Palmer Won't Lose Airport Without
People's Consent, Says Gruening
Governor Thomas E. Dewey and Governor Ernest Guening
are shown at the Palmer Airport shortly after they arrived
Monday afternoon, August 27.
‘'Palmer will never lose its air
port without the consent of CAA
and without the consent of the
people of Palmer”, Gov. Ernest
Gruening asserted last week dur
ing his brief visit here with Gov.
Thomas Dewey of New York.
He referred to the Palmer Air
port "scandal” as a disgraceful
misrepresentation of facts and an
example of basic ignorance about
Territorial land values. The of
fer of a bonafide client represent
ed by Jack Maze to purchase the
land for $200,000 embarrassed
leaders of the smear campaign,
Gruening said, but the Territory
has not yet been reimbursed by
the Federal Government.
However, the governor didn’t
quite close the door entirely to
the possible sale of the present
airport.
“If the people of Palmer were
assured a bigger and a better air
port, they might conceivably con
sent to the sale of the present
one.”
Gov. Gruening said that he was
much more satisfied with the
Alaskan defense picture than he
was a year ago.
"It has taken constant prodding
of those people in Washington to
ARREST IMMINENT ON
LOCAL ASSAULT CASE!
Identity of a soldier sought for j
attempted assault at the Matanu- i
ska Hotel Sunday night is known !
and his arrest is imminent, Police j
Chief Bernie Bouwens announced
today.
M. P.s at Fort Richardson have
been charged with the responsi
bility of returning the soldier to ,
Palmer to face charges.
A search Sunday night follow
ed the escape of the soldier from
the hotel. Dressed in civilian
clothes topped with a gray sat
in jacket with fur collar, the sol
dier was described as being
blende, about five feet eight inch
es in height and weighing ap
proximately 180 pounds. The des
get them to allocate sufficient de
fense forces and material, to make j
"hem understand that Alaska'
chcu!d be the United State’s first |
line of defense’’, he said, “and
we’ll keep right on prodding un
til Alaska becomes such a Gib
ralter that no enemy forces will
dare attempt invasion.”
Gov. Dewey’s visit. Gruening
explained, had taken more than
a week from his official schedule.
Upon his return to Juneau an im
portant meeting with the Armed
Services Committee and a desk
full of other matters awaiting his
action would keep him chained
there until this week Tuesday,
when he was slated to give the
opening address of the Alaska
Science Conference at Mt. Mc
Kinley Park. Therefore, he re
gretted that he would be unable
to attend the Matanuska Valley
Fair this year.
“I’ll try to make it next year”, j
he promised.
Gov. Dewey, he said, was the i
guest of the Territory. Long ago !
at a Governor’s Conference he
had invited the New York gov
ernor to visit Alaska, and Dew
ey had finally found an oppcr- ,
tunity to accept the invitation.
cription was radioed to the gate ■
at Fort Richardson v/ithin 15 min
utes of his escape.
According to reports, the sol
dier in mufti had been “ogling”
a young woman guest in the hotel
lobby until she retired to her
room in disgust. Following her
to her room, he forced entrance
and felled her to the floor with
a blow in the face. The young
woman’s screams brought help to
her rescue, but no one thought to
trip up the man who beat a hasty
retreat down the'steps of the ho
tel, across the lobby and into the
street. M. P. grilling of a “Buddy”
who inadvertantly admitted
knowing the man when he heard
the description produced the all
details needed to complete identi
fication.
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Joyce Kerdoge. Queen—
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phot f :;phcr for Warner-Pa'.hf
itudiot.
C*iefuJlv the judge; reviewed
(he girl;’ accomplishment*. tie
hind cJreed door; ;n the Co-op
club rocm Their woik in eellmi
Fair Queen ticket; wa; a major
L- nsidtration, but it ..a; a; Stock
told the judge;:
“All the gul; have worked very
hard. I wish we could make each
re ol them queen "
Each girl wa; interviewed by
the judges—about their schools,
ab ut their jobs, about what each
ntended to do with the $200 prize
neney. After being dismissed sc
the judges could deliberate in
private, the girls were called in
igain for further discussion. It
vas a 4ough decision.
The girl who tinaJiy won tne
udges’ unanimous ballot is a
graduate of Palmer High School,
riass of 1951. Blue-eyed and
mlonde, she stands five feet, eight
nches in height and weighs 122
jcunds. In a few weeks she will
leccme a freshman at the Uni
versity of .Alaska, where she will
pursue a pre-nursing course. In
ine with her ambition to become
i nurse, she has been working
his summer at the Valley Hos
>ital. The $200 prize money will
ielp defray her school expenses.
As a part of her duties in reign
r.g over the 1951 Matanuska Val
ey Fair, Queen Joyce dined with
Tair Board members Sunday
light at the administration build
ng and participated in the draw
ng for Fair Queen prizes.
SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO
:ANDLE OPS PR03LEMS
'OR SMALL RETAILERS
A<= -art cf an Office
JUNEAU—~= v
f Price Stabilization program to
ive careful consideration to the
nicing problems of the small re
ad merchant, the agency today
nnounced creation cf the posi
ion of special assistant for small
etailer problems.
A first task cf the special assist
nt will be to make-a basic deter
mination regarding small retail
rs. This will be a determination
s to whether sales volume or
ther criteria should be used as a
asis for deciding when a small
tor*3 has special problems under
rice control.
The special assistant will work
ontinucusly with the OPS Re
ail Industry Advisory Committee
l planning tailored ceiling price
Bgulations for small merchants,
major part of whose business
in consumer durable and soft
oods.
1951 Fair—
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! wi' n was highly satisfied with
j’he Fa.r thif yfar. He admitted
that not »f much money wa» tak
in thip year, but last ytar'f
‘three wonderful dayr of perfect
fair weather were hard to beat.
He said he hoped to negotiate a
<hree year contract with the Fair
I Board which would enable him
to build a permanent building on
the Fair Grounds for some of the
] conceptions and for storage. Next i
I year he hopts for an even better)
I carnival attraction with the ad
I dition of at least one ude—per*
i haps an Octopus. ,
Suggest New Fair Date
Others expressed disappoint
j ment about the Fair, pointing to
the very weak livestock exhibit
i and the washout of most of the
| scheduled sports events as evi
dence that the Fair comes at an
j inconvenient time.
I Mrs. Clyde King, Sr. and sev
! eral other women gathered in the
highly successful flower display
section held that the value of the
extra day ever the Labor Day
(week end is overemphasized.
1 They thought that a full tv.o-day
j fair a week earlier would escape
i competition from the opening of
the moose and caribou season.
Gene Kirsch, superintendent of i
the Livestock Department, con-,
curred with this suggestion, add- ‘
, ing that dairy farmers are busy j
making silage after the first of,
September. Pointing cut his ex-1
! hi bit which consisted of four
cows, four heifers, four calves,]
four horses, one sow with litter, |
two sows, two pigs, and three j
goats, he said that farmers were j
too busy at the present fair time
to get their animals ready for dis- j
play and bring them in.
Extra Day Necessary
Clair Stock disagreed. “We’ve
had fairs in the Valey which did,
not coincide with the hunting j
season, hut this factor made no
difference in gate receipts.”
‘‘The main concern of the Fair
Board is in gate receipts”, he add
ed. “Only with the extra day can
we get the receipts which will
enable us to get the best displays
by offering the best possible in
ducements.”
He pointed cut that the rainy
season comes more often during
the last two weeks of August.
“This year we were unlucky
in our weather”, he said, “but
merchants report that business
during the fair this year exceeds
that of any previous year.
“What we need is more com
munity pride among the people
of the Valley”, Stock asserted.
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EXPERIMENT STATION
MEN GIVE PAPERS AT
SCIENCE CONFERENCE
Three men from the Alaska
Agricultural Expeliment Station
will give paper? at the Alaska
Science Conference when mere
than 300 acientists and military
men assemble from all part? of
the country at Mt, McKinley
Park this week. Sept 4-8.
Don L. Ei v. in will be chairman
of the Agriculture, Forestry, and
Botany Sc ction.
Papers to be read by the local <*
men are: William D. Sweetman,
Livestock in Alaska; Dr. A. H.
Mick. Soil Research in Alaska;
Hugh A. Johnson, The Role of
Agricultural Economics in Alaska.
"We need mcie people who will
exhibit out of pride of accomp
lishment and piide in the Valley.
That’s what a lair is for.
"Only with the extra day can
visitors from Fairbanks, Seward,
Valdez and the Kenai Peninsula
plan to attend the fair, and thus
make it one of Territorial signifi
cance.”
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
Friday and Saturday
SEPTEMBER 7 and 8 |
with YVONNE DeCARLO,
end RICHARD GREENE
STARTING SUNDAY
SEPTEMBER 9
'That's My
Boy'
with DEAN MARTIN
end GARRY LEWIS
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ANCHORAGE
Friday and Saturday
SEPTEMBER 7 end 8
“SAVAGE HORDE”
Wiih WILLIAM ELLIOTT
end ADRIAN BOOTH
STARTING SUNDAY
SEPTEMBER 9
(In Technicolor)
wiih MAUREEN O'HARRA
end JOHN PAYNE