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VOLUME S. NUMBER 6.
PALMER, ALASKA. THURSDAY. OCT. 18, 1951
PRICE. 10c
Palmer Illelcomes B.P.0.E
Chamber of Commerce and Kiwanians
Hear Discussion of City Planning
Members of the local Chamber
of Commerce meeting in joint
^ session Wednesday noon with
members of the Kiwanis Club,
heard two short talks on the im
portance of city planning by Ed
win Crittenden. Anchorage ar
chitect, and Victor Fischer, town
site planner for the Bureau of
Land Management,
President Jim Hurley prefaced
his introduction by a short resu
me of initial Kiwanis interest in
the subject of city planning and
^he recent dissolution of its com
mittee in anticipation of City
Council assumption of the prob
lem.
“What is city planning?” asked
Crittenden rhetorically. “City
planning will help you get your
AHA OPEN HOUSE
The local Chamber of Com-: !
merce is sponsoring an open !
house at the AHA housing pro-1;
ject next Sunday afternoon,!;
President Jim Hurley an-!;
nounced today. ;!
Visitors will be permitted to ;!
inspect the new AHA homes;!
already completed or very;!
near completion and ready for ;
almost immediate occupancy.!
Refreshments will be served.!
Local Chamber members!;
who were instrumental in in-!
teresting AHA in a housing;
project here a year ago last;
spring, hope to bring the com-;
pletion of the houses and the ;!
new reduced down payments/
to the attention of the many!;
persons still hunting homes in !;
this area. !;
house in order. It will help you
plan and grow to create the type
of city you want.”
Zoning regulations are the of
ficial sanctions for such planning
and help to keep property values
intact, protect school and public
building areas from undesirable
encroachments. It also helps the
business interests by promoting
centralization.
Why should you be interested
in city planning now, the archi
tect asked.
By planning early in the city’s
development great savings can be
realized and many future prob
lems—now impossible of solution
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VALLEY POTATO CROP
YIELDS HIGH WITH
8-15 TOHS PER ACRE
With the potato digging sea
son definitely over, Co-Op pro
duce manager Harold Stephan
took stock this week of the pota
toes already brought into the Co
Op storage or reported by mem
ber growers. The 1951 potato to
tal for the Co-Op will run be
tween 1,800 and 1,900 tons.
This amount will fill easily Al
aska military potato contract ob
ligations. The contracts call for
delivery of 1,700 tons from Octo
ber through June. Chances were
the military would also take any
potatoes the Co-Op had over. In
practice, Stephan noted, the army
has been taking an average of 25
tons more a month than were
contracted for.
“If we had another 400 tons,
we could sell them all at Fair
banks after the Tanana Valley
Co-Op runs out of potatoes for its
contract obligations,” he added.
Yields were above average this
year—at least 25 percent over last
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Walt Huntley Becomes
U. S. Marshal of
Alaska’s 3rd District
Walter E. Huntley assumed his
duties as U. S. Marshal of Alas
ka’s Third District about 4 p.m.
Monday October 15 when he was
officially sworn in at the Third
District Court.
Deputy Marshal Bill Bouwens
said the ceremony was over so
quidkly that he and three or four
other deputies who were on hand
to see their new boss sworn in
missed it entirely.
Hopes that the new marshal
would have an ^.creased force of
deputies to help strengthen law
enforcement in the Anchorage
area dimmed almost to extinction
this week after a report from Al
aska delegate Bob Bartlett that
the Senate had denied the request
for a $100,000 supplemental ap
propriation for 25 additional dep
uty marshals. The Senate did al
low a $400,000 appropriation for
a new federal jail in Anchorage,
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Council Okays Plan
To Explore Deep Wells
As City Water Source
The City Fathers learned the
bitter truth last night that APW
borrowers are not always free to
follow the best of plans laid down
by competent engineers they
hired to explore them.
R. C. Caldwell, Thos. B. Bourne
Associates, Inc., engineer who as
sisted in the survey of possible
water sources for Palmer’s new
system, was the bearer of the un
happy news. Last night he told
Council members that the $405,
900 remaining from the APW al
lottment for the city water sys
tem, after administrative and
engineer costs are deducted, will
not be sufficient to construct the
water transmission line to the
proposed Wasilla Creek source.
He reported, moreover, that the
Territorial Department of Health
is not satisfied with the source
proposed by the engineers, rec
ommending instead that deep
wells are the best source for Pal
mer’s water. Health Department
officials, who pass on the sanitary
aspects of Territorial water sys
tems, insisted that test wells be
driven to explore the deep-well
possibility.
The Bourne representative also
pointed out that Palmer might
want to consider extending its
water service to the fast-growing
area just north of Palmer on Bai
ley Hill. He suggested that about
three test wells be driven in the
general location of the Pat Hem
mer and Charles Hoffman farms,
where a good source of water
might be expected. If the wells
produce, the city could use these
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Purple Press, Parade, Pageantry
Salute New Palmer Lodge, B.P.O.E.
CITY WATER SUPPLY
JEOPARDIZED DY
SEWARD DOCK STRIKE
The Seward dock strike which
began early Saturday morning
strikes hard at Palmer’s winter
water supply as water pipe on
board the Sutitna remains un
loaded, in this the sixth day of
the strike.
Wednesday the Susitna was di
verted to the port of Whittier on
authorization by the Army fol
lowing developments indicating
prolongation of the strike. Wed
nesday the Alaska Steamship Co.
dropped Seward as a port of call
and said sailings to Seward would
be halted until the situation was
relieved.
The strike, second within two
months, stemmed from a dispute
between the International Long
shoremens’ and Warehousemens’
Union (Ind.) and the Northern
Stevedoring Co.
Co-Op to Start Digging
At the Co-Op board meeting on
Tuesday night, it was decided that
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Liquor License for
Club 49 Approved
By City Council
The application of Koslosky,
Koslosky and Koslosky for a
liquor license to do business at
Club 49 was approved in a four
to two vote of Council members
following a heated discussion.
The request for reconsideration
of the application had been pend
ing before the Council for three
weeks. Wm. Renfrev-\ Koslosky
attorney, remarked that his cli
ents had put in improvements for
the public safety to overcome
objections given by the Council
in its previous disapproval of the
application and had bought out
the interest of an applicant in
cluded in the first application,
whose past record had been
questioned.
Jan Koslosky testified that he
had just concluded purchase of
this original joint-applicant’s in
terest in the business. Possible
evidence to the contrary present
ed by Tommy Thompson was
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The Frontiersman goes Elk
purple this week to honor mem
bers of the Benevolent and Pro
tective Order of Elks who are ar
riving in Palmer Saturday from
all over the Territory of Alaska
and perhaps even by plane from
the States to- participate in cere
monies marking the institution of
Palmer Elks Lodge Number 1842.
the installation of its officers and
initiation of new members.
A special trainload of Elks and
their ladies from Anchorage will
be-greeted at the local station by
the Palmer School band, which
will begin a short concert about
2:30 p.m. The train leaves An
chorage at 1 p.m. and is to return
there at 2 a. m. Sunday morning
ELKS SLEEP, TOO
L. C. Stock, secretary of the
local Elks Lodge, voiced fears;!
at the Chamber of Commerce !;
meeting Wednesday that B. P. !;
O. E. visitors from all over the !;
Territory would have difficul
ty in finding accommodations \
for Saturday night in Palmer, ;!
Local hotels were reportedly !
“filled up” and attempts to;'
provide pullman accominoda
tions from the ARR were abor- '
tive. , !;
Local residents able to put >
up one or two couples were ;
asked to get ir* touch with Jack
Maze of the housing commit-<!
tee or leave word Saturday at !
the Co-Op Club Room in Rec ;!
Hall where a headquarters will '
be set up.
After the train arrives. Elks
and members of the band will
proceed to the Matanuska Hotel,
wheUe Palmer’s first parade in
many years will get underway at
3 p.m. Besides the school band
for the first time a marching
band in full uniform, the Elk pa
raders will be accompanied by a
bevy of drum majorettes—per
haps all 10 members of the high
school twirling team.
The parade will proceed down
Valley Street to Fairview Ave..
crossing the tracks there and fol
lowing them northward to Co-Op
Avenue. Terminus of the parade
is the school gymnasium, where
the institution ceremonies are
slated to begin at 4 p.m.
For more news of Elk activities
Saturday and pictures of those
who will participate in the local
ceremonies, turn to the special
Elks section beginning on page 7
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Special Elks Section Begins Page 7