VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
Entered as second class matter on Oct. 21, 1947, at the post office at
Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Subscription rates . 50c month, $5 a year
Published at Palmer each Thursday
Viola Daniels .. Editor
No printed material in the Valley Frontiersman may be
reproduced except by permission of the editor.
Mailed to all points in Alaska and the United States
PUBLISHED AT PALMER EACH THURSDAY
DANIELS IN THE DEN
The Valley’s favorite winter recreation of rumor-manufacturing
was rolling into high gear this week. Several choice bits of the fin
ished article from Valley home production centers reached our at
tention this week.
Since even editors are human, we shrugged them all off except
the one we heard that concerns the Valley Frontiersman. That one
we’d like to deny, since it currently and persistently crops up each
fall.
The Valley Frontiersman is NOT, either now or at any future
date, planning to suspend publication. We’re in our third year in
Palmer, and we can’t imagine anything in the months and years
ahead that’s going to be any worse, or even any different, than the
teapot tempests we’ve weathered so far.
Each year, when the Frontiersman has a birthday and we change
that volume number on the front page, we make a little editorial
speech saying that we like this Valley, and that we hope to be here
for a long, long time yet. We made that same editorial speech last
September 15. We’re perfectly willing to repeat it on November 25,
if anyone still wants to hear it. We like it here. We hope to stay.
We’re not going to be so rash as to predict that we’re positive
we’ll be here 10 years from now, or even 10 minutes from now. We
intend to be, and we’re going to bend every effort toward that end.
We could be forced out of business, conceivably, since a newspaper
without a plant of its own is always a stepchild among newspapers.
The Frontiersman exists by the grace of printshops which are
willing to accept the job of printing it on a commercial basis. It
also exists by reason of the payment of a stipulated sum each week.
Should either the grace or the funds be lacking some week, then
that’s the week you’ll miss your Valley Frontiersman.
Until that day comes, we’ll go right along doing business as
usual, with the first of the week, the first of the month or the first
of the year just another day in the Frontiersman week and nothing
more.
Rabbit-Hunting Miner
Loses Trail Heme
WASILLA—Ray Norris, Eska
coal miner, caused residents of
this community, and of the mine
village, no little alarm last week
when he failed to return from a
week-end rabbit hunting expe
dition. Search parties were or
ganized to beat through the
woods in the Wasilla area Sun
day night and Monday, for
friends feared an accident had
occurred. However, Mr. Norris
was discovered Monday fore
noon, hungry, cold, and very lost,
but otherwise unharmed.
LANES HAVE DAUGHTER
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lane of In
dependence Mine, became the
parents of a baby daughter on
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Optometrist Johnson
Plans Palmer
Office Hours
Dr. C. L. Johnson, Anchorage,
optometrist, will conduct eye ex
aminations at the Palmer branch
of Doctors’ Clinic each Wednes
day, it was announced this week
by Dr. Vernon Cates, head of
the local office. Dr. Johnson will
be in Palmer from 10 a. m. to 4
p m. on that day. The optome
trist will see patients by appoint
ment only, Dr. Cates said. Ap
pointments will be scheduled in
the Clinic office.
Nov. 17. The little girl, who
v,as bom at the Valley Hospital,
weighted seven pounds, seven
ounces at birth.
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TEACHER WILL MARRY
Miss Josephine Brady, Palmer
primary teacher, and Richard
Rasch were planning a Thanks
giving wedding as the Valley
Frontiersman went to press late
Wednesday evening. The couple
were to be married in Anchor
age where a school teacher friend
of Wrangell was to be Miss
Brady’s attendant. Miss Brady
formerly taught in Wrangell.
Grade Pupils Are Guests
At Bcsketball Game
Many grade school pupils of
the Palmer School got their first
glimpse of Alaska’s favorite spec
tator sport yesterday, when they
were guests at a basketball game
between the Palmer Jay-Vees
and a Wasilla five. The game
was played too late in the after
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noon to report the final score.
Superintendent Wm T. . Zah
radnicek said the game was pur
posely planned for the afternoon
hours, in order to permit the
grade school students to attend.
PLAN TO MARRY
Applications for a marriage li
cense were received from Cody
Grider and Jean Gilfillon at the
office of the U. S. Commissioner
Dorothy Saxton this week.
M. D. SNODGRASS
Real Estate
DAIRY & VEGETABLE FARMS
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A NEW L LINE OF
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Trucks
First Delivery of This New Model Truck
Is Expected in Palmer by Nov. 30
See the New
International
Before You Buy
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