VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
PRINTED AT PALMER. AL ASKA. EACH THURSDAY
By the Matanuska Press, Inc.
Entered as second class matter on Oct. 21. 1947, at the post office at
Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Publisher, Business Manager A1 J. DeJulio
Editor Lucille Kennedy Mick
Associate Editor _Virginia Gallant
Barbara Carter Wasilla Correspondent
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Everything to gain, Nothing to lose
Nine and one half months ago 367 Palmer residents turned out
to vote on the issue of incorporation. One of the most forceful argu
ments for incorporation—that of providing the city with its own
continuous supply of water—was undoubtedly responsible for the
conclusive two-thirds majority vote by which Palmer became a city
of the first class. The people of Palmer in April, 1951, were suffer
ing from an acute shortage of water. Water for many families was
limited to only a,few trickles during the early hours of the morning.
Immediately upon incorporation of the city, members of Palm
er’s newly elected City Council applied themselves with selfless en
ergy to a twofold solution of the problem: temporary relief and plans
for the city’s own adequate water system, from which local residents
would not have to be satisfied with surplus water only. The diligence
with which they applied themselves to the facets of the problem is a
matter of record. Water started pouring from Palmer faucets on June
15 and the city of Palmer was allotted $500,000 by APW for new
water system early in September. Preliminary surveys were complet
ed last summer and plans are now nearing the construction stage.
Now it is up to the people of Palmer to determine whether or
not they want to go through with the plans on which their repres
entatives have worked for so many months. A 65 percent vote by
the city’s property owners an# a 50 percent vote by all qualified el
ectors of the city will give the Council the vote of confidence re
quired by the United States government. By their affirmative vote
^qualified electors will approve an indebtedness for the city water
system up to $300,000. The property owners ai'e asked to approve
the issuance of $250,000 in bonds as security for the city’s one-half
share of the construction cost.
How will the city pay off this indebtedness? Not by new taxes
The city’s share of the water system will be paid for out of revenue
received from water consumers. The $250,000 in bonds which the
U. S. government might ask as security for this indebtedness would
not jeapordize other needed city improvements because of statutory
bonded indebtedness limitations. Bonds issued as security for APW
projects are not included in this limitation. There is justifiable doubt
that the city will even be required to issue the bonds as security. The
vote authorizing their issuance may be considered a sufficient pledge
of faith by residents of Palmer that the debt will be paid.
So who will vote for a clear, pure drink of ungarnished water ,
water for baths, dishes and washing; water for the future lawns and
gardens of Palmer?
The polling place is Severn's Cabinet Shop. The date is Tues
day. January 29. Let’s vote.
AUDITOR REVEALS—
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Drug Co whose account showed
a $21,858,786 overdraft.
Jones stated that these two
overdrafts were covered by draw ■
ing from 181 commercial accounts
and by fictitious deposits.
Charged with embezzling bank
funds, Maze will have his prelim
inary hearing before U. S. Com
missioner Rose Walsh in Anchor
age as soon as the firm of Jones
and Anderson completes tlm
bank investigation.
Recovery on Overdrafts
Jan Koslosky. president and
manager of the Matanuska Val
ley Bank which now controls the
disposition of the Matanuska
Press, said this week that the
bank has no desire to continue in
the printing or newspaper busi
ness. Some of the surplus equip
ment. including a rotary press
valued at more than $15,000, will
have to be liquidated. Koslosky
said. The remaining equipment,
sufficient for the publication of
the Valley Frontiersman and the
job printing in the community,
will then be offered for sale, pref
erably to the present manage
ment. with a specific down pay
ment and a plan for financing.
Matanuska Press Manager. A1
DeJulio has insisted that most of
the overdraft found is covered by
equipment. Most of the heavy
equipment was purchased by the
Anchorage Shopping Guide of
which the Matanuska Press is the
successor. Editors from all over
the country who visited the local
plant last June were amazed to
find it one of the best equipped in
the Territory.
Tire bank has already recover
ed on the Palmer Drug Co. over
draft through negotiation of a
new loan on another bank.
Mr. and Mrs. James Kindler
and their four children left today
on the boat train for Seward.
They will travel to Seattle on the
Denali, from there they will go
to Powell, Wyoming.
Veteran's Homestead
Bill Would Allow
Claims to 2,560 Acres
Senator Edv. in C. Johnson has
introduced legislation to create
what would be called a Veterans’
Alaska Homestead Claim allow
ing claims as large as 2,560 acres
to public land and the national
forests in the Territory.
The Colorado Senator’s bill is,
similar to legislation sponsored
for a number of years by the late
Congressman William Lemke of
North Dakota.
Excluding certain * areas such
as national parks and monuments'
military and naval reservaions,
‘‘certain areas already designated
in detail as reserves of spruce
timber necessary for national de-'
fense”, school lands, the Annette
Island reservation, ‘‘native reser-1
vations and such lands as may j
hereafter be set aside for the use
and benefit of Alaskan Indians
or Eskimos” and certain other re-1
served lands from entry, the bill
would make available for settle- j
ment by veterans of the follow- j
ing lands: |
‘‘(1) That part of the Territory |
of Alaska known as the Pan-1
handle, lying south of latitude |
sixty degrees, thirty minutes
north, and east of longitude one
hundred and forty-one degrees
west.
‘‘(2) That part of continental j
Alaska lying south of latitude'
sixty-three degrees north, andj
east of longitude one hundred and'
fifty-four degrees west, and south
of latitude sixty-tv. o degrees
north, and longitude one hundred
and sixtv-seven degrees thirty
minutes west.
‘‘(3) Such islands, not including
Unalaska and Umnak. as lie with
in two hundred miles offshore
of the continental area designa
ted in paragraph (2).
(4) Areas on eitner sine oi tne
Alaska Highway for a distance
of thirty miles.
"(5) Areas on either side of the
Richardson Highway in south
central Alaska, from latitude
sixty-three degrees north to its
junction with the Alaska High
way at the village of Big Delta,
for a distance of thirty miles.
“(6) Areas on either side of the
Alaska Railroad from latitude'
sixty-three degrees north to Fair
banks, Alaska, for a distance of
thirty miles.”
Under the terms of the bill, no
veteran's claim would be smaller
than 320 acres writh no claim con
taining more than 160 acres of
“arable agricultural land.” The
claims would be as large as 2,560
acres, “such size and shape being
determined by the Secretary of
I the Interior, taking into account
| the type of land, location, and
■ various uses therefor in order
•hat the claim shall be adequate
family type agricultural, mixed
agricultural, fur farming, graz
ing. or timber unit sufficient to
j support a family of seven on an
American level of living.” The
bill requires that no more than
one-tenth of the timber on a
timberland claim would have to
be cleared with the remainder to
be maintained on a sustained
yield basis.
Certain financial assistance and
loan guarantees would be provi
ded by the Reconstruction Fin
ance Corporation and the Depart
ments of the Interior and Agricul
ture under the bill.
New Ceiling Prices
For Eating, Drinking
Establishments Set
Food and beverage ceiling
prices in restaurants, hotels and
other eating and drinking esta
blishments in the territories to
day were frozen by the Office ol
Price Stabilization, Fred G. Han
ford. territorial O. P. S. director
announced.
Maximum prices which may be
charged by any eating establish
ment or bar are those prices
which prevailed during the per
iod January 2 to 15, 1952.
The action was taken in Ceil
ing Price Regulation 120, which
will become effective January
28, Hanford said. This regulation
supersedes Ceiling Price Regula
tion 11, which has controlled
restaurant and bar prices since
last spring. The O. P. S. said CPR
11 was too complicated for the
comparatively small eating esta
blishments found in the terri
tories.
The new regulation requires all
territorial eating and drinking
establishments to:
1. Maintain the prices they had
in effect during the base period
January 2 to January 15, 1952.
These prices will be those which
had been legally established un
der the former restaurant and bar
regulation, CPR 11
2. Post all current prices, eith
er on menus or price lists so that
customers may compare them
v. ith fixed ceiling prices which
proprietors arc required to ex
hibit upon request.
3. Display in a conspicuous
place an official OPS poster lis’
ing dollar>and-cent ceiling prices
for 40 food items and non-alco
holic beverages, as well as those j
for 20 alcoholic beverages, if the t
latter are sold.
I 4. Display a sign giving the
| spirituous content, that is. the
| number of ounces, in alcoholic
! drinks sold.
5. Maintain the same quality ;
and quantity of servings in meals
and food items and the same
number of courses in meals at the I
prices they charged during the
January 2-15 period.
The regulation also fixes defi
nite ceilings for service charges
such as cover charges, corkage,
parking, entertainment and other
“premium” prices.
“The Office of Price Stabiliza
tion feels the new regulation will
be easier to enforce and will en
i able customers to determine
whether or not they are being
overcharged.” Hanford explained.
Although the new regulation
does not allow any restaurant o.-1
bar to raise prices at present, it
is anticipated an amendment will
be forth-coming soon which will
*
Land Office Manager
Resigns Position
George A. Lingo, manager >f
the Anchorage office of the Bu
reau of Land Management, an
nounced his resignation from thai
position, effective January 15. His
resignation has not yet been ac
cepted in the Washington D. C
office.
Lingo gave no reason for re
signing except that he wished
more time to devote to private in
terests. He has served as local
manager for the past 16 years, ex
cepting five years spent in the
Navy during the war.
Under civil service rules, the
position will now be circularized,
with authorized persons having
an opportunity to bid on it.
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
FOR VISITOR’S ASSOCIATION
Robert Ellis of Ketchikan,
president of the Alaska Visitors
Association, has announced the
appointment of James W. Chad
wick of Anchorage as the execu
tive secretary of the association.
George Sundborg, general mana
ger of the Alaska Development
Board has been serving as tem
porary secretary.
Chadwick will open offices in
Juneau some time this month.
permit individual adjustments
where an operator is caught in a
“squeeze”, Hanford said.
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