements to bring your seeds in before the
end of March, if you wish to have seed-cleaning
done by our equipment.
Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation
ALASKA AUTOMOBILE CO.
Your Plymouth & Chrysler Dealer
GAS — OIL — TIRE SERVICE
ACCESSORIES and WRECKER SERVICE
Main 773
ANCHORAGE. ALASKA
Fiflh and A
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Palmer
Automotive Service & Storage
Phone 25
WE NEVER CLOSE
Union Gas Oils Greases
Tune-up and Repairs of all kinds
Tires, Batteries and Accessories
Towing
Car Washing
DONT WAIT . . .
until time to plow
before you have your tractor checked.
We'll do the work now and have you ready
to go when planting time comes.
TOST’S SERVICE
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Wanted!
A NEW NAME FOR OUR SHOP
$10 in merchandise given for best name suggested
Contest will close at 5 p.m. on April 5
Bring or mail your suggestions to
VARIETY VOGUES
I suggest . for the shop name.
My name is .
;{ Hospital
| Ins and Outs
Last week’s comings and goings
at the Valley hospital included
these patients admitted:
| Mrs. June Granger and Mrs.
Myles Hyland.
Patients dismissed from the
hospital by late Saturday were:
Joseph Peterson, Ray Berg
mann of Wasilla, Mrs. Myles Hy
land.
Still hospitalized over the
weekend were:
Mrs. Karla Duff and Mrs. A. H.
Wetherbee and son.
Paintings To Aid
' Vets’Families
Three watercolors, now on
, display in the Trading Post, will
be given away at a drawing to
be held on May 8, it was an
nounced today by Mrs. Lou Ras
Imussen, president of the Ameri
can Legion Auxiliary. Tickets
soon will be on sale at $1 each.
Proceeds from the ticket sale
will go into an Auxiliary fund
to be established for the benefit
of veterans’ families, Mrs. Ras
mussen said.
Coffey insures Everything—
Remember? —Adv.
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WEDNESDAY at 7:15. 9:30
“Sea of Grass”
THURSDAY at 8 ONLY
| “Till the Clouds
Roll By”
FRIDAY. SATURDAY
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SUNDAY MONDAY
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Screen Ploy by Ovdiey N-choit. Aleionder Knee end Mary McCord*
VALLEY
THEATRE
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Community
Calendar
Tuesday
WELL BABY CONFERENCE at
Health Center from 2 to 4 p.m.
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
meets in Moose hut at 8 p.m.
WOMEN OF THE MOOSE meet
j in Grange hall at 8 p.m.
| BOARD OF DIRECTORS of
Fair Association meet in Ex
tension office at 8 p.m.
HOSPITAL BOARD meets with
heads of ail Valley ciubs and
organizations in basement of
Lutheran church at 8 p.m.
Wednesday
JUNIOR HOMEMAKERS meet
with Jane Mickell.
WASILLA SCOUTS meet at
school at 8 p.m.
CARPENTERS LOCAL 2251
meets in Wright Bldg., at 8
p.m.
HILLTOP CLUB meets with Mrs.
Louis Ungaro at farm.
CHAMBER O F COMMERCE
board of directors meets in
study of St. John’s Lutheran
church at 8 p.m.
TWELVE-THIRTY CLUB meets
at home of Mrs. R. E. Brock.
WASILLA COMMUNITY CLUB
meets in Community hall at 8
p.m.
NORTHLAND PIONEER
GRANGE meets in Grange hall
at 8 p.m.
GLACIEnVIEW HOMEMAKERS
meet with Mrs. A. D. Saxton.
Friday
BOY SCOUTS meet in United
Protestant church at 5:30 p.m.
Manager, Creameryman Resign
Marvin Allyn, general man
ager of the Matanuska Valley
Farmers Co-operating Associa
tion, and C. R. Haveman, in
charge of MVFCA creamery op
erations, submitted their resig
nations at last week’s board of
directors meeting.
Both resignations named April
15 as effective date. The board
took no action on the matter at
the time the resignations were
received.
MEETING POSTPONED
Last week’s regularly sched
uled meeting of the Valley Health
Council was postponed because
; of conflict with Skit Night at the
Palmer school. Mrs. Clyde King,
Council president, will announce
a new meeting date in the near
future.
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IHouse Approves Budget
\ Of $48&,yiu For ARA -
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can be “expanded indefinitely.”
They added that a well-plan
ned, long-term research pro
gram will be necessary to de
velop Alaska's agricultural
economy, however.
In response to this statement,
Mr. Irwin said that research pro
gram is already taking shape.
; seven technicians in the field of
agriculture, an agronomist, a
piant pathologist, a horticultur
ist, three soil conservation ex
perts and a dairyman are ex
pected to arrive in iviay to begin
their work here.
lhe agronomist, who is Hjfr
i old Hodgson, tne horticulturist,
| Dr. Myron F. Haoo, and tlie
dairyman, William bvveetnian, all
' will De headquartered at tne
Matanuska experiment station,
as will the stm unappointed piant
pathologist.
i he soil conservation team will
work in the field this sumiyer,
conducting me work of soils clas
sification and sou mapping. iiiey
will not, however, oe in a posi
tion to analyze sou specimens
orought to uiem, lor they expect
to spend all available time out on
me iaims. i_.aooratory work in
me son conservation tield will be
conducted during the winter
months.
Army Announces Plan
To Purchase Local Spuds
The Quartermaster’s office at
Fort Richardson this week took
steps to back up the nation’s plan
to bolster Alaskan agriculture by
announcing that a contract for
20,0UU pounds of potatoes has
been cancelled from a Seattle
requisition and will be pur
chased locally. •
Requests for bids on these po
tatoes already have been mailed,
and the Army expects to an
nounce the awarding of the con
tract in the near future.
M. D. Snodgrass
REAL ESTATE
Dairy and Vegetable farms
Cily lots acreage
J Sandvik
J Carpenter Shop
for
■ ANYTHING made of wood
J (Across road from ARC camp)
Remember the folks back home with
an EASTER PORTRAIT of you
Make Your Appointment TODAY
Palmer Photographic Center
VALLEY CLEANERS
For Pick-Up and Delivery Service
Call 6Y3
Op*n Monday to Friday nighli ONLY
The B&C Supply
IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS
We’d like to take care of all of your electrical problems
No Job Too Large or Too Small!
Qualified to do industrial, commercial or residential wiring.
Bonded and Licensed Contractors
Box 665, A1 King Bldg.
Phone 55, Palmer
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