VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
■ntered as second class matter on Oct. 21, 1947, at the post office at
Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
i£LJ_-D*Julio .Publisher, Manager
“*mor...-.Virginia Gallant
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PALMER TO GET
GOOD RECEPTION
Television reception in Palme:
is expected to be good. This wore
was received this week from T\
Station KFIA who are at present
erecting an 80-foot tower atoj
the Westward Hotel in Anchor
age. The tower which weighs two
and one-half tons will have a
“batwing” type antenna approxi
mately 150 feet above ground.
KFIA will be on Channel 2 or
October 15 with test patterns
from noon until 5:00 p.m.
It is possible, TV officials said,
that smaller sets will not be as
satisfactory as the medium or
large sets containing the sUper
cascode tuners.
Local merchants who plan to
carry TV sets are Koslosky’s, who
will stock Admiral sets: Grassers
who plan to carry the Sylvania
and Arvin sets and Bert’s Drug
store who will handle RCA sets
and possibly another brand. Kos
losky’s said this week they expect
their sets will be installed and
tuned by an Admiral factory
trained man who arrived in An
chorage yesterday. Bert’s and
Grassers are expecting shipments
and will establish installation
procedures on arrival.
CITY NAMES SELLING
PRICE OF TELEPHONE
SYSTEM FOR RTA
At a special city council meet
ing held Thursday, September
24, members of the city council
telephone committee presented
figures to REA representatives,
C. H. Goetting and Harry Buit,
for the purchase of the city
owned telephone system. Start
at $43,000, the figures graduated
upward over a purchase> period
of months. - -
, The decision of the sale price
was arrived at by members of the
telephone committee at a meet
ing held the previous night and
later presented to th full council
for their approval on September
24, following a request from the
local MTA group and the REA
officials for a proposal concern
ing the sale of the system by
the city.
The MTA has approximately
400 members in the Valley and
has applied for a REA loan. The
sale price of the city system is
■nppHpH to nermit. studv of the
WATER SHUT-OFF
NECESSARY FOR
CUTTING IN LINES
Water users on the new city
water system have been with
out water from early morning
today to enable workers to cut
in and valve off on the 14-inch
supply line.
Ray Mathews, APW inspec
tor, said they expected to com
plete the work by five o’clock
this evening. The wood stave
pipe on the former ARRC line
will have to be cut and two
valves for each connection in
stalled. In addition each con
nection on the 14-inch line will
have to be welded he said.
With luck, he added, all ser
vice connections on the system
will be in and backfilled by
Friday. The contractor’s equip
ment is then expected to start
from the reservoir site and do
the final clean-up work along
the 14-inch right-of-way on
down through the effected
streets of Palmer. Compacting
of the ditches was scheduled
to get under way early this
morning.
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DEATH TAKES
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stated her age as one hundred
years or over, old age assistance
records listed her birth at Cop-!
per River in 1865.
Robert Prinz of Matanuska dis
covered the body shortly before
noon in a small clearing just off
the railroad tracks. U. S. Com
missioner Dorthy B. Saxton re
ported the body was in a natural
position and that she had died
of natural causes. The body was
removed to Eklutna Village
where, according to custom, she
will be buried within two days.
of her death, in the village ceme- I
tery.
ACS OFFICE—
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plan, all toll calls made during j .
closed hours had to be sent out
as collect calls. , j 1
Although the majority of emer- J '
gency messages go out via tele- i
phone calls, Kelleigh said that '
emergency wires may be sent by ; ;
contacting an ACS man through
through the local telephone oper- j
ators during hours when the ACS 1
office is closed. i
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MTA application.
Since its purchase in Septem
ber, 1951, the city telephone sys
tem has operated at a loss. This
summer an allocation of $10,000
for rehabilitating the system was
authorized by the city council
and work is progressing through
out the city. This week line men
completed part of the installation
of new copper clad lines in the
North Palmer area and many
telephone users who have been
without service for several weeks
now have their phones in opera
ting condition. New lines will in
clude 25 miles of copper clad
lines and 6,000 feet of 101-pair
cable.
The new switch board, pur
chased under the rehabiliation
program, has been set up, tested
and will soon be in operation in
the new telephone office in the
Severn building.
RTA officials indicated that if
a loan is granted to the Matanus
ka Telephone Association, it may
be nearly two years before the
system is completed and in ser
vic. The proposal would include
not only the city but all outlying
areas including Chugiak.
FRONTIERSMAN CLASSIFIEDS
ALWAYS BRING RESULTS
Matanuska Hotel
Coffee Shop
THE FOLLOWING HOURS WILL BE
OBSERVED:
Monday Thru Fridays — 6 a. m. to 2 p. m.
and 5 p. m. to I a. m.
Saturday - 6 a. m., Continuous to 2 a. m.
Sundays - 7 a. m., Continuous to 11 p. m.
: Reporters—
Notebook
Mrs. Irene Benson startec
duties last week as clerk in the
dry goods department of the
Trading Post.
Mrs. Edith Compton, linotype
operator with the Frontiersmar
is enjoying a vaction in Texaj
where she is visiting her parents
She expects to return to Palmei
around October 10.
Returning to Palmer Saturday
following a four-day trip tc
Kenai and vicinity were Mrs
Edith Benson, Mrs. Ann Dickow
and Maud Hosier. They reported
a wonderful trip and good re
turns on their clam-digging ex
pedition to Ninilchek. While in
Kenai they called on Richard
Mommsen at his homestead.
Laura and Ted Mommsen, his
parents, were also visiting him
from Wasilla.
JimWilson, commissioner of
agriculture, is away from his
Palmer office this week, making
a routine visit to Fairbanks. He
expects to return this week end.
Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Plitt of
Palmer have sold their home in
the AHA housing area and plan
to leave for the States this week
end.
FIFTH GRADERS
HOLD HOBBY SHOW
As the culmination of the lan
guage unit which they 'had been
studying, students of Section 5-a
room 309 of the Palmer School
held a hobby show on September
18. Other fifth grade sections and
the sixth grades attended, as well
as several special guests.
Those exhibiting their hobbies
and crafts were: William Boyd,
model aircraft and boats; Jerry
Combs, rock and wood collection;
Frank Cornelius, jewelry col
lection; Robert Erikson, stamp
collection; Jack Harris, foreign
money collection; Claus Jade,
rock collection; Nancy Boyd, doll
and crocheted articles and Merle
Butcher, China cups and saucers.
Also, Lila Ann Graham, bead
craft; Susan Harrington, charm
bracelet craft; Carol Ann Har
tung, doll and knitted clothes;
Margaret Johnson, stamp col
lection; Anne Jones, pressed lea
ses; Erika Kalwies, flowers and
moss collection Sharron Hill,
pressed leaves; Phoebe Martin,
Dead craft; Shannon Mick, Swe
iish embroidery; Andrea Mona- i
tan, rock collection; Geraldine
>rd, doll collection, Barbara
bright, embroidery and Stephina
3eterson, doll.
Each pupil prepared his exhi
>it label card and a poster an
louncing the show, as well as
I Falk’s Lake Fish
Planting Good,
Fisheries Report
A better than expected survi
val of rainbow fry, planted in
Falk’s Lake a year ago this sum
mer, was reported this week by
! Alex McRae of the Department
t of Fisheries who is making tests
i on specimens taken from the
, lake.
Fifteen-month-old trout taken
in the specimen batch, ran from a
little over eight inches in length
to around eleven inches with the
heaviest weighing around one
pound. This year's plantings are
already nearly six inches long.
The survival is good, McRae re
ported. From all appearances, he
said, there will be a good sur
vival rate, better than we ex
pected with the lake’s competi
tion.
Hatchery Started
Construction on the fish hat
chery at Fire Lake has been
started, he said, and workers ex
' pect to be pouring slab by Fri
day of this week. They hope to
| have the building up within two
: or three weeks so that the win
ter may be spent on inside pre
parations, and the hatchery in
production next sumer. Funds
for the hatchery were raised
through Fish Unlimited. The
Army has cooperated with the
| project McRae reported and this
1 week the 42nd Engineers fur
i nished between 100-120 yards of
gravel for the foundation.
gave a talk on his hobby to the
class.
Hosts for the show were Joe
Rice, David Smith, Paul Henry
and Pholia Leibing.
Mrs. Talicia C. Smoot is tea
i <-her of grade 5-a.
Members of the Matanuska
Airmens’ Association will hold
election of officers at the regular
meeting to be held Thursday,
ANNOUNCEMENT
| Fire Prevention Week this;
; year is being observed the
! week of October 4 through 10.!
;! Its purpose is to direct public!
! attention to the tremendous
| loss of life and property that
; j results each year from fire,
!; and to emphasize the safety
!; measures which can substan- !
!; tially reduce these losses.
! President Eisenhower, in his
; proclamation setting aside this ;
; > one week of the year to this ;
; national effort, has pointed
!; out that safety to life and pro-;
| perty is the responsibility of !
; each of us working together!
the year ’round in the com-!
! munity and in the nation.
By assuming our share of
; this responsibility, each of us !
! can help make American safe !
! from fires. !
CITY COUNCIL
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authority to refuse water con
nection to customers, subject to
review and appeal to the water
committee.
The change over from Co-Cp
to city billing will be handled
by coordination of the office of
the city clerk and the Co-Op
bookkeeper.
Customers who have been shut
off because of non payment of
water bill will be required to
pay all back bills before water
is turned on. Wherever water
shut-offs are not provided pro
perty owners are to be respon
sible for the payment of water
bills.
A copy of these new regulations
and the formerly adopted water
rate schedule will be mailed to
city water users with their first
month billing.
October 8 in Co-Op club room.
All members are urged to be
present.
ENGAGEMENT TOLD
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Wever
of Palmer announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Margaret,
to Gottfried Stevahn, also of Pal
mer. The wedding is planned for
June 5, 1954 in New York.
fREQUENT
SAILINGS
lHtM-ASKAu«*
lr
PASSENGER SERVICE
FROM SEWARD
S.S. DENALI S.S. BARANOF
Thurs., Oct. 15 Thurs., Oct. 22
Cordova
Juneau
Petersburg
Wrangell
Ketchikan
Seattle
Sitka
Juneau
Ketchikan
Seattle
FREIGHT SERVICE
From SsAttls
M. V. SQUARE KNOT
Scheduled from Seattle, Tues.,
Oct. 13, calling at Yakatat,
Valdez, Seward, Homer, Sel
dovia and Kodiak
S. S. NADINA
Scheduled from Seattle, Tues,.
Oct. 20, calling at Seward,
Valdez and Cordova
FOR INFORMATION
T. J. MALONEY. AOENT
OFFICE: WESTWARD HOTEL
ANCHORAGE. ALASKA
Phone 22001
High School
FOOTBALL
BENEFIT DANCE
Schaefer's Orchestra
Palmer School Gym
October 3,1953
9:00 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.
DOOR PRIZES AWARDED 11:00 p.m.
TOASTER - Co-Op CAMERA - Palmer Drug j
CLOCK - Koslosky's HAND TRAP - Grassers
HAND LIGHT - Ware House
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE PRESENT TO COLLECT A PRIZE
Admission $2.00 Per Couple
The Trailsinen
APPEARING NIGHTLY AT
YOUR FAVORITE SPOT