Wasilla Club Plans
Valentine Dance
The Wasilla Community club
will sponsor a Valentine dance
Saturday evening, February 14, it
was announced this week.
The dance will be held at Com
munity Hall in Wasilla, starting
at 9:30 p.m. continuing until 1:30
a.m. Schaefer orchestra will fur
nish music.
Members of the club will serve
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Edelman
returned to Palmer January 18
following several weeks vacation
spent in New Jersey and Massa
achusetts. They made their holi
day trip by plane and train.
Hospital Construction-—
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the new hospital program taken
into consideration, residents of
the Valley can now look into the
foreseable future and see the
dreams of the past for a new hos
pital becoming a reality,” Kin
caid said. “No longer,” he added,
“will it be necessary to hope, an
ticipate and plan and then be
come disappointed because no tan
gible results take place.” Palmer
will have a new hospital by the
spring of 1954 for their medical
needs and it will be one which
will pay proper thanks to those
individuals and organizations who
have so faithfully nursed it along
for the past few years.”
sandwiches and coffee. The pub
lic is invited to attend.
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Mining Opportunities—
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tions by Bureau of Mine personnel
will be aimed at approving addi
tional reserves in the entire area,
which includes the Buffalo, Bax
ter and Premier, mines, Engineer
May stated.
Eska Mining Area
Since operations at the Eska
mine were discontinued at the end
of the World War II crisis, a few
prospectors, with the guidance of
a diamond drilling program, have
been working in the immediate
area from time to time. Through
their intense efforts and hard '■
work, it appears now, May said, j
that these men have uncovered J
what may be a substantial coal j
field which had previously been
assumed doubtful. All possible as- j
sistance will therefore be given'
in this area by way of further in
vestigations.
Noteable in this field is the
mine recently put in production
on Knobb Creek by William Mrak
and his associates who have al- i
ready begun shipments to the Al
aska Railroad, the Matanuska Val
ley Farmers Co-Operating Asso
ciation and a few domestic con
sumers.
It is the hope of the Bureau of
Mines, and for that matter, many
other government agencies, that
enough interest in the efforts of
the men working all these proper
ties can be aroused to invite inter
vention of private capital in ad
dition to the agency-loaned capital
already provided.
Since the demand is almost cer
tainly stabilized for the next sev
eral years, these operations should
offer good returns for Outside
mining interests who have pre
viously been in the gold mining,
etc. businesses, May stated.
It seems likely that this step
ped-up program now being con
ducted by the Bureau of Mines in
conjunction with Geological Sur
vey, and greatly assisted by local'
prospectors, will uncover oppor
tunities in both the underground
and strip mining of coal in the
railbelt.
FRONTIERSMAN CLASSIFIED
ALWAYS GET RESULTS
TWO FROM VALLEY
TO ATTEND REA MEET
C. E. Brewer, manager of the
Matanuska Electric Association
left the Valley this morning en
route to San Francisco where he
will attend the National Rural
Electrification Association con
vention to be held January 26 to
30.
Over 4,000 delegates from all
aver the United States and Alas
ka will attend the five-day con
vention to be held at the Civic
Auditorium in San Francisco.
In addition to Brewer, those
attending from Alaska are: Mrs.
Justine Parks, M. E. A. president:
Marlin Stewart, manager, Chug
ach Electric Association; Eugene
Dundon, vice-president, CEA;
Nick Eidem, president and man
ager, Golden Valley Electric As
sociation Herb Hilscher, public
relations officer, CEA.
A large display on Alaska is
to be set up at the convention,
Hischer said. The delegation hopes
to have the national convention
pass a resolution urging immedi
ate construction of the Susitna
riydro-electric development, he
said.
Teachers Ask—
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the various areas, but it is felt
that the territorial scale is too low
lor the present costs.
In an explanation of their re
quest, the association pointed out
that Fairbanks and Anchorage al
ready pay their teachers $800 and
$1,000 a year respectively above
the territorial scale. Seward pays
$400 and Palmer pays $100 above
the minimum for the first year of
teaching up to a maximum of
$300 after three years. An exhaus
tive survey by local teachers last
year showed that the cost of living
in Palmer was above that in An
chorage and equal to that in Fair
banks. It is felt by the group that
the Territory should help bear the
burden of this additional expense.
In Fairbanks the school board
is asking for an $800 territorial in
crease and has gone on record to
continue paying the $1,000 they
ai;e now paying which would
mean those teachers would be
Chas. Wilson—
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head of the Flood Control Section
for the five western states and re
turned to Alaska five years ago
as Territorial Conservationist.
There have been many changes
in government procedures since
1923, Wilson recalled. Some of (
them good, and some rather com
plicated, he added, generally (
speaking, he said, procedure has
more red tape, though much of the
red tape of 30 years ago has been
simplified. Planes and air photos
have greatly simplified surveys,
he said adding, that the million
acres surveyed by the service in
the past few years could not have
been done without these modern
tools.
“I am not so much interested
now in the past 30 years as in
as in the next 10 years and what
can be done to insure the sound
development of agriculture in
Alaska,” Wilson said. “Our ob
jective is to help Alaska farmers
avoid the mistakes made in de
veloping the western states.
Sound agricultural development
' of Alaska is possible if we treat
our land within its capability.
We can’t afford to destroy it and
rebuild it,” he stated.
"Yes, I could retire,” he said
“but there is work to be done, and
paid $1,800 above the present ter
ritorial scale. They feel that this
1 is necessary in order to attract and
hold desirable teachers.
Mel Monson, biologist with the
Fish and Wildlife returned to the
i Valley and Anchorage January 20
following a holiday vacation spent
, in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Fly
! mg out, Monson drove a new
Chevrolet back over the Alaska
Highway.
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I
what I have learned in the past
30 years should be used. My plans
ire to keep on preaching sound
land use and more rapid develop
nent of Agriculture in Alaska.”
Wilson and his wife. Katheryn
and daughter Betty Jo make their
iome here in Palmer where they
take an active interest in the
lommunity. Mrs. Wilson is also
:hairman of the City Planning
Commission.
PASSENGER SERVICE
FROM SEWARD
S.S. BARANOF S.S. DENALI
Thurs.. Jan. 29 Thurs., Feb. 5
Sitka Cordova
Juneau Juneau
Ketchikan Petersburg
Seattle Wrangell
Ketchikan
Seattle
FREIGHT SERVICE
From Seattle
S. S. ILLIAMNA
Sailing from Seattle February
3, calling at Seward and
Valdez.
S. S. NADINA
Sailing from Seattle February
10, calling at Seward, Val
dez and Cordova.
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