VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
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
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DANIELS—In the Lien’s Den
You are being asked again to make your annual
contribution to the Matanuska Valley's Community
Chest drive. Within the next few weeks the campaign
committee hopes to raise $3,300. Your pledge will be
needed to help them meet that goal.
Your gift to the Community Chest will take care
of your whole year's charities in a single operation.
Whether it's help for the destitute of the Valley, a
donation to Girl Scout or Boy Scout work, a contribu
tion to the program of the Alaska Crippled Children's
Association, or a gift to your own Palmer Library, the
one gift is all you need make.
A Community Chest contribution is the only busi
ness-like manner in which you can handle those gifts.
It makes easier bookkeeping for you, and it assures
you of proper bookkeeping in the handling of your
gift. Only the authrized treasurer of Community Chest
can disburse your contribution, and that only after he
sicures the approval of board members.
A Community Chest contribution eliminates the
need for countless small gifts for a dozen separate
charaties that crop up during thi year. You make
your gift and your obligation is ended for another year.
"Oh, but people keep coming and asking for money
for special purposes," you say? Just refuse them with
the statement, "I've made my contribution. I sub
scribed to the Community Chest." Vou are not ex
pected to make more than one donation to any worthy
cause. If the solicitor has not applied for Chest funds,
refer him to your Chest's directors, in order that the
case in question may be considered.
Funds are not allotted by members of the board
of directors until they are assured of the genuine need
behind every request. You can be sure, when you
give to Community Chest, that your money will go
for the purpose for which it was intended. As reluc
tantly as we dislike facing the fact, we cannot always
be sure of the ultimate disposition of funds we hand
over to individuals who are responsible to no organized
group.
A single campaign, such as the Community Chest
drive, eliminates the need for a number of small drives
throughout the year. It permits of more elaborate or
ganization of that single drive and assures a more
thorough canvass than is possible in a more hastily
planned drive.
The single drive can be completed with less cost
than is possible with a number of smaller drives. Final
ly, the cost of charity is more equally borne when con
tributions are solicited through a single, well-planned
drive. Canvassers for individual projects are apt al
ways to go immediately to the familiar business estab
lishments and merchants, and to overlook private in
dividuals. Charity is not something your grocer dis
penses for you, as no cost to you. It's a mutual obli
gation to be borne by both of you.
In short, the Community Chest drive works a little
fike turning bills over to a collection agency, as one
satisfied contributor expressed it several years ago.
When vou ask a collection agency to convert outstand
ing bills to cash, you simply dump the whole problem
in his lap. With Community Chest, you sign your name
to your check, and toss the problem of who gets a share
and how much onto the shoulders of the Chest's board
of directors.
You do your part when you sign your check or
pledge card. Why not take care of your share of that
immediately? The Chest's board of directors will wel
come the opportunity to worry about its distribution.
LEGION AND AUXILIARY
NAME NEW OFFICERS
This year’s new officers of Mat
anuska Valley Post No. 15 of the
American Legion were announced
today by adjutant Richard Dem
ming. The Legion’s new leaders
are:
Bob Peterson, commander; Eu
gene Kirsch, first vice-command
er, Stanley Laird, second vice
commander; Richard Demming,
adjutant; Carl Rasmussen, serv
ice officer; Marvin Slaughter, fi
nance officer; Bernard Nieman,
sergeant-at-arms; Ray Lancaster,
chaplain; Dr. F. R. Sims, histori
an; John Dunlap, executive com
mitteeman.
Newly-elected officers of the
Legion Auxiliary, as announced
by Mrs. Demming, are:
Ann Demming, president; Flor
ence Dunlap, first vice-president;
Eva Plumley, second vice-presi
dent; Pat Weisenberger, secre
tary-treasurer; Dana Nieman, cor
responding secretary; Jean May
Yohn, chaplain; Bonnie Bettine,
historian; Ella Henry, sergeant
at-arms.
The new Auxiliary officers
were installed at last night’s reg
ular meeting of the organization.
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MARYLOU LASHBROOK
PLANS VALDEZ TRIP
Miss Marylou Lashbrook, home
demonstration agent for the
Matanuska Valley, plans a visit
to Valdez next week. She will
talk with housewives there and
will discuss the possibility of or
ganizing one or more homemak
ers’ clubs in Valdez. If interest is
keen enough, Miss Lashbrook
probably will organize at least
one club during her visit.
Exact time of Miss Lashbrook’s
arrival in Valdez was uncertain
at press-time. She expects to be
WALKERS SAY "THANK YOU
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Walker,
long-time Valley residents who
now make their home near Buf
falo Mine, this week expressed
their appreciation to the friends
and the Palmer merchants who
came to their assistance last week.
“We do want to thank everyone
who helped us,” Mr. and Mrs.
Walker said. “We very much ap
preciate the assistance which we
so badly needed.”
in that city during the early days
of next week.
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