Early Pacific Coast explora
tion was accelerated by Brit
lan's offer of $100,000 reward
for discovery of the Northwest
Passage.
WOTM CONDUCT RING CEREMONY
Women of the Moose con
ducted a ring ceremony at the
June 4 meeting, with Gertrude
Burcher, chairman of the Aca
demy of Friendship, in charge.
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Those receiving rings were
Dorothy Newby, Katie Vasilie.
and Innie Cooper.
The Academy of Friendship
committee donated a set of kit
chen towels to WOTM, and
names were drawn for a gift
from the academy, which was
won by Mary Combs.
Officers elected for the 1963
64 season are Irene Vasanoja.
j junior graduate regent; Ruth
Salisbury, senior regent; Carla
Jo Peterson, junior regent; Ma
ble Hayes, chaplain: Esther
Gallagher, recorder; and Nor
ma Benson, treasurer. These
officers will be installed on Sat
i urday, June 29. at 8 p.m.
Lunch was served by offi
1 cers of the Moose Lodge.
Senate Approves
Sruening Bill
Unanimously approved b\
the U. S. Senate last week was
Senator Gruening’s bill whicl
would give coal and oil equal
treatment with natural gas bj
making these fuels eligible fot
government contracts of as lor.*
as ten years in connection with
public utility services.
The bill, co-sponsored b>
Senator Bartlett, will now gc
to the House of Representative:
for approval.
The bill, if made law, will
apply on a nation-wide basis
to government fuel contracts.
Prison population of Walk
Walla was 1480 at start of 1962
SCHOOL BOARD REVIEWS, APPROVES
1963-64 PALMER SCHOOL GALEHDAR
Approval of the school calen
dar for the 1963-64 year was
given at the regular monthly
meeting of the Palmer Inde
pendent School District board
of education last Monday.
The calendar includes 175
days of actual school attend
ance, five legal holidays, two
teacher work days, and two
teacher conference days for a
total of 185 days. Classes will
begin Wednesday, Sept. 4, and
will close for Christmas vaca
tion at the end of the school
day on Friday, Dec. 20. School
will resume again on Jan. 2
and run through May 27. Pres
ent plans call for vacation days j
SHOP AND SAVE AT THE Bill
SHOP AND SAVE AT THE BIG K
DON’T FORGET FA THERS BAY
BAR-S am
BolognaAy
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By the Chunk
Spare CA
Ribs 59
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lb
Lean and Meaty
OCOMA
Chicken T C
Paris »
BREASTS, THIGHS, DRUMSTICKS
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SUGAR IS UP - LAST TIME AT THIS LOW PRICE
C&H SUGAR 10 lbs I39
Lb.
CIGARETTES
ALL
KIHDS
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79
CTH.
SHOP AHD SAVE AT THE BIG K SHOP A H D SA
AND SAVE SHOP AND SAVE AT THE BIG K- SHOP AND SA
Carnation
MILK 6
97
TALL CANS
CAKE MIXES
3
NEW BRIDE
DEVILS FOOD
YELLOW, WHITE
for
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Simply
Bake Beans
S & W Wonderful:
PERFECT TOGETHER
Brown Bread
Catsup ii*'se
Corn on Cob
14 oz.
2 “£79°
2 * 69c
3 <.79°
2 * 98°
Cucumber Pickles £49
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Ripe Olives
Applesauce
PEAS
Lge.
39'
2^55°
2^55°
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PET RITZ pies
FROZEN CHOC.CREAM, APPLE
BANANA CREAM, BOYSENBERRY
LEMON, CHERRY
59
ea
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CANTALOUPES.35c ea.
CHERRIES.79c lb.
LETTUCE-Airborne.29c lb.
Tebe-TOMATOES.35c ea. ^
Fire King Coffee Mugs & Cereal Bowls
ea.
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STORE HOURS
MON. - THURS. 9:00 - 8:00 - FRI. • SAT. 9:00 - 9:00 - SUN. - 9:00 - 6:00
KOSLOSKY'S DEPARTMENT STORE
PALMER, ALASKA
SHOP AND SAVE AT THE BIG K
on Good Friday and Easter
Monday, although these will
depend on school closures dur
ing the year. If necessary to
meet the 175-day requirement,
these two vacation days may
have to be cancelled, it was
pointed out.
On three days during the sch
ool year, school will close early
for general administrative
meetings by all the faculty un
der the direction of the super
intendent of schools. The meet
ings will be devoted to curricu
lum study.
The board of education will
accept sealed bids on a Norge
electric range with deep well
and a Bendix automatic wash
er-dryer, both of which can be
seen in the high school entry
way. Bids will be opened July
1, 1963 in the office of the su
perintendent. Both are to be
sold on an “as, where is” basis.
The public is cordially invit
ed to attend the meetings of the
Palmer Indepentdent School
District board of education,
superintendent of schools Rich
ard Carter stated. Meetings are
on the second Monday of each
month in the teachers’ room
at the high school.
AUCTION OFFERS
NUMEROUS ITEMS
Members of the Butte Fire
Association will offer a large
and tremendously varied num
ber of items at their public auc
tion this Sunday, June 16. at
the Butte Fire Hall. The sale
will start at 12:30 p.m., with
consignment items to be auc
tioned off at 1:30 p.m.
Besides a large consignment
of farm machinery, tools, and
equipment, other items to be
auctioned include stoves, wash
ing machines, power and hand
tools, furnaces, hot water tank,
furniture, lawn mowers, new
D8 ratiator top tank, radios,
typewriter, deep well hand
pump, books, electric mixer,
fresh cow, Shopsmith combina
tion power tool, refrigerators,
TV sets, and logging equip
ment.
In conjunction with the auc
tion, the Butte Fire Auxiliary
will hold a rummage and baked
goods sale, and will sell re
freshments.
Persons with items to donate
to the auction are asked to call
PI 5-2941, PI 5-2728. PI 5-4725,
or PI 5-3637.
Chamber to Meet
Once Each Month
National Dairy Month will
be the program topic at the
monthly luncheon meeting of
the Matanuska Valley Cham
ber of Commerce at noon on
Wednesday, June 19. at the
Frontier Cafe.
The Chamber of Commerce
will meet once monthly, on the
third Wednesday, until further
notice, Chamber president
Barney Fish announced.
A speaker from the Alaska
Division of Agriculture will be
heard at the June 19 meeting.
Oregon Caves are 3000 feet
above sea level.
Price Support
Loan Rates for
Barley Announced
The U. S. Department of
Agriculture recently announc
ed county price-support loan
rates for 1963-crop barley, ac
cording to Darrel L. Baird,
chairman, state agricultural
stabilization and conservation
committee.
County price support rates
for 1963 are $1.80 per bushel,
the same as those in 1962. The
loan rates are adjusted by dis
counts for grade and quality to
determine support prices for
individual producers.
The discount for barley grad
ing No. 3 is three cents. No. 4
is six cents, mixed barley is
two cents, and barley grading
garlicky is ten cents.
Price support will be carried
out, as in previous years, thro
ugh farm and warehouse-stored
loans and purchase agreements.
Support will be available from
harvest time through Jan. 31,
1964. Loans will mature on
April 30, 1964.
BIG LAKE MAN
DIES IN SEATTLE
Dalmar W. Abbott, 56, who
maintained a residence in the
Big Lake area, died at his Seat
tle home Sunday morning.
Since 1958 he and his wife,
Louise, have spent their win
ters in Bothell, near Seattle,
and their summers at their Big
Lake homesite and their Bur
ma Road homestead.
Abbott came to Alaska in
1938, living for a number of
years on Lake Marian. He was
a member of Operators’ Union
No. 302 and the Elks Lodge.
Besides his wife, Abbott is
survived by a son, James, a
stepdaughter in Ontario, Calif.,
and two grandchildren. Other
survivors are his mother and
father, Mr. and Mrs. George
H. Abbott of Canyon City,
Colo.: a brother, Gerald L., of
Anchorage; sisters Nellie Lar
son and Margaret Greco of
Pueblo, Colo.; a sister Mildred
Evans of Ulysses, Kansas; and
a brother, George R., of Castle
Rock, Colo.
LOCAL ELKS TAKE
PART IN TV PROGRAM
Stan Zaborac, Exalted Ruler
of Palmer Elks Lodge No. 1852,
and Keith Melendy, Leading
Knight, will appear with offi
cers of Anchorage Lodge No.
1351 in a television program
Friday. June 14.
Annual Flag Day ceremonies
will be observed during the
program, which will be televis
ed over KENI, Channel 2, at
4:30 p.m.
5-DAY OUTLOOK
The five-day weather out
look for the Cook Inlet area is
generally fair to partly cloudy
with afternoon showers. Preci
pitation will average below
normal and temperatures above
normal.
The above information is
supplied by the U. S. Depart
ment of Commerce Weather
Bureau, in cooperation with the
U. S. Department of Agricul
ture Statistical Reporting Ser
vice.
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