COUNCIL HEARS—
(Continued from Pago I)
he dance floor* is only $14. There
was a difference of opinion
among councilmon and City At
torney Harold Butchif as to
v.hethcr or not the establish
ments in question would come
under the special public dance
floor classification The ordi
nance was adopted from a simi
lar one operating in Anchorage
although several of the fees had
tx*on adjusted downward. Kos
losky and Mrs. Starns also pro
tested that the city license fees
for some of the pin ball machines
was too high, considering the $30
federal tax and $10 Territorial
stamp already required for each
machine. Mrs. Stains added that
the pawn shop license fee was far
too high for the small amount
of such business at the T and T
Sourdough Bar, the only place in
Palmer where there is such a
"service”.
Mayor Carl Meier appointed
Allan Mick, Steve Ward, and
Frank Brown as a committee to
investigate these allegedly unfair
license fees. Council members
agreed to a motion that the ordi
nance will remain in effect as it
is pending study of the protested
fees by the committee, and that
refunds will be made if the com
mittee's decision, given at the
next meeting of the council, re
sulted in any change in the fees.
City Streets Cleared
Mayor Carl Meier, chairman of
the street committee, reported
that all the city streets had been
cleared of snow as of Wednesday
afternoon. He reported that Leo
Lucas started with the road clear
ing on Saturday morning and
been joined by Fritz Hermon
Monday morning. Both men are
operating their own equipment.
The ARR "cat” which the city
thought would be available on
loan for the remainder of the
winter has not arrived, the may
or said, although there’s still a
good chance that it will. The
city’s new road maintainer should
arrive any day. It was supposed
to have left Seattle on the S. S.
Susitna on January 9
Meanwhile, the city clerk has
received two applications for the
job of maintaining and building
up the city’s streets. The streets
committee was to meet with one
of them, Russell Felzicn. today.
Wilson Protests Inaction
Charles W. Wilson, chairman
of the City Planning Commission,
protested against the “deep si
lence” which has followed recom
mendations of the commission
and his requests for authoriza
tion to go ahead with the job as
outlined. Some time ago the com
mission gave number one priori
ty to a city survey which should
necessarily precede all other
planning and construction within
the city. Wilson said that his
gioup has been holding meetings
twice a month. He warned that it
would be difficult to keep the
group together unless there was
some indication from the council
that the commission should “go
ahead". Wilson also asked that
the commission be furnished with
! copies of ordinances so that there
| would be no duplication of ef
I fort.
City Attorney Harold Butcher
told Wilson that it is the Plan
ning Commission’s duty to make
plans as requested by the City
Council and then to present them
to the council as recommenda
tions. He said that the council
could not delegate its authority
in carrying out the plans.
Drumming Up Business
A Bailey Bell, representa
tive of a company in the process
of being organized at $100,000
capitalization for the purpose of
installing, engineering, and main
taining telephone facilities, said
that his company is interested in
offering its services to the city
under a telephone franchise sys
tem or a municipally-owned sys
tem. Smce he did not know exact
ly what the councilmen wanted
in facilities, he had no definite
proposal to offer. Lloyd Severns,
chairman of the telephone com
mittee, offered to mail him a copy
of the specifications set up for an
adequate telephone system to
serve Palmer and the surrounding
areas. The new telephone com
pany will use Kellog equipment.
Water and Sewers
In a letter to the City Council,
Amos J. Alter, sanitary engineer
for the Alaska Department of
Health, warned that provisions
should be made for the eventual
installation of a sewage treatment
plant in the planning for sewage
disposal. The letter came as a re
sult of the city’s recent applica
tion for a sev.er system out of
APW funds. Alter made several
recommendations for changes in
the preliminary plans to eliminate
any possible health hazards.
Frank Lyons. Thomas Bourne
Associates engineer in charge of
drilling operations for the propos
ed deep wells, said that a report
on the pumping operations on the
first test well can be expected
within a week. Preliminary oper
ations indicated a flow of 100 gal
lons a minute. The company had
i hoped it would yield 150 gallons.
1 He also reported that the city’s
recent recommendations for
changes in the Bourne company’s
proposed distribution system,
might be impractical from the
standpoint of additional labor
charges. The water committee
had directed that nothing less
than six-inch pipe be used. The
Bourne plan had included many
ACS TAKES OVIK—
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sardine his June request for a
telephone franchise.
"We have always operated at
I a loss", Sands said, "And since
i we have exhausted our original
j capital to expand and improve
services. We did not have the
i capital necessary to carry us over
between the deadline for pay
ment to ACS and collection of our
customers' accounts."
Sands said that since the in
corporation of Palmer he had
been unable to get anyone to
put capital into his company be
cause of the franchise necessity.
"I came to you in June to ask
for a franchise", Sands told the
council, "and you said I had the
cart before the horse, that I
should get backing first. So then
I put the horse first by getting
financial backing, and still you
put me off.”
Sands complained that al
i though the city is concentrating
i its study on the possibility of mu
nicipal ownership, council mem
bers have not told him that he
has no chance of having his fran
chise request put up for a vote by
the people.
"So I keep hanging on. but 1
don't know how much longer I
can do it before I have to go out
of business."
Members of the City Council
telephone committee were to
meet with Sands this afternoon.
C OF C URGES—
and to champion the cause of lo
cal persons who are still seeking
patents on land they have pur
chased. Chamber Members de
cided to by-pass the Rendezvous
committee’s proposal that Palmer
sponsor a queen candidate and
concentrate its efforts on a pos
sible Valley exhibit in the Par
ade of Industry. A committee was
appointed to contact the Land Of
fice next week to find out what’s
holding up patents on land pur
chased in this area.
three-inch pipe lines. According
to Lyons, the additional cost for
six-inch pipe would not be con
fined to the extra cost of the pipe;
labor unions stipulate that two
extra men must be used in lay
ing the larger size pipe.
MEA Not Tax Exempt
The Matanuska Electric Asso
ciation is not exempt from pay
ing the city tax on retail sales
and services, it was decided by
the City Council last night. The
question came up when state
ments rendered by local estab
lishments were returned with the
notation that MEA was not sub
ject to the tax.
COFFEY INSURES
EVERYTHING! REMEMBER?
COMMUNITY
| CALENDAR
Thursday. January 17
AMERICAN LEGION At AUX
ILIARY. Carp. Hall, 8 p. m.
HEALTH COUNCIL. Co-Op club
room, 8 p. m.
Friday. January 18
SQUARE DANCE CLUB Carp.
Hall, 8 p. m.
Sunday. January 20
GREAT BOOKS GROUP. Chas.
Wilson home. 7:30 p. m.
Monday. January 21
LIBRARY BOARD. Library. 3
p. m.
BETA SIGMA PHI. ARA Bldg.,
8 p. m.
KIWANIS CLUB. Co-Op Club
room. 12:05 p. m.
VETERANS' TRAINING CLASS.
Co-Op club room, 8 p. m.
Tuesday. January 22
WELL-BABY CLINIC. Health
Council, 2-4 p. m.
j BOY SCOUTS, U. P Church. 7
p. m.
j MOOSE & WOMEN OF THE
MOOSE. Moose Hall. 8 p. m.
Wednesday, January 23
'CARPENTERS’ LOCAL, Carp.
Hall, 8 p. m.
Thursday. January 24
NORTH. PIONEER GRANGE,
Grange Hall, 8 p. m.
Saturday, January 26
i PALMER-ANCHORAGE Basket
ball game, School Gym.
NEWVILLE RITES—
Valley men chosen in 1941 for his
j invaluable weather service. New
! ville is the second to be lost
through death. Charles B. Wil
son died about a year ago. Only
Max Sherrod remains on duty.
Besides being an active member
of the Grange and the MVFCA,
Newville was editor of the Valley
Settler for a short time.
Death came swiftly for Mr
| Newville after his first heart at
I tack. On Fiiday afternoon he was
in town loading grain on his
truck. It was only after a walk
around his property in the thick
ly falling snow of the late after
noon that he complained of not
feeling very well. His step-daugh
ter. Mrs. Dorothy Graham, rushed
into town to get Dr. Bailey, but
the doctor had been at the home
only a few moments before Mr.
Newville passed away.
Besides his wife, Lila, and his
step-daughter, Mrs. Graham, Mr.
Newville is survived by a son,
William Newville, of Benton Har
bor, Michigan. Three brothers al
so survive: Lloyd and Earl of De
troit, Michigan, and Forrest, who
lives in California. Forrest New
ville visited here in the Valley
during the summer of 1950 and
last winter.
Mr. Newville had just passed
his sixtieth birthday, having been
bors in Boyne City, Michigan,
December 30, 1891.
GAMBLING I AID-—
(Cnntmwd from Far* I)
bills Behind the table in a cabi
net with the door open waa a ci
gar box containing about $12 in
bills. Under cross examination.
Bouwens reported that the game
was already disrupted when he
entered, that he saw no money
being passed, and that the de
fendants did not admit they were
gambling He said that there were
two men watching the game. Art
Thompson, he said, was out front
tending bar. and he observed no
"high sign" from him when Ry
an proceeded toward the back
room.
U. S. Deputy Marsha] Oscar
Olson, the third dopuy to enter
the room, testified that he saw
only cards, white chips, and two
$1 bills on the table. With his
testimony.the prosecution com
pleted Its case.
Defense attorney McLaughlin
then moved for dismissal of the
case on the grounds that the
prosecution had not established
evidence of gambling.
“No evidence has been present
ed here that it wasn't just a re
creational card game going on”,
he said.
It was McLaughlin who sug
gested to the U. S. Commissioner
that his clients would be agree
able if decision on the move for
I
WIND RETURNS—
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nue was cleared to provide access
to the airport via the runways,
Tuesday night, according to
, Max Sherrod's measurement,
there was an additional snowfall
of eight inches. He said he meas
ured 17 inches of snow on the
ground Wednesday morning, al
though he conceded that it might
have been much deeper in sec
tions of the Valley where the
wind had not blown the snow
clear.
On Wednesday there was no
school. Most of those who got to
work had to walk or pamper
their cars with a lot of shoveling
and manipulation of chains.
How long the re-vitalized
wind would keep local roads
clogged with snow was any
body’s guess today, but the men
charged with keeping the roads
cleared knew that there would
dismissal were reserved until a
later date.
After court was dismissed.
Huntley remarked that it is not
the intention of the U. S. Mar
shal’s office to prosecute. The
raid was in response to numerous
reports which the peace officers
were duly obliged to investigate.
He made no secret of the fact
that he and his deputies expected
to find more than they did.
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