Christmas Ship
Receives $3,843
Fro m Alaskans
Alaska’s donations to the
Christmas ship, planned to sail
from Seattle last Christmas day
with a shipload of food for Euro
pean relief, totalled $3,843.05,
Governor Ernest Gruening an
nounced this week. The ship was
delayed in sailing, and is now
scheduled to sail Jan. 26.
Governor Gruening praised
Alaskans who gave to the fund,
saying, “This shows again that
Alaskans can always be counted
upon to support worthwhile en
terprises. In view of the many
campaigns we are asked to sup
port, this is a most generous con
tribution.”
Anchorage and Ketchikan led
the city contribution in Alaska,
each giving over $1,000. A total
of 18 cities and towns gave to
the fund. Palmer was not repre
nted on the list.
Report To Sum Up
School Activity
What goes on at a faculty
meeting, how much it costs to
run a school for a day, a month j
or half a year, what a student
does for work and play in the
hours between nine and three
thirty—those are the questions
the Palmer school’s board of ed
ucation is going to have answer
ed soon.
That information, much of it
reduced to figures and statistical
tables, is being compiled in a
semi-annual report now in the
process of completion at the
school office.
Specifically, the report in
cludes a study of all activities of
the junior and senior high
school, management of teaching
and non-teaching personnel, re
ports of all business conducted in
faculty meetings, a report of
school finance and a directory
* of school personnel.
The report is expected to give
the board needed facts and
figures which will help it in
planning future activities of
Palmer school. When the report
is in board hands, members will
have at their fingertips a com
plete and concise picture of
everything that has happened in
Palmer school between the dates
of Sept. 2 and Jan. 16, the end
of the first school semester.
Classified Ads
POSITION WANTED
FOR HOUSE WIRING, carpen
ter work, see Harris Brothers,
Wasilla.
SCHOOLBOY wants odd jobs
after school, Saturday. See
Freddie Cook.
NOTICE
FOR LATEST fashion frocks,
see Mrs. Trent Johnson, Wasil
la. Inquiry entails no obliga
tion.
FOR SALE
100 VEGETABLE CRATES, 30c
ea. See Lou Henke.
AMERICAN SAWMILL, No. 1,
complete; also RD-2 Cat. See
Harry Ryan, Palmer.
HOUSE, furnished or unfur
nished. See L. K. Gibson.
FURNITURE, used; 2 chests
drawers; daveno; ABC wash
er, new; baby crib and folding
* playpen; platform rocker; bed,
springs and mattress. See L.
K. Gibson.
FOR RENT
OFFICE SPACE, Koslosky Bldg.
Inq. Jan Koslosky.
FOR INFORMATION on the la
< test fashions in women’s ready
-■Ho-wear, drop a postcard in
Box 1836, Mrs. Lauritz Lo
berg.
/ Ssinrdsr, Jan, 24, 1948
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Many Members Enjoy
Mason’s Monday Meeting
Masons and Eastern Stars of
the Valley club met at Pioneer
hall last Monday for the regular
monthly meeting of the group.
Entertainment, in charge of com
mittee head Heinie Snider, and
refreshments, made it a pleasant
evening for those attending.
The next regular meeting of
the Masonic and Eastern Star
club will be held Feb. 16 in Pio
neer hall. All members of the
Masons and Eastern Star, togeth
er with husbands or wives, are
invited to atend the meeting.
The Valley club now has a
membership of 42 Masons and
Eastern Stars, and is planning to
institute a regular lodge here.
Coffey Insures Everything—
Remember? —Adv.
r
13 Members Join
Moose Auxiliary
Thirteen Valley women be
| came members of the Women of
The Moose at the recent initia
tion held in Palmer, it was re
ported this week by secretary
Mrs. Don Ingalls. This group was 1
the last to be initiated under the 1
special fee allowed for a newly- j
instituteed chapter.
Women who joined the lodge
last week included:
Mrs. Dorothy Cook, Mrs. j
Elaine Ward, Mrs. Adelaine Ke-;
zak. Mrs. Nina Roark, Mrs. Hel- j
en Mae Ferrin, Mrs. Lucille j
France, Mrs. Frances Scranton, j
Mrs. Diana McKechnie, Mrs. j
Jeanne Moffit, Mrs. Sarah Mof-,
fit, Mrs. Rosina Tost, Mrs. Clystia J
LaRose and Mrs. Gertrude John
son.
New and old members will
VISIT ANCHORAGE
Mrs. Jack Maze of Palmer was
an Anchorage visitor last Tues
day. Mrs. Sam Browning of
Wasilla also spent the day in
town.
gather in a regular chapter meet
ing at the Grange hall next Tues
day evening at 8 o’clock.
NO SCORES YET
No information was available
at press-time as to the outcome
of thef basketball doubleheader
played between Palmer high
school and Fairbanks high school
early this week. Scores were not
wired to the local school office
at the conclusion of the Tuesday
and Wednesday games.
Are You One oi the Lucky Ones Who’s Eaten
SHAMROCK BAKERY Doughnuts?
Then you know just how good our Bismarcks,
glazed doughnuts, raised doughnuts, cake dough
nuts, powdered doughnuts, and nut-sprinkled
doughnuts can be.
They’re all taste-treats you’ll not forget soon, and
they’re always fresh at our bakery counters.
SHAMROCK BAKERY
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JLhat in effect was the finding of the examiners in the recent rate hearing as
indicated by their recommendation that "The Commission should find that the rates,
fares, charges, regulations, and practices of” the Alaska steamship companies "have not
been shown to be unjust and unreasonable or otherwise unlawful.”
Each side had full opportunity to present its case before the impartial examiners in
open hearing in a democratic fashion. The examiners, after taking ample time for con
sideration of the evidence involved, have issued their report.
We are naturally pleased with the returns because we feel that they should have the
effect of restoring relations with our patrons—all Alaskans—from an unsettled to a
friendly basis. It is the desire of the Alaska Steamship Company that these relations should
always be friendly, and we are going to do our utmost to make this possible.
We know there are features of our service that can stand improvement, and we are
exerting our efforts to this end. The present company reorganization is intended to facili
tate such accomplishments. The progress already realized during the last half of 1947
in the occupation of the finest terminal facilities on the coast—the Alaska Terminal—the
installation of radar equipment on our ships—the promotion of the improved packaging
campaign—indicates our attitude and the direction of our energy.
You, of course, are interested when rates will be reduced, and we assure you that
reductions will be instituted as soon as that is economically possible. In the meantime we
are endeavoring to effect every possible economy to bring this aim to realization.
We feel that an atmosphere of cooperation and understanding is most essential to
further progress in coping with the problems of transportation and we wish to go on
record as fully favoring action that will stimulate such an atmosphere. We also feel that
most Alaskans are in full accord with such a program and will help to promote it.
The rate hearing is past; the examiners’ report rendered; but Alaska still has its trans
portation problems. Now let us unite our efforts to solve them.
Sincerely,
F. A. ZEUSLER
Executive Ass’t to the President
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
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