WASILLA
PERSONALS
*■ By Barbara Carter
Wasilla schools close Thursday, I
May 17.
Baccalaureate service for ele
mentary and high school gradu-!
ates will be held at 8:00 p.m. on j
Tuesday, May 15, at the Wasilla j
Community Hall. Father James
Snead will be the main speaker.
Graduation exercises will be
held ^or high school and eighth
grade graduates and will be at the
Wasilla Community Hall at 8:00
•p.m. Wednesday, May 16. Heinie
Snider will be the principal
speaker.
“Promotion Day” is Friday,
, May 11. All students will move
into the grade above for the day,
and pre-school children who will
enter next year are invited to be
“first graders” for the day.
Mrs. Clyde Thorpe fell and in
jured her hip in her home on
^Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Martin Olson left this
week for the States where she
will have a major operation. Her
daughter, Ediane, is staying with
relatives in Palmer, Mr. and Mrs.
A1 Brattain.
The Wasilla Church of Christ
tave a mother-daughter dinner
Wednesday evening. Two short
plays were put on by some of the
daughters. More than 75 mothers
and daughters of Wasilla and
vicinity attended.
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Lesh and j
daughter, Nancy, were Wasilla ,
visitors, Sunday. ;
The boys’ ball club is putting :
on a basket social at the Wasilla i
Community Hall this Saturday i
fnight, to raise funds for baseball .
equipment. f
Military Order
Curfew Enforced
Military curfew is being strict
ly enforced in Palmer.
Bar owners and managers are
having no argument with MP’s.
To service men who come in in
uniform after hours they are be
ing polite—but firm. No drinks,
Big problem is how to identify
a service man in civvies.
Curfew hours are until 1 a.m.
week nights, 2 a.m. Sunday.
To date bar managers say they
plan no protest—if that’s the rule
—then that’s the rule.
SCIENCE CONFERENCE
IN ALASKA HHIS FALL
Arctic branch of the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science was formed at a meet
ing at the University of Alaska
and has elected its first officers.
They are:
President, Maj. Andres I. Kars
tens, chief of the Aeromedical
Laboratory at Ladd Air Force
Base; vice-president, David Sto
well, officer-in-charge of U. S.
Weather Bureau in Fairbanks;
secretary-treasurer, Dr. John L.
Buckley, professor of biology and
after July 1 leader of the Alaska
Cooperative Wildlife Research
Unit at the University of Alaska.
Dr. Edward M. Little, assistant
director, Geophysical Institute,
was the organizing chairman.
Besides approving formation of
the Arctic branch, AAAS head
quarters in Washington, D. C.,
aas approved formation of the
Alaska division of the AAAS,
which includes the Arctic, Cook
[nlet and Southeastern Alaska
aranches.
AAAS headquarters also has
•equested the Alaska division to
sponsor the 2nd annual Alaska
Science Conference this fall, to be
n Alaska. AAAS headquarters
ind the National Academy of Sci
;nce and National Research Coun
:il are offering their assistance.
\ steering committee is being
armed.
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Arrive Seward .
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Leave Seattle
Arrive Seward
S. S. SEAFAIR
Leave Seattle ...
Arrive Seward Valdez
S. S. TARLETON BROWN
Leave Portland
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Arrive Seward Valdez
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Main 104
Captain T. Bie
Operating Manager
ANCHORAGE
223 Central Bldg.
P. O. Box 592
Phone 34401
George Hutton
Dist. Manager
LOS ANGELES
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SAN
FRANCISCO 4
150 Sanaome St.
Pier 40
Yukon 0-4114
PORTLAND 5
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623 S.W. Oak St.
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Term.
Beacon 7301
May 13
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May 14
May 21
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May 26
May 23
May 28
June 5
FAIRBANKS
P. O. Box 1201
Jameson Engineer
ing Building
Phone—East 988
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'Price Ceiling
Warnings Issued
All retailers and others covered
by ceiling price regulations are
now in violation if they have not
prepared required base period
records, Fred G. Hanford, Terri
torial director, Office of Price
Stabilization warned.
Deadline for retailers and
wholesalers was April 30, when
anyone selling articles at retail
or wholesale was supposed to
have completed base period rec
ords in compliance with Regula
tion 9.
| No filing by these merchants in
the O.P.S. office is required.
However, restaurants and tav
erns must also prepare records to
establish their food-cost-per-dol
! lar of gross sales and file this in
i formation with theif closest
I branch office of the O.P.S. to com
! ply with Regulation 11.
There are O.P.S. offices in
Ketchikan, Juneau, Anchorage
and Fairbanks.
Enforcement officers currently
are checking restaurant and tav
erns to ascertain the degree of
compliance.
Service Ceilings
All sellers of services, such as
laundries, dry cleaners, drayage
companies, repair services and
similar establishments must have
a ceiling price list showing the
| highest prices they charged dur
ing the base period (Dec. 19-Jan.
25, 1951.) This list must show
| the type of service and the extent
; of the service rendered during
the base period for the price
I which was charged. The list was
j supposed to have been prepared
| by March 1. Checking will be
! done soon to see that operators
! of these types of services have
i complied. These lists need not
be filed with the O.P.S. office but
’ must be kept for inspection.
Coffey Insures Every Thing
Remember?
Valley
Theatre
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
May 11 & 12
Shows 7:15-9—Sal. Mai. 2 p.m.
3S&
SUNDAY and MONDAY
May 13 & 14
Shows 7:15-9--Sun. Mai. 2 p.m.
Wednesday and Thursday
May 16 & 17
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ALASKA BOARD HAS
INFORMATION ON
DEFENSE PRODUCTION
Through arrangements made by
Delegate E. L. Bartlett, the Alas
ka Development Board office at
Juneau is receiving information
of the various Defense Produc
' tion Administration agencies.
Among the new offices are the
Defense Minerals Administration,
I fisheries, transport, electric pow
| er, solid fuels, petroleum, pro
| duction and marketing adminis
; tration of the Department of Ag
riculture, the Economic Stabiliz
ation Agency, the National Pro
duction Authority and the De
fense Production Administration
itself.
The Alaska Development Board
has been designated by the De
partment of Commerce as the of
ficial cooperating agency for Al
aska. In this connection the
Board has available application
blanks for Certificates of Neces
sity under the Defense Produc
tion Act of 1950.
Alaska has much more in the
remains of prehistoric animals
and plants than Canada and the
States, according to Prof. Otto
i Geist, University of Alaska. Low
temperature has preserved them,
especially the permafrost. Dredg
I ing operations are uncovering val
j uable specimens of lions, mam
Selective Service Tests
Deadline for mailing selective
service college test qualifications
is May 15, John L. McCormick,
Alaska director of selective serv
ice, warns.
The test will be used by local
boards in considering student de
ferments. Application blanks may
be obtained from the nearest
board.
To be eligible a registrant who
intends to request occupational
deferment as a student must be
under 26 years old and must al
ready have begun plans to con
tinue college studies.
Funds for the operation and
maintenance of the Alaska Com
munication System in the amount
of $4,176,000 are included in Pres
ident Truman’s $60-million de
fense budget message to Congress
and $1,400,000 is sought for con
struction at various ACS stations
throughout Alaska.
moths, horses. The fauna and
flora were much richer in Pleis
tocene times, even though the cli
mate was no warmer. Geist is
employed both by the University
and the Museum of Natural Sci
ence in New York.
Required blanks for declara
tion of estimated Alaska net in
come tax now are available at the
office of U. S. Commissioner Dor
othy Saxton, Palmer.
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