Wasilla
News Notes
By Jane Browne
The Wasilla Advisory School
Board and the Wasilla P.T.A.
held joint nomination and elec
tion of officers last Monday
evening in the Wasilla Elemen
tary school cafeteria.
Robert Vroman was re-elect
ed to serve on the Advisory
board with Ken Gillow and
May Carter.
New officers elected to serve
the Wasilla P.T.A. are as fol
lows: president, Mrs. Jennie
Edwards: vice president, Mr. J.
Hendrickson, secretary, Mrs.
Rose Knutson; and treasurer,
Mrs. Bunny Carson. Following
the meeting refreshments were
served by Mrs. Rideout's Home
Economics class.
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Members of the Pioneers of
Alaska Igloo 31 and Auxiliary
11 are invited to attend a din
ner Sunday, April 21, at the
Pioneers Hall in Anchorage.
Dinner will be served between
1:00 and 2:00 p.m. All valley
Pioneers are urged to attend.
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Wasilla students are remind
ed the entries for the art show
must be entered at the Palmer
high school cafeteria by 10:30
a.m. Saturday, April 13. Wasil
la elementary students have
shown a great deal of interest
in the art show, since this week
more entry blanks were re
quested. Some of their art work
was displayed for last Mon
day’s school meeting.
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A local son and his father-in
law I understand are in train
ing, don’t know what the spar
ring partners look like. Dad
didn’t look so good. They have
much better luck getting lost
on a fishing trip. Happy birth
day to both of you anyway.
Strange Things
By Heinie Snider
in our new testament we
read as follows:
‘One of the servants of the
high priest being his kinsman,
whose ear Peter had cut off.
said, ‘Did not I see you in the
garden with Him?’ Peter den
ied again, and immediately the
cock crew.”
This, I believe, is the only
time a cock (rooster) is men
tioned in the Bible.
Many know the hill-billy
song, “Oh, we’ll kill the old red
rooster ...”
We are going to twist the
British lion’s tail and pluck the
feathers out of the French
rooster . .
For entertainment (not for
the rooster) in the East Indies,
cockfights are a pasttime. Even
in the United States, rooster
fights are held. A few years
ago we saw one in Camas Val
ley, Oregon.
Although against the law,
clandestine meetings are held
in someone’s barn, with hun
dreds of dollars bet on the
ro sters.
A play has been written
about a rooster who told his
hens that by crowing early in
the morning he was the fellow
that got the sun to rise, and
brought the world a new day.
But once he overslept, and
when the flock woke up, in
cluding the rooster, the sun
was out in all her glory. The
hens made fun of him, and al
though the rooster is still crow
ing today, the hens take no no
tice of him. As a matter of fact,
they may turn around on the
perch and take another snooze
until the sun is out.
An Alaskan rooster had his
name written in gold letters in
the history of this pioneer
country. His name was “Lib
erty.” Old timers will remem
ber the big red rooster, owned
by a Sourdough woman named
Mrs. V. A. Horner.
She donated the rooster to
the Red Cross. “Mr. Liberty”
traversed Alaska and many
states, being raffled off in
many large cities. More than
850,000 was raised by this
method for the American Red
Cross.
He is now a stuffed bird, and
roosts in the Des Moines muse
um with all the glory of a mis
sion well performed.
While we are on the subject
of roosters, we had an unusual
experience with a rooster when
we lived at Pittman. A com
bination freight and passenger
train would stop for water once
a week. The old reliable bag
TRUE ANALYSIS
Pessimists are made, not
born—just men who have stud
ied themselves too much.
Alpine
Civic Club
GAME
NIGHT
APRIL 12th
8:00 P.M.
gage-smasher was an old-timer
by the name of Bill Hammer.
A few days before Thanks
giving, he handed me a sack.
The tag said, ‘‘With comple
ments and a happy Thanksgiv
ing from the Anchorage Elks
Lodge.” Inside the sack we
found a full-grown live rooster.
The day before Thanksgiv
ing, I prepared for the execu
tion of the rooster. Taking him
by the legs, I laid his head on a
block of wood, and w'ith a blow
of the axe, off it came. While I
was walking back to the sec
tion house to bleed the bird,
shouts went up from the Frau
and the children.
Looking back, I noticed our
young son following me with
his sister’s large teddy bear. He
had chopped off the head and
W'as bleeding the bear by shak
ing out the sawdust and excel
sior! :
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PALMER, ALASKA
Open Daily 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Thursday Evenings 6 to 8 p.m.
Holy Week, Easter
Services Planned
At SI. Michael's
Holy Week and Easter ser
vices scheduled for St. Mich
ael's Catholic Church in Pal
mer will include a mass in com
moration of the Lord's Supper
at 6 p.m. tonight, followed by
Adoration of the Biassed Sac
rament at the Alter of Repose
from 7 p.m. until midnight.
Tomorrow, Good Friday,
from 12 noon to 3 p.m. there
will be silence and private
meditation in honor of the Ag
ony and Death of Our Lord,
with the Way of the Cross from
2:45 until 3 p.m.
Liturgical commemoration of
the Passion and Death of Our
Lord will be on Good Friday
evening at 6 p.m. The Holy
Saturday Easter Vigil Service
will be at 6 p.m.
Confessions will be heard
from 5 to 6 p.m. on Holy Thurs
day, Good Friday, and Holy
Saturday.
The Rev. Father Francis W.
Nugent will conduct the ser
vices on Holy Thursday, Good
Friday, and Holy Saturday.
The Rev. Father James P.
Snead will be Celebrant at the
10:30 and 11:30 a.m masses on
Easter Sunday. The 10:30 mass
will be a High Mass with music
by the senior choir.
GAME, GUIDING PROPOSALS NOW
READY FOR PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
Proposals for changes in the ,
game and guiding regulations
which will be considered by the
Alaska Board of Fish and Game |
at its Juneau meeting next
month are now available to
the public, it was announced
March 18. Copies may be ob- |
tained by writing to the De
partment of Fish and Game, :
5ubport Building, Juneau. A !
few emergency proposals relat- j
ing to fishing are also a%’ailable |
for comment.
James W. Brooks, director of
:he department’s Division of
jame, said that copies of the
proposals are being mailed to
Fish and Game Advisory Com
mittees, sportsmen’s groups,
ind other interested organiza
ions. The proposals, he point
ed cut. come originally from |
these organizations and from I
individuals, as well as from the
staff of the Department. The
Board will consider each pro
posal on its merits and in the
light of comments received by !
the deadline, April 15.
Any person may present his
comments on the proposals or
ally at a public hearing to be
held by the Board in Juneau on
April 20. Those who are unable
to appear in person may mail
their comments to the Board at
Juneau in addition to appear
ing at Advisory Committee
meetings which will be held
throughout the State in the
next month. Mailed comments
must be received in Juneau by
12 noon on April 15 to be con
sidered.
VALLEY
ELECTRIC CO.
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OWNER-MEMBERS
OF
MATANUSKA ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION, Inc.
ATTEND YOUR
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP
MEETING
PLACE: PALMER CENTRAL SCHOOL AUDITORIUM, PALMER, ALASKA
DATE: FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1963
TIME: REGISTRATION - 7:30 P.M.
ASSEMBLY - 8:00 P.M.
RUSINESS: I To hoar, and lake action on, the annual reports of the Officers and
Manager of pour Association.
2 Election of three Directors, for two-year terms. Nominees are:
PHIL O'NEILL (Incumbent)_
C. IVAN BRANTON (Incumbent) Palmer-Wasilla
HENRY L. CORBIN__Butte
JAMES D. FREY_Butte
LEW E. HANKS _Palmer
Sutton L. F. (JOE) MARTIN
RICHARD J. MILLER, JR.
CLAIR JOHNSON_
JAMES CARSON _
JAMES EKSTEDT_
_Wasilla
_Palmer
.Big Lake
-Wasilla
WILLIAM R. MacPHERSON (By petition)
Wasilla
.Eagle River
Additional nominations may be made from the floor at the meeting.
Free prices will bo awarded throughout the meeting
GRAND PRIZE-17 CU. FT. CHEST MODEL DEEP FREEZE
Refreshments will be served by the Valley Hospital Auxiliary
82 AREA FARMERS ASK ASSISTANCE
FOR ACP CONSERVATION PRACTICES
Eighty-two farmers in Pal
mer County have requested as
sistance for ACP conservation
practice cost-sharing to date,
office manager John Nash stat
ed recently.
The conservation practices I
that farmers requested are j
grass seeding, land clearing, i
livestock wells, diversion dit
ches, streambank control, land
smoothing, open drainage dit
ches and improvement of exist
ing stands of permanent grass.
Cost-sharing on these con
servation practices will result
in 508 acres of grass seeding,
four livestock wells, over a
mile of diversion ditches, one
mile of dikes, 28 acres of land
smoothing, 200 acres of land
clearing, 1000 feet of open
drainage ditches and 10 acres
of improvement of existing
stands of permanent grass.
“We wish to remind farmers
that our office is in the Sev
erns addition in Palmer. We
still have a supply of Palmer
Pioneers Invited
To Anchorage Affair
All members, husbands, and
wives of both Igloo 31 and
Auxiliary 11, Pioneers of Al- I
aska, have been invited to a
buffet lunch at 2 p.m. Sunday. ,
April 21, in Pioneer Hall in
Anchorage, it was announced
at a recent local Igloo meeting.
Guests will be welcomed by
Ihe Anchorage Igloo between 1 !
and 2 p.m.. with lunch to be
served at 2 p.m.
Local members wishing to at- !
Lend the affair must arrange
their own transportation.
*
County handbooks. Come in
and get your copy and talk
over your conservation pro
blems with us,” Nash said.
The county committee is
composed of Arnold Carson,
Wasilla, Roland Snodgrass, Pal
mer and Raymond DePriest,
Palmer. Farmers with ques
tions about any agricultural
conservation practices may
contact any of these men or
come in to the office.
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PI 5-4265
Palmer
Built-In Guidance
When you have doubts about
j anything give your conscience
the benefit of the doubt.
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