VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
Published each Wednesday
Palmer, Alaska
Entered as second class matter on Oct. 21, 1947, at the post office
at Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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Viola Daniels .Editor
Walter Freeman .Associate Editor
Beverly Larsh .Advertising Manager, Palmer
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DANIELS — In the Lion's Den
The 18 months ol study ol the problem of incorporation spon
sored by the Valley Chamber of Commerce came to naught last
week, when the Chamber evaluation committee submitted its final
report, without recommendation, and the entire matter was dropped
without ever coming before the membership for a vote.
Not that the work of that evaluation committee is to be dis
credited—its function was merely to investigate and to report to the
main body of the Chamber, upon which the responsibility for action
would fall. In fact that committee went farther in its work than
it absolutely needed, lor committee members investigated the cost
of incorporation and submitted estimated figures for the annual
budget for operation of the city of Palmer.
The original plan, as announced to Chamber members almost
a year ago, was to conduct the study and then bring the question
before the public at some type of meeting, where a panel could dis
cuss the issues with everyone interested. I he idea was that all pros
and cons would be threshed out at this meeting, which would be
followed by a regularly scheduled election at which incorporation
would be accepted or rejected by the vote of the residents of Palmer.
Thai plan, considered feasible then, seems to us to contain as
much merit today. We believe that the membership of the Cham
ber, given the opportunity to vote on that plan, might find it still
acceptable. We feel this is a matter to be accepted or rejected by
ilie Chamber as a whole—we leel it an injustice that one Chamber
official cotdd dismiss the whole project by saying it is a matter which
lies outside the scope of Chamber of Commerce activities.
We understood that Chambers of Commerce were organized in
order to further the best interests of the town which they represent.
We've known Chambers to stick out their collective necks on issues
a good bit more controversial than the project under discussion.
It our Alaskan neighbor organization can endorse plans for
highways, can go on record on transportation issues of far-reaching
importance, can even band together to send a group of lobbyists to
the stales to push a plan for their development, then it doesn’t seem
too lantastic to feel that the Valley Chamber might venture to pass
a resolution which would favor bringing the question of municipal
incorporation to a public vote.
We realize that the name of our group indicates a Valley-wide
participation. We consider that question simply a red herring
dragged in the path of the principal idea. All of us who attend
Chamber meetings know that the participating membership is made
up almost exclusively ol Palmer merchants and businessmen.
It may be that the membership of the Valley Chamber of Com
merce is unwilling to put on record as favoring a vote to settle the
question of incorporation. If that’s the stand of the Chamber, then
we’d like to know it. Our point is that this question is too large,
and too vitally important to us all, to be pushed into the back
ground at this time. Let’s either kill the project, once and for all,
or let’s get behind it and push it to the ultimate goal—that of a
municipal government for the town of Palmer.
Until we do one or the other, we would do well to remember
the words of one Congressman who wrote last winter that lie re
membered Palmer as a dirty little town, too disinterested in its own
problems even to do anything about making itself into a city.
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CLASSIFIED
FOR SALE
SINGER SEWING machines, re
built; portable type; immedi
ate delivery. Contact Freeman
at Frontiersman or call Mr.
Schmidt in Anchorage, Main
165 .evenings.
ROADHOUSE, doing excellent
business, on Palmer Highway
at Mile 36. First-rate location
on trout stream. Must sell due
to ill health. Write P. O. Box
713, Palmer.
COAL STOKER, comp., $50; hay
fork and carrier, $25; 50-gal.
electric water heater, 220 volt.
See Arthur Marsh.
YOUTH BED w/innerspring mat
tress; lamp shade, washable
plastic; 14” table lamp. Mrs.
Seth Cook.
ALTO SAXOPHONE, $85; Road
master bike, $42; Elto outboard
motor (repairs needed) $10.
Gene Marsh, Co-Op Garage.
FOR SALE OR RENT
6-ROOM HOUSE—G. A. Lindsey,
Box 798, Palmer.
FOR SALE
NEW MATERIALS for sale;
men’s suiting, half price. Inq.
Valley Cleaners.
’35 CHRYSLER, good condition,
good tires. Tost’s Service.
30 TONS of tires in most all
sizes; one 20-passenger GMC
cab-over-engine bus; lots more
articles. All sell at a bargain.
Inq. Mile 40, Anchorage High
way, A1 Huebner, Box 648, Pal
mer.
HOUSE, LOT in Sherrod Addi
tion; four rooms, bath, base
ment; also chickenhouse on
back of lot. Loren Wiederkehr,
Box 716.
FOR RENT
CABIN, part, furn.; 2 mi. south
of town. See William Hoskins,
Experiment Station.
CABINS; located opposite Hart
ley Bros. Garage. See A. H.
Marsh.
3 ROOM HOUSE at the Butte.
Inq. Co-op office.
NOTICE
CLIFFORD E. LILLIETHUN: For
information of interest to you,
please contact City Loan Co.,
305 4th & Pike Bldg., Seattle,
Wash.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that
James Clare Ellis, entryman, has
made final proof on homestead,
\nchorage serial 011664, togeth
er with his witnesses, William
Prank Davis, and Peter Joseph
Corcoran, all of Anchorage,
Alaska, for the SW>/4 sec. 25, T.
18 N. R. 3 W. S. M. containing
LGO acres, and it is now in the
files of the District Land Office,
\nchorage, Alaska, and if no
protest is filed on the local land |
office, within the period of pub
ication or thirty days thereafter,
;aid final proof will be accepted
md final certificate issued.
Signed) GEORGE A. LINGO,
Acting Manager
Date 1st Publication Oct. 28,
948.
Date last Publication, Nov. 24,
948.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that
Douglas Burl Vaden, entryman,
together with his witnesses,
Frank E. Sorensen and Raymond
H. Bergman, of Wasilla, Alaska,
has made final proof on his
homestead, Anchorage serial
011693, for lots 1, 2, SWy4NE^,
NWV4SE1/4, sec. 27, T. 18 N. R. 1
W. S.M. containing 176.63 acres,
and it is now in the files of the
District Land Office, Anchorage,
Alaska, and if no protest is filed
in the local land office, Anchor
age, within the period of publica
tion or thirty days thereafter,
said final proof will be accepted
and final certificate issued.
(SIGNED) GEORGE A. LINGO,
Acting Manager.
Date First Publication October
13, 1948.
Date Last Publication Novem
ber 10, 1948.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that Jo
seph S. Kaylor, entryman, of An
chorage, Alaska, together with
his witnesses, Howard Franklin
Estelle and Herbert Holstein, all
of Wasilla, Alaska, has made
final proof on his homestead,
Anchorage serial 011793, for the
SVzNWVi. WV2SWV4, sec. 14.T.17
N. R. 1W, S.M. containing 160
acres, and it is now in the files of
the District Land Office, Anchor
age, Alaska, and if no protest is
filed in the local land office,
within the period of publication
or thirty days thereafter, said fi
nal proof will be accepted and fi
nal certificate issued,
i SIGNED i GEORGE A. LINGO,
Acting Manager.
Date first publication Oct. 13,
1948.
Date last publication November
10, 1948.
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