Rebuild Fish
Creek Bridge
Repair of the Pish Creek bridge
and a protest over rumored
planned legislation making it
illegal to reach a hunting camp
by air tractor, were the two is
sues which received sportsmen’s
attention at last week’s meeting
of the Matanuska Valley Sports
men.
A work party was organized for
last Tuesday evening to repair
the Fish Creek bridge. Timbers
were supplied by the Alaska
Road Commission and were
placed by a volunteer crew re
cruited from the Sportsmen’s
ranks. The Fish Creek area is
well-travelled when the salmon
runs commence.
Members of the club also voted
to write the Fish and Wild Life
Service headquarters at Juneau,
to register a protest against
purported pending legislation
which would require that hunt
ing camps be reached by pack
train only. It is believed the
legislation is being considered,
and it would halt the present
practice of travelling to and
from camps by plane or tractor,
with game killed also being
transported in the same manner.
Men on the rifle range com
mittee were asked to meet and
select a work-night date, in or
der that the range at the Butte
can be readied for fall shooting.
Club members were told the trap
also must be moved again.
GO OUTSIDE
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Shafer left
the Valley last week to go Out
side on the steamer Aleutian.
They plan to visit in Washing
ton, Oregon and California and
then return to San Jose, Calif.,
where they expect to enter a
Bible college. Mrs. Shafer is the
daughter of the John McDonalds
of Palmer.
Krise Brothers
Withdraw
Last week’s talent team entry
of Leonard and Lowell Krise in
the coming contest sponsored by
the Matanuska Valley Fair was
just another spoiled record entry
in fair books this week. Father
Gervase Krise, who entered the
two, erred slightly in calculating
the date of Lowell’s birth. After
Mrs. Krise checked the rules and
added ages, she regretfully an
nounced that Lowell would have
to wait another year to meet the
fair’s minimum age requirement
of 16 years.
In the meantime, Fair Man
ager Charles Dillon still was
searching for added talent con
testants this week. To date,
Larry Stock remains the sole en
trant in this contest.
Several professional artists
are reported to be considering
entering in their division, but to
date none have made official an
nouncement of their entry.
Local ACS Can Now
Handle Money Orders
The Palmer ACS office is now
handling telegraphic money or
ders, it was announced this week
by M Sgt. Wayne Wheeler. Wire
money order transfers will be
accepted to all points in the
states and Canada, he said.
Because of changes of policy
in ACS headquarters offices in
Seattle, the recent announce
ment permitting the placing of
wires by phone in Palmer was
premature, Sergeant Wheeler
pointed out. Until Sept. 1, wires
must be brought to the office
rather than placed by telephone.
Hours at the Palmer office are
from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. on week
days and from 8 to 9 a. m. and
3 to 4 p. m. on Sundays.
Now on Display ...
Complete Shipment of New
WORTH TOOLS
HOUSEHOLD AND MECHANIC S TOOLS
FOR EVERY PURPOSE
REASONABLY PRICED
Copper Tubing for Wafer Lines
PITTICIDE bactericide for sterilizing dairy
equipment
(easy-to-use granular form)
New Dairy Washing Powders
KIL-BALM for mice
CO-OP WAREHOUSE
ARC Crews Work
On Willow Creek Rood
Alaska Road Commission crews
began to open the snow-blocked
Willow Creek summit highway
last Monday. In addition to re
moval of an excessively deep
blanket of snow, the ARC crew
must rebuild a three-mile stretch
of highway which has washed
out below Lucky Shot mine.
Clyde King, Sr., ARC foreman,
estimated that it would take at
least two weeks to clear the snow
from the summit. He placed no
time limit on the road rebuilding
operation, but expressed the
hope it would be finished before
next winter’s snow begins to fall
in that area.
Columnist Dies
Readers of the column, “Some
Like It Hot,” appearing on the
back page of the Forty-Ninth
Star, will be saddened to learn
of the recent death of writer
Anne Lippincott. Mrs. Lippincott
made her home near Chugiak on
the Anchorage-Palmer Highway.
She had gone Outside for medi
cal treatment just prior to her
death.
Second REA Visitor
Here From Washington
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hart of
Washington, D. C., began a six
week’s stay in the Valley this
week. Mr. Hart is with the man
agement division of the Rural
Electrification Administration,
which recently inaugurated a
policy of sending a representa
tive from each of its several
divisions to Alaska, in order to
become familiar with REA’s
territorial problems. Mr. Hart is
the second representative to ar
rive here under the plan.
While Mr. Hart was keeping
the Palmer headquarters office
in working trim, H. G. Bryan,
REA’s Alaska representative, was
awaiting favorable weather at
Fairbanks to fly to Kotzebue.
That community is being con
sidered as the possible location
for another REA Alaskan power
co-operative.
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