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PALMER COCKTAIL BAR CHARLIE'S BAR-B-QUE
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PRECISION REBUILT ENGINES
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CHEVROLET HI TORQUE
HADEES HOT WATER HEATERS
For Easy Starting This Winter
Use BARDAHL Oil
—60 Pour Point
TUNE UP LUBRICATION
OUR SPECIALTY
Students To Plan
Honor Society
Members of the Student Coun
cil of Palmer school are planning
to sponsor the organization of
two new clubs this winter, it
was announced yesterday.
The council has requested a
charter from the National Honor
Society, and hopes to organize
that group here soon.
Students may become mem
bers of the honor group through
election to membership by a se
lecting committee of faculty
members. Qualifications for
membership, which is open only
to seniors, are general excellence
in scholarship, leadership, char
acter, and school service through
freshman, sophomore and junior
years.
It is also the Student Council’s
hope to get a charter group of
Thespians, national dramatic so
ciety, organized in Palmer this
year.
NEW PUPILS ENROLL
WASILLA — Three new stu
dents, James, Carolee and Lynne
Hilburn, enrolled at *Wasilla
school last Monday morning. The
three came from schools in Los
Angeles, their former home.
Their father is a roadmaster for
The Alaska Railroad in this area.
James and Carolee are both
fourth grade pupils, while Lynne
is a freshman in high school. The
children were accompanied on
their trip north by their aunt,
j Mrs. Ola Grafton. They arrived
I in Wasilla only last Sunday.
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RUSTY DOW AGAIN
HAULS VALLEY FREIGHT
Rusty Dow, who has been pil
ing up an impressive record of
“first to be present” achieve
ments during the past few years
she has spent at the wheel of a
truck, happily settled into an old
routine this week, when' she
again opened a trucking business
in Palmer.
Mrs. Dow was at the wheel of
the first truck which did com
mercial hauling in Palmer back
in 1933. She furnished the
transportation for most of the
building materials which went
into some of Palmer's principal
buildings under construction at
that time.
She came here while much of
the land in the colony was still
unsurveyed. On the day when
first she saw the site upon which
she is now building, Mrs. Dow
was taking a rough ride down
a tractor road with a passenger.
Returns io Site
Her truck had been hired to
carry the passenger to the sur
vey camp at the present location
of Knik bridge. Much water has
flowed under that then-unbuilt
bridge in the past 10 years, but
this spring Mrs. Dow returned to
the site to stake 160 acres of
homestead land and to begin
construction of a log home and
studio there.
During the war years, Mrs.
Dow was principally occupied
with trucking duties for the
Army. She worked at Fort Rich
ardson for a long period of time,
and was the first woman truck
er to drive the length of the
Alaska Highway and make a re
turn trip. She made that trip in
1944 with a fully loaded truck.
At the close of the war, her
thoughts turned from trucking
to painting and modelling, an
occupation with which she has
been chiefly occupied in recent
months.
Mrs. Dow works both with oils
and with modelling materials.
At the recent Matanuska Valley
Fair, she placed paintings, a
mural, and ceramics on exhibi
tion.
Alaskan Theme
She has recently promised to
complete two murals to be hung
in the entryway of Palmer
school. That work is not yet be
gun. but Mrs. Dow says she plans
to design an Alaskan theme for
them. The large mural displayed
at the fair also was intended as
a gift for the Palmer school, but
it was found to be too large for
hanging in the school halls.
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Mrs. Dow has not yet com
mercialized her art, but she says
that she hopes to do so. In the
meantime, she’ll be found driv
ing about Palmer in a little
white truck doing odd jobs of
hauling and draying. That is,
when she’s not at work on the
homestead cabin, or deep in the
midst of some new picture or
mural.
Mrs. Dow has not yet found a
headquarters for her work, but
she expects to be able to an
nounce her business address in
a short time.
Wasilla Welcomes
Week’s Downpour
WASILLA — Sven though last
week’s heavy rains did wash out
roads and send slides tumbling
down to disrupt railroad sche
dules, they were a boon to thirsty
Wasilla.
The driest summer ever re
membered by this community’s
oldest inhabitants had complete
ly drained many wells and had
sent others to dangerously low
levels. Indeed, some residents al
ready had begun to drill deeper
for water when the rains came.
The downpour of last week
brought the water level high in
most wells, and Wasilla residents
settled down to enjoy an unra
tioned water supply in their bath
tubs again.
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