Alaska Railroad
Increases Staff
For Palmer Station
With work mounting on The
^Alaska Railroad required by in
creased tonnage due to construc
tion and defense work, two new
employes have been added to the
Palmer staff.
M. R. Burgan has been ap
pointed telegrapher-clerk. He for
merly was agent at Matanuska
until that station closed. Then
went Outside. Now is back with
his family.
Jeanne Smith, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Smith of Palm
er, and senior student at Palmer
high school, completed her school
work early to take the job as
clerk at the Palmer station. How
ever, she wdll be in cap-and-gown
with rest of the graduating class
next week.
LOSERS PAY
RIFLE RET
Losers on the rifle team at the
last match of the Matanuska Val
ley Sportsmen’s Club paid off
v^ith a dinner for the winners.
Held at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. E. R. Brock, the hosted win
ners included Mr. and Mrs. Ken
Westenbarger, Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Smith, Jack Dodge and Verne
Donaldson. Other guests were
Mr. and Mrs. Leon LaCross and
Mrs. Nancy Wade.
Losers who co-hosted with the
Brocks were Mr. and Mrs. Rip
Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Ham
ilton, and Mr. and Mrs. Dan
Fleming.
OPAL LEA HALVORSEN
MOVING TO ANCHORAGE
Mrs. Opal Lea Halvorsen, who
since last November has operated
Lou’s Beauty Shop in Park
Square, has sold her business and
is leaving for Anchorage where
she will be married to Charles
Nevada, May 23.
This is her last week in the
shop. Living in the Valley for
the past three years, and former
owner of Hallea Lodge, she has
made many friends.
Her wedding plans wall be an
nounced shortly.
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Red Cross Drive
Totals $308.00
The Red Cross drive in the
Palmer area brought in onlj
$308, Walter E. Huntley, chair
man, announced today.
“That was not due to lack ol
canvassing,” he declared. “The
Boy Scouts under the leadership
of the Rev. Victor Alfsen---anc
with the cooperation of citizens
who volunteered their cars tc
cover rural districts—did an ex
cellent job. To them my appre
ciation and thanks.”
But he added: “The total turn
ed in was rather a poor reflection
on the town.” Perhaps, he said,
it was due to the multiplicity oi
demands. Perhaps it was due to
misunderstanding of the scope
and services of the Red Cross.
Huntley expressed his thanks to
merchants who had cooperated in
the drive with advertising and
to the few organizations who had
noted the drive at their meetings.
TYPHOID SHOTS
Anyone wishing typhoid shots
may receive them any morning
between 10 and 11 o’clock at the
Health Center or make appoint
ment by calling 67Y11, Miss Mar
jorie Myren, health nurse an
nounced.
Victor Alfsen
Resigns to Attend
Seminar for Year
The Rev. Victor Alfsen, pastor
of the United Protestant Church,
and his family are leaving Pal
mer July 1st. for Princeton, N. J.
There he will enter the semin
for a year’s graduate work.
An interim pastor will be ap
pointed by the National Presby
terian Board of Missions, until a
permanent appointment is made.
After his year’s study is com
plete, the Rev. Alfsen says he
hopes for a Bible teaching posi
tion at home or abroad.
“Although I am realizing a |
longtime ambition, it’s hard to i
pull up stakes after having been
here eight years,” he said. “I
would like eventually to return
to Alaska in a Bible teaching
assignment.”
The Rev. Alfsen has served the
comunity as a Boy Scout leader,
a member of the Valley Hospital
board and of the Library board
and in other community activi
ties.
He also has filed the pastorate
Church since 1946.
Steve Vukovich, 38 years in Al
aska, 6 years member of the Ter
ritorial legislature, was in Palmer
from Juneau this week on busi
ness.
OF ALL KINDS
Sho-Cards- Truck Lettering
PALMER SIGN CO.
Box 1833—Basement Palmer Drug
Hobby House
NOW’S THE TIME
Strawberry Plants—5c
Raspberry Plants— large, 25c; choice, 35c
JAMS?-of Course
Paul F. Martin
3 Miles South of Palmer
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Honeymooners
Choose Palmer
Honeymooning in Palmer last
weekend were Mr. and Mrs. Jas.
Peach. He is Sgt. Hdg. Squad,
39th Airbase crew, Elmendorf.
Home town is Franklin, Tenn.
The bride is the former Bar
bara Beavers of Los Angeles,
, daughter of W. Beavers, Elmen
idorf contractor, and Mrs. Beav
'ers.
They were married at Chapel
2, Elmendorf, in a candlelight
service. The bride wore white
organdy over taffeta and carried
an old-fashioned nosegay. Brides
maid was Miss Joanne Sargent
of Anchorage, in pink taffeta,
with an old-fashioned nosegay.
Best man was Charles Myers of
Cushing, Okla., now with the Air •
Force.
Sgt. Peach says that when he’s
out of service he’s going to try
the contracting business in Alas
ka—he kinda likes it here!
Old Timers Take Jobs
Sam Woolcock has returned
from California to take the job
as engineer in charge of the Co
Op power house. Fourteen years
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ago he homesteaded in the Lazy
Mountains, then went Outside.
Another well known Matanus
kan on a new job is Jim Smith,
who has left his job in the Jones
ville Mines to take over as fire
man at the Co-Op powerhouse.
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