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A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT
of
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★ Fresh Vegetables
★ Fresh Fruit
★ Meats
★ Case Goods
★ Ice Cream
Open Daily from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Men !!!
Miners, Construction Workers, Farmers
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’ Spring Work’s Soon to Begin
and we’ve just the workclothes
1 to begin it in.
i JEANS for women and girls
• Sizes 24 to 32
SLACKS, sanforized
^ Blue or Brown
IFOR YOUR SEWING TABLE NEEDS
Thread, Bias Tape
B Colors, black and while
VARIETY VOGUES f
Palmer i
Automotive Service & Storage i
Phone 25 i
WE NEVER CLOSE j
Union Gas Oils Greases
Tune-up and Repairs of all kinds
Tires, Batteries and Accessories
Towing
Car Washing {
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Drop in and See Us
at the
Alpine Inn
At Sutton
Mile 61 Glenn Highway
Cabins, meals, cocktail bar, liquor store lor your convenience.
A cozy place with a friendly atmosphere.
O'NEILL & SONS
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Gulbranson, Managers
Remember, the Alpine Inn—3 miles from Jonesville.
OPEN 24 HOURS
For Reservations
Call Long Distance
Theatre —Mon., Wed., Fri., 8 p. m.
Wood Industry
Is Hampered
By Freight Rates
A pamphlet entitled “Possi
bilities for Small Wood Indus
tries in Alaska” has just been is
sued by the Alaska Development
Board. Prepared by George :
Frank, New York wood indus- 1
trialist, the booklet concludes
that good opportunities exist i
now for service manufacturing !
to supply wood products for
local use, but that large scale
production must await lower
transportation rates.
Mr. Frank reports that more
than 90 per cent of the wood !
used in Alaska is imported from j
the states.
His booklet suggests eight
steps which a prospective wood- J
worker should follow to set up
business in Alaska, lists equip
ment needed, alalyzies the vari
ous Alaskan communities, and
describes the properties of vari
ous native woods. It may be ob
tained from the Development
Board upon request.
PHS Seniors Hold
First Play Reading
Members of Palmer's senior
class met last Thursday evening
for the first reading rehearsal
of the senior class play, sched
uled for an April production
date.
Two more reading rehearsals
were planned for Monday and
Tuesday of this week, before an
nouncement of the cast for the
three-act comedy will be made.
There are 10 parts in the play,
and bus schedules as well as his
trionic ability will enter into the
final choices, for the play is ex
pected to go immediately into
concentrated rehearsals.
James Gray, Jr., high school
principal, is assisting in the cast
ing of characters for the play.
WADES HAVE DAUGHTER
An eight pound, five ounce
baby daughter was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Wade at the
Valley hospital last week. The
new little girl arrived in the Val
ley on March 22.
"The Yearling” is one of the s
best pictures of 1947. If is 135 [
minutes long, so note the time i
of next Sunday evening's J
shows at the ...
VALLEY THEATRE
WEDNESDAY. THURSDAY
“Nobody Lives
Forever”
John Garfield
Geraldine Fitzgerald
FRIDAY. SATURDAY
ROYaSs ROGERS
KING OF THE COWBOYS
TRIGGER
SMARTEST HORSE IN THE MOVIES
MDS ACROSS
tH£ BORDER
SUNDAY
2. 7, 9:30 p.m.
MONDAY at 8 Only
MGM'S
TECHNICOLOR
PRIZE PICTUREl
» YEARLING
GREGORY JANE
PECK-WYMAN
CLAUDE JARMAN, Jr. A
A CLARENCE BROWN
PRODUCTION
pioduceo $r
SIDNEY FRANKLIN
(Note time of Sunday's Shows)
VALLEY
THEATRE
Juniors Are
PHS Champs
The young men of Palmer high
schoo ltriumphed over their eld-i
ers last Thursday afternoon, j
when the junior squad of Sand
vik, McAllister, Hutchinson,
Chambers, Hermon and Gleason
wilted the seniors into defeat in
a sizzling over-time clash. Tied
at 19-all when the whistle ended
regular play, the juniors burned
up the court to push their vic
tory count to 24-21 in the three-'
minute overtime period.
The senior squad, on which
Onkka, Plumley, Lucus, Miller,
Stevens and Parks were playing,
had earlier lost their first game
of the tournament to these same
victorious juniors and by the
identical 24-21 count.
Thursday’s win, which offici
ally ended all court play for the
Palmer high school basketeers
this season, made the juniors
champions of Palmer high school.
Whether their efforts will be re
warded by anything more con
crete than their title, is still un
certain. There is a possibility
that a cup award will be made to
the victorious five, but no def
inite announcement of that!
award has yet been made.
While Palmer’s basketball pic
ture was far from a rosy one
I this season, the recent intra
| murals did develop some latent
‘ basketball talent which is ex
pected to brighten the outlook
for next year, according to James
Gray, Jr., who concluded the
I season as basketball coach.
Player mortality was exceed
! ingly high all year, through ill
ness, eligibility and withdrawal
of students from high school.
! However enough new basketball
i ability was uncovered in the
lower grade brackets by the
j year’s end, to make Palmer fans
| more than a little optimistic for
several seasons ahead.
Community
Calendar
Tuesday
CUB SCOUT pack meeting.
VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE
ASSOCIATION public meet
ing at Valley Theatre at 8 p.m.
Wednesday
WASILLA SCOUTS meet at
school at 8 p.m.
SUNDAY SCHOOL teachers and
officers of United Protestant
church meet at church at 8
p.m.
PINOCHLE PARTY at Grange
hall at 8 p.m.
4-H CLUB ROUNDUP at Exten
sion office at 7:30 p.m.
MVFCA quarterly meeting at
gymnasium at 8 p.m.
INTERMEDIATE GIRL SCOUTS
meet in Miss Bleck’s room at
3:30 p.m.
Thursday
MEA annual meeting in gym
nasium at 8 p.m.
AMERICAN LEGION meets in
Koslosky Bldg, at 8 p.m.
LEGION AUXILIARY meets in
Moose hut at 8 p.m.
MUSICALE at rectory of St.
Michael’s church at 8 p.m.
HEALTH COUNCIL meets at
M. D. Snodgrass
REAL ESTATE
Dairy and Vegatebia ter mm
City lota wmg
Kitchen Katie J
Tells Valley
By KAY HITCHCOCK
Lowbush cranberries that ha
been kept frozen all winter
not cook up in the same waj
fresh-picked berries. A much bt *
ter sauce may be made from new s
beries in the fall, but berry-pick
ing season is usually a busy time
for Alaskan housewives, with
harvest, pickling, canning and
maybe wild game on hand to be
cared for all at the same time. It
is sometimes easier to store the
berries and use them as they are
wanted. *
The Extension Service has
many good cranberry recipes and
suggestions for keeping berries
without preserving. Simply hang
ing them outdoors in a gunny
sack seems to be as good a way
of keeping lowbush berries as
any.
There are a couple of pointers
on the cooking of any fresh ber
ries that for some reason are
sometimes neglected by cook
books. A pinch of salt, say an
eighth to a quarter teaspoonful
to four cups of berries, adds an
indefinable smoothness to their
navor. i ms is true also of dried
apples, apricots or any such fruit.
The other point is that cooking
fruit before adding sugar helps*
to keep the fresh berry flavor,
avoiding a cooked-sugar taste. To
do this, heat the sugar separately
while the berries are cooking.
Measure the amount required
into a flat container such as a
cake pan where it may be spread
thin and heat in the oven, stir
ring to prevent scorching. When
the berries have finished cook
ing, add the hot sugar, being care
ful to remove the kettle from the
stove. Hot sugar spilled on a hot
stove flares up explosively.
Winter-stored berries require
less sugar than when fresh, and
should be cooked without adding
any water except that which
clings to them in washing. Where
as two cups of water and two
cups of sugar are added to a quart
of August berries, only one and
one-half cups of sugar at til
most is the desirable amount at
this time of year. If you like the
sauce less sweet, trim down. The
berries must be cooked longer to
render out some of the juice.
To sum up, here is a method
for making firm sauce from
stored cranberries:
Wash four cups of cleaned ber
ries twice, lifting by handfuls
adding water until thick, mak
ing from time to time. Measure
one and one-half cups sugar into
cake pan and heat in oven while
berries cook. When berries are
reduced to a pasty sauce, remove
from stove, add hot sugar, cook
long enough to froth up again.
Immediately pour into serving
dish and put away to cool.
Mrs. George Small always adds
vanilla to her lowbush cranber
ry sauce, a delicious improve
ment in flavor, causing them to
resemble cherries. Mrs. Lydia
Fohn-Hansen’s Alaska Berry bul
letin, on page 14, recommends
one teaspoon vanilla to a quart
of berries. ♦
Back to Washington
Don L. Irwin, head of the ter
ritory’s Agricultural Research
Administration, left the Valley
last Saturday to fly to Washing
tion, D.C. Mr. Irwin expects to be
gone only 10 days or two weeks
on this latest business trip.
Coffey insures Everything—~
Remember? —Adv.
VIEWMASTERS
aer here again, together with
a complete selection of
VIEWMASTER REELS
Reels in stock cover national parks,
Alaska, and flower and cactus series.
Get them al the
Palmer Photographic Center
VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN