mi GANSCHOW
TO ATTEND
KIWANIS CONVENTION
The Kivvanis Club of Palmer
will be represented at the 1954
convention of the Pacific North
west Kiwanis District at Victoria,
B. C.. September 12-14, club
president Emil G.- Ganschow an
nounced today.
Mr. Ganschow will be the only
representative from the Palmer
club but the Anchorage club will
have three or four delegates and
the Fairbanks, Juneau and White
horse clubs also expect to be re
presented.
Mr. Don E. Engdahl, president
of Kiwanis International, a Spo
kane. Wash., businessman and
life-long resident of the Pacific
Northwest will be a featured
speaker during the three-dav
meeting at the Empress Hotel. En
gdahl will be accompanied to Vic
toria by Mr. O. E. Peterson, in
ternational secretary of Kiwanis
ana wno neaas ine organization s
general office staff in Chicago.
Delegates from 216 clubs, re
presenting a membership of 12,
100 business and professional
leaders will participate in the
various sessions. Committee con
ferences, a discussion of plans
for the corrting year, and elec
tion of officers will highlight the
• convention program Ganschow
said.
Presiding officer at the three
day session will be Mr. C. E.
Thompson, governor of the Pacific
Northwest Kiwanis District, and
who recently visited the Palmer
club while on a trip to all clubs
in the Alaska-Yukon Division. Mr.
Thompson is a widely-known
businessman from Redmond, Ore.
Mr. Engdahl, a principal speak
er and official representative of
Kiwanis Interna'tional is the or
ganization’s recently-elected In
ternational president. He is a vet
eran of 20 years in Kiwanis
work. During that time, he has
served as president of his home :
club in Spokane, lieutenant gov
ernor and governor of the Pacif
ic Northwest Kiwanis District,
and chairman of the Internation
FtRST-AiD CARD
HOLDERS INVITED TO
„iv;l jkzi:si course
I Anyone holding an American
; National Red Cross standard card j
; in first aid who is interested in j
I attending a Civil Defense first !
aid class is invited to attend two j
meetings to be held in Carpen
ters’ Hall on September 20 and
j 27, at 8 p.m.
Mrs. Florence Sandell, nurse at
Valley Presbyterian Hospital has
been instructing 12 area residents
and their course will be com
pleted this week, with the two
additional classes slated to fam
iliarize them with Civil Defense
| first aid procedures.
Mrs. Sandell will continue her
first aid instruction, beginning !
around the first of October when
she will travel to Wasilla each
Wednesday evening to teach a
class of approximately 30 persons
who have signed for the course.
All first aid card holders are
4 rv of innrl ♦ V-i tn'o QontCj rv> _
ber meetings at Carpenters' Hall. | ■
No prior registration is necessary. |
al Committee on New Club Build- '
ing for the United States. In 1944. j
he was named the outstanding j
citizen under 35 in his home com
munity by the Spokane Junior 1
Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Peterson, who will also ad
dress the convention, has been
secretary of Kiwanis Internation
al since 1942. He is managing di- j
rector of the organization’s gen- ;
feral office in Chicago and execu- ■
tive assistant to the International '
president and Board of Trustees |
in all matters pertaining to the
3,900 clubs and 228,000 Kiwanians
in the U. S., Canada, Alaska and
Hawaii. A member of the general
office staff since 1936, Mr. Peter
son has seen a total of nearly 20
years service in the International i
organization. In addition, Peter
son is chairman of the national
organizations committee of the
U. S. Savings Bonds division of j
the treasury department. He is j
also a member-at-large of the na- !
tional council of the Boy Scouts j
of America.
►give proper signals for turns
AND STOPS ....
and keep your car in safe-driving
condition at all timesl
NEW BABiES
Mears
Mr. and Mrs. Thurman N.
| Mears of Wasilla are receiving
congratulations on the birth of
their second child, a daughter,
who has been named Starr Ann.
She was born at Valley Presby
terian Hospital on September S
and weighed five pounds, nine
and one-half ounces at birth. Mr.
Mears is employed as carpenter
on the new Wasilla school.
Crowther
Mr. and Mrs. George S. Crow:
ther are parents of their first
child, a six pound, six ounce
daughter who was born at Valley
Presbyterian Hospital on Septem
ber 4. She has been named Su
san Elizabeth. Mr. Crowther is
with the Department of Agricul
ture.
DeLand
Mr. and Mrs. Nile Ted DeLand
are parents of their first child,
a boy. The young man weighed
seven pounds, five and one-half
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Downtown Palmer
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! ounces when born September 4
at Valley Presbyterian Hospital.
He has been named Ben Thomas.
Mr. DeLand is employed at the
Evan-Jones mine at Jonesville.
Maternal grandparents are Mr.
Tom Lepak of Palmer. Paternal
grandmother is Mrs. Jack Scott,
also of Palmer.
The eight University of Alaska
ROTC cadets who attended the
recent summer camp at Fort
Lewis, Washington, placed sev
enth in institution averages from
among the 42 participating uni
versities and colleges, Lt. Col.
Thomas T. Kilday informed
President Ernest N-. Patty this
week.
TIRED OF THE WIND
AND DUST?
It’s time to come out to
Woodland Park and get that
home or homesite where its
a pleasure to live and prices
are reasonable.
2^ miles from Palmer on
Anchorage Hiway
A. H. MARSH
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM
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WILLIE WIREHAND SAYS .
Ii's a fact! Frayed, bare wires
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ing checked to make sure of
proper insulation.
Matanuska Electric
Association
Palmer, Alaska
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