VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
Published each Wednesday
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
Walter Freeman ..Associate Editor
Beverly Larsh .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
In this constantly-changing Valley, there’s nothing that’s
changing any taster than your own Valley Frontiersman. However
we’ve-survived a year of changes and are still managing to print
a paper, so we hope that our readers will bear with us while we
announce two other switches.
Effective at once, Frontiersman subscription rates will go down
50 cents a month or $5 a year. Subscribers who have paid for a year
in advance will receive credit at the new rate, beginning Oct. 1.
Airmail rates have been cut from SI a month to 75 cents a month.
This change in subscription rates has been brought about be
cause of our new policy of publishing only one paper each week,
rather than two. VVe find that many of our readers prefer the weekly
edition, with its extra pages, and we on the editorial staff find it
easier to fit a weekly into a working time-table. Since most country
towns whose population is double and triple that of Palmer find
that a weekly newspaper fits their needs, we feel that Palmer will
not suffer a serious loss as the result of the change.
Also effective immediately, there will be a change in the dis
play space rates of the Valley Frontiersman. That rate will be in
creased to 75 cents an inch hereafter. Since the switch to a weekly
has cut our advertising revenue in half, we find it necessary to make
the rate increase. Again we feel that our individual advertisers
will find no hardship in the new rate, since their total advertising
bill for the month will still be lower than it was under the previous
rates.
Classified advertising rates of 15 cents a line for the first inser
tion and 10 cents a line for all subsequent insertions, will remain
unchanged.
We ask our readers and advertisers to bear with us in this new
rate program. We know that a status quo stand, insofar as the
pocket book is concerned, is to be desired. However when we find
ourselves confronted with a problem, the answer to which involves
the continued existence of the Valley Frontiersman, then we re apt
to get slightly radical with our policy, even though it touches your
pocketbook.
Alter all, this Valley Frontiersman has come to be quite a
lufbit with us and it’s one we’re not about to break.
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Plan Your Lunchbox Menus Around
Our COLD CUTS
{ We've the largest stock in Palmer
SALAMI BOLOGNA CHIPPED BEEF
NEW ENGLAND SAUSAGE SPICED HAM
! Palmer
• Cold Storage & Locker Service
COOKIES
head the list of lunchbox traets for all of
Palmer's school kids
OUR SHOW COUNTERS ARE STOCKfD
With
Date Bars Fig Bars Brownies
Oatmeal Cookies Sugar Cookies
SHAMROCK BAKERY
CLASSIFIED
FOR SALE
LOT with basement excavated;
water, sewer, lights available;
three blocks from shopping
center. Write Box E, Frontiers
man, or inq. Frontiersman of
fice. '
MODERN one-bedroom house in
Palmer; full concrete base
ment just completed. Inq. at
Frontier Bar or phone Bill
Roark.
GIRL’S BICYCLE, complete with
basket, $25. Inq. at Valley
Frontiersman.
2-CHAIR barber shop in grow
ing Matanuska Valley; either
cash or terms. Call D. S. Meeks
at Army 6177 or write Box 213,
Palmer.
MALL SAW, portable, electric;
Model 70. See at McCools’ Bar
ber Shop.
SPACE HEATER, good condition.
Inq. Valley Frontiersman.
ROADHOUSE, doing excellent
business, on Palmer Highway
at Mile 36. First-rate location
on trout stream. Must sell due
to ill health. Write P. O. Box
713, Palmer.
ALLIS CHALMERS Model C
tractor with power take-off,
hydraulic ram, belt pulley,
belt, pick-up plow, spring
tooth harrow, one-row cultiva
tor all equipment A-l condi
tion. Price $1,350. Contact Yu
kon Equipment Inc., Box 1639,
Anchorage.
COLMAN circulating oil stove,
50,000 B.T.U.; used only three
months. Bill Hecker, Palmer.
HYDRAULIC LOADER units; fit
Ford-Ferguson and McCor
mick-Deering tractors. Hartley
Bros. Motors.
’48 KAISER SEDAN; 2,500 miles;
like new; seat covers. Hartley
Bros. Motors.
'36 GMC“PICKUP. Good condi
tion. Hartley Bros. Motors.
FOR RENT
2-RM. HOUSE. Inq. at Frontiers
man office.
CABINS; located opposite Hart
ley Bros. Garage. See A. H.
"Marsh.
NOTICE
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank all of our
friends for their kindness and
thoughtfulness, and for their
floral offerings, during the illness
and death of our uncle, Jack
Tomlinson.
JOHN and CLARICE DRYDEN
I WILL NOT be responsible for
any debts incurred by the
Ron-Da-Voo Cafe after Sep
tember 15.
(Signed) PETE LUCEY.
NEW MATERIALS for sale;
men’s suiting, half price. Inq.
Valley Cleaners.
LESSONS IN PIANO “
Accredited high school teacher;
students may receive credits.
Contact at Neal Wright’s.
MARY BAIRD STOECKLE
HAVE YOU SEEN the contest
window at Palmer Photo Art?
WANTED TO RENT
HOUSE, cabin or apt.; in or near
town. Janell Nickel, Box 797.
WORK WANTED
WILL CARE for children under
6 in my home. $2 to $2.50 daily
or 50c hr. Inq. third house
south of Adventist Church or
write Mrs. Carlos Driggers,
Gen. Del., Palmer.
POSITION WANTED
RELIABLE VETERAN, age 23,
wants responsible position;
high school grad.; have re
stricted radio tel. lie., also
priv. pilot’s lie; best of ref.;
willing to learn; will appear
for interview on request. Write
Clyde Clark, Palmer, or inq.
through Frontiersman off.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that Jo
seph S. Kaylor, entryman, of An
chorage, Alaska, together with
his witnesses, Howard Franklin
Estelle and Herbert Holstein, all
of Wasilla, Alaska, has made
final proof on his homestead,
Anchorage serial 011793, for the
Sy2NWy4, sec. 14, T. 17 N. R. 1 W.
S.M. containing 160 acres, and it
is now in the files of the District
Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska,
and if no protest is filed in the
local land office, within the pe
riod of publication or thirty days
thereafter, said final proof will
be accepted and final certificate
issued.
i SIGNED > GEORGE A. LINGO,
Acting Manager.
Date first publication Sept. 29,
1948.
Date last publication October
27, 1948.
Wirtanen's Tanker
Service
Metered Delivered
Gasoline, Diesel and Stove Oil
Ph. 6-23Y-11 Eino Wirtanen
Green's Flying Service
(At Palmer Airport)
STUDENT INSTRUCTION
CHARTER FLIGHTS
GI TRAINING
M. D. SNODGRASS
REAL ESTATE
Dairy and Vegetable Farms
City Lots Acreage
Matanuska Electric
Association, Inc.
For Power Distribution
DON McKECHNIE
For all digging and
back-filling jobs
Write or phone him your
excavating orders
P. O. Box 796 Palmer