• VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
Entered as second class matter on Oct. 21, 1947, at the post office at
Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
PRINTED AT PALMER, ALASKA, EACH FRIDAY
By the Matanuska Press, Inc.
M-Publisher
A. J. DeJulio
Editor
Mrs. Marian Badcon
Associate Editor
Virginia Gallant
Barbara Carter .Wasilla Correspondent
Subscription Rates.50c a month, $5 a year
Mailed to all points in Alaska and the United States
When Disaster Strikes
The Red Cross is calling to you this week to GIVE!
Many other causes knock on our door with the
same appeal.
Giving—except for the must do of taxes which
are dragged from us—is not easy in these days of
climbing costs.
But let us consider—
Wherever our armed forces go—there is the Red
Cross!
Wherever disaster strikes there is the Red Cross!
Who manned the rescue crews, provided food,
shelter and medical care in the terrific floods of the
Columbia River last spring? The Red Cross. Who when
blizzards buried highways and marooned hundreds irr
the middlewest last winter, was there with blankets,
food, emergency aid? The Red Cross.
Yes—there was other help—and stalwart—but the Red Cross was
tfcfere, not only with local facilities of nursing, first aid, and emer
gency supplies, but with funds from national reserves to fill the
breach which local funds could not cover. Those funds came from
drives such as this. Those funds keep the Red Cross an active mercy
and emergency factor around the world. Those funds—should over
whelming disaster strike here—will bring Red Cross resources here.
There are some who complain that you pay for everything you
get from the Red Cross, that nothing in their organization is free,
that in overseas warzones you paid full price.
Why not? Are we beggars and on the dole? Are we asking for
something for nothing? If in military bases or elsewhere we want
something and have the money to pay let us pay. But the Red Cross
DOES have something for nothing . . .
The Red Cross trains countless thousands in first aid and nurs
ing, whose services—volunteer—bring immeasurable help and com
fort.
The Red Cross is the force behind the Grey Ladies and their hos
pital service, behind the veterans’ aid service and the nurses aide
classes, behind the liaison into war prisoners camps, behind the train
ing courses on home accident prevention. The Red Cross is the wo
man who sits down at a wounded veterans bedside to write his let
ters home. The Red Cross is the guy in the towboat who pours warm
soup down your throat when they pick you off a flooded sandbar,
the sign of compassion and aid to these stricken in emergency.
The Red Cross on ambulance or tent or hangar or sleeve band is
Yes, we may have beefs against the Red Cross. That’s our priv
ilege to beef without gestapo. But it also is our privilege to help
maintain the American Red Cross knowing it will represent us in
whatever bitter straits we may be caught.
Let’s answer the appeal: To the Red Cross—GIVE!!
CONVALESCENT HOME
Mrs. Clayton Esslinger is home
convalescing after hospitalization
at Anchorage.
Charles Wilson of the soil con
servation office is in sick bay by
doctor’s orders. He expects to re
turn to his office next week.
Moore's Garage
General Automotive Repair
Crankshaft Grinding
Rebore Sendee
Post Office Box 789 Telephone 28Y1
PrImt, Alaska
MEA Scrutinizes
Policies And
Operation Plans
New executive committee of
the Matanuska Electric Associa
tion has announced it’s intentions
to go over policies of the associa
tion and bring them up to date!
Anyone wishing to introduce
new policies or enter complaints
is asked to submit them to the
committee in a signed letter,
Mrs. Cloyce Parks announced.
These will be taken up and acted
on by the board members at the
meetings, she added.
The new board was sworn into
office April 17: Mrs. Cloyce W.
Parks, president; Miss V. Louis
Kellogg, vice president Bruce
Graham, sec-treas.; George Small,
and Ray McCartney.
The executive committee com
posed of Small, chairman; Mc
Cartney and Miss Kellogg will
assist Mrs. Ruth Pierson, present
manager of the MEA, in her
duties, due to the rapid expansion
of the association.
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Balchelders Have Daughler
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Batchel
der announce the birth of a
daughter April 21 at the Valley
Hospital, named Bethel Joy, their
first child. Batchelder is the dog
team missionary from the Valley
Christian Children’s Home at
Wasilla.
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OFFICE EQUIPMENT
ACCOUNTING FORMS
OFFICE SUPPLIES
Everything
for the Office
Expert Office
Machine Repairs
COMMERCIAL
STATIONERS
Reed Bldg., Opp. Federal Bldg.
Dial 30515—Anchorage, Alaska
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Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Atwood
and sons left the Valley April 21,
flying to Denver, Colo. While
living in Palmer, Atwood was
employed as a driller on the Ek
lutna project. Both express regret
in having to leave Alaska before
seeing the summer they had
heard so much about.
VALLEY
REAL ESTATE
1 bedroom home, modern, un
furnished. Terms.
1- bedroom home, modern, fur
nished—cash.
2- bedroom home, modern,
close-in. Terms
5-acre tract, on hwy, small cab
in, V> cabin, 2 green houses.
$3,150.00.
5-acre tracts on Hwy.
2-lots, in town. Water & sewer
140-acres. Fishhook Rd.
240-acre farm, terms.
Listings Wanted
Phone 124J3 — Palmer, Alaska
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Wishes to Welcome All Visitors from the Valley
When They Are in Anchorage
SMORGASBORD
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