Neglected Youths
Apprehended in
Expf. Station Theft
A sorry tale of parental neglect
leading to juvenile delinquency
was revealed under questioning in
Commissioner’s Court Thursday
afternoon after two teen-age boys
were apprehended following theft
of money from the Alaska Experi
ment Station.
About $89 in cash, loosely col
lected in an envelop and placed
in an open safe, was found miss
ing early Thursday afternoon by
Kay Pippel at the Experiment
Station, shortly after two youths
iad been in the payroll depart
ment to pick up a check for tem
porary labor at the Matanuska
Station farm. Only one of the
boys had been employed, but the!
other sat in a chair only a few!
inches from the safe, which was!
inside an open closet. The payroll
clerk had had to leave her office!
for a very few minutes while she
was getting the check prepared.
The money had been collected
just before the noon hour from
employees to pay a quarterly Blue
Cross Insurance installment. Mrs.
Pippel was about to make out a
covering check and deposit the
money in the bank when the loss
was discovered. The loss was re
ported to U. S. Commissioner
Dorothy Saxton, and the High
vay Patrol was immediately dis
patched to round up the suspect
ed culprits.
The boys were filling up on hot
dogs and ice cream sundaes in a
local eatery when they were
found. They had already purch
ased 22 rifles and had inquired
at the Commissioner’s office re
garding regulations in shooting
game. |
In the questioning that followed
it was revealed that the boys,
one 16 and the other 17, have been
sleeping in a car parked behind a j
garage. They picked up odd jobs
when they could find them, but
some days they had only dough-!
nuts to eat. One of the boys ad
mitted having some tangles with
the law before leaving California
with his mother. Only he came to
Alaska, where a brother is in ser
vice and his father lives in an
Anchorage hotel, because there
was money only for one ticket.
The other lad is the son of a
.homesteader in the Fairbanks
area.
The boys admitted taking the
money. Full restitution was made
after the guns had been returned j
to the merchant who had sold
them.
Co-Op Makes Record .
Vegetable Shipment
The largest single shipment
ever made by the Co-Op produce
department was made September
19, when a total of 48,235 pounds,
! or a little more than 24 tons of
fresh, Valley-glrown vegetables
vere shipped to the U. S. Army
at Anchorage. Included in the
shipment were lettuce, celery,
cabbage, carrots and ten tons of
potatoes.
Harold Stephan of the produce
department, reported a good year.
He added, however, that he
thought many of the potato crops
are smaller than last year, specu-1
lating that the yield per acre has
been smaller on an average be
cause of contrary growing weath
er experienced this year. Only
half the potatoes are dug, how
ever, and final results may prove
different, he added.
Nearly all other vegetables
turned out well he said. What at
first appeared to indicate a short
age in some crops has turned out
normal yields. Larger acreage and
crops of carrots and cabbage were
reported. Army contracts will ab
sorb a large percentage of the
crops.
Max Sherrod has been busy
these past weeks harvesting his
crops and reported a yield of 14'
tons to the acre of potatoes. Al
though a little less than his nor
mal yield, that’s a lot of spuds.
Other yields reported varied
from as little as two ton to an
acre on up. The general opinion
was that the crop yields were
slightly under that of 1951.
TELEPHONE SERVICES
GRADUALLY INCREASING
Telephone service in one section
of Palmer was disrupted Saturday
when a crane tangled in the lines.
Service was restored as soon as
possible.
Trouble on the lines is being
eliminated as soon as located,
Melvin Haugen, temporary main
tenance man, reported this week.
In making the announcement,
Haugen requested the cooperation
of all telephone users in helping
isolate trouble. He asks that when
there has been an outage users
answer their phones as soon as 1
they hear a ring, regardless of
whether the ring is their’s or not.
In this way, lines will be identi
fied faster and service restored
sooner.
Starting at 1:00 p.m. September
27, members of the Latter Day ;
Saints will hold a food sale at :
the Trading Post. Proceeds will ;
*o toward their building fund.
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0. K. KINCAID
Certified Public Accountant
Auditing — Income Tax — Monthly Services
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Public Health Nurse—
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for their public health programs- ■
This year Congress cut off a large
share of the anticipated federal
funds for the Alaska Department
of Health. This cut necessitated
the elimination of ail the depart- ;
ment’s mobile umts serving spar- ;
sely populated areas. Since these
areas are populated largely by j
Eskimos and Indians who are in
great need of public health ser
vices, more resident nurses are
having to be shifted there. These
expenses must be met in turn by
savings in the more populated
areas where medical attention is
available.
The Health Council voted to in
clude S1200 in its Community 1
Chest budget request for the
nurse’s salary. This figure was j
agreed upon when it was pointed
out that other areas much smaller
than the Valley are contributing
at least that amount. The total |
budget, including $30 for long dis
tance telephone calls, 572 for pos- :
tage. $300 for rent, 5300 for drugs !
and nure’s supplies, and 570 for j
a needed typewriter at the Health j
Center, amounted to 52,032. Pro
rated on the basis of school popu- j
lation, 51,512 of this would be re
quested of the Palmer Commun
ity Chest area and 5200 each from '
the Wasiila and Chugiak areas.
The Health Council also voted '
to sen dthe Alaska Department
of Health a letter expressing ap
preciation for Miss Myren’s
splendid services to the V alley !
area and recognition of the thor
oughness with which she attended
to the needed public health pro- '
grams in the face of an ever- in- j
creasing population and an en
larged district. An urgent request
that the department send a re
placement for Miss Myren in the
very near future was also includ- ;
ed.
Miss Myren voiced her regrets ;
at leaving her many friends in j
Palmer. She said she had enjoyed j
her three and one-half years in !
the Valley, but she feels that it }
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Alaska Child Welfare
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20 and 25 additional visitors will j
need housing. Many of these!
home-supervisors and personel
will be non-salaned workers. In
quiries at local hotels revealed
that there will not be enougli
space available to handle- that
large a number.
Mrs. Blanche Kyan has accepted
the responsibility of trying to lo
cate private homes in the Valley
who will take, in one or two of
these non-salaned workers. Any
one who has an extra room and •
would be willing to share their 1
home has been asked to contact
Mrs. Ryan. ,
The group will convene daily ■
at the .Lazy Mountain home at* i
9:30 a.m. with planned programs
continuing until 5:00 p.m. Many .
visitors will be coming here with- <
out cars and in addition to the ,
housing, Mrs. Ryan is seeking .
daily transportation to and from \
the home for those who will not (
be staying overnight at the Lazy
Mountain home. I
The most important problem on c
the agenda, Mrs. Brawl an- s
tiounced, will be setting up mini- i
mum standards for foster homes i
and children’s homes throughout
Alaska in accordance with legisla- ,
ture passed during tfie last ses- ,
sion.
is time to get new experience 1
and education in the public health t
field. Pointing out that the Val- 1
ley area school population has in- c
creased over 50 percent during
the period she has been here and
that the area has been enlarged |
to include the Chugiak School
District, she said that two full <
time nurses are needed in the 1
area now to do an adequate job. i
Miss Myren expects to spend :
two months on vacation in Cali- \
fornia and at her home in Unton- -
agon, Michigan, before making
herself available for reassign
ment. That reassignment might be
in Alaska, she said; and it's pos
sible that her new area might be
iear Palmer.
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Street Width~>
Continued from page 1
have been sidewalks, will involve
a mechanical change to right hand
turns on the hydrants. A wire
sent to the manuufacturer stopped
shipment and the alteration will
be made before they are shipped
:o Palmer.
Water to be Metered
Meters will be required of all
Palmer water system users, it
vas announced by APW man
Mathews. Believed to be the
first city in the Territory to in
stall meters, Palmer will un
ioubtedly be watched for resuults
ay many cities. Key boxes for
lach connection and thaw wires
vill also be necessary, it was an
lounced.
“The finest water system in Al
iska” is the way APW men have
lescribed the Palmer municipal
vaterworks. “No other city has
inythmg like it," they added. The
leep well system is the only one
if its type in the Territory.
The water line will be eight
eet deep all over town. Anch
rage, the past year, has spent
everal thousand dollars lower
rig her eight feet installations to!
i minimum of ten feet.
Contractors nave estimated a
»ossible 20 thousand feet of line
vill be set in by freeze-up time.
Lhis will include not only the
riain transportation line but many
ines in and around the city. At
he present time the line is about
talf way from the reservoir to the
lty.
hospital Report
Continued from page 1
Jmith, president of the hospital
>oard commented. “The hospital
s definitely on the up-grade now.
The service is better, we have a
rery fine staff and with the con
I
inued cooperation of the public,
he next year will be even better,”
le added.
TRAVEL
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THE ALASKA LINE
PASSENGER LINERS
From Seward
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S. S. DENALI S. S. BARANOF
Thurs., Oct. 2 Thurs. Oct. 9
Seward
Juneau
Petersburg
Wrangell
Ketchikan
Seattle
Seward
Sitka
Juneau
Ketchikan
Seattle
FREIGHTER SERVICE
From Seattle
S. S. NADINA
Sailing October 1, calling at
Valdez and Seward.
M. V. SUSITNA
Sailing October 8. calling at
Tamgass Harbor, Sitka, Val
dez, Seward, Homer and
Seldovia.
FOR INFORMATION
T. J MALONEY. AGENT
OFFICE WESTWARD HOTEL
ANCHORAGE. ALASKA
Phone 22001
STEAMSHIP COMPANY
Hear Ye!!!
For those of you in this community who want the
best in entertainment service be it known that
ALPINE INN's the place to go. Here you'll
find the choicest of meals and cocktails.
We'd like to be of service to you. Stop in soon,
Alpine Inn
Mile 61 — Glenn Highway Phone l-J-31
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Alaska rests on the verge of a great and prosperous future. As your Territorial
Senator, the finest contribution I can make towards realization of our opportunities,
will be to promote and support sound programs for STATEHOOD, EDUCATION,
AGRICULTURE, WELFARE, INTEGRATED HIGHWAYS AND TRANSPORTA
TION SYSTEMS, NATURAL RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT. ENCOURAGEMENT
OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY AND A SOUND FINANCIAL POSITION based on an
equitable tax program. My efforts will be sincere and your views will be carefully
considered.
GENERAL ELECTION OCTOBER 14, 1952
John F. Gorsuch
Me ’$ Counting on you to VOTE
ELECT
JOHN F.
GORSUCH
Territorial Senator
Republican