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Vol. 1, No. 28
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AHo Deteats
Hard-Fighting
Local Five
A Palmer high school fiv
that looked better in defea
than it has in recent win
bowed again to the basketbal
stalwarts of Anchorage higl
school last Saturday night. Th<
final score of 34-16 gives littl<
indication of the all-out first
half battle of the local squad.
Lacking the services of Dor
Irwin, hospitalized by flu las
weekend, Palmer’s boys stil
did a remarkable job of hold
ing down Bob.Pfeil, Anchor
age*; Dead-eye Dick and pivol
man. Bob went home with jus1
a solitary field goal in the sec
ond quarter, a field goal and
foul shot in the third, and an
other single field goal in the
final quarter.
Hutchinson, starting at cen
ter1 for Palmer in place of Ir
win, played a steady, consistent
game. Puhl, captain in Satur
day’s game, was tops in both
offensive and defensive play for
Palmer. He led local scorers
with six points; Bouwens had
five. Captain Tommy Rafailo
vich led Anchorage with nine
tallies.
Even as coach L. K. Gibson
had promised, the Palmer team
showed a much improved effort
over their first meeting with
Anchorage. Their first-half bas
ketball Saturday night was pos
sibly their best effort this year,
but they failed to keep up in the
second half.
The Anchorage squad, all
seniors in the starting line-up
except Eves, has lost one game
this year to Petersen’s Flyers in
the Anchorage city league.
They are undefeated for two
consecutive years in inter-scho
lastic play.
In the 8 o’clock curtain-rai^
er between the second teams,
Anchorage trounced Palmer’s
men by a score of 30 to 11. An
all-freshman five, playing at
the final whistle, gave Palmer
promise of strong competition
in coming seasons of play.
The dependable effort of Wal
ter Bendixen at guard for Palm
er also showed local fans that
Palmer squads will be playing
good basketball for some time
to come. Walter was moved back
from the first string for the Sat
urday game, in order to give
him a taste of four quarters of
real basketball.
The box score:
Anchorage: (34)
_ * fg ft to
Berg, f... 1 0 21
Block, f . 2 15
Pfeil, c. 3 17
Rafailovitft, g . 4 19
Eves, g ;. 10 2
Richards . 10 2
Donnels . 10 2
McNeven . 0 0 0
Baker. 2 0 4
Johnson. 0 0 0
Luther . 0 1 1 :
Simmons . 0 0 0
Zahradnicek .. 0 0 0 ■
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Thieves Take
$166 In Cash
Thieves entered the Ron-da
voo restaurant sometime Satur
day afternoon and took $166
» from two wallets of owner Pete
t j Lucy.
5 Mr. Lucy was unable to
1 place the exact time of the
i robbery. He said he had gone
; to his room at the restaurant to
> rest, when waitress Mary Lucker
. came on duty. Neither checked
the cash drawer at that time.
[ Later that afternoon when
. Mr. Lucy checked his receipts,
; it was discovered that both wal
! lets had been looted. The thieves
left the empty wallets.
Bill Bouwens, assistant mar
shall, is investigating the rob
bery.
Holiday Services
Are Scheduled
In Local Churches
The week of pre-Christmas
merrymaking will be set aside
in Palmer on Wednesday eve
ning, while Valley folk attend
religious services in observance
of the holiday.
The first service on Christmas
Eve is that of St. John’s Lutheran
church. The church program, the
joint effort of choir and Sunday
school, begins at 8 o’clock.
Chimes and carols will be broad
cast over a public address sys
tem from the Lutheran tower as
part of this program.
Then again at 11:30, as a pre
liminary to the midnight mass to
be celebrated in St. Michael’s
church, sacred music and carols
will be broadcast from the Luth
eran tower.
Exactly at midnight the bells
of St. Michael’s will ring to call 1
all Valley residents to midnight i
mass. Everyone is invited to 1
come, regardless of church af <
filiations. <
Religious observance of the *
Christmas holiday will culminate £
with a morning service in St
John’s Lutheran church at 11
o’clock on Christmas day.
Pastors of Valley churches
unite to invite Valley residents
everywhere to attend the Christ
mas church service of their
choice.
KERMIT HAS BIRTHDAY
Kermit King celebrated his
eleventh birthday Sat urday
with a week end shopping ex
pedition in Anchorage. Kermit
left on Saturday morning’s bus,
intending to combine a birthday
outing with some Christmas
shopping chores.
Palmer: (16)
Puhl, f .
Onkka, f .
Hutchinson, c
Stevens, g .
Bouwens, g ...
3illot .
Plumley .
Killer .
6 1 16
. 2 2 6
. 0 0 0
. 1 0 2
..... 1 1 3
..... 2 1 5
. 0 0 0
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. 0 0 0
13 Months In Brazil
Leaves Yen For Snow
v-ikwi arive. He said
that Anchorage and Fairbanks
have borne most of the expense
of Scouting in the past few years,
but the Valley’s developing pro
gram calls for local sharing in
the expense.
J Of all the Valley residents who
are hoping for a white Christ
mas, Miss Jennie Skule, Palmer
school teacher, is probably hop
ing hardest. She spent last
Christmas acquiring a sunburn
at the resort city of Serra Negra
in Brazil, and this year she’d
like to enjoy a little of the real
Christmas atmosphere that she
used to find at her home in Elv
Minn.
In fact, if there’s not a fresh
white blanket of snow over the
Valley by Christmas, Miss Skule
is going to feel that she’s skipped
over two Christmases of her
life. In Brazil, there not only
was no snow, there wasn’t any
real Christmas.
Brazilians do not celebrate the
services. There are no Christmas
trees, no gift exchanging, nor
even any holiday decorations in
downtown stores. One large de
partment store did yjeld to
American influence enough to
hang some Christmas trimmings.
One Christmas Tree
There were boxes from home,
and one American family deco
rated a Christmas tree, but it
really wasn’t Christmas in Bra
zil for homesick Americans. For!
one reason, Christmas comes in
the middle of a Brazilian sum
mer. Last year it started by be- 1
ing very hot, and then ended in
a tropical deluge just as Christ- '
mas masses were ending in the i
churches.
But a Brazilian child has an- i
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shamrocks, High School
To Play Army Fives
The next basketball encounter
for both Palmer high school and
the Shamrocks will be a post
holiday meeting with Army
teams on Dec. 27.
That evening the Shamrocks
will play an 8 o’clock curtain
raiser against the 177th MPs
Ihe squad which they defeated
iust before going to Cordova. At
):30 Palmer high school meets
:he court squad of the Fifth
rruck Company.
The MPs plan to spend the
veekend in Palmer, and will
neet the Shamrocks in a second
Same at 2 o’clock Sunday afer
loon. Art Stacey. Shamrock
. announced.
No Paper Friday
Because Christmas falls oi
Thursday, the day on whicl
the Valley Frontiersman goes
to press, there will be no Fri
day paper this week. Neithei
will there be a Frontiersmar
published on the Friday aftei
New Year's.
Committee chairmen anc
those who wish to make an
nouncement of s c h e duled
events for the coming week
are asked to leave those an
nouncements at the Valley
Frontiersman before next
Monday.
Legion Plans
Park for Palmer
Palmer’s first park will be r<
quiring the attention of a volur
teer lawn-mowing brigade abou
six months from now, accorc
mg to plans formulated at las
Thursday’s American Legio:
meeting.
At that meeting it was decidei
to seed and landscape the thre
Legion-owned blocks across fron
the Matanuska hotel, Comman
der Jack Maze reported. Th<
parkway will extend from th<
hotel corner down to a point jus
past the new King Automotive
Service building.
This land, triangular in shape
is 530 feet long and tapers fron
a 96-foot base width to the tip o!
the triangle just beyond the ga
rage. It has been set aside as e
park reserve in existing plan;
for a future town.
The whole American Legior
is enthusiastically backing park
plans, Mr. Maze said. Although
3nly planning is possible now:
Legionnaires hope to begin pre
paring the ground as soon as
■veather permits in the spring.
L. K. Gibson and family left
-’aimer last Monday evening en
oute to Seattle for the holidays,
drs. Gibson and the two Gibson
hildren do not plan to return,
^oach Gibson will be back at his
lasketball instruction job in
bout 10 days, he said.
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Chest Falls
jFar Short
Of Drive Goal
Palmer’s first Community
Chest drive fell far short of its
$3,000 goal, drive chairman Les
Ray reported at Monday’s final
committee meeting.
Solicitors still have not made
a complete report of Chest re
ceipts, however. Clayton Eas
- linger, treasurer of the organi
- zation, reported that by Mon
day evening $1,083.09 has been
banked. There was an additional
$112 in pledges, as well.
Mr. Ray said it was the com
mittee’s decision not to prolong
i- the drive in an effort to reach
t the goal. However anyone wish
- ing to make a voluntary contri
t bution still may do so. The dona
i tion may be given directly to
Jack Maze at the Matanuska
i Valley bank.
j Mr. Ray promised that a com
i plete report of drive returns, Tb
- gether with a Community Chest
; financial statement, will be pub
j lished in the near future.
ARC Offers Fund
To Buy Equipment
For Hospital
There is $3,000 on deposit to '
the account of the Valley branch
chapter of the American Red !
Cross to be used for purchase of !
needed equipment at the Valley
hospital, Bill Bouwens, local
chapter chairman, announced !
this week. The money may be ,
spent by the hospital board to :
purchase any equipment most <
vitally needed, he said. ^
The help has been extended v
through the Anchorage chapter
of the American Red Cross which -
recently completed a survey of *
Valley hospital needs. Originally t
$2,200 was promised, but when *
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Scout Troop
Is Organized
Commending the advancement
m Scouting work in the Valley
during recent months, Hal Grib
bile, field executive for this area,
last Friday announced the insti
tution of a new troop of Boy
Scouts in Palmer. “I doubt if
Scouting in Anchorage today is
af *?r alo"g as it is in Palmer
right now, he said, in reporting
plans for the organization of the
new troop.
The troop will be American
Legion-sponsored. The Legion se
lected leaders and committeemen
£or the troop at its meeting last
Thursday. Mr. Gribble already
has met with the men to give
them their first training lessons
in Scout leadership.
The men who will guide the
American Legion troop include
Bob Stewart, Scoutmaster
Bob Johns, committee chairman
Bob Mielke, camping and out
door life; Dr. F. R. Sims, finance;
Bert Stewart, advancement;
Leon Faurie, membership.
The men will be trained for a
two week’s period before troop
members are enrolled. A number
tor Palmer’s second troop has
not yet been assigned.
Mr. Gribble said the added
troop would be an asset to Scout
mg in that it will give existing
valley troops more competition
is well as giving better area cov
erage here.
The Scout executive also ex
ilamed future plans for Boy
Scout work in this area for the
lext two or three years. He told
* H*ans *or a*r encampment
it Fort Richardson in the spring
or a Scout rally to be held in
anchorage during Scouting week
n February and for a future
icout camp somewhere in the
alley. He said this camp might
* located on the King’s lake
ite, or might be constructed at
nother site.
Mr- Gribble also explained
^e use of funds designated for
“e B°y Scouts through the local