VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
Published each Thursday
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.
Subscription rates.75c month, $8 a year
Viola Daniels .Editor
Walter Freeman .Associate Editor
Beverly Larsh.Advertising Manager, Palmer
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reproduced except by permission of the editor.
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DANIELS — In The Lion's Den
Today’s editorial is one which gives the writer more pleasure
than anything that’s appeared in these columns in some time. It’s
an editorial that is aimed directly at every Frontiersman reader,
and we want every last one of you to read it through from begin
ning to end.
Today’s the day we’re going to say “thank you” for the courte
sies and all the evidences of good will we’ve received in the past
month of mimeographed nightmares we’ve been living through.
Our first and biggest orchid goes to Mrs. Dorothy Bell, editor
of the Valley Settler. The Valley Frontiersman, for the past month,
lias been printed on Mrs. Bell’s mimeograph. She’s been most
patient as your inexperienced editor coped with stencils, stylii and
all the unfamiliar tools of the mimeograph trade. Deadlines have
slid steadily backward, as the month progressed, but there was
never a word of complaint from Mrs. Bell. She just took the
tencils when she got them, and went to work on them to turn out
a Frontiersman. It has been most appreciated.
A whole hothouse lull of orchids goes to readers and adver
tisers alike. I he ads have leh much to be desired in appearance in
the jiast month, and there’ve been times when the editor has been
hard put to it to read the printed word. Yet there’s been nothing
but kind remarks and congratulations from all of you. It’s the onlv
thing that pulled us through the month.
Today, as we turn again to print, we hope that we can bring
you the uninterrupted service that the Valley deserves in its news
paper. The paper is being published in Anchorage, as it was here
tofore. Material goes in on Tuesday morning’s railbus and is re
turned to Palmer as a newspaper on Thursday morning. It will
reach your mailboxes on Thursday, as usual.
In order to meet the costs of a printed paper, it will be nec
essary that the editor work at other jobs during the day. It won’t
be easy to find her, in the months ahead, but I’ll make every effort
to reach all known sources of news during the week. If you have
unexpected news items, personal notes or accounts of club affairs,
it would be appreciated if you would drop the news in the mail
or slip it under the door of the Frontiersman office, now located
in Apartment Six of the Ward Building.
With your co-operation, I believe the Valley Frontiersman
will be a better paper than it ever has before. I wish it for you
readers, as much as I do for the editorial satisfaction that results
from progress. It is my hope and my intention to make this the
year in which the Valley Frontiersman made the grade.
The Alaska Railroad
Offers Valley Residents a Complete Passenger
and Freight Service — Daily Except Sunday
SCHEDULE
Leave Palmer. 3:30 p.m.
Arrives Anchorage. 5:30 p.m.
Leave Anchorage. 9:15 a.m.
Arrives Palmer. 11:30 a.m.
RAILBUS SERVICE
Can be stopped at any point along the route
Leave Palmer. 8:30 a.m.
Return from Anchorage at. 4:30 p.m.
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY
Fare—$2.55 One Way; $3.40 Round Trip
FOR INFORMATION
Call Palmer Depot — or Anchorage, ARCO 11
CLASSIFIED
FOR SALE
Used records. Your choice popu
lar numbers, polkas, Westerns.
B & C Supply.
CERTIFIED seed potatoes; $8
cwt; Artcic Seedlings. F. A.
Blom.
CORDWOOD, any length, any
amount; mostly birch. Also
fence posts. Alba Brooks.
1936 CHEVROLET Stand, 2-door;
1937 Buick 4-door. Glen M.
Woods, Palmer.
1947 STUDEBAKER Commander
sedan; 1 stack of hay, straw.
See C. W. Peters, ARRC Office.
FOR RENT
OFFICE space, Koslosky Bldg.
LOST
LADIES’ wrist watch, Roxy; yel
low gold, two small diamonds
on sides. Reward. Finder re
turn to Mrs. R. A. Morrison,
Wasilla Cocktail Bar, Wasilla.
ARA Would Add
Many Experts .
Plans for the future work of
the Agricultural Research Ad
ministration expand with each
added year of its existence. Pre
liminary work on the 1951 bud
get, now under way, calls for the
addition of a number of new
workers to the ARA staff. The
tentative budget asks an added
horticulturist, another agrono
mist, soils scientist, an agricul
tural economist, engineer, nutri
tionist, full-time chemist and an
entomologist.
It must be remembered, how
ever, that the budget is in pre
liminary planning stages only,
director Don Irwin cautions. He
says it may take several years to
fill the positions now tentatively
scheduled in the 1951 budget.
Plan Monthly Food Sales
The American Legion Auxili
ary, Matanuska Post No. 15, de
cided upon a series of summer
food sales at its recent meeting.
The sales will be held on the
fourth Saturday of each month
at Koslosky’s Department Store.
Date of the first food sale is
Saturday, April 23.
F ■■■ ■ ————i■
Crew Prepares
For More Drilling
At Wishbone Hill
Preparatory work for the re
sumption of exploratory drilling
in coal fields at Wishbone Hill
was in full stride this week. Ad
vance members of a crew of an
expected dozen men of the
Pennsylvania Drilling Co., ar
rived in Palmer last week.
T. R. Jolley of the Bureau of
Mines, engineer in charge of the
drilling, is expected soon. Mr.
Jolley set out for Alaska earlier
this month, but was called home
again by the death of his moth
er. Mr. and Mrs. Jolley spent
last summer in the Valley.
Plans for this summer include
the establishment of a camp
near the site of the drilling.
New Soils Man
Due This Week
Thomas Day, soils scientist of
Grass Valley, Calif., was expect
ed to arrive in the Valley late
this week. He will become a
member of the Soil Conserva
tion Service staff which is head
quartered in Palmer.
Mr. Day’s principal duties will
be to work on soil surveys and
to do correlated work in the
various sub-districts of Alaska.
The newcomer, who will be
accompanied by Mrs. Day, has a
background of 10 years experi
ence with Soil Conservation
Service. He is a veteran of the
recent war.
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