LAZY MOUNTAIN HOME
MISSIONARY WORKERS
TO WED SATURDAY
Two of the staff members :>f
the Lazy Mountain Children’s
Home will be united in marriage
fchis Saturday June 23, at 9 o’clock
in the morning at the United
Protestant Church at Palmer.
Rev. John Gillespie of the Church
of the Open Door, Anchorage will
perform the ceremony.
Miss Margaret McElhinney will
become the bride of Mr. Sidney
Lindeke, who just recently re
turned to the Home after gradu
ation from the Multnomah School
of the Bible in Portland, Oregon.
During his summer vacations
in previous years, Mr. Lindeke
has come to help with the build
ing program on Lazy Mountain. ,
f Miss McElhinney is a graduate j
of the Moody Bible Institute of
Chicago. Illinois and has been
serving as a missionary worker
in the Children’s Home since Juljr
of 1949.
The couple plans to stay on as
workers at the Home after their
honeymoon.
Immediately following the
wedding ceremony, there will oe
a reception held at the Children's
£Iome on Lazy Mountain. The
couple invite their friends’ to at
tend.
MRS. A. J. De JULIO
HONORED SHOWER GUEST
Mrs. A1 J. DeJulio was guest of
honor at a surprise pink and blue
shower given at her home June
20. Among those present were: j
Mesdames George Whetstone,
William Curtis, Emil Stadler,
Richard Thompson, Newell Tal
cott, Art Thompson, Minnie Clark,
Walter Parcells and Joseph Gal
lant of Palmer, also Mesdames
LaVake Renshaw, Jack Cardiman
and Osborn Peterson of Anchor
age.
A social evening of games, led
by Mrs. Whetstone, was enjoyed.
Refreshments were served by
co-hostesses, Mrs. Stadler and
Mrs. Thompson. Mrs. De Julio
was the recipient of many lovely
%ifts.
EPISCOPAL SERVICE
TO B EHELD JULY 1
An Episcopal service will be
held at the Lutheran Church
Sunday, July 1 at 7:30 p. m. with
Bishop Gordon of the Alaska Di
icese officiating, Mrs. Earl F.
Graves reported this week.
i NATIVE OF NOME
RECEIVES ACC POST
Alvin Polet has been appointed
the Fourth Division member of
the Aeronautics and Communica
tions Commission. He succeeds
Frank Barr who resigned upon
assuming the office of United
States marshal in that division
Alvin Polet is the son of An
tonio Polet, long-time resident of
Nome, and well known through
out Alaska in pioneer and busi
ness circles, and the late Mrs.
Polet. He was born in Nome in
1909; attended Nome grammar
school and high school, graduat
ing in 1927. He attended the Uni
versity of Washington for two
years then entered the University
of Alaska, from which he was
graduated in 1932 with a degree
of Bachelor of Science in business
administration.
From 1932 to 1940, Alvin Polst
l worked in his father’s store in
Nome as office manager, became i
interested in aviation and was j
made office manager of the Al- I
aska Star Airline in Nome in 1940. j
In 1944 he was transferred to j
Fairbanks as station manager fori
Alaska Airlines which position he
held until 1947. At that time he
was invited by Pan American
Airways to become its district
traffic and sales manager, a posi
tion he has held ever since.
Polet served two terms on the
city council and one as mayor of
Nome. He is a Mason, a Shriner,
a member of the Elks and of the
Pioneers of Alaska. For two years
he was president of the Alumni
Association of the University of
Alaska. In 1933 he married Louise
Heals of Valdez.
In announcing Polet’s appoint
ment, Governor Gruening ex
pressed gratification that Alas
kan-born citizens were increas
ingly taking on the responsibili
ties of Territorial government
and that alumni of the University
of Alaska were obtaining more
and more recognition in diverse
fields of private and public ad
ministration.
CARL ONKKAS' BABY BORN
AT PROVIDENCE HOSPITAL
A baby daughter weighing
eight pounds, four ounces, was
born to the Carl Onkkas of Wa
silla about midnight Saturday at
Providence hospital.
Dr. C. C. Bailey who accompa
nied Mrs. Onkka from the Valley
hospital to Anchorage when com
plications threatened, reported
that both mother and baby were
ioing fine.
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OF ALL KINDS
Sho-Cards - Truck Lettering
PALMER SIGN CO.
Box 1833—Basement Palmer Drug
Inferior Freight Lines
Clay Prewitt and Cliff Steadman, Owners
Freight Healing Between Veldei end Rainier
Phone 62-J-3
ARR BEGINS DAILY TRAIN SERVICE
IN ANCHORAGE-FAIRBANKS RUN
Alaska’s transportation history
noted a milestone today when the
Alaska Railroad’s streamliner Au
rora left Anchorage, instigating
daily train service between this
city and Fairbanks.
Big streamline diesel trains are
scheduled to make 12 runs week
ly between Alaska’s two leading
cities, according to Colonel J. P.
Johnson, railroad general man
ager.
“The Alaska Railroad has I
pointed toward daily service since
starting its rehabilitation program
in 1947”, Johnson stated. “With
improved equipment and road
beds, that service now is a reali
i he new service is expected
to be a boon for businessmen,
j tourists and railbelt fishermen.
Under the schedule travelers, up
' on completing their business in
! either city, can return home the
j following day. Previously it was
j necessary to remain over three
j nights to do one day’s work and
catch a train out.
Improvements in the daily ser
vice also was forecast by Colonel
Johnson. I his tall we expect to
shorten the running time between
Anchorage and Fairbanks”, he
declared. The faster schedule will
go into effect as quickly as road
bed improvements between An
chorage and Wasilla are finished.
Last year the railroad cut from
an hour and a quarter to an hour
and a half from the running time I
between the two Alaskan cities, j
Roadbed improvements include !
ballasting, bank widening, re- i
placing 70-pound steel rails with S
heavier 115-pound steel and elim
inating curves in the line that im
pede fast transportation.
Engineers now are invited to
push their diesel engines to 60
miles an hour along the straight
stretches of the line, Johnson
pointed out.
Slightly more than four years
ago, cinder belching locomotives
and obsolete coaches took two
days on the run from Anchorage
to Fairbanks. A stopover was
made at Curry, where train pas- I
sengers spent the night at the
railroad hotel.
Daily train service offers great
er convenience for sports, fisher
men and visitors to Mt. McKin
ley National Park. The regular
week end Fisherman’s Special
train from Anchorage is being
discontinued and there will not
be a need for the summer Brill
car service linking Mt. McKinley j
Park and Fairbanks.
The traveling Alaskan now can j
reach his favorite fishing site or
outdoor retreat at any time and
return when he pleases.
An Aurora train, complete with
buffet car, is scheduled to leave
Anchorage for the north every
day except Wednesday. There
will be no train out of Fairbanks
on Thursday.
CUB SCOUT NEWS
Cub Scouts of Palmer have
planned a Lazy Mountain hike
for June 30. Gathering point will |
be at the school grounds, 9 a.m.,
James Kindler, Cub Scout lead- I
er, announced today. Picnic |
lunches will be carried.
FILE INTENTION TO WED
Glen A. Shank and Mardell
Swift made application for a mar
riage license today, according to
Commissioner Dorothy Saxton.
Miss Swift is employed at Kos
losky's. Mr. Shank, now in Val
dez, previously worked for James
Construction Co.
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Alaska Owned and Operated
Palmer, Alaska
Former Alaska Game
Commissioner Heads
Fishing Parly North
Frank Dufresne, for 25 years in
Alaska as head of the Alaska
Game Commission, now- retired
and living near Olympia, Wash.,
will leave for a trip into the Bris
til Bay country as guide for a
party desiring to do some real
fishing.
With Dufresne will be repre
sentatives of the Shakespeare
Fishing Tackle Company of Kala
mazoo, Mich., manufacturers of
glass fish rods, who will have an
expert photographer with them to
bring back pictorial records. In a
chartered plane the party will fly
to Brooks Lake and other noted
fishing spots.
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