V.F.W. Auxiliary
Names Officers
WASILLA — The Auxiliary of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
elected officers at their regular
March 13th meeting last week.
Named to office in the chapter
were:
Mrs. June Nunley, president;
Mrs. Hertha Byer, secretary-trea
surer; Mrs. Ola Grafton, senior
vice-president; Mrs. Lorraine
Lemon; junior vice-president;
Mrs. Robert Ricker, chaplain;
Mrs. Della Smith, conductress.
BRYANS REACH INDIANA
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Bryan and
family have now reached Hope,
Ind., in their cross-country travel,
it was learned this week. The for
mer REA representative in Alas
ka has been ordered by his physi
cian to take a month’s rest before
resuming his REA duties at
Washington, D. C. The Bryans
plan to spend the month in In
iiana.
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SEARS SPONSORS
FLOATING LIBRARIES
IN S. E. ALASKA
Floating libraries are being
sponsored by Sears, Roebuck &
Co., for southeastern Alaska, a
company representative an
nounced this week. Sears will
furnish books, bookcases and re
placements. The books will be
carried by small boats to outly
ing areas in southeastern Alaska,
where bookcase and all, they will
be dropped off in a remote vil
lage. The next small boat putting
in at the harbor will pick up the
case of books and will leave a
new lot to be circulated.
Rotary clubs in Juneau and
Ketchikan also are co-sponsoring
the project.
AUTOS COLLIDE IN WASILLA
WASILLA — Fred Nelson of
Wasilla and Ralph Moore of Pal
mer were involved in an automo
bile accident at the intersection
of the Palmer and Wasilla-Knik
highways last week. Neither man
was hurt, but the Moore vehicle
sustained about $50 damages.
REA Needs More Money
For Rural Telephones
Applications for Rural Electri
fication Administration aid, un
der the recently passed telephone
bill, already have used up the 25
million dollars appropriated for
the first year’s work, it was an
| nounced recently from Washing
ton, D. C.
Administrator Claude Wickard
| has asked Congress for an addi
tional 50 million dollars for the
j 1951 program.
The REA head said that all re
! quests received for telephone aid
had been placed by telephone
| companies already in existence.
FIRE IS OUT
j ERE FIREMEN ARRIVE
Last week’s fire alarm, which
started fire-fighting equipment of
the Valley Volunteer Fire Asso
ciation on its way to Jonesville,
was only a dry run for the fire
fighters. Equipment was flagged
down on the highway and asked
to return to Palmer, since the
Jonesville blaze was minor and
had been quickly extinguished.
Chest Members Must
Consider By-Laws
Welfare Council
The matter of the adoption of
new by-laws will receive the first
attention of members of the Val
ley Community Chest, at tonight’s
meeting in the former library.
I Meeting time is 8 o’clock, and all
i members are urged to be present.
Once the by-laws are accepted,
: the members will be asked to
; consider the creation of a welfare
j and disaster fund council. This
group, as visualized by members
of the Chest’s board of directors,
will administer the disaster fund
! of the Community Chest and will
correlate all welfare services of
the Valley.
If by-laws and the council both
meet with the approval of the
members, they then will be ask
ed to elect two new Chest direct
ors (as called for in the new by
laws) and to select members of
the welfare council.
Diplomacy is the art of know>
ing how far to go too far.
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Eleven PHS Seniors
Begin Rehearsals
For April 29 Play
First-act polishing on this ye rV*
senior play, “Demon in the Dark,”
began last Tuesday, Mrs. Mar
garet Cope, class adviser, said to
day. The comedy-myster has a
cast of 11 characters and cen' vs
about the activities of the Mc
Tavish family.
Senior aren’t saying too m b
about the plot, for they don’t
want to spoil its “whodunit” qual
ities for their audience on April
22.
Seniors who will appear in the.
play, and the character..; they*
play, include:
Henry Anderson, Dune n Mc
Tavish; Helen Mae S^nvall,
Janet McTavish; Betty Eiunch’
Mary McTavish; Marilyn Harris!
Ethelind Trevor; Larry Stork,
Bob Hildreth; Barbara I locker!
Sondra Trevor;
Bobbie Jo Hemmer, Lizzie
Scruggs; Kathleen Patten D: !o
Davis (a colored mammy; Bobby
Call, Juniper Jenks; Paul Earn
hardt, Deryk. Vorse; Ronn: Bou
wens, The Demon.
Get Your Garbage
Off the Highway,
Patrolman Warns
Alaska’s highways are not pub
lic garbage dumps, highway pa
trolman Stanley Laird reminded
Valley residents today. Patrol
man Laird frowns upon the habit
of Palmer-ites of tossing garbage
in the general direction of the
dump at the Mananuska Paver
and then driving hastily away be
fore all the bottles and tin cans
come rolling down to- the high
way’s fringes.
If the dumping habits are not
materially improved in the near
future, offenders are going to get
the benefit of the Laird frown
plus a substantial fine in the
court of U. S. Commissioner Dor
othy Saxton, the patrolman said.
Alaskan law makes garbage dis
posal along the highways a viola
tion of the territorial health code.
Mr. Laird said that dozing and
levelling operations at the gar
bage dump at the river will begin
in the near future, in order to
give more space for legal garbage
disposal.
WASILLA PUNS
BONO DINNER
NEXT THURSDAY
WASILLA—A bond redemption
dinner is planned for the night of
April 6, it wa sannounced t >day
by Mrs. Ilah Senske, committee
head. The dinner will be he’d i i
he lunchroom of Wasilla School
commencing at 5:30 p.m.
At this time, it is hoped that all
bonds sold to finance the con
struction of the lunchroom can be
redeemed. The program is far in
advance of original plans, it was
pointed out. It was announced
last fall that all bonds would be
redeemed by 1051, at the latest,
but it now appears likely that this
dinner will make it possible to re
pay all borrowed money.
The dinner, which is to bo
KUdTViT V** girls 0f Wasilla
a SchooI> will cost $1 for
adults, 50 cents for school-age
children, and 25 cents for pre
schoolers. p
Following the dinner, and the
bond redemption drawings, the
classrooms of Wasilla School will
be opened for cards, old-time and
modern dancing.
Many people get off the straight
and norroto because they can’t
tell the difference between vice
and advice.