THE FRONTIERSMAN
Entered as second class matter on Oct 21. 1947. at the post office
at Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 1379
T. O SCHMIDTKE
Publisher
MARY E MORGAN
News Editor
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WHERE?
Communist countries always call themselves
peoples' republics". Back of this is the well-propagand
ized Marxist claim that only absolute dictatorship, in
which government owns and runs practically every
thing, can be trusted to give the masses of people the
good things of life they earn with their labor.
Well, the other day, in the Soviet Union, an order
came down increasing butter and meat prices. The butter
now sells for $1.83 a pound and meat for 88 cents-in
a country where the average wage is under $90 a
month.
Thus, a Soviet worker will have to put in about
3’2 hours at his |ob to earn enough money to buy a
pound of butter, and an hour and a half to buy a pound
of meat. In a recent year by way of contrast, the average
American factory worker earned enough in just one hour
buy three and a half pounds of butter and two and
a half pounds of high-grade beef. The situation is the
same for just about all the other necessities of life, to say
-oothing of the luxuries which are next to unknown in
Russia and are commonplace here.
Where is the real "people's republic"?
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IN THE
ViJIirY
Thursday, July 3. 1952
The MVFCA board of direc
tors announced this week the
appointment of Fred Zieke of
Seattle as new manager of the
'Co-Op. The new manager as
sumed his duties Tuesday, July
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Logging work parlies are
-being held each Monday
night by the United Protes
tant Church. Their goal is
30-100 logs, cut and peeled,
ior the new main entrance to
the church, which will face
west.
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Matt Onkka. Exalted Ruler
<jf the local Eiks Club left
Sunday for the Grand Lodge
meeting in New York. The na
tional meeting, at which On
kka will represent the recent
ly instituted BPOE 1842, will
begin July 13.
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Success stories of several
prominent Matanuska Valley
dairy farmers were featured in
the spring issue of Surge News,
•a commercial quarterly pub
lished in Chicago. i
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The nationally known Cath
olic Choir of Elmendorf Air
Ninth Competitive
Oil and Gas Lease
Sale Scheduled
The State’s ninth competi
tive oil and gas lease sale has
been scheduled for 10:00 A.M.,
•July 11. 1962, at the Council
‘Chambers of the Loussac Li
brary, Anchorage.
Being offered at this time are
383,324.93 acres, comprising 104
leasing tracts, in the Knik Arm,
Upper Cook Inlet Basin, Kal
gin Island, Kenai Peninsula
and Wide Bay areas.
Legal descriptions and pro
fraction sheets, at $2.00 each,
may be obtained from the Di
vision of Lands, 344 Sixth Ave
nue, Anchorage. The tracts are
shown on 16 sheets.
Force Base, under the direction
of Chaplain William J. Clasby,
will sing at the 10 a m. mass at
St. Michael’s Church on Sun
day.
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William J. Sweeiman re
turned Saturday from a
week's trip to Davis, Cali
fornia, where he attended the
annual meeting of the Dairy
Science Association.
Don Irwin Jr. is going I
through the Air Force equi
valent of boot training at Parks
AFB near Oakland, California.
He will be there six weeks.
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Heading for Chicago today is
a Matanuska Valley favorite
son who hasn’t been Outside
the Territory since 1916. He is
Territorial Senator Gerritt
■’Heinie” Snider, one of Alas
ka's three delegates to the Re
publican National Convention
starting in Chicago July 7.
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The new United Protestant
Church minister. Rev. Brian
Cleworth is expected to ar
rive in Palmer late this week
to take over the duties of the
parish.
Cleared recently were ap
proximately three acres of the
A. J. Swanson land in North
Palmer which was purchased
last spring for the new elemen
tary school. North and east of
the cleared plot trees were left
standing to serve as a wind
break for the new school.
Glertnallen Bid
Given Fairbanks Firm
A bid of $157,029 by Whitney
Brothers Plumbing and Heat
ing of Fairbanks was appar
ently the lowest of four bids
for a project at the Glenallen,
Alaska ACS Station.
Bids were opened publicly on
June 19 bythe U. S. Army En
gineer District, Alaska. Project
costs were estimated at $140,
410 by the government.
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Their majesties invited only clients of Wright
travel service to the palace for tea!
WRIGHT
TRAVEL AGENCY
Wright Building
Phone PI 5-4500 - PI 5-4515 Palmer
THE AMERICAN ff'A Y
Cn. iVlv Achin’ Hack!
Navy Announces
Alaska Goal
Gontracis Details
The Navy Fuel Supply office i
has supplied more detailed data j
on its purchase of coal from
Alaska producers. The Navy
recently announced the total
tonnage and dollar amounts of !
coal contracts for fiscal 1963.
The contracts are as follows:
From Mrak Coal Co., 30,000
tons for Fort Richardson for i
$270,000 and 30,000 tons for |
Elmendorf Air Force Base for
$270,000; from the Evan-Jones '
Coal Co., 70.000 tons for Fort
Richardson for $595,000 and
90,000 tons for Elmendorf AFB
for $765,000; from the Usibelii
Coal Mine, Inc., 167.040 tons \
for Fort Wainwright for $1,
$44,000, 130,000 tons for Eielson
Air Force Base for $812,000 and
62,080 tons for the Clear Air
Force Station for $388,000.
The decision to use coal dur
ing fiscal 1963, instead of con
verting to natural gas, at the
Anchorage area military bases
followed a protest by the Al
aska senators because of the
disastrous effect it would have
on the coal mining industry
and on the revenues of the Al
aska Railroad as well.
Former Nome-ites
Will Have Second
Annual Picnic
The second annual Nome pic
nic for all former Nomeites
now living in the Anchorage1
area will be held July 8 at
Eklutna Flats, approximately
-8 miles from Anchorage, on
:he Palmer Highway. A large
sign will be posted from both
iirections.
Those attending are asked to
aring their own picnic lunch
for their group, however free !
coffee will be served. Time is
From noon till 3 o’clock. There
is an enclosed shelter in case
af rain.
All former Nome residents
are invited to attend.
HSWAY
CHURCH OF GOD
Rev. M. L. Cowdell, Pastor A
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Sunday School_10 a.m. ^
Morn. Church Serv. 11 a.m.f
'Evening Service_7:45 p.m.
Bible Study, Wed. 8:00 p.m. ^
Y. P. E. Friday_8:00 p.m,
Phone PI 5-3824
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PI 5-2030 Palmer
House Gels Army's Fayorable
Report on Bradley Lake Dam
Secretary of the Army Elvis
J. Stahr, Jr. gave his approval
to the construction of the pro
nosed hydroelectric oroiect at
Bradly Lake on the Kenai pen
insula in sending the favorable
report of the Chief of Engin
eers to the House.
This action will place the
project in line for considera
tion when the House Public
Works committee takes up
projects for inclusion in the
anticipated omnibus river and
harbor, navigation and hydro
electric authorization bill. Re
presentative Rivers and Sena
tors Gruening and Bartlett
have introduced bills author
izing the project.
The proposal calls for a dam
at the outlet of Bradley Lake
to raise its elevation about 100
feet, and a power plant, with
04.000 kilowatts of installed
capacity, on Kachemak Bay.
Estimates place the federal
cost at $-15,750,000 for con
struction, and $258,000 annual
ly for operation and mainten
ance. Under the agreement
reached recently between the
Interior and Army Depart
ments, the project, once con
BUY 'EM
Sign up and be counted
among those underwriting our
country’s might. Defend FREE
DOM by buying U. S. Savings
Bonds — this month, next
nonth, all year around!
The good intentions of some
people become contaminated
with their bad habits.
ST. JOHN
LUTHERAN
CHURCH
Hev. R. H. Frill, pastor
Palmer, Alaska
Divine Services llOO A. M.
Sunday School
| structed by the Corps of En
1 gineers, would be operated and
maintained by the Bureau of
Reclamation.
The Federal Power commis
sion has estimated a shortage
of about 20.000 kilowatts of
power will occur in the area by
1965 and 50.000 by 1970. In de
termining the feasibility of the
project, the district engineer
considered what he called “the
high cost of alternative ther
mal-electric power.”
The Board of Engineers for
Rivers and Harbors has found
that the proposed project is
needed and economically justi
fied to alleviate the impending
power shortage in the Anchor
age-Kenai peninsula area and
has recommended the project
substantially as outlined by the
report.
The American Public Power
Association, which met in
Puerto Rico recently, urged
by resolution that there be “a
program of hydroelectric de
velopment in the state of Al
V
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| aska ana supports authoriza
tion and construction of the
Crater-Long Lakes division of
the Snettisham project and the
Bradley Lake project.”
The APPA also resolved:
“That the Association supports
the completion of detailed
studies of Rampart Dam and, if
the final report sustains the
finding of feasibility, endorses
and urges the construction of
the Rampart Dam.”
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Wasilla |
! Assembly of God §
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Rev Paul E. Riley. %
* Pastor *
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;■ Sun. School — 10
jjj Morn. Church Serv. 11 a.m.*
:;:Even. Serv. 7:30 p.m.;;-.
Prayer and Bible *
* Study, Wednesday 7:30 p.m.*
Phone FR-6-3161
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NOTICE
Taxpayers who have paid interest on pro-1
'perty tax levied under Chapter 10, SLA 1949
(Alaska Property Tax Act) may be entitled
to refund as provided by Chapter 27, SLA]
! 1962.
Further information may be secured by
I writing to the Property Tax Division, Depart
ment of Revenue, Alaska Office Building,]
iJuneau, Alaska.
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GTETBOn
put if over
111© plate
You are witnessing' one of
the frustrations in Ted’s life.
Like his namesake, the Red
Sox slugger, Ted likes to tag
a good fast ball and send it
over the fence. But, today,
our batting-practice pitcher
just can’t seem to find the
plate.
Another frustration in
Ted’s life will occur next
Sunday morning. Like every
American youngster Ted
needs religious training. But
Ted’s parents, who should be
offering him opportunity and
encouragement in spiritual
growth, can’t seem to find
the Church.
Our children deserve the
full spiritual opportunity
which our free heritage has
preserved for them. Todav it
is their turn to develop the
power with which God en
dowed them. And our assign
ment, like the batting-prac
tice pitcher’s, is to offer them
our best . . . and not lost
control.
the church for all . . .
ALL FOR THE CHURCH
T!ie Church it the grrtlcit factor
on c.rlh lor the building of ch.r- !
•cter and good cilizenthip. It it a
itorehoute ot ipiritutl v.lun. With
out a itrong Church, neither de- !
mocracjr nor civilization can aur
vive. There are four sound reatona
why every penon thould attend j
tervicet regularly and lupport the
Church. They are: (I) For his |
own sake. (2) For his children s
sake. (3) For the sake of his com
munity and nation. (4) For the
sake of the Church itself, which
needs his moral and material sup
port. Plan to go to church regu- '
Urly and read your Bible daily.
Copyright 1902, Keister Advertising .Service, Inc., Stnisburg, Va.
Sunday
I Samuel
12:19-25
Monday
II Corinthians
13:5-10
Tuesday
Deuteronomy
6:1-9
Wednesday
I Thcasuloniana
4:1-8
Thursday
Proverbs
4:1-9
Friday
Proverbs
4:10-19
Saturday
I Timothy
4:6-16
The Following Business Establishments Are Contributing This Series of Advertisements
the Churches of Matanuska Valley
THE FRONTIERSMAN
EVAN JONES COAL CO.
A LOCAL CITIZEN MATANUSKA VALLEY BANK
MATANUSKA TELEPHONE ASSN.