Masonic Eastern Star
Club Holds Annual
Harvest Dinner
Fifty residents of the Valley of
either Masonic or Eastern Star
affiliations were in attendance at
the annual Masonic Eastern Star
Club harvest dinner held here
this week. The dinner was held
at the Lutheran church on Wed
nesday night at 6:30 p.m. with
William Roark, president of the
club, presiding.
Lew Hanks acted as master of
ceremonies for the evening and
also joined William Head in a re
port on the progress to date in
the formation of a Masonic Lodge
here. Mrs. Vic Johnson and Mrs.
Marne Hanks spoke on the or
ganization of an Eastern Star
Lodge here. Charles Wilson gave
a history of the Masonic Club in
the Valley.
Beautiful table decorations for
the party were a fitting comple
ment for the excellent dinner
which was served by the Luth
eran ladies. Table decorations
committee was comprised of the
Mesdames Charles Wilson, chair
man, Ivan Branton, Keith O’Don
ell, Pat Murphy and Lew Hanks
The dinner was concluded with
a business meeting of the Ma-1
sonic Eastern Star Club when it i
was decided to discontinue the
club and to turn the treasury ovei .
to the organizational group fori
an Eastern Star ^odge, i
C. A. Moore, economist with
the Agricultural Research Ad
ministration, is in Fairbanks this
week on business. Mr. Moore left
for the northern city on Monday
for a stay of approximately ten
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| Book Group Announces
Ineresting Program
The Odyssey, great epic poem
of Homer commemorating the ten
years’ wanderings of Ulysses is
only one of the great books sched
uled for study by the Great Books
Discussion Group in its second
year readings, members of the
group announced this week.
Other books to be studied which
have held their lure over periods
of many years include Swift’s
Gulliver Travels and others
equally interesting. Among the
authors listed for the second year
, readings in addition to Homer,
are Herodotus, Aeschylus, Soph
ocles, Aristotle, Plato, Lucretius,
Marcus Aurelius, Hobbes, Milton,
Swift, Pascal. Rousseau, Kant,’
Nietzche, Mill and Tawney.
The discussion group meets
every other Sunday at 7:30 p.m.
at the Charles Wilson home. A
cordial invitation is extended to
everyone interested to attend the 1
next meeting, which will be held j
this week end. The discussions !
are informal and are entered in j
as members and guests feel in-j
dined to participate.
days. He is working with farmers j
of that area on their annual ac-!
counts.
Mrs. Paul Bushong
Honored by Faculty
At Farewfell Tea
Mrs. Paul Bushong, faculty
member of Palmer school who has
taken leave of absence from her
duties as teacher of High School
English and Latin, was honored
at a farewell tea last week by
fellow teachers of the staff.
The tea was held on Thursday.
November 30, in the Home Eco
nomics room of the school with
several of the teachers acting as
hostesses. A beautiful farewell
gift of hammered copper was also
presented to the honored guest.
Other guests in attendance in
cluded high school teachers, Mr.
Bushong, husband of the guest of
honor; Charles Ercegovich, Joseph ■
Hudock and Mrs. Margaret Cope, j
and grade school teachers Mrs.
Pearl Moyer, Miss Betty Kreutz,
Mrs. Barbara Smart, Miss Doris ;
Nique, Miss Barbara Rumball, ‘
Miss Evelyn Heinrich, Mrs. Mar
garet Betts, Mrs. Alma Blunck,
Fred Stassel, Mrs. Grace Heath, _
Gottfried Stevahn, Mrs. Jean La
Cross, William W. Elliott, Miss
Nettie Smith, and Superintendent
William T. Zahradnicek.
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2 MORE ARA FAMILIES
MOVE TO STAFF HOMES
Two staff members of the Ag
ricultural Research Administra
tion, C. A. Moore, economist, and
H. J. Hodgson, agronomist, and
their families moved into their
new ARA homes here last week
end. The staff houses are located
across from the ARA laboratory
building. Four of the seven
houses are located across from
the ARA laboratory building.
Four of the seven houses are still
unoccupied with other staff fam
ilies to move in as soon as they
are completed. The William J.
Sweetmans were the first family
to occupy one of the houses, mov
ing in from Matanuska Experi
ment station recently.
MARPLES TO SPEND
HOLIDAYS OUTSIDE
Mr. and Mrs. Lavern Marple of
North Palmer are planning to
spend the Christmas and New
Year holidays with friends and
relatives in Washington. Mr. and 1
Mrs. Marple and their two daugh-!
John Petaja Takes
First Trip Outside
Johnny Petaja, who has lived
in Alaska all but three of his
forty-odd years, left Anchorage
this week end by plane on his
first trip Outside. He was called
to Seattle, Wn., due to the seri
ous illness of his father. Pataja
was born in Finland and was
brought to the territory by his
parents as a small child. He has
worked in Anchorage and Palmer
for many years as a printer. On
one occasion several months ago,
he was asked if he would like to
go to the great Outside to see
what it is like. His answer was
“No.”
“There can’t be much out there
as everybody is coming up here,”
Petaja summed it up neatly.
ters, Sharon and Susan, are to
leave here by plane the latter
part of December. They will ex
tend their visit Outsid until Feb
ruary. The Marples came here to
make their home in March of this
year.
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