Soils Classification Analysts of Anchorage
Area Will Begin Under Survey Crew on Monday
Community
„. Calendar
TODAY
WASILLA vets on-farm training
class at Community Hall at 8
p.m.
SATURDAY
VETERANS’ instructors’ confer
ence opens at 9 a.m.
UP PIE sale at Trading Post at
10 a.m.
COLONY DAY events open with
dance at Palmer Ovm at 10 p.m.
SUNDAY
COLONY Day events open with
■fKiwanis flight breakfast at Rec
Hall at 10 a.m.
MONDAY
VETERANS’ farm training class
in former library at 8 p.m.
KIWANIS Club luncheon in for
mer library at noon.
TUESDAY
COTTONWOOD Homemakers
meet.
MOTORBOAT races on Lake Wa
silla.
THURSDAY
AMERICAN Legion at Legion
Hall at 8 p.m.
LEGION Auxiliary at Carpenter’s
Hall at 8 p.m.
FRIDAY
WASILLA vets on-farm training
class at Community Hall at 8
p.m.
MINSTRELS of 1950 at Palmer
Gym at 8:30 p.m.
Coming Events
June 3—“Minstrels of 1950.”
Bingo game at Wasilla
Community Hall.
June 11—Masonic picnic at
Wasilla Lake.
BENNIE ROSS, DOROTHY
HOFFMAN WIN
CITIZENSHIP AWARDS
Winners of the American Le
gion citizenship award,' presented
annually to the top boy and girl
of the eighth grade graduating
class of Palmer School, this year
were Bennie Ross and Dorothy
Hoffman. The presentation was
made at commencement exercises
last Thursday evening.
Certificates of honor were
awarded to two runners-up in the
contest. The certificates went to
Donna Harris and Mary Graves.
VALLEY
THEATRE
FRI.-SAT., May 26-27
Nights 7:15-9:00. Sat. Mat. 2:00
tim'S TH^ApPUEaM^eAVYro* ACTION^
SUN.-MON., May 28, 29
Nights 7:15-9:00. Sun. Mat. 2:00
Eddie Cantor
“If You Knew Susie”
WED.-THURS.. May 31, June 1
Rendezvous with American History
Holding a “rendezvous” with
George Washington and his
heroic Continental Army, more
than 40,000 Boy Scouts and
leaders of the nation and a few
hundred from overseas, will
hold their second National
Jamboree at Valley Forge, Pa.,
June 30 to July 6.
In their 600-acre “tent city”
^the Scouts will camp together,
JSfeiL
_ ‘ . ,
swapping ‘ items of interest
from their home areas, ex
changing camping techniques,
portraying American history
in pageants and visiting his
toric sites. It will be a never
to-be-forgotten experience for
most Scouts who will visit
America’s leading cities en
route to and from the greatest
encampment of boys ever held
in the Western Hemisphere.
May Procession Planned
At St. Michael's Sunday
There will be a May Procession
at St. Michael’s Church on Sun
day, May 28, at 10 a.m., Father
James Snead announced this
week. He explained that each
year the month of May is dedicat
ed to the Blessed Virgin Mary. It
is traditional for the children of
the parish to march in procession
and to place flowers at the foot
of the statue of the Blessed
Mother.
Sunday’s procession will be led
a
by Bobby Johns, cross - bearer.
The boys and girls of the parish
will carry lighted candles and
flowers for the statue. “Bridgie”
Wright will carry a satin pillow
bearing a crown of flowers, which
will be placed on the head of the
statue of the Blessed Mother by
Betty Blunck.
The procession will start
promptly at 10 o’clock at the door
of the church. Father Snead asks
that all who plan to attend the
services be in their seats before
the procession starts. Everyone
interested is invited to attend.
"if you break faith
with us who die,
we shall not sleep .
Amid the beauty and fragrance of a
late May day, a grateful nation pays
homage to its warrior dead. We can
not and will not fail those who have
passed to us the heritage of freedom.
This bank will not be
open for business on
Memorial Day, May 30
MATANUSKA VALLEY BANK
Palmer, Alaska
Open Friday Evenings—5 to 7 P. M.
2 PER CENT ON SAVINGS'
The summer work of the Alas-«
ka Soil Conservation District of
ficially gets under way next Mon
day, when a survey party of five
men under Thomas Day, of the
Palmer headquarters office, be
gins a preliminary inspection of
the Anchorage area. The first
job facing the crew, made up of
college students and soil con
servation personnel transferred
from the states, is the land clas
sification of the Anchorage area.
This work, done at the request
of the Alaska district, will rate ;
all the land west of the Chugach !
mountains, except the military
reservation and the urban area of
Anchorage, according to its agri
cultural capacity. The prelimin
ary work starts Monday and the
actual field work will begin on
June 5.
Mr. Day estimates that the An
chorage job will take his crew
about one month to finish. When
the Anchorage area is classified,
the crew will transfer to Fair
banks for a similar chore.
Men who will make up the
survey crew include University
of Alaska students Phil Stege
MEA Soon May Make
Wiring, Plumbing Loans
Shortly after the first of June
the Matanuska Electric Associa
tion expects to be able to make
small loans to home owners for
wiring, plumbing and electrical
appliances. Mrs. Ruth Pierson an
nounced today. She said loans
could vary from a minimum of
$10 to a maximum of $500. They
will bear four per cent interest.
Applications, which may be
filed by any member consumer,
now can be filed at the MEA of
fice. All applicants must have
established credit.
Term of the loan will vary with
each applicant, Mrs. Pearson said.
It is probable that no loan will
be approved for longer than a
three-year period.
tneyer and Alvin C. Ingram and
soil conservation men Willard
Call and Frank Taylor of Wash
ington and Robert Bowen of Cal
ifornia.
Coffey Insures Everything—
Remember?
EVERY JOB
on the farm is easier,
whether indoors or
out, when you've elec
tricity to help you
work.
In the home, in the
barn, in the chicken
house, electricity
makes the job easier,
cleaner and quicker.
MATANUSKA ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION, Inc.
Your REA Electric Co-Op—Palmer, Alaska
“Serving the Valley Since 1942”
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