Merchants, Unions, Citizens Cooperati
To Make Clean-up Week City Success
• ^ivwiaiaaiiwu iaaucu ujr me xudA niayui ui rainier, V/dll ineier,
called upon cilizens io observe Clean-up Week and lo make lhis "a
city of which we can be proud"—"clean in appearance and in busi
ness dealings".
Clean-up week, due io open May 14, is off io an early siari—bui
there's much io be done, Eugene Kirsch, chairman said.
Sponsored by the Health Council, co-sponsors in the drive are the
Maianuska Valley Chamber of Commerce and the Kiwanis Club.
Several merchants have stepped to the fore with new fronts and
general repairs to their buildings, plus paying their own costs in
filling chuckholes and levelling streets.
Remodelling of the Palmer
Drug Building is under way. Par
titions are being torn out and the
drug store is expanding into the
space formerly occupied by a
men’s clothing store. New alum
inum fittings and plate glass win
dows are being installed by the
Severns Cabinet Shop.
Home owners are clearing yards
and planting gardens. Park
Square, on Co-Op property, is be
ing raked, groomed and gar
dened.
Union Pilches In
Carpenters Union No. 2251, as
the organization’s part in clean
up week, has paid for and hauled
in gravel to fill the holes on Bai
ley Hill and Pilot Peak Ave. Ray
Lancaster has done some street
work as well as slicking up house
and yard. Jock Tost’s service
station has hoisted bright perma
nent decorations.
Bill and Pat Wells of Willawa i
Lodge are on intensive garden- j
ing detail these days. They have :
planted gladioli, tuberous begon
ias, perennials, shooting stars, I
iris, pansies. The begonias and
glads are a special shipment from
Elma, Wash.
To Collect Debris
Encouraging business houses
and homes to rid their premises
of all unsightly refuse, Kirsch
has enlisted dump trucks which
will collect the debris in an over
all pickup drive Saturday after
noon, May 19. He needs more
trucks and asks that volunteers
who can give an hour or more
call him. Explorer Scouts will
be detailed to the trucks to make
the collection. Other Boy Scouts
will do a cleanup job on the Val- I
ley Hospital grounds.
Ask Public to Help
The cleanup committee urged
all business houses to improve
walks and streets in front of their j
premises, and urged that refuse
cans be placed for use of the pub- ■
lie to help eliminate litter on the !
streets.
The committee also appealed to ;
the public to cooperate in keep- j
ing the streets clean.
With vaious new classifica- j
tions of employes now eligible
under the new social security law,
applications for first cards, or for
duplicates, may be obtained from
U. S. Commissioner Dorothy Sax
ton at Palmer.
Valley Frontiersman Classifieds Get Results
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Mayor's
Proclamation
May I urge all citizens of
Palmer to observe Clean-up
Week May 15-25.
As a newly-incoruorated
city let all of us strive for and
live up to a civic pride in mak
ing and keeping our young
city clean and beautiful, and
thus increasing the health and
pleasure of all our citizens.
Let us realize that visitors to
this famous heart of the Mat
anuska Valley — tourists, in
creasing numbers of service
men, construction workers and
their families—will judge Pal
mer first by its appearance. To
them as to ourselves, let us
present a clean face, as well as
clean business dealings.
I hereby urge all of our peo
ple, homemakers and business,
farmers and industrialists, to
observe clean-up week by
making the place in which we
live and work something of
which we may be proud.
(Signed) CARL MEIER.
First Mayor of Palmer.
Say It With
FLOWERS
Cut Flowers
MOTHER’S DAY
Potted Plants
Mat. Valley Gardens
MAUD HOSLER
LaBrie's
Wishes to Welcome All Visitors from the Valley
When They Are in Anchorage
SMORGASBORD
An Added Feature on Sundays
Prepared by Scandinavians
4th & Barrow — Open 4 p.m.-? — Phone 30351
Also American Dinners Being Served
Visit the Cocktail Lounge
Bela Sigma Phi
) Installs Officers
Beta Sigma Phi installed offic
f ers, scattered on a hilarious scav
£ enger hunt and had a potluck din
* ner all in one kaleidoscopic even
ing, May 8. Headquarters was
~ the home of Mrs. Don Irwin.
“j Next big event on their calen
dar is a party given by the losing
team, Alice Snodgrass, chairman,
to the winning team, Bonnie Bet
I tine, chairman.
The scavenger hunt brought in
everything from the signature of
the mayor to a horse collar, with
■ such other articles as a mouth
1 organ, $2 bill, rake, baby bottle,
live rabbit, oldest license plate,
| telephone, brown egg, umbrella,
oldest Sears catalogue, a duck
call, and other hard-to-find ar
ticles.
Installed as new officers were:
Blanche Ryan, president; Eileen
Branton, vice-president; Bonnie
Bettine, recording secretary; and
Hazel Litzenburg, corresponding
secretary. Reelected were Mrs.
Irwin, sponsor, and Mrs. M. D.
Snodgrass, director. To them
Dorothy Saxton, outgoing presi
dent, presented gifts, and she, in
turn, received one. She lead' the
installation.
Other outgoing officers, who
have guided a successful year, are
Esther Brock, vice-president Hel
en Crites, corresponding secre
tary; Jean Mae Yohn, recording
secretary, and Betty Bettine,
treasurer.
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