Students Elect
Class Officers
Students of Palmer High School
prepared for the year of school
activity last week by electing
class officers. These pupils will
head their class this year:
Freshmen — Genevieve De
Land, president; Francis Collins,
vice-president; Joyce Hecker.
secretary; Jerry Smith, treas
urer.
Juniors—Edward Cope, presi
dent; Roger Woods, vice-presi
dent; Harvey Cooper, secretary;
Henry Anderson, treasurer.
Seniors—George Hermon, pres
dent; Dorothy Plumley, vice
Valley
Visitors
At the Lodge:
Richard and Charles Newton,
Lloyd Gates, Anchorage; R. W.
Mayko, Camas, Wash.; Stella
Rouden, Marie Shimmick, Den
ver, Colo.; James Miller, Anchor
age; Pete Evans, Hans John,
Anchorage; Mrs. Mildred Pelch,
Palmer; Charles Weidner, Wa
silla; George Wucich, Anchor
age; Carl Baier, Homer; Wil
liam Calhoun, Anchorage; Andy
president; Vivian Meiers, secre
tary; Richard McAllister, treas
urer.
Faye and Jodie Wilkie, Anchor
age.
D. T. Lowery, Palmer; George
Boyd, Washington, D. C.; Mari
lyn Johnson, Anchorage; Mrs. E.
G. Ashley, San Francisco; Mrs.
Ida Foley, Mrs. Barrie M. White,
Miss Barbara White, Anchorage;
Leo Hardway Jr., Harry Karda
roff, Jr., Bill Taggart, B. D. Nie
berg, Fairbanks; Charles New
ton, Barry O’Keefe, Anchorage;
R. E. Hartwell, The Alaska Rail
road; Nick Mullan, Betty Beris
toff, Billy Gurioff, Afognak;
Richard Stevens, Marvin Amund
sen, H. M. Hathorn, Pat Cording
ly, Arvid Anderson, Anchorage;
A. Schwandt, Lauren Whiffet,
Snowbird Mine.
More Scouts Needed
In Local Troop
Re-registration of Palmer Boy
Scouts is progressing slowly, ac
cording to Scoutmaster yictor
Alfsen. Mr. Alfsen reports that
troop numbers are dwindling,
but that he still hopes to enroll
many new Scouts before the fall
registration period ends.
Meanwhile, the local troop is
being re-organized. John Ratliff
has been named senior patrol
leader and Billy Joe Wade is
troop quartermaster, in charge of
all equipment and material. This
year’s troop committee includes
Vernon Fridley, Jack Maze, Emil
LaWalther, Walter Huntley and
Clayton Esslinger.
ON THE BALLOT in the October 12 election there will be a referendum on "the p of fishing by means of trap*
pi uid be continued or.should be abolished.” To abolish traps, we believe, would amount to confiscation and would
permanently injure the Territory of Alaska.
• • • The canned salmon pack there was 2% times larger
when traps were used to catch salmon
Don’t let the Puget Sound Myth fool you.
Here are the facts about Puget Sound and salmon traps:
Sports fishermen voted out traps on Puget Sound in 1934. During the 10-vear
period before that, the canned salmon pack was 6,493,382 cases, or au average of
649,000 cases per year. For the 10 years after traps were abolished, the total pack
was 2,581,138 cases—or an average of only 258,000 cases per year! (Figures are
from Pacific Fisherman Annual for 1947).
So, you note that salmon canning on Puget Sound fell off to about 40 per cent
of what it was before traps were abolished! Do you call that good? For sportsmen,
maybe.
The Puget Sound country was a populous area of diversified industry for year*
before traps were voted out. It could take such a blow to salmon canning in stride.
But in Alaska it’s different—salmon canning is the Territory’s large*! industry.
Would it be good for you, for fishermen, for cannery workers, for husine** generally
to cripple this industry ?
Look at the record and don’t be fooled by the Puget Sound Myth
VOTE TO CONTINUE SALMON TRAPS!
COMMITTEE OF ALASKA TRAP OPERATORS