Community
Calendar
TODAY
DEMOCRATIC caucus at Carpen
ters’ Hall at 8 p. m.
SATURDAY
PALMER Library food sale' at
Trading Post.
WASILLA Library benefit din
ner at Community Hall, 6 p. m.
SNOW BALL at Palmer Gym at
9 p. m.
Monday
MERCHANT’S Shoot at Rifle
t Range at 8 p. m.
VETERANS’ farm training class
m former library at 8 pjn.
ROCKETS basketball practice at
Gym at 7 p. m.
SHAMROCK basketball practice
at Gym at 8:30 p.m.
HOMEMAKERS’ Council at Ex
tension Office at 10:30 a. m.
KING’S LAKE board meeting.
HOUSING meeting at the school
cafeteria at 8 p. m. '
KIWANIS Club dinner at former '
library at 6:30 p. m. '
Wednesday
12:30 Homemakers meet.
SHS vs. PHS at Palmer Gym at
7:30 p. m. ’
Thursday i
AMERICAN Legion at Lejgion I
Hall at 8 p. m. I
LEGION Auxiliary at the Legion '
Hall at 8 p. m. 1
BUTTE Homemakers at Mrs. 1
Mary Frey’s.
CHUGIAK Homemakers meet.
NORTHLAND Pioneer Grange at
Grange Hall. I
FRIDAY 1
SHS vs. PHS at Palmer Gym at t
7:30 p. m. j
Church Aid Sells
Commemorative Plates
Commemorative plates, with a
reproduction of the church on the j
fare of the plate and a short his
tory on the back, are the latest
fund-building idea of the ladies
of the United Protestant Church.
The plates will be sold through
Variety Vogues, at a cost $2 each.
Money from their sale will be
used to furnish the new kitchen
of the United Protestant Church.
Juneau Hopes For
New Library Under GSA
The city of Juneau has com
pleted plans for the construction
of a new library, which it hopes
obtain under the Community
Facilities Service program. The
city has purchased a lot, has so
licited $47,000 in cash and pledges
and is now working for the re
maining $23,000 which the city
must provide toward the build
ing’s cost. The total cost of the
structure will be $140,000. Ju
neau-ites hope to see the build
ing go up this summer.
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Baptists Lease Cordova Hospital
The Cordova Community Hos
pital has been leased to the
Apierican Baptist Home Mission
Society, it was announced recent
ly. The lease will run for a term j
of five years. The Cordova Hos- ‘
pital is the Baptist society’s first j
project in Alaska.
Cancer Memorial Fund
Set Up For Alaska
Mrs. Mildred Hermann of Jt
neau, commander of the Alask
Division of the American Cance
Society, last week announced th
establishment of a cancer memoi
ial fund for the Territory.
Money paid into this fund j
used to finance cancer researc
education, Mrs. Hermann said.
The manner of donation is sim
pie, she pointed out. The dono
need only mail a check to “Can
cer, Juneau, Alaska”, stating th
name of the person in whos
memory the donation is made
and the next of kin of that per
son.
Kodiak. Valley Chamber!
ro Publish Pamphlets
Kodiak, too, is making plans t
publish a new Chamber of Com
merce pamphlet, it was learnee
tere last week. A preliminar:
iraft of the booklet is already
>eing studied by the town’s mer
:hants
Plans for a new and large
>ooklet to be published by the
/alley Chamber of Commerce
vere announced here at last Wed
lesday's meeting. Preliminary
banning calls for a 16-page book
et, with six pages of advertising
Hhe advertising revenue is ex
►ected to meet the cost of th<
>ook.
New Wasilla Student
WASILLA—Gloria Wright ol
’aimer, has transferred to Wasil
a High School. Gloria was
irarmly welcomed into Wasilla’s
unior class.
New REA Representative
Arrives This Week
Bernard Kirk, newly appointed
a | Rural Electrification Administra
r tion representative for Alaska,
arrived in Palmer this week. Mr.
Kirk replaces Herbert Bryan, re
cently transferred to Washington,
s D. C.
j Mr. Kirk’s was only a flying
I visit to his new headquarters of
fice here. He left at once on an
p j inspection tour of all REA co-ops
in Alaska. He said he expected
& i to be in his Palmer office for only
2 short periods of time for the next
'* three months. >
The REA representative ex
pects to go Outside again in May,
and will return over the Alaska
* Highway with Mrs. Kirk. He
hopes to have located living quar
ters for his family before Mrs.
> Kirk joins him here.
. (Although this is Mr. Kirk’s
* first visit to Alaska and the Mata
1 nuska Valley, he came well post
r ed with information on Palmer
and the Valley. While searching
reference books for background
k information in his hometown li
[ brary at Alexandria, Va., he dis
cussed his reason for the research
’ with a librarian- She promptly
handed him a six months’ file of
copies of the Valley Frontiers
man, and Mr. Kirk continued his
’ Valley research through the Den
and through the Frontiersman’s
news columns.)
RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL
Ray Smith, who has been hos
pitalized here for some time, was
released from Valley Hospital on
Feb. 1.
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VALLEY CLEANERS
For Free Delivery
CALL 6 Y 3
Pickup and Delivery in Wasilla Each
Wednesday at Wasilla Cafe
■ For That Refreshment
Pause In Palmer ....
VISIT THE
FRONTIER BAR
FRONTIER LIQUOR STORE
BOTH ARE OPEN 24 HOURS DAILY
7 DAYS A .WEEK
Gloria Crousore Wed
To Samuel Youngblood
Gloria Crousore of Palmer, wa:
married to Samuel Youngblood o:
Fort Richardson, at a quiet after
noon ceremony last Wednesday
U. S. Commissioner Dorothy Sax■
ton performed the service.
The bride, who was attendee
by Billie Renshaw, wore a greer
suit with black accessories as hei
wedding costume. Mrs. Renshaw
wore a black suit.
Harry Rust, brother of the
bride, was groom’s man.;
Mr. and Mrs. Youhgblbod ex
pect to leave soon for Texas tc
make their home. The groom
will receive his discharge from
the Army about March 1, and the
newlyweds will leave for Texaf
immediately thereafter. • •••
LUSTERS HAVE GIRL
Mr. and Mrs. John Luster oi
Chickaloon Ijecame the parents
of a daughter, Hilda Ruth, ob
Jan. 28. The little girl was . born
at Valley Hospital.
VALENTINES
Comic or Sentimental
From • Penny to
LOBERG’S
Tanana Fanners Seek
1 Fbkx Potato Market
Tanana Valley farmers, as well
chants in the purchase of local
! potatoes. A recent article ap>
j pearing in Jessen’s Weekly, writ*
, j as those of the Valley, are at
' tempting to interest Alaskan mer*
.ten by John Gustafson, district
1 soil conservationist there, showed
that Fairbanksans spend $174,00*
j annually for 870 tons of potatoes.
• Of the tonnage consumed, only
j 70 tons are purchased locally,
j Mr. Gustafson presented fig*.
| ures to show that the 800 tons of
j Outside potatoes funneled $112.*
. j 000 of Fairbanks money Outsido
J each year- He said that the prof -
I it from the 70 tons of local pota
j toes now sold in Fairbanks will
j support one family, but that if
! the entire population of Fair*
j banks would buy local potatoes^
nine families could make their
living from the potato cropu
The Valley Chamber of Com
merce recently announced that
one of its principal projects this
year would be a program of im*
[j provement of the local potato and
li an. educational campaign to in
I duce Anchorage merchants and
housewives to purchase the Ma>
; tanuska potato.
ON ITS WAY TO ALASKA—
TWO CARLOADS OF FEED
Especially Blended for Alaskan Conditions
THIS FEED WILL BE MARKETED FROM
OUR NEW STORE
At the Valley Grocery Annex
Alaska Seed Co., Inc.
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OUR STOCK OF FERTILIZER
is expected to arrive in; Palmer about March. 15
STORE HOURS FOR ITS HANDLING WILL BE
ANNOUNCED VERY SOON
WE'D LIKE TO ASSURE EVERYONE THAT
Alaska Seed Co., Inc.
IS IN THE VALLEY TO STAY
(Store Outlets in Anchorage, Palmer. Wasilla and Homer!
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