Valley Hospital Asso
ciation annual meet
ing in school lunch
room at 8 p. m. next
Wednesday.
Malley Mrnntiergrkmn
PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE MATANUSKA VALLEY
An important housing
meeting with Glen
Wilder of AHA at the
school lunchroom at 8
p. m. next Thursday.
VOL. THREE—NO. 22
PALMER. ALASKA. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1950
PRICE lie
Hospital Annual Meeting To Be Wednesday
QUEEN GENEVIEVE Deland ascends her throne and prepares to
rule over the Snow Ball, PHS's student dance held in the Gym las:.:
Saturday evening. —Photo by Ray Adams
Fjccd Hsndbrs School
Dales fir3 Changed
Ta Feb. 27,23, March I
The planned food handler’s
school for Palmer’s bar and res
taurant workers will be ‘held on
Feb. 27, 28 and March 1, it was
?nnounced to lay by Miss Louise
Kellogg, president of the Valley
' Health Council. Lloyd Morley,
territorial sanitarian will conduct
the sessions.
Classes will be held at 2 p. m.'
f at 7 p. m., in order to give1
^“working shifts in this vicinity j
the opportunity to attend. Ses- j
sions will be held at the former |
library in the Rec Hall, except in,
the event of conflicting meetings,;
y/hen the food handlers’ ‘ school j
will be moved to the Health Cen-■
ter. . 1
Placards will be awarded to the j
business establishments, whose •
employes all attend the food;
handler's school, according to j
James Wilson,' committee chair-;
man for school plans.
Jlmployes of outlying restau
Jts and roadhouses also are in
vited to attend the school, Mr.
Wilson said. The Health Coun
cil is at*<.rr,otin'J to con^ct all
‘Continued on Page 5)
HOMEMAKERS PLAN
TO SERVE LUNCHES
AT COMING INSTITUTE
Potluck lunches will be served
at the aiiuuaJ Farm and Home In
stitute, it was decided • at last
Monday’s meeting of the Home
makers’ Council. The Institute
begins in Palmer on Tuesday,
Feb. 21 and ends Thursday, Feb.
23. There are tentative plans for
a one-day Institute at Wasilla on i
Feb. 24.
The Council planned that the !
Valley’s seven Homemakers’ •
dubs will share- the work of
serving and cleaning up each
day’s dishes. The schedule was
worked out in this way:
Feb. 21 — Cheechakos will..;
s?rve and Rive^bend members ;
,vi’i clean up; Feb. 22—Sour- j
doughs will serve and Glacier
View members will clean up; t
Feb. 23-—Butte members will i
serve and 12:30 and Evening r
Craft members will clean up.
Clubs who serve are requested
to bring the necessary dishtowels.
Coffee, cream, paper plates, su
gar and salt and pepper will be ■
applied by the Council. i
Nome Chamber
Proposes Alaskan
rourist Bureau
The Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce of Nome
this week wrote all Chambers of
Commerce and newspapers in the
territory, asking for backing on
their plan to promote a spring
and winter tourist season. It is
the Chamber’s hope that the idea
eventually will lead to the es-‘
tablishment of a permanent tour-:
ist bureau for Alaska as the
states have now. j
R. A. Cornwell,- secretary of
the. Nome group, pointed out that
there are actually jr\ore attrac
tions in Alaska of interest to tour
ists in the spring and winter than
there are in the summer. Also, he
feels that Alaskans have more
time, during those seasons, to
properly entertain visitors than
they do during the crowded sum
mer months.
The Nome organization requests
that all Chambers of Commerce
name a permanent tourist com
mittee, to help work for the sug
gested territorial tourist bureau,
and to study problems of housing,
attractions and facilities for
tourists. .
Army Gets Feb. Spuds
From Glen Woods
Glen Woods, independent potato
grower, won the Army’s com
mercial potato contract for the
month of February, it was learned
this week. .
Mr. Woods was low in a field
of six bidders with a bid of $4.64
per cwt. Top bid of the six was
$8.50
Local Legion Auxiliary
To Get Citation
The Matanuska Valley unit of
the Alaska Department of The
American Legion Auxiliary, was
the only territorial chapter to!
reach its membership quota be
fore Dec. 31, 1949, it wras an- j
nounced at the last Auxiliary i
meeting. Mrs. Ethel Tonseth, De-j
partment president, wTrote mem
bers of the Valley unit that they
would receive the national pres
ident’s citation for their member
ship record.
DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS IS
RESCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY j
Last Friday’s planned caucus j
of Valley Democrats was cancel-!
led because of drifted roads and i
high winds. The Democrats will I
try again, in Carpenters’ Hall, at j
3 o’clock next Tuesday, accord- j
ing to Senator Walter E. Hunt
ley. • ... '«
MINISTERS MEET MONDAY
Members’ wrives will be guests,
when the Palmer Ministerial As
sociation meets at the Valley
Christian Children’s Home next
Monday, it was announced today.
Mr. Shomig, a missionary now
stationed at the home, is in
marge of tne evening’s program, i
Moose Dinner Costs
Three Men $950 |
Three men, Andrew Runyan, a
Moose Creek trapper, John Posti
shek, a Jonesville miner, and A1
Grasser, operator of Santa Claus
Lodge, last week were found
guilty of illegal ' possession of
moose. The trio, accused by
Harry Pinkham, a Fish and Wad
life Service agent, were tried, by.
U. S. Commissioner Dorothy Sax
ton.
Runyan was accused of shooting!
two bull moose out of season and
of illegal possession of moose
meat. He was fined $300, given a
30-day jail sentence and lost his
trapping license for a year.
Runyan admitted his'guilt, but
said he had shot the animals be*
cause he “luid his^ogs were in
need of meat.
Postishek was charged with the
illegal possession of moose meat
and was fined $300. The miner,
who also pleaded guilty, com
plained that the one meal of
moose liver he had enjoyed from
the illegal meat was the “most
expensive dish of liver I ever
ate”
Mr. Grasser was fined $350 on
the charge of illegal possession
and transportation of moose
meat. He was given a 60-day
sentence, suspended, and had his
fishing and hunting license ’ re
voked for the balance of the
year.
Clue to the illegal taking of the
moose was first uncovered by
Mr. Pinkham, when offal ■from
the dressed-out carcasses Was
found lying near the highway:
PIONEER DIES
John Helenius, a Fairbanks
resident since 1903, died there re
cently. Mr. Helenius had mined
on the creeks in the Fairbanks
area for many years.
MEMBERS TO DISCUSS
CHURCH MAHAGIKG
VALLEY HOSPITAL
The annual meeting of the Val
ley Hospital Association will be
held next Wednesday, in the
school lunchroom at 8 p. mu,
board president James Wilson
announced today. All Associa
tion members are urged to be
present. •
' Of first importance, will be tho
report presented by R. Holland
Armstrong of Anchorage on' the
-possibility of having the Valley
Hospital managed by the Presby
terian bbard of missions. Mr.
Armstrong is now conferring
with church officials in the
; states and expects to have a con
crete report to present next Wed
nesday evening.
The Hospital’s annual report
and financial report will be dis
cussed. The faint possibility
that GSA funds may be available
to the Hospital will be discussed
and completely explored, Mr.
Wilson said.
Seven new board members will
be elected at this meeting. A
nominating committee, headed by
i Mrs. Clyde King, Sr., has pre
i pared a list of nominees for the
[Wednesday ballot. This list, on
[ ly partially complete at press
time, includes:
C. A. Sandvik, Victor Joha
I son, Clyde King, Sr., Mrs. Her
bert Kopperud and Geo. Small
Additional names may be add
ed at the meeting, Mrs. King
said.
Any stockholder of the Valley
Hospital Association is eligible to
participate in Wednesday’s meet
ing. Mr. Wilson said the board
treasurer would be present early
next Wednesday, so that anyone
who wishes to purchase stock be
fore the meeting time could do
so. That purchaser will be eligi
ble to vote at the meeting.
lears Dance Expected To Mata
Hospital Coffers Jingle Again
Nurses of the Valley Hospita'
are asking all local residents to
circle March 11 in red on
their calendars. Scat’s tne dale
of their plannet^Hard Times
Dance in the Pa* r Gym! And
that’s the date ti hope that all
Valley residents will concentrate
on wearing jeans and other beat
up garb, so that they can contri
bute the money saved by not
buying a new dress and other
party pretties to the fund that
will help, in part, to repair the
Valley Hospital’s beat-up plumb
ing. .
And while the Hard Times!
theme may be dominant in dance
costumes, the nurses Say that the ,
manv prizes and gifts to be of-J
fered during the evening will j
make it a Good Times dance for!
a number of Valley residents. :
Tickets cost $1 each, and may i
be purchased from any Hospital |
nurse or in any Palmer bar.!
nurse- Nurses ask that everyone |
purchase a ticket, whether they
plan to attend the dance or not..
One spokesman pointed out
that the dollar really could be
considered “an investment in
yourself. You may need your
Hospital someday, and when that
day comes, you’ll be glad to re
member that you helped fix the
plumbing and make other repairs,
when they were needed. After
all, if we who don’t even call
Palmer home, are worried about
your Hospital, we think , you
ought to worry more. We are
trying to help you, but we ex
pect you to help yourself, too.”
All dance profits will be turned
over to the hospital’s general re
pair fund.
The committee of nurses plan
ning the March 11 dance, which
will be held at Palmer Gym be
tween 9 p. m. and 1 a. in
cludes:
Martha Collier, Marjorie My
ren, Edna Davis, Phyllis Erick
son, Mrs. Dorothy Andes, Joyce
r*r0gp Mrs. Frances Plack, Mis.
Ann Demming, Janet Brady and
Mrs. Helen Maze.