VOWS OF NILE DeLAND AND GLORIA LEPAK
UNITE TWO ORIGINAL COLONIST FAMILIES
In a candlelight ceremony at
St. Michael’s Catholic Church
Saturday evening. October 25,
Gloria Lepak and Nile T. De
Land, daughter and son of two
Colonist families, were united in
marriage by Father James P.
Snead.
The bride was given in mar
riage by her father, Thomas Le
pak. She was attended by Betty
Harris, maid of honor, and by
Leola Rush, sister of the groom,
and Glennie Combs, bridesmaids.
The groom’s attendants were his
brother, Don DeLand, and Elmer
Uhbert. Ushers were David Rush
and James Hermon. Little Sherry
Lacey, dressed in pink taffeta
her hair wreathed in pink daisies,
preceeded the bridal procession
down the aisle with a basket of
rose petals. Bearing the ring on
a satin and lace pillow was Buddy
Lacey. Not quite three years old,
Tommy Lepak proudly carried his
sister’s bridal train.
The bride chose traditional
white satin for her wedding
gown. The bodice was fashioned
of lace over satin, as was the
modified train accenting the plain
satin skirt. She carried a single
white orchid on a white prayer
book.
The bride’s attendants wore
gowns of ice blue and wreaths
of yellow daisies and blue net.
They carried identical bouquets
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of yellow daisies and blue net.
The bride’s mother was dressed
in navy blue, accented by a cor
sage of deep pink carnations. The
groom’s mother wore a dress of
green and a corsage of white
carnations.
Accenting the beautiful but
solemn ritual of the wedding cere
mony were two Latin hymns
sung by Paul Martin and a me
morable rendition of “Ave Maria”
by Esther Pederson. Mrs. C. A.
Brewer accompanied at the organ.
Following the ceremony, a wed
ding reception was held at Grange
Hall, with Mrs. Nina Stock, Mrs.
Vivian Goodrich, and Mrs. David
Vigdahl assisting.
The groom is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Scott. The Valley
has been his home and that of
his bride since they came here as
children in 1935. He is presently
employed at the Evan-Jones
Coal Mine. The bride, a graduate
of the Palmer High School Class
of 1952 holds a secretarial position
at the Alaska Agricultural E:«
periment Station. The newly weds
are now living in their new home
in the AHA housing project.
Guest speaker at the Cham
ber of Commerce luncheon No
vember 5 will be John Crowll
of the Anchorage C of C. He
will present ideas and plans for
community betterment.
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I Valley to be Without
Public Health Kurse
After This Week-End
This week the Valley’s public
health nursing service will be
interrupted for an indefinite peri
od as Miss Marjorie Myren. after
three and one-half years of ser
vice. leaves for a vacation in the
States and a new assignment.
No successor for Miss Myren
has been announced. According
to information revealed by Assis
tant Commissioner of Health
Elizabeth Bishop here a few
weeks ago, no successor can be
expected for two or three months,
since there is no one available.
At that time Dr. Bishop cited
several Alaskan communities
which have been without a public
health nurse for periods vary
ing from six months to over a
year because of the lack of quali
fied persons to fill the vacancies.
Requests from the Alaska Depart
ment of Health that local contri
butions to the public health pro
gram be increased in conformity
with those made by other com
munities have been agreed to by
the Matanuska Valley Health
Council within the past month.
However, this agreement was
necessarily contingent on the
receipt of the Health Council’s
full budget request from the Com
munity Chest and from the Wasil
la and Chugiak communities,
which participate in the over-all
program.
During the interim when the
Valley will be without a nurse,
the Health Council has decided to
maintain the present Health
Center and to retain the part
time clerk, Mrs. Eileen Branton
to take care of the routine ap
pointment and business of the
Health Center- She will be at the
Health Center for a short time
each morning, beginning at 9
am. to make arrangements for
eye, ear, nose, and throat ap
pointments and also for the ortho
pedic clinic in Anchorage. Miss
Vera Johnson, new Alaska De
partment of Health physical ther
apist, was in the Valley Monday
of this week to visit crippled chil
dren. She will return once a
month. Anyone wanting to see her
on her monthly visits may con
tact Mrs. Branton, who will help
make out Miss Johnson’s Valley
itinerary.
After the first of the year, Miss
Myren will begin her duties as
public health nurse for the high
way, with headquarters at Tok
Junction. Her new territory will
extend along the Tok-cut-off sec
tion of the Glenn Highway to i
Copper Center on the Richardson!
Highway. This area has been!
without a public health nurse for
quite a long period.
Climaxing the scores of clinics
and well-baby conferences Miss
Myren has promoted in the in
terests of disease prevention was
the diptheria clinic held Friday
and Monday at the Health Center
and in the school. At Palmer
School, 550 students received dip
theria shots. Few adults took ad
vantage of the clinic at the Health
Center. For those who needed only
a booster shot, no further shots
are required. Those who needed
the series of three will have to
have the remaining two shots
given by their personal physici
ans.
In recognition of her commen
able record in raising public
standards and service in spite of
the Valley’s rapid expansion,
Miss Myren has been honored dur
ing the past two weeks by the
Valley Health Council, the Val
ley Nurses’ Association, and by
groups of friends who have taken
a sincere interest in her work.
In Fairbanks for the meeting
of the University of Alaska Board
of Regents last week was Direc
tor Don L. Irwin of the Alaska
Experiment Station.
WASILLA P-TA PLANS
SPAGHETTI FEED AND
BASKETBALL GAME NOV. 8
A benefit basketball game be
tween the “old men of the town”
and the young boys at Wasilla
School will follow a Spaghetti
Dinner there on Saturday, No
vember 8.
Both feed and basketball game
are being sponsored by the Was
illa P-TA to raise money for
audio-visual aids for the school
children. The ladies will start
dishing up the spaghetti about 6
p.m.
School Supts. Make
Recommendations
At Annual Conference
Superintendent William T.
Zahradnicek returned from the
school superintendents’ confer
ence in Juneau last week-end
with a report of recommendations
to the Territorial Board of Edu
cation as agreed upon by those
present.
The superintendents as a group
have to power to enforce their
recommendations, but they are
handed on to the appointive
Board of Education for considera
tion and appropriate action.
Among the recommendations
were:
1. Raising tuition for out-of
district students from a high of
$45 to a maximum of $108. Under
the recommendation, wards of the
Territory would be considered as
out-of-district students. At pres
ent, Zahradnicek said, the Pal
mer School District loses money
on every child attending school
whose parental home is not in the
district.
2. Requirement that all school
districts have a certified audit of
books once a year. The Palmer
School District has been having
such audits since it was incorpor
ated in 1949.
3. Bringing present school bus
regulations up to date in line with
modern school practices and
available equipment.
4. Fiscal independence of
school districts within which
there is an incorporated city. At
present the district must have ap
proval of the City Council or
Councils for their budgets and
must operate on whatever millage
levy is granted. As recommended
the school districts would be en
ded to the first 10 mills and up
to two additional mills for bond
ed indebtedness without any con
trol by the cities.
5. Collection of personal prop
erty tax on automobiles at the
time and place the license is pur
chased.
Regarding appropriations by
school districts to a public dis
trict located in the school terri
tory, Zahradnicek stated that the
prevailing opinion was unfavor
able. He said that there appears
to be no legal way for one Terri
torial agency to appropriate
money for another such agency—
no way in which the Palmer
School District, reimbursed by the
j Territorial Department of Educa
tion, can contribute money to the
Alaska Department of Health for
use in the proposed Matanuska
Valley Health District or under
the present public health program
in the Valley. The superintendent
did say that a very small contri
bution might be made from local
school funds over which the Ter
ritory has no control.
Back late last week from a
duty trip to Seattle and the
Ozarks was U. S. Deputy Mar
shal Bill Bouwens. As a souven
ir of nearly three weeks in
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warmer climes, he brought back
a grandee orchid plant—now
blooming enthusiastically in
the U. S. Commissioner's office.
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