The Alaska Market Week will feature wearing apparel, latest
styles for Alaska's needs. Here is shown part of the display of H. I\
Poindexter and Sons Co. of Kansas City. The Anchorage show is
scheduled for February 25. 26. 27.
Alaska Market week
To Be Held Feb. 25-27
In Anchorage
United States manufacturers
planning participation this month
in the annual Alaska Market
Week will display hundreds of
items from fireworks to ice
cream before audiences of buyers
and visitors who will attend the
shows in Anchorage.
Displays of the stateside mer
chandise will be shown in booths
in the American Legion Cabin at
Anchorage February 25. 15 and 27
The purpose of the shows is to
bring to Alaska buyers the best
of seasonal and staple merchan
dise where they will be able to
,-ee and feel the goods they buy
instead of buying from catalogs.
Items to be displayed, or repre
sented this year, include building
materials, foodstuffs, clothing, de
tergents, candles, furnaces, uni
forms, milk, ice-cream, bicycles,
motor scooters packaged vegeta
bles, salad dressings, mayonnaise,
Hour, feed, dog food, mustard,
horseradish, logging materials,
fireworks, hot water heaters, in
sulation, hats, lamps and many
others.Mr. Gordon Costello, dis
play manager of the shows, says
additional suppliers and manu
facturers are signing up daily
and in some cases are doubling
up on booths to obtain space in
the already crowded shows.
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Anchorage and Palmer
Student Councils
Hold Joint Session
The officers of Anchorage High
, School’s Student Council travel
ed to Palmer Tuesday to hold i
: ioint afternoon session \v i t h
Palmer Student Council officers
Anchorage officers included
Tom Carmody, president; Mary
Alice Waikup- secretary; and
Jackie Day. treasurer. Principal
Gordon Guffy accompanied the
students on the trip.
Purpose of the joint meeting
was to plan a mass meeting o.
the two student councils and to
work up a program for exchang
ing ideas and discussing prob
lems. Some of the problems to bo
discussed at the meeting will in-;
elude a student activities ticket,
a student’s hand book and stu
dent activities. The meeting will
be held in Anchorage during the
i latter part of the term.
It is hoped that in the future
student council representatives
from all over the Territory will
be able to meet and discuss prob
lems of their schools.
A
LEGION AUXILIARY
WINS THREE ALASKA
DEPARTMENT PRIZES
Notification of three award,
won by the local chapter of tlv
American Legion Auxiliary dur
ing the past year was receiver
here last week from Mrs. Editl
Davis of Anehora.ge, presidenl
of the Alaska Department.
For the third straight year, the
local chapter has won the Eliza
beth Stillwell cup for being first
in the Territory to obtain its
membership quota. This year tlv.
local chapter gets to keep thv
cup.
The Poppy Day display arrang
ed by Florence Dunlap and Anr
Demining in the Palmer Druf
Store's window last May wor
the $10 first prize for all Alaska
towns in the 500-5,000 class.
In the Poppy Poster Contes
sponsored by the Auxiliary in tlv.
local school, winner Adelard Bev
lund also won the $5 Alaska De
partment prize for the best postei
injiis class.
The local group is formulating
plans to present the Americai
Legion Auxiliary essay contest U
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: school’s participation in the 1952
■ Poppy Contest that ends May 1.
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