VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
Entered as second class .matter on Oct. 21, 1947, at the post office at
Palmer, Alaska/under th£ Act of March 3, 1879. .
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Big Yukon River Ball to Be Staged
For Benefit of Crippled Children
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Plans for staging a Yukon River
Ball at Anchorage this spring are
already in full swing with tickets
for the big event placed on sale
here at Bert’s Drug Store, Kos
losky’s and arrangements also
being made for them to be ob
tained at the Co-Op office, Mrs.
N. Swoboda announced this
week. Mrs. Soboda is working
with Mrs. Margo Hoppin of An
chorage, who is president of the
Alaska Crippled Children’s Asso
ciation, in staging the Break-Up
Ball for the benefit of ACCA.
“The famed Yukon River is go
ing to start working for Alaska’s
Crippled Children’s Association
at break-up time next spring,”
Mrs. Hoppin said in telling of the
project. Plans to make the mighty
river benefit the ACCA were an
nounced recently by the McKin
ley Foundation, Incorporated, a
non-profit Anchorage organiza
tion incorporated under territo
rial law, Mrs. Hoppin said.
“Alaska’s oldest English-speak
ing settlement and its largest city
will be key points in the guessing
contest,” Mrs. Hoppin added. Don
C. Knudsen of Anchorage, is
president of McKinley Founda
tion, Inc. When the ice breaks
up next spring at Fort Yukon it
will be the signal for staging the
Yukon River ball in Anchorage.
The person or persons who guess
closest to the exact break up time
will be announced at the party in
Anchorage.
One-half of the net proceeds
vvill go to the ACCA and one-half
to the correct guesser or guessers.
Plans have already been com
pleted for recording the break-up
at Fort Yukon to the exact sec
ond, Knudsen said. A well-known
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Alaskan photographer, Knudsen;
is also president of Northland
Telescenics.
“The problem of aiding the!
thousand and more crippled chil- j
dren in Alaska is always with us. j
Since the organization of the
ACC A in 1946, our chapters with
their volunteer workers have
struggled by various methods to
raise funds. However, we still
fall short of our goal of attempt
ing to raise $60,000 a year which
is the amount available annually
from the United States govern- !
ment in matching funds,” Mrs. j
Hoppin stated in announcing that j
the ACCA board of trustees had '
voted to join forces with the Me- i
Kinley Foundation for the Yukon 1
j Break-up Ball project.
The ACCA president, who is
; also a director of the McKinley
! Foundation, recently advised
| ACCA chapters throughout the
i territory that the Yukon Break
up Ball program may solve the
fund-raising problem for 1951 and
perhaps the years thereafter if
everyone cooperates.
CONSERVATION
NOTES
• By Lew Hanks
I have the results bf the; Partner
Soil Conservation Sub - district
election. Leonard Kyger arid Rob
ert Webb were elected to fill the
vacancies on the Sub - district
Board. They replace Lucius Ross
and Bill Roark. Clarence Hoff
man canvassed the votes as Secre
tary of the Sub-district. He was
well satisfied with the turnout of
voters.
Our forage meeting was post
poned a week. There was no
wind, but we didn’t get the 20
degrees above that I promised.
Also the fact that the drifted snow
has the consistency of well made
concrete caused some difficulty.
I’ve seen some solid snow in my
day but nothing to beat our Mata
nuska Valley variety. You might
observe the position of the drifts.
Keep them in mind when you
plan windbreaks next spring.
Windbreaks should be at least
100 feet from the road on the
windward side. Hedgerow wind
breaks through a field on about
300 foot spacings will also keep
a lot of snow on the fields rather
than in the roads. Also clean out
those fence rows and farm out to
the road ditch. Snow drifts bad
enough in the road ruts as it is
without a bushy fence row' along
side to help it.
The McKinley Foundation, Inc.,
has been formed for the further
ance, aiding and assisting of char
itable organizations engaged in
charitable work within the terri
tory of Alaska, Mrs. Hoppin ex
plained.
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Local Hotel Team to
Play Elks’ Monday
Might at Palmer
The Elks* one. of • the leading
basketball teams that have been
setting the pace 'for the eity teams
at Anchorage this season, .will
play the Matanuska hotel team
here Monday night, January 29,
Coach Dale Roetman announced
this week. The game will be at
the Palmer gym at 9 p.m. The
Rockets, local girls’ team also ap
pearing on the card in a game
with Wasilla at 8 p.m., will pre
cede the Matanuska hotel-Elks
game.
“We hope to substitute with
full squad, using two teams,”
Coach Roetman said in announc
ing the game for Monday. He
added that Jimmy Herman will
not be in the lineup as he
sprained his ankle in a game with
f
the Elks last Thursday, Janu
ary 18.
The Thursday game was played
at Palmer with the hotel team
leading the Elks in the third
quarter but losing to them by
eight' points in the final stanza
-for a|final score of 54-48^
The hotel team so far this sea
son has chalked up seven wins
out ;of ten games played, Coach
Roetman said. One of the team’s
best games this season was
its first exhibition on a foreign
court when the hotel team defeat
ed Leonard Hopkins quintet Jan
uary 8 in Anchorage with a score
of 54-41. The game was one of
the biggest upsets in Anchorage
this year, Roetman said. The
hotel1 team went to Anchorage
with six players. After Bert Stew
art and Jimmy Herman fouled
out. in the third quarter, Coach
Roetman had to substitute to
keep a full squad on the floor.
The local team led the game all
the Way through, Roetman stated.
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