VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
PRINTED AT PALMER. ALASKA, EACH THURSDAY
By the Matanuska Pres*. Inc.
Entered at second class matter on Ort. 21. 1947. at the post office at
Palmer. Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 1879.
Publisher. Business Manager A1 J. DeJulio
Editor Lucille Kennedy Mick
Associate Editor
Virginia Gallant
Barbara Carter
Wasilla Correspondent
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Western Alaska Hi-School Basketball
Tourney To Be Held In Fairbanks
According to the report of the
Fairbanks News Miner, the West
ern Alaska High School Basket
ball Tournament will be held in
Fairbanks February 20-23 this
year.
The tournament in which Class
A and B schools participate will
be the seventh such annual event,
the past six having been held in
Anchorage as a part of the Fur
Rendezvous. Two years ago it
•was agreed between school of
ficials to alternate the tourna
ment between Fairbanks and
Anchorage.
Class A schools include, Palm
er, Fairbanks, and Anchorage.
Nome. Cordova. Valdez and the
Kodiak City and Naval Base
High Schools are in Class B. The
Class A winner is eligible to
meet the champion team of South
eastern Alaska for the Territor
ial championship. Under rules
adopted last year, a Class B team
is permitted to compete in the
Class A contest if it chooses. If
it loses, it still can take part in
the Class B tournament.
Elementary Grades
Plan Intramural
Basketball Tourney
An Intramural Basket ball
schedule has been set up between
the fifth and sixth grades and
the seventh and eighth grades
during the noon hour to occupy
students in grades four to eight.
There are two separate leagues
and each league is divided into
six teams, each team having a
captain. The captain’s duties are
to see that his team is ready to
play and to enter the names of
players on score sheets before
games.
Games are supervised by Nor
man Rousey but neither league
has a coach.
Games begin at 12:05 and con
sist of eight-minute halves and
four minutes between halves.
The time runs steady through all
time outs, foul shots, and jump
balls.
A tournament will be played
off at the end of 15 games. The
winners of the seventh and
eighth grades wil play each other
and the winners of the fifth and
sixth grades will play each other.
Fifth and sixth grade teams
and captains are:
Panthers, Jay Peterson; Moose,
Mickie Leek: Hawks, Larry Lu
cas; Eagles, Bob Estelle; Wild
Cats, Gordon Ganschow.
Seventh and eighth grade teams
and captains are:
Big Bulls, Victor Klem; Weas
els, John Reed; Mountaineers,
David Rogers; Bears, Lester
Marth; Little Bulls, Gary Loyer,
Rams, Paul Campbell.
MOOSE QUINTET
TRAVELS TO SEWARD
FOR TWO-GAME SERIES
The Palmer High School bas
ketball team left today for
Seward where the local Moose
will meet the port-towners on
Friday and Saturday nights.
The two contests in Seward
will be the second and third be
tween the local Moose and the
Seward Seahawks in the 1951
52 Railbelt Conference. The
Seward team was defeated by a
score of 49 to 40 in their initial
season foray in Palmer.
January 5.
ANCHORAGE EAGLES
DEFEAT LOCAL MOOSE
DY SCORE OF 58-46
The Palmei Moose were de
feated in a 58 to 47 decision fa
voring the Anchorage Eagles in
Anchorage Saturday night.
Palmer’s defeat was due mostly j
to the tight defense and height
advantage of the Eagles as well
as the accuracy of their free
throw shooting. Anchorage made
20 out of 29 free throws while
Palmer made only eight out of
22 tries.
An excellent display of basket- i
ball was shown by Anchorage’s
Pnil Kahler and Kent Marboe.
resulting in personal scores of 21
and 22 respectively.
Palmer’s Bob Lather started
the scoring by dropping in the
first basket, but Kent Marboe.
Anchorage’s tall forward drop- j
ea in three quick baskets for his ,
team.
With Anchorage leading by a
score of 26 to 15 at the half, the
Palmer Moose would not give up.
j They made a desperate struggle
* during the second half to regain
| the points which were lost in the
I first.
Palmer scoring was evenly di- |
vided with Chuck Millis and Dick
Giewitz rating as high point men
with 8 points each.
The Moose will try to regain
one of their losses with Anchor
age on January 26 at the Palmer
gym.
Palmer JV’s were also defeated
in their contest with Anchorage
JV’s last Saturday. The final
score was 43-20 in favor of Anch
orage.
Following are the individual I
scores by the varsity team mem
bers:
Anchorage
Putzel, f
Burkher, f
Beck, f
Carmodv, f
Marboe, c
Leeper, f
Seeley, c .
Kahler, g
Frostad, g .
Craig, g
Reynolds, g
Total .
Palmer
Lacher. f .
Eckert, f
Klem, c
McKechnie, g
Brown, g
Geiwitz, g
Larsh, g
Millis, g
Total
G
2
0
0
0
9
0
0
. 7
0
0
1
19
G
2
2
3
1
3
3
2
3
19
F
4
1
1
0
4
0
0
7
0
3
0
20
F
1
0
1
1
0
2
1
2
8
P
?!
1 :
0
22 !
0
21
0
3*
2
58,
P,
5
4 :
7
3
6
a
5 |
8i
461
Officials: Keefe and Huntley.
DRUM MAJORETTES
WEAR NEW UNIFORMS
Palmer High School’s 10 major
ettes w’ore their new uniforms
when they performed during the
half at the game last Saturday
night, January 5.
The handsome creations made
by Marie Westenbarger carry out
the school colors of blue and
white. White satin shirts are set
off by a triangle of blue from
shoulders to rvaist, outlined by
gold buttons. Blue appeared again
in the chevrons on the sleeves
and in the linings of the short
white circular skirts that swirled
and twirled as the majorettes
whirled in their double quick
l formations.
Frontiersman Classifieds Bring Results!!
1952 Polaris
Goss Or Sale
Onn a(mn the 1932 Polans it
on sale. It contains an entirely
different arrangement than any
ever published before, so when
one gets his Polaris he can say.
"It surely is something different.”
The definite price has not been
decided. It costs more than $4 a I
copy to be published but will be
•old for less. The students are j
not trying to make money but
only trying to keep alive the
memories of their school days.
Mothers and fathers will cer
tainly want a Polaris because 't
contains a story and a picture of
all the activities with which their
sons and daughters are drliliated
In years to come they can bring
out the Polaris with the family
album.
Copies of the 1952 Polaris can
be reserved by mailing a $1.50
deposit to the Polaris Staff in
care of the Palmer School as soon (
as possible. The closing date for
accepting subscriptions is only a
few days away. The more sub
scriptions sold, the less the Po
laris will be per copy.
ANNUAL MEETING OF
LEGAL LIBRARY ASSN.
T3 BE HELD KOFBAY
The annual meeting of the
P. Irof-r Library A: sociali"n will
b'> held at. the P; Imer Library
next Monday evenin’. January
21, at 8 p.m. for election of offi
cers and one trustee.
All adult card holders are
members of the association and
are entitled to vote.
Officers whose terms expire
are: President, Mis. Earl Graves;
vice president, Mrs. George
Geiwitz; secretary. Mrs. Don
Ingalls; treasurer, Mrs. Foster
Sims. The trustee hose term ex
pires this year is Ed Smith, who
was appointed last summer to
fill Rev. Victor Alfsen's unexpir
ed term. Other trustees whose
terms do not expire this year are |
Louise Kellogg and Hugh John
son.
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1952 Rcclds Team
Prgan'ifd; to Play
Visiting Cordova 5
Five girl* showed up at the
Palmer Cafe Tuesday night for
the organizational meeting of the
1952 Palmer Rockets.
The somewhat tardy organiza
tion this year became a matter of
necessity when a telegram was
received last week from Cordova
According to the wire, two Cor
dova basketball teams, the men’s
and women’s, are coming here to
play the local teams on February
1 and 2. The Imperial girls from
Cordova defeated the local Rock-1
ets in their last contest held at
Cordova last March
Although only five local gills
showed up Tuesday night, four
others have indicated their de-1
sire to be on the team. The ex
pected team roster will be as fol-l
lows: Babe Roetman, Elsie Corey,
Karen Bryant. Gudrun Brittain.
Eva Campbell. Bonnie Bettine,
Bobbie Jo Hemmer. Laura Sten
berg, and Billy Lacey. Vi Stacey
has again agreed to act as coach
for the girls, and it appeared as
though Clair Stock might get
stuck with his former job as man
ager. The girls expect to prac
tice every Tuesday evening from
7-8:30 p. m. in the school gym.
Two men's teams have been
practicing in Palmer. Dale Roet
man has been coaching the hotel
team, and Art Stacey is coaching
the (Loyal Order of the) Moose;
team, not to be confused with the
high school team of the same
name.
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Carpenters. Remember!
Carpenters Local 22&1
Meets 2nd and 4th Wednesday
Each Month
B&C. ELECTRIC
Tel. 55 Box G48
AL HUEBNER
Shop in Shamrock Basement
| CUB SCOUT NEWS
DEN 3
Following arhool January 11,
we met at the home of our den
Mother. Mr* lleibcrt Kopperud. I
During the hand craft period we
worked on the coin purses and
key-chain holders we are making
out of leather. We had made new
games at home and brought them
to the meeting. Barry Dearborn’s
game was voted the best.
Duane Anderson and Jerry
Slock are new cubs in our den |
The next meeting will be held
January 18, after school.
Roger Brager.
Keeper of the buckskin
RASMUSSEN ENDS
LONG SERVICE
WITH MVFCA
Car! Rasmussen put in his fi
nal day as admit manager of the
Co-Op Tuesday of this week. Al
though it was earlier reported
that he would resign his position
January 1. he stayed on (or a few
days longer when no successor
was appointed. He and Mrs Ras
mussen plan to leave for Cali
fornia next Sunday.
It was reported by one Co-Op
official that no successor for the
job as acting manager or mana
ger will be appointed until Rex
Kibbc returns from the States.
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IF YOU WANT A
neui Water System in Palmer
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jjanuGSuf, 29 a the* ^bcuf!
Here Is What Palmer’s Residents Must Do:
If you do not own property, go to the
polls and vote "YES", authorizing the city
to incur up to $300,000 in bonded indebt
edness.
If you do own property in Palmer . . .
1. Go to the polls and vote "YES", au
thorizing the city to incur up to
$300,000 bonded indebtedness.
2. On another ballot, vote "yes" to per
mit the city to issue $250,000 worth
of bonds for the specific purpose of
guaranteeing the purchase of a $500,
000 water system for only $250,000.
50% off all property and non-property
owners voting must cast a "yes" ballot
to authorize indebtedness up to $300,000
65% of ail property owners voting must
cast a "yes" ballot permitting the city to
issue $250,000 worth of bonds to guar
antee the purchase of the new water sys
tem—-at half price!
Remember...
There is a good chance that APW will
never actually require that the bonds be
issued. ||
If the bonds ARE issued, they go to the
U. S. Government as security for a $250,
000 loan from APW.
This bond issue will not be offered for :
sale to the public.
Willingness to issue these bonds . . .
Is a pledge of faith to APW.
Is an expression of the desires and
needs of the majority.
Affords a means of buying a complete- i 11
ly new and adequate water system at
half price.
This bond issue will no? count against the
indebtedness limit set by law. It applies
only to the water system and cannot be
used for any other project.
If the bond issue is not permitted by the
residents of Palmer, then the city will not
get a new water system.
The Common Council
OF THE CITY OF PALMER
SECOND IN A SERIES OF PAID EDUCATIONAL ADVERTISEMENTS EXPLAINING THE NECESSITY
FOR THE JANUARY 29 ELECTION.