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SAFETY IS A HABIT
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with mt. McKinley
Mt McKinley Airways assumes a high re
sponsibility for passengers and cargo carried in
its planes. So much so that Mt. McKinley Air
ways provides the same standard of mainte
nance required by CAA for scheduled Air
line operation.
AIRFREIGHT SERVICE
To and From Seattle and Any Point in the Territory
Mt. McKinley Airways
821 E St., Anchorage
Agent at Dow Freight Linea, Palmar
Phone Main 746
Phone 8
Evelyn Foster
To Be A Bride
Sunday, June 6
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Foster
of Palmer this week announced
the engagement and planned
June 6 wedding of their daugh
ter Evelyn. At 2 o’clock in the
afternoon on June 6, Miss Foster
will become the bride of Robert
Mielke of Palmer.
The wedding is to be at the
United Protestant church with a
reception immediately following.
All Valley friends of the young
couple are invited to be their
guests on the occasion of their
marriage.
Miss Foster is a recent gradu
ate of Palmer high school. She
was valedictorian of this year’s
class.
LEAVES FOR HOME
Miss Jennie Skule, seventh
grade teacher at Palmer during
the past year, left the Valley
today. She was en route to Sew
ard where she will board the
Baranof for Seattle. Miss Skule
plans to spend the summer at
her home at Ely, Minn. She will
be at home with her father,
who was recently injured when
run down by an automobile.
A son was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Leslie Green of Palmer at
the Valley hospital last Tuesday.
The little boy is welcomed into
the Green home by an older sis
ter. Mr. Green is a local pilot.
AUNT VISITS
WASILLA — Mrs. Paul Win
slow of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., is
now the houseguest of her niece,
Miss Peggy Crone, local school
teacher. Mrs. Winslow, who is on
the staff of the Experimental
Theatre at Vassar College, will
remain here until after her
niece’s wedding to Martin Betts
on June 6.
Tim Miller Is Host
To Busy Hoes Club
The Busy Hoes Garden Club
met with Tim Miller on Tues
day afternoon, May 25, to watch
Tim give a demonstration on
transplanting. Following the
demonstration club members
played games, and enjoyed cake
and cookies served by their host.
The next meeting of the Busy
Hoes will be at the home of El
don Sandvik. That meeting is
scheduled for 2 o’clock Tuesday
afternoon, June 1. June officers
will be elected and Eldon will
give a planting demonstration.
Tanana Floods
Delay Riverboats
NENANA—The Nenana flood
has delayed the sailing of the
Alaska Railroad riverboat Ne
nana until June 7, the traffic
department of the A R R an
nounced today. The riverboat
Alice will leave May 28 for Ft.
Yukon.
The Nenana, a 1028-gross ton
stern-wheeler, will await arriv
al of the streamliner from An
chorage on the evening of the
7th. The steamboat will journey
up the Tanana to the Yukon and
down the lower Yukon to Mar
shall, 774 miles away. Yukon
riverboats will be rounding out
a half century of service as sup
ply and passenger boats.
The Nenana carries 16 pas
sengers. Bookings for the first
sailing are filled. There is a lim
ited number of berths available
for the other seven runs the
boat is slated to make this sea
son.
The Alice, a 237-ton paddle
boat, will make trips to Ft. Yu
kon as needs of the villages en
route dictate.
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COLONISTS,
May it be a very happy
Thirteenth Anniversary
for each and every one of you.
TOSrS SERVICE
BIGGEST SAVING OF ALL
is the work and time the Bendix
automatic Washer saves you. All you
do is put in the clothes, set the dial,
add soap ... and RELAX! All by
itself the Bendix washes, triple rinses
and damp>drys the clothes ... then
cleans itself and shuts off automatically.
You don’t even have to be there.
Does washday make it ‘blue Monday’
at your house?
Why let antiquated washing methods make a drudge of you?
Let BENDIX do the work for you. while you relax at a
pleasanter task.
It wash, rinses and damp dries.
BENDIX ironers will finish the job with half the usual time
and effort.
Install a BENDIX in Your Home Today
BUY IT AT
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Presley-Huntley
Marriage Planned
For Tonight
Miss Marilyn Presley of Pal
mer will become the bride of
Duane Huntley in a ceremony to
be performed at the home of the
bridegroom this evening. Only
immediate friends and relatives
of the young couple will be pres
ent at the service.
The marriage vows will be
read by Walter E. Huntley, U. S.
commissioner here and father of
the bridegroom.
The newlyweds plan to spend
the summer in Palmer, and then
will go Outside to Spokane,
Wash., where Duane will attend
divinity school. He is a member
of the Palmer graduating class
of 1948.
MRS. RAY CATHER
Photo by Henry Anderson
FLYING FIREMAN
Robert Totten of Palmer was
awarded the contract for pilot
with the Alaska Fire Control
Service for this area, it was an
nounced this week by Paul Olson,
local fire guard.
4-H Council Meets
The 4-H Council will hold its
regular meeting in the Extension
Office on June 7. The meeting
will begin at 8 o’clock.
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