VALLEY FROHTIERSMAN
PRINTED AT PALMER, ALASKA, EACH THURSDAY
By the Matanuska Press, Inc._
Entered as second class matter on Oct. 21, 1947, at the post office at
Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879._
A1 J. DeJulio . ~ Publisher, Manager
Editor .Lucille Kennedy Mick
Associate Editor .Virginia Gallant
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LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
I wish to thank the Women’s
Republican Club for their effic
ient work in getting out the vot
ers on last Tuesday’s Primary
Election, and especially those
furnishing transportation to those
who needed such services.
Greater interest has never been
shown at a Primary Election in
the Valley. 504 votes in Palmer
compares very favorably with the
vote in Anchorage and assures
Palmer of a favorable position in
Territorial affairs.
Sincerely,
M. D. Snodgrass
Matanuska Valley Precinct
Republican Committeeman
As Palmer’s “Best”
Deloris Foster Wilts
Music Festival Cup
- - Palmer School's band and chor
us took part in the mass band
and chorus of Saturday night
concert in Anchorage’s High
School Auditorium that marked
the close of the two-day Music
Festival in w'hich students from
five Alaskan cities participated.
During the concert, Deloris
Foster was presented with a gold
cup as the Palmer School’s best
all around musician. Similar cups
were presented to the chosen
students from Fairbanks, Anchor
age, Seward Cordova and Fort
Richardson schools. The Palmer
winner won first place in the bat
on-twirling senior event, and was
also a member of both the chorus
and the band. Another Palmerite,
fifth-grader Muriel Hanks, won
the baton-twirling junior event.
Determination of the winners
in the solo events has not been
announced, but certificates will,
be sent to the winners when de
cisions are reached. Representing
Palmer School were trumpet so
loists Gary Krise and Jimmy Joy.
trombone soloist Kermit King,
and vocal soloists Lowell Krise
and Annie Havemeister. A Pal
mer lad. fifth-grader Charles Coe,
a private pupil of an Anchorage
studio, was the only contestant
in the violin solo event.
No ratings were given to the
individual bands and choruses
that took part in the festival.
However, impartial observers—
from Palmer—remarked that Di
rector John Zawalniki’s blue and
white clad Palmer band, led by
the attractive Majorettes, was the
classiest looking outfit in the 10
block parade of the bands in their
march from the Anchorage High
School, down Fourth Avenue, and
back to the high school. Palmer
color bearers, carrying American
and Territorial flags borrowed
from the local Boy Scouts, head
ed the parade.
Following the concert Saturday
night, the Palmer musicians were
guests at a Musicians' Mixer held
in the Anchorage High School
Cafeteria. They danced to music
donated by the Aleutian Gardens
until 11:30 p.m.. when they left
for home and Palmer. According
to the favorable comments, An
chorage was a very good host
to the visiting musicians. Direc
tors of the several bands and
choruses decided to have the
Music Festival a vearlv event to
New Butte Supply Co.
Receives Shipment of
Case Farm Equipment
A new shipment wf J. I. Case
Co. farm equipment arrived in
the Valley this week as the first
order of the new Butte Supply
Company was received by Blake
McKinley, recently authorized as
J. I. Case dealer in this area.
The equipment will be on dis
play at the McKinley farm at the
Butte.
Young McKinley returned to
the Valley three weeks ago after
a trip to Portland where he
spent several days with the West
Coast distributor of J. I. Case
equipment learning the essential
points about the many types of
equipment he will handle. The
order for the equipment was
placed at that time.
Included in this first shipment
are two J. I. Case tractors, a Case
“Feed Saver” hammer mill, and
about 20 other pieces of farm
equipment.
FESTIVAL AWARDS
The following students won ;!
awards from the Music Festi-;!
val held in Anchorage last May
2 and 3, according to a re-;|
port furnished by Band Direct
or John Zawalnicki at noon;
today. ;
Trumpet soloists Gary Krise !
and Jimmy Joy were both ra- -
ted good. ;
In the Baton-Twirling Con-;
test, Majorettes Mary Ann;
Mears and Pat Kirsch were ;
rated excellent. Deloris Lentz I;
was rated good and Deloris >
Foster and little Muriel Hanks !;
were both rated superior. ;
“We are very proud of these ■]
people”, observed Zawalnicki.;
be held no earlier than the first
week in May. This year’s festival
was backed by the L and J Music
Company of Anchorage, which
donated the six gold cups pre
sented.
TEX COBB RETURNS
Seen in town this week after a i
winter-long absence was the Val- '
ley’s most famous character, Tex
Cobb.
Sporting a neat, new six-inch
beard, the octogenarian prospec
Junior-Senior Banquet and Prom are
Pre-Commencement Social Highlights
Social highlights of the week
end are the Junior-Senior Ban
quet and the Junior-Senior Prom
both of which will be held Satur
day evening, May 10.
The banquet will be served in
the basement of St. John’s Lu
theran Church by the ladies of
.053 per pound; and Melvin San-t
ders, who will furnish 34 tons to
Whittier for November-December
at .0535 and the same amount for
March-April at .0634 per pound.
Low on Beots and Turnips
Sanders, who entered bids on
army produce for the first time
this year, will be the big beet
and turnip man in the Valley this
year. He was low bidder for these
items at Elmendorf, Fort Rich
ardson, and Whittier. He will fur
nish a total of 19,370 pounds of
beets at his low bid of .089 per
pound and a total of 22,500
pounds of turnips at the same
price.
Other independent green vege
table growers in the Valley are
Wiederkehr, who will supply
Elmendorf AFB with 97,500
pounds of lettuce at .158 for a
total of $15,405 and 121,000
pounds of cabbage to Fort Rich
ardson at .078 for a total of $9.
438; and Walter Callison, a rela
tively new producer who will
supply Whittier with 6,600
pounds of cabbage at .07 and 5,
400 pounds of lettuce at .145 for
a total of $1,245 for the two
items.
The remainder of the green
produce contracts for cabbage,
carrots, celery, and lettuce went
to the Co-Op. No cauliflower,
radishes, or onions could be sup
plied by the Valley under the
ceiling prices established by the |
military. The Co-Op was success- j
ful bidder for carrots at all three i
installations. At .10 per pound, |
90.000 pounds will be supplied to ,
Elmendorf, 42,500 pounds to Fort '
Richardson, and 6,250 pounds to |
Whittier. The MVFCA will also \
supply 63,000 pounds of celery to i
Elmendorf and 40.500 pounds to
Fort Richardson at .17. For El- I
mendorf, Co-Op producers will '
grow 104,000 pounds of cabbage 1
at .088; and for Fort Richardson,
63.800 pounds of lettuce at .16.
Althogether the Co-Op's green
vegetable contracts at the three|
installations will bring in well j
over $50,000.
Co-Op Manager Roy Brock
hinted this week that these con
tract awards may be only the be
ginning of military contract
awards for the Valley. The Ladd
Air Force Base bids are to be
opened today, and two other
military bases in the Fairbanks i
area have not yet called for bids
tor, trapper, and hero of many j
magazine stories appeared taller j
and straighter than ever.
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the church. The prom will follow
at the Palmer School gymnasium.
Admission to both affairs is by in
vitation only.
Everything is very hush-hush
about the Juniors’ plans for the
two events with which they
traditionally bid farewell to the
graduating Seniors.
Clean-Up Week—
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ed NOT to include garbage with
their trash. Garbage will not be
picked up, for it is the individual
householder’s continuing respon
sibility. All trash should be put
in containers which are fairly
light and placed at the edge of
the road, where it will be close
to the truck.
Householders are asked to clean
up their properties right up to
the middle of the street in front
3f them. Those that take pride
n their surroundings may extend
their activities to vacant lots
beside them, across the street, and
to other parts of town that need
attention.
Other groups joining in the
campaign will be the boys at Pal
mer School who will clean up the
school grounds—pick up all the
broken whisky bottles and beer
cans that have been carelessly
tossed where children play. It is
expected that the Boy Scouts and
the Cub Scouts will scour the
town for such rubbish that is a
disgusting sight along almost
every street in town. Other or
ganizations desiring to add their
efforts to the campaign are urged
to get in touch with Mr. Crow
ther who will be happy to co
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HAS NEW OWNER
VALLEY GROCERY
Purchase of the building,
equipment, stock, and adjacent
property of the Valley Grocery
was completed this week by
Larry Bixby, formerly of Kirk’s
Sales and Service, who is the
new owner and manager, and
Everett and Jean May Yohn,
former owners.
The Yohns opened their gro
cery business in the new North
Palmer store they had built about
three years ago. Later they ex
panded their building to provide
space for Palmer Washeteria,
which was in business until re
cently. Bixby also bought out A1
Saxton’s lease for this space. His
plans for this space are in doubt;
he might rent it and he might en
large the present grocery.
Bixby, who has been managing
the store since April 21, is in the
process of expanding his stock.
He plans to have a better variety
of all items, and more of them.
He will receive shipments of fresh
produce twice weekly.
A Valley resident for the past
six years, Bixby has had previous
grocery experience in Michigan.
He and his wife and their son,
Douglas, have nearly completed a
spacious home on the Anchorage
Highway.
Everett and Jean May Yohn
are both second generation Col
onists. With Ev in the States on
business and for medical treat
ment, their future plans have not
been announced.
ordinate every individual activity
into the city-wide program.
REMEMBER CLEAN UP
WEEK, MAY 11-17. BE PROUD
TO LIVE IN PALMER!
Fairbanks Plans
Dust Control Project
Fairbank’s City Manager Evan
Peterson returned from a trip to
Oregon taken in the interest of
dust control in that city.
The material he investigated
and subsequently ordered was an
asphalt mix that is neither a
paving nor an oil treatment.
Purchased from the American As
phalt and Bitumols Company of
Portland.
As explained to the City Coun
cil, the material cannot be laid
over the roads until danger of
freezing is over. The freezing
damage happens only during the
preparation stages, when an am
ulsion is made with water. After
it is laid and takes up the dust,
there is no harm done by a freeze.
Work Stoppage—
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outside the tunnel when a stone
rolled down an embankment,
split, and then struck him. Dur
ing the past month, said Felk
ner, there have been only six
injuries entailing loss of time
from the job. The engineer ad
mitted that the tunnel construc
tion work is hazardous, particu
larly while the workers are “go
ing through the broken stuff.” He
said he believed that the Palmer
Constructors’ record is about as
good as that of any other contrac
tors.
Asked about the effect of the
carpenters’ strike on the project,
Felkner was certain that it would
not delay the project unless the
carpenters throw up a picket line.
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