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VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
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By the M<«^nuska Press. Inc
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Lucille Kennedy Mick
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Virginia Gallant
Barbara Carter
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SIX MONTHS OF PROGRESS
The incorporated city of Palmer is just six months old this week.
To the casual observer, it might appear that incorporation had made
little difference. Until two weeks ago on the main streets and even
now on some of the back ones, he might point to the roads and ex
claim with truth, ‘‘The same old holes, only worse.” Last week and
this week he might swear at his bathroom faucet because it didn’t
give any more water than it did last April. But today both the
swearing and reality of truth are tempered with hope—not the hope
of the timeless dreamer, but the hope that springs from concrete
progress.
Almost weekly Palmer’s seven councilmen have met together
to attend to the business entailed in building a new city. Between
meetings they have worked singly or in groups as members of com
mittees charged with a particular function.
Most of their work so far has been directed toward emergency
measures, attending to needs of an immediate nature. First was the
need for water springing from failure of the Co-op water supply.
Within a few short weeks, a new source had been tapped and a tem
porary line erected which furnished the city with ample water
throughout the summer. At the same time plans for a permanent
city water system were initiated, and by summer’s end the initial
surveys had been made and APW funds allocated for the project
.construction which will begin next year.
Money was the next need to receive attention. Nothing further
could be done without it. The people of Palmer responded nobly
to the tax on sales and services in a 72 percent vote in the July
election.
Thereafter a city ordinance setting up such a tax was drafted
after a great deal of study of other sales tax ordinances and the
Territorial statutes dealing with them. Three public readings were
provided, according to law, to give citizens a chance to point out
inequalities.
The police problem became an emergency when the Highway
Patrol received orders to stop policing Palmer streets. Ordinances
setting up a police department and a misdemeanor code were quickly
drawn up. A police chief was appointed to duty the day the tax on
sales and services, from which he would get his salary, went into
sffect.
Rapid expansion in the city presaged by a bumper 1951 crop
af building plans focused immediate attention on a city building
code to protect the interests of the city and of those who were
planning such construction. Choice of a detailed technical code and
adaptation to Palmer’s needs followed months of study by the com
mittee and advice from outside sources to the Council. The building
code ordinance was adopted two weeks ago.
Action in setting up a licensing ordinance and a taxicab ordi
nance to protect local businessmen and to provide further sources
of city income followed petition of city businessmen that such pro
tective measures were immediately necessary.
With the roads a mass of holes and ARC responsibility for them
reaching an end at freeze-up time, council members were forced to
wrestle with the problem of maintenance. As soon as they were
sure of money to back up their bid, a surplus grader was bid on and
abtained. As September sales tax returns mounted and the time
purchase of a new maintainer became feasible, an order was placed
for early delivery.
The Council still is engrossed in the problem of insuring an
adequate and modern telephone system for Palmer and the Mata
nuska Valley, a problem which became a priority issue upon receipt
af two requests for a telephone franchise. A long-needed health
ordinance is in process of adoption.
Under the pressure of all these immediate needs, essential to
the operation of a new city government, the mayor and the council
last week took steps to plan also for Palmer’s future. With the
appointment of an excellent City Planning Commission, just six
months after its incorporation as a city, Palmer has a good chance
to escape the deplorable conditions facing older cities which were
allowed to grow like Topsy.
While there are still many essentials demanding council atten
*■ tion, notably a fire department and municipal buildings, the past
six months record of selfless service give us every confidence that
Palmer’s first City Council will attend to them with diligence and
dispatch. e 1 1
To City Council members we offer congratulations for six
months well spent and best wishes for those to come.
Valley Frontiersman Classifieds Get Resells
Cranberries And Raisins Team Up
To Make A Delicious Autumn Pi
Bright red fresh cranberries and plump raisins join flavors
pleasingly in this new pie. The fruits are accented with
orange rind, and thickened with quick-cooking tapioca.
Bits of crust may be used for fancy designs, replacing a
top crust so that the filling can be seen and admired!
Two of Autumn’s choicest fruits blend their flavors in this pie. The
result is a harmony as pleasing to the eye as to the taste. Cranberries
furnish both zest and color, while seedless raisins contribute their
delicious, sun-ripened sweetness. It's a pie everyone will like, so you’ll
want to make it often. Sometimes you may roll out a simple top
crust, and cut a few slits here and there for steam to escape. But
for special occasions you’ll enjoy the compliments you’ll get when you
use a "petal” crust, as pictured.
Cranberry Raisin Tie
3 Vi tablespoons quick-cooking
tapioca
1 Mi cups sugar
Vi teaspoon salt
% cup seedless raisins
3 cups cranberries
1 Vi cups water
1 teaspoon grated orange rind
Pastry for two-crust 9-inch pie
Combine tapioca, sugar, salt, raisins, cranberries and water in
saucepan. Cover and bring to a boil. Cool, stirring occasionally. Add
orange rind.
Line a 9-inch pie pan with half of ’ pastry rolled Vi-inch thick.
Roll remaining pastry Vi-inch thick. Ut five or six 2Vi-inch rounds
to make pastry flowers. Form petals by cutting 4 equally spaced slits
from edge toward center of each round. Turn up one corner of each
petal. Fill pie shell with fruit mixture. Arrange pastry flowers on top
of fruit mixture. Put a cranberry or raisin in center of each flower.
Bake in hot oven (425° F.) 45 minutes, or until syrup boils with heavy
bubbles that do not burst.
Inaugural Service
By Lutheran Minister
To Be Heard Sunday
St. John’s Lutheran Church of
Palmer once again has a resident
minister of its own in the person
of the Rev. Edward H. Imme who,
together with Mrs. Imme and
their three small sons, arrived .n
Palmer last Thursday evening.
The Immes arrived at Seward on
the S. S. Baranoff and drove to
Palmer over the new road from
Seward.
Members of the church will
hear their new pastor for the first
time this Sunday and everyone :s
invited to join him in this occa
sion. The inaugural service will
begin at 11:00 a.m.
Rev. Imme’s former parish was
at Richland, Washington, home
of the giant Hanford atomic en
ergy works, where he just com
pleted the building of a new
church. He also served as a mem
ber of the board of directors of
the Northwest district of the Lu
theran Church-Missouri Synod,
and as chairman of the District
Youth committee and director of
radio publicity.
“We have always wanted to
visit Alaska”, Rev. Imme re
marked, “and now we can hardly
believe that we are here to live.
We j| ave a great Gospel to preach
and a great and beautiful land in
which to work”, he added. “We
are very happy to be here and are
anxious to take our places as part
of this friendly and progressive
U. S. AIRFORCE-ARMY
CIVILIAN WAGES GET
17 PERCENT BOOST
Elmendorf Air Force Base, Oct.
25 (AMNS)—Authorization has
been received from the Army
Air Force Wage Board, Washing
ton, D. C. for application of a
general wage increase for U. S.
Air Force and Army civilian
wage board employes throughout
the Alaskan theater.
The announcement came from
the Alaska air command civilian
personnel office here.
Employes paid from the regu
lar locality wage schedule will
benefit from a wage increase av
eraging 17 percent. The increase
will be applied retroactive to the
first pay period after July 31 for
those employes on the payroll Oc
tober 1 and those subsequently
hired after that date.
Most laundry employes will
likewise benefit from a new spe
cial laundry locality wage sched
ule effective concurrently with
the increase granted employes
paid from the regular schedule.
The increase in wage rates is
a direct result of a survey con
ducted in the Anchorage-Fair
banks area by air force-army rep
resentatives in April of this year.
community”.
Rev. Joseph Frenz of Anchor
age has conducted services, Sun
day School and Bible classes at
the Lutheran Church for the past
three years, commuting weekly
for this work. He installed Rev.
Imme as new pastor of the church
during his services this past Sun
day.
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Something extra special in the
way of a SALE will go on tomor
row morning and extend only
thru Saturdav. November 2nd and
3rd.
There will be numerous one-of
a-kind items, including dresses,
blouses, earrings, necklaces,
briefs, slips, girdles, scarves and
gowns. Something in practically
every type item we carry. Ana
you know we advertise "Every
thing for Women but Men—"
In fact, you probably remember
hearing about Bob Klem’s “pome’
he read to a C of C meeting—
CURIOUS
Everything for Women,
That is, excepting men.
How is it you can’t get ’em
Or is it just a whim?
Are you practicing exclusion
Or is it just neglect?
Would you tolerate intrusions
From a man. or what the heck?
Were a woman so unlucky
As to need a man like me
To deprive her is for certain
The height of cruelty.
Though there be a certain humor
As the product of my rhyme,
I can tell you now for sure
That I never waste my time
So tell me, witty Betty,
Tell me if you can,
Now haven’t you got sompin’
That would interest a man?
.BETTY.
(Paid Advertisement.)
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Valley
Theatre
Friday, Saturday
November 2nd and 3rd
Shows: 7:15 and 9:00 p.m.
Saturday Matinee: 2:00 p.m.
Sunday, Monday
November 4th and 5th
Shows: 7:15 and 9:00 p.m.
Sunday Matinee: 2:00 p.m.
Wed. • Thursday
November 7th and 81h
Shows: 7:15 and 9:00 p.m.