Christmas Workshop
Set for Gcfobsr 20
Beginning at 10 a.m., and last
ing until all demonstrations are
completed, a Christmas workshop
will be held in the Extension Ser
vice craft room on October 29.
From each homemaker’s club,
members are contributing ideas of
food, gifts, wrappings, and dec
orations. The public is invited to
attend and take a sack lunch and
a cup, (coffee will be served).
Tastes of demonstrated goodies
will supplement the lunches.
Ideas and food recipes will be
available at the Extension Ser
vice office throughout the weeks
of November 1 and 15, according
to Marylou Rideout, home demon
stration agent. If anyone is un
able to attend the workshop on
the 29th, the Christmas ideas
will be available throughout the
two weeks with evening sessions
beginning at 7:30 p.m. on No
vember 3 and 17.
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ALASKA RAILROAD TRAIN SCHEDULE
Each Thursday
Northbound
Read Down
7:30 a.m. Lv. Seward Ar.
12:01 p.m. Ar. Anchorage Lv.
ANCHORAGE, McKINLEY &
Northbound
Mon.-Wed.-Fri.
8:30 a.m.
12:50 p.m.
4:36 p.m.
8:30 p.m.
Southbound
Read Up
8:05 p.m.
3:30 p-m.
FAIRBANKS
Southbound
Tues.-Thurs-Sat.
8:15 p.m.
Lv. Anchorage Ar.
Lv. Curry Lv. 4:10 p.m.
Lv. McKinley Lv. 12:26 p.m.
Ar. Fairbanks Lv. 8:30 a.m.
ANCHORAGE AND WHITTIER
Lv. Anchorage 9:30 a.m. daily except Fri., Sat., & Sun. On Fri.
lv. Anch. 6:00 a.m. & 5 p.m. On Sat., lv. Anch. 1:30 p.m. On Sun.,
lv. Anch. 8:00 p.m.
Call Your ALASKA RAILROAD Agent for
Information
13 Unlucky? Not for These Traveling Texans
AUSTIN, Tex.
An automobile
sure has its work
cut out for it with
the George F.
Martins here. In
addition to trans
porting his 11
children (ranging
from three months
to 17 years), Mar
tin uses his Chev
rolet station
wagon in his in
fant supplies com
pany business. Re
cently he starred
the car in a
“Cheaper by the
Dozen” sale.
SERVING IN JAPAN
Army PFC Myron Newby, Jr.,
whose folks live on Star Route,
Palmer, recently arrived in Japan
for duty with the XVI Corps.
Newby, a pole lineman in Com
pany A of the corps’ 50th Signal
Battalion, entered the Army dur
ing September 1953 at Tacoma,
Washington. He completed basic
training at Fort Bliss, Texas.
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Dr. C. C. Bailey is a patient in
the 5005th Air Force Hospital at
Elmendorf.
Word was received in the val
ley this week of the death of
Ben Pinks, long-time Alaska resi
dent. Mr. Pinks passed away on
October 11 at Portland, Oregon,
where he has been hospitalized.
Burial took place at Portland.
Hollis Henrichs, district deputy
of B. P. O. Elks, was a Palmer
visitor on Wednesday of this
week, when he made an official
visitation at the local Elks lodge.
Mr. Henrichs is postmaster at
Cordova.
The Valley Presbyterian Hos
pital was recently endowed with
all the rights, benefits and privil
eges of an institutional member,
active in the American Hospital
Association. A framed copy was
received at the hospital this past
week.
Dr. and Mrs. F. McParland of
Elmendorf AFB leave for Con
recticut on Saturday of this week.
Dr. McParland has completed his
tour of duty with the Air Force
and will further his medical
studies. He has been a frequent
valley visitor the past year, act
ing as substitute doctor for Dr.
C. C. Bailey during the latter’s
vacation and on several week
ends.
Mrs. Pat McParland this week
successfully completed examina
tions for her private pilots licen
se. She has been taking her in
structions from Rene Nielsen off
the Palmer Airport.
Irwin Pinkham of Maine is vis
iting the Faith Hill Home for
children, of which his son, Louis,
is director. Mr. Pinkham will be
operating the farm at the home
during his son’s recovery from a
serious injury.
Lew Hanks leaves Friday for
California where he will attend
a Soil Conservation Service con
ference to be held in Oakland. He
expects to be gone about 10 days.
Annual physical exams have
been started in the Palmer school
system, with about half of the
students already examined. Sel
ected grades one, four, seven, ele
ven, and new students will be
examined. An attempt will be
made to notify all parents on the
date and time of examinations.
Results will be sent home with
the child when completed- Public
Health Nurses, Dolores Mattila
and Jeanne Shaver are assisting
Dr. A. J. Colberg and Dr. John
Burnett with the program.
During the seven years since
he Bureau of Land Management
was formed in 1946 through con
solidation of the General Land
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GREYHOUN
LLOYD MORLEY
ATTENDS COLLEGE
CCMMITTEE MEET
Lloyd Morley, administrator of
the Valley Presbyterian Hospital,
was in Sitka October 7 and 8,
attending the meeting of the ad
visory committee of the Sheldon
Jackson Junior College.
The committee heard the Wo
men’s Committee of the Board of
National Missions is planning to
raise $200,000 in 1955 with Op
portunity gifts, to build a new
junior college dormitory and $50,
000 for a r.ew recreation center.
It is planned that at least $15,000
will be raised in Alaska for the
recreation building by friends of
the school.
Aside from discussing future
building plans, the committee
heard reports regarding the work
of the present school year, in
spected the Leslie Yaw Library
and classroom building, which
now is being constructed, and par
ticipated in the dedication of radio
station KSEW, The Voice of
Sheldon Jackson.
Committee members attending
included Frank Walkup, Anch
orage, chairman; Edgar Philleo,
Fairbanks, vice-chairman; Mrs.
Isabel Brady, Mt. Edgecumbe,
secretary; Lloyd Morley, Palmer;
Don Schwab, Juneau; Edward
Benson, Metlakatla, and Joseph
Kahklen, Mt. Edgecumbe. Ex-of
ficio members present were: Miss
Lillian Windham, New York; R.
Rolland Armstrong, Juneau, and
Roland Wurster and Clifford
Wilson, president and dean of the
school.
Office and the Grazing Service,
BLM recipts have totaled more
than 308 million dollars.
OFFICE EQUIPMENT
ACCOUNTING FORMS
OFFICE SUPPUES
Everything
for the Office
Expert Office
Machine Repairs
COMMERCIAL
STATIONERS
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Palmer People Win Bazaar Prizes
A1 Otter of Anchorage was
awarded the Norge home deep
freeze at St. Michael’s annual
bazaar on October 16. Other win
ners and their prizes were: Dick
Benson of Palmer, hand made af
ghan, Esther Gallagher, Palmer,
Argus C3 35mm camera with case
and flash attachment; and Merle
Puddicombe, Pendleton 100% vir
gin wool blanket.
Young and old enjoyed an eve
ning of Alaska’s Favorite Game,
the fish pond, apron concession,
food sales and novelty booths.
Although attendance was lower
this year than in the past, those
attending pronounced the affair
“it’s usual success”. Proceeds from
the annual affair go toward the
church and parish house main
tenance.
Anchorage Travel
Bureau
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