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er of the Anchorage Time*; Geo
Jones, newly elected Anchor
age councilman: insurance man
Ed Dimok; insurance and real
estate man Cecil Abbott; Red
Mayo, of Red Rose Sales; Don
Jacobs, of the First National
Bank; Herb Brown, of the post
office; Ben Leonard, of Vaara
Varieties; Mrs. Mildred Mantle,
executive secretary of Anchor
age chamber; Paul Robinson, at
torney; George Sharrock. of
PNA; Evander C. Smith, attor
ney; Harold Koslosky. merchant;
M. J. Nolan, cement products;
Ken Sheppard, concrete products;
Bob Romig. insurance; I. M. C. |
Anderson, FHA; Don Goodman.:
of Goodman Enterprises, and;
John Sanders, a vice-president
of PNA.
Stateside Guests
The Pacific Northwest digni
taries from Portland. Tacoma and
Seattle were introduced as fol- !
lows:
Robert Maloney, chairman of
the Alaska division of the Port- j
land C of C; William Bowes, com
missioner of public works at
Portland: Frank Beaver, of the
Seattle chamber; James Hill of
Seattle’s Advocate-P o s t-Intelli
gencer; Alfred McCready, of the
Portland Oregonian; Harry Ped
ersen, of the Portland Retail
Trade Assn.; J. P. Paul, secretary
of Jthe Seattle Traffic Assn.; Ly
man Hall, president of the Taco
ma C of C; Clifford Howard, of
the Tacoma News Tribune; Wells
Wiley, of PNA; Harold Olson,
vice-president in charge of traf
fic sales, PNA; Capt. Richard H.
Chamberlain. PNA pilot, and
Miss Hazel Guy, PNA stewardess.
Case for the Valley
Following the introduction of
Palmer chamber members, Palm
er’s case for Matanuska Valley
agricultural products was pre
sented.
Clarence Bell said that al
though the creamery was receiv
ing a thousand gallons of milk
daily, it was just half as much as
the Co-Op would like to have.
He admitted that Anchorage peo
ple probably hadn’t seen a Valley
egg all summer.
Carl Rasmussen, after a short
history of early Colonist troubles
in getting started and having
their products marketed, told the
Anchorage group that in spite of
every increase in production,
army contracts take more and
more of the total produced, leav
ing not enough for the Anchor
age trade. He said that the Co-Op
bought more than $1 million in
produce from farmer members
last year. He admitted that the
supply to Anchorage was not
steady, but hoped people there
would “bear with us” until it is.
Jack Maze got in his statistics
„ about $250,000 of Valley money
being spent in Anchorage and the
average of 18 Valley people per
day who send checks to Sears
Roebuck and Montgomery Ward.
He deplored the fact that almost
none of that money comes back
to Palmer, said he’d like to see
some of it come back through the
purchase of Matanuska Valley
products.
Clair Stock gave a few figures
showing the steady increase in
Valley production and appealed
to Anchorage merchants to buy
local products when they are
available.
‘‘Everything you’ve eaten here
today”, he said, “except for the
>ealt and meat, was produced here
in the Matanuska Valley.”,
Jim Hurley ended the Palmer
WAGE INCREASE
ANNOUNCED
A new general Alaska locality 1
wage schedule for ungraded em- j
ployea will be put into effect im- j
mediately upon receipt of addi- I
tional instructions from the army
air force wage board, as approved
by the wage stabiliration board
in Washington. It will apply only
to army and air force ungraded
employes within the Alaskan
command. It will not apply to
navy employes or to general ser
vice air force and army em
ployes.
This approval is based upon the
findings of a local wage survey
conducted in the Alaskan com
mand in March of this year. It is
the first time in Alaskan history
that wages for army and air force
employes have been set up on the
basis of prevailing wage rates in
the locality.
The increase is expected to be
retroactive to the first pay period
after July 31, 1951. It will repre
sent an increase from 25 to 77
1 cents per hour in initial step
rates.
i
School Board—
tion of the totals in each stack re
vealed the initial error, and the
traditional integrity of Palmer’s
electors was upheld.
The three judges had been on
duty for almost 12 hours straight
when the totals were finally tal
lied. The school board last night
indicated a possibility that there
might be some small remunera
tion for the judges in this elec
tion—the first time they have
ever received anything for school
district election services.
$80,000 in Property Taxes
It was also revealed at the
school board meeting last night
that the school district might re
alize $80,000 from 1951 property
taxes. This was the estimate of
assessor-tax collector Wm. Head.
In his review of tax assessment
problems, he disclosed that sev
eral property owners in the dis
trict are delinquent in filing their
1951 tax returns. In these cases an
arbitrary assessment will be made
from which there will be no ap
peal. Head claimed that he has
found at least 30 parcels of land
in the district for which he can
find no record of the owner.
These properties and other prop
erties upon which taxes are de
linquent after February 1, 1952,
will be posted as tax delinquent
next spring and will be put up
for sale by the school board some
time next summer if the taxes
are not paid.
Supt. William T. Zahradnicek
told the board that all the neces
sary approvals had been received
for the appointment of Harry
Wimmer as principal of Palmer
high school.
case with a sly dig at the Anchor
age school situation and the re
cent defeat of the school district’s
sales tax proposal.
“Yesterday, our people voted
a million dollar bond issue for a
new school by an overwhelming
majority of 86 percent. That’s the
kind of people you’re dealing
with in the Matanuska Valley”,
he said.
In rebuttal, Anchorage presi
dent, Anderson, opined that a lot
of Jack Maze’s $250,000 comes
back to Palmer on week-ends.
“Professor” Don Irwin con
cluded the program with a geo
graphical and agricultural quiz
in which more than half the ans
wers were “Palmer”. Vegetable
prizes were given in accordance
with the relative accuracy of each
answer.
1951 Community Chest
Goal Set ot $3,000
Three thousand dollars was set
as the goal for the 1951 Commu- (
nity Chest drive, October 15-24; |
by members of the board who
met Monday night to consider !
budgets submitted by member
organizations.
This is the amount which w'ill j
be distributed among the Health
Council, the Welfare Council. tHe
Library, Girl Scouts, Alaska Crip
pled Children's Ass’n.. and the
United Defense Fund (70 percent
of which fund goes to U.S.O.).
Budgets for the following
amounts have been approved for
each service organization or agen
cy: ACC A. $350; Health Center,
$1,280; Girl Scouts, $350; Library.,
$167.76: United Defense Fund.
$214.55; Welfare Council, $400.
Administrative expenses and
membership in Community Chest
add $100 and $25, respectively.
The community is reminded by
i the Community Chest board
president, Marvin Slaughter, that
: these services are available to
i everyone. In making your con
tribution, he suggested, figure
how much you would contribute
to each of the above services if
you were giving to each individu
ally and then give the total to the
Chest. The Chest does not aim
to cut down on giving, but to cut
down on the number of drives.
By supporting the health and
welfare services, Slaughter ad
ded, the necessity of personal
“handouts” is eliminated. It is
often a greater kindness to a per
son in need to be referred to the
Welfare Council (Dorothy Saxton,
U. S. Commissioner’s office) or to
the Health Center (Marjorie My
ren, public health nurse) where
the case can get professional and
long-range care, than it is to re
ceive a “handout”.
At its meeting Monday evening
the Community Chest board re
ceived with regret Clarence
Moore’s resignation. Mr. Moore is
transferring to the University of
Kansas. Mrs. A. N. Talcott and
Mrs. William T. Zahradnicek
were welcomed as new board
members.
HILL TOP CAFE
Under Hew Management
Home Cooked Meals
We Are Also Specializing in
Hungarian Cooking
SATURDAYS and SUNDAYS
Wasilla, Alaska
Foster Parent
It all stems from “an old Sat
urday custom.” Twenty years ago
America’s famous Candy Lady,
Julia Steven, moved by the yearn
ing in some small faces at the
j windows of her Chicago candy
kitchens, decided to let the young
| sters form a sampling club. The
j Saturday Sampling Club may not
be listed in “Who’s Who,” but
today as many as 600 of its young
members show up on Saturday
morning for their sweets.
And today Julia Steven—Mrs.
Walter A. Krafft, as she is in
private life—has extended her in
terest in children around the
world. Hundreds of freedom pack
ages have been sent to children’s
institutions in many countries,
and Mrs. Krafft has sponsored
a nine-year-old girl in Belgium
(a war orphan) and two little
boys in a school in France for
several years.
When the Foster Parent's Plan
for War Children recently in
augurated its Chicago campaign
Mrs. Krafft acquired four more
foster children, one each in Italy,
Greece, England and Holland.
The girl on the right helping to
pass out the candy is Sheila
Shepherd, the British war orphan
who has been adopted by the city
of Chicago.
Through the Foster Parent’s
Plan a child is sponsored rather
than actually adopted. The spon
sor’s contributions keep the child
in a home, either private or in
stitutional, until he is able to go
out on his own and become in
dependent.
The Plan was started in 1937
during the Spanish Civil War
and has continued to operate
since then. It is possible to become
a foster parent for as little as
$15 a month.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
PORTRAITS
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ST. MICHAEL’S
Annual Bazaar
OCTOBER 13,1951
Linens, Costume Jewelry, Refreshments, Fish
Pond, Novelties, Toys, and Many More
ALASKA'S FAVORITE GAME
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School Auditorium
7:30 p.m.-12 Midnight
Valley
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Friday, Saturday
OCTOBER 5 end 6
Shows: 7:15 and 9:00 p.m.
Saturday Matinee: 2:00 p.m.
Sunday, Monday
OCTOBER 7 and 8
Shows: 7:15 and 9:00 p.m.
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