-i Girl Scouts
To Be Hostesses
Three intermediate Girl Scout
troops will entertain parents am
troop committees at a potluc)
dinner at the Palmer school a
6:30 May 11.
It’s the first event of it’s kind
Honor guests will be Miss Dor
! othy Petron, regional director.
About 45 girls are members o
the Troops, and with their par
ents and guests the dinner is ex
pected to be an overflow,
j Troop leaders are the Mes
I dames Charles Wilson, Fred Stas
i sel, Robert Busby, Ralph Moore
i Carlos Driggers, and Oliver On
j kka.
Cookies Go Fast
The Girl Scout cookie sale wenl
with a bang. A total of 99 cases
12 boxes to the case, were sold
Part proceeds go to each Troop
ward establishment of an impor
tant new industry in the Terri
tory.
The potential value of this min
eral was described to the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce by Ernest
N. Patty, former dean of the Uni
versity of Alaska’s School of
Mines, who told the group that
Alaska’s pyrite deposits may be
of high strategic importance.
Prospectors knowing of iron
pyrite or other sulphide deposits
.in the Territory are asked to
write the Alaska Development
j Board, Box 50, Juneau.
Give Now!
Explorer Scouts
Work On Finger
* Lake Picnic Grounds
c Palmer Troop Explorer Scouts
1 did a thorough “Boy Scout Deed”
last Saturday at- the public picnic
’ grounds at Finger Lake.
I Under direction of Adviser
f Bob Burkholder they spent the
' | day piling brush, cutting timbers
’; and clearing the area, Dick La
! vine assistant district forester
. said.
Lavine was high in his praise 1
for the work done:
“They all got in there and
worked like beavers and certainly
deserve all the credit they can
get,” he said. Fire Guard, Jer
ry Buller also assisted in the
clearance.
There have been little or no
funds available for this project,
and work must be done on a vol
unteer basis aided by a few do
nations.
Located on the north side of
Finger Lake the new picnic
grounds, started last year, are
the second to be built in this
area. Earlier camp grounds are
at Moose Creek on the Glenn
highway.
The new site has well marked
accessible roads and is expected
to be one of the favorite gather
ing points for out door enthusi
asts this summer. Five picnic
tables, public toilets and a dock
with place allowed for launching
boats have been completed. Out
door fireplaces will be completed
when funds are available, Lavine
said.
| CUB SCOUT NEWS
Palmer Cub scout troop 35<3
will hold their monthly pack
meeting Monday night, April 30
8 p.m. at the school gym. Awards
will be made to Cubs who have
fulfilled their requirements.
Handcraft will be displayed and
the monthly theme of railroading
will be carried out. Parents and
friends of the cubs are invited to
attend.
r
j FIRST AID CLASS FORMED
[ Women of the Moose have. '
formed a first aid class. Meetings
are held each Wednesday night
at Moose Hut, Palmer directed
by Mrs. June Leibing, R. N.
Signed up for the classes are the
Mesdames Don Ingalls, Leo Lu
cas, A1 Brager, Clay Prewitt,
Ralph Moore, Jack Leek, Merle
Anderson, Bill Roark, Harold
Meier, John Lippanen, Dale Roet
man, Tom Moffitt and Miss Bar
bara Hecker.
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Defense Industries
Look to Alaska For
Defense Minerals
Alaskan ores are in high de
roand by industrial plants pro
ducing defense materiels.
With defense production mach
inery moving into high gear, a
cute shortages of antimony arc
being experienced by the U. S. in
dustry which is looking at Alas
ka as a potential source of sup
ply of the metal, the Alaska De
velopment Board reported.
A number of large antimony
users have written the Develop
ment Board regarding availabil
ity of antimony ore in the Ter
ritory. Demand and current pre
mium prices should stimulate
antimony producton in the Ter
ritory, the Board believes.
One large mining and smelting
company is interested in obtain
ing an antimony property in Alas
ka which it can develop for its
own use.
Antimony is one of the strate
gic and critical minerals for
which the U. S. must depend
upon foreign countries in large
measure. Imports provide 92 per
cent of current annual needs.
Pyriie and Sulphides Needed
A large industrial firm in the
eastern United States has written
the Alaska Development Board
asking for information about de
posits of iron pyrite and other
sulphides in the more accessible
regions of Alaska. If sufficiently;
large deposits are found the
company will have an engineer
examine them with the view to-i
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