Community
Calendar
TODAY
MATANUSKA Hotel basketball
practice r! Gym at 8 p. m.
NORTHLAND Pioneer Grange at
Grange Hall at 8 p. m.
BUTTE Homemakers at Mrs. Eva
Fhrmley’s.
, Monday
VETERANS’ faTm training class
m former library at 8 p.m.
POCKETS basketball practice at
Gym at 7 30 p.m.
SHAMROCK basketball practice
at Gym at 8:30 p.m.
MASONIC Club meets at Grange
Hall at 8 p. m,
KTWAN1S Club luncheon at Rec
Hall at noon.
Tuesday
P-TA meets at school lunch
room at 8 p. m.
PHILATELISTS meet at school
at 8 p. m.
WELL BABY Conference at the
Health Center at 1:15 p. m.
HOSPITAL benefit movie at the
Valley Theatre at 8 p. m.
GLACIER VIEW Homemakers at
Mrs. Victor Johnson’s.
• V’ASILLA sub-district supervis
ors’ annual meeting at Com
munity Hall at 8 p. m.
Wednesday
PINOCHLE party at Grange Hall
at 8 p. m.
CHAMBER of Commerce at the
former library at noon.
Thursday
AMERICAN Legion at Legion
Hall at 8 p. m.
LEGION Auxiliary at the Legion
Hall at 8 p. m.
WASILLA Homemakers at Mrs.
Mary Harvey’s.
7ALLEY Health Council at the
Health Center at 8 p. m.
PASILLA Community Club at
Community Kali at 8 p. m.
Potted Plants
' Cut Flowers
MATANUSKA
VALLEY GARDENS
PHSToaii! Flays
Tw3 Sswerd Saasss
This Weekend
Primer High School’s next bas
| ketball venture takes the Moose
I to Seward for a pair of court en
coun’ers there this weekend. The
: ’earn, together with coach Robert
Crites and manager Chuck Col
ljr>< leaves at noon tomorrow'.
They play their first game in
i Seward tomorrow' evening and a
j repeat match on Saturday, re
| turning to Palmer some time
‘ Sunday.
Plovers scheduled to make the
; trip include:
i dixen. Walter Bendixen, Edward
j Henry Anderson, Harold Ben
: Cope, Gus Klem, Jim Caulkins,
Harvey Hiber, Victor Loyer,
; George Pederson and Edison
| Thuma.
The Moose have' no games
scheduled for the home floor dur
| mg the coming w’eek.
SHAMROCKS DESPAIR
O" CITY LEAGUE WIN
Trials and tribulations in their
Anchorage City League meetings
of late (including last Saturday’s
loss by an' almost/ 50-point mar
\ hod»rr>T>ened hopes of the
Shamrock basketball players. A
j number Of players have turned
in their suits, and Bernie Bouwens
| has resigned his managership of
the club.
The remaining Shamrocks and
the squads of the Matanuska Ho
: tel and Indenendents are now
i working together in an effort to
organize a strong Valley five for
■ the Anchorage league battles.
The teams conducted a joint prac
tice last Monday evening, and
i combined for a City League game
j on Sunday and Tuesday of this
week.
PATTEN RE-ELECTED
Clair Patten was re-elected to
the board of supervisors of the
Palmer Soil Conservation sub
! district last w'eek. Mr. Patten
: nowr will hold office for* a three
year term.
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CO-OP GARAGE
Palmer, Alaska
PHS Works Hard/ But AHS
Works Better In Friday Tilt
Anchorage High School maj
have won basketball games bj
narrower margins than their 42
51 win over Palmer last Friday
night but. it’s certain that it wil.
be a long time before they meel
another team that will give them
the battle Palmer did- The Palm
er Moose were battling just a<
hard for points in the final It
^cor’s. as they were in the ini
tial 10 seconds of the first quar
ter.
In a game where everyone was
trying, it’s a bit unfair to name
the mightiest scrapper, but it did
appear, particularly in,the first
half, that Harold Bend’ixen wa<
doing a bit more to keep the bal]
out of Anchorage players’ hands
than was anyone else on the lo
cal team. Harold was handy a1
the free throw line, too, connect
in'1 °ix times there.
Edison Thuma also proved him
self a handy man to have on a
basketball .floor. He helped set up
plays for his teammates scoring
on several occasions, and ther
drooped in three field goals him
self to help the Palmer cause
The game was a “one baskel
for you and one for me” affair
through most of the first half
Harold Bendixen drew the firsl
blood with a free throw just 2rt
seconds after the starting whistle
Palmer led by a point or two for
most -of the first quarter, until
with less than a minute to go, an
Anchorage charity toss gave them
a one-point lead. Harold Ben
dixen pushed Palmer back in
front with a pair of free throws
and Anchorage came right back
with a basket and a free throw tc
end the first quarter with a
11-9 count.
Anchorage pushed their lead tc
18-13 by half time, principally or
their excellent showing at. the
COMMISsToNER HAS
ALL KINDS OF FORMS
Need a new form to take care
of those first-of-the-year ta>
headaches? U. S. Commissionei
Dorothy Saxton has a fresh nev
supply of almost anything evei
heard of in tax annals (except th<
tobacco tax form) which she’ll b<
foul line, where the Eagles got
' eight for eight in the first half.
AHS play was characterized by
over-eagerness during that first
half, when players several times
missed what seemed a sure scor
ing toss.
Harvey Hiber brought the
i count even again with four min
utes remaining in the third quar
ter, only to have Anchorage shove
ahead on a foul shot and a bas
| ket. Harold Bendixen came back
with a free throw, but Anchorage
decided then that it was time to
j do something about the game.
The count was 27-22 for An
1 chorage at the end of the third
quarter, and the Eagles pushed it
ahead to 33-22 before the Palm
er five got its second wind. A
hard drive cut the Anchorage
margin to eight points with about
a minute’s play remaining, but
Palmer’s over-anxiousness in that
last minute was costly, and An
chorage had their 11 point margin
back by the game’s end.
In the Jay-Vee preliminary
contest, the Palmer quintet trail
ed by many points throughout
• three quarters, going into the
fourth quarter 16 points to the
rear. They staged a fourth quar
ter comeback that saw then; close
the gap to a final score of 37-32.
| They had many of the capacity
crowd believing there was a good
chance of a tie and an overtime
playoff before the final gun
j sounded.
Jim Caulkins did an especially
!
good job at center for the Jay
Vees. pouring in six field goals
and a free throw for 13 points,
topping the scoring for both
teams. Jim is a sophomore and
vvill.be a man to watch in Palm
er’s court wars of the next two
years
glad to share with Valley resi
dents.
And while she’s dispensing the
various tax blanks with one
hand, Mrs. Saxton gladly will
reach for school tax payments
and motor vehicle license tees
! with the other. The 1950 school
tax is now’ due, and vehicle and
driver’s license fees are overdue.
BREEN’S FLYING SERVICE
STUDENT INSTRUCTION, GI TRAINING
CHARTER AND SCENIC FLIGHTS — PASSENGER RIDES
Two- and Four-Place Planes Available
PHONE 67 PALMER AIRPORT
DON'T wait until March 14 !
GET YOUR INCOME TAX RETURN IN EARLY THIS YEAR
See LILAS ALEXANDER Today !
(Matanuska Valley Bank)
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FRONTIER CAFE
ft Try our home-made app!e pies
ft Big Juky Steaks and Chops
Ice Cream Served . . . or take some home, pack
ed in pints or quarts.
Open from 6 a. m. to midnight daily!
flSXT MONDAY
AT RIFLE RANGE
The second annual Merchants’
Handicap Shoot sponsored by the
M>tanuska Valley Sportsmen will
or«n on Monday JLan. 16, <£>m
rnittne chairman PiP Smith.
nou^ned todav ' ShooYipg begins
at the club range beneath^ the
R«c Hall at 8 p .'jn^) j * >
Th°re were si^dipfcignfS entered
at press-time, but entry lists will
not close unti) Mopday evening,
Mr. Smith said. Any merchant
interested in sponsoring a team is
requested to be at the range on
Monday. An entry fee of $10 is
required of each merchant spon
sor. Valley firms who had an
nounced their sponsorship of a
team bv Wednesday afternoon,
included:
Co-Op Fountain. MVFCA. Gras
ser’j Hardware. Nob Hill Coal
Coal Mine, Valley Frontiersman
and the Shamrock Bakery. ■
Is is possible that the latter two
sponsors will select their shoot
ers from the Club’s junior rifle
men, if enough juniors are inter
ested in participation.
The shoot will continue for six
weeks, with one round heing shot
off each Monday evening. At
press-time, it was not definite
whether competition would be of
two or three-man teams.
Merchants may select their
marksmen from the club roster,
or may draft non-members, Mr.
Smith said. However, the club’s
management requests that a
membership be purchased for any
non-members who wish to partic
ipate in the shoot,
SHAMROCKS AGAI^
The fiith round of the Sham
rock-Hotel (Independents) bat
tle of the year took place on the
Palmer Gym floor last Thursday
evening, when Army opponents
scheduled to meet the Hotel and
Independents squads in a double
header, failed to arrive in Palmer.
The tune was identical, but the
swing was faster, with the Hofcl
men ending on the good side of a
61-27 count. The game was in no
sense a true match, for only five
Shamrock players were present
1 when sthe team was drafted for
substitute work. Young and Ham
ilton spearheaded a scoring spree
with 20 and 26 points apiece.
In the preliminary match, the
I Independents, ably bolstered by
! He tel players when the going got
tough, topped Wasdla 49-36. Par
cel’s making his first appearance
j in six weeks, ied the scoring with
| 10 points. Cottle was best for Was
j ilia with 11.
Wasilla initiated its flashy new
red and white uniforms in this
encounter- The squad is improv
ing with every appearance here,
j and they’re pinning their hopes
on an upper bracket berth, at
; least, in the Class B Division of
the Fur Rendezvous basketball
tournament.
VFW AUXILIARY BAKE SALE
PLANNED FOR JAN. 21
WASILLA—The Auxiliary of
; the Veterans of Foreign Wars
planned a bake sale at their re/”’
lar meeting on Jan. 9. The sale
will be held on Jan. 21. Proceeds
will go toward Wasilla’s quota
for the public health nursing ser
vices in the Valley.