61 .30* N. La_t._
140'' 15'
W. Long.
Vol. I
PALMER, ALASKA. SEPTEMBER 19, 1P3B No. B
LT. COL* HUNT GETS 0. K.
OH MAIN SCHOOL BUILDING
The pood news hinted at last
week is here. We are to have the
permanent aohool building this
fall and plans for the erection of
temporary buildings have been can
celled.
Washington's permission to go
ahead with the big community Cen
ter unit meets with the hearty ap
proval of everyone. Colonists
have expressed themselves quite
freely on the subject and officials
here have backed them.
The school unit includes the
community hall which will be of the
utmost importance to the Colony
this winter. ’Without it the fine
moving picture equipment we have
would be useless. There would bo
no place to hold public meetings
or have any kind of entertainment.
Col. Hunt has estimated sixty days
as the length of time it will take
to fit it for occupancy.
in hi a weekly report to Wash
ington, col. Hunt gives only four
teen houses left to bo started, as
against .31 the week before, sixty
wells have been completed and six
more are either being drilled or
dug by hand. The barn construction
program is well under way and the
inside finishing of occupied homes
is receiving its share of atten
tion. The major construction phase
is well over the tcp.
Eugene Carr who, as head of tho
promlrement division, has charge
of all employment, states that he
will not be hiring any more men at
present, in fact ho intimated that
the next move would he the cutting
of existing crews.
ARRC STAFF STENOGRAPHER
SUFFERS PAINFUL ACCIDENT
Miss Rita Revelle slipped on
a muddy path during the. rain Tues
day morning and fractured her left
leg between tho ankle and knee.
"While extremely painful, it is,
;f :4l':fortunately* only a simple frac
: ■ i,d;!turd attd Doctor Nathaniel Brown,
lltoho Set the broken bone into place
^'between Splints, predicts an early
s • recovery.
Miss Revelle was taken to Anoh
jlj^dr&ge for X rays in one of the
!.i. small bailboad speeders. Father
•<’:• i!i Shifcm&ri Ac Cdthpanied her.
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h. 'Ipf&EOliOll JiAVlih Your bed roll found
,*u ;>• and, how at dCnoral Office.
w.;«--k;• Cif'
SIX TEACHERS ARRIVE TO
TAKE OVER TUTORING TASKS
The Matanuska valley school
staff Is now complete with the
arrival this week of six addi
tional teachers who are already
at their task of travelling from
home to home, holding classes for
those children who are too far
from either Matanuska 'or Wasilla
to attend either school.
Five of the teachers came north
on the last trip of the Yukon.
They were Miss Mildred Ferguson,
from Minneapolis* Miss Marjorie
potter, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa;
Miss Peggy pimperton, whose home
Is Great Wills, Montana; Miss
Janet Borges, of Anchorage; and
Miss 3©Ida King, from Mahton, ' ■. Vl
Washington.
Miss Lorinda Ward, who had
sailed North two weeks previously,
is another who hails from Anchor
age. Miss King taught school at
Seward last term after three years
as teacher at Mat amis ka. Miss Ward
taught a term at Hope.
Miss Borges is not a stranger
to the valley, either, having
taught right here in palmer last
year. Miss pimperton's Alaska ex
perience includes teaching at ; ■
Douglas.
They are all comfortably quar
tered with the Victor Johnsons on
Tract 97, about a mile and a half
West on Finger Lake Road, and they
get around to the various homes
by c ar.
NEWS-REEL MAN
GETS REAL NEWS
Fred Fordham, veteran knight
of the tripod and crank, who is
nationally known for discovering
new camera shots through a techi
nique all his own, is here on the
project to get a true pictorial
record of the development.
"Film," said Mr. Fordham, "isl
the one medium that can tell a
story more concisely and more
lucidly than any other. No writ
ten words can possibly capture the
bustling activity I have caught
with the lens."
Mr, Fordham is cxovering every
angle of the project and has "can
ned" some exceptional scenes.
A cow in a stand of oat hay
tall enough to hide her tfill•prob
ably make a farmer curse, but to *
camera man it is a shot at which
no skeptic can shout * fake * when
projected on a screen,