AL DODSON FOUND—
through the Willow Creek area
for more than 20 years, and they
felt sure he was the victim of ill
ness or accident.
Mr. Dodson’s funeral will be
held in Anchorage at two o’clock
Sunday afternoon. Services will
be held from the Elks’ Temple
there and interment will follow in
the Anchorage cemetery.
The dead man is survived by
his wife, Emma; by two daugh
ters, Helen of Visalia, Calif., and
Alberta of Fort Worth, Tex.; by
two sisters, Bernice of Portland,
Oi'e., and Agnes of Burke, Idaho;
and by a brother, Kenneth Dod
son of Spokane, Wash.
He was a member of the Elks
Lodge and of the American Le
gion.
The miner was born at Geiser,
Ore., Jan. 3, 1893. His full name
was Albert Geiser Dodson. He
had been mining in Alaska for the
past 20 years and had been oper
ating the Fern Mine in the Willow
Creek district for the past seven
years.
Carl Meiers Announce
Engagement of Daughter
Mr. and Mrs. Carl H. Meier of
Palmer this week announced the
engagement and coming mar
riage of their daughter, Vivian, to
Charles Milton Shaver of the
Evan Jones Mine. Mr. Shaver is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter B.
Shaver of Rawlesburg, West Va.
The wedding will take place on
Oct. 14 at the United Protestant
Church in Palmer.
Miss Meier has been a Valley
resident almost all of her life. She
was a graduate of Palmer High
School in 1949, and since that
time has been employed in the
offices of the Agricultural Re
search Administration here in
Palmer. She plans to continue
her work after her marriage.
Mr. Shaver has been an em
ploye of the Evan Jones Mine for
several years.
Women of the Moose
Plan Sept. 26 Initiation
Plans were formulated at last
Tuesday’s regular meeting of the
Women of the Moose for an Oc
tober Mooseheart party and for
a coming initiation, Mrs. Dorothy
Anderson, publicity chairman, re
ported today. Margaret Lucas
will be initiated into the organi
zation at the next meeting. Of
ficers are making new uniforms
in preparation for this initiation.
Mrs. Marcia Sellars announced
that a Mooseheart Christmas
party is scheduled for the WOTM
meeting on Oct. 24. At that time,
all members of the local lodge
will bring a Christmas gift to be
mailed to the children at Moose
heart.
Plans for next week’s territo
rial Moose convention here, and
committee reports from Joyce
Leppanen of the hospital commit
tee, Kathleen Moore of the ritual
committee and Mrs. Anderson of
the publicity committee, conclud
ed the evening.
Babler Employe Hit
By Power Shovel
Charles Green, 47-year-old con
struction worker with Rogers &
Babler Company suffered multi
ple back and chest injuries in a
Glenn Highway accident earlier
this week. The man was hit by a
power shovel operating on a road
construction job near Tazlina
Lodge.
Green was flown to Anchorage’s
Providence Hospital in a Tenth
Rescue Squadron helicopter pilot
ed by Lt. Myron Elliott. At press
time hospital attendants reported
his condition was much improved.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Johns, owners
of the North Palmer Store, this
week acquired another parcel of
land adjacent to their present
holdings in North Palmer, accord
ing to M. D. Snodgrass, realtor.
The Johns purchased two and a
half corner lots in the Snodgrass
Addition, behind the present store
property. i
P TA PLANS RECEPTION
TO HONOR PALMER TEACHERS
The first fall meeting of the
Palmer chapter of the Parent
Teacher’s Association will be held
as a reception to honor the Pal
mer teaching staff, it was de
cided at Thursday’s executive
committee meeting. The recep
tion is scheduled for the school
lunchroom at eight o’clock next
Tuesday evening. Rev. Victor
Alfsen will be in charge of the
evening’s activities.
Mrs. I. M. Sandvik, president
of the Palmer P-TA, made a par
tial appointment of committee
heads at Thursday’s meeting.
Still further committee members
and chairmen will be announced
at next Tuesday’s meeting. Duties
assigned Thursday were as fol
lows:
Refreshments—Mrs. Stanley
Johnson and Mrs. William
Roark.
Program—Mrs. Lucy Mick.
Hospitality—Mrs. C. A. Sand
vik.
Membership — Mrs. Clayton
Esslinger.
Publicity—Mrs. Ralph Moore.
Mrs. Sandvik announced that
there was a balance of more than
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$200 in the P-TA treasury, car
ried over from last year, and
asKed for suggestions on how
the money should be spent. No
decision was made at Thursday’s
meeting.
It v.as decided that hereafter
the executive committee of the
P-TA will meet at seven o’clock
on the first Tuesday of each
month in the superintendent’s of
fice at Palmer School.
WE OVERLOOKED
SOMETHING
The photographer’s credit
line was inadvertently omitted
from the picture round-up of
Fair activities in last week’s
Valley Frontiersman. Gene
Gyuriak of Palmer Studio
was on the job at Fair-time,
as he always is, to get those
excellent pictures of Fair
scenes.
For every man who chisels out
a career, there are many others
who just chisel.
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2nd-Class Mail Charge
The minimum charge on local
second-class mail is two cents,
postmistress Beatrice Huntley re
minded local residents today. This
order affects all advertising cir
culars and similar publications.
Mrs. Huntley said publications
of the Valley Theatre and the
Upped to 2£ Minimum
i Matanuska Valley Farmers Co
Operating Association in Palmer
would be most seriously hit by
the ruling.
| Politics being what they are, it’s
I no wonder our government is
i what it is.
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