VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
Entered as second class matter on Oct. 21, 1947, at the post office at
Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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DANIELS—In The Lion’s Don
The proposed Methodist College for Alaska is much in the news
again now. In the past week, we’ve read several items about the
institution and about the Alaskan towns and cities which have been
proposed as a possible site.
We hear quite a bit about Anchorage, Juneau, Ketchikan, Seward
and Homer, .but. .we haven’t read anywhere any mention Of Palmer.
Is it possible that our facsimile city fathers, while working for an
Alaska Native service school and a mental hospital and other good
things of city life, have overlooked the college?
The Chamber of Commerce had a committee, appointed early last
summer, we know. We don’t remember hearing anything about its
functioning, though, other than a report by its head, last July that
’work was progressing” on a selection of sites
We'd suggest that it’s about time that this committee, or some
committee get down to business. We’re not so sure that it ought to
spend too much time on the sorting over of available real estate,
either Wed suggest just setting down on paper a good, concise state
ment of facts about Palmer’s desirability as a college site. We think
just a listing of our advantages would be as much as is required of
a Chamber of Commerce committee at this time.
Church officials, who visited Alaska last summer, instructed a
Palmer representative to .prepare a brief and present it at the church
home office in Philadelphia. It’s too late for that now, but it might
not be too late to present such a statement of facts to the Oregonian
who has been named head of the committee to select the city where
the college will be located.
We hope this is not just one more instance where a number of
Palmer folks work like beavers on a project, only to learn it’s been
“too little and too late ”
We think a Chamber of Commerce ought to be working for every
plum that is promised Alaska, and not for just the pet projects of
some of its prominent members. We think that just as soon as any
new thing is mentioned for the Territory, an alert Chamber of Com
merce committee ought to be setting reasons on paper a$ to why
that project ought to be located in Palmer. We don’t know of any
better way for a small qity to get to be a bigger city, than just that.
., No °„e person or group of persons ought to decide for Palmer
that We don t want this college, but we’ll take that school or hospital,
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P-TA Debales Teen Club
The committee appointed at
last month’s Parent-Teacher As
sociation meeting to investigate
the feasibility of P-TA sponsor
ship of a teen-age social club de
cided last Sunday to recommend
that the organization undertake
to promote this club.
The recommendation will be
brought to the organization as a
whole at its next meeting The
committee felt that such sponsor
ship should be undertaken only
Charles Dillon can be persuaded
to accept the leadership of the
social club. Membership will be
confined to seventh, eighth and
ninth grade students.
The committee felt that parties
for this group should be held at
least once each month.
PLAN NEW SCS DISTRICT
A hearing will be held on Dec.
20 in Anchorage, at a time and
place to be announced later, to
act on the petition of farmers
there for a soil conservation sub
distict, it was announced this
week by Frank Linn of the terri
torial SCS board.
Petition for the sub-district was
initiated through the veteran
farm students in the class of Eu
gene Kirsch.
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so that’s what we’ll work on.” Let’s work for them all. If we make
enough noise, someday we’re going to get something, just to keep us
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