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Palmar» Alaska - June 26. 1942
No. 25
FOURTH OF JULY TO BE COMMUNITY
GATHERING IN THE CIVIC CENTER
The program on the Fourth of July
will begin at 11 a.m. Beginning at>£|§
that time the children’s events
will be held under the
direction of the Rev, j
Woodrow Kurth and
Harry DeLand. The
prizes will be cash.p“'
During the noon
hour the big picnic i
will be held. ThiB )
wont be a "potluck" |
atiair - tnose who
picnic will want to
entire menu. Frank
a ball game to be held during the afternoon.
Whiter Huntley will arrange and supervise a
program of competitive events in which the grown
ups will participate. Dick Sngle and Harold
Thuma are raising the money to use for prizes. '
^te^'a^M^S^rine their
fcfcftSJPokorny is in charge of
The Rationing Board has
received the following tele
gram fr^m Mrs. ltildred Her
mann} Juneau, Alaska Direc
tor of the Office of Price
Administrations
"Plec.se use all facili
ties available in your com
munity including press, ra
dio, trade association, to
publicise the fact that date
for posting ceiling prices
has been postponed to August
Also that new method of com
puting ceiling prices will
be announced soon."
EDITOR’S NOTES Whether
that last sentenco nullifies
p all that work rro did on
! pages 2 and 4, we wouldn't
knew. We do know that if
the war is being run with
the seme vagueness that Leon
Henderson's offlee is, we
quite understand why so far
the U. S. is being lioked.
SELECTIVE SERVICE
CLASSIFICATION
At the prosent time the
Local Board is in process
of reconsidering all 3-A
registrants for the purpose
of reclassufying those who
are eligible for a 3-B elas<
sification. Class 3-B in
cludes men with dependents
an
tial
pro
the
ef
in
who are "engaged in
activity either eseen
to the war production
gran or essential to
support of the war
fort." Class 3-A
eludes men not so en
gaged but who have one or
more dependents. In some
oases the information re
garding a registrant's em
ployment on file at the Lo
dal Board offico may not be
up to date. Registrants
should notify the board if
there has been any change
in their employment since
they returned their original
Selective Service Question
naires.
Following each meeting of
the board a list of the
classifications made at that
meeting is available at the
Loeal Board office. Here
after a duplicate of this
classification list will al
so be posted in the Post Of
fice lobby.
Andy Anderson was arraign
ed before U.S.Commissioner
Huntley on Thursday morning
and pleaded guilty of negli
gence in allowing a fire on
his farm to spread to public
Lands around 12ay 9. The
fire burned over some 5t000
acres before it was checked(i
Lneluding some private land.’
CO-OP NOTES
I wonder if Alaska is, or
Alaska merchants are, com
pletely forgotten by our
government in these new reg
ulations. No official in
formation was received re
garding the price regula
tions, so wo attempted to
cooperate to the best of our
ability by using the inform
ation supplied by our busi
ness connections. After
days of work, v/e are ready
to go and now we don't know
what to do or how to do it,
We want to cooperate on any
war effort regardless of the
work involvod but it is hard
to comply when we do not have
any instructions and are
working in the dark.
Farmers of Alaska certain
ly owe Delegate Diaond a vote
of thanks for his effort in
obtaining a change in the
Army regulations nlltwing
freight to be figured in the
purchase of local products.
Additional plantings of
lettuce and other crops are
being made as a result of
this news and next year we
can expect a considerable in
crease for this new market.
L. C» S.
Ur. Anderson was fined
$50 which he paid*
Arthur Marsh* charged
with the sane misdemeanor,
plead not guilty. But the
court found hin guilty and
fined him $100*
The fire wfcich started on
the Marsh farm around May 9
or 10 spread to the snowline
of Lazy Mountain and also
did considerable damage to
the timbered area of Horace
DuFour's land*
Both cases were argued be
fore Commissioner Huntley by
feorge W. Folta for the gov
ernment* he being counselor
at-large for the Department
of the Interior.
Jack Tyler* Leo Rhode and
)ob Robinson spent several
lays in Palmar as witnesses
From the Alaskan Fire Patrol
lervice*