Wasuia
News Notes
By Jane Browne
visors lor Kay Redington’<
Iff*/? '^re PrePared to set
him off to Kenai and Soldotna
esterday morning, but sinct
■ he races have been cancelled
due to lack of snow, Ray will
s!?nd, by for the later races.
The flu bug took over at the
Rendezvous races when on the
first day both Ray and his
.earn were under the weather
Ray s sponsors are Clara’s,
wasilla Roadhouse. Teeland’s
i>tore. Smith Automotive, Was
dla Lockers. Cottles Corner,
Cus Scheele Excavating and
Hallea Lodge.
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The Wasilla Education Asso
ciation served approximately
one hundred persons Tuesday
evening at their “Pancake Sup
per . Mrs. Rideout was in
charge and I hear the chief
cooks were Mr. and Mrs. Lee
i urner. Mrs. Warren Jones and
Mr. Jess Baker. Mrs. Bergman,
Mr. Hendrickson. Miss Noonan,
Mrs. Ose. Mrs. Byers and Mrs.
Smyth served while Mrs. Ol
son, Mr. Wetherington. Mrs.
Nelson and Mr. Butler served
on the clean-up committee.
Proceeds are for the W.E.A.
Scholarship Fund.
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The Aurora Dog Mushers
Club and the Wasilla Public
Schools are co-sponsoring the
"Aurora Malemute Howl" Mar
ch 8. 9 and 10. At 8 p.m. March
8. a “mellerdrama'’. “The Smell
of the Yukon.” will open the
Church Sponsors
Sunday Slory Hour
The "Good Deed Story Hour”
'•'■'ill begin in Palmer Sunday
afternoon, March 3, 1963. at the
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
according to Mrs. Nathan
Goode, director of the story
hour.
This will be the beginning of
a series of story hours for the
next 12 weeks every Sunday at
2:30 to 4:00 p.m., she said. All
children from six to twelve
years of age are invited to at
tend. Also, smaller children are
welcome if they are accompan
ed by their parents or some
adult. Any adults are welcome.
This non-doctrinal story hour
will be of interest and enjoy
ment to any who wish to at
’end. stated Mrs. Goode. It will
.nclude colored-slide stories,
;ve stories, music, and some
thrillinglv dramatized stories
•aped from the radio program,
Your Story Hour", presented
n the East bv the much-loved
-tory tellers. Uncle Ben and
Aunt Sue. "All boys and girls
will be glad they didn't miss
,t." she concluded.
WORLD WAR I VETS
MEET SATURDAY
Eleven members of the Vet
erans of World War I and their
wives turned out for the Feb.
23 meeting of the group at the
rtome of Ernest Peck on Lake
'Vasilis.
After a brief business meet
rig. members enjoyed movies
f the Seattle World’s Fair,
shown by Gerrit “Heinie' Sni
der with a running commen
tary by the master story-teller.
Olympia, capitol of Wash
ington was originally named
Simthfield.
I Days of ’98 stage show at the
: Wasilla Elementary school.
I There will be can can dancers.
The Shooting of Dan McGrew,
and junior queen contest of
grades one through six. besides
games of skill and the “Chance
at the Lucky Shot” with games
and movies for the children.
Refreshments will be served at
the “Flora Dora Tearoom”. Ad
mission is $1. for adults and
50c for children, grades one
through eight. Pre-school chil
dren are admitted with parents.
This show will be presented
March 8 and 9 at 8 p.m.
On March 9 and 10 the Aur
ora Dog M ushers champion
ship races will be held in the
Big Lake area. There will be
trophies for first, second, and
third place winners in the one
dog. three dog and five dog
races. There will be prize mon
ey and trophies for the senior
racers and the “Snow Shoe
Baseball Games” will be fun
for all ages.
The sponsors invite everyone
to attend in costume if possible
as Sourdoughs, Gold Rushers,
Cheechakos or Dog Mushers.
Proceeds will be divided be
tween the Aurora Dog Mushers
Club, and the Wasilla public
school electric scoreboard and j
band uniforms.
The Western Alaska junior
high basketball tournament
will be held in the new Wasilla
high school gymnasium Friday
evening and Saturday, March 1
and 2. Teams competing will be
the Catholic junior high of An
chorage, Copper Valley junior
high. Eagle River junior high,
Palmer junior high, Chugiak
and Wasilla junior high teams.
Games will start Friday, March
1, at 6:30 p.m. with Copper Val
ley and Eagle River. At 7:30
p.m. the Catholic junior high
will play Palmer and at 8:30
the final game for Friday will
be Chugiak and Wasilla.
On Saturday, March 2, at 10
a.m. winners of the first and
second games will start the
double elimination followed,
by the semi-finals at 11 a.m.
and 12 noon. The final game
will start at 7:30 Saturday eve
ning.
Highlight of the evening will
be the presentation of trophies.
Junior high champions will re
ceive a team trophy and the
runner-up team will also re
ceive a team trophy. Finally,
the Best Sportsmanship award
will be presented.
The new electric scoreboard
has arrived and is installed to
be used for the first time at
this tournament.
Copper Valley and Palmer
are considered the “dark hor
ses" of the coming tournament
with a record of 11 to 2. The
Wasilla team has chalked up 15
wins to two losses. Visiting
students except for Palmer
players will be housed in local
homes.
Bowling scores. Late Tues
Won Lost
j Wasilla Bar -60 32
i Johnson Fuel _52 40
Totem Egg _42 50
Youth Camp-41 12 50Vz
Wasilla Businessmen 41 51
Cottles Corner _39v,2 52
First high team is the Youth
Camp with a 2657 score. First
high individual is Ed Fitz
gibbon with a 522 scratch.
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i.MER WINS
YMCA TOURNAMENT
ue Central junior high
scnuol basketball team of Pal
mer won its third Alaskan
championship in four years
when it defeated the Elmendorf
team 33 to 28 in the final game
of the two-day YMCA-spon
sored tournament last week
end.
Coach James Carter praised
the Palmer team’s fine defen
sive stand against larger play
ers chosen from high-enroll
ment schools in winning three
out of four tough, close games
in two days’ play.
High Palmer scorer in tour
nament play was Dearborn
with 31 points, and Simmons
and Williams tied for second
with 27 points each. Others
were Fish, 18; Marshall, 12;
Bouwens, 4; and Logsdon, 2.
The cheerleaders, manager,
and school newspaper reporter
accompanied the team on the
overnight trip to Anchorage
Feb. 22 and 23.
NEW TRAVEL GUIDE TO ALASKA
APPEARS ON NEWSSTAND THIS WEEK
“There is now a Sunset Dis
covery Book on Alaska which
was made available Feb. 20 on
newsstands throughout the na
tion for $1.75, Robert E. Ellis,
puo: president of tne Alaska
Travel Promotion Asosciation
(ATPA), announced this week.
“This book is one of the most
authentic tourist guides to Al
aska for many years," he said.
“Many Alaskans, the State
Travel Division and Alaska or
ganizations participated in fur
nishing latest information and
photos, but the book was made
possible by ATPA which pro
vided the services of Kay J.
Kennedy to research and write
i the basic manuscript.
“We believe that this book
will help stimulate travel to
Alaska—not only this year but
in many years to come." he
said.
The 80-page travel guide is
generously illustrated with
more than 100 photos, several
maps and a color cover photo
of Auke Lake and Mendenhall
Glacier. It is designed to give ■
basic information to a prospec- '
tive Alaska visitor or a dream !
to the arm chair traveler. The !
17,500 copies will be on sale in ]
book stores and magazine j
stands.
The book contains the es- |
sence of geography, climate, j
history, how to get to various !
places, events, what to do; cov- j
ers the highway in compact 1
thumb-nail sketch, areas and i
accommodations.
“I am gratified that the AT- j
PA through its members has
made this book possible,” El
lis concluded.
Pacific County is Washing- i
ton state leader in bobcat pop
ulation.
ANCHORAGE FIRM
GETS ahEMYA BID
American Service, Incorpor
ated of Anchorage, Alaska is
the apparent low bidder for a
project at Shemya Air Force
Station, Alaska, with a bid of
$186,398.
Five sealed bids for the pro
posed work were opened pub
licly on February 19 by the
U. S. Army Engineer District,
Alaska. Work to be done in
cludes modifications to a hang
ar and an addition to the opera
tions building. Government es
timated costs at SI 11.863.
Other bidders were: Dunder,
i Construction Company, Spen
ard, $195,446; R-E-C-K Con
structors, Seattle, Washington
$218,300; Inlet Company, In
corporated, Anchorage, $248,
000; and the Alta Construction
Company, Anchorage. $259,875
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