Jesse Wilson, nearest the camera# grins.in triumph at the
photographer as he proves that he's gone a long way on the
road to higher mathematics. Carolyn, in the center, shyly
hides her head, but Faye at the far left is pretty proud of her
figuring ability, too. (Photo by Palmer Photographic Center).
Hughes aren’t quite sure how
it’s to be done yet.
The home at Lazy Mountain,
which is build on ground given
by Max Sherrod, is a branch of
the El-Nathan Children’s home
at Valdez. It was begun only last
April, when Mr. Hughes moved
in on his 60-acre patch of ground
aifd trees and began to build.
Hand-Hewn Home
The present structure is prac
tically a one-man job, for Mr.
Hughes and the older boys com
pleted most of the major con
struction alone. Everything that
could possibly be fashioned from
the materials at hand was made
by the home’s director and his
helpers. They lived in a tiny log
cabin, which since has been
moved to a new site near the
present main structure.
That cabin is now the honey
moon cottage of Mr. and Mrs.
John Valentine, home workers
who were recently married at a
candlelight service in the dining
hall.
W«rk went rapidly with will
ing hands, however, and in May,
when school ended at Valdez, the
children who were to make their
home at Lazy Mountain were
moved. The Valdez institution
had burned last winter, and it
was imperative that new quar
ters be found as soon as possible.
Everyone Helped
There was no roof on the din
ing room yet, but children and
workers were happy in their
mountain - surrounded home.
Everyone helped with the work.
They still do. Boys cut logs,
helped with the carpentering,
harvested potatoes and did what
ever they could to provide food
and shelter for the winter.
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Season’s Greetings
AND ALL THE BEST WISHES
FOR A HAPPY, PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
TO ALL THE MANY FRIENDS AND PATRONS OF
Girls iron and help with the
washing when school hours are
finished. Even the dishes are a
community chore, with older
children taking turns at the
dishpan.
Yet even as they struggled to
build a home which would shel
ter them this winter, workers
were looking beyond to the per
manent home they hope to have.
The present temporary structure
will be in use two years, they
feel, but already logs have been
cut and the basement dug for
their permanent home. That
basement, which would have
taken several days’ labor for
mechanical equipment, was
scraped out with shovel and pick
by home workers and older boys.
But it’s not all work and no
fun for these 32 boys and girls.
They haven’t many toys, for the
fire which burned El-Nathan
home destroyed all those, but
they find time for play with
“Mittens,” a St. Bernard dog,
and a kitten. They also partici
pate in Palmer’s community life,
enjoying basketball games and
all child activities of the Valley.
They wear cords and T-shirts
or cotton dresses and sweaters,
just as school children every
where. They are as merry at
table as the children of any fam
ily. There are several family
groups together at Lazy oMun
tain, and it all makes for much
chatting and visiting when they
come together at lunch or din
ner.
Two small sisters dawdle over
a lunch of sandwiches, soup and
apples, as only a six- and seven
year-old can. Even a dislike for
the food on her plate was judici
ously handled by one chubby
ittle girl. After sampling the
soup and deciding against it, she
promptly marched outdoors and
Eed it to the cat.
And like all children every
where, Christmas is the most im
jortant topic of discussion at any
nealtime. They’re not quite eer
ain what Christmas morning
will bring, but they’re all sure j
there’ll be toys in the dining hall
again, when packages ate un
wrapped at breakfast-time.
Mr. and Mrs. Hughes are not
juite certain about that Christ-!
mas morning either. They are
sure there’ll be one gift for each
of the 32 children, and they hope
it will be enough. For Christmas
gifts are among those items
“which we don’t actually need,
but are things we’d like to have,’A
of which Mr. Hughes spoke.
OUR ERROR
Wasilla’s merchants and all of
Wasilla’s townsfolks have taken
issue with the Frontiersman,
and rightly so. They declare that
the Community Christmas pro
gram is “put on by all of us and
not just by our merchants.”
This Is A Need
Eight-year-old Norrie Hobson, who Is a third grade student
at Lazy Mountain, believes her Christmas “want” is very nearly
a “need.” She wrote to Santa Claus last week, explaining that
she’d saved enough money to buy a doll, but that she did need
a doll buggy.
She adressed the letter to Santa, in care of a letter-writing
contest sponsored by the Anchorage News. It was one of the
five prize winners anounced in the last issue of the News.
Norrie was to go to Anchorage today to receive her prize,
offered by Crocker’s Department store, for the letter. Here’s the
letter she wrote:
Dear Santa Claus:—I heard your broadcast this afternoon.
I thought about writing to you for a Christmas present. What
I want most of all is a doll buggy. I saved enough money to
buy a doll and I am in need of a doll buggy.
7 live in a children’s home in Palmer, Alaska. The name
of it is Lazy Mt. Children’s Home. I am eight years old. And
in the third grade. I loved to see Santa Claus when I was small
He gave me candy. He is very fat and jolly man. I am going
to lern ‘ ‘Twas the night before Christmas.” Santa Claus, I wish
I could see you. Please try and get me a present for this Christ
mas. If I don’t get a buggy you can pubobey give me something
else. Don’t forget me Santa Claus, way up on Lazy mountain.
“Love to Santa,
Norrie Hobson”
These are the folks, volunteers all. who are the cogs in the wheels the* r__
tarn home the happ* place it is for homeless children. They're versatile in the ex*r/m^°for
every one can fill in at any chore from baking biscuits to scrubbing nScks and ears
charges at the Saturday bath session. In the front row, reading from left to rinht
Rev. and Mrs. Kenneth Hughes. Miss Alice Merritt and Mrs. Walter Phillips and babv da^h*
terj ^em 1S Miss Frances Humphreys, bride and groom Mr and Mrs John
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Interest Given
The 22 members of the Valley
Dairyman’s Association who
brought suit against the Mata
nuska Valley Farmers Co-oper
ating Association were awarded
interest on the $28,700 sum giv
en them. The decision was hand
ed down last week by Judge An
thony J. Dimond of the third dis
trict court in Anchorage.
'Rie judge said he had over
looked mentioning the interest
in his recent court decision
against the Co-op. He awarded
interest at six per cent for aech
of the 22 men from July 1, 1940
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