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GREETINGS
FROM
Your
Valley Frontiersman
Dance, Sports, Barbecue
Are Colony Day Features
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prizes will reward the best
marksman in the trapshooting
contest.
Sportsmen members who were
named to the shooting commit
tee to oversee the trap and tar
get shooting are:
George Black, Roy Brock. Bill
Smith, Dan Fleming, Mrs. F. R.
Sims, Ralph Goodrich, Dr. F. R.
Sims and Claude Carroll.
A plug-casting and fly-casting
contest for fishermen also is be
ing sponsored by the Matanuska
Valley Sportsmen. That match
will get under way at 3 o’clock
Sunday afternoon and something
special in the way of topnotch
fishing equipment will be given
the winner in each event.
A miner-farmer tug-of-war at
4 o’clock and field races for
children conclude the sports
program of Colony Day.
Back at the area at the speak
ers’ stand, Sunday’s events will
begin with a Kiddy Parade. This
event, under the management of
Mrs. Neil Miller, is open to all
children of the Valley born be
tween January, 1935 and the
present date. They need not have
been born in the Valley to quali
fy. Marching begins promptly at
1:30 p.m. The line of march will
lead from the school steps down
to and across the speaker’s stand.
The parade line begins forming
at 1 o’clock.
The Colony Day address will
begin at 2:30 o’clock Sunday af
ternoon. Jack Maze, president of
merce, and Don Irwin, head of
Alaska’s Agricultural Research
Administration, will represent
the Valley on the stand.
Lt. Col. Walter Downing of
Fort Richardson will be the
principal speaker. His subject
is to be “The Development of
Alaska and Its Military Signifi
cance.”
Mayor Z. J. Loussac of An
chorage will convey greetings
from that city. Colonel Dowming
and Mayor Loussac will be in
troduced by Victor Rivers of An
chorage. Radio station KFQD
will bring an hour of Colony
Day events to its listeners,
broadcast directly from Palmer
on Sunday afternoon beginning
at 2:30.
The free barbeque, big event
of the day, begins immediately
after the addresses conclude. L.
C. Stock, assisted by Bud Lacher,
Harry Ryan and Sam Keist wlil
slice the barbecued beef, which
is to be served to Colony Day
guests by a group of eight high
school girls working under the
direction of Mrs. Nina Stock.
Beef, bread and beans will be
served without charge to all Col
ony Day visitors.
John Witt, assisted by Grant
Kenser, will be in charge of the
barbecue.
The two-day celebration is to
end at 7:30, when the drawing
for the refrigerator and alumi
num boat with outboard motor
will be held at the barbecue pit.
Clippings Recount
Colony’s History
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Campbell succumbed to bron
chial complications following an
attack of measles.
Newspaper accounts rmile
much of the report of Matanus
ka’s first birth, a little later.
Clippings carried a detailed an
nouncement of the birth of a colt
to a colony mare, including even
the name of the veterinarian in
charge.
When the colony’s first baby
did arrive on July 23, the event
was so lightly regarded that the
clipping announcing the birth
did not mention the name of
child or parents. Last-minute re
search among the early colonists
this week revealed the fact that
the first baby was Monte Larsh,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Larsh,
now living in North Palmer.
Monte is a student at Palmer
school, where he will enter the
eighth grade next fall.
Law and order came to Pal
mer on July 19, when a colonial
police force was established in
the new city. Education w;ls a
bit later, for it was not ilitil
August 30 that Rev. B. J. Bin
gle, first minister here, was able
to report that the library had
found permanent quarters. How
ever it had been established ear
lier, but had been evacuated to
make room for an isolation hos
pital.
Soil Sub-District
Organized In Palmer
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ies.
Meanwhile, the organization
of the work of the Palmer sub
district continues. A nominating
committee made up of Don Ir
win, M. D. Snodgrass and Archie
Moffitt has been named to pick
candidates for sub-district offi
cers. Two nominees will be chos
en from each of the four town
ships included within the dis
trict area and two nominees-at
large will be added to that list.
Farmers then will be asked to
vote for one representative from
each township and for one del?
gate-at-large. Voting will be by
ballot, which will be filed in a
sealed ballot box to be located
in the Extension office. The elec
tion will be continued for one
week.
However no dates for this elec
tion have yet been set, accord
ing to Charles Wilson, territor
ial conservationist. He said the
nominating committee had beeq
asked to complete its work as
soon as possible, and that it is
expected the election will be
completed before the end of
June.
A hearing on the establish
ment of the Wasilla sub-district
will be set as soon as a petition
requesting such a district is filed
in Mr. Wilson’s office. That pe
tition must bear the names of
25 farmers living within the pro
posed area.
FOUR TRIPS DAILY
Matunuska Valley Bus Lines
LEAVING PALMER FOR ANCHORAGE
(Daily except Sunday)
6:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 12 Noon 6:00 p.m.
LEAVING ANCHORAGE FOR PALMER
(Daily except Sunday)
9:00 a.m. 12 Noon 4:30 p.m. 9:00 p.m.
LEAVING PALMER FOR JONESVILLE
7:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m.
LEAVING JONESVILLE FOR PALMER
8:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.
ON SUNDAY. LEAVING PALMER
9 a.m. 6:00 p.m.
ON SUNDAY. LEAVING ANCHORAGE
Noon 9:00 p.m.
Palmer ticket office at Charlie's Bar-B-Cue
or the Sourdough Club
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