PALMER AIRPORT
LOSES CAA LIGHTS,
NEVER INSTALLED
Last week through apparent
lack of interest, Palmer lost the
set of airport lights which had
remained at the airport uninstall
ed for nearly a year since CAA
made them available.
Clair Stock, one of the mem
bers of the Airport Committee
who signed for the lights when
Perry McLane of CAA procured
them for the local airport, reveal
ed that representatives of Kotze
bue’s new Wien Memorial Air
port came to claim the lights with
CAA’s authorization. A telephone
call to CAA in Anchorage con
firmed the transferral.
Several local flyers and inter
ested townspeople gathered at the
airport Monday awaiting the ar
rival of Governors Tom Dewey
and Ernest Gruening were appall
ed at the loss. All were agreed
that the lights never would have
been taken away if Palmer citi
zens had shown enough interest
to install them.
Failure to get the lights in
stalled apparently stemmed from
a lack ' of coordination between
the groups involved. One mem
ber of the Airport Assn, observed
that the local pilots who use the
airport should have “got on the
ball”. One of the pilots thought
the Airport Assn, should have
taken the initiative to announce
a volunteer work party to^ put
the lights in. Another insisted
that interest had been aroused
two or three times only to find
that plans for installing the lights
had not been received from CAA.
Speculation about how Palmer
could go about getting another
set of lights quickly followed the
initial shock of loss. Clair Stock
was of the opinion that the next
move would be up to Tony
Schwamm, Territorial Director
of Aviation.
Lee Hartley pointed to the
Army Air Force C-47 where Maj
or General Olds was directing
rescue operations for the party
stranded at Friday Creek.
“Maybe the general can help
us,” he suggested. “The army has
used this airfield all day yester
day and today, and they’ll prob
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SEWARD CONCERT STARTS
FUND FOR CONCERT PIANO
Three Seward musicians ap
peared in a concert August 15 in
the first of a series of entertain
ments to help raise money for a
concert piano for the city.
Nearly 100 citizens of the city
lent their names as patrons and
patronnesses of the fund to ob
tain a concert grand piano for
future professional and semi-pro
fessional musicials in Seward.
The August 15 concert featured
vocalist Paul McMullen Mrs.
Mary Clements, pianist; and Miss
Margaret Lee, harpist. The con
cert was given under the aus
pices of the Seward Winter Con
cert Committee with Beta Sigma
Phi assisting.
JOHN NEWBY HOME
FCSM John Newby, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Myron Newby is
on leave from the U. S. Navy and
is spending his time visiting at
home and with friends in the
Valley.
He expects to leave Palmer
about September 7, returning to
San Francisco where he is sta
tioned aboard the USS St. Paul.
ably need to use it many times.
It would be to their advantage
to have lights here too.”
After talking it over, Jim Hur
ley and Hartley approached the
general and told him about the
need for lights". General Olds
agreed that it would certainly be
a help to have lights at the air
port and promised to make in
quiries and see what could be
done.
Third Division Needs
Two Judges, Senate
Committee Decides
“All of the facts available to
the committee indicate the un
questionable need for an addi
tional district judge in the third
division for the district of Alas
ka,” declared the members of the
Senate Judiciary Committee in
reporting a bill favorably this
week seeking creation of one ad
ditional circuit judgeship in the
United States and 18 additional
district judgeships.
“The judge in this division is
Hon. Anthony J. Dimond, form
erly a Delegate from Alaska,” the
report continued. “He is very cap
able and labors long and hard to
handle the work of the district.
He also has the help of outside
judges from time to time. Even
in view of all these facts he is
unable to keep abreast of the ju
dicial work of the division. The
statistics . . , show that the j
court is falling further and fur
ther behind with the cases pend
ing and the cases disposed of in
the third division. An additional
fact bearing on the workload of
this division is that since Alaska
is a territory the federal courts
are called upon to exercise juris
diction normally vested in the
state courts. This pyramids the
workload of the whole district,
and particularly the third divis
ion.
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SCHOOL LUNCH PRICES
MAY BE UPPED TO 35 CENTS
Prices at the school cafeteria '
for the regular school lunches '
may have to be upped this year
to 35 cents, Superintendent Wil- j
liam T. Zahradnicek announced i
this week.
The added nickel will offset
a drop in the federal subsidy j
which used to amount to nine
cents, or approximately the cost
of a bottle of milk. Because of the
increase in the number of schools
participating in the school lunch
program, the amount of the fed
eral subsidy has to be spread
“thinner”. No more than six cents
was guaranteed for this year.
Last year, the Palmer school re
ceived no subsidy from mid-Feb
uary on, and had to operate at
a loss.
“The school lunch program
should be non-proft”, Zahradni
cek observed, “but it should also
pay its way”.
Lunch will be served for the
first time Wednesday, September
5. Tuesday’s school session will
not last the full day. Manager of |
the cafeteria this year has not
been announced, but the super
intendent expected to hire all the
personnel needed later this week.
Through the PTA, Zahradnicek
has offered the possibility of per
iodically checking of the menus
by volunteers trained in dietetics
to assure balanced meals. He said
the cafeteria would also welcome
suggestions for menus from such
qualified persons.
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Matanuska Cable Car
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Rich- %
ardson who operate the little
cable car across the Matanuska
River for "access to the glacier
have proven up this month on
their homestead site, located at
mile 103 on the Glenn Highway.
Mrs. Richardson, who was in
the Frontiersman office this week
to arange for the legal advertise
ment, reported that at least 100
persons had used the cable car
so far this year to cross over to
the Matanuska Glacier.
Final phases of work are com
pleted and the new freezing tun-,
nel is now ready for use at the
Palmer Cold Storage. Harry Ryan
owner announced this week.
In progress for the past year,
the new tunnel will afford pa
trons a sharp-freeze with tem
peratures starting at 30 below
and ranging upward as necessary.
A gonsistant cold will assure
longer storage time, he said.
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