PNA SETS ALL-TJME
HIGH IN NOVEMBER
Pacific Northern Airlines set
new all time highs for No
vember in numbers of passen
gers enplaned, revenue pass
enger-miles flown, and cargo
ton-miies flown, according to
figures just released by Harold
A Olsen, PNA vice president
traffic and sales.
PNA carried a total of 10,784
passengers in November. 1963
compared with 10,197 for the
same month a year ago. I
Growing Cedar Homes Industry
is Result Of Ingenious Idea
Just short of seven yean
ago a man in a wheelchair rar
some cedar planks through ;
tab.e saw to prove his system
( f single wall home construe
tion
He was Clarence L. Hook
founder and president of Ce
dar Homes Manufacturing Cor
■oration in Bellevue. Wash,
the paralyzed victim of a con
;truction accident who, while
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MARJORIE, FLOYD and DON
745-3413 Palmer
I hospitalized, developed t h e
later patented idea of perman
ently sealed wall of western
red cedar.
Since 1957 Hook has devoted
many hours to gathering all de
tails of operation, promotion
and sales into line.
Working out operations
mean every-day wheelchair
trips along the assembly line
making certain that all »ele
ments in the Cedar Homes
system fit together.
Hook, who worked 18 to 20
hour days and 365-day years,
can laugh today about being
so consumed in working out
and coordinating details that
he was months getting to the
barber. He also stops to chuckle
about leaving his car behind
the mill and not thinking about
it again until it was totally
hidden beneath a pile of cedar
shavings.
Cedar Homes first entered
the recreation home field and
established a firm position of
leadership. Then, with careful
planning, it branched into
conventional homes with a full
line of dwellings having up to
five bedrooms. Cedar Homes
also features a large selection
of rental units, apartments.
IN DAYS OF OLD
Researchers say that early
Greeks and Romans were quite
particular about New Year
toasts—who made them, who
poured, and what was said. The
right to make a toast at some
gathering or ceremony was re
served for an official or other
important personage.
A toast to one’s lover was
popular in Rome, and it was
custom to drink one glass for
each letter of a sweetheart’s
name.
WMpy
,n abundance of health, happiness and prosperity
is our New Year’s wish to you, good friends and customers.
We thank you for your many favors during the past
year, and look forward to the continuing pleasure of serving you.
MAIN OFFICE, PALMER
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712 4»h Ave., Anchorage
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HATANU S KA
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motels and commercial build
ings, all incorporating its solid
cedar method of construction.
Up until now this expanded
line of models has been offer
ed, virtually cash on delivery,
to individual lot owners for
do - it - yourself or contracted
construction. A dealer service
organization along with a fleet
of company-owned diesel
trucks has opened service to all
Western states. Airlift has
been used to deliver Cedar
Home structures to Alaska
and many more have gone by
ship and barge to Hawaii as
well.
It’s now a bigger line of home
designs using the basic wall
elements that’s moving into
other states, extending the
range in which drivers trained
in step-by-step unloading of a
complete dwelling's parts can
do the job within hours using
local inexperienced help.
Cedar Homes has now come
out with “Design 64,” involving
new features making product
acceptance as wide as the na
tion or world.
Design '64 also brings the
first offering of Cedar Homes
components at wholesale to
builders.
This milestone is the b i g
one. The next, originally pro
jected for the 10th year, could
come within the eighth. Hook
agrees: an assembly line cap
able of producing components
for thousands of Cedar Homes
cabins, residences, motels, and
service buildings. With this ad
vance there will be warehouses
in key places where individ
uals and builders can select
their desired plan, take the
necessary components out of
stock and follow’ the simple di
rections toward quick assem
bly.
The local representative for
Cedar Homes Corp. is Betty
Mears.
Greek Gee
Cronus Became
Time Symbol
Chronometry is the science
of measuring time — a project
that has interested man since
his earliest days on earth.
The word comes down to us
associated with Cronus, the
Greek god once hailed as lord
of the universe, as a corrup
tion of the word “cronos”
which means time.
Cronus supposedly was war
ned that one of his children
would dispose of him, and so
vowed to devour them at birth.
When a child, Zeus was born,
Cronus’ wife, Rhea hid the
child away and presented a
stone to Cronus instead.
Everything ended happily,
according to the legend. Cron
us disgorged the stone, along
with previous child he had
swallowed. Zeus later dethron
ed his father and became the
chief god of the Greek pan
theon.
Cronus? As we said earlier,
because of the similarity of
names, he became confused
with the word for time. Some
one placed an hour-glass in his
hand, someone else added a
scythe and the world came to
know him as Father Time.
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1964 Gl INSURANCE DIVIDENDS
TO BE PAID BY END OF JANUARY
Johnson’s directive for t h e
earliest possible payment of
the $234 million G. I. Insur
ance dividend for 1964, of
which $268,800 will go to Al
aska veterans, the VA said
last week the first checks
would reach veterans by Jan
uary 2.
In reporting this, John C.
Denny, manager of the Juneau
VA Regional Office said pay
ments to all of the 5,468 vet
erans in Alaska participating in
the dividend would be comple
ted in record time, by January
25.
The President, on December
8, ordered the accelerated pay
ments as a-stimulant to the
economy.
In the first speed payment
of a dividend ordered hy
President Kennedy in 1961,
payments were completed by
March 17. The stepped up pay
ment of the 1963 dividend was
completed last January 31. The
VA plan to issue the 1964
dividend checks by next Jan
uary 25 will cut a week from
the previous record processing
time of 31 days in 1963,
Of the total distribution of
$234 million, $15 million will
go to about 225,000 World War
I veterans holding U. S. Gov
ernment Life Insurance
(USGLI) policies. The remain
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May the New Year
brim v3u rocd health.
Pearl White
Laundry
IRENE LEPAK & STAFF
745-3391 Palmer
5' 0,000 World War II veterans
who hold National Service
Life Insurance (NSLI) policies.
Korean Conflict veterans
hold non-participating policies
that do not provide regular an
nual dividend payments.
The regular dividends are
primarily a return to the pol
icyholders of part of their
premium payments since the
death rate among GI policy
holders continues to be lowpr
than the rate upon which the
payments were established by
law.
Denny reminded policyhold
ers that the preparing and
mailing of dividend payments
are automatic and require no
correspondence from veterans
or their families. In fact, such
correspondence might delay
the dividend distribution pro
cess, he said.
The National Foundation
March of Dimes is the nation's
largest single source of private
support for research and pa
tient care in arthritis.
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ALIENS REPORT
IN JANUARY
All aliens in the United
States must report their ad
dresses during the month of
January, Keifer L. Gray, di>
trict director of the United
States immigration and natur
alization service, stated this
week.
Forms on which to make the
report will he available to all
post offices and offices of the
immigration and naturaliza
tion service during the month
of January.
Gray urged all aliens to
comply with the reporting re
quirements, saying that willful
failure to do so may lead to
serious consequences.
The director estimated that
3,000 aliens will report in the
state of Alaska.
Gray said that all non-citi
zens, except those in diploma
tic status, foreign representa
tives of certain international
organizations and those admit
ted temporarily as agricultural
laborers, are required to file
the address report
Willful failure may result in
a $200 fine, imprisonment for
30 days, and deportation.
sighting a
great Hew Year!
The best in view
-* to all of you during the
coming New Year! We
extend our warmest greetings
and grateful thanks
Virginia’s Hotel Coffee Shop
VIRGINIA & WALT
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As mankind moves toward greater goats, we took ahead with the
hope that all achievements may guide us to tasting peace. We
rh^re this wish, and our greetings, with you at the New Year
GENE WEBB & BERT DUFF
745-3810
Palmer