Valley FRONTIERSMAN
Published each Tuesday and Friday
Palmer, Alaska
Entered as second class matter on Oct 21, 1947 at the post office
at Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Subscription rates.75c month, $8 a year
Viola Daniels ...Editor
Evon DeLand .Advertising Manager, Palmer
No printed material in the Valley Frontiersman may be
reproduced except by permission of the editor.
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Alaska and the United States
Daniels —In the Lion’s Den
Sunday is Memorial Day again. It is the day set aside by
Americans on which to do honor to their dead. Annually special
Jtfemorial services are held on this day to commemorate the deaths
of our fallen husbands, brothers and sons.
In America there will be services of remembrance beside
the graves of soldiers who died in each of the nation’s six great
wars in the less than 200 years of our country's life. The Revolu
tion, War of 1812, Civil, Spanish-American and World Wars I and
II—men died in them all, and on Sunday will be remembered again.
On this one day of the year the names on rolls of honor across
the country will live again for a little time, before we roll away
tlife lists and lock them up in dust and darkness for another year.
Those who died in our last and greatest war will be first in
our memories. The new dead, whose absence from us is so short
that the ache of their going has not yet left us—those are the
men whom we will best remember on Sunday.
A wreath on a grave and' tears in the hours of darkness—is
that the tribute we will bring to our dead on this Memorial Day?
That and nothing more until another Memorial Day on another
year?
If that is the measure we give to the men who fell in Okinawa,
Iwo Jima, Burma, Guadalcanal, Attu, France, Germany, Russia—
in a thousand foreign spots across the globe, then our dead are
only dead and there is no hope. Tears and flowers on this day
each year and then the dusty emptyness of forgetfulness are the
easy way, the soft, cowardly way to remember our men who are
gone.
But if we would keep them living and keep them with us
always—then we must choose a harder, prouder way of remember
ing. Remember them laughing; remember them happy; remember
them at play; remember them as they were when they were with
us in their days of young idealism. And above all, remember the
things they wanted done, the things they planned to do in their
life to make this country of theirs a pleasant place in which to
spend a lifetime.
If we remember our men that way, then America will have
a core of hardness that nothing can defeat. They are gone with
their work undone—if we whom they left behind can shoulder
their jobs with ours and carry two tasks through to their finishing,
then they are not really gone. They will be with us in the effort,
an.d far closer to us always then they were when they were locked
away in the filing cabinet of our mind for 364 days each year.
PALMER RADIO SERVICE
Records and Supplies
JUST RECEIVED
Two large shipments of records
They include both late hits and old favorites
Get yours while they last
Are you a “long-hair” fan?
Then come in and hear some of our classics
NOW IN STOCK
Record Players Radios
Both portable and standard models
Open daily from noon until 8 p.m.
Drop in on us during oClony Day
B & C SUPPLY
Electrical Contracting and Engineering
Appliance Repair General Wiring
Ironing Cords Made to Order
Light Globes
Bonded and Licensed Contractor
Phone 55
A1 King Bldg.
Palmer
Box 665
Colony Day Greetings
to
All Valley Folks
and
Their Visitors
VARIETY VOGUES
Purified Ads
FOR RENT
OFFICE SPACE, Koslosky Bldg.
Inq. Jan Koslosky.
FOR SALE
TAME STRAWBERRY plants.
See Mrs. L. Z. Scott or Evon
DeLand at Frontiersman of
fice.
COMFORTABLE HOME, partly
furnished, by owner; very rea
sonable. See Mrs. Geo. Sten
son, first St. N. and parallel
with Anchorage Highway,
third house N. side of street.
Also some furniture for sale.
150-FOOT ROLLS 17 - gauge
chicken wire; limited quantity.
Hartley Bros. Motors.
CIGARETTES: Minimum 5 ctns.
Delivered prices: Old Golds,
$1.40 per ctn.; Pall Malls,
$1.35; Kools, $1.30; Raleighs,
$1.25. Write box 194, Anchor
age Times, Anchorage.
’37 FORD pickup with ’41 100
h.p. Mercury motor; A-l condi
tion. Tost’s Service.
’41 PONTIAC, rebored engine,
excellent paint. Hartley Bros.
Motors.
CERTIFIED Arctic Seedling seed
potatoes. H. S. Bauer, 2 mi.
so., V2 mi. east of Palmer.
CABIN, 2 lots, 50 x 200; located
in North Palmer. Inq. Valley
Frontiersman.
FLAMO gas water heaters. Hart
ley Bros. Motors.
*33 PLYMOUTH 4-door sedan;
new tires and battery, new
paint job and upholstery. Hart
ley Bros. Motors.
ROTO-TILLERS, the power tool
of a thousand uses. Hartley
Bros. Motors.
TAPP AN gas stoves and regu
lators. Hartley Bros. Motors.
88-ACRE farm, 7-rm. house,
water, lights; 30 acres cleared;
4 Vi mi. north of Palmer. Inq.
David Bryant, Box 1848, Pal
mer.
ATTENTION!
127-ACRES good farming land;
approximately 8,000 feet sea
soned lumber; large lake suit
able for small plane landing.
See George Small, Palmer, be
tween S and 7 p.m.
NOTICE
FOR BREAKER PLOWING, disc
ing or general field plowing,
..write or see Wallace Moffitt,
Box 741, Palmer.
Webbs Have Daughter
A baby daughter was born to
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Webb of
Palmer at the Valley hospital
last week. She arrived on Sun
day, May 23.
BY ALL ME ANSI
On your next trip down town,
drop into the tonsorial depart
ment of the Valley Barber Shop
and have your ears lowered or
your whiskers removed in a
fast, dependable manner.
VALLEY BARBER SHOP
D. S. MEEKS.
NOTICE
PLEASE PICK UP your watch
before June 1, as jewelry coun
ter closes then. See Morton at
Bert’s Drug Store.
National Deputy Visits
VFW Auxiliary Here
WASILLA — Mrs. Betty Mc
Cormick, national deputy chief
of staff of the Veterans of For
eign Wars Auxiliary for Alaska,
arrived in Wasilla last Monday
to attend a special meeting of the
local Auxiliary chapter.
Following the meeting Mrs.
McCormick was guest of honor at
a lunch served by Auxiliary
members. The men of the Wasilla
VFW also were guests at the
lunch.
Coffey Buuni Everything—
f —Adv
Air Service
Based Here
The inaugural flight of Pal
mer Air Service from Palmer’s
airport last week made aviation
history in a larger sense, for it
was the first flight on record
to go direct from Palmer to
Naknek.
Bob Totten, owner - pilot of
Palmer Air Service, made it a
red-letter day in every respect,
when he completed the air jaunt
by returning an injured cannery
worker to Anchorage for hos
pitalization. The man had lost
an eye in a plant accident.
Mr. Totten made the trip to
Naknek to carry local fishermen
and cannery workers to their
summer’s job. He made two trips.
Names on his passenger list in
cluded Don Kuoppala, Dorr Hol
loway and Mrs. Hay Sellars.
The newly-organized flying
service has two ships available
for charter—a five-place Stin
son and a three-place Piper Su
percruiser. It is expected that
one of the ships will be switched
from wheels to floats within the
next few days.
Palmer Air Service will make
Brush Fire
Sears 16 Acres
Another fire broke out in the
Valley last Sunday, when 16
acres of woodland on the B. A.
Huebner farm burned during the
day. Mr. Huebner set the fire to
burn brush piles on his farm,
and then left it without a guard.
Three volunteers and members
of the Alaska Fire Control Serv
ice from Palmer fought the blaze
for several hours before it was
brought under control.
Fire Guard Paul Olson warned
other Valley residents against
negligence in leaving fires burn
ing without a guard. “The whole
Valley is powder dry right now,”
he said, “and it wouldn’t take
much to set the entire country
afire.”
WEEKENDS HERE
Miss Marguerite Adams of An
chorage was a weekend visitor
in Palmer last week.
charter trips for local fishing
and hunting excursions. The
company’s planes also will oe in
the air on Colony Day, making
excursion flights over the Valley
and to the glacier.
W. B. BARNHARDT
Dimension Lumber House Logs
Write Box 882, Palmer
(Mill located on Lower Buite road)
You’ll Find BRUNSWICK’S Finest Pool Tables
as well as good drinks
at the
SOURDOUGH CLUB
It’s the place where you meet ALL your friends.
Make it your Colony Day relaxation spot
J. VIC BROWN & SONS
“The Live Jewelers”
★
ALASKA RAILROAD WATCH INSPECTORS
Acroaa from City Hall Anchorage
| Welcome, Colony Day Visitors
! When Yon Repair or Boild Uee WOODUFE
Water Repellent Rot Proof
Keeps wood from swelling, shrinking,
; checking, warping
Now On Display
CHAMPION Outboard Motors
RELIANCE Conversion Cookstove Burners
! GRAHAM SERVICE
■ Machine Work Welding Repair
■ Gee On
FOR A LIGHT LUNCH TO TIDE YOU
OVER TILL BARBECUE TIME
we recommend
Any of our many varieties of doughnuts
Fruit Persians Cinnamon Twists
SHAMROCK BAKERY