World Around Us
IN FAIRBANKS businessmen
armed with a petition signed by
a large percentage of the down
town property owners attended
a special meeting of the Fair
banks City Council in a body
several days ago to press the
need for immediate paving of the
downtown area. Asking the city
for $25,000 for grading and back
filling, the business men offered
to pay the cost, prorated among
owners of laying the first seal
coat, estimated to cost $32,000.
The cost, coming to a total of $4
per running foot, would mean
that each owner would be assess
ed $2 per front foot, according to
the businessman.
George Johnson—
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was honorably discharged in
April of 1946.
For the past few years Johnson
has had a local barbershop busi
ness in partnership with Bob Re
hard. Ironically, the shop, known
as Johnson’s Barber Shop, was
being redecorated at the time of
the death.
George Johnson was born
March 20, 1910, in Crystal Falls,
Michigan. It is believed that two
brothers and two sisters survive
him.
SPORTSMEN HAVE
CENTERPIECE FOR
ANNUAL GAME DINNER
A huge 70-pound king salmon
that will have the buffet place
of honor at the Sportsmen’s an
nual game dinner next fall was
strung up outside the Palmer
Fountain last Friday before being
taken to the deep freeze.
Commissioned early this spring
to get the biggest king salmon he
could locate in Alaska, Bob Wal
ter last week netted the monster
down on the Kenai Peninsula.
Everyone attending the game
dinner next fall will have a taste
of this unusual buffet center
piece. Sportsmen chefs will bake
it whole and score it for individ
ual servings.
i Reporters—
Notebook
Traveling this week to the Den
ver conference of REA fieldmen
are Don T. Lowery, Mrs. Stewart
Hamilton, and Russell E. Wade
from Palmer. Mrs. Hamilton will
meet her husband at Denver. He
has been spending the past month
in the REA office in Washington,
D.C.
Mrs. Donald Dill of Tacoma.
Washington, arrived in Palmer
last Wednesday to visit her
daughter and son-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. C. A. Brewer. She will
be here for several weeks.
Russell Dow returned last Fri
day from an extended trip in New
Hampshire, where his mother has
been seriously ill.
for immediate assignment.
Alba Brooks left Palmer Mon
day evening for a flying trip to
Seattle and Portland on business.
He plans to return at the end of
the week.
Mrs. Park Munsey and daugh
ter Donna have returned to the
Valley following a winter vaca
tion spent at Laconia and Con
cord, New Hampshire.
Mr. and Mrs. Simeon Oliver
were in the Valley early this
week looking up old friends
after returning to Alaska only
last wek-end from a two-year
lecture trip in the States.
Deputy U. S. Marshall Bill
Bouwens took a group of mental
patients to Portland last week by
plane.
The Ed Smith family moved
last week out to the Butte area,
where they have purchased 80
acres of the former Newville
acreage adjacent to the McKin
ley farm. They are living in
temporary quonset quarters at
present but expect to start con
struction on a new home this
year.
Gene Smith of Knoxville, Ten
nesses, and student at the Uni
versity of Tennessee, is working
out of the local Geological Sur
vey ofice this summer. This is
his first trip to Alaska.
Marge Huntley, daughter of
U. S. Marshal and Mrs. Huntley
is expected home this week-end
from the Prairie Bible Institute
at three Hills, Alberta, where
she has been enrolled this year
as a high school student.
Mrs. Isabelle Steele of Minnea
polis arrived in Palmer last Sat
urday to make her home with her
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Lloyd Severns.
Dr. Donald Coe has been in
Fairbanks this week working
on experimental projects at
the Expt. Station there.
Dr. C. L. Lefebvre, ARA path
ologist who will be remembered
for his work on potato disease in
the Valley in 1948 and 1949. will
be here in Palmer next week on
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Former ARRC Manager
Valley Visitor
Dr. Herbert C. Hanson, instruc
tor in the biology department of
the Catholic University of; Ameri
ca, Washington, D. C. arrived in
Palmer this past week, planning
to remain here until July 7.
Dr. Hanson is here on a special
assignment for the government
in arial-photo interpretation.
While in the Territory he will
make a special three-day trip to
St. Paul Island.
Many Valley people will) re
member Dr. Hanson who was for
mer ARRC manager from 1940
to 1945 when he was succeeded by
Don Irwin. His present home is
in Berthoud, Colorado.
COME AS YOU ARE
BREAKFAST IS UNIQUE
FAREWELL PARTY
Beginning at 4:30 a.m. yester
day morning when the sun should
have been far up over the hori
zon, about 20 young people in
the Valley were routed out of
their beds one by one to gay
shouts of “Come as you are; we’re
going to eat!”
I he unique early morning
breakfast party was planned by
Mary Colberg and Leola Sand
vik as an informal farewell ges
ture for the two Colberg girls,
Mary and Carol, who leave today
for Seattle to attend the 10-week
session of the Lutheran Bible
School. First they awakened the
four young college students from
Whitworth, who have been living
at the United Protestant Manse.
It was an unholy hour, but Rev.
Gayley gamely came along to
supervise. Dick Rempel and his
two nephews, Doyle and Benny
Ross, Jim Caulkins, Margaret
Cope, Butch Johnson, Mary Grav
es, Jim Colberg and Kermit King
had been added to the group be
fore they reached their destina
tion on a little brook running
close to a site selected for a pro
jected Colberg house out past
the Butte.
There they cooked scrambled
eggs, bacon, toast, and coffee over
an open fire, returning to Pal
mer at the orthodox hour of eight,
each to his own work-day assign
ment.
routine inspection of experimen
tal work in progress at the Ex
periment Station. He was met in
Juneau last Sunday by Director
Don Irwin and the two have been
visiting the stations at Peters
burg and Fairbanks this week.
BROWN SUEDE JACKET
The thoughtful motorist
who put his suede jacket over
the victim of the Knik Bridge
accident last Wednesday to
keep him warm while enroute
to the hospital may pick up
his jacket in the U. S. Com
missioners’ office in Palmer.
GOES TO WEST POINT
Edward Cope, son of Mrs. Mar
garet Cope, Palmer, has received
his appointment to West Point
Academy. He will report for duty
•July 1.
Cope, who is spending a short
vacation with his mother and
sister has been attending Oregon
State College this past year. He
was chosen as second alternate
to West Point last year and pass
ed his entrance examinations at
that time. Because the 1951 prin
cipal was accepted, Cope was un
able to attend.
Educated in the Palmer schools,
Cope graduated from the Palmer
High School with the class of
1950. His father, the late Alonzo
Cope, formed the first air trans
port company in Anchorage in
1925; and flew the first air mail
run in 1931 and later organized
the Alaska Coastal Airline in
Juneau in 1938. It was there that
he was killed in an accident. The
family moved to Palmer and have
made their home in the Valley
since then. Mrs. Cope is a teacher
in the Palmer High School.
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pected to number at least 60, 50,
and 32 respectively. Altogether
the enrollment of the entire
school is expected to top 660.
Crowded conditions prevailed
last year with a top enrollment of
300.
Earlier it had been hoped that
the new elementary school to be
built out of federal funds through
Bill 815 would be ready in time
to avert the classroom emergency.
It now appears that this will not
be the case. Even with an early
advertisement for bids, construc
tion could hardly start before the
middle of August.
Last night the City Council
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Homemakers' News
\ Nugget Club
Dr. M.\ F. Babb, head of the
horticulture department at the
Alaska Experiment Station, gave
an interesting talk on gardening
to members otf the Nugget Home
makers assembled last week at
the home of WLrs. J. A. Medaris.
Guests at the meeting were
Mrs. R. M. BicVnell, Mrs. W. B.
Stokes, and Mri R. J. Berry.
granted the School Board a build
ing permit for th£ new school.
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