Valley FRONTIERSMAN
Published each Wednesday and Saturday
Palmer, Alaska
Viola Daniels ..Editor
Evon DeLand.Advt. Manager, Palmer
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Daniels—In the Lion’s Den
“On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my
country, to obey the Scout law, to help other people at all times,
to keep myself physically strong, mentally fit and morally straight.”
That was the creed given to the Boy Scouts of America when
the movement was formally founded 38 years ago. It is the oath
repeated by Boy Scouts everywhere, as they renew their pledge to
Scouting and the goals it stands for in boy life.
This week the thirty-eighth anniversary of Scouting in the
United States will be commemorated. In Palmer, Scouts will dis
play examples of their work in the windows of Palmer business
establishments. On Saturday evening, they meet with fathers for
a Father and Son banquet for troop members.
In Alaska, the movement is very new. Boys, until very re
cently, have had little opportunity to share in the work and fun
oi Scouting. In this country of exceptional opportunity for out
door living and recreation, there had been little offered to train
boys for enjoyment of that life, until the Boy Scout movement
reached out to include the north.
Because the work of Scouting is so new to the territory, the
costs necessarily will be high in the years just ahead. The Boy
Scouts of this area, at the invitation of the Community Chest board,
recently elected to become beneficiaries in the local drive, rather
than to conduct a separate Scout drive, as they originally planned.
The Scouts benefitted from Chest funds collected here in an
amount of little more than $300. That sum will be used, together
wiih other monies contributed from the general area, for the es
tablishment of Scout offices equipped to handle the executive work
for the territory, for the purchase of supplies and equipment, and
for the location and establishment of Scout camps, as well as for
the financing of rallies and meets planned to bring boys together.
There are those who feel that sum is too high a price to pay
to the organization. Some Valley residents have condemned the
Chest for its action in pledging $300 to Scouting.
However it seems a small price to pay, when the Valley stands
> get from the program a man pledged to law-keeping, help and
co-operation toward his neighbor, physical, mental and moral up
rightness, good citizenship in his community and country, and right
thinking toward his God.
From all indications, there’s nothing the Valley needs more
than men who will do their best to help a neighbor and who will
be actively interested in assuming the responsibilities of citizen
ship in the community.
A net return of that magnitude from a $300 investment, adds
up to a better rate of interest than most of life’s dividends pay.
It might be well to keep that balance sheet before us, as we
move forward into Scout week, which began Thursday and ex
tends through Feb. 12.
YOU WRECK 'EM . . . WE’LL FIX ’EM
24-HOUR SERVICE
We Go Anywhere, Any Time
PALMER BODY & PAINT SHOP
JACK CARR SERVICE, INC.
New and Used Aircraft
Parts and Supplies
Taylorcrafi Distributors for Alaska
MERRILL FIELD ANCHORAGE
FISH
for Your Lenten Needs
We Carry a Complete Line
of
Fresh Fish and Fresh Oysters
PALMER COLD STORAGE & LOCKER SERVICE
Hospital
Ins and Outs
Patients entering the Valley
lospital during the first half of
;he week included:
Hector Stephanson, Fred
^hegwedden, Frederick Dye,
Betty Ann Lynch, Mrs. Clare
nont Oborn of Copper Center
md Thomas Wilson of Wasilla.
Patients dismissed by Wednes
lay evening were:
Frederick Dye, Betty Ann
L.ynch, Thomas Wilson, Hector
Stephenson, Mrs. Ralph Pieren,
Mrs. Mads Johannsen, Eugene
Jacobsen, John Danielson of
Fonesville, Douglas Bixby and
Mrs. Grant France.
Still hospitalized on Wednes
day evening were Homer Olts
>f Copper Center, Mrs. John Lar
rick of Anchorage and Don Ir
vin, Jr.
Displays, Banquet Are
Planned for Scout Week
Scout Week in the Valley,
vhich began Thursday and will
extend through Feb. 12, will be
recognized with Scouting dis
plays in downtown store win
dows, it was announced by Vic
tor Alfsen, leader of Troop 654.
Mr. Alfsen said displays were
planned for the windows of Pal
mer Photographic Center, Kos
losky’s store and the Trading
Post. Through these exhibits, the
Boy Scouts hope to show the
type of work they are doing in
their local Scout troops.
The week will culminate on
Feb. 14, in Palmer, when Scouts
af Troop 654 meet for a father
and son banquet in the United
Protestant church. All members
of this troop, together with their
dads, are urged to be on hand at
S o’clock that evening to sit
down at the banquet table.
Walter E. Huntley, Dick Drab
ble and Jack Maze have prom
ised to take care of kitchen
chores for the evening.
Coffey Insures Everything—
Remember? Adv.
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CECELE'S
Ladies’ and Children’s
Apparel
PROMPT ATTENTION
GIVEN TO MAIL ORDERS
433 G St. Box 2199
(Around corner from First
National Bank)
Anchorage
UNION BANK
of ANCHORAGE
NEW BANKING HOURS
2 p.m. to 8 p.m.
SATURDAY
10 a.m. to 12 noon
•ALASKA’S FASTEST
GROWING BANK”
408 Fourth Avenue
Dance and Party
Honor Fairbanks
Basketball Squad
Eight touring hoopsters from
Fairbanks high school were roy
ally entertained between basket
ball engagements here this week.
7jne visitors were forced to add
to their stay, when the north
bound Au-Ro-Ra was snowbound
at Curry early in the week, de
laying all Fairbanks schedules
for several days.
The visiting squad arrived in
Palmer on Monday’s train, and
met the Palmer high school
Moose in a twin bill of basket-1
ball on Monday and Tuesday.
They scheduled a third game
with the Shamrocks on Wednes
day, when they found they
would be delayed here.
Following Tuesday’s game,
members of the Palmer student
council planned a dance for the
visitors in the school lunchroom.
The room was gaily decorated
with streamers of the two
school's colors and with colored
lights. The school’s public ad
dress system was set up in the
lunchroom to amplify recorded
music.
Students and school heads
alike say the dance was com
Matanuska Electric
Association, Inc.
For Power Distribution
Slorage Gels Freezer
More foods are getting colder
all the time at the Palmer Cold
Storage now. The reason is the
oig new deep-freeze unit that was
installed at the Cold Storage on
Wednesday of this week.
Special Lenten Service
There will be a special Lenten
service in St. John’s Lutheran
Dhurch on Ash Wednesday, Feb.
11, Rev. W. L. Zeile announced
today. The service begins at 8
o’clock. All Valley Lutherans
are urged to attend.
pletely satisfactory from every
standpoint. “The most success
ful student dance all year,” one
[acuity head reported.
On Wednesday evening the
Fairbanks boys were entertained
in the recreation room of the
Neal Wright home, where Hilda
Stenvall was their hostess. The
group danced and played ping
pong as their evening’s entertain
ment.
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RECORDS & SUPPLIES 1
Open daily 12 to 8 p. m.
Valley Theatre Bldg.
BRYANT & CO.
BULLDOZING CARRYALL WORK
GENERAL LAND CLEARING
Write Box 1848
What’s New at Wolfe’s?
Coil, Box and Innerspring Mattresses
Dinette and Kitchen Sets
Davenos and Occasional Chairs
Norge Washing Machines
Norge Refrigerators
(Apartment size and 7-foot)
Wfl I P P 1 C hardware &
will L Bj furniture
Corner 5ih Aye. and E St. Anchorage
Special Special Special
Men’s and Women’s Hockey Skates
Women’s Sizes priced from.$9.95 to $13.50
Men’s Sizes priced from.$8.95 to $11.95
We can make delivery to you on the
following items tomorrow:
WASHING MACHINES REFRIGERATORS
SHIRLEY SINK CABINETS
OIL HEATERS OIL RANGES
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Koslosky Department Store