*" SCOUT TELLS
TRIP DETAILS
The first word from Harry
Campbell, Jr., the Valley’s Jam
boree-bound Boy Scout, was air
mailed from
Cordova last
Wednesday.
Here is Harry’s
own account of
the first lap of
his journey:
“Reverend
Alfsen and I
left Palmer at
nine a.m. Tues
day, in his car,
and arrived in
Anchorage at 11
that morning.
The train was
delayed from three to eight p.m.
that night.
“We finally left for Seward at
8:10 p.m., with a load of 12 boys
and three leaders. We arrived at'
Seward at 1:10 a.m. Wednesday
and left there that same day at
2:50 a.m. on the Steamship Alas
ka.
“We arrived at Valdez at 1:30
p.m. Wednesday and left the boat
to look around the town. There
wasn’t much to see so we went
back to the boat and played cards
in the social lounge until we left
Valdez at 5:45 p.m.
“From Valdez we went to the
Columbia Glacier. We arrived
there at eight p.m. When we were
50 yards away, we blew the whis
tle and watched the ice fall. It
was a very beautiful sight.
“We are due to arrive at Cor
dova at one a.m. Thursday, where
Reverend Alfsen will mail this
letter.
“It has been raining since we
left Anchorage. I will write you
some more, soon.”
June 16, 1950
Yesterday four of us were sea
sick, including me, when we hit
the Gulf on June 15.
Meals on the boat are swell,
, and we can have all of the food
we want. Our table waiter is
swell. He kids us about getting
seasick, even though he gets sick
himself, at times.
At 2:35 on June 16, we passed
some huge icebergs that were
very dark blue—a few of them
were pure white, too.
We are due to reach Juneau at
8 p.m. tonight, and we will get to
go ashore if we have written a
letter.
Save all of the articles from the
paper for me, please.
Harry Campbell.
STUDIES CHUGIAK SOILS
Pat Murphy, conservationist
headquartered at the Palmer soil
$ conservation office, is engaged on
a soils classification and analysis
of agricultural land in the Chu
/ giak sub-district.
Convention Ministers
Meet in Valley
The more than 100 ministers
and their wives who met at the
Anchorage convention of the As
sembly of God last week were
Sunday guests at the Cather
Children’s Home in the Valley.
The ministers, missionaries and
lay workers gathered there for a
Sunday church service, and re
mained to spend the day.
The group met in an all-Alaska
convention in Anchorage from
June 13 to 20. As a part of the
convention program, a new Stin
son plane was dedicated for use
in the mission work of the church.
Attending the convention from
the Valley were Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Cather, Inez Tyler, Rey, and Mrs.
Harley Ulrich of Knik, and Rev.
and Mrs. J. H. Davis of Palmer.
VISIT AT KNIK
KNIK—Mr. and Mrs. Roy Mor
rison and son, “Butch,” visited
Mr. and Mrs. Chet Burden at the
Knik Koffee Kup last Sunday
evening.
WEEKEND AT TOK
WASILLA—Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Bryant and son, Larry, spent the
weekend at Tok.
WASILLA LIBRARY
TO BE DEDICATED
WASILLA — The new Wasilla
Library will be dedicated at a
special ceremony to be held to
morrow evening, Mrs. Martin Ol
sen said today. Dedication serv
ices are planned for eight o’clock,
and will be held at the library.
Mrs. E. F. Graves of the Palmer
Library Association has been
asked to make an address.
Following the planned cere
mony, to which all Valley resi
dents are invited, there will be
an open house at the library.
The Wasilla Library only. re
cently was completed. The 20x40
structure was constructed by vol
unteer labor and was financed
through a series of dinners and
entertainments planned by mem
bers of the Library Association.
Coast Guard Has Plans
For Base at Kodiak
The Coast Guard has tentative
plans for the establishment of a
base and Loran station at Kodiak,
it was reported last week to the*
Kodiak city council. The council
is drafting a resolution permitting
a 50-year lease of dock space to
the Coast Guard, at an annual
rental of $1.00.
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June 18 — July 2
at the
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You'll be glad you came
Every Night
Except Saturday
8:00 P. M.
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Burdens Entertain
Weekend Guests
KNIK — Leonard Moffitt, his
brother Wally and family, Mr.
and Mrs. William flecker and
family, Mrs. Kathreen Hecker,
Mrs. Alice Totten and children
and Mrs. Jack Leek and children,
all were Knik visitors last Sun
day. They were the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Chet Burden. They came
to help Mrs. Burden celebrate her
birthday.
IS HOSPITALIZED
Mrs. Karla Duff entered Valiev j
Hospital for medical treatment
this week. She is getting along
very well, her attending physician j
reports.
Grcndaddy of All Bears
Scares Cooper's Landing
A bear with 15-inch footprints
has been terrifying the mothers
of Cooper’s Landing in recent
weeks, according to a report in
last week’s Seward Seaport Rec
ord. No one has seen the mon
ster brownie yet, but he has been
heard snuffling about Cooper’s
Landing cabins and in the brush
beside the trails.
Every morning fesidents find
new sets of the outsize footprints
in the area. Mothers are afraid to
let small children play outside in
the daytime, until Cooper’s Land
ing hunters have ended the
prowling of the giant bear.
MR. & MRS. CHET BURDEN
Knik Koffee
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TRADING POST
Co-Operative
Palm
No. 2
Blackberries By 35
Fruit Cocktail IT
Peaches
Freestone
Duchess... No. 2
39
CORN Grean^Style No. 303 21
PEAS
Walla
Walla
No. 303
Orange Base
Real 5?
Gold.. oz.
Tomato Juke £T 22
Mayonnaise & 98'
COFFEE
Viking
lb.
72
HARDWARE
Monarch
Ranges
Westinghouse
Refrigerators
Linoleum
Quaker Armstrong
Nairn Congoleum
DRY GOODS
Nylon
Uniforms
for Nurse, Waitress
or Cook
Dan River
Handicut
Fabrics
New Assorted Patterns
JUST RECEIVED
New Shipment of Rifles, Shotguns