WILLIAM FOGG
PRESIDENT OF
LITTLE LEAGUE
A Little League baseball or
ganization seems assured for the
young boys in and around the
Valley this ye$r, as the result of
a meeting held March 23. Offi
cers for the league were chosen
and an application for a franch
ise will be sent to Williamsport,
Pa. his week.
Local organizations who sent
representatives to the meeting
were: Palmer Moose Lodge, Pal
mer B. P. O. Elks, Palmer P-TA,
Beta Sigma Phi. Several indi
viduals also attended.
Bill Fogg will head the organ
ization as president with Don
Moore, vice-president, Betty
Mears secretary and Jack Leek,
treasurer. Working committee
heads will be appointed by these
officers.
The league will consist of four,
12-member teams who will each
play 18 games, completing their
schedules by August 1. These
games will be followed by tourna
ment and regional play-off games.
Anchorage has two leagues while
Fairbanks has one. With Palmer,
sectional play-off games will be
played among these leagues.
Should a Palmer team win the
regional title, they will automati
cally be eligible for the mid-west
play-off. Winning there, the boysj
would go on to the Little World >
Series, to be held in Williams- j
port.
All boys around the Valley be
tween the ages of 8 and 12 years
are eligible to play, providing
they do not reach their 13th
birthday before August 1. A
school survey made this week by
Wililam Zahradnicek, school sup
erintendent, indicated approxi
mately 100 boys will be eligible
for play.
Equipment for the teams will
have to be purchased. Organiza-1
tions interested in sponsoring a
team, either alone or in conjun
, ction with other groups, will help
bear the cost of the equipment.
The civic committee of the
Moose Lodge have already pur
chased suits and catcher's equip
ment for one team. Suits and
equipment will have to be purch
ased for the other three teams.
Sponsors names will appear in
the lettering on the suits.
“The object in Little League
baseball is not solely to teach
boys how to play baseball but
to instill the feeling of fair play
and to teach them to be good
American citizens,” Leek told the
group Monday night.
According to “Little League—
1953,” Little Leagues come into
being through the efforts of sev
eral individuals in a community
LET’S GO SKIING!!
Weather permitting, the first
annual Matanuska Ski Club races
will be held Sunday. March 29,
2 p.m. at the club tow site, Little
Susitna.
All members of the senior
dub and all Juniors, whether
dub members or not are eligi
ble to participate in the race*.
Scheduled as giant slalom.
Junior members will be requir
ed to hare written permission
from parents in order to par
ticipate. Cards will be mailed to
all juniors. Seniors will be ask
ed to sign a release book, word
ed as follows "I. do
not hold the Matanuska Ski
Club responsible for any injury
received during partidpation in
the first annual Matanuska Ski
Club races." (This is a custo
mary procedure in races.)
The use of the club rescue to
boggan was illustrated to the
group of skiers present on the
hill this past Sunday. The club
is very proud of the fact that no
one has required the use of the
taboggan this season. It is com-(
plete with first aid materials;
stote-sledder and a sleeping bag.
An injured person can be remov
ed from the hill in such a man
ner that they need not again be
moved until they reach a doctor
or the hospital.
Sunday skiers can be identi
fied this week by their sun
burned faces. Very warm
weather and very bright sun -
light contributed to many
“shiny noses."
Misfortune to the tow motor
brought the skiing day to an early
close. A burned rod will be re
placed as soon as possible in
order to take advantage of what
is left of this year’s skiing time.
A ski film. "Skifully Yours"
is enroute and expected in time
for the next regular club meet
ing. Dick Mekkelsen, P-TA in
working together, independent of
any existing organizations or
they may be projects of service
or fraternal organizations. In
this case, the civic committee of
the Moose Lodge, with Jack Leek
as chairman, have been spear
heading the organization of the
Little League. All organizations
and interested individuals are
urged to offer their assistance in
developing the league.
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SPRING FOOTBALL
PRACTICE STARTS
Students from the 8th, 9th,
10th and 11th grades of Pal
mer School are going through
two weeks of Spring football
training.
Working in the gym, Rousey
said the boys are getting prac
tice in ball handling and tim
ing, in the backfield positions.
Practice is from 3:30 to 4:45
each afternoon.
Although no game-schedule
has been set up yet, Rousey
said they know the team will
be playing Anchorage High
and Army teams wjhen the sea
son opens this Fall. Other
schools may participate this
year, he added. .
TO WED APRIL 4
Miss Amy Olin of the Lazy
Mountain Children’s Home and
Marion Lee Tarver of St. Landry,
Louisiana will be united in mar
riage Saturday afternoon, April
4, it was announced this week.
The ceremony will take place
at the United Protestant Church
at 3 p.m. All friends of the
young couple and the home are
invited to attend.
structor, is pictured in the film.
Juniors, interested in joining
the Matanuska Ski club, junior
division will be invited to at
tend the meeting.
Buddy Campbell and Doug Bix
by were both sporting new skis
this week.
“Grass in the other pasture. . .”
Several Anchorage skiers were
at the Little Susitna slopes Sun
day, while Brauchli and Mekkel
sen were at Arctic Bowl, enjoying
the Anchorage snow.
RIFLEMEN DEFEATED
DY EMPIRE NO. I TEAM
Completing the final match ir
a nine-game series with the Cm
Bank Rifle and Pistol club of Cul
Bank, Montana, the Matanuskj
Valley Sportsmen Rifle club suf
fered their third defeat to the
No. 1 team in the Inland Empire
Shoot with a total of 1937-1940
CUT BANK HIGH FIVE
P S K oh Toi
K. Clarkson .100 99 97 94 39C
Rex Davis .100 98 99 83 39C
Rex Neil .100 100 98 91 38£
Dr. J. D. Jones ...100 100 94 94 38f
Vern Swenson ...99 98 96 90 382
Total .194C
PALMER HIGH FIVE
P 6 K oh To
K. Westenbarger 100 100 95 95 39(
Vern Donaldson 100 100 95 94 381
"Rip” Harris ... 100 100 94 92 38(
Allen Richie .... .. 100 98 97 91 38C
Jack Dodge .100 99 96 91 38*
Total ...1931;
Palmer No. 2 team. 1910
Cut Bank No. 2 team. 1996
Palmer No. 1 team, won 6, lost 2
Palmer No. 2 team, won 5, lost 4
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UNIVERSITY
Sir Hubert Wilkins, noted Ar
ctic explorer of the twenties and
thirties, was guest speaker at the
University Public Lecture March
23. His subject was ‘‘Reminiscen
ces of Alaska and the Arctic
Twenty-five Years Ago.” While
in Fairbanks, Sir Hubert was a
guest of the University, staying
in its guest facilities at the Geo
physical Institute.
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The Palmer Junior High bas
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age March 14 and played a doub
le-header with the Anchorage
juniors.
Palmer displayed, for the first
time, their new uniforms. Attrac
tive blue and white suits carry
the lettering Palmer Junior High.
Seventh graders opened the
games with a closely matched
game, ending - in Anchorage’s
favor with a one point lead, JO
29. A previous game between the
two teams had seen the Palmer
i boys on top with a 25-14 score.
The Anchorage team played sev
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! in the March 14 >game.
| Superior heighth in the Anch
orage eighth grade team gave
| them the advantage throughout
1 the second game, ending with the
final score of 38-19.
Coach Norman Rousey had
high praise for the young players.
Members of the seventh and
eighth grades raised $51 through
candy sales, auctions and the sale
of original poem booklets to de
fray part of the costs of the new
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