Gring* pinochle par*
liesGrange Hall on
March IS and 29.
SOL. THREE—NO. 2$
MIUPU Mrosntærymnn
PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE MATANUSKA VAI.!,rY.
PALMER. ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 10. 1950
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Community K »|1
Benefit Bingo Game at
Wasilla on March II.
PRICE 14c
Hagen, King, Lepak, Stock Elected To Fair Board
dtle Anderson Is
lamed Crew Leader
;or Censes Work Here
Merle Anderson of Palmer has
sen selected ^s crew leader in
le Palmer area for the .iftjO.cen
is talking., it was' announced, this
ee^c lay Jim. Broy.m pf' the divi
onal headquarters, office a't 'An
loragg. Mr.tArider?Qn lg^fo Jeave
•day for^a week’s;training a) $h
lorage^ and qpon, his."j?efijrn Jto'
e Valley yyill. begin';iii‘{ervi6w
g applicants thq*! positi^.m'df
mmeratdrS ‘tj^otjigiioUt tf^6 areit:
The' P^tmerr ai^a. ^xten’dkta?s'faff’i
Taljt.t}etnsf aiid‘ tCpi;d,bVa', "Mr;
lown' said." ’£0 'poyer; mV*woVk,
r. Anderson ;; will'be l'odki'tfg Tcif
least a dd^Cn .assistants.'Work
ay be! paid'fot* Oft either'a 'piece
an' hourly basis ; :
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Local Legionnaires *
*iah Memorial Suppei*
In celebration of the Ameri
an Legion's national anniyer:
ary on March 16, members of
he local chapter of the Ameri
an Legion Auxiliary are plan
ing a potluck supper. All Le
ion members and their wives
rill be guests of the Auxiliary
lat evening.
The supper will be held in
he Matanuska Hotel at 7
'clock on the evening of the
ixteenth.
Ann Demming of the Aux
iary is chairman of the com
littee planning the anniver
ary event.
-o, The Poor Homesteader/ Is
lurley’s Washington Battlecry
I he plight of the Alaskan
tnesteader was the problem
it sent James Hurley, manager
the Alaska Rural Rehabilita
n Corporation, winging to
ishington, D. C., recently. Mr.
irley said the principal object of
; visit was to “try to dig up
ne government money for the
mesteader who has the patent
his place, but hasn’t the cash
develop it into a farm.”
The ARRC manager said there
is no legislative reason why
jney could not be extended to
i of homesteaders, under ex
ing* appropriations to govern
mtal agencies. Mr. Hurley ex
ained that it was not possible to
e ARRC to extend more aid,
ice it is not a government
ency.
He says there are three possi
bles for extended financial aid,
ider existing agencies. The
irmers Home Administration
is a rural, housing program
hich can cover the construction
Grade. A barns, root cellars,
lickenhouses and other produc
/e farm construction. This mon
', rtow allocated on the basis of
e 1940 census, should be dis
ibuted on the basis of need, he
els. .
The- agricultural conservation
ogram, administered in Alaska
by the Extension Service, is ade
; quate, Mr. Hurley thinks. There
! is now about $30,000 available to
carry out the territory’s program
j and Alaska could use another
i $100,000, he feels. Actually, this
| program can allow benefits of up
; to $40 an acre, for 10 acres, under
its land-clearing provisions.
The third possibility, is to make
the Farmers Home Administra
tion fully operative in the terri
tory. Under legislative provisions,
the FHA can allow up to $3,500
in chattel loans.
If all three potentialities are
made a working reality, then the
Alaskan homesteader will not,
find it too hard to get the money
he needs to develop his land, Mr.
Hurley asserted.
“It would work this 'way,” he
| explained. “He can get the money
| for his farm and buildings-from
! FHA and for cattle, feed and
crops on the chattel mortgage,
and he can do his land clearing
under the. Conservation program,
with a little extra help from the
ARRC.
“It is legislatively possible,” he
concluded. “There are plenty, of
programs, but there has not been,
heretofore, enough iboney- and not*
enough gumption to put them into
operation:” ----——
LONDON. England—-These stalwarts of Britain's Conservative parly led the fight to unseat the
Labor government <>« Britain in the general election Feb. 23. L. to H. (standing) Harold McMillan. Capt.
H. Crookshank, Sir Dayid Maxwell Fyfe: (sealed) Lord Salisbury. Lord Woolion. Anthony Eden and
. A. Butler. Not present is the Tory generalissimo, wartime prime minister-Winston Churchill.
CHILD BREAKS LEG IN FALL
Hal Ingalls, five-year-old son of
VTr. and Mrs. Don Ingalls of North
Palmer suffered a broken left leg
n an accident Thursday morn-!
ng. The little boy was playing
m machinery in the neighbor
hood, when he slipped and fell.
SOPHOMORES LEAD
PHS AT STUDIES
The sophomores of Palmer High
school were top students during
the past six weeks of study, honor
roll statistics revealed today.*
They led all high school students
in grade point averages.
Individual students in the jun
ior high and senior high school
levels, who rated laurels for their
scholastic achievements, were
listed as follows:
Seventh grade—Barbara Kind
gren, Lnrry Bentti, Carl Zaborac;
Eighth grade—Virginia Boulter,
Dorothy Hoffman, Donna Harris,
Jack Johnson, Ralph Kircher,
Mary Graves, Alma Roark, Ernest
Roetman;
Freshmen — Larry Beck, Leola
Gaylqrd, Robert Hartman, Ger
aldine Kindgren;
Sophomores — Johnny Alex,
August Klem, Doyle Ross, Jerry
Rupke;
Juniors—Irwin Bentti, Charles
Hoffman, Rose Miller, Lavon
Roetman, Stanley Zaborac;
Seniors—Ramona Davis, Helen
Havemeister.
INDEPENDENCE MINER HURT
Patrick Carney, a mineij'at In-1
dependence, was hospitalized by
an accident this week. At first
believed to have suffered a brok
en leg, Mr. Carney’s injuries have
been found to be less serious, and
he will be discharged within the
next day or two. The injured man
is a mefriber-'rof 'the Shamrock
basketball squad.
MRS. ONKKA HOSPITALIZED
Mrs; Oliver Onkka was a pa
tient at the Valley Hospital this
week, wher$ she underwent den
tal care. She had been released
to her TfonTe "at press -time;
| Leadership Classes
For Girl Scouts
To Be Next Week
New training classes for future
Brownie and Intermediate Scout
leaders will be held next week, it
was announced today by Mrs. i
Kathryn Wilson, Brownie leader.
The classes will be held at Mrs.
Wilson’s home from 1 to 4 p.m. on
Tuesday and from 9 a.m. to noon
on Wednesday.
The sessions will be conducted1
by Mrs. C. T. Browning, profes
sional worker from Anchorage,,
and by Mrs. L. M. Manning, presi- j
dent of the Anchorage Girl Scout;
Council.
Mrs. Wilson explained that she
was particularly anxious to re
cruit new leaders from among the
mothers of second - grade girls.
These children will be eligible to
enroll as Brownies next year, but
unless added leaders can be
found, there will be no openings
for the girls. Mrs. Wilson urges
that every interested mother at
tempt to attend one of next
week’s training sessions.
Palmer Scouts Stand
Ninth in Rally
Palmer Boy Scouts placed;
ninth in the recent territorial i
rally, it was announced this week
by Scoutmaster Victor AlfsenJ
The winning troop was the Cath
olic Church Troop 615 of Anchor
age, led by Norman Lowenstein.
Troop 615 had a total time of
1285.7 seconds for the 10 events
of the rally.
The winners will receive an en
graved plaqque as their trophy,
which they, keep. ut^ii a new, win
ner tops them .in the annual ter
ritorial rally.
NEW BOARD MEETS
MONDAY TO ELECT,
STUDY FINANCES
Four new fair board members
'Were elected at last Tuesday eve--,
j-ittng s-. annual membership meet- i •
v in,g.? t-0 replace members whose}
-|,terms had expired, or who prof-.
'.j fered ' their resignations.. - J^ew
board members are A1 Hagen. Add-f:
j Clyde King, Sr. (three - ye-at-..*
i terms), Thomas Lepak (two-year
.Itwnth'.and Clair Stock (one-year
ij-t-erm).- t .
board members are-.-.
jl?bn-;lrwin, Paul Martin, Maud:. •„
dHosfer and Jan Koslosky. . : j
* •; Th?.. new board meets again:.>
. next Monday evening at 8 o’clock;-:; :
[ (6 organize and elect its officers.
fAt- that time Clayton Esslinger
! will meet with the group, to dis
.-pttss With them the present finan
>tfal staiiisrof. the.Matanuska YaJ
Jey Fair. . 9 s _ ' .
As sopn as officers. are" elected
and the new board organized;
there will be a meeting of last'
year’s department heads, to make -'
plans for the coming year’s event.
Members discussed the plan to
lease the fair’s concessions to a'
California carnival company at
the Tuesday meeting. However
action on the matter was reserved
for the board’s decision.
There was discussion of past
fairs, and suggestions were of
fered on how to improve the com
ing fair, which will be the tenth
annual Matanuska Valley Fair. It
was emphasized that planning
must begin immediately, particu
larly if the fair’s premium book
is to be issued early this year, as
is planned.
'Free* Building Site
For Territorial Offices
To Cost Alaskans $60,000
Juneau will get a new city hall
and Alaskan taxpayers will dig
up $60,000 for the site of the pres
ent hall, and the vacant lot ad
joining, if a resolution passed by
the Territorial Board of Adminis
tration last week is carried
through. The plan is, once the
present Juneau city hall is
junked, to erect a new territorial
office building on the vacated
site.
Opponents to the plan are out
spoken in their criticism of the
$60,000 payment, sihce available
sites for the territorial building
have been offered, without cost,
at several locations in the terri-’
tory. They say that Juneau-ites
ought to look no farther than to
Juneau tax money for their new
city hall, and that the territorial
building ought to go up on one
of the free sites offered.
Stan McCutcheon of Anchorage
is a leading opponent to the an
nounced plan. He asks that Alas
kans write or wire tjie. Board of
Administration at Juneau to ask
for reconsideration of the prop- ’
osition.
La von Roeiman Is 111 Again
Lavon Roetman, senior student
at Palmer High School, entered
the Valley Hospital for observa
tion this week.