SUPERVISOR OP NURSES UNDER •
INDIAN AFFAIRS-VISITS PALMER
When the Eklutna School made its
regular check-up trip to the Matan
uska Valley Hospital on Tuesday,
Miss Bertha M. Tiber accompanied
the group. Miss Tiber is Supervis
or of Nurses in Aslaka under the
Office of Indian Affairs,
.7 The re are 50 public health nurses
employed by this service in Alaska
for work among the natives—quarter
blood or more," says Miss Tiber.
'Twenty of these are in our hospitals
and thirty are in the field, cover
ing the most remote districts of
the Territory. Our work is endless
but most our work is confined to
teaching of sanitation and arrang
ing hospitilization. Our chief
purpose is education in health
practices."
Miss Tiber will be at Eklutna the
rest of this week and then go north
where she will visit nurses now in
the field and at the several hospi
tals to the north and westward.
MORE ABOUT ELECTIONS - - -
on a tract of land is eligible to
membership in the Association and
that person must be the head of the
family. If there be no family, the
person in whose name the tract of
land i3 being farmed and products
therefrom being sold to the Associ
ation may become a member,* and the
sentence: 'There shall be no dis
crimination between the sexes and
any one being of legal voting age
should have an oqual right to full
membership in this Association.'"
This is to become effective immedi
ately.
There were 113 members prosent of a
total of 169 shareholders. There
were 101 votes cast on the first
ballot. Mr. Don Irwin acted as
Parliamentarian and many times dur
ing the meeting was called upon to
make decisions on parliamentary law.
A motion was put before the house
early in the meeting to change the
regular order of business so as to
permit consideration of an amendment
allowing them to make arrangments at
the meeting to give women the right
to membership and participation in
the business, but this motion failed
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• "SAFETY FIRST" - PALMER SCHOOL
JUNIORS,SENIORS START REHEARSALS
The Palmer School Juniors and
Seniors will collaborate in present
ing the play "Safety First", a
three-act play by Sheldon Parmer,
Rehearsals have already begun under
the direction of Miss Lorinda Ward,
There are ten students in the cast
although definite people for each
part have not as yet been chosen.
The presentation will be February
25 in the Palmer Community Hall,
MUMULLEN ENDORSED BY DEMOCRAT
DIVISIONAL COMMITTEE
In line with the recommendation of
the Divisional Convention early in
January, the Divisional Committee
endorsed P.C.McMullen of Seward for
the office of Marshall of the Third
Division.
Mrs, Bertha Perrine and Irwin Met
calf are the Palmer representatives
on this committee, with other mem
bers from Unalaska, Bristol Bay,
Seward and Anchorage. The newly
elected committee met for the first
time Saturday evening January 22
at Anchorage.
It was also agreed at this meeting
that the Committee should make a
practice of endorsing all candidates
for Territorial offices which it sav.
fit after making thorough investi
gations, if candidates requested
such an endorsement.
Mrs. P.L.Heitmeyer, former chairman
of the Multnomah County Consumers T
Council in Portland, Oregon, and on
the Board of the Oregon Consumers'
Cooperative, gave a talk stressing
the principles upon which successful
cooperatives are built — the advisa
bility of employing experts to direc
the business of the Cooperative, of
building reserves and of using a
portion of the earnings for Cooper
ative education.
The meeting which began at 2:00 P.M.
lasted until about 10:00. Coffee
and 'doughnuts* were donated by the
Trading Post and served during the
voting, which was by secret ballot
in a booth arranged for that purpose.
Mrs. Walter Huntley was in charge of
the serving, with Mrs. Victor Falk*
and Mrs, Kenneth Foster assisting
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