JUNIORS TO PRESENT
“OUR MISS BROOKS”
SATURDAY EVENING
Play-goers will have an oppor
tunity to see the Valley’s youth
ful acting talent demonstrated
Saturday night when members
of the Junior class of the Palmer
Hign School present the three
act comedy, “Our Miss Brooks”
in the school gym at 8:00 p.m.
Miss Brooks, who will be
played by Donna McKechnie,
finds herself involved in almost
everything that goes on at school,
including the casting and direct
ing of the school play which
requires a lot of boys. Despite
Miss Brooks’ eagerness to avoid
trouble with the school coach, a
battle royal develops. A cast of
19 students was chosen by Miss
Beverlee Unwin, play director.
Other interesting characters in
the play are Jane, who is trying
to earn enough to go to college;
headstrong Rhonda Allen, daugh
ter of the school board president,
and her ambitious mother; the
good-natured coach, with worries
of his own; Ted, an easygoing
school “big shot;’ the harrassed
school principal who often hides
his worries, two other interesting
“teacher” roles and a number of
superb parts that are very natur
al.
This play, for all its humor, is
so “true to life” that everyone
connected with it, on eithen side
of the curtain or stage, will love
and enjoy it, Miss Unwin said
this week.
Tickets may be purchased at
the school office or from a Junior
student. Prices are $1.00 for gen
eral admission and $1.25 for re
served seats. Publicity and ticket
sales are under the direction of
Miss Kwendolyn DeLapp and
Mrs Dorothy Wofford. Student
director is Emery Robirts.
Other students to appear in the
play are Carol Wood, Fred Cook,
Bill Harris, Dorothy Cather, Carol
Colberg, Leona Lucas, Sylvia Nel
son, Doloris Foster, Nancy Ulrich, ,
Annie Onkka, Pat Bryant, Bar- ,
baia Kindgren, Leon Grover, El
don Sandvik, David Ingalls and
Jean Burke.
PUBLIC INVITED TO
KING'S LAKE CAMP
DIRECTORS' MEETING
Members of the board of di
rectors of King’s Lake Camp will (
hold their annual meeting Friday
evening, November 13 in the !
YMCA in Anchorage. It will be j ■
a family dinner meeting, open to
the public.
Entertainment will include
special showings of some of the
camp activities by organizations
using camp facilities during the
past season.
Lloyd Morley, chairman of the
board, reported a record total
'■of 1,089 persons attended the
camp this past summer. The ad
dition of four tent houses made
the increase over other years pos
sible, he said.
Girl scouts had the largest camp
with a total of 278 persons. The
Boy Scouts, second high in at
tendance, had 250. The Presby
terian Church 170; Lutheran
Church, 111; Southern Baptist,
100 4-H clubs, 80, Church of
Clod, 60 and the YMCA, 31.
Tickets for the dinner may be
obtained from board members or
from the Boy Scout office; Girl
Scout office or at the YMCA.
Among those planning to at
tend from Palmer are Richard
blue, member of the board of
directors, Mr. and Mrs. Foster
Heaven and others. Anyone in
terested in attending may obtain
tickts from Blue at the Extension
office.
LOCAL WOMAN OFFICER
IN NEW TERRITORIAL
HOMEMAKERS COUNCIL
Homemakers attending the
fourth annual short course at the
University of Alaska organized
the first territorial council repre
senting all home demonstration
clubs and elected Mrs. Anna Han
sen of Anchorage their first presi
dent.
Mrs. Phil O’Neill of Sutton and
a member of the Homesteaders
Homemakers’ club was elected
vice-president. Mrs. Gertrude
Frohne of Anchorage was elect
ed secretary-treasure and Mrs.
Dalbert Wolfe, Moose Pass, his
torian.
The Alaska Homemakers Coun
cil is patterned on state home
demonstration councils with the
eventual goal of membership in
the national organization of home
demonstration clubs. The coun
cil will act as an advisory com
mittee to help Extension Service
agents plan programs and select
homemaker club projects. The
present council has been guided
by the national council’s recom
mendations in fields of home and
family life, citizenship, health
and safety and international un
derstanding.
Delegates who adopted the con
stitution and established the
douncil also voted to help finance
a folder about activities available
through homemaker clubs and
the Extension Service. The folder
is to be given new settlers and
women not acquainted with the
Extension Service.
Both the Matanuska Valley and
Anchorage areas have district
councils which plan group civic
projects and recreation. These
councils were represented at the
short course along with individual
clubs. Mrs. A1 Kirsch, president
cf the local homemakers council,
represented her group during the
course.
PASSENGER TRAIN
SERVICE TO CEASE
The Alaska Railroad announc
ed this week that passenger ser
vice between Palmer and Aneh
)rage will be discontinued. How
ever, the freight train will con
inue to handle mail and express
or Palmer. The passenger service
lad operated with a mixed train.
In addition, the new winter
schedule cuts Anchorage-Fair
sanks passenger train service in
lalf, commencing November 9.
six trains a week will travel be
;ween the two cities, leaving An
chorage Mondays, Wednesdays
md Fridays at 8:30 a.m. They
vill depart from Fairbanks on
Ouesdays, Thursdays and Satur
Jays at 8:30 a.m.
SCHOOL CARNIVAL AND
DANCE BIG SUCCESS
Hundreds of youngsters and
large representation of adults en
joyed the Palmer School annual
Hallowe’en carnival and dance
Friday and Saturday night of last
| week.
Hallowe’en spirits were in evi
! dence throughout the school in
! decorations on the walls, hang
ing from the lights and in the
windows. Students and teachers
had worked the afternoon pre
vious to the carnival setting up
the many concession booths and
completing the decorations.
Many youngsters were in cos
tumes, varying from the expected
witches and hobgoblins to dainty
ballerinas.
Carnival and dance attendance
grossed $1,506.33 from which ex
penses will be paid for prizes
decorations and other items.
The following concessions were
operated throughout the school
under the supervision of faculty
members and students: Dart
board, Mr. Getsgo, 8-a; Penny
Pitch, Miss Riddle, 7-a; Milwau
kee raceway and bottle throw,
Mrs. Woodings, 7-b; ballon and
darts, Mr, Stevahn, Tom Yerbic;
ducks in a pond, Mr. Stevahn,
Lorene Uzelac; spinning wheel
and ball roll, Mr. Rousey, 8-a; j
lunch stand, Mr. Fahnestock,
Janice Barry: pop sales, Mrs.
Andrews, Nancy Shelton; rifle
stand, Mr. Diltz, Don Ingalls: kid
die bingo, Mrs. Crowthers, little
fish pond, Mrs. Moyer, Virginia
Boulter; string pull, Mr. Crites,
Arlene Benson; Jean McMahan;
ball throw, Mr. Crites, Jerry Hem
mer; hat check, Miss Thompson,
Barbara Kindgren.
Also Alaska’s Favorite Game,
Mrs. Cope, Mrs. Wofford, Ed
James: roll a ball, Miss Unwin,
Shelia Hagen, novelty stand, Miss
Brown, Shirley Zaborac; chuck
a-luck, Miss Reid, Ralph Kircher;
cane toss, Miss Stewart, Jean
Burke and the P-TA booth, oper
ated by members.
Those in charge of ticket
booths were Mrs. Boyd, Mrs.
Smoot, Miss DeLapp, Miss Mad
dox, Mrs. Blunk, Mrs. Smart,
Miss Weaver, Mrs. Wood, Miss
Burton and Miss Clark. Mr. Por
ter and Miss Wagoner were cash
iers at the lunch stand.
On Saturday night a large
group turned out for the Hallow- ,
e’en dance held in the school,
gym. Music was furnished by the
Ke-Notes of radio station KENI
and dancing continued until 1:30
a.m. During the evening prizes
were awarded. Keith Stanton, of
the faculty and Robert Barry,
student, were supervisors for the
dance.
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1954 IFYE Candidates
May Maks Application
The Extension Service announc
ed this week the search is now
on for a 1954 International Farm
Youth Exchange delegate, and
that any Alaskan youth who
meets the requirements is wel
come to make application for the
appointment.
To qualify as an IFYE dele
gate the youth must be between
the ages of 20 and 30 years, with
at least a high school education;
good health, mature personality
—should have been reared on a
farm and know farm life and
work and have had experience
of some type in rural youth or
ganizations. He should have'some
knowledge of the country of his
choice and its language.
The IFYE program was begun
toward the close of World War
II when 4-H clubs and other
rural youth organizations the
i country over found that a fre
quent topic of conversation was,
“What can we do to make sure
it doesn’t happen again?”
Various methods were discuss
ed, and the young men and wom
en of rural America decided they
could best make a contribution
to world peace by helping to fur
ther an understanding between
rural people at the family level.
Their ideas were transformed
into the International Farm
Youth Exchange project.
The exchange began in late
1947 when six British young
farmers spent about three months
in this country living on farms
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merly operator of the
Co-Op Beauty Shop
will be in charge of the
Kut 'n Kurl Beauty Shop
during my absence.
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of 4-H club and Future Farmers
of American organizations. In
1948, 17 U. S. delegates went to
seven European countries and
six exchangees came to America.
From that modest beginning the
exchange has grown to its pres
ent status. Plans are under way
for a considerable expansion in
to additional countries.
During the 1953 season Roger
Woods, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen
Woods of Palmer has been spend
ing time in Ecuador as an IFYE
delegate and exerpts from inter
esting letters he is sending to his
parents are being printed in The
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■ Anyone interested in applying
for the IFYE program is asked to
j contact Richard Blue, extension
j service agent at the local Exten
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