THE FRONTIERSMAN
Entered as second class matter on Oct. 21. 1947. at the post office
at Palmer. Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 187:)
T. O. SC H M I DTK E VIRGINIA GALLANT
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SAVE WHISKEY GREEK!
Place-names are a profound part of a nation's past,
They vitalize its history. Given, for the most part,
by pioneers, they provide color, drama, life, to all
of a country's varied regions.
But, sad to relate, in recent years there have been
many efforts, some successful, to abandon the old,
rude piace-names in an apparent effort to "pretty"
things up. The new names have been perfectly des
cribed by the late Lewis A. McArthur, who wrote a
classic history of Oregon piace-names, as "gutless
expressions of today."
Take, if you have a strong stomach, just two ex
amples. Once there was an Oregon road called Wolf
Creek—named for the obvious reason that in the old
day wolves abounded. It was renamed Sunset
Highway—a name which is duplicated just about
everywhere, and has all the character of a |elly fish.
Up in Victoria, British Columbia, there is a Foul
Bay Road. It's a wonderful name, redolent of another,
more vigorous era. But a group is trying to change
it to something prettier". Happily, other citizens are
battling this effort—and may they succeed!
To sum up—next time you hear of a drive to change
the name of Whiskey Creek to Riverview—draw your
guns, Pardner!
WHO WANTS BETTER GOVERNMENT?
The Arco, Idaho, Advertiser says: "For 30 years
each administration has managed somehow to out
spend its predecessor without giving a thought to
a day of reckoning. Now the debt limit has been
raised to $300 billion, giving Congress the privilege
of going into debt another two billion. The debt ceil
ings, we are promised, will be lifted ... to $303
biliion by July 1.
1 At this point we might ponder the significance
of a historic state rent by Soion . . . when he said:
T did not give the Athenians the best government
I could devise, but the best they would receive.' By
declining to receive the best in government the
Athenian people eventually lost their identity and
their nation . . .
"Senator Byrd of Virginia, the watchdog of the
treasury, is concerned about a little matter of $3
million proposed to recondition a seaplane tender for
the Imperial Ethiopian Navy under the military assis
tance program of our government. Senator Byrd is
asking why it is always necessary for the United States
to bail out the United Nations and now purchase one
half of a $400 million bond issue. He wants to know
-why we need to be so inconsistent as to have tied up
in farm surpluses the sum of $14,112,690 v/hile at
the same time offering such high price supports that
encourage more surpluses each year. But the Sena
tor's concern gets exactly nowhere. Why? The answer
could be that the people do not demand better gov
ernment or accept it when, and if, it is offered."
Youth Employment Reminder Issued
This Week By Wage and Hour Division
Employers, teenagers, and
their parents were reminded
this week by Regional Director
Frank J. Muench of the U. S.
Department of Labor’s Wage
and Hour and Public Contracts
Division, that the Fair Labor
Standards Act restrict certain
jobs for youngsters under 18
.vears of age.
“With the increase in the
Housing
Housing for nearly 20.000.000
Americans has been financed
with funds of life insurance
policyholders since the end of
World War II.
country's teen-age population,"
Muench said, “more youngsters
than ever before will be com
peting for summertime em
ployment in a tight job market.
It is important that they under
stand the provisions of the Fed
eral child-labor law.”
The Act sets a 16-year mini
mum age for general employ
ment and an 18-year age mini
mum for jobs which have been
declared hazardous by the Sec
retary of Labor.
Muench pointed out eacl
state has its own child-laboi
laws and if the state and feder
al laws differ, the higher stand
i ards should prevail.
THE AMERICAN WAY
V Vs-.
Beginning to Wake Up
FINANCIAL DEBACLE?
Full Speed Ahead; Bill—The Taxpayer Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!
Thursday. March 15. 1352
The climax of 12 lone years
: f I public school education will
! come for 20 Palmer High
! School Seniors tomorrow even
i mg when they receive their di
! plomas at the Commencement
I Program to be held in the
I school gymnasium. Dolores
Lentz will deliver the Valedic
tory and the Salutatory by
August Klem. The Commence
ment address will be given by
John Gorsuch, member of the
: Anchorage School District
i Board and its former president.
Two of lhe Valley's best
salesmen. Fred and Sara Ma
chetanz. are back home this
week after a winter of lectur
ing and showing their movies
in the Mid West.
A spark from a rubbish bur
ner is presumed to have started
the grass fire that swiftly en
veloped in flames a garage on
the property of Mrs. A. J.
Swanson, next to Ed Christen
sen’s garage, about one o’clock
Monday afternoon.
—o
More than one hundred
mothers and daughters attend
ed the Mother and Daughter
banquet sponsored by the Was
illa Church of Christ May 9 at
Wasilla.
—o—
Marvin Slaughter and Eric
Bresee of the local Geologi
cal Survey office left Tues
day for the Copper River
where immediate construc
tion of a recording installa
tion near Chilina is planned.
The Palmer Independen
School District, meeting in reg
ular session Wednesday even
I ing, May 7. voted to buy 10;
j acres of the A. J. Swanson |
! property for a future school
! site.
—o—
Community hall at Wasilla
overflowed with people at
tending the Wasilla School
Commencement program last
night. Eight seniors made up
the largest graduating class
ever for the Wasilla school.
—o—
! Director Don Irwin and Dr.
Allan H. Mick of the Alaska
Experiment Station and Dr. S.
B. Fracher. assistant to the ad
ministrator of the Agricultural
Research Administration, left
for Fairbanks Wednesday to
confer with President Terris
Moore and the Board of Re
gents of the University of Al
aska.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nelson
of Palmer expected to leave by
plane from Anchorage today
on a three month vacation that
will include visits in several
parts of Michigan.
Last Thursday a number of
high-school age teen-agers
were guests of the local BPOE
lodge at what may have been
the organizational meeting of a
Elks-sponsored teen age rec
j reation program.
An estimated two-thirds of
the nation’s force in business,
industry and government is
now insured under at least
one type of benefit protection,
group life insurance, hospital
. ization, medical-surgical or
continuation of income, provid
- ed by life insurance companies.
for health
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More than three-fourths of
the nation’s 120.000,000 life in
surance policyholders have
their policy information record
ed on electronic equipment, ac
cording to the Institute of Life
Insurance.
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Ascercb’y of God
Rev Paul E. Riley,
Pastor
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ATHLETES PREPARING FOR SEWARD’S
anniiai MT. MARATHON RACE EVENT
An idle conversation over a
glass of beer in a Seward sal-j
oon 47 years ago started what
has become an annual test of
athletic stamina.
According to Sven Johnan
son. coach of the U. S. Modern
Winter Biathlon Training Cen
ter at Fort Richardson, several
men began arguing one night
whether or not a man could
climb the 3,008 feet to the top
of near-by Mt. Marathon and
return to Seward in two houis.
The six-mile race is now a
main part of the Annual Sew
ard Fourth of July celebration.
Johanson considers the Mt.
Marathon race unique because
“it is the only cross-country
race I know of that the spec
tators can watch all the way
from one vantage point, down
town Seward,” He adds the
race is a “challenge to any
athlete because it is over such
a treacherous course, especial
ly coming down. The runner
really has to be in shape.”
The Mt. Marathon race is
open to anyone who cares to
enter. Those interested in the
race, either as contestant or
spectator, can get detailed in
formation from the Sewarc
| Chamber of Commerce. Thu
! may enter either as individuals
i year for the first time racer
1 or as members of a four-mar
I team.
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PALMER PI 5-2585
tes and 48 seconds was set in
1959 by Johansen. He has run
the course seven times, more
than anyone else. He has plac
ed first six times and second
once.
Last year Norman Roberts
of Palmer took first place.
Several racers from the Val
ley area have participated in
previous races.
Biathlon will enter three
teams. this year, including
Coach Johanson, who says he
is running "just for the fun of
it and to keep the boys run
ning. They would like very
much to beat me”, he added,
“and I expect some of them to
break my old record."
Beside the three teams enter
ing from Biathlon, Elmendorf
Air Force Base, Kodiak Naval
Station, Anchorage Mountain
eer Club and the University of
| Alaska at Fairbanks are ex
pected to enter teams.
Life insurance companies’ in
vestments in company-used
and commercial and housing
rental real estate reached $3,
966,000,000 at the start of 1962.
ST. JOHN
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3<sv. R. H. Fritz, poitor,
Palmer, Alasna /
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Sunday School 8'.45 A.M.
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THE CHURCH FOR ALU . .
ALL FOR THE CHURCH
The Church is the greatest factor
on earth for the building of char
acter and good citizenship. It is a
storehouse of spiritual values. With
out a strong Church, neither de
mocracy nor civilization can sur
vive. There are four sound reasons
why every person should attend
services regularly and support the
Church. They are: (I) For his
own sake. (2) For his children’s
sake. (3) For the sake of his com
munity and nation. (4) For the
sake of the Church itself, which
needs his moral and material sup
port. Plan to go to church regu
larly and read your Bible daily.
Copyright 1962
Keiater Advertising Service, Inc.
Strasburg, \a.
Clearance, weather information, assigned
altitudes and airways, landing instructions . . .
we take these for granted. We simply fly from
point to point, our progress and safety under
girded by an intricate web of scientific com
munication.
Perhaps that’s why, today, so many assume
that some celestial system ought to assure
everyone comfort, success and happiness.
But the control tower can operate only be
cause every pilot respects its purpose and has
faith in its instructions.
Our moral progress and our spiritual se
curity are the constant concern of the Church.
Its worship and guidance undergird the lives
of all who respect its Purpose, and have faith
in the truths of God which it teaches.
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Exodus Exodus Deuteronomy Jeremiah
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Thursday
Malachi
1:2-9
Friday
Homans
10:1-9
Saturday
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