Vol 1, No. 14
Palmer, Alaska, November 1, 1947
Ten Cents
Col* Johnson Views Industrial Future Of Valley
Spooks To Haun tTeam Collects
Palmer School Halls Travel Fun<1 i
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Chills and thrills, food and fun
re in store for every Carnival
oer at the high school Friday
vening the student manage
lent committee has announced,
oday.
Concessions, sponsored by
ach high school and junior high
chool classroom, will be located
a the halls of Palmer school,
'irst customers will line up for
hances at games of skill prompt
y at 7:30 p.m. Concessions will
>e operated throughout the eve
iing.
At 9:30 that evening, danc
ing begins in the school gym
nasium. Arrangements were
still incomplete at press time,
but student sponsors Lynn
Sandvik and Don Hutchinson
are attempting to engage an
orchestra for the evening.
All Valley residents are the in
cited guests of Palmer students
or the Carnival evening. The
iallowe’en Carnival is a tradi
ional event in Palmer school on
he last day in October.
Robert Graham, student Car
lival manager, has announced a
ist of 16 planned concessions to
lay, and more may be added be
!ore J'riday evening.
Proceeds from the Carnival,
normally divided between the
student body and high school
classes, will help to buy bas
ketball suits this year. Classes
will receive their usual per
centage cut of Carnival re
ceipts.
Robert’s list of Carnival con
cessions includes these features'
Junior and senior Bingo, pe
destrian license (required of
everyone), two fishponds, penny
toss, dart game, ring the goose,
doll stand, wheel of fortune, shoe
shine, lunch stand, shooting gal
lery, ball toss game, novelty
stand and refreshment stand.
There will be a Hall of Hor
rors, whose slimy mysteries
are still a secret shared only
by Edison Thuma, Duane
Goodrich and faculty sponsor
Miss Jean Dickson.
A directory of Carnival events
has been prepared by Ellen Fos
ter. Nancy Smith will be in
charge of a hat-check counter.
Ticket stands, where tickets for
all Carnival events will be sold
in blocks, will be in charge of
faculty members.
Students in charge of listed
concessions are:
Duane Huntley, George Her
mon, Don Church, Stan Hoffman,
Henry Anderson, a committee of
eighth grade boys, Roger Woods,
Ed Cope, Roberta Hemmer, Clay
Johnson, a committee of home
economics students, Bob Lucas,
Jim Gleason, Helen Stenvall and
a committee of eighth grade
girls.
James Gray, Jr., is faculty ad
visor for the Carnival.
Bingo Party
Planned Nov. 22
Valley residents are reminded
to reserve the evening of Nov
22, for the Bingo party spon
sored by the Valley Volunteer
Fire Association. Chickens, hams
and turkeys will be Bingo prizes
that evening.
It is tentatively planned to
hold the affair in the Steve Ward
building in ground-floor store
space.
Although the Association has
no ^definite plans for building at
this time, treasurer Jack Maze is
planning to organize a series of
Bingo parties to establish a treas
ury fund. Further announcement
of fire department plans is ex
pected within the next few days.
Ambulance Bids
Are Rejected
All bids submitted on the hos
pital ambulance were rejected by
the board, Dr. F. R. Sims, board
chairman, announced last week.
A number of Valley residents
submitted bids.
Dr. Sims said it was the unani
mous feeling of the board mem
bers that the ambulance should
bring more money to the hospital
fund than the amount of the
highest bid.
The ambulance probably will
be re-offered for bid at a later
date, according to Dr. Sims.
HOSPITALIZED
Rupel Adams of Palmer was
hospitalized by a sudden illness
last week. Mr. Adams, a veteran,
has been employed as a plumber
at the Steve Ward building.
iviemoers oi me anamrocx
basketball squad dug deep into (
their pockets this week to sub-:
scribe $5 each to a travelling:
fund so they can carry the team’s
fortunes to “foreign” courts, j
They also asked Valley mer
chants for a little help, too.
Emil Waldal, secretary-treas
urer for the team, said his team
mates and he were very grateful
for the response which met that
request. To date, these organiza
tions have added to the Sham
rock travelling fund:
Moore's Garage, Graham's
Service, Werlanen's Valley
Service, Palmer Body and
Paint Shop, Stock and Brock
Lunchroom, Hopkins Peanut
& Popcorn Shop, Palmer Inde
pendent Cab Co., North Palm
er Store, Meier'f Transfer,
West Side Service, Ron-Da
Voo Cafe and Leonard Moffitt
Dairy.
Other merchants and individ
uals who wish to contribute may
leave their donations at the
Shamrock Lounge or at the Co
op Fountain Lunch.
At present the town squad has
no definite engagements sche
duled. They plan to concentrate
on their twice-weekly practice
sessions for the next few weeks.
However it is possible that
the Shamrocks may play an
exhibition game with Lepak's
Lobos next Saturday evening.
If that game is scheduled, it
will be played early, in order
to avoid conflict with the
dance at the Butte hall that
evening. The dance is sponsor
ed by members of the women's
basketball squad to raise funds
for their season.
Manager-coach Art Stacey has
announced that Shamrock game
admissions this year will cost
50 cents for adults.
The Shamrock squad now
numbers an even dozen players,
but late recruits will be welcom
ed. Practice sessions are schedul
ed for Monday and Wednesday
evenings at 8:30.
Go Outside
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Tyler and
their child left this week for the
Outside. They will remain out
{ for the winter. The Tyler home
! has been purchased by Dr. R. E.
1 Garret.
New Office
For Frontiersman
I
Visitors to the Valley Fron
tiersman office will need to
knock at a new door after Sat
urday. The office is being mov
ed to shared quarters with
Mrs. Dorothy Henke. The new j
location is between Variety
Vogues and the Palmer Cold
Storage.
The telephone number. Val
ley 8, is unchanged.
A subscription contest, de
tails of which will be announc
ed soon is scheduled to begin
in mid-November and run for
a month. Entries will be limit- I
ed to Valley teen-agers.
Experiment Farm
Needs Calves
For Feed Project
The Experiment Station is ex
perimenting again. However,
they need 16 bovine babies be
fore the experiment can pro
gress very far.
They plan to delve into the
problem of calf-feeding, but first
they must have the calves. Eith
er bulls or heifers will do, but
they must not be more than a
few days old. The station pre
fers to buy the calves outright.
They will make arrangements to
sell back valuable heifer calves
after the six months’ feeding
experiment is completed. The
former owner may reclaim them
then by paying half the feed
bill.
Arlo Martin, animal husband
man at the farm, is making a
calf cradle roll right now. He
asks that any farmer who is will
ing to sell a calf, or who will
board it out under the terms
outlined above, call him at
once. He’ll including listings of
prospective calves, too, if any
cows in local herds are freshen
1 ing soon.
However, he warns that time
is the essence of this experiment,
and he’d like to have those 16
calves very, very soon.
Fennimore Improved
George Fennimore, Anchorage
resident who was seriously in
jured when a tractor ran over
him at Sheep Mountain last
week, was reported to be “some
what improved” in condition yes
terday. However, Mr. Fennimore
still is not out of danger, Dr.
R. E. Garret, attending physi
cian, said.
Parisian Visits Palmer On Global Trip
Eight trips between Paris,
France, and the major cities of
the United States in less than
two years left Henri Jacob of
Paris with a yen to see what the
other side of the globe looked
like. Mr. Jacob was in Palmer
Wednesday beginning to fit an
swers into some of the blank
spaces in his geography.
The Frenchman is representa
tive for an international perfume
manufacturer headquartered in
Paris. Although the organization
has no Alaskan cutlets. Mr Ja
cob *iook French leave fr<>m his
perfumer’s tasks in Seattle last
week, to fly north for a quick
look at the territory and then
continue home by way of the
Orient.
Mr. Jacob also represents a
Catholic charitable organization.
He plans to stop in at least a
dozen major cities of the east, in
India and Greece in connection
with this phase of his work. Al
though actually only three days’
flight from home, he will not be
back in Paris again before
Christmas at the earliest.
"I hope what they say about
the world's being round is
true," he auiDped. "I'd like to
see Paris again."
The visitor stopped in Anchor
age for three days, en route to
the east, because he wanted to
see more of Alaska. He flew
north from Seattle, and found the
trip particularly scenic, for his
plane cruised low over the coast
line in search of the missing
Pan-American DC-4.
Mr. Jacob came to Palmer on
a sight-seeing tour, and called on
Father James Snead of St. Mich
ael’s church while here. After a
few moments conversation they
were delighted to find they
shared a mutual friend, an Amer
ican priest now living in Paris.
Mr. Jacob left Anchorage on
a Northwest plane Thursday,
bound for Tokyo. He expected to
go on to Shanghai and Manila
and thence to the Orient.
He explained that he pre
ferred "overhead transporta
tion in the disturbed countries
of the East, because so often
on a train trip, one arrives at
one's destination in a head
less condition."
The Frenchman, educated at
Cambridge, spoke faultless Eng
1 lish. He served in the French
armv durine the war.
Railroad Men
Discuss Plans
On Warehouse
Looking ahead to the Valley’s
future development. Col. John
P. Johnson, general manager of
The Alaska Railroad, Thursday
told a record Chamber of Com
merce meeting in Palmer that he
would appoint an employe to sur
vey industrial possibilities of the
railbelt.
Speaking before 92 Chamber
members, Colonel Johnson
asked the Chamber lo appoint
a planning committee to work
with the railroad lo the mutual
benefit of Palmer and the
ARR. The committee could re
port on what industries might
be developed.
Perturbed about time lag in
paying freight claims, Colonel
Johnson said he would appoint
a claims agent to call on Valley
merchants. Problems, such as
streets located on railroad right
of-way, could be straightened out
so that both Palmer and the rail
road could grow.
'PALMER DAY'
Fred Axford, Anchorage
Chamber president, invited
Palmer Chamber of Commerce
members to meet on some
Monday in Anchorage for a
"Palmer Day’* program.
A local Chamber committee,
composed of Jack Maze, Dr.
R. E. Garret, and Rev. Victor
Alfsen, will decide the date
for the "return" visit during
which mutual Anchorage
Palmer-Valley problems can
be discussed.
D. H. Nucker, budget officer
for the ARR, told the gather
ing that plans calls for a $30,
000,000 expenditure by the
railroad, starting July 1, 1948.
This sum must be approved by
Congress.
"Washington is more cog
nizant of Alaska and its needs
than ever before." he said, ex
plaining that officials visiting
here in the territory have been
sold on Alaska.
R. A. Sharood, chief engineer
for the ARR, explained the rail
road’s plans for a fire hall. It
will be 35 to 45 feet and will
provide living quarters for per
sonnel and room for a truck and
tank wagon. The dorm will house
seven men.
Sharood said the railroad has
two plans for a freight station in
Palmer. Both are subject to re
vision. The first plan calls for
a warehouse in connection with
the present depot. It would triple
present capacity.
If this is too small, a separate
building with four times the
present capacity can be expected.
He asked merchants to make an
estimate of tonnage expected.
G. W. Caldwell, ARR consult
ting engineer, M. M. Shappell,
superintendent of operation, and
Fred Axford, Anchorage Cham
ber president, attended the meet
ing.
Chamber President W. C. Mau
appointed Jack Maze, Dr. R. E.
i Garret, and Rev. Victor Alfsen