Palmer Speakers Club Will Resume
Regular Meeting Schedule on Oct. 11
The Palmer Speakers Club get
back into harness next Wednes
day after a long summer’s vaca
tion. The first meeting of the
fall season will be held that eve
ning, at 6:15 p.m. in the former
library at the Rec Hall. It will
be a dinner meeting.
The club’s purpose, according
to Tom Day, is to improve the
public speaking ability and the
leadership qualities of its mem
bers.
To accomplish that purpose,
two or three speaking assign
ments are made for each meeting.
For these assignments, members
are asked to make short prepared
talks. In addition, all members
get some speaking practice at
each meeting, by making a one
or two-minute impromptu talk
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son topics of interest.
At the end of the meeting, all
speeches are constructively criti
cized by a selceted committee, so
that each participant has the op
portunity to judge audience re
action, and to receive suggestions
for improvement.
The position of program chair
man, as well as other club re
sponsibilities, are Rotated so that
each member gets practice in all
phases of club leadership and re
ceives constructive criticism on
his performance in office.
There are no dues in the Palmer
Speakers Club. The cost of at
tending the meeting is the price
of the dinner, $1.50. Meetings
start promptly at the scheduled
time and end as promptly at
eight o’clock, so that members
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Otto Peterson, Sr., an employe
of the Matanusak Valley Farmers
Co-Operating Association, was in
jured this week while arc weld
ing. Mr. Peterson suffered burned
eyes in a Tuesday accident.
The injured man is confined to
Valley Hospital, where his at
tending physician reports that his
eyes are responding to treatment.
may go on to other meetings.
All men interested are invited
to attend and to participate in
the meetings. Regular meetings
are planned on the second and
fourth Wednesdays of each
month.
P-TA Executives
Plan Programs
For Winter Months
Tentative plans for Parent
Teacher Association programs for
the next three months were for
mulated at Tuesday’s meeting of
the executive council. Program
for the next meeting, to be held
Oct. 17, will be under the direc
tion of superintendent William T.
Zahradnicek and members of the
school board.
Plans for November were not
completely drafted. In December,
the P-TA will enjoy a Christmas
program and in January a pof
luck dinner.
A 1950 membership drive will
begin soon, but the definite date
has not been fixed. Membership
chairman Mrs. Howard Esslinger
has been confined to her home
with a foot injury, and further
plans await her recovery.
As their first work project of
the year, executive committee
members voted to build a skating
pond in front of Palmer School.
The former pond site has been
destroyed by construction of the
new wing at the school. Work
on the pond will get under way
as soon as freezing weather per
mits.
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Knowledge and Ability
General Election, Oct. 10, 1950
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Attend the Fourth Annual
'Alaska Day' Celebration
Sponsored by The Alaska Railroad
McKinley park hotel
October 14-16
Help grand old Alaska celebrate her 83rd birthday
anniversary at the famous "Gay Nineties" ball set
for Sunday, October 15. You'll enjoy the good
fellowship, fun and frolic in the clean, cozy Mc
Kinley Park hotel.
A special train, complete with buffet car, will carry merrymakers
from Anchorage to McKinley Park and return at special EXCURSION
FARES. Here is the schedule:
Leave Anchorage Saturday, October 14 . . .8:30 A. M.
Arrive McKinley Park Hotel .5
Leave McKinley Park Monday, October 16 . . 1
Arrive Anchorage . 9
20 P. M.
00 P. M.
50 P. M.
Hotel Rates
With bath ..$5.00
Breakfast .. . 1.60
Lunch . 1.75
Dinner . 2.75
Prizes for the Best
'Gay Nineties Bait'
Costumes .
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