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Entered as second class matter On Oct. 21, 1947. at the post office
at Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 1879
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A LITTLE LIBRARY IN A LITTLE TOWN
Everyone who has served in the armed forces of
this nation knows the term SOP. It means Standard Opera
ting Procedure. And it covers the way all manner of
things must be done, according to the book.
It has its counterpart in civilian life too. In a Wel
fare State, for example, if a community wants or needs
something it is SOP to ask an all-powerful central gov
ernment to provide it. The community may or may not get
it. In either case, a faceless group of bureaucrats at the
top makes the decision.
We have gone a long way toward Welfare Statism
than is generally realized. It is pretty much SOP for
us to look to some higher material power for the money
and direction and administration that will provide us
with a next-to-endless assortment of aids and services.
But there are honorable exceptions. There is still,
here and there, an old spirit that moves people to do
wanted things for themselves in the face of difficulties.
Take the town of Tigard, population about 5,000, in
Western Oregon. It has no library and it wants one. So
local people, ali unpaid volunteers, have joined in an eff
ort to make the wish come true. Civic clubs have donated
their year-end surplus funds. Meetings are held at a local
bookstore, where authors appear, books are sold, and a
part of the profit goes to the library fund. Individuals
donate books, and anything of value that can be sold or
exchanged for books is more than welcome.
So, little by little, the Tigard library, housed in two
rooms of a building, is coming along. It could be done
much more quickly, of course, with a government grant.
But one thing is sure—this library will have a quality that
no such grant could provide. It will be the result of vol
untary individual effort, the fruit of the work and belief
and feeling of many minds, hearts and hands. It will be a
thing of pride, like a home one builds for oneself
A little library in a little town is not necessarily a
little matter. It can be a big precedent and a most wel
come one.
fyw&esi 21
By Dan Halligan
DEAR DAN: I’m a freshman at W.H.S. and my quarter
marks aren't going to be anything to brag about. I’ve already
told my mother what to expect and she isn’t very happy. She
said she’ll probably cut down on my week end activities but
I’m positive if I’m grounded, my marks won’t go up. Right now
on weekends I can go to a dance, a game and to>the movies.
Dan, I just don’t think my mother is being fair. I feel I
still have to get acquainted with my teachers, with the subjects
I’m taking and with the marking system being used. I could
understand my mother’s feelings if I had gone to a public school
last year but I attended all eight grades in a parochial school
and it used a different marking system. Last year I made the
honor roll twice.
I study hard every week and I just don’t think my activities
should be cut. Do vou think my mother is right or wrong?—
GROUNDED.
Dear Grounded: Read your letter again and see if
you see what I do. What’s that? Why, you're blaming
everybody and everything but yourself. Ycur school's
marking system doesn't matter as long as your
assignments are prepared and you have the right
answers.
One thing you've perhaps forgotten is that your
teachers are there to explain as well as to instruct. If
you don't understand something, take the lime after
class or after school to inquire. If you don't get coopera
tion, tell your parents.
I'm sorry, Freshie, but your mother is justified in
grounding you for a few weeks if she believes more
studying and less social life will mean the difference
between passing and failing. She is not wrong or unfair
and more parents should follow her lead.
DEAR DAN: Do you think it’s wrong to get married in
Idaho without the consent of parents? My boy friend and I
have been going together for several months and I know my
folks wouldn’t allow a marriage because I’m still in school. We
would like to keep the marriage a secret until school is out.—
UNDER 21. _
Dear Under 21: Unless the Idaho marriage law has
been changed, couples must be 18 to get married with
out consent of parents. If you two are 18, you should
have enough sense to know your schooling is more im
portant than marriage. If you're not 18 and lie about
your ages, the marriage would be a fraud and you really
would be in trouble.
Marriage shouldn't be something to be sneaked into
in the shadows and then kept hidden under a rock.
It's a sacred something.
Besides, with your luck, you would be pregnant
by the end of your first month of marriage. You have
to expect miracles not to "show" before the end of May.
Also, and again with your luck, you could expect to get
sick several times in front of your mother and perhaps
pass out a time or two. And if you think she'll believe
you're suffering from a vitamin deficiency, you're
crazy.
Marriage, as you inquired about it. is 100 per cent
wrong.
DEAR DAN: When I have a boy visitor at the house and
we’re watching television, I get terribly embarrassed during
kissing scenes. The boy never says anything and I guess I’m
just being silly but I do have this feeling. Is it because I’m only
14?—EMBARASSED.
Dear Embarrassed: Yes, dear girl, you're em
barrassed because of your age and for no other reason.
It's nothing to worry about.
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One Alternative to the United Nations
FHA Building Program Boosts Area
Economy by Employing Local Tradesmen
Many people throughout the
state of Alaska have enjoyed
the facilities of the rural hous
ing program of the Farmers
Home Administration during
the last two years, members of
the staff said recently. Not
just the families living in the
house, but communities have
shared in the economy of such
a building program. Carpen
ters. plumbers, electricians,
and other tradesmen have had
a part in the overall picture.
Areas where financing has
not been available have enjoy
ed the building program. K D.
Bohman of the local office said.
To build new houses gives
communities a feeling of >m
portance and they have t h e
bright new structures to prove
it. This type of building, re
pairing, and remodeling gives
people and communities a
I sense of pride in the neatness
j of their surroundings by hav
j ing such building programs.
! Over a period of a year Farm
, ers Home Administration has
spent in excess of one million
dollars in rural areas for
building purposes.
FHA makes rural housing
! loans to repair, remodel, build.
| or buy a house and move onto
i a lot in a different location.
Rural housing funds may be
used to finance only modest
and adea.uate dwellings and es
sential farm buildings.
Rural housing loans are
I made only to applicants who
I are unable to obtain the credit
| they need from private and co
operative lenders.
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Legal Notice
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OP
THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF LAND
MANAGEMENT, Land Office, Cor
dova Building. 555 Cordova Street.
Anchorage, Alaska
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that Patrick
Joseph Mahoney entry-man. of Wasilla,
Alaska, together with his witnesses
Bruce H. Babcock of Wasilla, Alaska
and Lars Vadla of Spenard, Alaska has
I submitted final proof on his Home
stead entry Anchorage Serial Number
0485-16 for a tract of land described as
Lots 2 and 3, Sec. 4, T 16 N., R.
I 3 W.. S'hSE'a. Sec, 33. T. 17 N.', r!
3 W.. S.M.,
| containing 160 48 acres, and it is now
I “> the flies of the Land Office, An
| chorage, Alaska. Any person, cor
! poration, or association having or as
serting any adverse interest in, or
claim to, the tract of land or any part
thereof sought, may file in the An
chorage Land Office, during the per
iod of publication or within 30 days
thereafter, under oath an adverse
claim setting forth the nature and ex
tent thereof, and such adverse claim
ant shall, within sixty days after the
filing of such adverse claim, begin ac
tion to quiet title in a court of compe
tent jurisdiction within Alaska, and
thereafter patent shall be issued in
conformity with the final decree of the
court.
ALFRED P. STEGER
Chief, Lands Section
Pub: Nov. 27, Dec. 5, 12. 19 and 26, 1963
Rural housing loans are
made only in rural areas not
designated as urban areas.
They may be made in those
rural areas when patent to
land has been issued. Loans for
purposes amounting to less
than $1500 may be made where
patents have not been issued.
All applications for FHA
services are reviewed by a
three-man local committee,
made up of men in a designa
ted area, in order to establish
eligibility of each applicant.
Rural housing loans stimu
late economic activity in rural
communities by increasing em
ployment opportunities for
construction workers and in
creasing sales of building ma
terials and home furnishings,
it was pointed out.
"The new homes built under
this program raise living stand
ards. create a healthy environ
ment for family life and make
rural communities attractiv<
locations for the developmen
I and expansion of rural indus
i tries,” Bohman said.
Legal Notice
IXV_/ I IOC. Ur tLtu i iuin
NOTICE is hereby given that an ele(
tion fo f.ll TWO \acancies on fh
PALMER Soil Conservation Subdistri<
Board of Supervisors will be held De<
15 to Dec. T4, 1963.
The following candidates have bee
nominated for office:
Robert Nichols, Palmer, Alaska (In
cumbent)
Byron Anderson. Palmer, Alaska (In
cumbent)
Clyde Oberg, Palmer. Alaska
Robert Prator. Palmer, Alaska
Ballots will be mailed to all Sub
district cooperators. Other bonafid
landholders of the area may obtaii
ballots by contacting the undersigne<
Secretary of the PALMER Soil Con
servation Subdistrict, the local Soi
Conservation Service office, or thi
District Extension office.
BYRON A. ANDERSON
Secretary
Palmer Soil Conservation
Subdistrict
Pub: Dec. 5 and 12.. 1963
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT Ol
THE INTERIOR. BUREAU OF LAN!
MANAGEMENT. Land Office. Cordo
va Building. 555 Cordova Street, An
chorage. Alaska
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that Lorar
Derik Teeples entryman, of Wasilla
Alaska, together with his witnesses
Edward B. Beech of Wasilla, Alaska anc
Ernest G. Gilbert of Wasilla. Alaskc
has submitted final proof on his Home
stead entry Anchorage Serial Numbei
053911 for a tract of land described as
Lot 14. NEUSEU. SV2SEV4NEV4. SVa
NV2SE1/4NEV4, 3WV4SEV4. W^SEV4.
SEV4. NEV4SEV1SEM1, NfeSftSEft
SEy4SEV4, N>2SEy4SEy4SEV4. Section
8. T. 17 N.. R 3 W., Seward Meri
dian,
containing 153.13 acres, and It is now in
the files of the Land Office, Anchor
age. Alaska. Any person, corporation
or association having or asserting any
adverse interest in, or claim to. the
tra^t of land or any part thereof sought,
may file in the Anchorage Land Office,
during the period of publication or
within 30 days thereafter, under oath,
an adverse claim setting forth the na
ture and extent thereof, and such ad
verse claimant shall, within sixty days
after the filing of such adverse claim,
begin action to quiet title In a court
of competent jurisdiction within Alas
ka, and thereafter patent shall be Iss
ued in conformity with the final de
cree of the court.
ALFRED P. STEGER
Chief, Lands Section
Pub: Nov. 21, 27, Dec. 5, 12. and 19, 1963
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Alcanlra Speaks at Dedication
Of Community Building
HOUSTON— John Alcantra,
special assistant to Gov. Will
iam Egan, was a guest speaker
at the Dec. 7 dedication of the
Homesteaders Community
Club’s new community build
ing, located one mile from the
Rig Lake Y on the Houston
road.
Rural Area Development
funds were used in part to
McCarthy to Head
Anchorage Office
Wm. T Zahradnicek. Com
missioner of Education has an
nounced that . Ellsworth Mc
Carthy, Homer superintendent
of schools, will assume the po
sition of area supervisor in the
Anchorage office of the de
partment of education.
| Prior to his appointment at
! Homer, he served as principal
1 of Lathrop High School, Fair
banks, and taught in several
| Pennsylvania schools.
McCarthy, who was born in
i Owego, New York, received
his bachelor's degree from
Mansfield (Pa..) State Teachers
College and his master's degree
from Pennsylvania State Uni
versity.
He will be succeeded by Ro
bert L. Collins, principal of the
Anchor Point school, who holds
bachelor’s and master’s de
grees from New York Univer
sity. Replacing Collins will be
Robert Greene who has been
| appointed head teacher at the
Anchor Point school.
AMBULANCE RUNS
Dec. 7
DAVID McCAULEY from
Central school to hospital.
Dec. 8
MR. and MRS. RAY ROB
; ERTS from Matanuska Bridge
to hospital.
ELINOR GOODRICH from
Valley Presbyterian Hospital to
j Anchorage hospital.
Dec. 9
BLACKY MAN ION from
Houston to hospital.
construct the building, which
will be used for club projects,
4-H work, Grange and commu
nity affairs.
Alcantra outlined the job
yet to be done by RAD. and
noted projects already accom
plished. such as the youth
camp .the adult camp, the road
to Fairbanks scheduled for
completion in 1968, access
roads, the bridges and short
cut to the Palmer and Wasilla
area, the vacation sites, and the
ferry system which funnels
tourists into this area.
Also speaking at the dedica
tion ceremony was Ted Smith,
head of the parks and recrea
tion division, state of Alaska.
He announced that the Big
Lake forestry station will open
Dec. 16, under the supervision
of Art Sundt.
The state has 69 parks and
recreation sites, with funds
limited to $50,000 for improve
ments of the entire state, he
said.
In this area a new camp
ground is planned at the new
forestry camp location, and an
other at Nancy Lake, Smith
stated.
Club president Mrs. Lena
McMillin gave a short history
r
of the club, which started in
1953. Members cover a wide
area, from Pittman to Will aw.
She said the dedication is the
climax of much work and plan
ning by the members.
Other guests were John
Shaw, Palmer attorney; Mas
on LaZelle. MEA general man
ager; Mrs. Joyce Kerttula o'
Palmer and Mrs. May Carter of
Wasilla, newly elected borough
school board members; Bob
Vroman and Harold Newcomb,
borough assemblymen; J i m
Hurley, A 1 a ska Hardwoods
manager: Mrs. Bob Bartlett,
wife of U.S. Sen. Bartlett; and
Jalmer Kerttula, former state
representative from District 7.
Alcantra presented a plaque
to Mrs. McMillin for the build
ing, which reads. “This com
munity building constructed by
the people of the Wasilla area
as a Governor's Work Project,
dedicated Dec. 7. 1963. William
Egan, Governor.”
St. Bartholomew's
Episcopal Church
Morning Prayer —10 A.M.
Church School-11 A.M.
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THE SIMS BUILDING
It's an old family custom. I
hang up my stocking for Santa
to fill. Then everyone has to be
very quiet while Daddy reads
the Christmas Story from our
big family Bible . . . about the
Shepherds . . . how they watched
. . . and listened. That’s why they
knew Jesus had come: because
they listened!
Again today, Christmas brings
good tidings ... of peace on
earth . . . good will toward men.
Church bells ring . . . children
sing carols . . . the Story of
Bethlehem is told again.
It means Joy to the world: if
we listen!
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Isaiah
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Isaiah
66:7-14
Friday
Matthew
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