VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
Published each Thursday
Palmer, Alaska
Entered as second class matter on Oct. 21, 1947, at the post office
at Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879. ''
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DANIELS -- In The Lion's Den
Company has been invited to Palmer and the Matanuska Val
ley. Invitations went out last week, through the Chamber of Com
merce, to groups of stateside businessmen. The Colony Day com
mittee is asking people from all over Alaska to attend their three
day celebration on May 29, 30 and 31. Later the Matanuska Valley
Fair will be extending the same invitation, on an even -wider scale.
In short, the entire Valley will be living in a sort of open house
for the remainder of the spring and summer. We are hoping that
this summer will find more guests spending their vacations in the
Valley than ever before. We think of our Valley as one of the show
spots of Alaska, and we hope that more and more people are going
to have the opportunity to see it.
Undoubtedly we’re right, when we say the Matanuska Valley
is one of the beauty spots of the territory. However it’s to be hoped
that we in Palmer can do a number of things, in a hurry, to make
our town as pleasant a place to look at as befits our setting in a
natural scenic wonderland.
If visitors were to come right now, far too many of them would
be unable to lift their eyes from the “dirty little town” lying be
fore them, to appreciate the mountains beyond. To ask them to
appreciate that beauty now, would be a little like asking them to
enjoy good cooking in a smeary, cluttered dining room. Even as
pleasant surroundings sharpen the appetite at mealtime, so a neat
and tidy Palmer will add to the enjoyment of our wonderful
Valley.
Time is short now, but we still have the opportunity to do a
thorough job on our rubbish heaps, our cluttered and brush-grown
vacant lots'and in our untidy business district. If we hurriedly
sweep dirt into corners and under the furniture, like an untidy
housewife, we’ll be caught at it just as surely as that housewife
always is. We need to clean, to rake, to dig, to burn and to haul
away the winter’s assortment of rubbish.
We also need to paint and to seed lawns, but that is a secondary
problem which can be met only after the clean-up work is finished.
There is no more excuse for a cluttered front yard, for garbage
cans overflowing to vacant lots and for straggly growths of brush
and grass, than there is for an untidy home. Lazy folks, inefficient
housewives, may find excuses for both, but they’ll be lame, indeed,
in the eyes of the critical strangers we’ve asked to be our guests.
We suggest that some group within the community, possibly
the Grange or perhaps the Chamber of Commerce, set aside a defi
nite clean-up period, within the next 10 days. Or perhaps a com
bination of all service and fraternal organizations, working through
a central committee, might do the job. However it's handled, we
urge a clean-up week in Palmer, right now.
And to make that clean-up week really effective, we suggest
that this committee hire several men and boys, who can be set to
cleaning up the vacant lots and the worst eyesores in downtown
Palmer, if owners refuse to take any interest. We further suggest
that this committee present those owners with the bill lot the serv
ice they've refused to assume responsibility for. We’ve grown be
yond the point, where the “don’t care” attitude of a few of us
should be allowed to ruin the efforts of most of us.
Palmer must begin to decide right now whether we re going
to remain that “dirty little town” we’ve been designated in the past,
or whether we’re going to brush up our yards, our alleys, our
empty lots, and become the hospitable little town, rapidly growing
larger, where visitors will remember the beautiful scenery, com
fortable living accommodations and wholesome recreation they
enjoyed here.
Community
Calendar
Thursday
BUTTE Homemakers at Mrs. Joe
Lentz.
HOSPITAL Day at Valley Hos
pital from 2 to 4 p. m.
NORTHLAND Pioneer Grange
at Grange Hall at 8 p. m.
Friday
SCHOOL Award Assembly at
Palmer Gym at 2:45 p. m.
Saturday
TRI-SCHOOL Field Day at 10:30
a. m. at fair grounds.
TRI-SCHOOL Softball Tourna
ment at 2:30 p. m. at fair
grounds.
TRI-SCHOOL Smoker at Palmer
Gym at 8 p. m.
Monday
MASONIC and Eastern Star
Club at Grange Hall at 8 p.m.
PALMER Community Recrea
tion Association at Soil Con
servation office at 7:30 p. m.
GRADE School Field Day at fair
grounds at 1:30 p. m.
Tuesday
EIGHTH Grade Graduation at
Palmer Gym at 2:30 p. m.
Wednesday
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
luncheon at Matanuska Hotel
at noon.
PHS Graduation at Gym at 8
p. m.
Thursday
RIVERBEND Homemakers at
Mrs. Herman Turner.
AMERICAN Legion and Legion
Auxiliary at Grange Hall at
8 p. m.
VALLEY Health Council at the
* Health Center at 8 p. m.
BINGO party at the Moose Hut
at 8 p. m.
COFFEY INSURES EVERY
THING—REMEMBER?
CLASSIFIED
FOR SALE
Used records. Your choice popu
lar numbers, polkas, Westerns.
B & C Supply.
INDIANAPOLIS kitchen range,
good condition; coal or wood,
with Silent Breeze oil burner;
burner nearly new. $90. Phone
or see Mrs. Robert Walker.
K-10 INTERNATIONAL truck,
5-ton; good tires, good cond.
throughout; 10,000 actual
mileage. $3,000. Terms or
trade-in accepted. See Ernest
Harrington.
TWO FARMALL Cub Tractors,
with plows, cultivators, mow
er; also one Farmall H. Inq.
Co-op Garage.
’35 FORD Pickup without motor
and transmission. As is, where
is. Inq. Co-op Garage.
’41 INTERNATIONAL one-ton
truck. Inq. Co-op Garage.
4-RM. House with bath; electric
stove; automatic coal furnace.
See Bill Curtis.
MAGNOLIA FERTILIZER,^T0
10, 10-16-8. See Howard Estelle
at Ferber Bailey farm.
FOR RENT
OFFICE space, Koslosky Bldg.
M. D. SNODGRASS
Real Estate
Dairy and Vegetable Farms
City Lots — Acreage
GREEN'S
FLYING SERVICE
STUDENT INSTRUCTION
CHARTER FLIGHTS
ANOTHER BINGO PARTY AT MOOSE HUT
Thursday, May 19 — 8 p. m.
Lost of fun and plenty of prizes — Everybody welcome
- (Benefit Building Fund)
DAVID BRYANT
BULLDOZING — CARRYALL WORK
GENERAL LAND CLEARING
Box 1848
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