PHS Wins and Shamrocks, Independents
Each Lose Game In Week’s Court Action
The jaunty juveniles of Palmer
High School were fattening their
win percentages last week, while
both the Palmer Independents
the Palmr Shamrocks were be
ing pushed around by opponents
in early week court games. The
PHS squad now remains the only
Valley team without a loss to
blacken its early season record.
The high school had an easy
time with a five from Army’s
Joint Commissary Center on Sat
urday, winning by a score of 52
to 28. The Army men, previous
ly undefeated in six starts,
weren’t able break through for a
single field goal during the en
tire first half. They counted
just three times from the free
throw line in that half.
Spectators saw excellent bas
ketball on the part of the PHS
five during that opening half on
Saturday. The game grew some
what slipshod in the third and
fourth quarters, but the school
boys continued to pile up points,
even with a poorer brand of
basketball. George Pederson led
scoring with 15 points, and Edi
son Thuma followed with 12.
Seven tallies from Army’s Berg
was the best record the Commis
sary men could show at game’s
end.
Palmer’s Jay-Vees measured
Wasilla by 28 to 21 in the pre
liminary.
Palmer’s Independents register
ed their first loss of the season
last week, when Hq. Co. of the
57th Fighter Wing slipped past
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them for a 44-40 win. The Army
men led by a point or two for
almost the entire game. The
tussle was slow-paced with both
teams patently off their best
game. Slaughter, playing right
guard for the Army, tied the In
dependents’ Lee Young for point
honors, each man gathering 19
points.
While the Independents were
losing on the Palmer home floor,
the Palmer Shamrocks were
opening play in the Anchorage
City League with a heart-break
ing 53-52 loss to an Alaska Rail
road five. The two teams battled
on almost even terms for the first
half, but the Shamrocks weak
ened in the third quarter to al
low the Railroad a 6 point lead
going into the final period.
The Shamrocks surged back in
the fourth quarter, with Bud
Billot’s six points adding the
steam behind their push. They
battled furiously, pulling even in
the final minutes, only to lose by
the margin of a free-throw. Spec
tators classed this game, and the
second City League scrap which
followed it, as “two of the finest”
ball games to be seen on Anchor
age courts.
Ray DePriest, tall Shamrock
center, was handyman in that
league opener, counting for 22
points in all. Vern McNeven of
the Railroad, an Anchorage High
School court star of the past
year, led his team’s scoring with
16 points.
The next Shamrock engage
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Holemans Have Son
Richard, weighing five pounds,
six ounces, was born at the Val
ley Hospital on Nov. 27 to Mr.
and Mrs. Benjamin Holeman of
Gulkana. The Holemans have
two other children .
Tobers Are New Parents
A seven pound, two ounce son,
Christ Frederick Tober, was born
to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Tober of
Wasilla, on Nov. 23 The Tobers,
who are homesteaders, have one
other child. Their new son was
born at the Valley Hospital.
ment in the City League circuit
was still not definite at press
time. Schedules were being re
arranged at a Tuesday night
meeting, and will be announced
next week. The Shamrocks met
an Army five from the 57th Figh
ter Wing last night, too late for
Frontiersman coverage this week.
Lots of Visitors Spend
25 Million In Alaska In '49
More people visited Alaska
during the summer of 1949 than
during any previous tourist sea
son, the Alaska Development
Board announced recently. Ap
proximately 67,000 persons came
north to spend an estimated
$25,000,000, Board figures reveal
ed.
Broken down by methods of
travel, the Development Board
reports 35,000 persons risked sea
sickness aboard steamers, 22,000
more came by air, and more than
10,000 persons drove an automo
bile into Alaska over the Alaska
Highway.
Only about 3.000 of the sailor
tourists got farther north than
ports in Southeastern Alaska.
However more than half of the
air travelers ended their flights
either at Anchorage or Fairbanks.
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Celebrating the Opening of Onr New Building
Located at the Junction of Colony and Valley Streets in Palmer
Saturday, December 3rd
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