RPP on CSS WAR PUT-ID DRIVE
The Red Cross Jar Pund Drive
in the Palmer area ended Larch 13.
The total amount raised was'
.1233,13. Cf that amount 8,53
came from contribution'jars pla
ce-1 in stores and 3224.,50 was
raised by the school children of
the'Palmer Territorial School.
''S§3,14 was donated by the child
ren themselves. The Palmer
Branch Chapter wishes to thank
the Palmer Student Body for their
excellent work and also to thank
the people of this area for their
contributions. The money has
been forwarded to the Anchorage
Chapt:r.
Julia Graves, R.P.
Chairman, Palmer Branch
American Red Cross
The I.iatanuska Valley Post
IIo. 15, the American Legion meets
at the Recreation Hall Community
Center, Palmer, the second V/ed
nos'rm of each month. All Leg
ion members are cordially invit
ed to attend, bring an ex-sorgod
~Trn' v;ith you maybe we can sign
him up.
Harry Jensen
Commander.
CALIFORNIA EOUUD
Among those who plan to
board the next available boat
for the States will bo ' r. and
Prs. Pearl Archer and family.
Their destination is Oakland,
California, where Mrs. Archer will
visit her parents and Pearl will
find a Job waiting him. They
came to Alaska from Y/i scons in. in
1935 and have lived on Tra.ct 193
in the Butte section.
DRESS UP FOR THE EASTER PARAPE
Call In At
LOU * S BEAUTY SHOP
BUY DEP’EUSE STAMPS AT TRADIUG POST.
SriKIT CP ALASKA.
U.S.Treasury department -r,17/42
Defense Savings Staff, June in,Alaska
./hen the United "ations, und
er the Supreme Command of Ceneral
Douglas KacArthur, unleash their
general offensive against the Axis
in the southwest Pacific, India
and Asia sometime this spr-. ng, the
u Spirit of Alaska11 — a he. four
motored bomber v/ell may e in
the vanguard of the attack ig
forces.
Last week the designation of a
Plying Fortress to bear the name
of America's far-flung northland
territory was made possible when
Alaskans went to their banks and
post offices in the final week of
a five-week campaign and turned
in 150,569 for purchases of Ser
ies L Defense Savings Bond. .
These purchases, in the final
week of the five-week campaign for
the uSpirit of Alaska11' brought
the total campaign sales to
)430,552 -- a figure which would
permit the purchase of’ a g-rsuit
plane and a light tank, beyond
the minimum purchase price of the
heavy bomber.
at tiie DCgur mg oi
jeirit of A
As was said,
this campaign, th
laska: will he but one of many
thousand such planes that will be
in service before this year is
over, but it will represent in
powerful terms our belief in the
things for which America srands.'1
Acting Governor
n«
said today.
il r.T
artlett
The campaign was not
so much a ’stunt’ as it was. a care*
fully planned and well executed
drive to put impetus into
•Hi
gen
eral picture and. to make the ob
jectives of the United dtates
Treasury Department’s program tan
gible and real to the average per
son.
11 The tremendous effort o^ the
many volunteer workers t: roughout
the Territory, guided and coordi
nated by the Defense Savings
[Staff office in Juneau has, in
.:1 this' ins tunco, t demonst ira t od' '* ~
amply tf’r.t coordination of
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