A very Merry Christmas and a happy, prosperous
New Year.
To all our many, many friends in the Valley
Mr. and Mrs. Gerrit “Heinie” Snider*
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The best of every Christmas wish to all our
friends and patrons
PALMER BODY & FENDER
Announcing a 24-Hour Wrecker Service
May the minutes, hours and days of the
coming holiday season and all of the new
year be multiplied with happiness for you
j MORTON’S WATCH REPAIR
Up Front in Bert's Drug Store
I wish yon health, wealth and happiness during
the holidays and all through 1948.
JACK MAZE
YOUR VALLEY INSURANCE AGENT
Our holiday wish for you is a happy and suc
cessful New Year May it be everything you
want it to be.
NORTH PALMER STORE
Brazil Leaves
Yen For Snow
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other holiday which means as
much to him and to his father
and mother, too, as does Christ
mas and Santa Claus to an Amer
ican child. Little Brazilians couni
the days until Carnival, when
for a whole week the entire
country is in holiday mood, shar
ed by rich and poor alike.
Men all masquerade as women
for Carnival week. Costumes are
elaborate and detailed, and are
complete even to wigs and make
up. Revellers dance the samba
and the rhumba in the streets for
hours on end, rest for a little
time, and return to dance again
There are parades and greal
gatherings o f merrymakers
through the streets during the
week. At the close of Carnival
Lent, which is very strictly ob
served in South America, begins
One of 300
But there was little time to be
spent in missing a traditional
holiday or in learning the history
of a new one for Miss Skule. She
was one of 300 American instruc
tors who were sent to Brazil te
teach in the Technical School ol
Aviation established by tha1
country’s air minister for train
ing of Brazilian cadets.
In addition to daily classroorr
duties, where she taught a course
in radio theory, Miss Skule anc
her fellow workers were engaged
in translating technical material
textbooks, reference papers anc
all necessary source literature in
to Portuguese for the students
Instructors each taught one
hour’s English daily, in addition
The technical school which
brought her to Brazil as instruc
tor was planned, equipped and
supplied by the United States
Education in Brazil in all tech
nical fields is almost entirely
lacking, and instructors were
forced to literally write their
own texts as they taught.
Limited Schooling
Miss Skule explained that the
average Brazilian never has
more than four or five years at
school, and many of her student
cadets had never had more than
one or two. “Their idea of edu
cation is far different from ours,’’
she said. “Your well-educated
Brazilian may speak four or five
languages, aryl there isn’t any
thing about music that he doesn’t
know, but chemistry, physics and
other technical courses are en
tirely outside of his field ol
knowledge.”
Cadets who entered the school,
which is located at Sao Paulo,
first were given 17 or 18 weeks
of work in general fields before
they entered the aviation spe
cialty field of their choice. Stu
dents graduated in from 18
months to three years, depending
i upon the type of work in which
they specialized.
As source materials began to
be built up and Brazilians were
trained to take over instructor’s
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duties at the school, all of the 80
women instructors sent to Bra
zil were released. The probable
reason, Miss Skule believes, was
that the head of the Brazilian
army, which assumed control of
the school, still believed that
woman’s place was in the home.
Future Unlimited
The future of this vast South
American country is absolutely
unlimited, the school teacher
feels, if Brazilians can absorb
the technical knowledge they so
badly need. Human labor rather
than machinery still accomp
lishes the work in Brazil.
Some of the most beautiful
modern buildings in the world,
embodying the latest principles
of architectural design, stand
side by side with tenements of
the worst type. Beggars roam
Brazilian streets, and whole fam
ilies live on the sidewalks with
no homes to go to.
Sidewalks in Rio de Janeiro
are beautifully fashioned of
minute tiles, streets are broad,
parks are landscaped gardens of
beauty. But Brazilian locomo
tives still burn wood and it’s a
law in Brazilian cities that every
one must wear shoes to ride on
a streetcar.
Yet even though it is years be
hind the United States in tech
nical development and in its
theory of a woman’s place in so
ciety, Jennie Skule finds that a
year wasn’t nearly long enough.
She saw glimpses of Rio de
Janeiro, Santos, Curitiba and
Serra Negra, but there’s much!
more she wants to see and to do. I
She’s already planning to go
back some day.
Red Cross Helps
Local Hospital
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it was discovered what type of
equipment was needed, the
amount was boosted to $3,000.
Mr. Bouwens said the sum was
large enough to purchase a new
x-ray machine and an anaesthe
sia machine, both vitally needed
in the Valley hospital. The
money is freely offered, the sole
proviso being that the equipment
be ordered through Red Cross.
Mr. Bouwens also has been
notified that the local chapter of
the Red Cross hereafter will be
permitted to retain locally ali
funds raised in the annual spring
drive, less 12 per cent due at na
tional headquarters.
The fund also will be admin
istered locally, rather than
through the Anchorage chapter
as in the past.
The Red Cross drive for funds
is not included in the Community
Chest, since the organization
stages its own drive on a national
scale each March. >
S. O.S.
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We take the opportunity at this holiday season
to thank you for your patronage of the past year.
MAY WE SUGGEST THAT FOR
YOUR LAST-MINUTE CHRISTMAS
SHOPPING YOU MAKE YOUR
SELECTIONS FROM THESE ITEMS:
Complete lines of Yardley, Courtly, Len
theric and Evening in Paris toiletries.
Silex and Cory Coffeemakers.
Leather Billfolds in several styles.
Mother of Pearl China.
Luggage in Matched Sets.
And for Christmas Sweets, we., have
many types of candy, including the old
fashions d Christmas hard candy.
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