Hospital Board Plans Landscaping,
Consider Manager Appointment
Plans for the landscaping of
hospital grounds and for paint
ing the exterior of the temporary
building were discussed at last
week’s board meeting. The board
was greatly in favor of the
beautification plan, but finan
cial ways and means presented
no' small obstacle.
The present building, under
Miss Ruth Callison, has been al
most completely redecorated on
the interior. Interior re-arrange
ment is almost finished at pres
ent, except for a proposed roof
ing over of the area-way be
tween the quonset wings and the
main building, in order to con
struct a waiting room and office
there.
The board last Wednesday
again turned its attention to the
matter of a hospital manager.
Mrs. Callison has given notice of
her coming resignation, effective
June 1. She plans to go Outside
at that time.
Donald Payne, under consid
eration as manager, was wired
to come north as soon as possible,
in order to discuss the position
with the board.
The resignation of C. W.
Peters, secretary-treasurer of the
Association, was accepted. Clay
ton Esslinger was named as his
replacement.
The board was asked to con
sider the matter of publication
of names of hospital patients,
and upon the recommendation
of Dr. R. E. Garrett and Mrs.
Callison, it was decided that this
information will no longer be
available for publication.
The doctor and hospital man
ager stated that the publication
of patients’ names was leading
to a visitor problem, which they
felt would be diminished, if Val
ley residents were not so thor
oughly familiar with hospital
inmates.
Friends who wish to visit hos
pital patients are reminded that
visiting hours are from 1 to 3
p. m. and 7 to 8:30 p. m. daily.
For maternity cases, only the
immediate adult family is asked
to visit, since new babies are
often in the ward with the
mothers now, rather than con
fined to the nursery.
Hospital reports of Valley
births and deaths will still be
available, the board decided, in
passing their final ruling.
RICHARDSON
IS OPEN
The Richardson Highway was
opened to automobile traffic last
week, it was announced by John
Noyes, commissioner of territo
rial highways. The late April
opening was the second earliest
in the history of the highway.
Motorists are required to check
at ARC offices in Fairbanks,
Valdez or Anchorage before at
tempting to cross Thompson’s
Pass. Truck traffic still must
wait for better road conditions.
Vehicles now are fording a
river at Mile Sixteen, where a
snowslide wiped out a bridge this
winter. A temporary bridge is
expected to be completed in
about three weeks, Mr. Noyes
said.
Irwin Plans Trip
Fairbanks, Washington
Don L. Irwin, head of the Ag
ricultural Research Administra
tion for Alaska, plans to go to
Fairbanks this week-end, where
he will confer with Dr. Charles
Bunnell and regents of the Uni
versity of Alaska with regard to
projects, building plans and bud
gets for the coming year’s work.
From Fairbanks, Mr. Irwin
will make a quick business trip
to Washington, D. C. He expects
to be back in the Valley in about
two weeks.
Doctor Vacations Here
Dr. and Mrs. H. G. Lockett of
Cordova are vacationing in the
Valley for a few days. They are
stopping at the Matanuska Ho
tel during their stay here. They
arrived last weekend.
VALLEY GROCERY
Open 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. Daily
FRESH PRODUCE
TOMATOES, lb.45c
LETTUCE, lb.45C
CABBAGE, lb.18c
ONIONS (dry) lb. ...-.15c
PARSNIPS, lb..,.30c
CUCUMBERS, each.. .50c
A VOC A DOS, each:.... .30c
MASONIC CLUB PLANS
SUNDAY DINNER
Members of the Masonic and
Eastern Star Club again are
sponsoring a Mother’s Day din
ner, to be held in the school
lunchroom at 12:30 on Sunday
afternoon. This dinner is an
annual event for the club.
All Valley residents are invit
ed to attend. Adult tickets will
cost $1.50, and children’s plates
will be 75c.
Gasser to Retire
Next January
Dean G. W. Gasser, territo
rial commissioner of agricul
ture, will retire at the close of
this year, he told friends in
Fairbanks last week. Dean
Gasser’s retirement is in com
pliance with a territorial law
which requires retirement at
the age of 70.
The retirement becomes ef
fective on Jan. 1. 1950. It is
not yet known who will replace
Mr. Gasser as commissioner of
agriculture.
If
Mietzi Bleek,
Former Teacher,
Taken By Death
Word was received in the Val
ley this week of the death of Miss
Mietzi Bleck, former ‘Valley
school teacher and artist. Miss
Bleck, who had been ill for al
most a year, succumbed at Vet
eran’s Hospital in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.
In addition to her background
in school teaching and art, Miss
Bleck enlisted in the WAVES
during the recent war. She was
stationed at Washington, D. C..
where she worked as an aero
grapher in the weather section.
Following the war, she came to
Juneau to work for the Weather
Bureau, but she returned to
teaching in Palmer in 1947.
Miss Bleck is survived by four
sisters, among them Mrs. C. F.
Mielke of Palmer, and a brother.
She was interred in Oshkosh.
Wis., her family home.
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