Contest Prizes
Are Announced
Prizes for the home beauti
fication contest sponsored by the
Northland Pioneer Grange were
announced by Mrs. Nina Stock
this week. The Grange's original
prize offer of $100, to be divid
ed among the first three win
ners, has been augmented by a
$75 contribution from the Alaska
Rural Rehabilitation Corp.
The prizes, as announced by
Mrs. Stock, are as follows:
First prize, $80.
Second prize, $60.
Third prize, $35.
The contest closes on Aug. 25
and prize-winners will be an
nounced during the fair.
Mrs. Stock said that more than
50 Valley homes had been en
tered in the contest. Already
two contestants have supplied
the contest committee with “be
fore” pictures of their homes.
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The Alaska Railroad
Offers Valley Residents a complete passenger and
freight service—daily except Sunday.
SCHEDULE t
Leave Palmer .3:30 p.m.
Arrives Anchorage .5:30 p.m.
Leave Anchorage . 9:30 a.m.
Arrives Palmer .11:30 a.m.
RAILBUS SERVICE
Can be slopped at any point along the route
Leave Palmer .8:30 a.m.
Return from Anchorage at .4:30 p.m.
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY
Fare—$2.55 one way; $3.40 round trip
FOR INFORMATION
Call Palmer Depot — or Anchorage. ARCO 11
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FOUNTAIN SERVICE - - LIGHT LUNCHES
at the
NORTH PALMER COFFEE SHOP
NORTH PALMER STORE
Our Coffee Shop Is Open Now
A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT
of
★ Groceries ★ Meats
★ Fresh Vegetables ★ Case Goods
★ Fresh Fruit ★ Ice Cream
Open Daily from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
For All Your Refreshment Reeds
in Palmer
VISIT
FRONTIER BAR
FRONTIER LIQUOR STORE
FRONTIER CAFE
All three open 24 hours dally,
seven days each week
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Federal Aid May
Help Develop Pdmer
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$90,000; construction of curbs,
gutters and sidewalks to cost an
estimated $90,000; construction
of extended sewer lines and a
storm sewer to cost an estimated
$270,000; development of a water
system and extension of present
water lines to cost an estimated
$150,000; grading, surfacing and
extension of the Palmer airport
to cost an estimated $100,000;
construction of additional grade
and high school buildings to cost
an estimated $800,000; construc
tion of housing for Federal em
ployes to cost an estimated
$800,000.
This list was submitted to Mr.
McGinty, together with a letter
which stated that Palmer failed
to meet the first condition of a
public works program, since the
city has not been incorporated.
However the letter set forth that
there “have been a number of
serious suggestions that it should
be incorporated,’’ and asked that
the city be given all considera
tion possible under the circum
stances.
Mr. McGinty’s reply to that
letter, reporting that a Federal
building and some of the other
proposed projects were not pos
sible under the program, repeat
ed the condition that the public
works program could be under
taken only in incorporated cities. .
However still another wire in i
regard to the subject was re- I
ceived in the Valley last week,
in which the Alaska Housing Au- i
thority reported that a bill had
been submitted to Delegate Bob
Bartlett which calls for a Con
gressional grant of funds for the 1
construction of permanent fam
ily dwellings in the territory.
This wire requested specific
information as to the estimated 1
increase in population since 1939,
estimated increase in new homes
since that time, estimated pres
ent shortage of family housing
units and how many heads of
families unsatisfactorily housed
are either veterans or Federal (
employes.
Mr. Maze and Mr. Irwin, work
ing together completed an un
official census of the city of Pal- i
mer and wired the information
on Thursday to Alaska’s gover
nor Ernest Gruening, now in
Washington. D. C. <
The Chamber of Commerce
awaits further official informa
tion before proceding further in ,
the matter. '
However Mr. Maze, Chamber
president, was unhesitating in
expressing the hope that Pal- i
mer will take proper steps to *
meet the stipulations required
for the program before it is too
late. It is believed Palmer’s 1
school and airport both would *
receive early attention under the
Alaska Public Works Program
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Soil Men Analyze
Alaska’s Woes
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ing, low water-holding capacity
of some soils, need for produc
tion of crop varieties suitable for
Alaska, soil and crop manage
ment under frozen sub-soil condi
tions, single crop farming, preda
tory animal and weed control,
prevention and control of forest
fires, utilization of forest produc
tions on a sustained yield basis,
transportation between farming
areas and their markets, and
need for fertilization and soil
amendments.
It is the plan of the Soil Con
servation Board to attack its
problems and work toward their
solution through the assistance
of the territory’s agricultural ex
periment stations, the Extension
Service, the Forest Service and
Alaska Fire Control Service, the
Soil Conservation Service, the
Alaskan Department of Agricul
ture, the Production and Mar
keting Administration, the Pub
lic Roads Administration and the
Alaska Road Commission, the
Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Cor
poration and the Farmer’s Home
Administration.
FRONTIERSMAN ADS BRING RESULTS
Dress Your Small Fry for Summer
From Our New Selection
of Warm Weather Togs
Corduroy Pants
T-Shirts
Sized from six months to three years
VARIETY VOGUES
Hats
FRESH ONIONS
from Matanuska gardens
Fresh MATANUSKA EGGS
Our own HOMEMADE SAUSAGE
PALMER COLD STORAGE & LOCKER SERVICE
Announcement
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In our endeavors to overcome difficulties preventing
opening of the Malanuska Hotel we are bending every
effort to complete financing of the project.
Subscriptions to capital stock of the corporation are
solicited from Valley and Palmer residents. All moneys
being received on stock subscriptions shall be placed
in an escrow account with the Valley bank. The
bank is under agrement to hold your money until
we can raise enough to complete our plans, and, in
the event we are not successful, the bank has instruc
tions to Teturn all subscriptions intact.
Common Capital stock may be had in any amount at
$10.00 par value per share, and 6% cumulative pre
ferred stock in any amount at $50.00 par value per
share.
Address all subscriptions to The Valley Bank or to
William W. Head, President, box 859, Anchorage.
The Matanuska Hotel
Corporation
FOUR TRIPS DAILY
Matunuska Valley Bus Lines
LEAVING PALMER FOR ANCHORAGE
(Daily except Sunday)
8:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 12 Noon 6:00 p.m.
LEAVING ANCHORAGE FOR PALMER
(Daily except Sunday)
9:00 a.m.
12 Noon
4:30 p.m.
9:00 p.m.
LEAVING PALMER FOR JONESVILLE
7:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m.
LEAVING JONESVILLE FOR PALMER
8:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.
ON SUNDAY. LEAVING PALMER
9 a.m. 6:00 p.m.
ON SUNDAY, LEAVING ANCHORAGE
Noon 9:00 p.m.
Palmer ticket office at Charlie's Bar-B-Cue
or the Sourdough Club
VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN