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VOLUME 6. NUMBER 29
PALMER. ALASKA. THURSDAY. APRIL 9. 1953
PRICE TEN CENTS
Area-Wide Alert Scheduled for Sunday
CITY SECURES DEEDS
AND EASEMENTS FOR
NEW WATER SYSTEM
The City of Palmer has re
eived 16 warranty deeds from
city residents, for property nec
essary to install the new water
system.
The following persons and lo
calities are listed: Valley Hos
pital Association, Inc., two sites
located in Community Center;
Irene Benson, at well site; Mrs.
A. J. Swanson, on Swanson St.;
M. D. and Margaret Snodgrass,
south end of M.. D. Snodgress Ad
diton; E. C. Cristensen, on Swan
son Street; Ashley and Freda
Egtvet, on Airport Road and on
Snodgrass Street.
Robert and Polly Warner and
I. M. and Agnes Sandvik on Col
ony Street extension; Max and
Dorothy Sherrod on Sherrod Ave
nue Extension, Railway Street,
Swanson Avenue, Swanson Ave
nue extension and Swanson St.
extension; John C. and Ruth
Zimowske, on Swanson ^Street;
Mariam and DeLoss Johanson,
along Railway track; Palmer In
dependent School on Swanson
Street.
In addition, easements have
been secured from the following:
Irene Benson, at well site; Oscar
and Irene Beylund, at transmis
sion line; Virgil and Lillian Eck
ert at transmission line; John
Bugge, at transmission line; Al
aska Road Commission on Nprth
Colony Street extension; Seth B.
and Edna Cook on Glen Highway;
Peter A. and Marie J. Walker,
on Glen Highway; Donald and
Haleen Ingalls, on Glen High
way; Charles M. and Vivian M.
Shaver, Railway Street and Carl
H. and Edith Meier, Railway
Street.
Permit to use was granted by
the Alaska Road Commission
along the Glen Highway.
Typhoid Clinics
Start Today
Initial series of three injections
for typhoid immunization will
start in the Palmer school today,
and for adults April 10 at the
Health Center.
Permit slips were returned to
the Palmer school last week and
schedules for the complete series
and “booster” shots have been
established, Miss Dolores Mattila,
Public Health Nurse announced
this week.
Any who have not had typhoid
immunizations within the past
three years are advised to have
the complete series, she said.
Those who have had them are ad
vised to get a “booster,” thought
to be sufficient if the series was
given within the past three years.
Clinics will be held on the fol
lowing dates: April 9, 10, 17 and
24 in the Palmer school for all
students who have the consent of
their parents. Adult and pre
school children clinics will be
conducted April 10, 17 and 24 at
the Health Center, from 3 p.m.
and from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
PIANO TUNING &
REPAIRING
Estimates on work.
1 Inquire at Frintiersman office
• until Saturday April 11
t David L. Brown
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Telephone Committee
Plans Extensive
“Sign-Up” Survey
A Sign-Up” survey throughtout
the Valley, preparatory to apply
ing for an REA loan to form a
rural telephone asociation in this
area, is being conducted by the
rural telephone committee elect
ed at the communtity meeting
held March 5.
The proposed name of the new
association is the Matanuska Tele
phone Association (MTA). It
would be a cooperative on the
order of the Matanuka Electric
Association (MEA) of which the
majority of the populace of this
area are members. The proposed
boundaries of the telephone ser
vice would corespond with those
of the MEA, including the Knik,
Willow, Eagle River, Eureka,
Wasilla, Palmer, Jonesville, Sut
ton, Chugiak areas.
Lew Hanks, chairman of the
telephone committee said a minu
mum of 500 signed aplications for
membership are absolutely neces
sary to assure consideration for a
loan request by REA in Washing
ton and added the more signers,
the better chance of securing a
loan and the less equity each
member would be required to
pay. Membership is $10 and the
amount of equity will figure be
tween $25 and $40, depending up
on the total number of signed
member and the size of the loan.
A survey crew plans to make
a house-to-house canvass within
the city within the near future.
All persons interested in joining
the association are asked to fill
out the membership applications
to be furnished by those making
the survey..
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Benson, in his revised budget to
Congress recently asked that
funds for the Rural Telephone
Administration be increased fifty
million dollars, Hanks pointed out
this week. Money will be hard to
obtain from Washington, he said
but the area’s position in a critical
defense zone adds urgency to the
matter of improving the com
munication system now in ex
istance.
In a form letter to be mailed
to more than 1200 persons this
week, it is pointed out that the
City of Palmer has given its
blessing to the project, inasmuch
as the city does not have finances
to improve and expand its tele
phone system as it would like
to do, and that it realizes the ur
ban areas would benefit as much
as the rural areas from a new
modern automatic dial telephone
system, as proposed buy the rural
telephone committee.
MEA Reminds of
'nnual Meeting
Members of the Matanuska El
ectric Association were remind
ed this week of theix annual
meeting to be held at the Pal
mer School auditorium Saturday
night, April 11 at 7:30 p.m.
The first one hundred persons
to arrive will receive copies of
Marquis Child’s new book on the
history of the rural electric de
velopment, “The Farmer Takes
a Hand.” In addition several at
tractive attendance prizes will be
awarded during the evening. .
GOVERNOR'S PROCLAMATION
The following proclamation was released from the
Governor’s office this week:
“WHEREAS the American Mother’s committee of the
Golden Rule Foundation was inaugurated in 1933 with its
principal purpose to give to the observance of Mothers
Day throughout the nation and the world a fine spiritual
character truly representative of the ideals of mothers
everywhere and
WHEREAS the committee’s basic aim is the establish
ment of proper homes and home life firmly built on a
foundation of belief in God with enthusiasm in the daily
routines and responsibilities, the will, the strength, courage
and knowledge of the way to make a home and
WHEREAS it has never been more vitally important
to reestablish the true purpose of the homes of the nation
and particularly herein the Territory of Alaska now there
fore, I, Ernest Gruening, Governor of the Territory of
Alaska, do hereby proclaim the week of April 6-13, 1953
as Alaska Mother’s Week during which all mothers who
have been nominated as Alaska Mother for 1953 will be
especially honored and particularly Delia Hamilton Watson
of Mountain View, Alaska who has been selected to be
Mother for 1953.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
caused the Seal of the Territory of Alaska to be affixed.
Done at Juneau, the capital, this sixth day of April in the
year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-three.
CITY GRANTS FIVE
BUILDING PERMITS
Building permits authorizing
alterations and new construction
to five Palmer buildings ranging
in vafue from $150 to $5,000 have
beet* granted by the city since
January 1. •
The Matanuska Electric Asso
ciation plans the erection of a
Neisen hut, with costs estimated
around $2,700.
Alfred V. Hagen is remodeling
the Valley Theatre building front,
with plans calling for a $700 ex
penditure. A storage-warehouse,
valued at approximately $500 is
being erected by the Palmer
B. P. O. Elks lodge. .
A greenhouse, to cost $150, is
being built by Bob Peterson at
his home and John Zimowske
plans to start a new home with
initial costs estimated at $5,000.
VALLEY FAIR ASSETS
NOW SET AT $14,073
In spite of the extremely rainy
season experienced during the
1952 Valey Fair, nearly $6,000
in cash was turned over to the
association at the annual meeting
held April 6.
The statement of assets and net
worth listed at $14,073.93 as of
December 31 were as follows:
Cash, $5,848.76; Series E bond,
$1,000; real estate, $1,363.64 and
buildings (less reserve) $5,851.53.
In the annual report made by
Alfred V. Hagen, president of
the association, highlights of
many of the 1952 Fair activities
were brought out, including the
changing of the status of the
ganization, meaning an annual
organization to a non-profit or
approximate saving of $1300 a
year in taxes and the retiring and
calling in of all outstanding pre
ferred stock; spearheading the
drive to have the Territorial
legislature set aside $5,000 pei
year for Fairs in each of the four
divisions each year - of whicl
the Matanuska Valey Fair woulc
be elegible for $3,000 on a match
ing fund basis1 the gigantic fire
works display, largest ever seer
i in Alaska that was an added fea
ture of the 1952 Fair and the
! turning over to the new boarc
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MAYOR TO ATTEND
STATEHOOD HEARING
Mayor Alfred V. Hagen leaves
Palmer Saturday, via Northwest
Airlines, for Washington, D .C.
where he has been invited to
appear before the Congressional
hearing on Alaska statehood,
scheduled to open April 14. .
Mayor Hagen said he expects
to be gone from a week to 10 days
and will make it a combined busi
ness and pleasure trip. He will be
staying with his brother, Con- j
gressman Harold Hagen (R-Min
nesota) while in Washington and
also plans to visit three other
brothers and a sister, all of whom
make their home in Washington.
C OF C URGES
PROSPECTORS TO
FILE INFORMATION
The Matanuska Valley Chamber
of Commerce this week urged all
prospectors and lease-holders in
terested in capital for develop
ment work to contact the secre
tary of the chamber for forms
to be used in filing.
One encouraging contact has
j been made, a committee member
j announced this week, between a
I group of owners and a source
| of capital.
The committee is heading a
drive to assist in industrializing
the Valley by offering their ser
vice to solicit inquiries from in
dustral investors and to gather
data from owners, leaseholders
and prospectors, acting as a clear
ing house and functoning to bring
the two factions within negotia
ting range.
COUNCIL VOTES $2500
TO SCHOOL DISTRICT
The sum of $2500 was author
ized as payment to the Palmer
School District by members of the
City Council at the regular coun
cil meeting held April 7. This
was the balance of a $5,000 sum
committed by the previous coun
cil.
E. A. Boicourt was granted a
permit to move a building into
the city. In answer to several
> inquiries, it was announced that
i permits are required for moving a
■ building from outside the city
> to within the limits as well as for
1 buildings constructed within the
city limits.
Wishbone and Moose
Greek Areas lo Gel
Test Drillings
Robert May, engineer with the
Bureau of Mines, received word
this week that drilling this year
will be stepped up approximately
30 percent, with work scheduled
to start on the south side of Wish
bone Hill. Work will be done by
the Pennsylvania Drilling Com
pany.
Development drilling will also
be done in the Moose Creek area,
under a contract recently award
ed to Boyles Brothers Drilling
Company of Salt Lake City,
""hese operations have been ap
proved by Secretary of Interior
McKay.
Field Work to Start
The local branch of the B of M
expects to have its own field crew
working shortly, May said, with
the general vicinity as yet unde
termined. He said that two or
three sites are being considered,
with field work scheduled to get
under way as soon as highway
restrictions are lifted, permitting
the transportation of heavy
equipment to the drill sues.
Approximately 20 men will be
| employed in this work during the
season, six of whom may be
local.
Work to Start on
North Palmer School
Word was received this week
by Superintendent of Schools
rn T. Zahradnicek that
Stock and Grove Construction
Company will be on the job by
April 15 to start work on the
North Palmer School.
The letter, written by Archit
ect Edwin Critten, said it is quite
possible that work may start be
fore that date. A company repre
sentative plans to come to Pal
mer to check frost conditions and
determine whether or not it
will be feasible to commence
early work.
The contractors have been in
formed that steel, framing and
concrete has been shipped from
Seattel and have announced they
expect work will progress rapidly
on the school building after the
15th.
Specifications for the new
school call for concrete and steel
construction with steel sash win
dows, extending to ceiling. Un
usual roof construction utilizing
, corrugated steel breaks up sound
. and diffuses light; also provid
’ ing a finished ceiling with a
. sprayed coat of paint.
Among 25 young men who re
ported to the Selective Service
office April 7 for induction into
the Army was George Pederson,
Jr. of Palmer.
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Automobile Insurance
WE WRITE AUTO INSURANCE FOR ALL RISK—
Life Hospital, Health and Accident
Fire and Casualty
M B MARTIN AND SON
Anchorage Office Mile 45
238 - 5th Ave. Palmer Highway
ALL UNITS TU
COMBINE IN FIRST
FULL-SCALE ALERT
Plans l-or the Greater Palmer
Civil Defense district exercise
scheduled for Sunday, April 12
from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. are in their
final stages, CD Director Edward
Imme announced this week.
.During these exercises, enforce
ment of all CD regulations will
be in effect, he said. The practice
warning red will be sounded at
1 p.m., at which time an aggres
sor aircraft which has escaped
prior detection will be presumed
identified as hostile. It will be
assumed that this information has
been received by the Air Defense
control center at Elmendorf AFB
and a practice warning red has
been ordered for the Greater Pal
mer CD district.
Aggressor aircraft will make
a mock strafing run over Pal
mer and proceed south along the
Anchorage-Palmer highway..
During the alert Palmer Civil
Defense staff and units will re
spond with their respective work.
Members of the Alaska Highway
Patrol will participate.
Public Participation
-Jl private and commercial
automobiles, trucks, taxis, busses
and other vehicles on all public
roads and highways in the Great
er Palmer CD district shall be
brought to a halt as soon after
sounding of the practice warning
red as is consistent with public
safety. In stopping, all drivers
will be expected to pull to the
side and stop in such position as
to leave at least one lane and
all intersections open to the pas
sage of emergency vehicles.
Only the following will be per
mitted to move during the prac
tice alert: Military personnel on
official business which prohibit*
any delay, provided they present
proper identification to CD work
ers. C.A.A., U. S. Weather Bureau
and other federal employes who
are compelled by official duties
to move provided they present
proper identification. Doctors and
other persons required by unfore
seen emergency to travel on
highways during the practice will
be given clearance or escort.
All schools and churches will
be expected to follow procedures
which will place all persons un
der cover during the practice
warning red.
All people who are in their
homes at the start of the prac
tice will be expected to remain
inside until the warning white
(all clear) has sounded.
All persons who are on the
highway or out-of-doors when the
alert sounds will be expected to
take cover and remain there until
the all clear has sounded. It is
important that all children take
cover during practice alerts and
all adults will be expected to
help get children under cover
during all practice alerts.
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