Valley FRONTERSMAN
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- Palmer, Alaska
Viola Daniels .Editor
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WRITIN’ TO TEENS
By DICK DRABBLE
A Ghost Story
A spine tingling scream rent the quiet, after-supper household
~of the Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Jones started as their young daughter,
Nancy, came racing down from her bedroom, where she had gone
to do her homework.
“I saw it, I saw it!” she trembled. ‘‘Horrid green . . . eyes,
glaring at me in the dark. Its head weaved back and forth above
its long body, by the bed.”
After several minutes trying to calm the shaken girl. Mr. Jones
cautiously opened the bedroom door to determine if such an appar
ition existed.
Mrs. Jones felt a nervous tension come over her as she listened
to her husband scramble down the stairs and run for the telephone.
She felt a chill down her spine as she heard him tell the police
there was a body sprawled on the floor.
Joining his family to await the arrival of the law, Mr. Jones
tried to tell his wife what he saw in the dark room—the body that
lay on the floor illuminated by a faint beam of light coming through
the open window from a street lamp in front of their house. Whose
corpse, and how it got into the room, he hadn’t ventured to in
vestigate.
The minutes of waiting seemed like hours, before the police
arrived. Their calm “this happens everyday” attitude irked Mr.
Jones a little. The officers finally went up to the room, with drawn
pistols. The Jones remained down in the living room listening to
their movements. They heard the men open the door quickly, a
few moments of silence, then footsteps thumped into the room.
Someone closed the window; there were muffled words that the
straining ears could not interpret. The footsteps came to the up
stairs hall again and down the stairs as the patrolmen reentered
the living room.
“Mr. Jones,” one of the men addressed the father, “would
you mind coming upstairs and identifying the body?”
Reluctantly, Mr. Jones followed the officer. On reaching the
door, the man stepped aside as he bade the father enter. The
light was on and as Mr. Jones looked toward the floor by the bed
where the body lay he was amazed to see it was gone. In its
place was a carelessly tossed bed comforter. The officer then
switched off the light and the comforter at once became the gro
tesque image of a corpse.
“The green eyes!” Mr. Jones exclaimed as he saw them glaring
at him in the dark.
The officer put the lights on. Mr. Jones could see the green
eyes staring from a cartoon tacked on the wall by the window,
where the evening breeze had made it weave as though it were
alive. The eyes on the cartoon were painted with luminous paint.
He remembered now—remembered he had brought the thing home
himself.
After the police left, the Jones laughed about it all. Indeed,
it was a good way to end a ghost story. But the funniest part of
the whole incident was that similar ones have happened, are hap
pening, and will happen daily, a million times over.
Jumping to conclusions! A very natural, human trait. Dan
gerous when abused by people who don’t stop to think! Why
didn’t Mr. Jones switch on the light when he first went up?
How many times have you heard someone say “Oh, he’s a
-” or; “They say she’s -” and have gone out to
repeat it without switching on the light? Nations can be thrown
into chaos, people can ruin others, by perpetuating facts concluded
on hearsay. Yes, this is a real ghost story. This trait in us all, has
caused more ghosts than we can ever realize.
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with Each Order of Six or More
Palmer Photographic Center
Hospital
Ins and Outs
New patients admitted to the
Valley hospital this week were
Don Irwin, Jr., Ed Barrett,
Mrs. Ralph Pieren of Wasilla
Mrs. Mads Johansen, Eugene
Jacobsen, John Danielson oi
Jonesville, and Douglas Bixby.
Patients dismissed by the
weekend included:
Mrs. Lewis Todd, Mrs. I. M.
Sandvik, Mrs. Fabian Blom, Har
old Richards, Eugene Jacobsen
and Mrs. Ralph Pieren of Wasil
la.
Valley Visitors
At the Lodge:
Mr. and Mrs. C. Camp, Mr.
and Mrs. B. Silva, Anchorage;
L. H. Phillips, Kodiak; Mr. and
Mrs. R. C. Jameson and son Lar
ry, Lake Minchumina.
Grangers Plan
Oyster Supper
“The losers are paying off
next Thursday night (Feb. 12)”
That’s the explanation George
Small is giving for the. added
something in Grange plans on
Thursday evening. That added
something is to be an oyster
supper, given for all Grange
members immediately following
the regular meeting.
The reason for the supper is a
recent membership drive, when
Parker Lester and team-mates
succeeded in talking more mem
bers into the Grange than did
Mr. Small and his cohorts. The
Small-side is taking solace for
its loss by providing Thursday’s
supper.
CAA EMPLOYES HERE
Mrs. and Mrs. R. C. Jameson
and infant son Larry of Lake
Minchumina are in Palmer for
a few days for dental and med
ical check-ups. The Jamesons are
CAA employes at Minchumina,
where tn emergency airfield is
located.
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10 a.m. to 12 noon
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Tongue-Twister Drug
Is Too Much For Worms
Hexachlorocyclohexane, Ben
zene Hexachloride sounds good
enough to eat, but don’t try it.
And to avoid complete tongue
exhaustion, try calling it by its
trade name of BHC.
BHC is a comparatively new
chemical which seems to be in
serious competition with DDT.
However in many places they’ve
compromised and are working
together in pest eradication.
BHC is a new insecticide with
a very complicated chemical
make-up. It is said to hold a
uiree-way punch, in that it is
ueacuy as a contact poison, is
equany lethal as a stomach
poison, and is a powerful fumi
gant, acting as a poison gas to
many insects.
The part which will interest
the Alaskan farmer is the fact
mat it is a sure knock-out for
wire worms and root maggots. A
Pennsylvania larmer wrn.es that
ne completely eradicated wire
worms in a potato field at a
cost of from $b to $6 an acre, in
cluding both chemical and labor.
ANOTHER INITIATE
The name of Don Irwin, senior
student of Palmer high school,
was inadvertently overlooked in
last week's listing of Palmer in
mates of the National Honor So
ciety. Don wears the torch of the
Society, too, and was one of the
12 Palmer students honored at
last week’s assembly.
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■ Association, Inc.
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For Power Distribution
it.
400 LICENSES SOLD
A total of 400 vehicle licenses
of all types had been purchased
by Valley motorists prior to Sat
urday’s license deadline. How
ever, license latecomers were
giving Lou Henke his busiest
day in the business on Monday,
so final tabulations are expected
to boost the 400 figure some
what.
Buys Cabinet Shop
Lloyd Severns, who recently
announced his intention of open
ing a cabinet shop and sash and
door factory in the Valley, has
! purchased the cabinet shop of
| Charles Elton, it was learned
this week. Mr. Severns expects
i to take over the operation of the
shop within the next week or 10
days, he said.
The Severns are the house
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Morton at present.
GOES OUTSIDE
Stanley Balloun of the Valley
experiment station left for the
Outside last week. He was pre
ceded by his wife and sons the
week before.
Coffey Insure* Everything—
Remember? Adv.
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Welding
Gas Oil
Palmer- Alaska
Palmer Radio Service
RECORDS & SUPPLIES
Open daily 12 to 8 p. m.
Valley Theatre Bldg.
BRYANT & CO.
BULLDOZING CABRYALL WORK
GENERAL LAND CLEARING
Write Box 1848
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Palmer
Automotive Service & Storage
WE NEVER CLOSE
DODGE — PLYMOUTH PARTS
GOODYEAR TIRES and BATTERIES
WEED CHAINS
UNION 7600 GASOLINE
TIRE REPAIRS
TRITON 78 MOTOR OIL
TUNE-UPS