News Items From the
First Issue of Pioneer
Rex Beach, prominent author,
and H. W. Terhune, of the Alaska
Game Commission, visited Palmer
on August 20. Rex Beach said that
the rush of work reminded him of
the early gold camps. He will return
next week for a more thorough stu
dy of the valley and make a tour of
the colonization project.
Father Bernard Hubbard, S. J.,
known as the “Glacier Priest”, vis
ited the colony on the 16th, bringing
with him a party of 81 tourists.
Arville Schaleben, representing
the “Milwaukee Journal”, is leav
ing for the states.
Lieut. Col. L. P. Hunt’s last
weekly report to Washington on col
ony construction indicated definitely
that the colonists would be in their
own homes by the time “snow
flies”.
No phase of the project has mush- j
roomed out of the wilderness with
greater speed than the Community
Center. The trading post to house
the commissary, postoffice, barber
shop, cobbler’s shop and general of
fices of tbc ARRC have been given
one coat of paint. The warehouse
and power plant set behind it and
lumber has been placed for the tem
porary school. The hospital founda
tion has been staked out and the
basement dug. “Everyone is co-op
erating and working hard,” Hunt
wired Col. Westbrook of the FERA.
A new spirit of enthusiasm prevails.
Freight has been rolling into Pal
mer in an unprecedented volume for
several weeks, notable among which
was 1,250,000 feet of lumber for
homes and community center.
COSMOPOLITAN, WHAT?
Who says that creed and religi
ous dictates count for anything up
here? We can prove that they do
not.
For instance, Father Sulzman,
Catholic Priest and Rector of St.
Michael’s Parish, hired Goon
Spechler, a Jew, to sell tickets for
the Catholic ladies’ dinner where
they served pork on Friday.
The Padre assures us, however,
that they also had fish on the
menu.
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Service
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WILLIAM HYNEK
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