VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
Entered as second class matter on Oct. 21, 1947, at the post office at
Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
A. J. DeJulio
Owner-Manager
Editor _X_---Virginia Gallant
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Wasilla News
by Peggy Betts
Mr. and Mrs. Neil (Bud) Brown
are visiting Mr. Charles Cadwal
lader for a few weeks with their
children, Allan, Janeil and Loren.
The Browns are Wasilla residents
but have been living in Cantwell
the past few years.
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Mr. and Mrs. John Dryden,
Willow, have returned from a
two months car tour of the States.
They spent a few days visiting
with the Wasilla Drydens before
returning to Willow.
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Wylie Betts was honored at a
birthday party on Lake Lucille
last Saturday. Birthday cake was
served at his grandmother’s, Mrs.
Heinie Snider.
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Jack Maley was installed as
Cootie Hospital Chairman in cere
monies held in Anchorage Satur
day evening. Mrs. Maley was in
stalled as parliamentarian for the
Cootiettes.
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Mr. and Mrs. Grady Robinette
will soon be homesteading on
Anderson Lake about two miles
from Wasilla. Until recently they
operated the Hilltop Cafe.
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A big birthday cake decorated
with flowers and the internation
al greeting helped Ronnie Maley
celebrate his birthday last week.
Ronnie and his guests played
games and made a good hole in
the birthday cake. Among those
present were: Vadney Bledsoe,
Louis Ann McCalley, Virginia
Lucy Miller, Sally Stettinger,
Jack Devlin and Tommy Take.
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Bill Grow spent several days
in town last week visiting with
Jack Fabian.
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The Hilltop Cafe is now under
new management. The two new
proprietors are Patsy Carson and
Avis DePriest.
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Mrs. Leo Nunley has been ill
at her home with a case of the
flu.
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Both the P-TA meeting and
school open house were well at
tended last Friday night, accord
ing to members of the committee.
Parents were received in each
room by the teacher and had an
opportunity to examine the art
display and the individual work
of each student. Movies were
shown by Superintendent Ernest
E. Ljne and after the business
meeting refreshments were serv
ed by the faculty.
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Wasilla Boy Scouts went on
another overnight hike from noon
Saturday to noon Sunday behind
Paradise Lake toward the Little
Susitna River. Scoutleader Frank
Sorenson got the boys settled and
then left them to use their own
resources. Each hiker was respon
sible for supplying his own food
and clothing needs on the ^»ike
and received valuable training
in how to make a light but suf
ficient pack.
Hew TV and Radio
Servics Opsns
A new business opened in Pal
mer last week in the Neal Wright
building. Polar Electronic Sales
and Service, Inc. will operate a
television and radio repair shop
in the space formerly occupied by
the Alaska Communication Sys
tem.
Marvin Wilson, who has been
in radio work since 1929, and who
will be in charge of the local
shop, recently arrived in Palmer
•with his family from Seattlq
where he was employed the past
four years in the Frederick and
Nelson television service depart
ment. Other members of the busi
ness are Red Mayo and Thomas
Strachan of Anchorage.
The Wilson’s son enrolled in
fhe Palmer High school this week.
They are making their home in
the Pioneer Apartments.
Musician Planning
Palmer Lessons
Henry Brooks, musician, of An
chorage, has announced that in
response to several requests he
is contemplating regular lessons
in piano and organ for any inter
ested Palmerites. He plans to be
in Palmer Monday, November 23
at the United Protestant Church
where he will interview prospec
tive students.
Organist and choir master at
MRS. RODNEY JOHNSON RECEIVES
TERRITORIAL PRESERVATION AWARD
Mrs. Rodney L. Johnson of
Sutton is the 1953 winner of the
annual award of a silver covered
vegetable dish given by the Na
tional Garden Institute, it was
announced this week.
When visited by the judging
committee, Mrs. Johnson had on
hand 1498 pounds of canned and
frozen berries, vegetables, fish,
poultry, game and other meat,
plus 285 pounds of stored vege
tables and enough potatoes for
her family for the winter.
Like most pioneering Alaskans,
Mrs. Johnson prepared her win
ter's food supply in spite of in
adequate or inconvenient stor
age space. Committee members
were impressed with the excel
lence and variety of foods cram
med into a 23-foot deep freeze
and lined up on shelves in the
basement to insure the Johnson
family of four a whole winter of
delicious meals.
In the freezer are cranberry,
rhubarb, raspberries, strawberries
and some peach sauce; chickens,
ducks, spruce hens, moose, cari
bou, sheep, rabbit, veal, pork and
some fish; brussel sprouts, beans,
beet green, broccoli, Chinese
cabbage, chard, cauliflower, kale
peas and squash; canned in glass
Statehood Committee
Calls Special Meet
An official call for the Alaska
Statehood Committee to meet in
Anchorage on November 24 has
been issued by Mildred R. Her
mann, secretary of the commit
tee, on authority of the executive
committee.
Mrs. Hermann explained that
the Senate Committee on Interi
or and Insular Affairs has re
quested the Alaska Statehood
Committee to make recommen
dations, prior to December 1, for
amendments to the pending legis
lation on the basis of presenta
tions made in the course of state
hood hearings held in Alaska last
summer.
The Committee will hold open
meetings for the benefit of those
who wish to appear before it and
will be glad to receive written
recommendations from any who
cannot appear. These communica
tions should be addressed to the
Alaska Statehood Committee,
Box 422, Juneau or Box 40, An
chorage.
the First Presbyterian Church in
Anchorage, Brooks received his
master’s degree in music and has
worked at the University of Min
nesota and School of Sacred
Music at Union Theological Sem
inary in New York City. The
Presbyterian Church in Anchor
age has the only casazant pipe
jrgan in this area.
The famous artesian wells on the property
of rhe Olympia Brewing Company provide a
faultless brewing water that
extracts the most desirable
flavors from hops and grains.
This water produces a beer of
exceptional flavor, constant
purity and unchanging quality.
Try Olympia and discover
why “It’s the Water” is
so important to flavor.
"Trade Marks Reg. U. S. Pat. Off*
OLYMPIA BREWING COMPANY
|<Olympta« Washington, U. S. A.
jars are pickles' and fish such as
slplmon, kippered salmon, sal
mon eggs, ling cod and Dolley
Varden trout. Although the
freezer is loaded to capacity, Mrs.
Johnson has each section ar
ranged so that she can find in
stantly the food she wants to use.
All women who entered the
contest were awarded certificates
and in some cases won local
awards. Mrs. Ethel Harris of
Fairbanks, Mrs. Russell Oberg
and Mrs. Laura Roberts of Palm
er and Mrs. John McDonald of
Wasilla were other entrants.
Reporters—
Notebook
Mrs. Edith Compton, linotype
operator at The Frontiersman, is
confined to her home this week
with mumps.
Mrs. Ruth Meigs of the Meigs
Bristow School of Dance Art of
Anchorage was a visitor in town
Friday of last week, interviewing
prospective students.
Marylou Rideout, home demon
stration agent of the Extension
Service is attending the Copper
Center homemakers’ meeting to
day. Consequently, there will be
no workshop at the Extension
craft room this Friday.
The “Flying Bull” took off from
Palmer Airport Monday of this
week for another load of Chiri
koff beef, for the Palmer Cold
Storage. Last week over 10,000
pounds of beef were flown in
from Chirikoff Island.
John Loring passed his written
and flight tests on October 30
and now holds a private pilot li
cense. He has been flying off the
Palmer Airport.
Mrs. Ann Holbrook is back to
work at the Post Office follow
ing a few days vacation.
Residents of Palmer area will
not be asked to participate in
the mock raid alert planned by
the Civil Defense organization of
the Anchorage area on Novem
ber 21, CD Director Edward Im
me said this week.
Clayton Esslinger, comptroller
for the Co-Op left today for Seat
tle and Portland on business for
the Co-Op. Mrs. Esslinger who
accompanied her husband plans
to go on to Ohio where she will
visit her parents.
C. M. Waldram and his family
arrived in the Valley today, en
route to Wasilla. They drove up
over the Alaska highway from
Colburn, Idaho.
Don L. Irwin Experiment Sta
tion director and Dr. Allan Mick,
assistant director will accompany
Dr. H. C. Knoblauch to Fairbanks
where they will remain on busi
ness until the middle of next
week. Dr. Knoblauch is visiting
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NOVEMBER 20 — 21
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Leonard Krise, former resident «
of Palmer, is now a member of
the Lubbock, Texas police force,
according to word received this ,
week.
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YeS, the Yankee horse-traders did know values, so much so, in fact, that they
have become symbolic of shrewdness and judgment. Well, those days are pretty
much gone now, but the farmer of today knows a real value just as well as his horse
trading forefathers.
Take a look at the modern farm and you’ll see what I mean. Everywhere,
electricity, the greatest value of all time, has replaced dozens of time-consuming,
back-breaking chores and daily jobs. Farmers, recognizing this value, have let elec
trical equipment and appliances save time, labor and money in the house, in the
barn, in the yard.
From milking machines to refrigerators, from chick brooders to deep-freezers,
from electric lights to waffle irons, farmers today have gone electric. And why
shouldn’t they? With electrieity, farmers can get the equivalent of a full time hired
hand for just a few cents a day. That’s value and they know it!
MATANUSKA ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION
Copyright, 1953, by Notional Rural Electric Cooperative Airociation