valley Frontiersman
VOL. II, No. 9
PALMER,
ALASKA, NOVEMBER 11, 1948
TEN CENTS
Incorporation Endorsed By Chamber
Teen-Age Fun
. Starts With
Friday Party
The first of what is planned to
be a series of evening parties for
the teen-agers of Palmer High
School is scheduled for Friday
evening of this week. The parties
are a part of the teen-age social
program, sponsored by the Par
ent-Teacher’s Association, and
directed by Charles Dillon, sev
enth grade teacher.
Events on Friday evening’s en
tertainment schedule include
basketball, volleyball, ping-pong,
group games and dancing. There
will be an orchestra, made up of
Mrs. Florence Dunlap, Margye
Mielke, Paul Bushong, Mr. Wal
ker, Harriet Mealy and Larry
Stock, to provide music for this
first teen-age evening. It is
hoped that there will be an or
chestra to play at one party each
month. The tentative party sche
dule worked out by Mr. Dillon
now calls for two a month.
Chaperones are to attend each
of the teen-age activities, but
students themselves are to be re
sponsible for conduct at the par
ties. A sign-up system, in which
students indicate in their home
classrooms at school that they
will attend the party, is to be
used. When the pupil reaches the
gym, he will sign in the time of
his arrival opposite his name.
Upon leaving, he will sign out.
No student will be re-admitted
to any teen-age event, once he
has signed out and left the gym.
“Lots of fun and lots of food,”
are to be included in every eve
ning’s plans, according to Mr.
Dillon. Students are providing 35
cakes for this initial party. Stu
dent members of the food com
mittee, who are also responsible
for the sign-up rosters in their
home rooms include:
George Hermon, Dick Caulkins,
Edison Thuma, Wesley Eckert
and Jerry LaWalters.
Teen-agers who will be respon
sible for clean-up work after Fri
day’s party are:
Skip Bouwens, Don Hutchin
son, Jim Caulkins, Jean Smith
and Pete Bouwens.
Even student bouncers will be
on hand to see that the party is
conducted in a mannerly way.
This committee includes:
Wayne and Rodney Bouwens,
Paul Barnhardt and Dick Caul
kins.
Ann Moffitt, Vosella Hughes
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Wasilla To Get
Immunizations
Next Week
WASILLA — An immunization
clinic will be set up in Wasilla on
Nov. 19, it was announced this
week by Miss Dolores Zeis, pub
lic health nurse. The clinic,
which will be for this one day
only, will be held in the Church
of Christ. Immunizations ' will
commence at 11 a. m.
Miss Zeis cautioned that this
clinic is not to be considered a
regular event in Wasilla. She
has scheduled this special morn
ing hour, in order to complete
immunization series for a num
ber of Wasilla infants.
The
Letterbox
(The following letter, accom
panied by a check for $50, reach
ed the board of directors of the
Valley’s Community Chest re
cently. The writer, Asta Skou
bo, will be remembered here as
the sister of Dagmar, who died
the victim of exposure in a Jan
uary snowstorm last year).
Gentlemen:
Please accept this small dona
tion, to be earmarked for the
Disaster Fund. It will be impos
sible to ever fully repay the peo
ple of Palmer for their kindness
and helpfulness last January.
It may be that this token can
help someone else in his time of
need.
Sincerely,
ASTA SKOUBO
Town Teams Plan
Holiday Dance
The men and women of Pal
mer’s town basketball teams this
week announced plans for a cos
tume dance to be held on Nov.
24. Dance proceeds will go to
ward the travel fund of the two
teams.
Dancers are asked to come cos
tumed in a Thanksgiving theme.
Married couples are requested to
dress as pilgrims, while single
men and women will costume as
Indian braves and squaws. The
dance will be held in the Palmer
gymnasium.
12:30 Club Meets
Members of the 12:30 Home
makers Club will meet with Mrs.
Shirley Webb on Nov. 10.
P-TA To To Ik
Of Incorporation
The November meeting of the
Palmer P-TA will be held next
Tuesday evening. Business will
begin promptly at 8 o’clock in
the school music room. The pro
gram of this meeting will be de
voted to a study of the incorpor
ated school district. A member
of a committee, appointed some
time ago by the Matanuska Val
ley Farmer’s Co-operating Asso
ciation to investigate school in
corporation, will summarize the
findings of the group.
The P-TA executive committee
has tentatively scheduled its reg
ular monthly meeting for Friday
evening of this week.
Chest Drive
Going Well
Palmer’s Community Chest
drive, launched only last week,
is progressing very well, drive
chairman Les Ray announced to
day. He said solicitor captains
had been reached in every dis
trict of the Valley, and several
had reported very good re
sponse.
No drive receipt figures have
been totalled yet, but a complete
recapitulation was promised for
next week’s Frontiersman.
The thermometer, which will
indicate drive progress toward
the $3,000 goal, was mounted at
the street intersection beside the
Palmer depot early this week.
CONGREGATIONS
HONOR ALFSENS
Members of the congregation
of the Wasilla and Palmer pas
torates of Rev. Victor Alfsen
greeted their minister with a fel
lowship dinner and a shower of
groceries recently.
Guests from Anchorage joined
the Valley cohgregations for the
occasion. Nearly 150 persons sat
down to the potluck dinner,
which was served following the
regular morning church service.
Reverend Alfsen expressed the
gratitude and appreciation of
himself and family for the
thoughtfulness of his church
members.
Another New Nurse
Miss Phyllis Devitt of Los An
geles, Calif., is the latest recruit
to be added to the nursing staff
at the Valley Hospital. Miss De
vitt arrived only last week. She is
making her home at the Lodge.
GROUP MOVES
TO PUSH
PLAN TO VOTE
In a surprise move, members of
the Valley Chamber of Com
merce last week went on record
as favoring incorporation for
Palmer. The motion was voiced
by Walter Huntley, senator-elect
for the Third Division, and was
passed without a dissenting
voice.
Mr. Huntley, in making his mo
tion, said he felt there was no
alternative for Palmer. “There is
no doubt in my mind,” he said,
“but that a property tax will be
levied by the coming legislature.
It will be a two percent tax, all
that can be levied under the Or
ganic Act, and if the town or dis
trict is not incorporated, all tax
es will be returned to the terri
tory.”
Mr. Huntley further explained
that should Palmer be incorpor
ated either as a city or a school
district, or both, taxes could be
assessed up to the 20-mill limit,
and all money received would re
main here, rather than reverting
to the territorial treasury. In any
case, all Alaskans will be paying
the 20-mill limit tax in the near
future, Mr. Huntley feels.
It was pointed out that when
Palmer accepts incorporation,
then all money collected as busi
ness licenses or as liquor taxes
would remain here to meet the
city’s share of the expense of the
Palmer School.
With regard to the school, it
was stated that if no school dis
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B & C Buys
Radio Shop Stock
The sale of the stock and
equipment of the Palmer Record
Shop was completed this week,
according to announcement by
owners Ray Lundeen and Jim
Young. The electrical supplies
owned by the shop were purchas
ed by the B & C Supply of Pal
mer. The record inventory was
purchased by an Anchorage
shop.
The former location of the Pal
mer Record Shop was taken over
by the B & C Supply. Mr. Lun
deen will be affiliated with L. R.
Cheves in that concern, which
will now handle the business of
radio repairing, in addition to its
former services.