VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
Published each Thursday
Palmer, Alaska
Entered as second class matter on Oct. 21, 1947, at the post office
at Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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Viola Daniels .Editor
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DANIELS — In The Lion's Den
We’re back in the Den this week. We have tilings to say that
we feel are important enough to crowd out a news story or two.
We’ve been trying, in the past lew weeks, to print every word of
news possible, but this week there are things brewing that are a bit
more important than news items.
We're not going to talk about anything new. We aren’t going
to say anything now, that we haven’t said a dozen times over in the
past two years. But the idea's just as good today, and apparently
just as new to many of us, as it was the first time we mentioned it.
We'd still like to do a little more plain talking about cooper
ating and getting along together. It would seem to us that we’ve
spent the last two months in digging up bigger and better ways in
which to disagree.
We started out in April, when we sharpened our claws and
tongues at an ME A meeting. Some of us thought this, some of us
that, and we didn’t hesitate to say so, which is probably a healthy
indication in itself. But all of us spent so much time in thinking up
arguments to win our own point, that we forgot to take time to
think about another point of view.
We went straight from ME A to a disagreement over teachers
and school board members, after digressing for a week or two to
squabble over delegates to be sent to Washington, 1). C. The teach
ers and the school board have lasted well through the past weeks,
but now we’ve found a new bone to worry in our hospital and med
ical situation.
Some of us think one thing, and some another. Each of us is
sure we’re a hundred per cent right and everyone with a different
point of view is dead wrong. We’re going to ridiculous lengths to
make our arguments tell. And while we’re so bull-doggedly pulling
to twin, we’ve shut our eyes so tightly we can’t see that all of Pal
mer is losing.
While we bicker over “which manager, which teacher, which
doctor,” those same teachers and doctors are quietly drifting away
to other communities where they can hope for a little peace and
cooperation. We’re going to find too late that we may fight long
enough to win a point, only to discover that we haven't anything
to back that point.
It’s lime, and it has been for some time, to settle down and
make the best of what we have. There are undoubtedly better doc
tors, better teachers, belter businessmen than those we have here.
But until we leant to get along with those we have, until we learn
to make allowances here and there for the so-very-human frailties
ol these people we tall to serve us, we’re never going to improve on
that human caliber.
We’d be the last to say that our medical situation or out school
situation was rosy. There are a number of things we’d like to see
changed in both. But we still think we have to earn the right to
bring about that change by proving that we can work together lot
an amicable solution to our problems.
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VARIETY VOGUES
Community
Calendar
Thursday
MIXING Bowl 4-H Club at Mrs.
James Hurley’s at 2 p. m.
RIVERBEND Homemakers at
Mrs. Harold Stephan.
NIMBLE Fingers 4-H Club at Ex
tension Office.
Friday
FINAL program and picnic of
Church of God Bible School at
church at 11 a. m.
YOUTH of Christ rally at Church
of God at 8 p. m.
Saturday
UNITED Protestant Senior Camp
opens at King’s Lake.
HOUSEWARMING at Union Hall
for members of Carpenter’s
Union and guests.
Monday
PCRA SOIL Conservation Service
at office at 7:30 p. m.
VETERANS’ farm class at for
mer library at 8 p. m.
Tuesday
WELL BABY Conference at the
Health Center 2 to 4 p. m.
FAIR BOARD at former library
at 8 p. m.
Wednesday
CARPENTER’S Union at Union
Hall at 8 p. m.
Plan A Picnic
All memoers of the Valley’s
various Homemakers clubs and
their children are invited to at
tend a picnic at the home of Mrs.
Karla Duff, it was announced
this week by Miss Marylou Lash
brook of the Extension Service.
The picnic will be held at the
Duff’s lake home on June 20. A
call to the Extension Office will
supply further details.
COFFEY INSURES EVERY
THING—REMEMBER?
GOT A ROOM?
Because of an anticipated
housing shortage for fair visi
tors this fall, M. D. Snodgrass,
president of the board of direc
tors of the Matanuska Valley
Fair Association, this week asked
Valley residents to list available
rooms for rental. Mr. Snodgrass
said he hoped that the fair could
secure rooms for at least 50 visi
tors in private homes.
Anyone who has a room which
will be available during fair
dates of Sept. 3, 4 and 5, is asked
to give his listing to Viola Dan
iels, executive secretary for the
fair.
Richard E. Demming
Registered Land Surveyor
Box 675 — Palmer, Alaska
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