Dairymen Declare
They Weren't Consulted
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“However the dairymen were
never consulted, and we have no
reason to believe that the pro
ducer is to get the benefit of the
raise.”
The dairymen’s spokesman
pointed out that this is the time
for a milk price increase. Produc
tion has begun to slump and will
continue to go down during the
winter months.
Ernest Harrington, member of
the dairying group, asserted he
believed the members should long
ago have been receiving the
benefit of “the seasonal dollar.”
Mr. Harrington advocates a
yearly increase in September
with a resulting drop in May,
when milk production begins to
climb.
Jack Cope, president of the
marketing group of dairymen,
pointed out that while the pro
ducer has received some increases
during the past two years, that
increase has never before reached
the consumer.
Mr. Cope also stated that “even
though prices do go up now,
when production is slack, there’s
no reason to feel that they must
remain up when the quantity of
milk increases.”
Carl Rasmussen, executive sec
retary of the MVFCA board,
could not be reached for a state
ment on the milk price increase.
ACS PLANS A STATION
IN PALMER
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A teletype would be installed
in the local office to handle Val
ley messages, which will be re
layed by direct wire to Anchor
age there to be dispatched to
their destination.
It is expected that the office
also would handle all long dis
tance telephone calls, as it does
in Anchorage. This would make
possible direct communication
links with the states over ACS
land-sea lines.
Wasilla P-TA
Loses President
WASILLA—Parent Teacher As
sociation plans for this commu
nity are not yet definite, it was
announced this week. The club
is left without a head, since Mrs.
Vannie Courtney, elected presi
dent last year, has gone to Healy
to fill a teaching assignment.
Mrs. Gene King is vice-president
of the organization.
Mrs. Courtney left for her
Ilcaly assignment last Sept. 3.
She was accompanied by her two
children. Shortly before her de
parture Mrs. Courtney was guest
of honor at a farewell party giv
en by Mrs. Walter Teeland.
VISITS SON
WASILLA—John Teeland of
Mountain View has been the
guest of his son, Walter Teeland
of Wasilla, recently.
Community
Calendar
Wednesday
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
luncheon at St. John’s Luther
an Church at noon.
LUTHERAN WOMEN meet at
parsonage to sew at 8 p. m.
Thursday
LEGION AUXILIARY meets at
Grange Hall at 8 p. m.
AMERICAN LEGION meets at
gymnasium at 8 p. m.
Friday
BOY SCOUTS meet at United
Protestant Church at 5:30 p. m.
YOUNG LIFE meeting at United
Protestant Church at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday
INTERDENOMINATIONAL Sun
day school meeting at Anchor
age Presbyterian Church at 1
p. m.
Monday
4-H COUNCIL meets at Exten
sion Office at 8 p. m.
HOMEMAKERS COUNCIL will
meet at Extension Office at
10:30 a. m.
Wasilla Club
Plans A Dance
For October 2
WASILLA—The local Rod and
Gun Club this month announced
the sponsorship of a dance, to be
held at Wasilla’s Community
Hall on Oct. 2. This is the first
social function planned by the
recently organized club.
Dance proceeds will be used to
bolster the club treasury. The
group plans to raise Hungarian
partridges to be planted in this
area next year, but lacks the nec
essary funds with which to fi
nance the project.
Good music and a wealth of
door prizes are promised by the
dance committee, which is
sparked by Edgar Alexander. Mr.
Alexander reports that there will
be 250 door prizes, including fish
ing rods, reels, creels and many
other types of outdoor equip
ment.
The Matanuska Valley Sports
men, Palmer club, is cooperating
with the Wasilla group in every
way possible. The Sportsmen will
have a game dinner on Oct. 2,
but plan no entertainment for
later in the evening, in order that
there will be no conflict with the
dance.
OFF TO COLLEGE
Stanley Hoffman, a member of
the Palmer graduating class of
1948, left for Fairbanks early this
week. He plans to enroll in the
University of Alaska this semes
ter.
LAURA FRANCE MARRIES
Miss Laura France became the
bride of Arthur Stenberg at a
service performed in the Church
of God last Sept. 5. The couple,
both local residents, will make
their home in the Valley.
Frontiersman Headlines
Sketch Valley's Year
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circulated asking officials of the
Alaska Railroad to re-open bar
ricaded automobile crossings at
North Palmer and in the center
of Palmer.
A hasty reading of a year’s files
of the Valley Frontiersman tells
a story of progress and regres
sion—the same story that makes
the daily life of humans every
where. Old friends die, babies are
born, marriages are made and
broken—there’s not much that’s
new in a year’s record of Valley
activities.
In the romance department,
Miss Adalgesia Lopes, of Brazil,
proxy bride of Bernard Swoboda,
started her long journey north
to meet her bridegroom. Several
boys and girls of the May grad
uating class of Palmer high
school exchanged schoolroom
chores for matrimonial bonds
during the spring and summer
months. In May, Miss Beverly
Larsh and Duane Huntley ruled
over the junior prom, last social
function of the school year, as
king and queen.
Tragedy and death struck
swiftly and brutally throughout
the year. Earl Hecker died a sui
cide. Bobby Ford of Wasilla fell
accidental victim to his own gun.
Joe Brassei, also of Wasilla, suc
cumbed to a heart attack. Dal
bert Ring was electrocuted while
helping move his mother’s house.
Dagmar Skoubo froze to death
within five minute’s walk of town
just as the old year was dying.
Bobbie Meiers lost a thumb while
working on the mechanism of his
truck. George Roganovich of
Jonesville died beneath a huge
slide of coal. Edward Casey,
Snowbird miner, hovered between
life and death for days as the
result of two days of exposure
beside a trail near the Little Su
sitna.
The dormitory at the Cather
home burned, early in the spring,
f
destroying ij completely, but
without inflicting injury to any
of the children, who had not yet
gone to bed. Bert’s Drug Store
was burned to the ground, with a
loss of $180,000 to owner Neal
Wright, shortly after the Valley
had ended the thirteenth annual
celebration of Colony Day.
New businesses and new quar
ters for old businesses appeared
in Palmer during the past year.
The Ward Building, the King
Building and the Neal Wright
Building all were completed be
fore the turn of the year. Con
struction was resumed on the
Matanuska Hotel. Round-the
clock phone service was an
nounced by the Valley Telephone
Exchange.
The Co-op and the Alaska Ru
ral Rehabilitation Corporation
announced the completion of a
new $95,000 outfall sewer line.
David Algarin and Joseph Hu
dock drove from Los Angeles to
Palmer, here to begin a new Val
ley industry, when they an
nounced the opening of their
Shirt Shop. Wasilla and Palmer
were linked by telephone for the
first time during the year just
past.
Don Irwin and Evelyn Foster
led the graduates of the class of
1948. Col. L. V. Castner was se
lected as the marketing agent of
the Valley Producers, Inc., inde
pendent vegetable growers or
ganization which sprang into be
ing this year. Pilot Les Green an
nounced the opening of a vet
eran’s flying school in the Valley.
In the facts and people section
of the news, Flo Alice Dinkel and
Lynn Sandvik rated headlines
when they flew to Chicago as
territorial delegates to a national
4-H conference. Mrs. Minnie
Clark took up some of the teach
ing burden in Palmer school in
November, when the load grew
too heavy for the regular staff.
Kermit King named a stream
liner Aurora and spent a week’s
vacation in Mt. McKinley Park.
And so it goes.—A year of news
in the Matanuska Valley.
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