VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
PRINTED AT PALMER, ALASKA, EACH FRIDAY
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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Letters to the Editor
Athletics in Palmer need our
support—as was in evidence this
past season. There was consider
able baseball activity during the
early season and gave some prom
ise of good games for the Fair.
The Juniors kept up their prac
ice, but the promise of uniforms
and equipment did not material
ize, due to the fact that orders
were placed too late for delivery
this year.
Junior league and the Pee-Wee
Little Leaguers teams of Anchor
age and military organizations
had an active tournament this
past year, and Palmer and Wa
silla should have a part in next
year’s tournament.
Parents should support us in
getting our youngsters organized
land in training for foot racing',
bicycling and all track activities.
Field day next year should see a
big event here in Palmer.
We need a new grandstand, one
that could accommodate 2,000
people; when we can seat that
number of people, we can make
athletic sports carry all necessary
expenses. We could make three
ball diamonds and three tennis
courts on the Fairgrounds to care
for practice games and thereby
assure wonderful sport features
next fall.
Now is the time to plan these
sports and I am sure the Fair
Association will be glad to co
operate with any and all organiz- j
ations interested.
The Grange, Moose, Elks, Am
erican Legion, Veterans of For
eign Wars and local business
firms should join in and work out
a program. What say?
—M. D. Snodgrass.
Editor's Comment: Just for the
record, we'd like to point out
that the local Moose and Coach
Jack Leek, in particular, did a
creditable job in organizing
Little League baseball in Pal
mer this past summer. Without
a doubt, they need plenty of
cooperation on the part of other
organizations and parents in
making their efforts more suc
cessful next year. One of their
greatest needs last summer was
for more boys to PLAY BALL.
Dear Friends in Palmer:
By the time you read this, I’ll
be back at good old Oklahoma
A & M college for another year
of study.
I’d like to take this means of
_ saying "thanks” to all the friend
ly folks I’ve met in Palmer this
summer for making my vacation
in Alaska such a pleasant one.
It’s been fun knowing you in one
way or another—working with
the Wiggins gang—living at the
dormitory, putting in a few spare
hours over at the Palmer Drug
* store, etc.
Barring unforseen circumstan
ces, I’ll be back again next sum
Ceiling Prices
Must Be Posted By
All Retail Services
Juneau—All retail service es
tablishments which have not yet
filed their price lists with the
Territorial Office of Price Stabil
ization are now in violation, Fred
G. Hanford, Territorial Director,
said this week.
Deadline for filing was Septem
ber 25. On that date, all retail
service businesses were required
by the provisions of Ceiling Price
Regulation 34 to file a list of their
prices with the O.P.S. In addi
tion, they must post their ceiling
prices in their place of business
for customers to see.
Ceiling prices, as determined
by CPR 34, are the same as those
which service establishments had
in effect during the period De
cember 19-January 26 and which
were frozen under the General
Ceiling Price Regulation, Hanford
said.
CPR 34, however, contains vari
ous other provisions, including a
method for applying for adjust
ments under certain conditions.
Hanford urged all proprietors
of service establishments who
have not filed their price lists and
posted their ceiling prices to do
so immediately. O.P.S. Offices
are located in Fairbanks, Anchor
age, Juneau and Ketchikan.
CUB SCOUT NEWS
“Halloween” has been chosen
as the Cub Scout theme for Oc
tober, James Kindler, Cub scout
master, announced this week.
There will be a Pack meeting on
October 29, at the school gym.
Scheduled to start at 8 p.m., the
individual dens will present skits
in line with the theme and a gen
eral Halloween program is being
planned.
There are about 25 boys regis
tered in the local dens and a need
for additional den mothers again
is present. Several boys are seek
ing admission to dens that are
full, with many more applications
expected at the October 29 meet
ing. Anyone interested in becom
ing avden mother is requested to
contact either James Kindler in
the Water Resources office, or
Virginia Gallant at the Valley
Frontiersman. It is not necessary
to have boys in the Cubbing pro
gram to become a den mother.
Hand books, monthly magazines
and the help of a competent den
chief (a Boy Scout recommended
mer. See you then, I hope!
Sincerely yours,
Keith Groom,
502 Duncan St.,
Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Peculiar Problems of
Alaskan Construction
Solved After 4 Years
Anchorage — Enlisting bidding
interest among new-blood con
tractors for Corps of Engineer
construction contracts in Alaska
is the purpose of Gil Pearson.
Technical Information Officer, at
the Alaska District Engineer’s Of
fice here.
“Proposed construction plans
for the 1952-1953 season soon to
be revealed in detail are suffici
ently broad in scope to interest
most types of contractors, here
and throughout the states’’ Pear
son said today. “Stateside con
tractors should understand that
most construction problems, pe
culiar to Alaska by reason of cli
matic conditions, have been solv
ed during the past four years of
the current building program.
Many facilities to contractors are
available on the Alaskan Corps
of Engineer projects. These and
other details appear in the 1952
1953 Prospectus of Construction,
now being prepared for release.”
The Technical Information Of
fice method of reaching prospec
tive bidders is to disseminate last
minute construction information
through 18 Alaskan newspapers,
8 Alaskan radio stations, 4 Seattle
newspapers, the United Press, the
Associated Press and 63 contrac
tor and engineer stateside maga
zines. Locally, latest Alaskan
Corps of Engineers news is fea
tured daily over radio station
KENI in Anchorage on the pro
gram DAILY CONSTRUCTION
NEWS each weekday morning at
7:25 a.m.
Pearson has just concluded a
field trip through most of the con
struction projects in the Territory
for the purpose of developing
copy for stateside publication. At
close hand he analyzed multiple
construction at Whittier Ladd and
Eielson Air Force Bases, Fort
Richardson and Elmendorf AFB.
He was escorting Douglas Mac
Rae, field photo-writer for the
Pacific Builder and Engineer, a
construction magazine with na
tionwide readership. MacRae will
author a series of articles illus
trating design and method. Of
the trip, MacRae said:
“This recent on-the-ground ob
servation of construction methods
and working conditions clearly
indicates that contractors in Al
aska are not confronted with in
surmountable construction prob
lems. It is obvious that early ob
stacles have been admirably over
come and that the facilities now
available to the contractor are
sufficient to assure him that com
pleting a contract in Alaska is no
more of a trick than it is in the
states.”
The Technical Information Of
ficer states that the Alaska Dis
trict Corps of Engineers seeks ad
ditional contractors to bid on
1952-1953 projects of the biggest
construction program in Alaska.
by the scoutmaster) soon have the
operations of a den running very
smoothly.
Any boy seeking membership
in the Cub Scouts is invited to at
tend either a den meeting near
his home or the Pack meeting on
October 29. Parents are urged to
attend the meeting.
Coffey Insures Everything l
Remember?
FWS Explores Abalone
Resources for Alaska
Off-Season Fishing
New information on the occur
; ence and extent of abalone re
sources in southeastern Alaska
will be obtained from exploratory
fishing operations which the Fish
and Wildlife Service is undertak
ing currently. It is hoped that the
work will indicate some possibili
ty Vr a new off-season fishery
in Alaska for abalone.
Since it is believed that the
main beds of the shellfish lie well
below the surface, deep-sea div
ing is being tried. The services of
W. E. Walker, an experienced
diver of Ketchikan, his boat, the
Lady Bess, and a tender. Bob
Cawthon of Ketchikan, have been
chartered for the work. Robert
Livingstone, fishery engineer, ex
ploratory fishing and gear devel
opment section, Fish and Wild
life Service, Seattle, is in charge
of the investigation. The boat
left Ketchikan September 15 for
the west coast of Prince of Wales
Island. First operations will be
conducted in and around the Gulf
of Esquibel. It is planned to con
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tinue the work this month in ad
jacent waters.
Clarence Carlson, chemist, fish
ery products laboratory, Ketchi
kan, will join the investigation
this week to assist in the collec
tion of data and samples. Meth
ods of handling, preserving, and
freezing the abalone will be
studied aboard boat at the Ketch
ikan and Seattle laboratories. In
addition, the operations will fur
nish data as to the feasibility of
harvesting the abalone commer
cially in these aseas by means of
deep-sea diving.
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