Committee To Choose Site
For Office Building On May 2
Although conflicting reports
from Juneau have vigorously as
serted that Juneau has been
chosen, at a March 25th meet
ing of the Territorial Board of
Administration, as the site for
planned territorial office build
ings, latest reports indicate that
no decision will be made until
May 2.
On Tuesday, March 29, the
Alaska Daily Empire reported
that ‘ Palmer got the legislative
spotlight, but the Gastineau
Channel gets the building for
which House Bill 115 appropri
ated $660,000.” That article fur
ther reported that a sub-com
mittee composed of Frank Met
calf, territorial highway engi
neer, Oscar Olsen, territorial
treasurer, and J. Gerald Wil
liams, attorney general, would
select the site.
However that sub-committee
in company with the full board
met on Friday last week to grant
a hearing to Mayor Z. J. Loussac
of Anchorage and Stanley Mc
Cutcheon, representing Anchor
age and Palmer respectively.
Governor Ernest Gruening and
Mr. Williams were absent, but
were represented by Acting Gov
ernor Lew Williams and attor
ney John Dimond.
Mr. McCutcheon pressed the
Valley’s advantages as site for
the proposed building and con
cluded his plea with presenta
tion of a deed to a 10-acre site,
donated by John Bugge. Mr.
McCutcheon was also supplied
with copies of wires and letters
from other territorial officers
and from cities in the Third
Division area, who endorsed
Palmer’s claim.
Both witnesses at the hearing
based their pleas on the House
recommendation that the pro
posed building be located “north
of the Gulf.” Mayor Waino
Hendrickson of Juneau, who
also appeared at the hearing,
said the House recommendation
was a matter of record only, but
not a part of the law which ap
propriated the money.
The city of Juneau is reported
dickering to secure title to the
A. B. Halh now leased to the
Territory and used for some of
its offices. If the city council is
successful in securing title to the
hall, it will be turned over to the
territory for use as the building
site.
The city of Douglas also is re
ported to have offered land as a
site for the office buildings.
Henry Benson, territorial com
missioner of labor, last week
wired the Chamber of Com
merce that he would do every
thing possible to support Pal
mer’s bid for the building. He
added that he thought it un
likely that construction could
start before 1950, because of the
territory’s present financial
status.
Attorney - general Williams,
now Outside, has reported by
telephone, direct to Juneau, that
he will “vote in favor of An
chorage or Palmer” when the
selection is made.
Awards Presented
At Tuesday Banquet
Ten boys and three girls of
Palmer High School were honor
guests at a Letterman’s Award
banquet held at the Matanuska
Hotel last Tuesday evening. Jack
Maze was guest speaker at the
banquet, and Art Stacey was the
master of ceremonies.
Members of the basketball
team and the three girl cheer
leaders were presented with
their school letter.
Students who won awards in
cluded:
Don Hutchinson, Lynn Sand
vik, Myles Hyland, Walter Ben
dixen, Harold Bendixen, Victor
Loyer, Edison Thuma, George
Pederson, Harvey Hiber, Wayne
Bouwens, Janet Sherrod, La
Vonne Roetman and Genevieve
DeLand.
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Farm Classes Are
Off to Good Start
The Valley’s on - the - farm
training classes for veterans are
off to a fine start, at both Pal
mer and Wasilla, it was an
nounced this week by Eugene
Kirsh, who is in charge of the
program. Mr. Kirsh said eight
men had registered for the Pal
mer classes, which meet at Pal
mer school each Monday eve
ning at 8 p. m.
Response has been much more
wholehearted in Wasilla, where
30 veterans are registered for
the farmer courses. The classes
follow a definite program of
class hours, which are arranged
for the convenience of class reg
istrants. The Wasilla groups
meet at the Wasilla school at 8
o’clock on Fridays.
The Palmer class went last
week to the greenhouse of Max
Sherrod, for a practical demon
stration, and enjoyed a Soil
Conservation Service film last
Monday.
Scouts to Hold Red Cross Drive
Although arrangements still
are only tentative, it is probable
the Valley’s Red Cross drive will
be conducted by the local Boy
Scout organization, Bill Bouwens
announced this week. Under the
plan Rev. Victor Alfsen will act
as drive chairman.
A more definite announce
ment concerning drive plans is
expected within the next few
days.
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Vogues Extends
Employment List
Since full-time baby-sitters
seem to be more in demand than
the just-for-the-evening variety,
Mrs. Betty Mears of Variety
Vogues has opened her registra
tion lists to adults, she announc
ed this week. There is no charge
for this service. Mrs. Mears asks
only that women seeking work
drop in at Variety Vogues and
add their names to her list.
Several inquiries already have
been placed with Mrs. Mears for
women to care for children for
several weeks or for the entire
summer. She also has had ques
tions concerning women who
will do cleaning by the hour.
The service Mrs. Mears offers,
with respect to baby-sitters, is
one designed to make Mom and
Pop’s evening off one of sheer
relaxation. All that needs to be
done, once the time and date of
that evening is set, is to call
Mrs. Mears and ask to be sup
plied with a baby-sitter.
She’ll thumb through her lists
and come up with a girl who’ll
be ringing the front doorbell at
the appointed hour and night.
It’s as easy as that. Mrs. Mears
takes care of everything but
paying the sitter’s wages; that
she leaves to the sitter’s em
ployer.
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