THE FHQHTIERSMAN
Entered as second class matter on Oct SI, 1947. at the poat office
al Palmer, Alaska, undci thy Art of March 3. 1879
T. 0. SCHMIDTKE MILDRED JOHNSON
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PATH TO BONDAGE
From the taxpayer's point of view, which agency
collects his taxes, or what way it does it, is of compara
tively small importance. The total tax bite is the big
*hing, for that determines what he has left in his pay en
-«lope to spend or save or invest.
This pinpoints an aspect of proposed federal in
come tax reductions that deserve a great deal more
attention than they have so far received.
This year, for instance, the social security tax was
increased again. The tax has collected more than $100
billion in the 26 years since the program began, accord
ing to Oregon Tax Research. And in the next six years
alone it will take in its second $100 billion. Practically
every state is looking for more revenue, to be gained
from soles taxes, excise taxes, income taxes, property
‘axes, business taxes, hunting and fishing taxes, and
so on ad infinitum. You name a tax—and someone, some
where, is advocating it. The same thing is true of the
other governmental entities--municipalities, counties,
school districts, etc.
The moral, certainly, is plain. A cut in federal ncome
axes will do little or nothing to stimulate investment and
consumption if it is largely offset by increases in taxes
elsewhere. Compounding taxation is the path to bondage.
AMATEURS IN NAME ONLY
The Matanuska Valley Theatre Guild, although a
young organization in length of service and enjoyment
Drought to the community, has done a creditable job in
’he relatively short time that it has been in existence.
Originally started in 1960 it has grown to a well
ounded theatre group that would bring credit in any
. ze city.
The latest production given last week, brought the
'otal to six produced locally by the theatre group.
The guild is continuing to grow and with a dedicated
group the Valley can look forward to many more enjoy
able plays in the future.
_ AS it is a community project-local thespians, either
professional or otherwise — would be wise to lend their
support to the Guild.
Idn&esi 21
/ By Dan Halligan
DEAR DAN: If a girl’s legs are extremely hairy and she’s
conscious about them, do you think she should shave them
even if she's only 12? Many people have noticed and said
things.—Conscious.
DEAR CONSCIOUS: Unlike dating, the wearing of
lipstick and heels, removing excess hair shouldn't be
postponed for a particular age if the hair is embarras
sing. Whether or not you should shave the hair off or
use a cream is something your mother and you should
discuss. Frankly, there’s nothing that makes a female
look like so much "blah" where males are concerned
as excess hair on legs.
DEAR DAN: This may sound silly but it isn't to me. How
do I find out if this boy likes me or not? He’s not bashful and
I just can’t stop thinking about him.—Troubled.
DEAR TROUBLED: You can have a girl friend
ask him if you feel brave enough. Otherwise, you can
play it coy and let his actions speak for his interest or
lack of it over the next couple of months. If you're
friendly toward him, there’s no reason why he won't be
friendly toward you.
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DEAR DAN: I'm 17 and about a year ago a man started
baking a lot of interest in me. He was staying with his mother
it the time and I was over at the house a lot because his sister
and I are the best of friends. He always fooled around me
•■and pretty soon I became interested in him and we dated off
.and on. Then I moved and he got married.
I saw him again about 10 months later and he said he was
'separated from his wife and had been trying to find out where
I lived. He’s been coming over quite a lot and we enjoy doing
the same things. We’ve been going out together and I actually
•worship the ground he walks on. He’s 42 but I don’t let age
bother me.
Should I continue seeing him? I’ve been trying to forget
bim for a year but I can’t. I'm also jealous of him. How can
J overcome this?
Late news: This is being written about a week after the
rest of the letter and I’ve just found out I’m pregnant by him.
He wants to get married. Should we?—Norma.
Dear Norma: His wife might not particularly ap
prove of the marriage for one thing. For another. I don't
know what type of parents you have but if they en
courage this situation, they should be locked up and
the key thrown away.
Of course, you should'nt marry this character. If
I were your father, this over-age romeo would be charg
ed with criminal assault on a minor. That would take
care of his time for the next few years. Your best bet
is to see a clergyman, any clergyman, right away.
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Dear Dan: Is a baby-sitter entiled to a snack when she’s
minding children? I mean, if cookies and cake are sitting out,
should she help herself?—Sitter.
Dear Sitter: No. The only thing you're entitled to
are your wages. Don't take any food unless you've been
told to help yourself.
DEAR DAN: I’m 20, I live at home but I still have to be in
the house by midnight on Friday nights. Is this fair?—Working
Girl.
DEAR GIRL: At 20 a girl should be allowed her
own curfew providing she doesn't want to become a
member of the "dawn patroL"
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(Dan Halligan will answer all questions submitted by
teenagers and children. Address him care of The Frontiersman.
For personal replies enclose a stamped, self-addressed en
velope.)
Strange Things
By Heinie Snider
When yours truly tirst came i
north. floating down the
mighty Yukon, the year was
1909, the month May, the exact
date forgotten. It was Dawson
City in the Klondike where we
stepped ashore.
On the very end of River Sid
Avenue, toward Louse Town,
stood a ramshackle, neglected
log house, known as the Yukon
Hotel. It was not as nice as the
Yukonia Hotel, which catered
to the more prosperous miners.
The Yukon Hotel however,
had the largest lobby, -with
home made chairs and a large
hand made wood stove stand
ing in the middle of the floor.
Above the stove on four wires
hung a square frame, criss
crossed with rope on which the
guest could dry his mittens or
his German socks.
The stove I wdll always re- \
member, because, for board j
and room, it was my job to
keep the place warm. Stuffing
two and a half foot logs into
the gaping mouth, it was like
feeding an elephant peanuts,
one at a time.
But for a Cheechako like
me. this was one of the most
enjoyable times of my life, as
I listened to the tales of Bis
marck. Many Hales, Dutch
Shyster Thomson. “Black
Beard," a former Canadian ma
' jcr gone wrong, and an out
standing tall man, Charles
Lemke, known as “Yukon
Charlie" or “Happy Yukon
Charlie."
He made fairly good by pros
pecting on Fourth of July
Creek, and floated large rafts
of legs, later to be cut up for
wood to heat the stoves in
Dawson, down the Yukon Riv
er. Some winters he made'
money cutting wood for the
stern-wheeler river boats.
On year he hauled mail and
supplies from St. Michaels to
Moatak River, He was one of
the first men to use caribou to
haul a sled with general cargo
to the many roadhouses on the
trail. He told us that these ani
mals were hard to handle, and
when there was a deep snow
fall they would lose the trail.
“Happy” was also one of the
best dog mushers in the north.
In 1913, Happy Yukon Char
lie Lepke became territorial
commissioner at Eagle, Alaska.
In every one of these jobs,
Charlie made good, but to my
way of thinking, he had no
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Beginning March 18
6-Weeks’ Course
Instructor LAURINE NIELSEN
7:30 P.M. Palmer High School
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Palmer
peer as a storyteller. He was
the best of all the sourdough
stiffs who ever shot Miles Can
yon or the Five-Finger Rapids.
When he said he was going to
tell the story of the man who
killed a bear and ate it with
the bear’s teeth, the W’hole
gang gave him the Bronx cheer.
"O.K. — O.K.!” he said,
laughing. "You won’t believe
me? But if you hear me tell
the story . . . well, here it is.
“An old sourdough by the
nickname of Bear Tooth Joe
prospected on a small creek on
the headwaters of the Kusko- '
kwim River, and found enough
gold in his sluice box to grub
stake him for the following
year. He had a nice cabin on
the creek, the roof covered j
with biack soil, in which he
raised spuds, lettuce, and cab
bage.
"Once in the late fall he kill
ed a one-year-old bear and
while skinning it he noticed
what a fine set of teeth it had. 1
As Joe had pulled his last
teeth a year before, he thought,
’Why can’t I use the bear’s
teeth0' He extracted the teeth
from the animal, and, during
the long winter nights, using
his axe-sharpening file, he filed
the teeth down to the size and
shape of human teeth.
"He had an old aluminum
kettle, which he slowly heated
until it became pliable, and,
molding what the dentists call
a denture, inserted the teeth.
"Joe ate the 250 pound bear
with the bear’s teeth. And
that’s how he got his name—
BEAR TOOTH JOE!"
PUBLIC INVITED
TO GREEN AND
GOLD BALL
The annual Green and Gold
Ball, sponsored by the LDS
Church of Palmer, will be held
tomorrow. March 8. with danc
ing from 8:30 p.m. to midnight,
it was announced this week.
This is a formal affair to
which the public, from fourteen
years of age on, is invited. The
dance will be held in the rec
reation room of the church.
Live music is promised, and
several specialty numbers will
be performed.
There is no charge for the
affair.
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IN THE
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Thursday. March 13. 1948
Final plans for the Saturday
meeting and initiation of the
Elks’ Lodge, to be held in the
Palmer Community Hall com
mencing at 8 o’clock, were out
lined last Wednesday in a tele
phone conversation between L.
C. Stock, chairman of Palmer’s
planning committee and Louis
Odsather, Exalted Ruler of the
Anchorage Elks lodge. Initia
tion of Palmer’s class of Elk
candidates is expected to be
held about 4 o’clock Saturday
afternoon.
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An art and gift shop will
open its dors next week in
the quarters of the Palmer
Photographic Center, it was i
announced today by Bill
Rempel and Irwin Plitl, pho
tographic partners. They plan
to operate the shop by them
selves. for the present, but
will add a clerk to take care
of shop business during the
summer.
A large new 26-passenger bus
was placed in service on the i
Valley run last week by the j
Matanuska Bus Lines. The ve-!
hide is only two months out of j
the factory and is comfortable |
and weli-heated.
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There will be 12 acts of en
tertainment and 200 Palmer
children on the stage when
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.. 10 a.m.'
the curtain goes up on axuni
Night at the Palmer gymna
sium next Thursday evening.
Because so many young chil
dren are in the show the cur
tain time has been moved
ahead to 7:30.
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Mr. and Mrs. Walter Coope
left early this week for a tw<
weeks’ beaver trapping outing
They were flown to their camp
15 miles west of Montana sta
tion, by Leslie Green. Mi
Green picked up Vern Donald
son and Leo Lucas on the re
turn trip.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Brooks of Anchorage have
announced their assumption
of the management of the
Frontier Cafe in the Steve
Ward building here.
Independence
Ski School
BEN DANSIE, Instructor
Two Hours $2.50
Saturdays and Sundays
Independence Ski Resort Area
LEAGUE PLANS
DINNER MEETING
The Palmer League of Wom
en Voters plan a dinner meet
ing to which the public will be
invited on March 29 at 7 p.m.
in the Elks hall, Mrs. Noel
Woods, president, announced
this week.
The meeting will be similar
to that held last fall, at which
the Rev. McGinnis of Methodist
University was guest speaker.
Guest of honor at the March
29 dinner will be Howard Pol
lock, who will speak on “World
Trade.”
Five species of bats are
found in Yellowstone National
- Park.
ST. JOHN
: LUTHERAN
CHURCH
Hev. R. H. Fritz,
Palmer, Alaska
Divine Services
Sunday School 9:45 A.M.
THE CHURCH FOR ALL...
What’s Inside?
BOTTLFN roiVTATM^CT?EDIENTS D0 THESE
BOTTLES CONTAIN? Do they hold harmful, in
jurious poisons. Or are they filled with healing
medicines and vitamins? Will they inflict pain, or
will they cure disease?
ALL FOR THE CHURCH
The Church i* the greatest fac
tor on earth for the building of
character and good citizenship.
It ii» a storehouse of spiritual val
ues. Without a strong Church,
neither democracy nor civiliza
tion ca i survive. There are four
sound reasons why every person
should attend services regularly
and support the Church. They
are: VT) For his own sake. (2)
For hi« children's sake. (3) For
the s-ke of his community and
na . on. (4) For the sake of the
Church itself, which needs his
moral and material support.
Plan to go to church regularly
and read your Bible daily.
5%:
Sunday
Jeremiah
17:5-10
Monday
Matthew
15:1-9
But what does it matter? If the contents are
bad, we can pour them out.
But the minds of children is an entirely dif
ferent matter. A small human being can be filled
Snceritl ami83! a"d ^ 0r he ca“ bc ™ed with
sincerity and love. Unfortunately, evil is more
fr°"> » e}™ bottte than from’the
can erow -mri °rt*n the human mind bad thoughts
can grow, and as time goes on, it is more difficult
to replace them with truth and love.
That is why it is so important to instill within
our children a sense of right and wrong at an early
age. Of course, by example, “you” c^n be a tre
mendous influence. But you need the help of your
them ™canWJl?0m °1 Christ’s teachings. With
incm, you can fill your heart with the essential in
gredients for a happy and fruitful life
Tuesday
Matthew
15:10-20
Wednesday
Romans
3:11-18
Thursday
Ephesians
6:1-4
Friday
James
3:6-12
Saturday
James
3:13-18
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