- VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
PRINTED AT PALMER, ALASKA, EACH FRIDAY
_ 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.
Viola Daniels ....Editor
No printed material in the Valley Frontiersman may
_be reproduced except by permission of the publishers.
LAKE GEORGE POOL—
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be displayed on the counters
of Palmer merchants later this
month.
Since no cash purchase is in
volved this year, the winner will
receive an assortment of prizes,
donated by various Valley mer
chants. Next year, the winner
will be given a cash percentage
of the sales. The remaining mon
ey, less operating costs, will be
deposited in a fund which will be
used to construct a community
recreation hall.
Sponsors of the plan have not
yet entirely worked out the de
tails of the project. A clock mech
anism of some type will be in
stalled somewhere in the seven
mile gorge along which the waters
of Lake George race toward the
Knik River, when the ice seal at
the lip of the lake bursts each
y«K-; The guess which records
the nearest hour and minute, on
the date of break-up, will be the
winning guess.
Officers of the Lake George
Benefit Association have not yet
been elected. The group will in
corporate, as a non-profit organi
zation, and will issue stock to
shareholders, according to present
plan.
At press-time, the following
Valley merchants had offered
prizes to be awarded this year’s
winner:
Grasser’s Hardware — sports
man’s kit valued at $11.50.
Trading Post—$10 in merchan
dise.
Matanuska Press — $5 in sta
tionery.
Valley Frontiersman — Annual
subscription, valued at $5.
Palmer Cold Storage—$10 in
merchandise.
Variety Vogues—$10 in mer
chandise.
Valley Theatre—$8 in theatre
tickets.
Valley Cleaners—$15 in clean
ing.
The above list is incomplete,
and will be augmented with fur
ther names next week.
COLD STORAGE—
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heating unit, in addition to kitch
en facilities where all locker
stored meat will be wrapped and
prepared for quick freezing. There
also will be a receiving station in
this unit for all commercial meats.
Finally, the entire locker-room
unit will be enclosed in perma
nent outside walls.
Work is scheduled to be com
pleted by Sept. 1. Chek Sandvik
will be in charge of the construc
tion.
Mr. Ryan said this summer’s
project was but a part of a long
range plan for rebuilding and
renovating the entire plant of
Palmer Cold Storage. He has fu
ture plans for the adjoining gro
cery store, and for the space oc
cupied by Variety Vogues, also a
part of the Palmer Cold Storage
building.
JONESVILLE MINERS—
| an hour.
The aggregate wages paid to
i mine employes boosts the total
payroll to more than a million
dollars a year.
Aside from the wage increase,
there are few other changes in
the work contract for the coming
year. The union will assume op
eration of the messhall, which
will be leased to Mr. and Mrs.
Ted Laval. The Lavals are at
present employed as cooks in the
company-operated mess.
Present plans at the mine in
dicate that approximately 150
men will be employed there on a
six-day week, during the coming
year. Complete plans for next
year cannot be formulated until
Army contracts for coal are
awarded next week. Army re
quirements now take the bulk of
the coal produced at Evans Jones.
Railroad requirements are de
creasing rapidly, with the con
version from steam-powered lo
comotives to Diesels.
Mr. Hill anticipates an in
creased need for coal in the An
chorage area within the next sev
eral years. A proposed steam
plant, to be erected in the rail
road yards for generation of elec
tric power for Anchorage and
the Matanuska Valley, will burn
coal. The new housing project to
open in Anchorage this year also
is expected to utilize coal for heat.
Meanwhile the mine is being
prepared to improve and to ex
pand its coal production. A lab
oratory recently was completed
at the plant, which will analyze
the product of the mine. “With
this new laboratory, we expect to
run a sample on every carload of
coal that leaves the mine,” Mr.
Hill stated.
Installation is being rushed on
a new $150,000 washer, the only
one of its kind west of the Mis
sissippi River, Mr. Hill said. Con
struction on the washer began
last fall, and it is expected that it
will be finished by July 5, when
work resumes.
This washer, one of the most
modern in existence, will greatly
improve the quality of the Evans
Jones coal, Mr. Hill stated. It
will result in a much cleaner pro
duct, and will enable the mine to
market a drier coal than has
been possible in the past.
New steel storage bins also are
under construction at the mine.
When finished, they will increase
the storage capacity there by 500
tons.
Also in anticipation of in
creased demand, the mine is con
ducting prospect drilling in the
area south of the present shafts.
Men will be engaged in drilling
and exploratory work in a tunnel
now being driven, for another
pear at least.
mam locker room.
A 16x24 meat kitchen will be
constructed at the end of the
building to be moved. Of cement
alocks, the structure will house
i new 10 horsepower water re
'rigerator compressor and a new
Shop Now for Your
Feed and Fertilizer Needs
IN OUR NEW BUILDING
(Located Next to Ward Bldg.)
New Store Hours: 9 A.M. to Noon. 1 to 7 P.M.
ALASKA SEED
NOMITE SUGGESTS—
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prove of great benefit to the en
tire area.
The plan appears feasible, for
one early survey of the proposed
railroad route would have placed
Palmer on the main line.
Mr. Polet has retired from all
business interests in recent years,
and is dividing his time between
the promotion of native arts and
crafts, and Alaska Development
Board work. He just returned
from a three months’ stay in Se
attle, where he escorted a group
of northern natives, who appeared
at the annual Seattle Sports
Show'.
Much of the recent interest in
native arts and crafts is due di
rectly to the efforts of Mr. Polet.
He feels that the job of publiciz
ing native crafts is nearly com
plete, and he is now turning to
the task of helping the craftsman
turn businessman, so that he may
market his own products.
As one method of bringing that
goal into being, Mr. Polet has
tentative plans for construction
of a building in Nome, to house
small shops, where natives will
be taught to become business
men. It is his hope that from the
small nucleus of men he trains,
other Alaskan natives will in
turn receive the training that
will enable them to benefit fi
nancially from the products of
their culture.
While here, the Nome resident
secured an outlet for native
ivories and jewelry in Palmer.
Palmer Drug Store will handle
the articles here.
Questioned concerning Devel
opment Board plans for the estab
tablishment of a territory - wide
tourist bureau, as proposed last
winter, Mr. Polet said $35,000 has
been appropriated for this pur
pose at the board’s recent meet
ing.
ACREAGE
HOUSES
DAIRY FARMS
☆
PIONEER
Insurance and
Realty
Wright Building
PALMER
Brown's
Cleaners
CARPENTERS HEAD—
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18x30 feet in size.
Mrs. E. F. Graves, head of the
Palmer Library Association, told
board members that still other
contributions have been offered
for the'structure. An anonymous
donor gave $50 in cash; the Amer
ican Legion Auxiliary gave $25;
sand and gravel have been offered
by Clyde King. Sr., of Valley
Concrete Products; Miss Louise
Kellogg will contribute bricks;
Quizzed about the possibility of
Palmer’s being the subject of a
Development Board survey in the
near future, he replied, “Ask
them to make it. They will do it
if they’re asked, but first they
must be asked.”
A
Richard Demming surveyed the
lot on which the building will be
| located; Vernon Fridley, Ralph
Moore and Melvin Barry all have
volunteered their services to wire
the building. ,
The Alaska Rural Rehabilita
tion Corporation board has ap
proved its manager’s offer of lum
ber in a house to be torn down
on the Don Irwin farm, and this
material will go far toward sup
plying lumber needs for the
structure.
Other needs listed at Wednes
day’s board meeting included:
Finished flooring, a door and
door frame, window glass, ceiling
and floor joists, rock wool insula
tion, concrete, fluorescent lights,
90-lb. roofing paper, building
paper and wiring material.
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Palmer, Alaska
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