Students to Test
Self (fovernment
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with established school policy.
A student court of law is set
t p. complete with prosecution
t-nd defense attorneys, before
which students are brought to
Ik? tried when rules are violated.
The monitoring system of the
school is placed solely in the
banns of the students.
Mr. Snelling repeatedly em
phasized that any time the
Student Council government
fails in effective control, the
system will be taken again
into the hands of the school
office.
The principal advantage of
the plan, as Mr. Snelling sees
it. is that children are taught
the value of court procedure,
Jaw and order. Student Coun
cil government is a practical ap
plication of theories taught in
history and civics courses.
Chief disadvantage of the
plan, according to heads of
school systems where it has been
tried, is that not enough real
authority can be centralized in
the hands of the students.
VALLEY
THEATRE
Friday at 7:15, 9
Saturday at 2, 7:15, 9
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE 101
E :tra comedies for kids at the
Saturday 2 o'clock Matinee
News Cartoon
Sunday at 2, 7:15, 9
Monday at 8 Only
VALLEY
THEATRE
Twelve-Thirty
Homemakers Club
Elects Officers
Members of the Twelve-Thir
ty Homemakers Club met at the
home of Mrs. Esther Brock re
cently to name club officers for
the coming year and to elect
throe new club members.
Admitted to the Twelve-Thir
ty Club at that meeting were
Mrs. Ralph Dye. Mrs. Smith and
Mrs. R. Webb.
Officers elected at the meet
ing included:
Mrs. Nina Stock, president;
Mrs. Gilman Lindsey, vice-presi
dent: Mrs. Jack Moebius, secre
tary.
The club met again last Wed
nesday evening at the home of
Mrs. H. S. Bower, to plan the
work for the wintes months.
Spuds, Strikes
Hamper Studies
WASILLA—Potato harvest ab
sentees, as well as- strikebound
school supplies, prevented much
activity in the Wassilla school
during the past week, Superin
tendent James Pendleton said
last Monday.
However students who came to
school last week were busy on
two activities—preparation for
the first issue of Hi-Lite, student
publication expected to go to
press about Oct. 1, and the paint
ing of basketball court lines on
the gymnasium floor.
Mr. Pendleton said he expect
ed the community to begin organ
izing PTA work in Wasilla early
in October. Although no actual
PTA chapter exists, Wasilla resi
dents do elect a chairman each
year and conduct a limited pro
gram of PTA work.
LADDIE ENTERTAINS
Laddie Huntley entertained
several small friends at a party
and luncheon at the Huntley
home last Friday afternoon. Fri
day was Laddie’s ninth birthday.
His sister Margie acted as hostess
for him.
Guests who shared Laddie’s
birthday cake and ice cream with
him included:
Dennis and Erroll Hamman,
Joe and Jim Balloun and Cookie
Taylor.
Delores Has Birthday
Delores Foster was a recent
hostess to a group of small school
friends on the occasion of her
tenth birthday. Delores invited
10 guests to her party, which was
held between the hours of 4 and
> 7 o’clock on Sept. 13.
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Lee Mason Tells
Of Engagement
WASILLA — The engagement
of Miss Lee Mason of Wasilla to
James A. McGrath of Olympia,
Wash., was recently announced
at the Renton, Wash , home of
Miss Mason's mother.
Miss Mason is at present teach
er of the intermediate grades at
Wasilla school. She previously
taught one year in the territory
at a school near Juneau. She
took her teacher-training work
at the Oregon College of Educa
tion and at the University of
Oregon.
Mr. McGrath is an architect
with the engineering division of
Rayonier, Inc., a position he has
held for the past two and a half
years.
Although Miss Mason has set
no definite date for her wed
ding, she plans to leave Alaska
immediately, and probably will
be married late in October or
early in November. The Mc
Graths will make their home in
Olympia, Wash., for the present
Miss Mason will be replaced
in the Wasilla school by Miss
Margaret E. Cronk of Syracuse,
N. Y., a graduate of Syracuse
University. Miss Cronk is al
ready eh route to Alaska, and
is expected to arrive here about
Oct. 1.
Miss Mason expressed regret
at so soon leaving Wasilla,
where she has many friends. She
said that already she is making
plans for a return visit to Alas
ka with her husband. Mr. Mc
Grath has never visited the ter
ritory.
Party Honors
States-Bound Trio
ESKA — Mr. and Mrs. Chester
White, of Eska were honored at
a farewell party given at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Allman
of Eska last Saturday evening.
Elmer Ubert of Jonesville and
John Putila, formerly of Kalama,
Wash., also were honor guests
at the party.
The Whites left for Kalama,
early this week, and Mr. Ubert
also is to leave soon for the Out
side.
The evening was spent in danc
ing, singing, games and card
playing. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
Hiber of Jonesville were judged
winners in an old-style waltz
contest. The evening closed with
the serving of refreshments.
The guests who gathered to
bid the honor guests farewell in
cluded:
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Hiber,
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Tucker, Mr.
and Mrs. Eino Kuoppola, Mr.
and Mrs. Gunnard Kuoppola,
Mr. a .d XI ;. Hank Kuoppola,
and M'\ ar d Mrs. Swannee Kuop
pola, all cf I.ska, Les Shaver,
John llErtaren, John Putilla and
Elmer Ube t, and the honor
guests, Mr. and Mrs. -Chester
White, all of Jonesville.
The mary Jonesville and Eska
friends of the departing trio ex
pressed their regret that the
three are leaving Alaska.
Paper Planned
Work on the “Banana Belt
Breeze,” student publication of
the Palmer school, was begun
this week, and the first issue of
the current year will be off the
press soon, it was announced yes
terday.
Mrs. Jean Dickson, high school
English instructor, is faculty
member in charge of the paper.
Plan Summer Homes
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Fleming and
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rees, em
ployes of The Alaska Railroad
at Anchorage, and Mr. and Mrs.
Judd Fowler and Roya! Peters of
CAA, all recently purchased
land on Lake Lucille at Wasilla.
The group expects to build
summer cottages at the lake
next year.
NAME OFFICERS
The Sourdough Homemakers
Club was called to order at the
home of Mrs. Maude Ware, on
Sept. 17, to name new officers.
Elected to office were:
Mrs. Jack Cope, president;
Mrs. Nan Curtis, vice-president;
Mrs. Louis Ungaro, secretary.
Coffee Insures Everything—
Remember —Adv.
‘CONGRESSMEN DROP IN
ON VALLEY HOUSEWIFE
Member* of the Senate Pub
lic Lands Committee, who, in
company with their wives and
heads of Alaska's territorial gov
ernment, visited the Valley re
cently, got at least one good con
crete example of what can be
done to bring Alaska's wilder
ness under cultivation. The Sen
ators. wives and members of the
official party, dropped in for a
brief and unscheduled visit at
the home of Virgil Eckert at the
northern end of the Valley.
Although they were at the
Eckert farm for only a few min
utes, Mrs. Eckert said they asked
a good many pertinent questions
about farming problems in
Alaska, while they toured the
barns and gardens there.
Camera Fans
Like any other Alaskan tour
ists, the party was well armed
with movie cameras and col
ored film, and they swarmed
over the Eckert lawn and gar
den spot to shoot the Valley
from every possible angle.
However, they differed from
other Alaskan tourists, in that
they did evince interest in the
agricultural problems of the
Valley, and they showed a de
sire to collect as much factual
information as possible about
Matanuska and its farmers.
Ask Many Questions
“They asked lots of questions
about how long we’d been here
and what it looked like when
we first came, Mrs. kcKert said.
And they were all very much
surprised to find that it was
just raw land here when we
came. They said, too, that they
were glad to be able to find an
example of how the territory's
wildness can be tamed. All of
the other land they'd seen on
their trip had just been wilder
ness, they said."
And there is much on the
Eckert farm that would surprise
a veteran Alaskan as well as a
group of visiting Senatorial
cheechakos, for 12 years of work
have made the Eckert hillside
over into a farm that looks like
pictures of the Pennsylvania
countryside.
Modern Home
A thick green lawn slopes
toward the road in front of the
snug home of logs. Beech trees
in gold and colorful annuals
brighten the dooryard. Electri
city and the labor-saving house
hold devices it brings all heljf
to make the Eckert farm an out
standing example of what can
be done to carve a home out of
the wilderness.
One of the original group of
colonists, the Eckerts have 90
acres of farmland in all; an esti
mated 60 of those acres are now'
under cultivation.
There are three children in the
Eckert home, two of school age
I and one younger boy.
Mrs. Zeile Named
Temporary Nurse
Mrs. Walter Zeile, former pub
lic health nurse in thiis area, has
resumed her duties in that office
until a new nurse is appointed
as replacement for the one who
recently resigned.
Mrs. Zeile moved back to her
old desk last Tuesday morning.
She has worked out an office
schedule which she announces
as follows:
Office — Monday lo Friday
from 1 to 2 p. m.
School—Daily except Thurs
day from 11 lo 12 a. m.
Wasilla — Each Thursday
of the week.
Butte area — First and third
Wednesdays of each month.
Jonesville, Eska and High
way points — Second Friday
of each month.
Those who wish to see Mrs.
Zeille on Saturdays may do so
by appointment. Regular office
hours are not scheduled on Sat
urday. however.
Mrs. Zeile said this week that
the first Public Health Council
meeting of the fall season will
be held sometime in October.
Exact date for that meeting will
be announced in the near future.
Hospital Needs
More Nurses
Miss Ethel Dale, hospital man
ager for the Matanuska Valley
Hospital, this week issued an ur
gent plea for more nurses to
augment the present hospital
staff.
Miss Dale said that while per
manent nurses were the most
urgent need, the hospital would
welcome the help of any trained
nurse on either a part-time or
temporary basis until the staff
is increased.
The hospital manager also ex
pressed her appreciation to Val
ley residents who have brought
vegetables to the hospital kitch
en and to the women of Palmer
who have helped with cleaning
chores and with hospital sewing.
Go Outside
i Mr. and Mrs. Charles Killeran
, of Palmer have been called Out
! side by illness in their family,
, They plan to leave for Lansing,
Mich., within the next few days.
Coffee Insures Everything—
Remember —Adv.
Call 8 to get meeting notices
printed in the Frontiersman.
Former Residents
Move To Anchorage
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Wingfield,
former Valley residents, have re
cently returned to Anchorage
from Dutch Harbor, it was learn
ed here this week. The Wing
fields plan to make their home in
Anchorage at present, but said
they will return to the Valley to
live some day.
Mr. Wingfield is tentatively
planning to go Outside for furth
er study. He was formerly con
nected with the Experimental
Station here, and later taught in
the Aleutian islands just prior
to the war. He and Mrs. Wing
field were at Dutch Harbor at
the time of the Japanese attack
there.
BACK TO WORK
Cpl. Robert Rust of Palmer,
who has been visiting here on
a two week’s furlough, returned
to his post at Cold Bay last Tues
day. Corporal Rust, who now has
seen 16 months of Army service,
is a member of the 120th AACS
squadron at Cold Bay.
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