Weiner Roast Winds
Up Little League
Season in Palmer
The Little League program in
the Valley was brought to a close
on August 17 at the Little Lea
gue diamond in the Co-Op area.
Little leaguers and their parents
held a weiner roast that night,
followed by the presentation of
a ribboned medal for each mem
ber of the All Star team. The
awards were presented by Phil
'Everett on behalf of the Matan
uska Valley American Legion
Post, in recognition of their out
standing display of good sports
manship and loyalty.
A ball game between the fath
ers and sons, refereed by the
mothers, provided entertainment
for players and spectators.
The final board meeting of the
season was held this week.
Members of the Little League
board of directors expressed their
thanks to team sponsors and all
persons who donated time and
money to make this season a
great success. Special thanks
were offered to Andi Hoffman
for all his time and effort spent
with the All-Stars. The adult
cooperation throughout the sea
son was good, members said, and
they are looking forward to a
bigger and better Little League
season next year.
Anchorage, Ketchikan
To Start 2nd Polio Shots
Polio vaccine for second in
jections of last term’s first and
second graders is being released
to the Greater Anchorage Health
District and to the Ketchikan
Health Center, according to Dr.
Charles R. Hayman, chief of the
Alaska Department of Health
preventive medical services sec
tion. The injections are to be
given before school begins.
He said that Dr. Richard C.
Murphy, health officer of the
(Greater Anchorage Health dis
trict, has requested permission to
go ahead with the program at
this time because his staff is bet
ter equipped to give the injec
tions now rather than shortly
alter school opens.
In the case of Ketchikan, Dr.
Hayman recommended that the
rejections be started as soon as
possible because of the occur
rence of three cases of poliom$r
<.eSUtis in that area during the past
;iwo weeks.
i No 'definite word has been re
ceived to date in the Valley de
termining the exact date when
the second injections will be giv
en to.those children who received
injections shortly before the close
of school this past May. How
ever, it is believed that the vac
cine will arrive shortly after
school kegins this Fa1!.
Lt. Col. Thomas T. Kilday left
‘ the University of Alaska last
week/for his new assignment
' «With tthe office of the chief of
army reserve and Reserve Offi
cers’ Training Corps at the Pen
tagon Building, Washington, D.C.
Pilling the vacancy is Lt. Col.
Kenneth C. Haycraft of Fort
Knox, Ky.
Sept. 24 Named
Kiwanis Kids’ Day
Plans for the annual Palmer
Kiwanis Kids’ Day program are
being formulated, the organiza
tion announced this week. The
big day for the kids has been set
for Saturday, September 24. All
youngsters in the Valley are in
vited to begin plans for entries
in the pet parade, decorated bi
cycles, talent show and hobby
show.
Funds to operate the valley
wide program will be raised by
the Kiwanians through a pan
cake breakfast which will be
held the morning of Kids’ Day.
GARDEN TOURS
HELD LOCALLY
BY GARDEN CLUB
A large gathering of Valley
residents attended the garden
tour on Wednesday of this week
being sponsored by' the Palmer
Garden -Club.
Evidences of frost were seen
at the Merle Anderson home at
Mile 45 where tour members
met and saw the beautiful lawn
and garden. Coming up the high
way they stopped at the Melby
home where they viewed a nov
el fence arrangement of flowers.
At Tooth-Acres, the home of Dr.
and Mrs. Foster Sims, the group
exclaimed over Izola’s new petu
nia, Pale Face. This is the first
year this specimen has been on
the market. Other outstanding
flowers in their garden were
peonies, snapdragons and pansies.
At Maud Hosier’s home flame li
ues, marcgoias, ana a noi oi col
or in her yard drew wonderful
comments, as did her growth of
snapdragons.
At Peggy McKechnie’s home a
beautiful annual, Canary Bird
Vine, was seen by the group. Her
sweet peas and mixed flower
garden was in full boom. Mem
bers visited the McKechnie home
for a short period and saw her
display of Alaska clay ceramics.
At the I. M. Sand'vik home in
the Butte a broad expanse of
green lawn first caught the visit
ors eyes—all shades of nemesia—
seed dahlias, and gladioli were
seen there.
Mrs. Sandvik served orange
juice and cookies to her visitors.
The Thursday afternoon tour
was attended by a large group
who met at the home of Mrs.
Mike Ulrich where they saw a
beautiful lilly pond at the rear
of the Ulrich home. A beautiful
red water lilly had broken into
bloom that very day. Her rose
bushes caused much interest
when the group learned they had
been wintered in the ground.
From the Ulrich home the
group drove to the Virgil Ejckert
home on Bailey Hill where local
shrubs and beautiful flower gar
dens were in bloom. One of the
outstanding shrubs was one of
devil’s club. Fannie Werner’s
farm was one of the favorite
stopping places. Her orchard of
unusual fruit trees, her herb gar
den and profusion of flowers all
brought high praise from her
visitors.
South of town the tour stopped
at the Kepler home where they
walked through Mrs. Kepler’s
Palmer Schools
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Fall will be William Elliott, for
mer principal of Central School.
He has accepted a position as
Dean in an Eastern school. Re
placing him as principle will be
Wm. Benyish, who joined the
Palmer school staff last year as
6th grade teacher.
Other teachers returning and
grade assignments are: Pearl
Moyer, Beverly Hunter, and Ada
Boyd, grade 1; Phyllis Heck,
Barbara Smart, and Vera Gaza
way, grade 2: Gloria Wilson, Joan
Farnsworth, and Leona Dickow,
grade 3; Agnes Isley, Alma
Blunck, grade 4; Talecia Smoot
and Ruth Beechick, grade 5;
Margaret Wever, and David Por
ter, grade 6; Katherine Steele,
Dale Bryant, Wilhelmina Peder
son, grade 7; Norman Rousey,
John Schreiber, Vanda Jelinek,
grade 8. Home Ec and Shop will
be made available to 7th and 8th
grade students this year for the
first time.
On the high school staff are:
Margaret Cope, commercial;
Robert Crites, history; Elizabeth
D. Gaines, English; Betty Jo
Riddle, biology, general science;
John DeVries, shop; Helen Dava
los, home economics; Gwendolyn
McNamara, languages; Norman
Rousey, boys physical education;
'Katherine Steele, girls physical
education; Harry Lee Plumbley,
band; and Lois Weldon, chorus.
Principals at the three schools
are: Harry Wimmer, high sch
ool; William Benyish, Central
School; and David Porter, Swan
son School.
The schedule may be revised
somewhat when present vacan
cies are filled, it was oointed out.
School registration for all pu
pils will he held at Central and
High School on August 30 and
31. Parents will be given an op
portunity at that time to sign
consent slips for the immuniza
tion programs.
well kept flower and vegetable
gardens. From there they went
to the Glen Woods home where
Mrs. Woods had planted her flow
ers among the vegetables. All her
flowers, in full bloom, had been
started from seed outdoors. Tour
members were invited into the
Woods home where they saw a
wide and varied collection of
house plants. The final stop on
the tour was at the Paul Martin
home where the family has land
scaped entirely with Alaskan
shrubs and flowers. A beautiful
fish pond and rock garden, black
current bushes and many other
outstanding shrubs were a fitting
! climax to the tour.
FARMERS' MARKET
POPULAR SPOT FOR
WEEK-END BUYERS
One of the biggest sale-da^
was noticed at Farmers’ Market
this past week-end Saturday and
Sunday all stalls at the market
were kept busy by local buyers
and many visitors from Anchor
age and Stateside. Many new
vegetables are now on the mar
ket, including broccoli, radishes,
lettuce, chard, beets, carrots;
green onions, and strawberries.
Squash and raspberries are ex
pected this coming week-end.
A wide variety is being sold
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Eight Areas Named As
Public Service Sites
Eight areas have been desig
nated as public service sites by
the Bureau of Land Manage
ment, it was announced this
week by Area Administrator
Lowell M. Puckett.
These eight areas are in asso
ciation with small tract groups
located in the Fielding Lake,
Nancy Lake, Little Beaver Lake,
Peters Creek, Little Susitna,An
chor River, Starisky, and Nunaka
Valley areas. These sites have
been selected by the Bureau to
assure public access to the lakes
and streams involved, and to pro
vide camping spots for fishermen
and tourists. These sites are sim
ilar to others that have been sel
ected by the Bureau in past
years along the Alaskan high
ways and favored fishing streams
and lakes.
MINERAL KIT
NOW AVAILABLE
TO PROSPECTORS
The University of Alaska sch
ool of mines today made avail
able to the territory’s prospectors
the identification kit which will
enable them to classify more
than 100 minerals in the field.
ciuuu n. nuM^nis, piu
fessor of mining, designed the kit
which through the use of blow
pipe, bead and chemical tests
will handle all the important
minerals in Alaska.
The kit weighs eight pounds
ana readily can be fitted into
most miners’ packs. Each kit con
tains an instructions book which
easily tells how to carry out the
tests. Price of the kit, which can
be obtained from the School of
Mines, Box 4001, College, Aaska,
is $25, plus postage.
Earl H. Beistline, dean of the
school of mines, said the kit is
provided as another service by
the school to assist the prospec
tors in their search for minerals.
He added that all book stores
in Alaska have been provided
with another supply of “Blazing
Alaska’s Trails/’ a book by Al
fred Hulse Brooks, late head of
the United States Geological Sur
vey work in Alaska. The publica
tion also is available at the sch
ool of mines. *
this year by various members of
the Market. In addition, each
week-end a special booth has
been operated, selling home made
pastries, flowers and handicrafts.
Among operators were the Lad
ies Aid of U. P. Church,, Rainbow
Girls, Homemakers’ club and the
Garden club.
Miss Alaska to Be
Guest at Valley Fair
Miss Lorna McLeod of Fair
banks as accepted the invitation
of the Matanuska Valley Fair to
be a guest of honor at the 15th
annual Valley Fair in Palmer.
Miss McLeod is 1955 queen of
the Fairbanks Winter Carnival;
Miss Alaska, and Miss Universe
Candidate from Alaska.
With the exception of the war
years, the Fairbanks Winter Car
nival has been held annually
since 1929 and is now an Alaskan
corporation controlled exclusive
ly by the Fairbanks Junior
Chamber of Commerce. The car
nival holds the fracnhise for the
Miss Universe Contest candidate
from Alaska and has sent the
Queen of the Winter Carnival to
Long, Beach, Calif., the past sev
eral years as “Miss Alaska”.
The carnival sends the queen
on a two-month tour of points
in the United States prior to the
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year Miss Alaska visited Minnea
polis, St Paul, Milwaukee, Chi
cago, De Moines, Denver, Salt
Lake City, Las Vegas, many cit
ies in California, Portland, Ta
coma and Seattle. This invest
ment, the Chamber points out,
not only gives valuable public
ity to Fairbanks, but to all of
Alaska.
Miss McLeod is 22 years old.
Her last name is pronounced
“M’CIoud”. She was born and
was graduated from high school
at Tacoma, Wash, and has been
in Fairbanks several years. She
is five feet, three inches in height
and weighs 110 pounds. Her mea
surements are 34”-24”-35. Miss
Alaska works for the Co-Op Drug
Co. in Fairbanks. She is a fine
dancer and ice skater and has
been trained in tap dancing, but
has not performed before audi
ences for several years.
The visiting queen will be ac
companied by a chaperone, hei
sister, Mrs. Jeannie Hobaugh
presently visiting her from Ta
NEW BABIES
Leiser
Mr. and Mrs. Mann Leiser of
Palmer are receiving congratula
tions on the birth of their fifth
child, a son, who was born at
Valley Presbyterian Hospital
August 24. He weighed eight
pounds, 10 ounces at birth. Mr.
Leiser is manager of the Palmer
Nursery on Bailey Hill.
Alaska 4-H
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demonstrations and club demon
strations. Presentation of awards
is scheduled for 7 p.m. Awards
include such things as large and
small cups, statuettes, billfold,
plaque, and ribbons.
For more information about
the Fair, Meek suggests 4-H
members contact their nearest
district Extension Service agent,
who in the Palmer area, is Lew
Hanks. Last week Agent Hanks
announced any 4-H’er who does
not have means for getting his
exhibit to Anchorage may con
tact him at the Extension Service
office before 11 a.m. on the 26th.
Pens for displaying poultry and
rabbits have been loaned to the
4-H’ers by the Matanuska Valley
Fair Association.
coma and on her first trip to Al
aska. They will be Palmer visit
ors and honored guests at the
Matanuska Valley Fair Septem
ber 3 and 4. .
HUNTERS
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