Churches Hold
Junior Camp
At King’s Lake
A junior camp for the young
people of Anchorage’s two Pres
byterian churches and for the
Valley’s United Protestant
Church, opened at King’s Lake
yesterday. It will run for a five
day period, closing on Friday.
The camp’s daily program, in
which all juniors will partici
pate, includes courses in Bible
stories, memorywork, handi
work, and a course designed to
prepare juniors for church mem
bership. Each day’s program will
conclude with a campfire and
Angelus service.
The camp will be conducted
under the direction of Rev. R.
Rolland Armstrong of Anchor
age. He will be assisted by Rev.
Fred Telecky, Rev. Fred Kosch
mann, and Miss Thelma Glenn.
A number of the juniors from
Palmer’s United Protestant
Church are registered for the
camp.
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Lutheran Official
Will Visit Here
O. A. Schmidt, executive sec
retary of the board of foreign
missions of the Lutheran Church,
Missouri Synod, is expected to
visit briefly in this area next
Saturday. Mr. Schmidt is en
route to Tokyo and the Philip
pine Islands, and will stop over
for a few hours in Anchorage.
He is expected to make a short
visit to the Valley, if his travel
ling schedule will permit.
Plan Basketball Meeting
There will be a meeting of all
Valley women, who are interest
ed in playing basketball next
winter, at the Palmer Fountain
on Wednesday evening. Meeting
time is at 8 o’clock. Everyone
interested is urged to attend.
In an effort to bring more tour
ist dollars into Palmer, A1 Ha
gen of the Valley Theatre and
Neal Wright of Bert’s Drug Store
have rented the lot across from
Bert’s for use as free trailer park
ing space.
Water has been piped to the
lot, and the lavatory facilities oi
the Theatre have been made
available to all campers there.
Mr. Hagen reports that there
has been an average of one trail
er a day spending from one to
several nights each in the trailer
space.
He explained that the plan had
originated as the result of lack
of tourist accommodations and
the high cost of living in An
chorage. He said the principal
complaint of the tourist whc
leaves Alaska is that Anchorage
prices are too expensive to be
met by the average traveller.
Mr. Hagen and Mr. Wright fell
that if adequate space were pro
vided in Palmer, it might be pos
sible that many tourists whose
destination originally was An
chorage would remain in the Val
ley for the greater part of their
stay.
The pair have been attempting
to make some sort of survey oi
the money brought to Palmer by
tourists. They report that one
family of four from Montana,
who spent several days here, re
ported their daily expenditure to
be $35. However this amount was
greatly increased in their case,
because one member of the fam
ily was hospitalized here for a
short time.
Mr. Hagen said no figures had
yet been worked out, but as near
ly as he could determine, each
tourist is estimated to be spend
ing about $4 a day during his
stay nere.
The project is unadvertised,
except for two signs on the
highway. Word-to-mouth adver
tising is expected to make it in
creasingly popular as the sum
mer wanes.
Mr. Hagen said he had no pres
ent plans for any permanent tour
ist facilities on the site. It is his
hope however, that through fig
ures obtained in the informal
survey he is attempting, someone
may become interested in erect
ing a regular tourist camp for
the coming year. The present site
is rented on a day-to-day basis
only.
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Last Dance Was
‘Most Successful’
Firemen Say
Last Saturday’s dance, which
was sponsored by the Valley Vol
unteer Fire Association, was one
of the most successful dances
ever planned by that organiza
tion, according to board chair
man A1 Hagen. Mr. Hagen said
the gross gate receipts exceeded
$175.
A large crowd, estimated at
nearly 300 persons, enjoyed the
music of the Glacier Hotshots, a
GI orchestra from Whittier. Band
members entertained with inter
mission numbers in addition to
their musical chores.
Camp Cancelled
The Homemaker’s camp, plan
ned for last weekend, was can
celled because of a lack of inter
est, it was announced this week.
Only six women registered for
the camp.
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20 Four-H Youngsters
Registered At Camp
There were 20 4-H Club mem
bers in attendance at last weed’s
4-H Club camp at King’s Lake,
directors Miss Marilyn Johnson
and Parker Lester announced.
Miss Johnson and Mr. Lester
were assisted in the camp pro
gram by Flo Alice Dinkel and
Mrs. Lydia Fohn-Hansen of Fair
banks.
Youngsters enjoyed a craft
program, outdoor recreation and
helpful lectures on safety-first
rules in gun-handling and emer
gency first-aid.
Club members made a trans
cribed broadcast which was re
produced over station KFQD ljfist
Saturday at noon.
Breaks Thumb
Jeanne Asplund recently suf
fered a broken thumb, when the
automobile in which she was lad
ing was involved in a minor ac
cident. She was hospitalized
briefly, while a cast was fixed
on her hand.
NOTICE
Concession space is now being allotted for the
eighth annual Matanuska Valley Fair on
Sept. 4, 5, and 6 of this year.
For space see the manager at the fair grounds,
or address Marshall Selover, Box 234, Palmer
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