Houston-Willow News
By ROSE PALMQUIST
This is real pioneer country.
The people who live here have
to do lots of things that they
have never done before. But
Mrs. Johnson of Willow is the
the hardiest of all.
Mr. Johnson is employed at
Tok Junction, and left his
wife and several small chil
dren to hold down the home
stead. Neighbors check on Mrs.
Johnson and her little brood
several times weekly to see
that the family is O. K.
On the last visit several days
ago, the neighbor found an
addition to the Johnson family,
self-delivered by the brave
mother. Just to make sure that
Mrs. J. had done the job right,
although this is the second of
her children that she has de
livered all by herself, the
neighbor insisted upon taking
mother and child to a doctor in
Palmer.
Don’t misunderstand us—we
do not recommend pioneering
to this degree. Doctors may be
hard to afford, but it’s risky to
attempt a new life without
them.
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The Willow school PTA will
meet tonight, Nov. 14, at the
regular time. The meeting will
be brief to allow open house of
all the school rooms.
CAR CLUB PLANS
DANCE NOV. 30
The Wasilla Lakers and the
Palmer Roadrunners car clubs
will sponsor a dance on Sat
urday, Nov. 30, starting at 8
p.m. in the Palmer Moose hall.
Admission will be $1 stag
and $1.50 drag. The affair will
be well chaperoned, advisors
of the two groups said.
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On Saturday, Nov. 16, the
Willow Civic Club is sponsor
ing a harvest dance and bake
sale at the civic center.
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The Big Lake Democratic
caucus elected officers and
three delegates to the south
central convention of the party
to be held in Anchorage on
Nov. 22, 23, and 24. Registra
tion will begin at 7 p.m. on
Nov. 22 at the Westward hotel.
Delegates from the Big Lake
precinct are Mrs. Connie Hib
bard, Mrs. Rose Palmquist, and
Mrs. Mary Batchelor.
Bill Betts and Michael Palm
quist left on Nov. 12 by charter
plane to work on an assign
ment in a remote area for the
exploration division of district
engineers for the U. S. Air
Force.
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A party of hunters, Mrs. Ro
gers who homesteaded on But
terfly Lake several years ago
and a number of her friends,
started out for her homestead
via the Standard Oil well trail
on a snow vehicle and tobog
gan to hunt moose last week
end.
The vehicle quit running all
of a sudden about 12 miles out.
The party never found Butter
fly Lake, nor any of the sev
eral homestead cabins of that
area. They had only two sleep
ing bags with them, and spent
Saturday night keeping a
fire going. The food froze, and
the machine would not start
despite hours of work on it.
Toward dusk on Sunday, the
group left food and equipment
and walked to the Palmquist
homestead on the highway,
where their cars had been
parked. Of the party, three
were women, one five months
pregnant and unused to long
walks.
A warm house looked aw
fully good to these people.
They reported seeing no moose
or any animal on the entire
trip into this area. By the
time the 12-mile walk was ov
er, everyone was glad that
there was no game to pack.
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SKATELAND MASQUERADE MARKS HALLOWEEN
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, pictured above are,
left to right, Rusty Dow, Linda Bozinoff,
Jo Hamon, Doris Everett, Lois Spickerman,
Joyce Metz, Pat Lawton, Helen Mae Wie
derkehr, and Hazel Morris. The occasion
was a double one—Ladies' Night and a
Halloween party at Palmer Skateland on
Oct. 30. Unfortunately, the first-place win
ner for the best costume, Lorraine Wade,
had left before the picture was taken. Hel
en Mae Wiederkehr placed second, and
third place winner was Joyce Metz. First
prize was a Sunbeam Mixmaster, and the
second and third place winners received
free passes to Skateland.
Vehicles Damaged
In Monday Collision
A wide right turn off the
Glenn Highway into the left
hand lane of Walker street re
sulted in a collision of two
vehicles at about 12:50 p.m. on
Monday afternoon.
Joseph Butterfield, driving a
farm truck belonging to Roland
Snodgrass, made the turn into
the wrong lane, colliding with
a truck driven by Byron And
erson.
Police estimated about $150
damage to Anderson’s truck
and about $200 damage to the
vehicle Butterfield was driv
ing.
Butterfield was cited for op
erating a vehicle without a
driver’s license and for driving
a vehicle with expired license
plates.
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BIDS ASKED FOR
SHEMYA PROJECT
Competitive bids are asked
for a Shemya, Alaska project
to rehabilitate a portion of an
airplane hanger. The project is
valued at about $200,000.
Sealed bids will be received
by the U.S. Army Engineer
District, Alaska and publicly
opened on or about Nov. 21.
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4-H Achievement Night Is Saturday
Members of Matanuska Val
ley 4-H clubs will be rewarded
for their year’s work at 4-H
Achievement Night next Sat
urday, Nov. 16. at 7:30 p.m.
The awards ceremony will take
place in the Palmer high school
cafeteria.
District, state, and leader
awards will be made, and mem
bership certificates and pins
distributed, Miss Myrtle Bang,
home demonstration agent,
said this week.
Refreshments and entertain
ment which will include group
singing ime planned. Lila Ann
Woods wi1! report on her tr,p
to the National 4-H Conference
in Washington, D.C. last April.
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