Community
Calendar
TODAY
CLOVER Club (Wasilla) bake
sale at 10:30 a.m.
^WASILLA vets on-farm training
class at Community Hall at 8
p.m.
SATURDAY
SQUARE dance party at Moose
Hut at 9:30 p.m,
DANCE at Wasilla Community
Hall at 9 p.m.
MONDAY
COTTONWOOD Homemakers at
Mrs. Jay Levan’s.
CTVIL defense committee heads
meet in Gym at 8 p.m.
BETA Sigma Phi social at Dor
othy Anderson’s at 8 p.m. i
KIWANIS Club luncheon at for
mer library at noon.
TUESDAY
NATIONAL Guard documentary J
film at Legion Hall at 7:30 p.m. '<
4-H camp begins at King’s Lake.
FAIR Board in fair’s administra
tion building at 8 p.m. s
WEDNESDAY 1
CHAMBER of Commerce lunch- i
eon at former library at noon. '
PALMER-Wasilla junior baseball '
on Palmer diamond at 6 p.m. (
.MATANUSKA Valley Sportsmen
at rifle range at 8 p.m. i
THURSDAY
SEVEN - Eighty - Niner party in I
Gym at 7:30 p.m.
AMERICAN Legion at Legion <
Hall at 8 p.m. 1
LEGION Auxiliary at Legion !
Hall at 8 p.m. i
FRIDAY
WASILLA vets on-farm training i
class at Community Hall at 8 1
p.m. '
PRE-Natal class at former library 1
at 3 p.m. {
Coming Events
Aug. 5—Joe Puhl benefit dance
at Gymnasium.
Aug. 11—Field day at Matanuska
Station.
Sept. 1—Matanuska Valley Fair
opens.
Moose and caribou seasons open
Sept. 2—Matanuska Valley Fair.
Sept. 3—Matanuska Valley Fair.
Sept. 4—Matanuska Valley Fair.
TALKEETNA GOLD MINES
NEED STILL MORE WATER
*The on-again off-again weather
in the Talkeetna country still was
slowing gold mine operations
there in mid-July. Shortage of
water had forced several mines
VALLEY
THEATRE
FRI.-SAT.. JULY 28-29
Nights 7:15-9:00. Sat. Mat. 2:00
“You Gotta Stay
Happy”
James Stewart—Joan Fontaine
with
Eddie Albert
SUN.-MON.. JULY 30-31
Nights 7:15-9:00. Sun. Mat. 2:00
Tyrone Power
in
‘Captain from Castile’
WED.-THURS.. AUG. 2-3
Nights 7:15 and 9:00
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New York Music Teacher-Yearns for
Flights Over Alaskan Arctic Again
An interest in Alaska has
I brought ex-school teacher Jane
Robbins to Alaska twice in the
past five years, and is likely to
bring her winging north again
in the very near future, according
to a story printed in a recent edi
tion of the Christian Science
Monitor.
The one-time music teacher,
who is a member of the Ninety
Nines, a woman’s flying organ
ization, and who flew for the U.
S. Wasps during the war, orig
inally came north to do a job of
housekeeping. She came in 1946
to oversee her brother’s family
of three during a summer’s min
ing season at Candle. In her spare
time, she was recruited to fly
freight and passengers for the
firm, the Arctic Circle Explor
ation Co.
Miss Robbins next returned in
1949, when a fellow pilot of her
summer’s bush-pilot days, called
her at New York to hop north in
a hurry and help him find a polar
bear for a couple of Arctic hunt
ers. That was her first experi
ence in ski-equipped planes and
FORMER GOLD RUSHER
DIES AT NOME
Tom Sweeney, a Nome resident
since the gold rush days, died in
the Nome Hospital recently. Mr.
Sweeney had been ill for the
past year.
The deceased wras a former gold
miner in the Kougarok area for
many years. His two brothers,
who came north with Sweeney
in the gold rush era, both pre
ceded him in death.
WASILLA GIRLS SPONSOR
SATURDAY DANCE
WASILLA — Senior girls of
Wasilla School are sponsoring a
special dance at the Community
Hall tomorrow- night. For this
dance, music will be furnished
by Bill Betts and his orchestra.
there to curtail operations, until
stream flows had increased.
with winter flying conditions in
the far north, where it is often
difficult not to confuse snow
covered tundras with wintery
grey skies. Jane managed it all
right, though, and while she was
wheeling north along the Arctic
coast on polar bear reconnoiter
! ing expeditions, she also was en
larging her film collection of
Alaskan scenes.
With bear hunt chores com
pleted and movie film exhausted,
she turned south again, expect
ing to settle down to a humdrum
existence of music-teaching. Then
one day the lady pilot happened
to read an advertisement about
a new type of plane, that seemed
to her just made to order to meet
Alaskan flying conditions.
She felt so enthusiastic about
the plane’s future that she wrote
its manufacturers. They decided
they could use a lady with Jane’s
enthusiasm, so now she’s selling
airplanes. And deep in the bottom
of her heart is the hope that not
too far in the future she’ll be sell
ing that “made for Alaska” plane
to Alaskans.
Father's Accident Calls
Mrs. Cooper Home
Mis. Walter Cooper of Palmer
was called home to Sunnyside,
Wash., last week, when she re
ceived word that her father had
been critically injured. The 71
year-old man was desperately
hurt when the automobile he was
driving collided with a train near
Sunnyside.
The accident occurred Tuesday,
and for a time the injured man
appeared to rally. However, on
Friday Mrs. Cooper received a
wire asking her to come at once.
She took her young son Duane
with her on her journey home.
Honored At Birthday Party
WASILLA—Catherine Coghlan |
was honor guest at a birthday j
party last Sunday. Ten friends of
Catherine’s age were her guests
at the party.
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Open Friday Evenings—5 to 7 P. M.
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Juneau C. of C. Favors
No Profits Tax
For Alaskan Investors
To stimulate the investment of
capital in Alaska, the Juneau
Chamber of Commerce recently
went on record as favoring a law
which would tax only those Alas
kan profits which leave the terri
tory. The plan has been suggest
ed by President Harry Truman
as one means of interesting cap
ital in Alaskan investment.
Regional Forester Frank B. i
Heintzleman told the Chamber
that the great need foy a higher
production of lumber in Alaska is :
Bryanis Visit In Anchorage
WASILLA—Mrs. J. M. Bryant
and children, Leticia and Larry,
spent this week in Anchorage vis
iting Mr. Bryant. They plan to
return to Wasilla early next week.
>nly one example of the need for
new industry here. He held some
hope that Alaska’s lumber output
will be increased in the near fu
ture, when he announced that the
Forest Service soon will call for
aids on a stand of timber at Edna
Bay. Located on Kosciusko Island,
30 miles west of Wrangell, there
s an estimated 210 million board
feet of timber in the stand, he
said.
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VALLEY CLEANERS
For Free Delivery
CALL 6 Y 3
Pickup and Delivery in Wasilla Each
Wednesday at Wasilla Cafe
Building Blocks
Of All Kinds
For Your Building Needs
Cement by the Car or by the Sack
VALLEY CONCRETE PRODUCTS
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