VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
Entered as second class matter on Oct. 21, 1947, at the post office al
_ Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
PRINTED AT PALMER, ALASKA, EACH FRIDAY
By the Matanuska Press, Inc.
Viola Daniels ...Editor
Barbara Carter .Wasilla Correspondent
Valdez High School ...Valdez Correspondent
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No printed material in the Valley Frontiersman may
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DANIELS—In the Lion’s Den
This column, in which you have read so many
things in the past four years with which it has been
your pleasure to agree or disagree, will be different
today than any you have ever read before. It won't be
concerned with any vital issues, it won't raise cudgels
in defense of anything. In fact, it probably won't be
a very good column today, for, you see, this is the
last editorial I'll be writing.
Today writes thirty, the newspaper reporter's
symbol for "It is finished" to Daniels in the Lion's Den.
^ Today writes thirty to my hitch as editor-reporter, cir
culation manager and office boy for the Valley Fron
tiersman. There'll be a new reporter at my typewriter,
a new voice answering my telephone, when the next
issue of the Valley Frontiersman reaches your hands.
I'm sorry to have to write it—perhaps much sorrier
than you are to read it. The Valley Frontiersman has
not been a job, it has been a way of life for me for the
past four years, and it won't be easy to change that.
With the help of you, my readers, it's been a more
interesting four years than any other 20 of the years
that went before. And that's been your doing. There
are times when you've made me so indignant, I've
wanted to chew you to shreds, verbally. They've been
times when you've so thoroughly ignored me that I've
wondered if you knew you had a paper in the Mata
nuska Valley. Then there have been times when you've
been so downright nice to me that I knew you deserved
a much finer newspaper than I could possibly give you.
In short, you've helped me to have four years of
about as normal a human existence of ups and downs
»as any one individual can hope to get. Even though
I never find anything to quite equal them, these will
be four years I'll never forget.
I shan't be leaving our Valley, or our town, so I'll
not be saying goodbye to anyone. This farewell is just
a goodbye to the Valley Frontiersman and all the
varied jobs on it that were mine and now will belong
to someone else. I have liked doing them.
Although I'll no longer be reporting for the Valley
Frontiersman, I shan't be leaving my job of Valley
reporting. I'll be continuing to collect all the news of
Valley activities I can possibly find, in the days ahead,
for publication in a section of an Anchorage news
paper. And I'll be just as interested as ever in getting
those Palmer datelines into the nation's press services
as often as I can. But those jobs will be for Viola
Daniels, reporter for an Anchorage newspaper, and
not for the Valley Frontiersman. It won't be the same.
But I'll still be trying as hard as I can to do the best I
can for our Valley.
* There are no black column rules of mourning in
the Valley Frontiersman this week, but they're weigh
ing heavy on my heart as I pull the door of the Den
closed and snap a padlock into place.
KIWANIANS ELECT
NEW OFFICERS
Recently - elected officers for
Palmer’s Kiwanis Club were an
nounced this week by retiring
secretary William T. Zahradnicek.
The new Kiwanis executives are:
James Wilson, president; Hugh
Johnson, vice - president; Emil
* Ganschow, secretary; John Weis
enberger, treasurer.
SUPERVISOR VISITS •
Kenneth Clem, educational su
pervisor for the Railbelt area, is
visiting in the Valley this week.
Mr. Clem was callin gat schools
at Wasilla, Richards Home and
Lazy Mountain this week. He is
expected to spend a day at Pal
mer School next Monday or Tues
day.
Coffey Insures Everything!
Remember?
STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP
Statement of the Ownership,
Management and Circulation oi
the VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
required by the Act of Congress
of August 24, 1912, as amended
by the Acts of March 3, 1933, and
July 2, 1949 (39 U. S. C 233).
The names and addresses of the
publisher, editor, managing edit
or, and business manager are:
Publisher, Matanuska Press
Palmer, Alaska.
Editor and Managing Editor
Viola Daniels, Palmer, Alaska
Business Manager, A. J. DeJulio
Palmer, Alaska.
The owners are Matanuskc
Press and Viola Daniels, Palmer
Alaska.
The known bondholders, mort
gagees, and other bonds, mort
gages or other securities are
Matanuska Valley Bank, Palmer
Alaska, and J. M. Gauntlett Com
pany, Seattle, Wash.
The average number of copies
of each issue of this publication
sold or distributed, through the
mails or otherwise, to paid sub
scribers during the 12 months pre
ceding the date shown above are:
830 copies.
(Signed)
VIOLA DANIELS.
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 4th day of October, 1949..
(SEAL)
DOROTHY B. SAXON.
U. S. Commissioner.
GRANGE OFFICERS INSTALL
Grange Officers Installed
New officers were seated at
the installation service held at
the regular Northland Pioneer
Grange meeting held last night.
Firsl Milestone of School Year
Is Passed at Palmer This Week
The first lap of the ’50-’51 school
year ends this week for Palmer
students. Pupils finished six
weeks or work today, and are
eagerly awaiting their first look
at the new progress report cards,
outline for which was drafted by
their teachers. High school stu
dents finished mid-term exami
nations yesterday and were relax
ing at the annual freshman hazing
this afternoon.
VACCO Property to Be
Sold for Delinquent Taxes
Nearly all the property of
VACCO at Haines has been put
I on the block for delinquent taxes,
j The Haines independent school
! district has filed the action ask
! ing for an order of sale. The vet
erans’ property amounts to near
ly 385 acres, not including the
wharf and building. The delin
quent taxes amount to $1,698.96.
Coffee Insures Everything—
Remember!
r A HEALTHY COMMUNITY
Filling prescripi.ons is an important part of our busi
ness ut today, for a change, we are taking the liberty of
writing one—after long and careful thought. Here it is:
PURCHASE Voluntary Health Insurance.
PRESERVE the American medical system.
PROTECT freedom all along the line.
PALMER DRUG STORE
Prescription Headquarters of the Valley
(Across from Koslosky’s)
I
To Do the Job Right, You'll Need These Accessories:
Fan Bells
Healer Hoses
Radiator Hoses
Anli-Freeze
We Still Have a Good Supply of Either Zerex or Prestone
CO-OP GARAGE
Palmer, Alaska