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Wasilla-Big Lake News
By Phyllis Edwards
xiic nuaiua vuiumeer lire
department responded to a
fire call Sunday at 1:15 p.m. at
the Dick Jensen residence. The
house, owned by “Shorty” Gus
taffson, sustained extensive
damage. Cause of the fire is
believed to have resulted from
faulty electrical wiring. Mrs.
Jensen and the children were
inside the building at the time
of the fire, but escaped with
out injury. The Jensens lost
part of their clothing, due to
smoke and water damage.
Both trucks answered the
call and pumped water on the
burning building. About ten
firemen showed up to fight the
blaze, and were able to con
fine the fire to the kitchen
area. Gustaffson is a member
of the Wasilla fire department,
and will not be charged a fee
for the call.
The fire department execu
tive board wishes to express
their thanks to all the people
who responded to the recent
membership drive by paying
their dues. You may do so by
sending your check to Wenter
Harvey, P.O. Box 51, Wasilla.
Annual dues are $12.
* * *
The Wasilla library has re
ceived 87 new books, including
volumes for the enjoyment of
both children and adults. All
have been placed on the
shelves for patrons to check
out. This is National Children’s
Book Week, and many of the
new books are especially for
children’s reading enjoyment.
The library is open on Wednes
days from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
and on Fridays from 1 p.m. to
5 p.m. Library cards are $1,
and entitle t'ne entire family to
the benefit of this facility.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Teeland
spent Sunday in Anchorage
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MOOSE
GAME NIGHT
EVERY WEDNESDAY MITE
PUBLIC WELCOME
MOOSE NALL-PALMER-8 P.M.
Announcing
The Opening of
Ti, Chalet Room
-OF THE
Talkeelna Motel
GRAND OPENING
Saturday, Nov. 16, 1963
SHERM and ALICE POWEL
WELCOME THEIR VALLEY FRIENDS
TO THEIR NEWEST ADDITION TO
THE TALKEETNA MOTEL
with Mrs. Teeland s mother,
Mrs. Evan Jones, who celebra
ted her 76th birthday. Sharing
the birthday honors with Mrs.
Jones was her granddaughter
Joann Bennett, who is now se
ven years old. Other guests
were Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ben
nett and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Larry Davenport, and Mr. and
Mrs. Art Holbrook. The Rod
Cottles were not able to at
tend. Had they been present,
four generations of the family
would have been represented,
spanning the years from thir
teen months to 76 years.
* * *
Miss Charlyn Leeper and Mr.
Allen Martin have informed
friends of their engagement.
Miss Leeper is the girls' physi
cal education teacher in the
Wasilla schools this year. Mr.
Martin is the high school com
mercial teacher and also the
junior high boys’ coach. The
couple plan to be married in
the near future.
* * *
Wasilla School Lunch Menu
Not. 1&-22
MONDAY
Beef Lasagne
Cabbage and carrot salad
Biscuits Butter
Peach cobbler Milk
TUESDAY
Turkey chop suey on rice
Fresh vegetable salad
Raisin Muffins Butter
Coconut cookies Milk
WEDNESDAY
Shepherd’s pie with
potato topping
Waldorf salad
Whole wheat muffins Butter
Peanut butter cupcakes
Milk
THURSDAY
Baked beans
Carrot and raisin salad
Corn bread Butter
Pumpkin pie with whipped
topping Milk
FRIDAY
Macaroni and cheese
Buttered peas
Jello fruit salad
Hot rolls Butter
Cake Milk
* * *
About 21 young people gath
ered at the VFW hall in Wa
silla Friday evening to help
Butch Hulke celebrate his four
teenth birthday. The hall was
decorated with blue and white
crepe paper and ballons, and
the group danced to music fur
nished by a record player. Re
freshments were served.
* • •
Richard Harbeson is conva
lescing at home at Knik since
his release from the Valley
Presbyterian Hospital this
week. Richard sustained a bro
ken leg when hit by a truck
on the Knik road Nov. 3.
« * *
Mrs. Laura Mommsen re
turned home last week from a
trip to Los Angeles, Calif.,
where she was called by the
serious illness of her brother
John E. Peterson. Mr. Peterson
at one time lived in Anchorage
and was employed by the CAA.
He is now a patient at the
UCLA hospital, where he w a s
transferred from the Mt. Sinai
hospital.
Mrs. Mommsen visited with
her sister, Mrs. Harry Stearns,
and her ill brother’s wife, both
of whom live in Los Angeles.
On her return trip, she stop
ped in Seattle to visit another
brother, Carl Peterson. She
also called on Grace and Susan
Black, who wish to extend best
wishes to all their friends in
the Valley.
* * #
John Minnick was host at a
taffy pull and dance at his
home Thursday evening. About
ten young people responded to
invitations and all had a very
nice time.
• » •
Gene Coghlan returned home
this week from Fairbanks,
where he has been employed.
* * *
The Aurora Dog Mushers
club members have scheduled
a work party at the cabin on
Echo Lake for this Sunday, be
ginning at 10 a.m. All members
are urged to attend, a n d be
ready to go to work, so bring
your shovels and hammers and
any building material you can
spare.
A potluck dinner will be
served by the women at noon,
then work will resume so as to
get the club house ready to
handle the crowd when the
“dog mushing” season starts.
Club secretary, Mrs. Dorothy
Page, would like to announce
that the club is planning to
start a junior dog mushers’ as
sociation if there are enough
junior mushers interested. The
organization will be for those
under 18 who have dogs or a
team they can borrow. If you
are interested in the junior or
senior association, you should
contact the club president, Ed
Carney, in Wasilla soon so as
to get off to an early start on
the year’s activities.
* * *
Mrs. Bonnie Dinkel was
elected president of the Wa
silla homemakers’ club at a
meeting held last week at the
home of Mrs. Mary Carr. Oth
er officers elected to serve for
the coming year are Mrs. Betty
Kelton, vice-president; Mrs.
Mary Carr, secretary-treasurer;
and Mrs. Laura Mommsen,
club recorder.
Mrs. Francis Dinkel gave a
report on the holiday fair, and
luncheon was served by the
hostess, Mrs. Carr.
• * *
Mrs. Lloyd Knox has re
turned to her home at Forest
Grove, Ore. after an extended
visit with her sister and broth
Grandma
‘‘Rural electrification sure changed my
life . . . but I’m most thankful for
the way it develops our self-reliance“
Grandma used to cook for harvest hands on a wood stove,
and wash dirt-caked overalls by hand. She pumped and
carried water ... cleaned lamp chimneys every day of her
life. Then a near-miracle rescued her from this drudgery.
Experts had deemed it impractical to bring electricity to
rural America, but Grandma and her neighbors went ahead
and did it! In the cooperative spirit of the barn-raising and
quilting-bee, they organized into groups, borrowed money
from the REA, and built their own electric lines.
And today, in the best American tradition, nearly five
million rural electric consumers own and operate their own
electric systems. They’re working together, planning how
to supply the rapidly growing demand for economical
electricity in rural America.
Matanuska Electric
AftnrialiMi
er-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. George
Gore. Mrs. Knox thought Alas
ka is indeed a wonderful place,
and thoroughly enjoyed her
visit here.
* o •
Back-to-School night, held in
observation of National Educa
tion Week on Nov. 11 at the
Wasilla schools, was well at
tended. Parents and guests
were able to visit their chil
dren’s rooms, view their work,
and talk to the teachers.
The regular PTA meeting
was held following the open
house. During the business
meeting the membership voted
to postpone the faculty versus
parents basketball game until
sometime after the Christmas
holidays. The game had been
scheduled for Nov. 29. Other
business included a report on
the school lunch program,
which is sponsored by the
PTA. The membership voted to
earmark all funds raised by
the ways and means committee
this year for paying off debts
incurred by the lunch room the
past two years.
* * *
BOWLING SCORES
Late Tuesday tNiers
W L
Wasilla Bar_30 10
Johnson’s Fuel _28Vi 11 Vi
Cottle’s_21 17
VFW 9365 _17 Vi 22 Vi
Green Acres _16 24
Wasilla Bus -7 33
High man, Dave Fay, 569.
High team, Wasilla Bar, 2690
The Wasilla Warriors will
start the 1963-64 basketball
season by playing a faculty
game Nov. 15.
Wasilla is a Class B school
and will participate in the
B tournament, which will be
held in Wasilla this year. In
Flying Clab To
Raffle Membership
’A $50 membership in the
Matanuska Valley Flying Club
is now being raffled off by
members, with tickets now on
sale at $1 apiece.
They may be purchased from
members of the flying club and
at Chapman’s Air Taxi at the
airport.
The date for the drawing will
be announced in a later edition
of The Frontiersman.
1962, the Warriors won the
Class C tournament.
The Warriors’ schedule for
the next month is as follows,
with games away from home
designated.
Nov. 15—W’asilla High
Faculty
Nov. 16—Wasilla Youth
Camp
Nov. 22-23—Copper Valley
Nov. 27—Palmer—there
Pag* 9 Th* Fionlimman
Thursday. November 14, 1963
Members who do not yet
have tickets may pick tb«*n up
tonight at the flying rtub
meeting at the "Hut.” Meeting
time is 8 p.m.
If the winner is already a
member of the club, he may ac
cept the equivalent of the
prize in flying time.
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CONSIDER THE
and HOW IT
LETTUCE promotes health and vigor; we need more and bigger
crops to nourish the new Borough Body Politic and make it grow
to its great potential.
But unforeseen environmental conditions can ruin crops and those
who grow the LETTUCE, and possibly stunt the growth of the in
fant Borough.
LETTUCE LOOK BEFORE WE LEAP
Let us NOT plunge blindly into a Borough Government that might
prove a hindrance rather than a help to orderly social and eco
nomic development of our fast-changing Borough area.
Instead, let us adopt a businessman's approach of Inventory and
Planning before deciding definitely on the forms, functions and
scope of our new Borough enterprise.
Thoughtful citizens of diverse interests have united on this need for a transitional
period of inventory of the true tax base and basic needs, for exploring the pos
sibilities of efficient and economic administration in tune with our means as well
as our demonstrated needs. They noted the wide variation — from $30 to $55
million—in the total borough area's estimated taxable valuation in coming to this
decision. They did not have to search far for the businessman most qualified to
direct this transitional phase of borough government for the Seventh Election
District
• A businessmen who established his business in the area with
the coming of the Colony in 1935.
• A businessman who has grown with his business and the
area.
0 A businessman who was one of the leaders in the movement
to incorporate the Palmer Independent School District and
served as a member of the Palmer City Council in the early
years of that incorporated local government.
• A businessman, who as an enthusiastic sportsman and pilot,
has long acquaintance with every square mile of our vast
borough area and its potential.
• A businessman who serves this area with distinction on the
State School Foundation Commission, and therefore has
first hand knowledge of the new educational program and
its local financial aspects.
ELECT
JAN M. KOSLOSKY
as Borough Chairman
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UNITED COMMITTEE FOR GOOD BOROUGH GOVERNMENT