WILL OBSERVE FIRE
PREVENTION WEEK
OCTOBER 9-16
F'ire Prevention Week 1955
be observed October 9-15,
It’s purpose is to direct public
•attention to the 11,000 lives and
S&70,084,000 in property destroy
ed by fire in 1954, and to the
mfety measures which can help
reduce these tragic figures in fu
ture years.
President Eisenhower has is
sued a proclamation setting aside
thi* one week of the year for na
tion-wide fire prevention effort.
Fire* 90 percent of which
could have been prevented—last
year destroyed lives and millions
of dollars worth of property in
the United States, Fire Chief Ray
Lancaster reported today as he
announced that Fire Prevention
Week will be observed in Pal
mer, on the above announced
dates.
Statistics of the National Board
of Fire Underwriters show an es
timated 845,116 fires in U. S.
communities of 2,500 and over in
1954 This is eight per cent less
than the 1953 total of 918,304
fires, and 15 per cent below
1952’s 983,733. The statistics also
show, howver, that residential
fires, which constitute 72 per
cent of all building fires and 34
per cent of fires of all types, de
ceased only four per cent in the
same two years. This is the
weakest spot in the picture, and
also the most crucial from the
standpoint of home and family.
For the reason, Chief Lancas
ter urges each citizen of this com
munity to observe Fire Preven
tion Week by thoroughly check
ing his home for fire hazards and
correcting any ’unsafe conditions
he may find there. The local fire
department will supply a home
fire safety check or similar aid
to all residents desiring their as
sistance, Chief Lancaster stated.
FRONTIERSMAN CLASSIFIEDS
ALWAYS BRING RESULTS
HOSPITAL NEEDS
VOLUNTEER
ATTENDANTS ON CALL
Valley Pres’byteTian Hospit
al has a need for volunteer
attendants, particularly men,
to be on call as occasion arises.
Such volunteer attendants
are needed particularly for
the occasional mental or ine
briated patient needing con
stant attendance. The local
hospital staff is too busy with
other patients to give such pri
vate care.
Anyone wishing to volun
teer his services should call
the office at the hospital.
FOOTBALL DANCE
SLATED FOR OCT. 8
The public is invited to reser
ve the evening of October 8 for
attendance at a public dance to
be held in Central School gym
nasium. The annual Football
Dance will be held on that date
and all proceeds from the event
will go toward the expenses of
new football uniforms and equip
ment, recently purchased.
The public will have an oppor
tunity to see the new supplies at
the football game scheduled for
Saturday, October 1 at the fair
grounds. Although not the entire
suit will be new, players will go
on the field in bright school-blue
satin pants. The new pants will
have a half-inch stripe of white
on each side of a quarter-inch
red stripe down the side seams.
New white belts, blue jerseys
with white numerals and white
helmets will complete their suits.
Also purchased for the players
this year are new shoulder, knee,
and hip pads, the latter of a
smaller more efficient type than
formerly used. New shoes, with
aluminum spikes should make
the boys “dig a little harder”.
Arrangements are being made
for a dance band and will be an
nounced as soon as confirmed
by the committee. Admission will
be $1.50 per couple, with the gals
permitted to attend free if not
escorted.
Free Bicycle!
HEY KIDS
KEEP SAVING DONALD DUCK AND
SHAMROCK BREAD WRAPPERS
AND WIN
A ROADMASTER BICYCLE
A roadmasier bicycle will be awarded at the end of
September to the boy or girl turning in the greatest
number of-Donald-Duck and Shamrock Bread wrappers.
Watch your paper and listen to Uncle Rex Show on
radio station KFQD, 11:00 to 11:30 A.M. — Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
AND KEEP SAVING DONALD DUCK AND
SHAMROCK BREAD WRAPPERS l ! !
Palmer Baking Co.
Ham Dinner Planned
By Students of
Wasilla High School
A ham dinner, with all the
trimmings ,will be served at the
Wasilla School cafeteria on Sat
urday night, October 1, under the
sponsorship of the Wasilla High
School student body.
Members of the student body
will assist Mrs Ilah Senske in
preparing the dinner which will
consist of baked ham, sweet
potatoes, kernel corn, tossed sal
ad, mashed potatoes, and fresh,
home made pie.
Dinner will be served between
5:30 and 8:30 p.m. Everyone in
the valley is invited to attend.
ANNUAL DINNER
DATE ANNOUNCED
Members of the Ladies Aid of
St. Johns Lutheran Church have
announced their annual turkey
dinner will be held Thursday
evening, October 13 in the church
basement.
Many area residents look for
ward to this annual event and an
invitation has been extended to
the public to attend. Tickets will
be on sale very soon, or may be
purchased at the door the night
of the dinner
University Men
Co-Author Chapter
In New Geography
Increasing numbers of veteans,
farmers, miners, and business
and professional people are re
sponding to Alaska’s challenge.
There is room for a permanent
population of several millions.
Thats how Dr. Ivar Skarland
and John J. Teal, view the terri
tory’s future in the chapter titled
“Alaska” which they co-authored
for the recently published book
“Geography of the Northlands”.
The book, published oy the
American Geographical Society,
states that “until quite recently
the Arctic, like Africa, was the
land of great unknown. Not much
more than its fringes had been
explored.
Dr. Skarland’s and Teal’s chap
ter separately describes south
eastern, south central, southwest
ern, interior and Arctic Alaska,
also the Bering Sea region and
Seward Peninsula. They point
out most of the economic poten
tialities of each section, as well
as human and wild life. They add
that the most immediate need of
the territory is a network of high
ways to open up regions now ac
cesible only by boat or plane,
and for railway links to Prince
George and Nome.
Mile 61 — Glenn Highway Phone l-J-31
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