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JUNEAU ALASKA
The frontiersman
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF THE MATANUSKA VALLEY
L. ** w U I _ i » 7
TUESDAY. AUGUST 14
PRIMARY ELECTION
POLLING PLACES OPEN
8 A.M. to 8 P.M.
VOTE VOTE VOTE
VOLUME 14. NUMBER 46
PALMER. ALASKA. THURSDAY. AUGUST 9. 1962
TEN PAGES
PRICE 15 CENTS
Aloizboah
Martin Olson, who has been
hospitalized at Elmendorf Air
Force Hospital for the past
two and a half months, will be
flown to Vancouver, Washing
ton, on Tuesday, August 14, by
military jet. Mr. Olson, who
has suffered two strokes this
summer, will enter a Veterans
Administration hospital there,
where he will be given more
extensive therapy.
Mrs. Olson and daughter Ed
iane began the drive over the
highway today, and will be at
Vancouver to meet him when
he arrives.
The Olsons are long-time
residents of Wasilla, having
bought the Charlie Johnson
homestead on Lake Wasilla in
1940, and having lived in that
location ever since.
Carla Duff is getting around
on crutches after breaking her
ankle in a fall down a flight
of steps at a friend’s home. She
expects to discard cast and
crutches in about three weeks.
Mrs. Donald S. Dodds, dau
ghter of Mrs. John Cope of
Palmer, is visiting here with
her three children. She plans
to extend her stay until after
the marriage of her sister, Jill,
to Brian Winsor on August 26.
* * *
Other visitors are Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Wilkinson of Clear
water, Florida, who will be at
the Allan Mick home for sev
eral weeks. The Wilersons are
Mrs. Mick's parents.
Harry Rice, who underwent
surgery at Virginia Mason Hos
pital in Seattle recently, is now
an out-patient at the hospital.
His wife Norma, who accom
panied him to Seattle, returned
to Palmer a few days ago.
PALMER POLICE
HAVE OWN NUMBER
The Palmer police depart
ment now have their own
number, PI 5-2222. The po
lice department had formerly
shared the Palmer city hall
telephone.
i
Primary Election Race Nears Close
TRACTOR CONTEST
SET FOR SEPT. 3
The fifth all-Alaska tractor
driving contest will be held
the last day of the Alaska State
Fair, Monday, September 3, at
the fairgrounds in Palmer, at
10 a.m., according to Bill Mil
ler, fair manager.
As in previous years, the
contest will be divided into
two divisions, one for juniors
19 years of age and under, and
under, and another for adults
over 19 years of age. Entrants
will drive an Oliver utility
type tractor, pulling a sun
shine spreader over a standard
tractor driving contest course.
First place trophies will be
awarded winners in both divi
sions, and prizes will go to sec
ond place winners.
Those planning on entering
the contest should sign up at
the fair office or Brooks Equip
ment on or before September 1,
Miller said. Brooks Equipment
will donate use of equipment
as well as trophies and prizes
for the contest, for which Al
Brooks is chairman.
Heinie, Erika Greet
Millionth Visitor
C ‘remonies honoring the
millionth visitor to the Alaska
Exhibit at Century 21 have
been recorded on film, and will
be shown to TV audiences on
Channel 11 at a time to be an
nounced later, according to a
wire received from Heinie Sni
der this morning. Mrs. E. G.
Tidwell, of Tigard, Oregon
was awarded a trip to Alaska
and other prizes.
On hand to be introduced to
a sizeable crowd was Erika
Kalwies, Miss Matanuska Val
ley of 1962, last year’s winner
of the Alaska State Fair queen
contest. She presented a trea
sure chest of Alaskan rock
specimens, a gift from Billy R.
Miller and Mary King, to the
general manager of the Seattle
fair.
Ellis, O’Hara, Egan
Address Delegates
Clyde T. Ellis, general man
ager of the National Rural El
ectric Cooperative Association,
addressed the annual meeting
of the Alaska Rural Electric
Cooperative Association, this
afternoon at the Palmer Elks
hall.
The delegates, who convened
this morning, will also hear
Hugh O’Hara, Development
and Loans specialist with the
Rural Areas Development staff
in Washington, D. C„ who will
speak to the group at 10 a.m.
tomorrow.
Governor William Egan will
be honor guest at a banquet at
Williwaw Lodge on Wasilla
Lake tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. The
affair will be preceded by a
no-host cocktail hour at 6:30.
The visitors were welcomed
this morning by Billy R. Mil
ler, mayor of Palmer, and by
Phil O’Neill, president of the
MEA board of directors. Rev.
Clifford McConnell of the Bap
tist Church gave the invoca
tion. The balance of the morn
ing was dedicated to reports
from officers, committees, and
managers.
A panel discusion on long
range planning, scheduled for
2 o’clock this afternoon, fea
tured Herb Purcell, GVEA
manager, Ralph Mills, REA
field representative for Alaska,
and Robert Retherford, Anch
orage consulting engineer.
Moderator was Leon Johnson,
manager of Kodiak Electric.
Besides the O’Hara address,
delegates will hear Harold
Moats of the U. S. Army En
gineer district in Alaska, and
Clyde Sherwood, Anchorage
CPA tomorrow. Ed Greene, of
Oreogn Agriculture Chemicals,
will discuss weed and brush
control.
Saturday morning pians in
clude a tour of the Matanuska
Valley mine fields, followed by
a luncheon at the Sutton com
munity hall.
Wives of delegates were en
tertained with a cruise and
luncheon at Big Lake today,
and will picnic at Little Susitna
Lodge tomorrow.
MVCC TO HONOR
QUEEN CANDIDATEES
AT BANQUET AUG. 16
The Matanuska Valley
Chamber of Commerce will
honor the candidates in the
Alaska State Fair queen con
test with a banquet on Thurs
day, August 16, at 7:30 in the
Elks hall.
The affair is being held in
conjunction with National
Vegetable Week. Stewart A.
Durrant, general manager of
MVFCA, will speak on the im
portance of the vegetable busi
ness to the valley, and pioneer
vegetable growers of the val
ley will be invited, with special
recognition being given to
them.
Those who plan to attend are
requested to notify Mrs. Eva
Campbell of the Frontier Cafe,
to give her an opportunity to
make advance plans. Tickets
for the banquet will be pur
chased at the door.
FIRST TO ENTER
JOYCE ANN PATTERSON, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
F. G. Patterson, of Wasilla, was the first young woman to
enter the Alaska State Fair queen contest this year. A
senior at the Wasilla High School, she has light brown
hair, blue eyes, and a fair complexion. Her vital statistics
are 37-25-37, she is five feet, eight inches tall, and she
weighs 140 pounds. She plans to attend Brigham Young
University in Utah after graduation from high school.
INVEST WISELY IN
The wisdom of funding an
adequate fish protection and
study program is already pay
ing off, Jalmar Kerttula, demo
cratic candidate for the state
house of representatives from
District 7, said this week,
pointing out that the entire
Cook Inlet area is enjoying a
bumper fishing season, the first
obvious sign of a reversal in
t}ie fish decline of the past
few years.
This willingness to invest
wisely is as important in state
government as it is in busi
ness, he said, citing the exam
ple of the fish production pro
gram as only one of a count
less diversity of projects—fil
ing on key oil potential areas
in sedimentary basins; a pro
gram of economic geologists to
GOVERNMENT
discover and publish informa
tion on Alaskan mineral wealth
to attract investors; a program
of cruising forests before they
rot—which have also been
funded.
“I remember some of the
past in Alaska, and I don’t seek
a reoccurrence of those times,”
he said. “In fact. I doubt that
any potential legislator or ad
ministrator will try to cut us
back to a budget equal only to
the present cost of education.
It is time to find out what the
programs will be in order to get
an estimate of the cost of fund
ing.
“The past legislature worked
hard and well,” he concluded.
“I was proud to be a member.
I learned much and feel I was
an effective junior legislator.”
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, agriculture is one of the industrial
mainstays of Alaska; and
WHEREAS, it occupies an exer-expanding, im
portant position in the growth and development of this
State; and
WHEREAS, the promotion of our agricultural pro
ducts is both needed and desired, in order that the
availability, quality, and diversity of Alaska's farm pro
duce may be emphasized; and
WHEREAS, August and September are the harvest
months in Alaska, when the crops are gathered and the
bountiful and lavish gifts of a generous Nature are
everywhere evident:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM A. EGAN, Governor
of the State of Alaska, do hereby proclaim August 8
through September 9 to be
ALASKA FARM MONTH, 1962
and I urge all Alaskans to join in promoting the use of
our State's vegetables, dairy products, and livestock
and grain, produced through the efforts of our hard
working and pioneering farmers.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my
hand and caused the Seal of Alaska to be affixed, this
first day of August in the year of Our Lord nineteen
hundred and sixty two.
Is/ WILLIAM A. EGAN
Governor
ELECTION MEETING
EMPHASIZES
RESIDENCE TIME
That a voter must have been
a resident of his present elec
tion district at least 30 days
prior to the election was a point
brought out at the meeting of
election judges with Ruth
Dodds, district election super
visor, and the assistant district;
attorney on Tuesday, August 7.
It was emphasized, however,
that a move into a different i
precinct in his election district j
does not preclude his right to j
vote in the new precinct.
A voter who has made a
move to a new election district j
less thai> 30 days before the
election may cast an absentee
ballot in the office of the near-1
est district magistrate or dep
uty magistrate, it was pointed '
out.
VALLEY RIDERS
PLAN FOR FAIR
Always a colorful part of Al
aska State Fair activities is the
horse show, and this year will
be no exception, according to
Bob Webb, chairman of the
riding event.
Spectators can look forward
to a fast-growing cowboy polo
game, which will pit Anchorage
riders against the Palmer eque
strians.
Four days of gymkhana (tim
ed events) are planned, and
there will be equitation riding,
both English and western,
(every day. Trail horse and
western stock events are also
scheduled, Webb said.
I
WASILLA FIRM
MAY GET BID
Although the apparent low
bid for the new Wasilla post
office is that of Alaska Mineral
Consultants. (G. F. Kalmbach)
of Wasilla. the bids are still
under review and an official
announcement will not be
made for about 10 days, the
office of Real Estate Manager
Clark Cottrell of the Post
Office Department in Seattle
said yesterday. Bids were open
ed August 2.
The Kalmbach bid was $3.
000 for a 1,125 square feet, 10
year lease, with an alternate
bid of $4,000 for 1,725 square
feet, 10 year lease.
Other bids were as follows,
all on a ten-year lease basis:
Knik Construction Company,
(Maynard R. Smith), Anchor
age, $4,800 for 1,600 square feet;
Dr. Foster R. Sims, Palmer, $4.
800 for 1,612 square feet; C. and
R, Builders. Seattle, $5,400 for
1.600 square feet; Barney
Locke, Wasilla, 37 cents per
square foot per month for 1,
600 square feet; and Roy Mor
rison, Wasilla, 4,680 for 1.308
square feet.
Fair Will Have
Information Booth
For the convenience of fair
visitors, an information booth j
has been planned for the 1962
Alaska State Fair, according to
Bill Miller, manager. The num- [
iber of inquiries received from
visitors during post fairs has
indicated a need for this type
of service, Miller said.
The booth will serve a dual
purpose in that information
about location of specific ex
hibits, along with information
on points of interest through
out the valley, and history of
the fair and the valley, will be
available.
To get an idea of how far
people travel to attend a fair,
a two-part gate admission tic
ket will be used, and visitors
will be asked to fill in the
stubs, to be deposited in a box
(Continued on page 10)
Straight Parly
Voting Mandatory
Thirteen Democratic and six
teen Republican candidates’ .
names appear on the August 1
14 primary election ballot for t
Election District 7, Senate Dis- i
trict E. True in the primary ,
election only, straight party ;
voting is mandatory, and voters
are warned by light type in a ;
black column running down i
the center of the ballot that if 1
they vote for candidates on i
more than one party ticket, <
their ballots will be rejected
The ballot also warns against :
voting for more than the indi- :
cated number of names for '
each office. ,j
Running on the Republican 1
ticket for governor are John B.
Coghill, Milo H. Fritz, Verne O.
Martin, Howard W. Pollock, ■
and Mike Stephovich. Demo
cratic opposition includes
David Newton Boyer, George
H. Byer, William A. Egan, and
Warren A. Taylor.
Hugh J Wrade is unopposed
on the Democratic ticket for 1
the nomination for secretary of
state, while two Republicans,
Jack T. Gilliland and Robert A
Ross, will fight it out for their
party nomination.
Former Resident
Killed in Crash
W’ord was received at the
j Frontiersman this morning of
! the death of Mrs. Treva Hard
j age, killed in an automobile ac
j cident yesterday on Ventura
I Freeway. Santa Monica, Cali
| fornia.
Mrs. Hardage. mother of Rex
JIardage and sister of Mrs.
Lloyd Lawton of Palmer, has
been a part-time resident here
for some years. She has lived
in California for the past few
months. Further details were
not available at press time.
Democrat Ralph J. Rivers
s also unopposed in the race
or United States Representa
ive on his party ticket. Henry
>. Pratt and Lowell Thomas,
r. are candidates for the Re
mblican nomination.
Frank Cook and Ted Stevens
ispire to the Republican nomi
nation for U. S. Senator, while
Drnest Gruening and R. L.
Bob) Veach oppose each other
in the Democratic ticket.
Two Democrats. Nick Begich
ind Alex Shadura. and two
iepublicans. Ward I. Gay and
Robert W. Statton. Jr., are run
ling for the nomination to the
jffice of senator from District
Three Democrats, Thomas L.
Darter. A Earl Combs, and Jal
nar Martin Kerttula, are vying
'or nomination to the race for
state representative. Three Re
aublicans, James D. Frey, Al
fred V. Hagen, and Eugene
Reid, seek the same nomina
tion.
An incomplete list of polling
places for the election precincts
in District 7 are as follows: Pal
mer precinct 1, Ehrhart Build
ing, in space formerly occupied
by the Lookwell barber shop;
Matanuska precinct, B and H
Supply, just south of Ketchi
kan Spruce (note change of lo
cation from Sherrod’s vege
table stand, as previously pub
lished); Wasilla precinct, Was
illa library; Butte precinct,
i Butte fire hall; Eska-Sutton,
' Sutton community hall; and
Big Lake. Ingram's service sta
tion at the Big Lake Y. No in
formation was available at
press time on polling places for
the Willow or Talkeetna pre
cincts. All polling places will
be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Boundaries of each precinct
in District 7 are listed on page
six of this issue of the Fron
tiersman.
MTA Members Elect
Newcomb, Linnebur
Harold Newcomb of Wasilla
was elected to a three-year
term and John Linnebur to a
two-year term on the Matan
uska Telephone Association
board of directors at the an
nual meeting held August 4 in
Central School auditorium. 79
voting members were present
Other business included re
ports from the officers and
manager of the association. To
tal assets of the co-op were
listed as $871,863.45. and total
revenue for the year as $192.
343, an increase of $28,112 over
the 1961 total of $164,231.
R. J. Heddles, president of
the board of directors, pointed
out in his report to the mem
bership that $25,000 of MTA’s
$107,000 building project came
from association funds, cutting
the amount of necessary loan
funds by almost a fourth. He
also touched upon easement
problems and what is being
done to solve them, urging
members to bring questions to
the meetings of the board of
directors for clarification.
Manager Max Clements, re
ferring to the growth of the
association under its newly
launched expansion program,
stated that MTA now has over
1400 telephones in its system
200 of which have been added
this year. There are also 300
applications on file, he said.
He reported on the July 25
bid openings for outside plant
construction, for which the ap
parent low bidder was Dodge
Electric Company of Palmer.
This firm turned in a partner
ship bid with the Max Fonnes
beck Construction Company of
Logan, Utah. A lower bid, that
of Ted Zontelli Construction
Company of Minnesota, was re
jected because of failure to
comply with Alaska state law
for contract communications
construction.
Bids were as follows: Dodge
Electric, $538,579.14: Ted Zon
telli, 507,919.65: Connolly Con
struction Company. Anchorage,
$690,183.91; Cable Construction
Company, Tacoma, Washing
ton, $579,039.60; City Electric,
Inc., Anchorage, $792,830.80;
Gustav Hirsch Organization,
Anchorage, $815,369.16.
Bids were opened July 10 for
(Continued on Page 10)
Absentee Ballots
May Be Cast Aug. 13
Absentee balloting for the
August 14 primary election
may be made in person in the
offices of district and deputy
district magistrates until clos
ing hours on Monday, August
13, according to an announce
ment from the office of Mrs.
Dorothy Saxton, deputy dis
trict magistrate for the Matan
uska Valley area.
Prior instructions and some
press releases have stated that
such voting would be allowed
up to but not including the day
before the election. Since this
would place the last day for
absentee balloting in person
on a Sunday, causing some
confusion and inconvenience,
the original ruling was amend
ed, Mrs. Saxton stated.
VOTE - EARL COMBS
REPRESENTATIVE
DISTRICT 7
DEMOCRAT