VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
Published each Wednesday
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.
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Viola Daniels .Editor
Walter Freeman .Associate Editor
Beverly Larsh .Advertising Manager, Palmer
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DANIELS ~ In the Lion's Den
“What has the Community Chest ever done for anyone?” “It's
only a loaning organization — it doesn't do any permanent good.”
“It costs too much money to operate — the people involved in the
Community Chest work take all the money for operating expense.”
Have you been hearing conversations something like that these
days? Is the inauguration of this year's Community Chest drive
bringing complaints like that into discussion in your home or place
of business? If so, then let’s look at the facts and figures of Pal
mer's Community Chest effort last year.
First — what has Palmer’s Community Chest done for anyone?
This is the record: It paid $100 to a bereaved family last year and
offered to loan an additional S200. The $100 was an outright gift
and was never considered a loan.
Palmer’s Community Chest paid the following sums to com
munity organizations, none of which were asked or were expected
to consider the funds a gift: Health Council, $157.50; Boy Scouts,
$32.25; Palmer Library, $52.50; Alaska "Crippled Children’s Asso
ciation, .$105.
In the case of a second bereavement, $200 was deposited to the
widow’s bank account. $20 was paid to a family which had been
brought to reduced circumstances by the long illness of the bread
winner. $100 was given to still another Valley family which lost
its home and possessions through fire. That is what Community
Chest has done in the Matanuska Valley.
No other payments were made from the Community Chest dis
aster fund last year, because no additional requests were made. Had
other families found themselves facing disaster and deprivation,
they, too, could have received assistance from their Community
Chest. There is no red tape — the request is made, voted upon by
the board, and aid is forthcoming immediately.
The Community Chest lias never considered itself a loaning
organization. Its grants are outright gifts. In one instance last year,
when a request for aid asked the use of the entire disaster fund, the
Community Chest board found itself financially unable to fulfill
that request. A portion of the request was granted, and the board
offered to lend additional funds. The offer was refused because
it was found the added money was not needed.
As for the cost of Palmer's Community Chest drive, last year’s
sole expenditure was $11.50, printing costs for the drive receipts.
We doubt that there is any other organization in the Valley which
can fulfill its tasks with such a limited expenditure of funds.
This is what your Community Chest has done for the Valley
in its first year of existence. This year, it is the desire of its direc
tors to be able to offer even more assistance. It is their deep hope
that this year the drive will reach its goal of $3,000. With your
sympathetic assistance and your contributions, that goal can be
reached and even can be over-subscribed.
The Community Chest plan of giving has proved its practi
cality, its business-like efficiency in other cities. It can do as much
for Palmer.
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'35 CHRYSLER, good condition,
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30 TONS of tires in most all
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FOR SALE OR RENT
6-ROOM HOUSE—G. A. Lindsey,
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FOR RENT
CABIN, part, furn.; 2 mi. south
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CABINS; located opposite Hart
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NOTICE
CLIFFORD E. LILLIETHUN: For
information of interest to you,
please contact City Loan Co.,
305 4th & Pike Bldg., Seattle,
Wash.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that
James Clare Ellis, entryman, has
made final proof on homestead.
Anchorage serial 011664, togeth
er with his witnesses, William
Frank Davis, and Peter Joseph
Corcoran, all of Anchorage,
Alaska, for the SW>4 sec. 25, T.
18 N. R. 3 W. S. M. containing
160 acres, and it is now in the
files of the District Land Office,
Anchorage, Alaska, and if no
protest is filed on the local land
office, within the period of pub
lication or thirty days thereafter,
said final proof will be accepted
and final certificate issued.
(Signed) GEORGE A. LINGO,
Acting Manager
Date 1st Publication Oct. 28,
1948.
Date last Publication, Nov. 24,
1948.
NOTICE
GIVE personalized stationery for
Christmas this year. 24 sheets
stationery, 24 envelopes with
name imprinted, 69c. Some
boxes with additional notepa
per at 79c. Inq. Valley Fron
tiersman office.
REMPELS HAVE SON
A baby son was born to Mr.
and Mrs. William Rempel of Pal
mer last Thursday morning. The
little boy, second son for the
Rempels, was born at the Valley
Hospital. He weighed 9 pounds
4 ounces.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that
Dquglas Burl Vaden, entryman,
together with his witnesses,
Frank E. Sorensen and Raymond
H. Bergman, of Wasilla, Alaska,
has made final proof on his
homestead, Anchorage serial
011693, for lots 1, 2, SWi/4NEy4,
NWy4SE»/4, sec. 27, T. 18 N. R. 1
W. S.M. containing 176.63 acres,
and it is now in the files of the
District Land Office, Anchorage,
Alaska, and if no protest is filed
in the local land office, Anchor
age, within the period of publica
tion or thirty days thereafter,
said final proof will be accepted
and final certificate issued.
(SIGNED) GEORGE A. LINGO,
Acting Manager.
Date First Publication October
13, 1948.
Date Last Publication Novem
ber 10, 1948.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that Jo
seph S. Kaylor, entryman, of An
chorage, Alaska, together with
his witnesses, Howard Franklin
Estelle and Herbert Holstein, all
of Wasilla, Alaska, has made
final proof on his homestead.
Anchorage serial 011793, for the
Si/zNW'i. WVzSWVi, sec. 14.T.17
N. R. 1W, S.M. containing 160
acres, and it is now in the files of
the District Land Office, Anchor
age, Alaska, and if no protest is
filed in the local land office,
within the period of publication
or thirty days thereafter, said fi
nal proof will be accepted and fi
nal certificate issued.
(SIGNED) GEORGE A. LINGO,
Acting Manager.
Date first publication Oct. 13,
1948.
Date last publication November
10, 1948.
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