Visit Parents
WASILLA—Mr. and Mrs. James
Nelson are on vacation from
their chores at Wasilla’s station.
They are visiting with Mr. Nel
son’s parents in Palmer, where
Mrs. Nelson plans to combine a
tonsil?ctom'y with her holiday.
Mr. Spees is acting as relief
agent at the Wasilla depot.
Betts Go Outside
WASILLA—Mrs. Henry Betts
and children recently left for the
Outside, where they will join Mr.
Betts. He preceded them to the
states, where he was sent for
medical treatment.
CLUB CLEARS $700
WASILLA — The final ac
counting following the recent
Rod and Gun Club dance dis
closed total receipts for the af
fair reached $795. Of that
amount, $700 was net profit, the
dance committee announced. The
money will be used to purchase
Hungarian partridges which will
be stocked in the Valley under
Rod and Gun Club sponsorship.
Lemans Have Son
Mr. and Mrs. John Leman of
Wasilla became the parents of a
new baby boy last week. The
baby was born at the Valley Hos
pital.
Take Your Cleaning
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BROWN'S SHOP
It Will Get the Best Possible Care There.
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For it's such a friendly place
So if this be your case
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Airport Work
Races Winter
Work on Palmer’s airport was
racing with winter weather this
week, as a survey crew headed by
Victor Rivers, project engineer,
completed work on the east-west
runway. The runway ditching
has been held up awaiting the
running of these final survey
lines.
It is the hope of the Palmer
Airport Association to complete
the ditching before cold weather
sets in, thereby assuring that the
strip will remain in usable con
dition through the bad weather
months.
Mr. Rivers inspected the en
tire airport construction recent
ly and reported that the work
“shows satisfactory progress and
a reasonable return per dollar for
the money involved in the con
struction program.”
Mr. Rivers said that by August
31, $20,009 had been spent on the
port this year. Territorial High
way Engineer Frank Metcalf had
allotted a total of $33,500 to the
Palmer airport for the construc
tion planned this year. The sum
is expected to be entirely ex
hausted before winter ends the
airport work.
Four Leave Valley
Ted and Leola DeLand, son and
daughter of Mrs. L. Z. Scott of
Palmer, left the Valley last week
to spend the winter Outside.
They flew to Philomath, Ore.,
where they will visit with an
aunt. Leola expects to return to
Palmer next year, to conclude
her final year in school at Pal
mer. Accompanying the DeLands
on the plane Outside were two
other Palmer-ites—Glen Miller
and Don Parks who were plan
ning to visit relatives in North
Dakota and in Nebraska.
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FIRST FROSTS FOLLOW
FLEEING SOUTHERNERS
Word coming from Kirk Stone,
now comfortably at home in
Madison, Wis., reports that he is
still somewhat climatically con
fused. After waiting, in company
with all Valley residents, for the
first killing frost of the year
here, he resignedly welcomed
winter with the coming of that
frost in mid-August of his Val
ley residency.
Now. six weeks’ later, he finds
he’s got it all to go through again
back at Madison. However he’s
again been introduced to the
winter of 1948 for a second time,
for Madison received its first
killing frost on the evening of
Oct. 4.
Mr. Stone expressed some dis
appointment at the dwindling
numbers of questionnaires which
are reaching the Madison ad- *
dress. He says it’s most impor
tant that he have a good idea of
the Valley point of view when he
consults with his Department of
Interior superiors, and he’s prom
ised to faithfully present that
point of view.
Arrangements have been made
to have all questionnaires for
warded, so Mr. Stone again re
quests that all colonists who have
not yet returned the blanks
make every effort to do so as
soon as possible. Their co-opera
tion may mean much to the en
tire Valley’s future.
The first fall meeting of the *
Matanuska Valley Health Coun
cil will be held tomorrow, Oct.
21, it was announced this week
by Council president, Mrs. Clyde
King, Sr. The meeting will be
held in the Health Center and is
scheduled to open at 8 p. m.
All clubs are urged to have a
representative at this first meet
ing of the year, when officers
will be elected and plans will be
formulated for the year’s work.
SAFETY IS A HABIT . .
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
Airways provides the same standard of main
tenance required by CAA for scheduled Air
line operation.
AIRFREIGHT SERVICE
To and From Seattle and Any Point in the Territory
Mt. McKinley Airways
251 E St., Anchorage Phone Main 746
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Agent at Dow Freight Lines, Palmer Phone 8
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