Girl Scouts Descend on King's Lake
Camp This Week for 4-Week Session
Forty Valley girls left this
morning for the first two-week
sesion of the Susitna Council Gin
Scout Camp at King’s Lake.
Ten more local Girl Scouts will
leave two weeks from today, on
June 19 for a one-week session.
Six local Brownies will help
wind-up the 1952 Girl Scout
camping season during the Iasi
week, which begins June 26.
Leaving today for the two
week session were Donna Hor
ton, Judy Inman, Sandra Drig
gers, and Carla Driggers. Leav
ing two weeks from today for the
one-week session will be Muriel
Hanks, Elizabeth Shook, Jean
Brunner, Sally Jean Reed, Doro
thy Lentz, Betty Jo Wilson. Susie
Ellington. Barbara Anderson,
Rosann Branton, and Roberta
Uzelac. Brownies who will en
camp during the last week are
Polly Ann Moffitt, Sarah Moffitt,
Victoria Graves, Judy Everett,
Viva Martin, and Joan Stewart.
Mrs. Seth Cook is the camp chair
man for Palmer.
Plans made by the Susitna
Council this year reveal it to be
the largest Girl Scout Camp ever
held at King’s Lake. Some 20
girls in all have signed up from
the council area, according to
Mrs. Marjorie Kafer, executive
secretary. Camp staff members in
addition' to Mrs. Kafer include
Mary Ellyn Dufek of Providence,
R. I., waterfront director; Carol
Pierson of Whittier, Calif., as
sistant waterfront director; Elsie
Braun, formerly on the Washing
ton, D. C. camp staff, archery in
structor; Cecelia Allen of Salt
Lake City, nature counselor; and
CO-OP CALLS IN
PURCHASE TICKETS
Co-Op customers are urged- to
turn in their purchase savings
tickets at the Co-Op office within
the next week or two.
Clayton Esslinger, MVFCA ac
countant, observed that the fiscal
year for the Co-Op ended May 31.
In order to facilitate computa
tions for making out the 10-year'
dividends for customer-members,
these tickets should be in by
June 15, he said. The tickets
should be sorted according to
source—Trading Post, warehouse,
and garage.
Purchase savings tickets have
been issued by the Co-Op only
for the past five months. Pre
viously, records of purchases
were kept by the MVFCA, but so
much bookkeeping was involved
that the ticket method of having
each customer account for his
own purchases was adopted. Div
idends amounting to five percent
of the purchase totals are payable
in 10 years.
VERNON FRiDLEYS
LEAVE FOR OUTSIDE
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Fridley
and their son. Vernon, Jr. left,
the Valley yesterday to go Out
side to live.
Mr. Fridley, who came to Pal
mer six years ago and has been
associated with the Matanuskaj
Electric Association during most
of that itme as line foreman, will
be associated with his father in
a tourist court business near
Santa Cruz. California. Mr. Frid
ley had helped with the construc
tion of the facilities many years
ago. The health of Mrs. Fridley's
father was another factor induc
ing the family to go Outside at
this time.
Mr. Fridley has been Scout
Master of the local troop of Boy
Scouts since Rev. Victor Alfsen
left the parish nearly a year ago;
before that he had been assistant
Scout Master. Last week Tuesday
at his last meeting with them, the
Palmer Boy Scouts presented
Scout Master Fridley with a
handsome pen and pencil set as
a token of their appreciation.
A farewell party was also given
to the Fridleys by the United
Protestant Church on Monday,,
May 26. They were presented
with a set of carved ivory fruit
knives as a parting gift. Both Mr.
and Mrs. Fridley has been active
in church affairs, he having acted
as treasurer of the Sunday School
and president of the Church
Council. Mrs. Fridley has taught
for the past few years at the
Mrs. George Farkko, Mrs. uus
Rathert, Mrs. James Medena, Mrs.
Harry Stiver, and Mrs. Ralph
Moody—all of Anchorage. Senior
Scouts who will help are Merry
Louise Bagley and Donna Nelson,
of the Anchorage area. Members
of the staff have had much ex
perience as counselors in State
side camps. Most of them are sur
prised to find facilities and op
portunities at King’s Lake Camp
in Alaska equal to or better than
those available to Girl Scouts
Outside.
TAPS MARK THE
CLOSE OF ANOTHER
DAY OF REMEMBRANCE
Short but impressive was the
ritual memorial service held at
the Palmer Cemetery by the local
post of the American Legion and
the Legion Auxiliary promptly at
11 a.m. on Memorial Day.
Color guards were Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Dunlap and Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Demming, the ladies rep
resenting the Auxiliary and the
men the Legion. Edward Ueeck
and Arthur Marsh were the honor
guards. The men were dressed in
white shirts and their Legion
caps.
Chaplain Eugene Kirsch read
the ritual prayer and Commander
Stanley Laird spoke the Memori
al message. “And we shall spread
flowers upon the graves of our
dead Veterans,” he said. And as
he said it, Sergeant-at-Arms Bob
Johns placed a poppy on each
grave that was marked with an
American flag in a Legion stand
ard. The ladies of the Auxiliary
placed poppy wreaths of white
spruce boughs and American
Legion poppies on the graves of
each dead veteran.
Then a volley of shots sounded
through the air as the lO^man
firing squad led by Herbert Hoff
discharged rifles in unison. Then
from a pair of bugles came the
sound of the taps—echo taps,
marking the close of another day
of remembrance.
elementary school maintained at
the Lazy Mountain Children’s
Home. •
MEA associates who had work
ed with Mr. Fridley during his
years of service also tendered him
a farewell gift of Alaskan ivory.
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Church Service 11:00
All are cordially invited.
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CONSERVATION
NOTES
Lew Hanks
There«comes a time in the life
of every columnist ? when it be
comes sort of a.job to think oi
something to write about. Look
ing back over my notes I see I’ve
written about the wind, soil ero
sion, wind, water, wind and crops
Have you noticed the breeze we
have had this week? Well, per
haps we can say something aboui
the weather. There is something
about the weather—we can’t dc
too much about it. According tc
reports they are just starting tc
plant crops at Fairbanks. Charlej
Wilson reports that the season or
the Kenai Peninsula is also latei
than here. In spite of our little
breezes I still think this is the
best farming section in Alaska.
We have been doing somethin?
about part of the weather though
We have been doing some irrigat
ing. The Soil Conservation Ser
vice has a sprinkler setup operat
ing on the Frank Linn farm. I
will be set up on the Victor Fall
farm by this week end. The pur
pose is to gather information oi
the economic feasibility of apply
ing irrigation water to pastures
Some cage plots have been estab
lished on each farm. The forag<
from these plots will be measure*
to determine if water makes an;
difference in total yield and b
what extent. If you are interest
ed drop around to one of thes
farms and get acquainted wit]
the operation. This man-mad
rain is great stuff, I hope.
FISHERMEN FINED; LOSE
LICENSES FOR VIOLATION
Taking advantage of the holi
day, two local anglers wer
caught fishing closed waters a
Cottonwood Creek in the are
commonly known as the Mosie
place about 4:35 p.m. Memorie
Day.
The plausible excuse give
FWL man Bob Burkholder b
Ben Hudgins and Glenn Eago
was the use of an inaccurate ma
that indicated the creek emptier
into open water, instead of th
closed area as was the case.
They were fined $25 apiece
with $15 of the fines suspende<
plus the loss of their fishing lie
enses, following their plea c
guilty in U. S. Commissioner’
Court June 2.
Insure today, see Ray.
Better still, SEE BILL!!
FAREWELL DINNER
GIVEN REV. AND MRS.
HARVEY AT WASILLA
■ About 200 people of the Wasilla
- area gathered at the Community
f Hall Sunday for a pot luck din
- ner honoring Rev. and Mrs. Went
■ ner Harvey on the occasion of
■ their seventh anniversary with
• the Church of Christ of Wasilla.
; It was also a farewell dinner,
for the Harveys are leaving Alas
t ka about the 20th of this month
’ Rev. Harvey plans to go to Calif
* ornia for further study.
School Superintendent Ernesl
„! Line was master of ceremonies
* I for the informal program which
r followed the dinner. Testimonials
3 regarding the Harveys’ splendic
' influence in the community were
heard from U. S. Commissionei
May Carter, Senator Gerrit “Hei
= nie” Snider, Mrs. Martin Olson
L and many others.
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For a parting gift the commun
ity collected a purse to be usee
for the express purpose of a plea
sure trip to Circle Hot Spring
before the family leaves the Ter
ritory. The Harveys plan to drivi
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LOCAL UNITS OF
ORGANIZED RESERVE
LEAVE FOR TRAINING
The three intelligence units o
the Alaskan Organized Reserv
Corps from Palmer left Sunda;
for their annual summer fiel<
training at Fort Richardson. The;
will return June 15.
One unit is composed of Capl
Curtis Dearborn and Jack Dun
lap. Lieut. Marvin Udevitz’ uni
includes Bert Stewart, Howari
Campbell, Jack Newcomb, an<
Paul McGibboney. In Lt. Ton
Murton’s unit are Albert Jorgen
son and Roland Snodgrass. Majo
Ivan Branton, who is attached t
but not a member of the loca
detachment also is attending th
training session.
GLENN H. EAGON
Construction
Company
Phone 15J3 Box 704 *
Palmer
Commercial — Residential
Construction
JAILED AND FINED
John W. Dawson was arrested
by Police Chief Bernie Bouwens
last Thursday after being found
lying approximately in the street.
Charged with being drunk and
disorderly, Dawson was fined $25
and sentenced to five days in
Jail on his plea of guilty in City
Magistrate’s Court. After serving
his five day sentence in the city
jail. Dawson was released to go
to Fairbanks where a job await
ed him.
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KAREN BRYANT TO WED
IN JUNE CEREMONY
Mr. and Mrs. David Bryant of
Airport Road. Palmer, have an
nounced the forthcoming mar
riage of their daughter, Karen
Lee, to' Vernon France, son of
Mrs. Ivan and the late Grant
France.
The wedding is scheduled for
June 14 at the bride’s home. U. S.
Commissioner Dorothy B. Saxton
will officiate.
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