SCHOOL BOARD MAKES RULES
GOVERNING GYM’S USE
Members of the Palmer school
board met last week to draft reg
ulations for the use of the Pal
mer Gymnasium, which was leased
to the school on Sept. 1 by the
board of the Matanuska Valley
Farmers’ Co-operating Association.
The new rules were released
this week by William T. ZZahrad
nicek, superintendent. Both the
superintendent and the board as
serted emphatically that the "board
does not wish to prevent anyone
from using the Gymnasium but it
does wish to prevent anyone's
abusing it.”
The rules outlined by the board
include the following points:
1— All reservations for Gymna
sium use will be made through
Mr. Zahradnicek, acting as agent
of the board.
2— The rental fee for the Gym
nasium, for all functions at which
an admission is charged, will be
$25. The party using the Gymna
sium will be required to pay a
fireman’s fee of S10, to partially
cover the heating cost. Coal will
be supplied. The party using the
Gymnasium also will be responsi
ble for cleaning it, and for pick
ing up the litter on the school
grounds at all entrances and ex
its of the Gymnasium. It will be
required that the Gymnasium be
left as clean as the party using it
found it.
3— Non-revenue producing func
tions, other than public, will cost
a flat fee of $5. Heat will be sup
plied. (This rule is intended par
ticularly to apply to basketball
practice sessions.)
4— Free events and public meet
ings held in the Gymnasium will
r
require no rental.
Anyone having further questions
with respect to the use of the Gym
nasium should get in touch with
Superintendent Zahradnicek.
A calendar of events for the
coming winter months already is
being prepared. Organizations
planning functions which will re
quire the use of the Gymnasium
should make their reservations
early.
Valley Students
To Get X-Rays
All children attending Palmer
and Wasilla schools will receive a
chest x-ray in the near future, it
was announced this week by Mar
jorie Myren, public health nurse.
The x-ray equipment is now en
route from Juneau. An examina
tion schedule will be announced
as soon as it arrives here.
Miss Myren said the x-rays were
arranged through the cooperation
of Dr. R. E. Garrett Valley phy
sician.
inations are progressing rapidly,
Meanwhile, school health exam
the nurse reported .Students of
Wasilla school already have been
checked, and the Palmer physicals
soon will be finished. Dr. Garrett,
Dr. Vernon Cates and D. C. C.
Bailey all are participating in this
school health program.
Parents are expected to be pres
ent when a child is examined, Miss
Myren reminded. Notices of the
scheduled examination for each
child were sent to parents through
the school several days ago.
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Jonesville Road
To Open Oct. 15
The new Jiighway to Jonesville
and Eska, on which work began
early last month, will be opened
Oct. 15, it was announced this week
by Clyde King, Sr., of the Alaska
Road Commission. Mr. King said
the upper portion of the road, a
gravelled highway 24 feet in width,
already is complete.
The highway parallels the rail
road and eliminates the steep
banks and dangerous curves of the
former road. It also shortens the
distance to Eska by at least three
quarters of a mile.
The ARC foreman pointed out
that the new road will be of par
ticular benefit to school children
must come by bus to the Palmer
of the Jonesville-Eska area, who
School during the dangerous win
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REA MEN TRAVEL
Heroert G. Bryan, Alaska repre
sentative of the Rural Electrifica
tion Administration, and Lloyd Ad
cock of REA's Washington office,
returned from a filed survey trip
to Dillingham early this week. The
pair expect to complete a hurried
trip to Homer tomorrow, a^d then
next week will take off for Peters
burg and Ketchikan.
On October 10, Mr. Bryan leaves
for the states, where he will attend
a field conference on Alaska at
Spokane, Wash., on Oct. 17.
THERE’LL COME A DAY
All Valley drivers are reminded
that highway patrolman Stanley
Laird will be making a concentrat
ed check on automobile ailments
during the month of October.
NOTICE
GARFIELD Boomhower, also
known as George Boomhower,’ will
please contact McLean, Ferris, Ely
& Fain, 350 Madison Avenue, New
York, 17, New York, relative to a
legacy.
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