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CLOSING OUT SALE
Co-Op, Zenith and India Tires
6.00 x 16 4-ply passenger .$14.75
6.00 x 16 6-ply passenger . 19.10
6.00 x 16 6-ply truck . 21.25
6.50 x 16 4-ply passenger . 17.80
6.50 x 16 6-ply passenger . 22.90
6.50 x 16 6-ply truck . 24.50
5.50 x 17 4-ply passenger . 14.70
7.50 x 16 6-ply truck . 36.80
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The Alaska Railroad
Offers Valley Residents a complete passenger and
freight service—daily except Sunday
SCHEDULE
Liiti Palmar .3:30 p.m.
Arrival Anchorag# .5:30 p.m.
Laara Anchorag# . t:30 a.m.
Arrival Palmar . 11:30 a.m.
Fare—$2.55 one way; $3.40 round trip
FOR INFORMATION
Call Palmar Dapot — or Anchoraga. ARCO 11
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Keeps wood from swelling, shrinking,
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Now in Stock
CHAMPION Outboard Motors
RELIANCE Conversion Cookstove Burners
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Machine Work Welding Repair
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PALMER FOR ANCHORAGE
„ Daily at 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
ANCHORAGE FOR PALMER
Daily at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.
(Except Sunday)
Sunday bus at 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.
PALMER FOR WASILLA
Daily at 1 and 8 p.m.
Connections for Gulkana. Fairbanks and Whitehorse
On Monday, Thursday, Saturday, 11 a.m.
O’Harra Bus Lines
Classified Ads
FOR RENT
OFFICE SPACE, Koslosky Bldg.
Inq. Jan Koslosky.
FOR SALE
FOR SALE
GARDEN TRACTOR, 3 h.p., w/
cultivator, disc and spike-tooth
harrows; rubber tires; exc.
cond. Inquire at Frontiersman
Office.
1/2-TON PICKUP, ’47 Studebak
er; overload springs and ex
tras; low mileage; $1,900 full
price. Inq. Bob Risley’s Vul
canizing Works, 619 East Fifth,
Anchorage, or call Main 504.
TRUCK, ’45 K-5 International;
2-speed rear end; complete
overhaul; priced for quick
sale; see or write L. F. Smith,
Box 849.
CHOICE LOT in business dis
trict; corner lot west of Ward
Bldg. See Leon Faurie.
LOT in Sherrod sub-division. See
Bill Rempel.
TRACTOR, John Deere Row
Crop, Model A; comp, w/
power take-off, power lift, 2
row cultivator, 2-way plow.
See A. A. Rempel.
~~LOST~
WALLET containing check,
papers, money; thought to have
been dropped in or near Kos
losky’s store. Finder please re
turn to Mrs. Margaret Cope of
Palmer school.
LOST
I MAN’S WRISTWATCH, Hialeah.
Reward. Return to Herman
Rempel or Palmer Photo
graphic Center.
A Few Words
To The Wise . . .
(Sponsored by Ihe Valley
Ministerial Association)
“Let your lights shine before
men that they may see your good
works, and glorify your father,
which is in heaven.” Matt. 5:16.
When I was a boy I liked to
watch my pocketknife as I
brought it into contact wih a
magnet and allowed it to become
magnetized. The knife-blade
never became as powerful as the
master magnet, but would pick
up a number of small articles. It
was necessary to replace the
knife-blade on the magnet occa
sionally or it would lose its mag
netic power.
Although we are the light of
the world we do not shine with
such radiance as the Master
light, even Jesus the Christ. We
also find it necessary to re-kindle
our lamps by coming in contact
with the Lord Jesus.
In Acts 2:42 we learn that the
early Christians refilled their
lamps by continuing steadfastly
in the apostle’s doctrine, by fel
lowship and breaking of bread,
and in prayer.
Dear Christian friend, have
you replenished the oil in your
lamps lately?
By WENTER HARVEY
SKIT DAY POSTPONED
The planned April 20 Skit
Day at the Valley Theater, which
was sponsored by the Wasilla
morning by A1 Hagen, theatre
school, has been postponed for
two weeks, was announced this
manager. Mr. Hagen explained
that the film to be used in con
junction with the Wasilla skits
was in transit and would not
arrive in time for the production.
A new date will be announced
in the very near future.
CUTS HIS FOOT
A. H. “Red” Wetherbee was
hospitalized by an accident this
week. Mr. Wetherbee gashed his
foot deeply while working with
an ax at a local sawmill.
j Brown’s Shop
CLEANERS fc LAUNDRY
■ Fur Work Embroidery
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.
Subscription rates..75c month, $8 a year
Daniels—In the Lion’s Den
Co-operation really pays. Valley residents learned that this
week, with the announcement of Alaska Native Service officials
that a Valley site for a proposed ANS hospital is being favorably
considered for recommendation.
If there has been one project in the Matanuska Valley this
| winter on which all of us have worked together wholeheartedly,
that project is the securing of the ANS hospital for the Valley.
Farmers and businessmen, Wasilla and Palmer residents, all have
sent letters and wires to Congressmen and to government officials
to the end that the-hospital might be brought to the Valley.
But the end is still in the distant future. We have come but
a few short feet along the miles that lead to our goal. And the
need for cooperation among us all is greater at this moment than
| it has ever been before.
We need so many things, if we are to be selected as the site
for this extended project, which will be at least three years in the
building. We must work together to get those things, if we are
, to reach our ultimate goal.
It appears probable that incorporation of our small town into
a city would help us with the work that lies immediately ahead of
us. If we are to secure the ANS hospital here, we must be able
to provide and maintain adequate sewer and water lines. We
must have city ordinances governing our places of business. We
must have the best in police protection and in fire protection. We
must have a well-planned and developed system of street lighting.
We must have school facilities to care for an estimated 250 children
of hospital workers.
We must have a garbage disposal system and we must have
laws of sanitation and cleanliness. We will need to plan for
street improvements and for maintenance of existing roads and
streets, which will be travelled by an estimated 1,400 new inhabi
tants, once the hospital is established.
That list might be continued for several paragraphs more.
None of those things can come to us at once, nor none of them
will come with any degree of ease. Even as an incorporated city,
which will make our job many times easier, there will be a multi
tude of problems to solve before the ANS hospital can become an
established reality.
It is only as we move forward with a will to work together
and in a spirit of give and take that the headaches these next
months are sure to bring can be soothed. We must all be as gen
erous in our giving as was the man who lopped off a large slice
of acres from his property to offer as a site for the hospital.
We must learn to look ahead to the Valley’s future, rather
than to measure a thing by the yardstick of our own well-being.
This project, which will bring a million dollar payroll into the
Valley each year, is not something designed to improve the position
of a few individuals. There is no resident in the Matanuska Valley
who cannot look forward to increased prosperity if the hospital
is brought here.
And the things we do, in the way of city improvement to
make Palmer a more acceptable site for a hospital, will pay a
direct return in better living conditions for us. They are things
we must soon do, in any event, if we are to grow and to take our
place among Alaska's cities. We can go no farther, in our steps
toward city-hood, until we assume some of a city’s responsibilities.
The ANS hospital is only hastening the day when Palmer
grows up, but it is making it imperative that all our thinking of
the future be turned from the infantile quarrels and selfish pre
occupations of the past, to the mature consideration of an adult
city’s problems. We made our bid for consideration as that
adult, when we asked for location of the hospital here. We now
must expect to be treated as a grown-up city in all our future
dealings.
VALLEY CLEANERS
For Pick-Up and Delivery Service
Call 6Y3
Open Monday to Friday nights ONLY
ELECTRIC MOTORS
REPAIRING —o— REWINDING
Prompt attention given out-of-town orders
CITY ELECTRIC OF ANCHORAGE
444 H Street Box 1212 Main 752
JACK CARR SERVICE, INC.
New and Used Aircraft
Parts and Supplies
Taylorcraii Distributors for Alaska
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