Community
Calendar
TODAY
WASILLA vets on-farm training
class at Community Hall at 8
p.m.
PRE-NATAL class at former li
* brary, 3 p.m.
SUNDAY
GREAT Books discussion group
at Shirt Shop at 7:30 p.m.
PALMER-Wasilla junior baseball
on Palmer diamond at 2:30 p.m.
MONDAY
CIVILIAN defense meeting in
Palmer School at 8 p.m.
DRAMA club at Palmer School
at 8:15 p.m.
KIWANIS Club luncheon at for
mer library at noon.
FAIR board at administration
building at 8 p.m.
TUESDAY
LOYAL Order of Moose at Moose
Hut at 8 p.m.
WOMEN of the Moose at Moose
Hut at 8 p.m.
TEEN-AGERS Square dancing at
Palmer Gym at-7:30 p.m.
GLACIERVIEW Homemakers at
Mrs. Clarence Hoffman's at 8
p.m.
WEDNESDAY
CARPENTER’S Union at Car
penter’s Hall at 8 p.m.
THURSDAY •
NORTHLAND Pioneer Grange at
Grange Hall at 8 p.m.
WASILLA vets on-farm training
class at Community Hall at 8
p.m.
FRIDAY
PRE-NATAL class at former li
brary at 3 p.m.
WASILLA vets on-farm training
class at Community Hall at 8
p.m.
Coming Events
Aug. 29 — Special immunization
clinic at health center.
Sept. 1—Matanuska Valley Fair
opens.
Moose and caribou seasons open
Sept. 2—Matanuska Valley Fair.
Sept. 3—Matanuska Valley Fair.
Sept. 4—Matanuska Valley Fair.
Sept. 5—Palmer School opens.
Oct. 14—Matanuska Valley Sports
men’s annual game dinner.
Lee Waddell, for 20 years a big
game guide in Alaska, died of a
heart attack at Homer recently.
He was 61 years old. Waddell had
been living with a brother, Guy,
felso of Homer and also a big game
guide. He had returned to Homer
only last spring, after spending
the past year in the states,
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VALLEY
THEATRE
FRI-SAT., AUG. 18-19
Nights 7:15-9:00, Sat. Mat. 2:00
“Hopalong Rides
Again”
William Boyd
George "Gabby" Hayes
Russell Hayden
William Duncan
SUN.-MON.. AUG. 20-21
Nights 7:15-9:00. Sun, Mat. 2:00
“Manhandled”
i A Mystery Thriller with
Dorothy Lamour
Sterling Hayden
Don Duryea
WED.-THURS.. AUG. 23-24
Nights 7:15 and 9:00
Alaska’s Big Towns
Seem Very Small
To Monitor Writer
The big black print that name:
Alaska’s towns on the maps of th<
territory don’t mean much, wit!
relation to city size, Mrs. Jessie
Arndt of the Christian Science
Monitor found, on her recent visit
here. Mrs. Arndt was surprised
and taken aback by the miles and
miles of space in forest-covered
land that stretches between Alas
ka’s cities.
She recognizes that the un
touched land probably represents
vast sums of money as natural re
sources, but “perhaps the natural
resources are just too natural,’’
she ventures.
Mrs. Arndt’s latest article deals
with fishing villages along the
coast of southeastern Alaska. She
recognizes the need for year
round industry in the fishing
towns, and points to the differing
economy in Wrangell and Peters
! burg. Wrangell is a fishing town
nly, and its folk live on credit
from one fishing season to the
• next. Petersburg has two can
. neries which give almost year
. round work and is a much more
, progressive town, she finds..
The writer compares Petersburg
with like villages in Norway
which she says it closely re
sembles. The more substantial
economy of the city is demon
strated in its neatly kept homes
and gardens, in its lawns and
gravelled streets, and in its 30
cars which can drive out to the
experimental fur farm on the
outskirts of the city, and then
back to town again.
Coffey Insures Everything!
Remember?
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Box 1821, Anchorage
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If you're going to need something in the plumbing line
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MACS PLUMBING & HEATING
(Located in the Basement of the Ward Bldg.)
NDW/S THE
Yes, it's that time of year again. And lucky
is the housewife who has an electricgl kitchen
and all of the modern, electrically-operated ap
pliances to make the annual chore as easy as
possible.
Electricity makes a housewife's job easier,
pleasanter and gives more efficient results.
MATANUSKA ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION, Inc.
Your REA Electric Co-Op—Palmer, Alaska
“Serving the Valley Since 1942”
> Alaska Has Exactly
131,099 People, Census
Head Keating Avers
Final census figures, if pre
liminary figures can ever be final
were reported recently by Clar
ence Keating in the last round
up of population figures. Mr
Keating says there are 131,09J
people in Alaska, or 82 percenl
more than there were here in 1940
Official figures, which will come
out of Washington much, much
later, aren’t expected to vary
much from the unofficial, prelim
inary reports.
Coffey Insures Everything!
Remember?
Geophysical Institute
Nears Completion
The University of Alaska’s new
Geophysical Institute, on which
construction began in April of
1949, will be ready for dedication
early this fall, it was announced
this week by Clement Gerber,
project engineer. The structure
will be one of Alaska’s finest, and
will be the first earthquake-proof
building to go up in the territory,
Mr. Gerber said.
The Geophysical Institute has
three floors, a penthouse and an
astra dome with a powerful tele
scope for studying the strato
sphere. It is flanked by six cot
tages which will house a part of
the Institute staff.
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