Thought of the Week:
i Taxpayers wonder why they
should be compelled to pay
for rehabilitation of other na
tions.
VOLUME 15. NUMBER 33
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF THE MATANUSKA VALLEY
PALMER. ALASKA. THURSDAY. MAY 9, 1963
TEN PAGES
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PALMER SCHOOLS
BAND CONCERT
CENTRAL SCHOOL AUD.
8 P.M.
PRICE 15 CENTS
MAY 10
General Acceptance of Borough Petition Shown
i Reporters—
Notebook.
A going-away party and din
ner were given at the Frontier
( fe on April 30 for Mr. and
Ai's. Walt Soocey of Eklutna.
S acey is retiring from his posi
■ n with the Bureau of Recla
mation.
-he couple plan to leave on
M.iy IT, and will tour parts of
t:.e Lnited States before mak
m l a new home in California.
Mr. and Mrs. James Schubin
r* port that they are now settled
in Fontana, California, in des
ert country about 40 miles east
of Los Angeles. Jim is taking
p...rt in a fast training period
preparing him for a position as
ranch manager of one of the
Cison Bros, poultry ranches.
It is fairly certain that w-e
v.il go to the East to set up an
operation there," he said.
* * *
AC A A Joe Hamon, USN, ar
r ed home April 25 and will
be on leave here until May 9.
He has completed a course at
a.r controlmen’s school in Gly
r. d, Georgia, and will go to his
new station at Kodiak at the
c\ >se of his leave. Joe is the
s n of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Ham
or. of Lazy Mountain.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Lou Wood of
S'.evensville, Montana, visited
the Frontiersman last week.
They are touring Alaska and
w 11 visit friends in Anchorage.
Wx>d is a printer in Stevens
v.le,
* * •
Navy Ensign James A.
V tkaryous, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Anthony Vickaryous of
Star Route, Palmer has report
ed to Training Squadron 29 at
the Naval Air Station, Corpus
Christi, Texas, for an eight
week course in airborne navi
gation.
Upon completing the training
period, students receive 15
hours of flight support lectures
ar.d 72 hours of inflight naviga
tion training in the R4D and T
29 type aircraft.
Ross Kopperud returned
home Tuesday from the Kaiser
Foundation Rehabilitation Cen
ter in Vallejo, Calif., much im
proved from therapy treat
ments received there. Ross was
injured in a construction acci
dent nearly two years ago. Af
ter a ten-week rest at home,
he will return to the Center
for more treatment on Aug. 1
* * *
Two Alaska public health
nurses, Mrs. Priscilla Bacon of
Palmer and Mrs. Beulah Olgier
son of Anchorage, will be sent
to a conference on the preven
tion of mental retardation in
children, which will be held in
Los Angeles, Calif., on May 27,
*2S, and 29.
The conference, sponsored by
the Children’s Bureau of the
United States Public Health
Service, will be held at the
Children’s Hospital in Los An
geles.
RYAN’S LYNES
By Jack Ryan
I’m trying to figure out how
I’ll spend the money I won
on the ice pool. I could pay my
bills, but the shock might be
too much for my creditors.
* * *
Probably, I could put the
money in a bank. But, how
am I going to get rich when
I'm borrowing money at six
per cent, and letting the
keep my cash for three
per cent?
Probably, I should buy a
new house. But, with the
family I’ve got, I’d do better
to add three bathrooms and
two telephones to the home I
own.
Welcome Cuban
AMADO IZAQUIRRE, right, a refugee from
Cuba, is greeted upon his arrival here
at International Airport by a fellow
countryman, Jose Fliete, from left. Fliete's
daughter, Mrs. Bay Clark, wife of an
Anchorage attorney, and Mrs. John De
Vries, representative of the United
Protestant Church of Palmer, which is
sponsoring his resettlement in Alaska.
(Anchorage Times Photo)
Two days in a new location,
so different from former sur
roundings that it must seem
like a new world, is not much
time in which to make a de
cision, but Amado Izaquirre
says he likes Palmer.
The young Cuban refugee
arrived at Anchorage Interna
tional Airport Tuesday even
ing, and was immediately sur
rounded by a horde of news
paper radio, and T. V. report
ers, armed with cameras and
tape recorders, all firing ques
tions in a rapidly-spoken,
nearly incomprehensible ton
gue.
What saved Amado. who had
already spent a trying day,
was the presence of Jose Fliete,
a fellow countryman who has
lived in Anchorage for the past
eight months, and his daugh
ter, Mrs. Bay Clark, wife of an
Anchorage attorney. Fliete
Cuban Refugees
Arrive In Palmer
Two young Cuban refugees
arrived in Palmer this week
as part of a nation-wide relo
cation project for those who
have fled the Castro regime.
They are here under the
sponsorship of the United Pro
testant Church in Palmer,
MISS ALASKA TO
GO TO VERMONT
Colleen Kendall, Miss Alaska,
of 1963 and Miss Alaska State
Fair, 1962, has a busy summer
before her, which will be cli
maxed with the Miss America
pageant at Atlantic City, New
Jersey, next September.
Colleen has been invited
to and plans to attend a
festival on May 18 in
Vermont where “Miss Ver
mont” (also a “Miss America”
contest) will be crowned. She
will also attend the crowning
ceremonies of “Miss Oregon”
and “Miss Minnesota,” both of
which will be held in June.
Miss Alaska has been invited
to Juneau for the selection of
“Miss Juneau” for the coming
year.
In addition to Greater Anch
orage, Inc., Colleen now has a
second sponsor, Cordova Air
lines. This company will send
her on a number of good-will
missions.
Sen. Gruening has invited
Miss Alaska to spend a few
days in Washington, D.C. when
she goes east for the Atlantic
City pageant.
Colleen, who won a $1,000
scholarship in the Miss Alaska
pageant in addition to her
£1,000 scholarship in the Miss
Alaska State Fair contest, plans
to continue her college educa
tion. She is now a sophomore at
Alaska Methodist University,
i majoring in English.
which has assumed the respon
sibility for their welfare. Mem
bers of the church are seeking
employment for the two, both
of whom are willing to accept
whatever type of work they
can get.
The young men are Amado
Izaquirre, 21, and Francisco Ra
mos, 24.
Izaquirre’s wife and two chil
dren are still in Cuba. He has
been in military service in the
United States for the past six
months and is a former bank
teller.
Ramos has a fluent command
of English, since he was educat
ed in military schools in Ken
tucky. He returned to Cuba
after the death of his father
to manage the family ranch.
He reports that he has other
skills in addition to farming.
Ramos has one child still in
Cuba, also his mother.
Temporary housing has been
arranged for the two men at
the Bacon home. Job possibil
ities have been offered by Eur
eka Lodge. The sponsoring
church group are eager to
know of other opportunities
for employment for Izaquirre
and Ramos.
Izaquirre arrived here Tues
day, and Ramos last evening.
Second Little League
Work Party Planned
Another work party is plan
ned for Saturday, May 11, at
the Little League baseball dia
mond across the street from the
Valley Hospital, it was an
nounced this week. Anyone in
terested in futhering the Little
League project is urged to take
part.
The Matanuska Valley Lions
Club and its officers expressed
their appreciation and thanks
to the people who assisted last
Saturday in preparing the dia
mond for League play.
speaks no English, but Mrs.
Clark acted as interpreter for
Izaquirre.
The young man expresses
himself very passably in Eng
lish, but has a few problems ir
comprehension when peoplt
speak rapidly.
He fielded the difficul'
questions being put to him bj
the newsmen well, saying tha'
Kennedy’s recommended pol
icy of Cuban refugees joininf
the United States Army, rath
er than to engage in small raid
ing parties is a good one—“As
one, we are strong.”
Asked how he had escapee
Cuba, he said, ‘T ran—in z
boat.” He and five others fled
the island in a 32-foot boat Iasi
September.
Amado said he has been in
terested in Alaska since he was
a child, and surprised the re
presentatives of the Unitec
Protestant Church by quoting
population statistics for An
chorage and Palmer—“1201
people in Palmer—I will make
1202!”
With the arrival of Francisct
Ramos last evening, the lan
guage barrier was considerably
lifted for Amado, since Fran
cisco speaks English fluently.
The young men are now liv
ing in a cabin on the Bacor
property. Members of th<
church are eager to learn o
job opportunities for the two
Mrs. Clark and Mr. Fliete hav<
also offered to help in locatin;
work for the refugees, as ha;
the Rev. Claude Klaver of th<
Wasilla Presbyterian Church.
A reception for Izaquirri
and Ramos is planned at th<
United Protestant Church im
mediately following churcl
services next Sunday morning
Moffitt Concern
Still in Business
Owen A. Moffitt announcec
this week that he is still doinj
business as Palmer Sand ant
Gravel, and that he has sole
only the aggregate plant ant
the property on which it i
located.
The Moffitt concern does back
hoe work, such as excavatinj
cesspools and ditches; ca
work, including land clearini
with D8’s and cat and carryal
work; concrete work, includini
slabs and basements; and dir
and gravel hauling with dum]
equipment (APSC permit).
Moffitt is no longer makini
or selling crushed aggregate o
sand, he stated.
STUDY INDICATES
FEASIBILITY OF
STEAM PLANT
Basic information in a power
requirements study made for
MEA recently by Frank Coo
ver, REA field representative,
enhance the feasibility of the
proposed mine-mouth steam
plant at Sutton, according to
Mason LaZeile, field represen
tative. The study indicates
MEA’s power requirements for
the next ten years.
Coover's basic recommenda
tion is 5(5,659,000 kilowatt hours
in 1968, with a peak demand
of 16.150 kilowatts and a nor
mal capacity of 12.930 kilo
watts; and 85,450,000 kilowatt
hours in 1973, with a peak de
mand of 24,400 kilowatts and a
normal capacity of 19,500 kilo
watts.
REA criteria require that the
output of the steam must be
needed by REA borrowers by
ten years after the plant goes
on the line. LaZeile said. If the
plant could be ready for oper
ation by 1966, the output would
have to be in use by 1976.
Projecting the 1973 figures
forward three years to 1976
provides the following demand
and energy requirement: 111,
100,000 kilowatt hours with a
peak demand of 31,750 kilo
watts and a normal capacity of
25,400 kilowatts.
The peak demand figures
listed are in all cases 1.25 times
the normal capacity require
mens to furnish the kilowat'
hours required, at 50 per cen
load factor, the manager stat
,' ed.
With the steam plant on th<
line, MEA will have available
for power supply in 1976. 22,00(
kilowatts from the steam plan
and 5,000 kilowatts from tht
Bureau of Reclamation, mak
ing a total of 27,000 kilowatt
hours.
"It is apparent, on the basis
of the power requirements
study, that the 22-megawatt
steam plant is feasible, and
that the allocation from the
Bureau of Reclamation must be
retained,” the manager said.
He added that the allocation
could be released to some other
local entity for the first five or
six years of steam plant opera
tion.
The figures developed by
Coover take into account the
normal development to be ex
pected. on the basis of past ex
perience, with a specified num
1 ber of large power loads to be
added over the ten-year period.
LaZelle said. They do not cover
any large developments which
could occur, but which long
range planning cannot predict
1 at present.
Concert Will Honor
W. T. Zahradnicek
William T. Zahradnicek.
1 former superintendent of Pal
mer schools and now Alaska s
commissioiner of education
will be honored at the annua:
Spring Concert, to be presented
by the bands of the Palmei
schools under the direction oi
bandmaster Lee Plumbley. The
concert will be held in Centra:
1 school auditorium tommorrow
; May 10, at 8 p.m.
I The performance will be ded
1 icated to the former superin
1 tendent, as will the “Pioneer’s
5 Parade March," written by
bandmaster Plumbley to hon
or “Mr. Z.”
, Soloists will be Charles T
' Plumbley, cornetist, a third
, grader who has been playing
I his instrument ten months
, Morton Blissard, clarinetist
[ ninth grader who has workec
up to the position of first clar
inet in the senior band; anc
Cynthia Blissard, tenth gradei
; who has worked up to seconc
r baritone in the senior band.
The sixth grade band wii:
Boundaries, Borough
Seal Are Different
A genera! acceptance of the 1
Matanuska-Susitna first - class
borough petition now in circ
ulation is evident, according to 1
Bob Vroman, one of the origi- ;
na! Matanuska-Susitna peti- ;
tioners who are now working
with the Palmer City Council
on the new petition.
The new petition differs
from the ere in circulation a
year ago in that the boundaries |
encompass more territory, and
that Palmer is named as the;
seat of government for the
first live years, after which
the people of the borough I
would choose the permanent
seat through referendum.
Vroman said this morning !
that he feels adequate signa
tures have already been ob
tained. both in the city of Pal
mer and in the rural areas, to
validate the petition, but that
petitions will continue to circ
ulate throughout District 7, to
j get a thorough sampling of all
areas of the proposed borough.
Additional signatures will add
strength to the petition, he
said.
A Wasilla meeting was held
last evening, and another is
planned tonight in Willow at
the Civic center at 8 p.m. to
discuss the petition. There are
also tentatk. e plans for a Tal
keetna meeting. The purpose
of these meetings, Vroman
said, is to indicate the intent
of the new petition and to
clarify whether this is in con
• flict with the concepts of the
original petition.
The new proposed boundnr
‘ ies extend to the Kuskatan
' River on the west, follow the
1 Alaska Range at the 2.000 foot
level, circle north of Denali,
and join the Seventh Elect ion
Volunteers Asked
For Fairgrounds
Cleanup Party
Volunteers for a fair grounds
work party on Saturday, May
11, are needed, according to
Curly Sutton, manager of the
1963 Alaska State Fair, Inc.
A genera! cleanup program,
to make room for the new mid
way, is planned, Sutton said.
The existing midway booths
were seriously damaged during
the wind storm on March 27
and 28, Sutton said, and while
some materials can be salvag
ed, they must be rebuilt.
Any laboring skill can be put
to good use, Sutton stated, and
urged that state Fair-minded
individuals turn out to assist
1 in this community-building j
1 project.
play “America," by Carey: i
“Fidelity March," by H. Hum
mel; “Waltz,” by F. Schubert:
“Soldier's March,,” by Schu
mann: “German Dance." by F.
Haydn: and "Bill Bailey," by
Cannon.
Selections to be played by
the junior band are “Merry
Makers' March," by Hummel:
“Sweet Betsy,” by F. Frank;
“Spanish March,” by F. Buch
tel; “Crusader's Hymn." ar
ranged by F. Weber; “Fame and
Fortune Overture,” by Hum
mel; and “The Challenger
March,” by Hummel.
The high school band will
play “Stouthearted Men. (fea
turing the majorettes) by Rom
berg; “Irish Suite,” arranged
by L. Jackson; "Variation
Overture,” by E. Williams;
“English Suite,” arranged by
Jackson; "Sweet Georgia
Brown,” arranged by J. Caca
vas; “Three Songs of Colonial
America,” arranged by Jack
son; and “Pioneer’s Parade
March,” by Lee Plumbley.
District boundaries on the
jast. The west boundary of the
'ormer proposed borough was
he Big Susitna River.
Residents of outlying areas
asked for incorporation as a
first class borough rather than
fhe second-class borough pro
posed by city council members
last week.
Their reasoning, as outlined
by Vroman, is that in consider
ing area-wide powers, both
classes must first seek an
agreement between the first
class city and the outlying
area as to whether the city
will exercise a joint venture
with the borough to transfer
their function to the borough
assembly.
At this point, Vroman said,
the difference in borough
classifications becomes appar
ent. The second class borough,
after obtaining this agreement
with the city, must submit a
petition to the director of the
Local Affairs Agency: the peti
tion is then reviewed by t h e
Local Boundaries Commission,
which then reports its find
ings back to the director of the
Local Affairs Agency, who in
turn directs that a referendum
vote be held on the proposed
areawide power. The cost of
the election is born by the
I borough.
| However, the first class bor
ough, once the agreement with
I the city has been made, ex
I tends the powers of the bor
1 ough assembly through the
I use of ordinances, w’hich in
i volve a 60-day period during
which the borough assembly is
obligated to hold hearings and
to publish in public places the
proposed ordinance. After this
time, the ordinance will by
passed if the assembly has r ,t
been made aware of strong op
| position to its passage.
The main reason that the
outlying areas pushed for a
first-class borough, according
to Vroman, is that, although
the outlying areas may be ad
ministered through the use of
service areas, when any one
service is of such magnitude
to warrant consideration as an
area-wide power, it is felt that
calling in the state to perform
functions which by right are
those of the elected representa
tives w-ould result in loss of
concern for responsibility by
borough assembly members.
Mrs. Hurley Named
Crusade Chairman
Mrs. James Hurley has been
appointed 1963 Cancer Crusade
chairman for the Matanuska
Valley, Mrs. Charles Wilson,
chairman of the local unit of
the American Cancer Society,
announced this week.
The Crusade will be con
ducted during the month of
May this year to coincide with
cancer drives throughout the
state and the nation, Mrs. Wil
son said. For some years the
Matanuska Valley Crusade has
been held during the month of
July.
The Cancer Crusade has a
two-fold purpose, it was stated
—to raise money for the Am
erican Cancer Society's many
programs of research, public
education, professional educa
tion, and service to cancer pa
tients, and to distribute litera
ture to urge the public to
watch for the seven cancer
danger signals.