NEW MARKET WITH
ALL DEPARTMENTS
TO OPEN JULY I
Complete market is prom- j
ised Palmer as rapidly as remod
eling, refurnishing and expansion
can be rushed through.
What started as the Shamrock
bakery now is expanding to offer
a full line of staple and fancy gro
ceries, a delicatessen, a meat mar
ket and a bakery. Mr. and Mrs.
Nels Stensland announced.
The bakery, formerly fronting
on the main street, has been
moved back to the addition to the
building constructed last year.
Crew of workers dismantled ov
ens and refrigerator and installed
them in the new room last week
—while the bakery kept right on
baking, and preliminary remodel
ling went forward. t
The grocery department of the
market, according to Stens
land, will be largely self-service.
Counter service will be offered in
the meat market, delicatessen and
bakery departments.
“We have felt since we first
came here the demand and need
for an enterprise such as the one
we are putting in”, Stensland
said.
Opening of the market is
planned for about July 1. It will
be open seven days a week, hours
to depend upon demand. A food
store manager with wide experi
ence both in the States and in Al
aska, has been engaged.
Streamlined Equipment
Value of the extensive improve
ments was not revealed. Occupy
ing one of the newest buildings
in Palmer, it will be further mod
ernized with latest lighting and
refrigeration, streamlined shelves,
cases, aisles, counters and equip
ment. Remodelling is being done
by Martin Omestad of Palmer,
who arrived recently from Kirk
land, Wash.
Mr. and Mrs. Stensland have
operated bakeries in Alaska for
the past 18 years, in Petersburg,
Wrangell, Anchorage and Fair
banks. A year ago they bought
the Shamrock bakery in Palmer
from Matt Perkins.
The market is owned by a
“closed corporation”, Stensland
said. Names of stockholders were
not disclosed.
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HUSKIES RIDE BOAT
ON PALMER STREET
A dog train in a 30-foot pole
boat rolled down Palmer streets
the other day.
String of nine Alaskan Husky
work-dogs rode in the boat on a
trailer enroute from Talketna to
Juneau. Owners are Mr. and Mrs.
George Blair. They’re taking a
fishing boat out from Juneau, and
“simply couldn't leave the dogs
behind”, Mrs. Blair, former Tal
keetna school teacher, said. “We
couldn’t park them so we had to
take them”.
Papa of the dog team is an old
army veteran, deaf in one ear,
blind in one eye, but still going
strong, although he’s nearly eight
years old. Picture dog of the
string is Chub, weighing 150
pounds. The newest pups in the
family are Nip and Tuck, six
months old. bib babies, and able
already to pull their weight.
Lead dog is the mama, who
keeps a stern eye on her progeny.
What they will do with the dogs
in Juneau is yet to be determined.
Mrs. Blair said. There’s hardly
room or accomodations for them
on a fishing boat.
Offers to buy the dogs as the
trailer and boat-dog house parked
on the main Palmer street, were
indignantly refused.
“To us they are invaluable”,
said Mrs. Blair.
Linked by chains to a main
rope through the length of the
boat, the Huskies were beautiful
but bored. Inquiring persons who
approached were warned not to
pet them. Inquiring dogs who
came to investigate turned tails
and ran as deep growls met their
approaches.
SPORTSMAN'S CLUB
TO CATCH 'EM BIG
FOR FISH FRY
Matanuska Valley Sportsman’s
club will hold its annual fish fry
June 15, Eugene Kirsch, chairman
Scouts will meet at the leader’s
announced today. Again this
year, it will be held at the camp
ing grounds at Barry’s Finger
lake, Wasilla.
Planned as an all-day affair,
fishing, boating, bathing and a
general sports program are sched
uled.
All club members participating
have been asked to catch, clean
and take fish to the Palmer Cold
Storage, where they will be cared
for until the fry.
The fish fry will be limited to
club members and wives.
SPECIAL WEATHER
FORECASTS FOR
MATANUSKA VAL.
Special weather report may
be prepared for the Matanuska
valley to assist farmers in
! planting and harvesting.
Offer of the weather bureau
| to provide this service was re
j ported by Don L. Irwin, head
| of the Agricultural Research
! Administration and director of
Alaska’s experiment stations,
to the Matanuska Valley
Chamber of Commerce.
! “The weather bureau is in
quiring on how they best can
serve the Matanuska valley on
their daily weather bureau
broadcasts”, Irwin said. At
present the weather forecasts
are based on Anchorage ob
servations. But that differs
from Valley weather.
It was agreed that the Mac
anuska Valley Farmers’ Coop
erative association and the
Grange, through the Chamber
of Commerce, make recom
mendations. It also was agreed
that the weather center for
forecasts for the Matanuska
valley basin is the Copper
river.
The weather bureau said it
wanted “to provide the best
service for the good of the most
people”.
GET YOUR FISHING
AND HUNTING LICENSE
Fishermen and hunters are re
minded that June 30 is the date
to renew their license. They may
be obtained from Ruth Peterson,
at Bert’s drugstore. All streams
now are open to fishing, with one
exception. There is no stream
fishing for salmon.
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SEATTLE
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PORTS
Passenger Service
FROM SEWARD
SS Dencii SS Aleutian
i Wed., June 13
Juneau
Wrangell
Ketchikan
Seattle
Seattle
. Freighter Service .
From Seattle
S.S. GEORGE OLSEN
I June 13. for Valdez, Seward
and Anchorage
M.V. COASTAL MONARCH
June 20. for Sitka, Yakutat.
Kodiak. Uganik, Seldovia,
Homer and Seward
FOR INFORMATION
Phone 22001
T. J. MALONEY, Agent
Office: Westward Hotel
Anchorage, Alaska
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP COMPANY
Friday, June 15
Sitka
Ketchikan
Seattle
STREAMLINER SCHEDULED
ANCHORAGE-FAIRBANKS
The Alaska Railroad starts dai
ly passenger service between An- j
chorage and Fairbanks June 19. j
Simultaneously each morning
at 8:30 a.m., a streamline diesel
train, complete with buffet car,
is to head north and south for
Fail-banks and Anchorage.
Under the schedule a train is
planned out of Fail-banks each
morning except Thursday and !
from Anchorage every day ex- 1
cept Wednesday.
The daily service eliminates
the need for two other trains nor- ;
mally operated during the sum-1
mer months. These are the brill j
car from Fairbanks to Mt. Me
Kinley National Park and the !
Fisherman’s Special out of An-1
chorage.
A temporary Fisherman’s Spe- ;
cial now is operating each week- !
end through June 16-17. It start-1
ed May 26 and runs from Anchor- i
age to Curry and return.
Treat every gun with the re- j
spect due a loaded gun. This is j
the cardinal rule of gun safety.
Time To
CLEAN
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For All Occasions
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