VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
Published each Wednesday
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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Viola Daniels ..Editor
Walter Freeman .Associate Editor
Beverly Larsh .Advertising Manager, Palmer
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DANIELS — In the Lion's Den
On the first of November the second Community Chest drive
lor funds will open in the Matanuska Valley. At that time, Mat
anuskans will join Americans everywhere in a united expression ol
good-will toward the more unfortunate among us.
This year's drive goal has not yet been fixed. It will be de
cided upon after a Friday meeting this week, when the requests of
participating organizations are to be received and evaluated by the
drive committee.
However, even though no goal has been fixed and the active
drive not yet begun, there are those who are predicting a dismal
failure for the Community Chest drive in the Matanuska Valley.
They take pride in their prediction, gleefully pointing to what they
term last year's failure.
Vet we wonder by what terms they define failure. We wonder
if bereaved relatives, the widows and fatherless children, the sick
ones, all of whom received help from the Community Chest in the
Valley last year, would call that drive a failure.
In addition, last year’s drive paid funds to help the Boy Scouts,
the Library Association, the Valley Health Council, and the A CCA.
Would they dub it a failure, we wonder, after accepting the help
that was offered.
Those who cry failure had best examine themselves. It is a
simple truth that Community Chest itself never fails. The people
of a community may fail, but the principles which lie behind the
Chest plan of giving do not change. The failure lies within the
people themselves and not with a fundamental ill in the plan.
The Community Chest plan has been formulated to help you
plan your giving in a business-like way. Under the Community
Chest, you lump your giving into one sum—you give once during
the year. It relieves you of the obligation for small sum donations
to a dozen different charities.
The Community Chest plan can be best described as the adult
way of handling charity in a grown-up community. When a child
is young, he looks to his parents for his day-to-day needs. He begs
a dime here and a nickel there, to fulfill the small wants of his life.
But as that child grows older, as he stands ready to assume some
of the responsibility for his needs, his funds no longer are doled
to him in driblets of small change. He is placed on an allowance,
with the expectation of receiving a definite sum of money at a defi
nite time each week or month.
Such is the Community Chest plan of giving. It makes a defi
nite financial plan, and then sets out to solicit the funds which will
fulfill that plan. It is as business-like as the budget or operating
plan of any merchant. It is the plan adopted by all adult communi
ties of our nation.
Therefore be prepared, when the Valley drive begins, to discuss
sour plan ol giving with the solicitor who comes to your door. He
will have one of two choices for you -- you may pay immediately
and in a lump sum, the amount ol money you intend to allot to
others during the year; or you may choose an easier payment plan,
whereby you pledge a certain percentage of your gilt to be paid
each month.
Either plan is acceptable. Either plan will help you to organ
ize your giving on a definite basis. And that definite plan svill be
of more help to your neighbor in need, than some haphazard last
moment scheme of giving, which may be evolved too late to help
him in his desperate need.
Give to the Community Chest this year.
Frosh Hazing Planned
WASILLA—Freshman of the
local high school are to be offi
cially hazed next Friday, it was
announced this week by the
sophomore class. The initiation
will conclude with a movie, a re
ception and a dance, to be en
joyed by all Wasilla high school
students.
BRYANT & CO.
BULLDOZING CARRYALL WORK
GENERAL LAND CLEARING
Write Box 1848
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CLASSIFIED
FOR SALE
SINGER SEWING machines, re
built; portable type; immedi
ate delivery. Contact Freeman
at Frontiersman or call Mr.
Schmidt in Anchorage, Main
165 .evenings.
ROADHOUSE, doing excellent
business, on Palmer Highway
at Mile 36. First-rate location
on trout stream. Must sell due
to ill health. Write P. O. Box
713, Palmer.
COAL STOKER, comp., $50; hay
fork and carrier, $25; 50-gal.
electric water heater, 220 volt.
See Arthur Marsh.
YOUTH BED w/innerspring mat
tress; lamp shade, washable
plastic; 14” table lamp. Mrs.
Seth Cook.
ALTO SAXOPHONE, $85; Road
master bike, $42; Elto outboard
motor (repairs needed) $10.
Gene Marsh, Co-Op Garage.
FOR SALE OR RENT
6-ROOM HOUSE—G. A. Lindsey,
Box 798, Palmer.
NEW MATERIALS for sale;
men’s suiting, half price. Inq.
Valley Cleaners.
'35 CHRYSLER, good condition,
good tires. Tost’s Service.
FOR RENT
CABIN, part, furn.; 2 mi. south
of town. See William Hoskins,
Experiment Station.
CABINS; located opposite Hart
ley Bros. Garage. See ^A. H.
Marsh.
3-ROOM HOUSE-~atT~the Butte.
Inq. Co-op office.
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Daryl Meeks, Prop.
NOTICE
CLIFFORD E. LILLIETHUN: For
information of interest to you,
please contact City Loan Co.,
305 4th & Pike Bldg.. Seattle,
Wash.
LESSONS IN PIANO
Accredited high school teacher;
students may receive credits.
Contact at Neal Wright’s.
MARY BAIRD STOECKLE
FOR EXCHANGE
TWO OIL heaters for one good
coal heater. Inq. at Brown’s
Shop at North Palmer.
Patients newly admitted to the
Valley Hospital this week in
cluded:
Caroline Davidson of Fort Rich
ardson, Markle Ervan of Gulka
na, Charles Radosevoch of Jones
ville, Mrs. John Leman of Wasil
la, Mrs. Bernard McClafferty of
Matanuska, Mrs. Jack Maze, Mrs.
Peter Danielson of Sutton and
Mrs. Merle Puddicombe.
New Puddicombe
A son was born to Mr, and Mrs.
Merle Puddicombe of Palmer on
Oct. 14.
Mrs. Carl and Mrs. John Du
rand of Anchorage recently visit
ed at the Miles France, Stanley
Zaborac and Leonard Moffitt
homes here in the Valley.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that
Douglas Burl Vaden, entryman,
together with his witnesses,
Frank E. Sorensen and Raymond
H. Bergman, of Wasilla, Alaska,
has made final proof on his
homestead, Anchorage serial
011693, for lots 1, 2, SWy4NEVi,
NW1/4SEI/4, sec. 27, T. 18 N. R. 1
W. S.M. containing 176.63 acres,
and it is now in the files of the
District Land Office, Anchorage,
Alaska, and if no protest is filed
in the local land office, Anchor
age, within the period of publica
tion or thirty days thereafter,
said final proof will be accepted
and final certificate issued.
(SIGNED* GEORGE A. LINGO,
Acting Manager.
Date First Publication October
13, 1948.
Date Last Publication Novem
ber 10. 1948.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that Jo
seph S. Kaylor, entryman, of An
chorage, Alaska, together with
his witnesses, Howard Franklin
Estelle and Herbert Holstein, all
of Wasilla, Alaska, has made
final proof on his homestead,
Anchorage serial 011793, for the
SVzNWVi, WV2SW1/4, sec. 14.T.17
N. R. 1W, S.M. containing 160
acres, and it is now in the files of
the District Land Office, Anchor
age, Alaska, and if no protest is
filed in the local land office,
within the period of publication
or thirty days thereafter, said fi
nal proof will be accepted and fi
nal certificate issued.
(SIGNED) GEORGE A. LINGO,
Acting Manager.
Date first publication Oct. 13,
1948.
Date last publication November
10, 1948._
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STUDENT INSTRUCTION
CHARTER FLIGHTS
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REAL ESTATE
Dairy and Vegetable Farms
City Lots Acreage
Motanusko Electric
Association, Inc.
For Power Distribution
DON McKECHNIE
For all digging and
back-filling jobs
Write or phone him your
excavating orders
P. O. Box 796 Palmer