Valley FRONTIERSMAN
Published each Wednesday and Saturday
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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WRITIN’ TO TEENS
We Are Our Brother’s Keepers
BY DICK DRABBLE
Several years ago I was riding in a friend’s car as we sped
40 jpiles an hour down the highway. In the rear seat, another
acquaintance, GooGoo, reclined dozing for the last few miles. Then
sudden as an atomic bomb, GooGoo exploded; “Stop the car!
Quick! ! !”
I believe there are certain statistics on the shortest space a ve
hicle going 40 mph can stop in. We beat that! As I pulled my
head out of the glove compartment, GooGoo opened his door,
jumped out, jogged around the car twice, then jumped back into
his former position. When asked what the idea was, he replied,
“I just wanted to study your reactions!”
GooGoo was a 45 year old artist, spending the summer at
our lake resort. I find it hard to explain how I was forever get
ting myself mixed up with him.
He fancied himself an expert oarsman, and would row around
the lake shouting, “Stroke! Stroke!” while racing the shoreline.
His favorite costume was a pair of knee pants, an enormous straw
hat, and a leather thong, with a key attached, hanging around his
neck. He had forgotten what the key opened but carried it in
hopes of remembering someday. When GooGoo walked down
the road, he bounced with the gait of an eight year old boy. He
practiced throwing rocks at the daisies, pretending they were
slinking Indians.
Local folk thought GooGoo was eccentric; I strongly suspect
they were right. However, I was young enough to harbor a morbid
sense of humor and I kept his association. One day he came to me
with a hideous scheme. He told me he was going to commit suicide.
This gave me a genuine scare; I began to talk him out of it. He
laughed when he saw my seriousness, and told me he didn’t really
mean to do it; just have it look so.
He plotted to row out on the lake, make a big fuss, then fall
overboard. He would swim under water to an isolated point on
shore, and leave the locality for a week. In the meantime, while
they looked for his body I was to go about nights wearing a life
like mask of himself painted with luminous paint. I had a list
of special visits to make to persons that had been joshing him.
Fortunately, a severe case of poison ivy cancelled the plan.
Doctors advised his staying away from the water. Finally he was
advised to go back to the city. The morning I helped him pack,
he tried to show me some shadows he had painted on the wall the
night before. When I told him I didn’t see any paint, he said that
w&S because he had used a dry brush. Now that I think of it, they
were nice shadows!
How many strange people do you know? (Beside me). Some
one once wrote, three-fourths of the world’s population are eccen
tric, and the other fourth just plain nuts. I wouldn’t venture an
opinion, for they also say a crazy person thinks he is all right, but
that the rest of the world is odd.
I will say this, however, from what I see of the world, maybe
we all ought to wear white coats; then we can CLAIM sanity by
disguise.
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Church Services
This Week . . .
ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN
CHURCH
W. L. Zeile, Pastor
Sunday
Sunday school, 10 a.m.
Morning worship, 11 a.m.
Holy Communion is celebrated
on the last Sunday of every
second month.
UNITED PROTESTANT
CHURCH
Victor I. Alfsen, Pastor
Sunday
Sunday School, 10 a. m.
Morning Worship, 11a. m.
Young People’s Service, 7 p. m
Evening Service, 8 p. m.
Friday
Prayer Meeting, 7:30 p. m.
ST. MICHAEL’S CATHOLIC
CHURCH
Rev. James A. Snead, Pastor
Sunday
Mass, 10 a. m.
Confessions heard before Mass
Sodality Communion held the
first Sunday of each month.
CHURCH OF GOD
FULL GOSPEL
George Savchenko, pastor
Sunday
Sunday School, 10 a.m.
Morning Devotions, 11 a.m
Services at Butte, 3 p.m.
VALLEY CHAPEL
of the
CHURCH OF GOD
Rev. George W. Geiwitz, pastor
Sunday
Sunday School, 10:15 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 a.m.
Wednesday
Prayer meeting, 8 p.m.
Candidate Speaks
Walter E. Huntley, the Val
ley’s candidate for Third Divi
sion senator in the coming elec
tion, was one of the speakers at
the open meeting of the Anchor
age Woman’s Club last Thursday
afternoon. Mr. Huntley, in com
pany with John Hellenthal,
Steve McCutcheon, William Ol
sen and J. C. Morris, appeared
on a panel which discussed ter
ritorial problems of taxation,
labor and liquor.
NOTICE OF SALE OF BEAL
ESTATE
NO. 57
IN THE UNITED STATES COM
MISSIONER’S COURT FOR THE
TERRITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD
JUDICIAL DIVISION, WASILLA
PRECINCT, BEFORE THE UNIT
ED STATES COMMISSIONER
AND EX OFFICIO PROBATE
JUDGE THEREOF
In the Matter of the Estate of )
JOSEPH CHRISTOPHER )
BRASSEL, Deceased. )
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
in pursuance of an order of the above
entitled Court made on the 10th day
of February, 1948, in the matter of
tiie Estate of JOSEPH CHRISTO
PHER BRASSEL, Deceased:
The undersigned Administrator of
the said estate, will sell, in one or
two parcels, to the highest and best
bidder for cash the property described
below. Conditions governing this sale
are: That bids for the property shall
be by means of SEALED BIDS and
•shall state fully the amount of each
bid; bids shall be mailed to or de
livered to the undersigned. Adminis
trator of the said estate, at his office
in Wasilla, Alaska, on or before Sat
urday, March 20, 1948, on which date
all bids will be examined and allowed
or disapproved. The above entitled
Court hereby reserves the right to re
ject all and any bids which may be
considered insufficient in accordance
with the value of the said property.
DESCRIPTION OF THE
PROPERTY:
1. One-room cabin and 50x150'
lot located on the East side of
Main Street, Wasilla, Alaska,
immediately to the North of and
joining the North boundary line
of the Townsite of Wasilla, Alas
ka; together with contents of
cabin.
2. Six unpatented quartz min
ing claims, namely the Gold Pan
Nos. 1, 2, and 3, Gold Bug Nos.
1 and 2, and Wild Cat No. 1, lo
cated on or near the claims.
DATED at Wasilla, Alaska, this
17th day of February, 1948.
THOMAS L. CARTER,
Administrator
Date first publication Feb. 21, 1948
Date last publication March 13, 1948
Published Feb. 21, 28, March 6, 13,
1948.
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