MOOSE TO INITIATE
NEW BUILDING AT
MEETING NEXT WEEK
Men and v. omen of the Moose
are joining force* for a concess
ion featuring Alaska's favorite
game at the Fair, it was announc
ed this week
Ralph Moore is chairman of the
concession committee, but all
loyal Moose and their ladies are
expected to take their turns dur
ng the three-day run. Hun
nreds of dollars worth of prizes
have been received already.
Contractors S a n d v i k and
Roark, who have been rushing
completion of the Moose Hut suc
cessor, are also planning to build
a semi-permanent concession
stand on the Fair Grounds. Moose
members recently negotiated a
two-year lease on their location
on the grounds with an option
for renewal.
Every loyal Moose is expected
to come out for the regular meet
ing next Tuesday night to help
initiate the new building. Gov
ernor Merle Anderson announced
this week.
The new Moose building does
n't have a title yet, but it is de
finitely out of the hut class, so
Moose Hut will be archaic from
now on. Construction has been
going on for only about two
weeks, but contractors Chet
Sandvik and Bill Rourk have
been rushing the job to get it
eady for the Tuesday meeting.
It will be a one-story 40 foot
aare building erected over the
.sement of the old Moose Hut.
almost all of the first floor space
will be devoted to one huge room.
Only a small portion at one end
will house a small kitchen and a
number of lockers. The inside
’ walls will be finished with Cello
! tex.
Plans for the outside finish *
haven't been definitely decided as
yet, according to Anderson, but
the pieaent trend of thought leans
tov.ard green composition shin
gles. A separate poured concrete
furnace room is to be constructed
in the basement. Installation of
an oil furnace will follow. The j
Moose plan to heat the building
I continuously.
Present plans call for an as
phalt tile floor on the first floor
to make it suitable for dances and
parties. Members of the Moose
will rent out the building to teen
age and other interested groups
I in the community.
Last month Palmer Lodge num
: ber 793 of the Loyal Order of the
Moose was incorporated under the
laws of the Territory for a two
year period. Moose members meet
every 2nd and 4th Tuesdays. ,
Their ladies meet the same eve
nings. The club meeting rooms
The old Moose quonset hut was
are to be in the basement,
sold to Pat Cullison.
BARTLETT BILL WOULD
USE TRAFFIC FINES
FOR HIGHWAY PATROL
Fines collected by United
| States Commissioners for traffic
violations in Alaska would be de
posited in the territorial treasury
for the use and benefit of the ter
ritorial highway patrol system
through the provisions of a bill
introduced by Delegate E. L.
Bartlett in the House this week.
At the present time, such fines
are deposited through the clerks
of the four judicial divisions of
the District Court of Alaska in a
federal fund known as “Fund
C” for use to cover incidental ex
penses of the court to be paid out
j only by order of the court.
Tost's Service Station
We have the New...
GATES AIR-FLOAT
"COLD RUBBER" TIRES, all sizes
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Gates Tubes and Batteries
In Down Town Palmer, Alaska
Alaskan Statehood
Resolution Passed
At Sourdough Reunion
According to an Associated
Press release from San Francisco
a resolution urging immediate
statehood for Alaska was adopt* j
ed last week by Alaska gold-rush
survivors attending the annual ,
international Sourdough Reunion 1
there.
"Alaska must be made a state”,
warned Archie McLean Hawks of
Santa Barbara, “so that Ameri
ca's northernmost outpost can be
better defended against another
Pearl Harbor'.
‘Red Russia now has a base on
Big Diomede Island, less than 18
miles away from American soil
on Little Diomede Island in the
Bering Straits.” Hawks built the
first tram over Chilkoot Pass.
Over 400 persons gathered for
the 20th annual reunion last week
Thursday. Friday, and Saturday.
Special events included a "Pot
latch Tea”, a grand ball, and
sightseeing tours around the San
Francisco area.
Among the original Alaska gold
! rush stampeders were Dr. W. E.
Thompson, 92. formerly of Daw
j son; Crystal Morgan, daughter of
the late Jack McQueston of 1884
vintage and a founder of the Yu
kon Order of Pioneers; Art Buel,
Gold Rush cartoonist; Jack De
vine, partner of D. E. Griffith
who initiated the famous dog
races at Fairbank’s mid-winter
| ice carnival; Shel Wettach of the
Sourdough Roadhouse near Nome]
Dr. K. Falkenberg and Clem
Alexander who took the Edmon
ton trail north; and Judge E.
I Cook Hill, formerly of Fairbanks.
NORTHERN
NEON
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SIGNS
Trucks, Cars Lettered
Manufacturers of
Neon Signs, Marquees,
Store Fronts and Tube
Lighting
540 Barrow - Dial 43734
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Tex Cobb Swears off
Fishing for Good
Tex Cobb is “passing through1’
the Valley briefly between his
annual summer fishing season
on Kalgin Island in Cook Inlet
and a prospecting trip for semi
precious stones.
Tex wasn't very happy with
the fishing situation in Cook In
let this year. Like most of the
netters. who have fished for years
in the same spot, he felt that the
swarm of drift gill netters which
skimmed off all the salmon had
ruined fishing in the Cook Inlet.
With all the FWS closure days
clamped on to give the fish a
chance to escape to spawn, the
stationery netters had a very
poor season, he said.
‘ It’s the last year I'll go fish
ing”. he said “Every year it gets
worse.”
He expects to take off in a few
days for a mountain about t>0 or
70 miles from here to prospect
for sem-precious stones. He's not
just sure what the material is,
but it’s semi-transparent with a
PALMER
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Valley Theatre
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color range from blue through
yellow. This time he hopes to dig
out a big enough hunk to have it
tested. He found the stuff a year
: or so a go on a prospecting trip.
' but he didn't have the right tools
with him.
USED FURNITURE BOUGHT
AND SOLD
G. A. KR1SE
Basement Palmer Drug
FRONTIER CAFE
Featuring home-made pies, breads and sour
dough hot cakes.
MAURINE DAVE
GOODRICH MACHINE WORKS
Welding and Machine Work
Located in the ARRC Shop Bldg,
behind Fair Grounds
Phone 20Y1 ' Palmer
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