3,000 Visitors
Due For Weekend
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and Jonesville miners will take
place immediately in front oi
the speakers stand at the con
clusion of the formal program,
to be followed by a program of
races and stunts.
Determined to carry out this
year’s plan of “fun for the whole
family," games committeemen
Les Ray and James Hurley have
planned thfeir portion of the
program to be just that. There
will be rolling-pin throwing con
tests and nail-driving exhibi
tions for the frailer sex, and
needle-threading contests for
the spouses. There is also a
tentative plan for a golfball
driving contest, open to both
members of the family.
For the children, there’ll be
sack races and three-legged
races. There’ll be appropriate
prize awards for the winner of
each event on this portion of the
program.
At the same time, the “battle
of the tracks” will be renewed,
when a Co-op team faces a busi
nessmen’s nine on the softball
diamond.
Concessions, Too
Concessions offering food and
amusement, operated under the
sponsorship of Valley fraternal
and civic organizations, will be
open throughout the afternoon.
Of special interest is the teen
ager’s plan for a square-dance
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concession, where any who likes
may join in the dancing. The
teen-agers also plan to give sev
eral demonstration square dances
during the afternoon.
Valley tours, planned by M. D.
Snodgrass and Mrs. Clyde King,
Sr., will leave at regular inter
vals- throughout the afternoon.
The committee has planned each
tour so that Valley visitors will
be given a glimpse of typical
dairy, vegetable and produce
farms, will be afforded an op
portunity to enjoy the view from
atop Bailey’s hill and then will
be whisked to Wasilla for a quick
peek at scenic Matanuska Val
ley mountains and lakes.
Each tour is scheduled to stop
at Williwaw Lodge on Wasilla
Lake as its half-way point; and
each tour will include the Mata
nuska Experiment Station on its
itinerary.
Free Barbecue
At 4 o’clock, all visitors are in
vited to be guests of the Colony
Day committee at a free barbe
cue. Barbecue, bread and beans
will be served to all from out
door tables set up near the bar
becue pit in the central square.
There will be a lull in planned
activities following the barbecue,
while visitors rest in preparation
for the “Night in Reno,” sched
uled to begin at 7 p. m.
The "Night in Reno” is pre
sented under the sponsorship of
the Palmer Athletic Association.
Manager Art Stacey has issued
a work caH for all members at 8
a. m. Sunday morning, in order
to set the stage for the wild
West carnival to take place in
Palmer’s Gymnasium that eve
ning.
Bankers ’n Bandits'
canker Jack Maze and co-op
manager James Wilson will for
sake interest computations and
vegetable prices for a judge's
robes on Sunday evening. They
will hold court in one end of the
Reno” hall, and they promise
swift punishment to any who
break their laws that night.
Preliminary announcement of
what those laws will be is not
possible, they say; they expect
to write the statutes as the eve
ning proceeds.
There’ll be a hoosegow, com
plete with padlock, in another
corner of the hall, and Sheriff
Tom Lepak, with a forty-four on
either hip, promises it’ll not lack
for tenants. However money will
talk, that evening, and any
transgressor can expect to go
free, for a price.
Women and Song
All the games that made the
West famous will be in progress
during the ’’Night in Reno.’ In
addition there’ll be a divorce
I
court, a marriage mill, dance
hall hostesses straight from the
Gay Nineties amusement hall of
the west, and food and drink
for the hugry and thirsty.
In short, there’ll be fun for
everyone available to all who
can pay the price. Medium of
exchange for the evening will be
“phoney bucks,” Issued at the
door as visitors enter. For any
one who exhausts his resources
early, there’ll be a stand set up
inside the hall, where cold cash
can be exchanged for more of
the "bucks.”
Palmer folks who have volun
teered to assist in the production
of this “Night in Reno," include
in part:
Auctioneers — George Small
Don Parks, L. C. Stock; barten
ders—Art Stenberg and the
Fiance brothers; taxi dancers—
Gloria Crousore, Lucille France,
Laura Stenberg; advertising_
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Don DeLand and Emil Waldahl.
Memorial Services
Monday’s planned program
will begin with Memorial serv
ices at Palmer Cemetery at 11
o’clock. The American Legion
will conduct the services. There
are tentative plans tor a base
ball game during the afternoon.
Also there will be outboard mo
torboat races, under the spon
sorship of the Anchorage Out
board Club, at Lake Wasilla at 2
p. m.
The three-day celebration con
cludes Monday evening with a
dance held at Palmer Gymnasi
um under the sponsorship of the
American Legion. Several prizes
will be Awarded during the eve
ning, and it will be climaxed
with the award of a Ford car at
midnight.
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