VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
PRINTED AT PALMER, ALASKA, 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.
A1 J. DeJulio . ...Publisher, Manager
Lucille Kennedy Mick
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Subscription Rates .50ca month, $5 a year
Mailed to all points in Alaska and the Umted States
Sditor
Associate Editor
BOARD REPORTS
PROGRESS IN
A1 Hagen, president of the Ma
tanuska Valley Fair Board, re
ported" progress made in lining
up superintendents for the sever
al Fair departments.
A1 and Eugene Kirsch will be
in charge of livestock exhibits
this year, and A1 Brooks again
has consented to be superintend
ent for poultry. In the dressmak
ing department, Mrs. C. A. Mielke
will be assisted by Mrs. Ben Hud
gins. Mrs. John McDonald has
consented to be superintendent of
the thrift exhibits. Home canning
exhibits will be the responsibility
of Mrs. Fannie Werner this year.
Rusty Dow again heads the art
department. Mrs. Harold Dinkel
will be in charge of 4-H exhibits.
Philatelist T. A. Moyer will head
the department of philately.___
Still open are superintenden
cies for seven departments, al
though a follow-up on the fol
lowing recommendations for these
will be made this week: vege
tables and grasses, George Crow
ther; handiwork, Mrs. William
Hoskins; needlework, Mrs. Ver
non Williams; culinary, Mrs. Chet
Sandvik and Mrs. Roy Newell;
assistant for home cannine. Mrs.
Jack Dunlap; dairy products,
Louise Kellogg and Mrs. George
Brewster; flowers, Mrs. Bill Cur
tis and Mrs. Max Sherrod: native
craft, Mrs. Frank Brown and Mrs.
Russell Felzien.
Progress on the new premium
book was also reported. Already
advertising manager M. D. Snod
grass has exceeded last year’s
sales of advertising in the Valley
and he is working this week in
Anchorage. Two thirds of the
pages of the premium book are
ready to be set up by the printers.
BEN E. HUDGINS
Electrical
Construction Co.
Palmer, Alaska
Box 704 Phone 15-J3
Genua Refugee
Family Reds New
Heme Near Palmer
Climax of the work and effort
of a German family the past year
was their arrival in Palmer Fri
day, June 20.
They are Bernhardt and Louis
Jade and their children, Claus 9.
and Christina, 16 months. They
are making their home with Mr.
and Mrs. L. M. DePriest and will
assist with the care of the De
Priest 115-acre farm.
This is the second time Bern
hardt Jade has been in America;
the first, when he was a prisoner
of war in Oklahoma. There he
was in charge of the officers’
mess. At the close of World War
II, he was returned to Germany
where he registered at a displaced
persons bureau to return to Am
erica.
During the war Mrs. Jade was
forced to flee from her ‘home in
West Prussia with her infant son
and her parents when word came
that the Russans were invading
West Prussia. Unable to take any
possessions with them, they
traveled by foot and coach along
the Polish line to Hamburg where
they took up residence. Through
his parents, Bernhardt was able to
locate his family when he return
ed to Germany in 1946. Then for
the first time he saw his son,
who had been born three years
before.
Through the immigration office
in Frankfort the Jades learned
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Nearly 300 Attend
Gala Darbeeae at
McKinley Bntte Farm
Gala and friendly was the at
mosphere prevailing at the An
chorage Chamber of Commerce
barbecue held under slightly
cloudy skies at Dr. Lee McKin
ley’s Butte farm last Friday.
Nearly 300 people attended the
affair given in honor of the Holly
wood troupe which put on a show
in Anchorage that night to mark
the world premiere of the Uni-!
versal-International movie "World
in His Arms.” Accompanying the
Hollywood troupe on their 10-day
tour of Alaska military bases
were'thirty-odd men and women
representing newspaper and mag
azine syndicates from all over the
United States. About 15 members
of the Porland Chamber of Com
merce. many of them remembered
from previous visits, were also
present at the barbecue. Rubbing
elbows with these visitors was a
generous sprinkling of Alaska's
Territorial officials and represen
tatives of the Alaska Command,
including Governor Ernest Gruen
ing, Commissioner of Aviation
Tony Schwamm and Navy Cap
tain Bill Rooney.
The Hollywood starlets and the
leading lady of the world pre
miere film were very generous
with their autographs and posed
again and again to oblige amateur
photographers as well as the of
ficial ones. For a while the bar
that the DePriest family wanted
to help a family find a home in
America and after an exchange
of several letters, a short delay
while fclaus had a siege with the
measles, a five week-stay at the
DP camp, they were on their way
to America, landing June 3.
Flying to Seattle on a troop
plane, they were delayed on their
last lap when no commercial
planes were available due to the
heavy passenger list of fishermen.
Their first introduction to our
city was not a customary greeting.
One of their pieces of luggage
was stolen from the sidewalk out
side Bert’s Drug store while they
were waiting to go to the De
Priest farm.
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becue took on a resemblance to
a Hollywood movie set. Thou
sands of dollars worth of photo
graphic equipment was focused
on the starlets at the edge of the
barbecue pit, while they sampled
Alaska tidbits offered by their
genial host, Dr. McKinley, the
governor, and from each other.
Diminutive and demure was
Ann Blyth, the leading lady in
her dressmaker suit of turquoise
blue shantung. Governor Gruen
ing showed her how to eat king
crab. Most vivacious of the group
was tall, blond Joyce Holden. She
and top starlet Lori Nelson, a
dreamy-eyed 18-year-old just out
of high school, were very much in
the limelight for the cameramen.
Universal-International starlets
Jeanne Cooper, Kathleen Hughes,
and Claudette Thornton were
very impressed with their first
trips to Alaska. A considerate
moose had passed by in full view
on their trip from Anchorage.
Less considerate was a malicious
mosquito which bit Miss Hughes
on the ankle right when she could
not scratch it because of all the
cameras around.
The newspaper and magazine
writers asked many questions
about the Matanuska Valley.
M. D .Snodgrass was interviewed
at great length about the Valley,
the Colony, and the agricultural
practices by Arthur Spade of the
Cleveland News. Helen Bower of
the Detroit Free Press was de
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lighted with Dr. McKinley’s cas
ual offer of a lift in his plane
while he made a short run over to
his farm to deliver some fish. It
also pleased her no end that an
engaged Detroit serviceman was
the embarrassed prop for Miss
Blyth’s solo, "Embraceable You.”
A master at providing good will
Alaskan hospitality on a grand
scale Dr. McKinley, with the ef
ficent personnel from his office
and the help of Mrs. Bob Reeve,
put on a feed that will probably
be described as fabulous in news
papers and magazines all over
the country and in Hollywood for
years to come. Long rows of
tables were spread out on the
green lawn surrounded on three
sides by mountains where clouds
cavorted in the most impressive
landscape fashion. On the tables
were huge bowls of Alaskan pota
to salad and plates full of cheese
and relishes. Two Anchorage men
were kept busy for two hours
cracking off king crab legs and
offering whole boiled shrimp
from a huge basin. At another
serving table other members of
the Anchorage Chamber sliced up
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eenerous servings of Alaskan
beef, bear, pork and king salmon
from the barbecue pit. Dispensing
three delicious flavors of Matan
uska Maid ice cream in ice cream
cones was Rev. Harry Gayley.
And there were caseloads of fresh
Matanuska milk—sweet milk and
buttermilk—in paper cartons.
Only when most of the tables
had been cleared and the guests
were listening in on the press
conference in the McKinley liv
ing room did the threatening
clouds relax to let a gentle rain
settle the dust for the visitors'
tettrm trip to Anchorage. *
Haven’t much time this week
for the usual patter but wanted
to remind all you gals that our
sale is still on . . . lots of lovely
things left—suits, dresses, blous
es, and lush undies. Better come
in while we still have your size.
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