Valley FRONTIERSMAN
Published each Tuesday and Friday
Palmer, Alaska
Entered as second class matter on Oct. 21, 1947 at the post office
at Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Subscription rates .75c month, $8 a year
Viola Daniels .Editor
Evon DeLand .Advertising Manager, Palmer
No printed material in the Valley Frontiersman may be
reproduced except by permission of the editor.
Mailed to all points in Alaska and the United States
Daniels—In the Lion’s Den
Company’s coming on August 4, and like the careless house
* keeper, Palmer’s not nearly ready for it. Fortunately Palmer
does know a good month in advance, and there’s ample time to
red up our messy dooryards, fill in the mud puddles at the front
door step,-and to cut the hay from the town’s principal street
sides and the central square.
The Anchorage Chamber of Commerce has been invited to be
the guest of the local Chamber that first Wednesday in August.
One’ of the primary objectives in inviting them here is to show
them that Palmer is rapidly progressing toward city-hood, and
is not the haphazard collection of farms that many Anchorageites
seem to feel our town is. We intend to show them Palmer, as
well as our farms. We’re equally proud of both, and we have
faith in the future of both.
However there’s not much evidence in Palmer’s front streets,
nor in its back alleys, that we have any civic pride. Grass and
papers litter the square and the overgrown area along the
Railroad right of way. Papers, and often garbage as well, make
one long row of dumps in our back yard.
__ In short, Palmer, in its present condition, looks little like
the modern and progressive town we claim it to be. The business
section of town, the residential area and the Co-op portion are
equal offenders in this matter of appearance.
Right now, with the Grange’s home beautification contest
scheduled to end in another six weeks, our farms are far out
stripping the business area in a neat and attractive appearance.
' In the belief that a general clean-up day for Palmer will do
more to interest all of us in the job, the Chamber of Commerce
has selected Saturday, July 31, as clean-up day for the town.
The Chamber of Commerce is asking tor city-wide coopera
tion in this clean-up drive. Each proprietor of a downtown busi
ness, each home owner, and the managers of establishments in
the general Co-op area are asked to help in the tidying-up job. The
Chamber group is not asking that any difficult job be done—
they’d just like to have a neater Palmer to show to our visitors.
The dusty roads and the old frame bulidings are matters be
yond our control right now—we re not worried about them
After all, every housewife has to make the best of the house in
which she lives. So it is with those of us who live in Palmer. Bui
there’s no reason why we can’t be spruced up a bit. We mighl
as well begin to practice right now to achieve that city look tha1
will go with the prosperous town we're going to have within tht
next few years.
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, Baiemenls Water Lines
Cesspools Sewer Lines
Phone 64J4 Write Box 642
Palmer, Alaska
642
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BRING OUT
the true value of your
Kodachrome Slides
with a projector
from your
PALMER PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER
Classified Ads
FOR SALE OR LEASE
NEW GROCERY and meat mar
ket in Homer; on main street;
new building with refrigera
tion and power plants. Will
sell inventory at cost and rea
sonable lease on building.
Chance for couple willing to
work and make a stake. $3,000
will handle on lease basis.
Write W. R. Benson, Homer.
FOR SALE OR TRADE
ACREAGE, close in; will take
late model pick-up, panel or
station wagon. Inq. LeDuc,
Ketchikan Spruce.
FOR SALE
HOUSE LOGS; delivered or at
mill. Phone 50Y12 or write
Box 682, Palmer.
LOG CABIN, 2-rooms, furn.;
wired for lights; insulated; lo
cated at Mile 36 on Palmer
Highway on 5-acre homesite;
ideal business location. $1,300
full price. Write Box 713, Pal
mer, or inq. within.
’37 BUICK, recently overhauled
motor, new tires; exceptionally
good condition. Hartley Broth
ers Motors.
MUST SELL $4,600 home; elec
tricity, city water; complete
except siding; lot 75 x 140.
$3,500 full price, $2,000 down,
bal. terms. Will consider car
or pickup with house trailer
part payment. Stensen, first St.
north of Anchorage Highway,
third house.
8 8-ACRE farm, 7 rm. house,
water, lights; 30 acres cleared;
iV2 mil. north of Palmer. Inq.
David Bryant, Box 1848, Pal
mer.
APPROXIMATELY 25 acres of
land, 20 under cultivation;
priced for quick sale; located
three mi. so. of Palmer on
good road. Inq. Palmer Photo
graphic Center.
HYDRAULIC LOADER units; fit
Ford-Ferguson and McCor
mick-Deering tractors. Hartley
Bros. Motors.
TAPP AN gas stoves and regu
lators. Hartley Bros. Motors.
HELP WANTED
WOMAN to do cleaning for sev
eral hours, 1 day week. Inq. at
Valley Frontiersman office.
FOUND
HOUSE KEY on long chain.
Owner claim at the Valley
Frontiersman office.
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NOTICE
THERE ARE still plenty of those
bundles of old newspapers
available at the Valley Front
iersman office, but they don’t
last long. Come get yours
early, if you want to get them.
There’s no charge for them.
Five Purdue Students
Vacation In Wasilla
WASILLA — Five students
from Purdue University arrived
in Wasilla recently, to spend
their summer vacation here. Two
of the five will homestead in
this area.
The men are visiting Edward
Harris and Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Harris of Wasilla. One of the
visitors, Kenneth, is a Harris
brother. He will remain here and
will be associated with his broth
ers in their construction busi
ness.
The other men who are spend
ing the summer include Alan
Abel, Neal Carlson, Ralph Nel
son and Galen Collins. Mr. Abel
also plans to make Alaska his
permanent home. He and Harris
are both veterans of the recent
war.
The men made the trip north
in a schoolbus, which they out
fitted as a mobile hotel, building
in bunks and kitchen equipment
for the journey. They reported
their rolling hotel an ideal way
in which to travel over the Alas
ka Highway.
BRYANT & CO.
BULLDOZING CARRYALL WORK
GENERAL LAND CLEARING
Write Box 1848
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McCOOL’S BARBER SHOP
(In Rec Hall)
SPECIALIZING IN
HAIRCUTTING. SHAVING, SHAMPOOS AND MASSAGE
Weekday business hours from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday business hours from 10 a.m. to 10 pan.
W. B. BARNHARDT
Dimension Lumber Houe Logs
Phone 50Y12 Write Box 682, Palmer
(Mill located on Lower Butte road)
A Friendly Place to Spend Your Time
Come, Bring Your Friends
The drinks are fine!
With RUSS and BOB
On the Job
To Serve
YOU
The SOURDOUGH CLUB at Palmer
J. VIC BROWN & SONS
“The Live Jewelers”
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Keeps wood from swelling, shrinking,
checking, warping
Now On Display
CHAMPION Outboard Motors
RELIANCE Conversion Cookstove Burners
GRAHAM SERVICE
Machine Work Welding Repair
Gas Oil
For a Relief from Menu Monotony
Fancy Petit Fours
Raspberry Popovers
Brownies
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