valley Frontiersman
VOL. II.
PALMER, ALASKA JUNE 30, 1949
No. 30
Sportsmen Must
Get Licenses
By July 1
Hunting and fishing licenses
issued last year expire on June
30, it was announced last week
by Holgar Larsen of the Fish
and Wild Life Service. New li
censes, which were being issued
on Monday of this week, are re
quired beginning July 1.
Mrs. Neal Wright has been
named licensing officer for the
Valley. She asks that completed
application forms be left with
the clerk on duty at Bert’s Drug
Store. The license then either
will be delivered by mail, or may
be picked up by the applicant
later.
Everyone who was issued a li
cense last year is required to
bring it with him, when making
application for a renewal, Mrs.
Wright reminded. The number
on the expired license must be
recorded on the renewal appli
cation.
Printed FWS regulations for
the coming season are not yet
available in Palmer. However
last year’s regulations for fish
ermen still are in force.
Local fishermen now are free
to hook rainbow, steelhead, cut
throat, Eastern brook, Dolly Var
den, lake trout and grayling in
the drainages of Cottonwood,
Fish, Fire and Wolverine Creeks.
The season extends from June 1
to March 15 of next year.
Mrs. P. Waverick
Dies In Anchorage
Mrs. Paul Waverick, known
throughout the territory as the
hospitable cook and co-owner of
Eureka Lodge on the Glenn
Highway, died in Anchorage last
Thursday. Mrs. Waverick had
been confined to the Valley Hos
pital by illness, and was trans
ferred to Providence Hospital in
Anchorage the evening before
her death.
Mrs. Waverick, 63 years of
age, was Swedish by birth. She
is survived by her husband Paul,
< and by two sisters and a brother
in Sweden.
Funeral services for the long
time Alaskan resident were held
from the Anchorage Central
Lutheran Church yesterday aft
ernoon. Interment followed in
the Anchorage cemetrey.
Marie Helps Out
WASILLA — Marie Betts is re
lief driver for Bill this summer,
while he is doing heavy equip
ment operation.
Visits From Fairbanks
Mrs. John Osguthorpe of the
Fairbanks experiment station
was a Valley visitor this week.
KENT’S HOME AGAIN
Kent Sandvik, young son of
Mr. and Mrs. I. Mt Sandvik of
the Valley, is now at home again
after spending the past school
term at Gaston, Ore. Kent visit
ed with the Harold Lambertons
and with relatives in Seattle be
fore coming north.
NEW COLLEGE PREXY IS
VERSATILE AND OPEN-MINDED
Trained for business, with a
deep interest in science as an
avocation, and a penchant for
mountain-climbing for relaxa
tion—that’s the essence of Dr.
Terris Moore, who becomes pres
ident of the University of Alas
ka on July 1 of this year. On that
date, Dr. Charles Bunnell, who
has headed the University at
College for 27 years, becomes
president emeritus.
Dr. Moore, who arrived in Sew
ard last Thursday, spent last
Saturday in Palmer where he
met with Don Irwin, head of
the Agricultural Research Ad
ministration, in a series of con
ferences. Mr. Irwin has been in
charge of Alaska’s agricultural
stations for the past two years.
Their control reverts again to
the University of Alaska on
July 1.
The new president expressed a
keen interest in the program of
agricultural research which has
been instituted here. “I intend
to use my office of president to
facilitate the work of agricul
tural research in every way I
can,” he asserted. He expressed
surprise at the progress made in
agricultural research, so recent
ly inaugurated in the territory,
mentioning in particular the de
velopment of the Arctic Seed
ling, the potato evolved to meet
the demands of Alaskan climate
and growing season.
The transfer of the agricul
tural stations to University con
trol is not expected to make any
change in the long-term plans
which have been formulated by
the Agricultural Research Ad
ministration. Dr. Moore said he
saw it as a 10 to 15-year pro
gram, at least. He commended
Mr. Irwin for gathering such a
highly-qualified staff of tech
nical assistants to carry out the
planned program.
The new college president,
who is a young man with a 15
year-old daughter and a 9-year
old son, declared that he came
to Alaska and the University
with an “open mind and an im
partial approach. I feel cure I
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EXTRA EXTRA
PALMER DISTRICT FAVORED
BY 3 T01 MARGIN
The Palmer School District was incorporated by
a 3 to 1 majority in yesterday's election. Voting was
Animals Are
Getting Nosey
Alaska’s wild life is devoting
its summer to the study of hu
manity this year, according to
reports current in the several
papers of this locality. Both
moose and black bear have been
sighted strolling through the
company areas on Fort Richard
son recently.
In Palmer, one sleek black
bear with a Ferdinand-ish bent,
was disturbed while napping in
a wild rose patch. Rusty Dow,
driving down the road near Dan
Sullivan’s cabin, sighted the ani
mal as it darted from its thorny
couch a little way from the West
Side Service. Its slumbers were
disturbed when a woman began
hanging clothes on the line next
to the rose bushes.
The bear galloped wildly down
the road, braked short a few
feet from Rusty’s truck, and
went into reverse so quickly he
stumbled over his feet and fell
flat in the roadway. He finally
disappeared into the under
growth across the road, only a
little distance from a group of
playing children.
Curious moose also are report
ed, only recently, to have in
vestigated the durability of some
of the fences in North Palmer
dooryards. There are some who
think the big animals pine for
the delicacy of Valley hay
stacks, for which they developed
a taste during the winter
months.
heavy in spite of the rain,
with a total of 356 votes
cast. This was in decided
contrast to the school
election this spring when
less than 75 voters mark
ed the ballots.
Total count for incorporation
was 261, with 82 registering a
vote against it.
Balloters voted at the same
time for 5 school directors to
administer the affairs of the new
district. The following 4 men
and a woman were elected:
Harold Thuma, James Hurley,
Mrs. Victor Johnson, Jack Maze
and Lucius Ross. Voting was
close for the last 3 candidates
but Mr. Thuma was swept into
office by a big majority. He
polled a total of 226 votes.
Votes were cast for 10 write
in candidates with even election
judges Mrs. Russell Gill and
Mrs. W. C. Mau receiving one
voter’s approval. Both Mrs. Amy
Irwin and Glenn ' Woods, en
cumbents, were endorsed by
several voters, even though both
had refused to be a candidate.
Nearly everyone who cast a
ballot, even though not favoring
incorporation, selected five can
didates for board positions. Had
the District incorporation failed,
the present Board would auto
matically continue in office.
However, there were less than
a dozen voters who considered
their job finished when they
marked their ballot against in
corporation.
can be objective,” he said, “since
I come from so far away.” He
has been a member of the staff
of Harvard University, has been
a professor at the University of
California at Los Angeles, and
more recently has been presi
dent of the Boston Museum of
Science for three years.
Last week’s entrance to Alas
ka was his sixth trip to the ter
ritory for Dr. Moore. He came
first in his youth, when he was
a member of several mountain
climbing expeditions. He at one
time held the hope of organizing
a party to scale Mt. Everest in
the Himalayas, the tallest peak
in the world. Dr. and Mrs.
Moore were of the party which
climbed Mt. Sanford in 1938 with
Brad Washburn.
Assigned to the Quartermaster
Corps of the Army as a research
consultant in 1942, Dr. Moore
spent several months in Alaska
at that time.
Questioned concerning his at
titude toward the establishment
of a branch of the University in
the Matanuska Valley, Dr. Moore
answered that he was appointed
to represent the board of re
gents of the University and to
carry out their wishes. “However
University belongs to the peo
ple, and I think their wishes
certainly should be considered,”
he said. “I know I would have
no personal objection to such a
move, if the people and the re
gents wanted it.”
Dr. and Mrs. Moore and their
children, who headquartered at
the Matanuska Hotel during
their brief stay in the Valley, left
by automobile on Sunday for
Fairbanks.