' Five Valley Lassies
Seek Queen Crown
At This Year’s Fair
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One of the five Valley girls,
pictured on this page will be
wearing a queen’s crown, just1
after midnight next Saturday eve
ning. Until the crowning cere
mony at midnight at the Corona
tion Ball, no one knows which of
these five pretty misses will be a
queen, and who will be princesses .
of the royal court.
At press-time, only three of the
five candidates had qualified for
title honors. All girls must sell
300 tickets to be eligible for the
crown. Thus far, Lillian Loberg,
Vivian Meier and Jean Smith
were in line for regal robes. How
ever the candidates are allowed
to sell tickets until noon tomor
row, and Manager Robert Crites
feels sure that all contestants will
be in Saturday’s finals.
In addition to her three-day
reign over Fair activities, the i
chosen queen will be given a |
$200 wardrobe as a prize. The j
organization which sponsored her
will receive a $100 check.
Ticket sales are only one factor |
in selection of the winner. FairJ
board members have labelled the
method of judging top secret. Not
even the contestants know how
they’ll be judged or by whom. But
sometime tomorrow, at an un- j
known time and place, the quali- j
fied contestants will meet with
unknown judges, to select a Mata
nuska Valley Fair queen.
Jean Smith
All' of the five contestants are
sponsored by Palmer organiza
tions. First candidate announced
for the Fair’s queen contest was
Miss “Jackie” Smith, sponsored
by the Matanuska Valley Sports
men. However Miss Smith placed
a kitchen apron and menu prob
lems before a queen’s robes and
reigning over a Fair, so she
changed Miss Smith to Mrs. Cabo
in early July, thereby making
herself ineligible. The Sportsmen
quickly switched to Jean, young
er sister of “Jackie,” and still
were first to name a queen can
didate.
Jean is 17 and a junior at Pal
mer High School. She’s the
daughter of colonists Mr. and Mrs.
William Smith, and has spent ail
but two years of her life in the
Matanuska Valley. Brown-eyed
and fair-skinned, Jean’s more in
terested in perfect scores on the
indoor rifle range of the Sports
men than she is in beauty con
tests. Joan, in fact, is an all
round athlete, for when she’s net I
at the rifle range, sharpening her j
shooting eye, she’s to be found ;
on the maple courts at Palmer!
gymnasium, indulging in a hard :
game of basketball. She plays1 |
the court game with determina-j |
tion and zest, and was a member |
of the Palmer Rockets last sea
son. '
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Gillian i^ooerg
Lillian Loberg, a daughter of
colonists Mr. and Mrs. Lauritz
Loberg, is the blonde choice of
Northland Pioneer Grange. Lil
lian is 16 years old and will be a
senior at Palmer High School this
term. She worked hardest of the
five contestants, to write her
name first on the qualifying list.
In addition to all outdoor sports,
Lillian is a musician at heart, too.
She divides her free time equally
between outdoor recreation and
practicing on her saxophone,
which she plays in the Palmer
High School band.
Vivian Meier
Vivian Meier, the queen choice
of the Jonesville local of the j
United Mine Workers, stepped
out ^ of student ranks last year.
She’s decided on a business ca
reer, and is the face behind the
typewriter in the office of Emil
Ganschow, accountant for the Ag
ricultural Research Administra
tion.
Vivian is 18 years old, and the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Meier of Palmer, who were
among the colonist families sent
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