"BEAUTY
SPOTS"
By KAY KENNEDY
The quest for beauty is not con
fine i to artists, painters, connois
seurs— Lut is found, too, nodding
from Mr. and Mrs. Dan Dalva’s
v. indow boxes in the tent-town of
Fulmer. These gay golden and
orange nasturtiums have brought
much joy to them and to men who
pass their tent house on their
route to work—-building up Uncle
Sam’s Matanuska Valley Colony.
1 lumbers, stump-pullers, “cat”
d ii ers, mechanics, office clerks,
toniist.-, and grizzly sourdoughs
p use briefly to admire these win
d w fc-x flowers that shout their
< ay colors from a setting of weath
e -beaten gray tents.
At the Alaska Rural Rehabili
tation Corporation power house,
Robert Aw y and Claude Pierce
may be hard-boiled practical men
—but they, too, have created a
In fv garden plot within a pro
tecting fence around the high ten
si 'n station. There flowers a>-e ten
derly car d for by rough men who,
too, seek beauty. Noise of engines,
t oilers, smoke from stacks, neces
sary piles of pipe, ditches, and im
plements of construction, form (he
1 ackgretmd for these flowers that
bring loveliness into hearts of
m en.
Parry Campbel, Tract No. 138,
TP r’ anks Ms flower beauty on
a larger scale with the help of
VALLEY FLASHES
Jimmy St. Clair and Bert Weeda
are no longer partners in the St.
Clair Lake Resort. Jimmy has
taken over the whole thing and will
run along the same lines, offering
good fishing, swimming, eats,
drinks and dancing.
Another place worth investigat
ing is Ken Laughlin’s Shack on the
Anchorage-Palmer Highway. Be
sides a gas and oil business, Ken
is equipped to take care of the in
ner man whether he be dry or
empty. Ken is right at Fire Lake.
And if you can’t find room to
stay in Palmer, don’t forget that
Phil Allen has a hotel at Matan
uska. Phil might even be in the
mood to tell you some real bear
stories before you retire. We have
a hunch that his stories suffer
from too much association with
•Tex Cobb—anyway, they’re pretty
tall.
And Wasilla! What, you don’t
know about Was’lla! How can that
bo, and Heinie Snider has been liv
ing there all these years . . . and
CadwaFader and the Mrs. . . . and
Pat Hart . . . and the Senskes.
Why, you haven’t visited the Val
ley unless you’ve taken in Wasilla.
Alaska’s fertile soil, ideal summer
temperatures, 20 hours of sunlight,
together with his own desire for
experimentation. He has produced
a nasturtium with a six-foot vine.
“Men do not live by bread
alone . .
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