Monday Queen, Talent Show
To Cap Fair Entertainment
Climaxing three days of stellar
entertainment features at the
week-end Matanuska Valley
Fair, will be the queen and talent
contest finals on Monday, Sept.
5. At this show, to be held in Pal
mer Gymnasium beginning at
7:30 p. m„ Fair audiences will
help to choose Miss Alaskan
Statehood, who will reign as
queen of the Fair, and the talent
contest winner.
The girl who is chosen as
queen will have a flight to Hol
lywood as her prize, while the
talent contest winner will fly to
New York for a week of sight
seeing there.
The queen contestants will ap
pear in a style show on Monday,
when judges will rate them on a
point scale, in part determined
by audience applause. The show
is staged under the direction of
Mrs. Minnie Clark of Variety
Vogues, and is made possible
through the co-operation of An
chorage dress shops.
Each contestant is to appear
three times during the style
show—once in play clothes, once
in afternoon dress, and once in
formal evening wear.
Anchorage dress shops who are
supplying costumes for queen
contestants include:
Colonial Dress Shop for Dol
ores Levan; Welch’s for Janet
Sherrod; Hollywood Style Shop
for Marie Mullan; Carol’s for La
von Roetman; Betty Faris for
Hilda Stenvall; and Mary Bock
Shop for Barbara Hecker.
The stage is to be transformed
into a floral bower for the show.
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Flowers from the display at the
Fair’s flower show will be used
for the background decorations.
Talent contestants also will ap
pear on this show. Each entrant
will be asked to present two se
lections. Talent contest entries,
at press-time, included Carol
Martens, Anchorage soprano;
Ted Jamieson. Anchorage violin
ist; and Larry Stock, Valley
pianist.
As a special feature attraction,
but not for contest participation,
Pete Bouwens will repeat his
performance of the Sword Dance,
so popular in last spring’s min
strel show.
Herbert Enjoys
Valley Frontiersman
Word coming from Herbert
Ising, formerly a Valley resident,
this week stated that he was
keeping in touch with old friends
through the news columns of the
Valley Frontiersman. Herbert
writes that he enjoys reading
Palmer news, even though it has
been some time since he left the
Valley.
He reports that he is feeling
well and is making good progress
in health. Herbert is at present
at the Lutheran Sanitarium at
Wheat Ridge, Colo., and letters
from his former Valley friends
would reach him there.
TO LEAVE PALMER
Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Lossing,
long-time Valley residents, ex
pect to leave Palmer immedi
ately after the close of the Mata
nuska Valley Fair this year. They
will make their home Outside,
probably in Oregon.
Goodyear Truck and Passenger Car Batteries
are built for extra starting and staying power
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Palmer
Servicp department to be open on Sunday and Monday for gas
oil and tire repair
Full Schedule
Planned Tuesday
For Students
It’ll be an all-day session for
Palmer’s school children next
Tuesday, Superintendent William
T. Zahradnicek announced this
week. School will begin officially
at 9 a. m., and will close at 3:30
p. m.
It is planned to serve a hot
lunch in the cafeteria on Tues
day, the superintendent said.
Mrs. W. C. Mau again will be in
charge of the school lunch pro
gram.
A new plan of payment for
lunches was outlined by Mr.
Zahradnicek. It is proposed to
issue lunch tickets, good for 10
meals, at a cost of $3. The tickets,
which will normally last two
weeks, will be . punched each
lunch period and will be usable
until all 10 meals are eaten.
Children who do not wish to
take advantage of the meal
ticket plan may purchase lunches
daily. The cost will be 30c, as it
was last year. This cost will in
clude milk.
Sportsmen Seek
Display Material
L. C. Stock, president of the
Matanuska Valley Sportsmen,
this week issued an appeal for
suitable material for exhibition
in the cabin assigned to the club
for the coming fair.
The Sportsmen are in need of
skins, heads, all types of mount
ed specimens, pictures at least
8 x 10 in size, which pertain to
hunting and fishing, or any
other material concerned with
outdoor living.
The club has been promised
some material from the Fish and
Wild Life Service, but many
other items are needed. The club
also is in need of some volun
teer fishermen who will hook
Dolly Varden and rainbow trout,
to be displayed in a tank set up
in the exhibit cabin.
Mr. Stock will receive articles
for display, or will answer any
questions concerning the Sports
men’s exhibit.
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