VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
Owned and Published by Anchorage Shopping Guide, Inc.
PRINTED AT PALMER, ALASKA, EACH THURSDAY
Entered as second class matter on Oct. 21, 1947. at the post office i
Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Viola Daniels . ~~~ ~ F...
DANIELS... In The Lion's Den
One hundred and eighty-five million dollars for
Alaska, but not one cent tor Palmer.
Will that be the story of 1950 for our town? Will
we go without needed housing, improved streets, street
lights, an improved airport, playgrounds and recrea
tional areas, a new hospital, improved school buildings,
and many other desperately needed community facili
ties, while 12 million dollars in public works funds are
poured into neighboring towns and cities?
That could be the story that is written in Palmer's
book at the end of 1950, unless we, who live in Palm
er, are willing to take steps to prevent it. Unless we
are willing to shoulder our civic responsibility in the
year ahead, unless we prove ourselves willing to pull
our weight in this battle to move ahead, or even to sur
vive, we will find ourselves at this time next year just
where we are today, or perhaps even a little behind
where we stand today.
The year of 1949 has brought to Palmer, as a city,
absolutely nothing, except possibly the expenditure of
a few dollars on the local airport. And that expendi
ture has fallen far short of our expectations of the past
years, when each year we confidently anticipate the
landing of "DC-3s by lettuce time", as one farmer put
it two years ago in March.
Palmer, as a city, can hope to gain nothing until
Palmer becomes, in actuality, a city. We have no
right to hope to share in benefits which are regulated
by the proviso that they be extended to organized
cities. We belittle the town in which we live by ask-!
ing for plums to which we have no right, until we pre-|
pare the storehouse for those plums.
Almost every type of Federal fund available for
the improvements we so badly need can go only to in
corporated cities. The guardians of those funds are
right in their restriction to such cities. An incorpor
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ated city provides a re$p<
. tering of the Federal fun
the fact of its incorporal
can be assured that there
j of that city to whom the n
be entrusted.
> It is not a matter of
the trustees involved. Ei
spend their tims in the p
ing of these funds. Thus
Palmer's streets would no
unteer management of
I would be required to sane
' in beside his daily duties
■ street would be his living,
be responsible for the me
performed.
The volunteer help o
the performance of these
hope to do the job in as efi
can. Any Kiwanis Club i
ganization's recent street
ness to that fact.
Palmer must incorpor
even a tenth of the things
ture. True, it will cost sorr
left a millon-dollar fortune
to dig up the plane fare t<
one among us who would
The same is true of ou
will cost us something, bn.
cant in comparison with wl
way of Federal funds for c
The way is simple. Th<
pleted, and even the legal
petition already is drawn l
incorporation of the city o
tion in a Valley Chambe
postpone action for a six-n
effect.
All it will take to begir
er is a motion at a Chamfc
remove that petition from <
ber's next meeting is on V
are we waiting for?
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Matanuska Valley Bns Lines, Inc.
DAILY BUS SCHEDULE
ANCHORAGE TO PALMER AND WASILLA AND RETURN
Leave Anchorage for Palmer 9:00 A. M.
3:50 P. M.
6:00 P. M
Arrive at Palmer . . ., 10:59 A. M.
5:49 P. M.
7:59 P. M
Leave Palmer for Wasilla
11:15 A. M.
8:10 P. M.
Arrive at Wasilla
11:45 A. M.
8:40 P. M.
: Leave Wasillo for Palmer .... 7:30 A. M.
; Arrive Palmer from Wasilla .. 8:00 A. M.
12:00 Noon
12:30 P. M.
Heave Palmer for Anchorage . 8:30 A.M.
1:00 P. M..... 6:00 P. M.
| Arrive in Anchorage
10:29 A. M.
2:59 P. M.
7:59 P. M.
Do you wont a nice trip? No better time than now. Have you been over the I
new road to the MATANUSKA VALLEY? When you have a day off or want!
|a nice trip over the week-end just Dial 4-8181 and ask about the MATANUS-|
|KA VALLEY tour. On the trip ask the driver about the country. He is very!
*courteous and will try to help you. *
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>nsible body for the adminis
ds entrusted to its care. By
ion, the Fediral government
will be responsible employes
management of the funds can
(■he honesty or dishonesty of
nployes of a city are paid to
banning for and administer
►, for example, the paving of
t be dependent upon the vol
a street commissioner who
Iwich the city street planning
of earning a living. That
and as such, the man would
inner in which his work was
’t which we now depend for
quasi-civic functions cannot
icient a manner as paid help
rmember who recalls that or
labeling project can be a wit
ate if we are to accomplish
; that we hope for in the fu
lething. But if we were to be
1 in gold at Nome, we'd have
) go after it, and there's not
think that fare too high.
r municipal government. It
it the price will be insignifi
mat we can hope to get in the
ur development.
5 groundwork has been corn
work is partly behind us. A
ip which will bring about the
F Palmer. Last spring's mo
r of Commerce meeting to
months' period is no longer in
m the incorporation of Palm
er of Commerce meeting to
irydock. The Valley Cham
Vednesday, Jan. 18. What
Coffey Insures Everything—
Remember?
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FOR SALE
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HEADACHE TIME
It's no easy job to make out your income tax
and if you miss a deduction it's simply money
out of your pocket.
That's why it's so important to pay by check
so you will have a complete record of expense.
Perhaps iks time you opened an account at
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Palmer, Alaska
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