THE FRONTIERSMAN
Entered as second class matter on Oct 21, 1947. at the poat office
at Palmer. Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 1*79
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CONSIDER All EVENTUALITIES
From the muddle of contradictions <nd differ
ences of opinion surrounding proposed borough govern
ment in our part of Alaska, a few inescapable facts
stand out.
A Captain Cook borough election has been called
for Sept. 17, which, if successful, will combine Districts
7 and 8 into one big borough. Petitioners for a smaller
borough (Matanuska-Susitna) are bringing suit against
the state of Alaska to stop the Sept. 17 election, and to
allow the Matanuska-Susitna petition to be processed
and brought to a vote of the people. If both these
borough government possibilities fail, there still remains
the House Bill 90 route, whereby District 7 and 8
would be mandatorily incorporated into separate
boroughs (unless the petitioners for repeal of HB 90 by
referendum ask for a restraining order on all state action
pertaining to this portion of the borough law) before
the Jan. 1, 1964 deadline.
Whatever way you look at it, we are extremely
likely to have borough government of some kind, and
as responsible citizens and voters it is highly necessary
to consider all of these possibilities.
Petitions for borough offices for the proposed Sept.
17 election must be signed and returned to the secretary
of state by Aug. 17—a week from Saturday. No one
knows what the disposition of the courts will be in the
injunction suit of the Matanuska-Susitna petitioners. The
Sept. 17 election may be held, and it may be successful.
Outside the incorporated area of the city of Palmer we
have the assurance of only one borough assemblyman,
and the possibility of one more. Although school board
members and the borough chairman are to be elected at
large, a strong candidate or two might win a school
board post. In the face of the overwhelming Anchorage
vote, filling the job of borough chairman from our area
seems remote.
Proponents of the Matanuska-Susitna petition will
not compromise their position by filing for these offices.
They will simply be insuring representation for our area,
no matter what the outcome of the several routes borough
government may take.
A news release from the office of the Southcentral
District election supervisor, giving instructions and in
formation to potential candidates, appears on an inside
page of this issue of the Frontiersman.
w*desi 21
By Dan Halligan
DEAR DAN: I usually agree with what you say but not
this time. I'm referring to your statement that living at home
is cheaper for someone going to college. I feel if you go away
to college, it’s a great experience in itself. Another thing,
if a girl lives at home, she has a chance to fool around more
than if she were living on campus.
Money isn't everything. I’m sure the writer’s parents want
her to be happy and if being happy means she has to go away
to college, she should go away. The place you like is the place
you will do your best job.—Interested Bystander.
DEAR I. B.: You write a nice informative letter
but you stuff off the money angle as if it didn't exist.
The average college education cost $6,000 and if, over
a two-year period, that amount might be trimmed by
some $2,000, there’s no argument. Maybe I'm wrong,
but you talk like a girl who hasn't done the first thing
toward earning any of her college funds.
Many colleges, of course, enforce a rule that first
year students must live on campus but on the other
hand, too many fathers today are holding down second
jobs and too many mothers are doing without in order
to send their kids to college. If those kids can help
lighten the burden, they should be proud to do so.
DEAR HIGH SCHOOL’GRADUATES* Quite a number of
you have applied for the two $300 college scholarships we’re
offering but too many of you are only saying, “I would like
a scholarship” and signing your name. The scholarships will
go to the two most deserving 1963 graduates and if you don’t
give us your background, we can’t even consider your short
notes.
* * * *
DEAR DAN: Lately all the boys I’ve been dating have
been doing their best to con me into petting. I’m 16 and don’t
think that petting is something you can be talked into. Instead,
it’s something that should be shared with a person you really
like. Am I very old-fashioned bacause I’ve never petted before
and think this way?—Judie.
DEAR JUDIE: You're not old-fashioned (and what
is "old-fashioned?) but before you go out on your next
date, you'd better understand the definition of the word
"petting."
I don't know your version of the word
but when a girl allows a boy to pet her, she's giving
him the green light to be free and easy with his hands
from her neck on down. That, dear girl, is petting.
DEAR DAN: My friend and I would like to have pen pals
of 13 and 14. We like horseback riding, skating and other
sports. Our names and addresses are Kathy Hatton, 1840 Alden
Avenue, Alliance, Ohio, and Lynette Horsnby, 1945 Norman
Avenue, Alliance. Ohio.
DEAR DAN: My boy friend just bought himself a new
car and you don’t know how badly I feel. It’s like as if he’s a
different person. He rides other girls around all the time and
twice in the past week he’s broken dates with me.
I’m stupid, I guess, but I still like him and I want to
know if there’s any chance he will soon settle down?—R.N.N.
DEAR R.N.N.: Of course, he'll settle down but
you would be silly wailing around to pick up the
pieces. I can understand his cloud-walking with his
first car but there's no excuse for the treatment you're
being given. Let him go steady with the car and see
how he likes it.
(Dan Halligan will answer all questions sub
mitted by teenagers and children. Address him
care of this paper. For personal replies enclose
fjiuri] mm
IN THE
V fliliY
Thursday. August 13. 1946
With this issue of the Val
ley Frontiersman, publica
tion will be suspended. It is
hoped that the move is tem
porary, but we have no
knowledge at this writing,
of when the next edition
will get into print. The An
chorage Times will no longer
print the paper. Notice was
given the Frontiersman at
10:30 Monday morning, with
the statement that the ac
tion would be effective im
mediately. However print
ers have consented to this
final edition in order that
Valley folks may be notified.
* * *
Assistant Secretary of the
Interior William E. Warae
headed a party of 24 visiting
officials who toured the Valley
this week. The group, made up
of Army and Department of
the Interior personnel, were
driven through the Valley
aboard an Ed Christensen
school bus.
* • *
The Anchorage crack-down
on gambling, in that city’s cur
rent cleanup drive, reached
clear to Palmer this weekend.
News that pinball machines in
local establishments would be
blacklisted was quickly spread.
By Saturday evening all ma
chines had been taken out of
operation.
Strange Things
BY HEINIE SNIDER
During the winter of 1910 in
the village of Snag, the dogs
outnumbered the men by ten
to one.
Alaska is still a dog country.
Once in a while someone has a
cat in the house, but dogs are
the most plentiful.
This was not always so in
other countries. Concerning
the origin of the domestic cat.
we find the feline mentioned
about 3.000 years ago. When
the Egyptians tamed the wild
cat (felis lybica) to protect
their stores of grain from mice
and rats, these cats proved so
valuable that they were later
considered to represent one of
the gods.
There are some 12 domestic
cats, like the Persian, Siamese,
and tabby. Some are a mixture
of all of these.
There are some 12 domestic
cats, like the Persian, Siamese,
and tabby. Some are a mixture
of all of these.
One such a cat, who went by
; the name of “Happy.” was the
I prized possession of the late
: Clyde and Alice Thorp of Was
ilia. Dogs around the town re
! spected Happy because, in a
1 fight, she usually sent them
I howling home.
The Thorps, in their long life
in Alaska, had many pets. “But
Happy,” Alice would say.
“stands above all of them in
intelligence and courage.”
With the coming of the hunt
ing season. Happy used to go
along, retrieving ptarmigan or
grouse, a trick she had learned
from a prospector and hunts
man, Charlie Murray. Charlie
had a way with animals, but
after Murray left. Happy would
retrieve for Clyde as well. He,
however, never took the credit
for teaching the cat this trick.
She used to go duck hunting
' with Murray and Clyde, and
i sat with the hunters in the tall
grass, her little ears moving
like the ears of a mule who
hears the dinner bell. While
she never went into the water
after the ducks, she would sit
sedately in the rain, unpro
tected, watching the progress
of the hunt, and seeming to en
joy it as much as the hunters.
One early spring, the Thorps
were to do the assessment
work on the mining property
on Craggie creex. me neaci
waters of Willow Creek. They
packed their grub from Fish
hook, and on top of Clyde's
pack rode Happy (in a carton)
for a distance of about 30 miles.
Upon arriving at their des
tination and getting settled in
their cabin, the Thorps releas
ed Happy from her box. Truly
“happy" to be free, she appear
ed to be exploring her new sur
roundings.
Later that evening, Alice
said. “I wonder what’s keeping
Happy? I let her out two hours
ago.”
“Oh,” said Clyde, “she’s
hunting gophers. She’ll be
back.”
But Happy did not come
come back, the next day or the
next. When she had not shown
up for a week, she was given
up for lost. “Maybe an eagle,
or a fox or a wolf, killed her."
Alice said.
Dan Gray, prospector and
trapper, who passed the Thorp
cabin brought the sad news of
Happy’s death to Wasilla.
One morning, foreman Oscar
Tryck of the Alaska Road
Commission, Frank Swanson
and other workers, noticed a
cat in front of the Thorps’
Wasilla home, meowing and
scratching to get in.
Frank said, “Look—that’s the
Thorp cat; She is supposed to
have been dead for eight
days!”
But it was indeed Happy,
nearly starved. Neighbors took
her in. and in due time she was
sent back to Craggie Creek,
where Alice welcomed her
with open arms.
Happy had made the trip
from Craggie Creek to Wasilla,
crossing many creeks and a
high mountain pass, covered
with twenty or more feet of
snow.
We don’t know whether she
mushed by day or night, but
each was equally dangerous,
because the big monkey-faced
owl hunts at night, catching
rabbits as well as mink, while
! the eagles and hawks are on
1 the job during the day.
I The Thorps and Happy are
gone, but the story of Happy
; the Hunter will be told and re
told wherever Sourdoughs get
' together.
I
HUNTERS ATTENTION
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Honemaker’s CoincR Notes
On Monday, Aug. 19, at 10
a.m. in the Extension office
Amy Irwin and Jessie Klem
will hold a beginners’ instruc
tion class for those interested
in weaving rugs, it was decid
ed at the regular council meet
ing on July 30. Anyone want
ing to weave rugs is asked to
call the Extension office to
make reservations for the use
of the loom.
* • •
Marjorie LaRose, the coun
cil's delegate to Short Course,
will present a course in music
appreciation at a date yet to be
determined.
* * *
Persons interested in order
ing a United Nations cookbook
are to contact Daisy Swoboda.
• • *
Homemakers’ clubs are re
minded to make reservations
for fair booths before Aug. 15
ASSISTANT STATE
LIBRARIAN IS GUEST
Mrs. Margaret Leibowitz, as
sistant state librarian from
Juneau, will be a guest at the
regular meeting of the Palmer
Library board of directors’
meeting on Thursday, Aug. 8.
The meeting will begin at 7:30
p.m. in the Palmer library.
All board members, assistant
librarians and library associa
tion members are urged to at
tend.
St. Bartholomew's
Episcopal Church
Morning Prayer —10 A.M.
Church School-11 A.M.
PI 5-4341
ST. JO.HN
LUTHERAN
CHURCH
*«*. t H. Frit*, pastor,
Palmer, Alaska
1-5-2545
Divine Services UOO A. M.
Sunday School 9:45 A.M.
Anyone interested in joining
Homemakers’ clubs or in start
ing new clubs is asked to con
tact Miss Bang at the Exten
sion office or any homemakers’
club member.
CHEECHAKOS PLAN
WORK PARTY AUG. 13
Cheechako Homemakers will
hold a special work meeting
on Tuesday, Aug. 13, at 8 p.m.
at the home of Lois Munford.
All members are urged to at
tend.
Legal Notice
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF
THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF LAND
MANAGEMENT, Land Office. Cordo
va Building, 6th and Cordova, Anch
orage. Alaska.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that Heirs of
Glen H Hudson has made application
for a Headquarters Site under the Act
of March 3. 1927 ( 44 Stat. 1364 ; 48 U S.C..
Sec. 461) identified by Anchorage Serial
Number 013731 for a tract of land des
cribed as
U. S. Survey No. 3413. situated ap
proximately 7 miles East of Talkeetna.
containing 5.00 acres.
Any person, corporation, or association
having or asserting any adverse inter
est in or claim to the tract of land or
any part thereof may file in the An
chorage Land Office their objections to
the isuance of patent during the period
of publication or within 30 days there
after Objections must be filed under
oath, setting forth the nature and ex
tent of the adverse claim; and the ad
verse claimant shall, within 60 days
after the filing of such claim, begin
action to quiet title in a court of com
petent jurisdiction in Alaska, and there
after patent shall be issued in confor
mity with the final decree of the court.
ALFRED P STEGER
Chief. Lands Section
Published Aug. 6. IS. 22, 29, Sept 5, 12,
19, 26 and Oct. 3, 1963.
THOUGHTS
OF A
LAYMAN
A Very Old Man
The Word of God tells us
that Methuselah was 969
years old. The first man, Ad
am, was 930 years old. There
are several reasons for this
remarkable good health. Dis
ease, as we know it, was not
prevalent. The very fact of
longevity precludes any pos
sibility of ancestry from
some anthropoid ape. It also
labels as improbable all the
stories about prehistoric man
living millions of years ago.
Some theologians have tried
to inject doubt by saying
that years in the Genesis ac
count were not years at all.
Let’s check into this matter
Enoch became the father of
Methuselah at the age of 65
years. If this is to be figured
in months, he was a father at
the age of five years. How
ridiculous can you get?
Enoch was even more re
markable. He never did die.
He, like Elijah, was caught
up into heaven without dy
ing.
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THE CHURCH FOR AIL...
ALL FOR THE CHURCH
The Church is the greatest factor
on earth for the building cf charac
ter and good citizenship. It is a store
house of spiritual values. Without a
strong Church, neither democracy
nor civilization can survive. There
are four sound reasons why every
person should attend services regu
larly and support the Church. TTrey
are: (1) For his own sake. (2) For
his children’s sake. (3) Far the sake
of his community and nation. (4)
For the sake of the Church itself,
which needs his moral and material
support. Plan to go to church regu
larly and read your Bible daily.
I was a little prirl, then. The pews at our church
were rough wooden benches, and my feet wouldn’t
reach the floor.
But, as though it were yesterday, I remember
his sermon. About a woman who poured oil on the
feet of Jesus. Some people said this was a wasteful
thing to do. The oil was expensive; the money might
have been given to the poor . . . But Jesus wasn’t
angry with the woman!
“In the eyes of God,” our old minister said, "the
most precious treasure is the love in a human heart.”
No single thought has influenced my life more
than that one. Most of my happiness — all of my
strength when sorrows come — have been somehow
entwined with that simple truth. I shudder at times
to think; what if that day I had not been there?
A sermon, a prayer, a Bible passage dees no'i
touch the same chord in every heart. But as you
seek each Sunday to see life through the eyes of
God. there will come mighty visions 5wiving
depths of your soul.
1963, Keister Adverlifting 3ervic>*. * ~ V*.
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