ENROLLMENT OF 675-700 EXPECTED AT
PALMER SCHOOL BE6INS TUESDAY, SEPT. 2
Between 675 and 700 pupils are
expected to report for the open
ing day of the 1952-53 school year
at Palmer School Tuesday morn
ng, September 2, Superintendent
William T. Zahradnicek said yes
terday. A staff of 30 teachers and
the superintendent will be on
hand to assign them to their cor
rect rooms and get them started
on the year’s course of study.
School will be in session for only
one-half day on Tuesday.
First graders will report to
rooms 205, 206, or 207. First grade
teachers in each of these rooms
will have a list of the pupils who'
have been assigned to her. Sec
ond graders will report to rooms
201 or 202, though there will be
three sections for this grade.
Third graders report to rooms 305
or 310; fourth graders to rooms
306 or 307; fifth graders to rooms
309 or 312; sixth graders to rooms
311 or 316; seventh graders to
rooms 103 or 107; and eighth
graders to rooms 101 or 102. HigK
school students already have their
room assignments on their pro
grams made out this week.
Registration of high school stu
dents, grades nine through 12,
was supposed to be completed
today. However, the school office
will be open all day Friday to
register any first graders, new
students, or high school students
who have not previously register
ed.
Cafeteria Opens Wed.
The school cafeteria will be
opened Wednesday and will oper
ate the same as last year. Mrs.
Thelma Cope will again be in
charge of the cafeteria, but her
assistants have not been announc
ed. Cost of lunches will be the
same as last year, 35 cents per
lunch with 10 lunches for $3.50
and 20 lunches for $7.
Many New Courses
Several new courses have been!
added to the high school curricu-!
lum this year. Offered to fresh
men are English I, Algebra, Gen
•eal Mathematics, General Science,
Home Economics I, Agriculture
and Shop I, Latin I, Offered to
Sophomores are English II, Geo
metry, Algebra, World History,
Biology, Spanish I, Latin I, Home
Economics II, Agriculture and
Shop II. Offered to Juniors are
English III, American History,
Speech (one semester), Advanced
Algebra, Typing I, Shorthand 1,
Chemistry I, Spanish I, Latin A
Agriculture and Shop II, Home
Economics II. To Seniors are of
fered English IV, Civics and Alas
ka History, Trigonometry and
Solid Geometry, Physics, Chemis
try, Typing I and II, Shorthand
I and II, Bookkeeping. In addi
tion,' Band; Chorus, and Physical
Education are offered to all four
high school grades, and Football
is offered to boys in the three
upper grades. Physical Education
is offered three days a week for
boys, two days a week for girls.
Band will be a five-days-a-week
subject, although there will be a
Junior Band that will meet less
frequently.
Announcement of teacher as
signments will be made nekt,
week. A few of the new teachers
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have not arrived yet, and defin
ite assignments will not be made
until the superintendent has in
terviewed each member of his
staff. c
It appears at this time that the
four additional rooms' under con
struction this summer by con
tractors Sandvik and Roark will
be ready for use when school
opens Tuesday. Slow delivery on
glass for windows and tile for
floors held up completion. The
four rooms, which form the sec
ond floor of the new south wing
completed in 1951, will be used
for high school and grade school
classes, two for each.
ANNOUNCEMENT BY
ED CHRISTENSEN
RE: SCHOOL BUSSES
School Busses will begin opera
tion again Sept. 2, 1952.
I would like to call to the at
tention of everyone, automobile
operators in particular, Sec. 40
Part II of Rules and Regulations
of the Territorial Board of Road
Commissioners.
Sec. 40. The driver of any
vehicle upon any public high
way or city street upon meeting
or overtaking from either direc
tion any School Bus or passeng
er bus which has stopped on the
street or highway for the pur
pose of receiving or discharging
any passengers shall, bring the
vehicle to a complete slop not
less than 20 feet from such bus
and remain stopped while such
bus is receiving or discharging
passengers, or such passengers
as are being aided across the
street in connection therewith.
All school bus drivers are in
structed to report all violators
of Sec. 40. above, to the High
way Patrol.
Also for parents and pupils,
Sec. 22 of Regulation for Pupils
issued by The Territorial De
partment of Education.
Sec. 22: Pupils who must
cross the road after alighting
from the bus should pass in
front of the bus and NOT BE
HIND it. The driver should see
that the way is clear before the
child is permitted to cross the
road.
Further notice is hereby giv
en that due to crowded condi
tions of busses, no pupils will
be transported who live within
the city limits of Palmer, and
if crowded conditions still exist
we will be forced to refuse
transportation to all pupils liv
ing within two miles of Palmer
Schools (Territorial Regula
tions). • •* '''
Signed
E. C. Christensen
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Nine Members of
PHS Class of’52
To Attend College
Members of the Palmer High
School Class of 1952 had a picnic
at Barry’s Lake last week where
they reviewed present progress
of class members and told of
plans for the fall. All but five
of the 20 classmates were in at
tendance.
One girl and all the boys ex
cept one, it was learned, plan to
attend college this fall. Wanda
Linsey and Gus Klem will go to
the University of Washington.
Jim Caulkins has already left for
a college in Montana. Ernest
Marth is going to Indiana Tech
nical College in Fort Wayne.
Chuck Millis will take pre-dental
training at the University of
Seattle. Wesley Grover is going to
Brigham Young University in
Utah. San Jose College in Cali
fornia will be Alma Mater for
Vernon Fridley. Jim Colberg is
planning to take pre-dental work
at Gustavus Adolphus College in
St. Peters, Minnesota. Wesley
Eckert has elected to attend the
University of Alaska.
Bob Lacher, who has been
working in Valdez this summer,
hopes to enter the Navy soon, it
was learned.
Of the 12 girls who graduated,
Gloria Lepak and Esther Peder
son are now working at the Alas
ka Experiment Station; Norma
Nelson and Bettyv Harris have
jobs on the military post; Rita
McClafferty is clerk for the legal
firm of Butcher and Shaw and
for the Palmer City Clerk’s of
fice: Violet Werner is working at
the Matanuska Valley Bank; and
Delores Lentz has been working
at Valley Hospital, although she
plans to marry soon. Plans of
Genevieve DeLand and Barbara
Tirapelli were not announced, al
though Gen worked for part of
the summer at Sheep Mountain
Lodge and Barb has just return
ed from a trip to the States.
Barbara Carter of the Wasilla
Class of ’52 will attend the Uni
versity of Alaska, it was learned
this week. Esther Pederson has
taken hes place at the Experi
ment Station office.
4-H CLUB NEWS
Happy Hooligans
The Happy Hooligan Club met
Monday night with five of. their
six members present. We met at
the home of our leader, Mrs.
John McDonald.
After a short business meeting,
Wayne McDonald gave a good
demonstration on how to prepare
carrots and kohlrabi for the Fair.
President Billy Nelson gave an
unusually good demonstration on
the preparation of land for a cel
ery patch ancf theh transplanted a
plant for us. Then we all went to
take Joseph Ohmstead home and
to see his garden.
Elmer McDonald, Reporter
WANTED: Young men for civic
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63,870 Pribilofs
Seal Skins St. Louis
Bound for Processing
Between June 20 and July 27 of
this year, the United States Gov
ernment took 63,870 fur seal skins
from the Pribilof Islands in Alas
ka, it was revealed recently by
Secretary of Interior Oscar Chap
man.
The pelts were taken, under
direction of the Fish and Wildlife
Service, chiefly from three-year
old male seals. The 1952 pelt total
was an increase of 3,181 over last
year.
Approximately 80 percent of
the world’s fur seals go to the
Pribilof Islands to breed each
summer, it is estimated. During
the winter they range southward
as far as Southern California.
FWS officials on the Pribilofs as
sure ample reserve stock for the
herd in taking the pelts each
year.
Killing of seals while at sea
is prohibited under an agreement
between Canada and the United
States. Twenty percent of the
1952 take will be delivered to
Canada under terms of this
agreement.
The government’s skins will be
shipped, as in years past, to the
Fouke Fur Company of St. Louis
for dressing, dyeing and sale.
The company acts as the Govern
ment’s agent in processing and
selling the seal skins. Criticism of,
diverting this business outside the
Territory has been the subject of
frequent criticism by Alaskans
eager to build up the Territory’s
economy through establishment
of business and industry.
One out of every five Ameri
cans will develop cancer if present
rates continue. Funds given the
1952 Cancer Crusade can help
control this disease.
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STOP IN SOON
Education in Alaska
Is a Muitimillion
Dollar Business
The 1952-53 school year will be
ushered in next week in a total
109 Alask'a schools under the
Territorial Department of Educa
tion.
These include 27 schools (in
cluding Palmer's) in incorporated
districts, 61 rural schools (includ
ing Wasilla and Chugiak), 13
operated under contract with the
Alaska Native Service, and eight
“on base" schools operated at
military reservations in co-opera
tion with the U.S. Office of Edu
cation.
The largest number of schools
is located in the Third Division,
according to Alaska Commission
er of Education Everett Erickson.
Territorial funds appropriated
for the 1951-53 biennium for
schools in Alaska amounted to a
total of $9,883,033.33. Of this $1,
450,656 was budgeted for rural
school operation and $5,241,336.32
for school operation in incorpor
ated schools. Transportation for
the two-year period requires
$600,000. A fund of $10,000 is ear
marked for care, support, and
education of handicapped chil
dren.
For construction rehabilitation
and repair of buildings, incorpor
ated school systems were budget
ed $750,000 for the biennium;
rural schools, $500,000.
Tobacco tax moneys for repair
and construction of facilities were
distributed to school during the
year June 1951 to June 1952 in
the amount of $740,440.71.
TEACHERS' RECEPTION
PLANNED FOR FIRST
P-TA MEETING
Palmer Parent-Teachers As
sociation will hold the first meet
ing of the 1952-53 season Septem
ber 16 at Palmer School, 8 p m.
P-TA President Curtis Dear
born has extended an invitation
to all parents and teachers of the
Palmer school area.
A welcoming reception for new
and returning teachers has been
planned for this meeting with
members of Beta Sigma Phi as
siting the hospitality committee
headed by Dorothy Hurley, chair
man. Refreshments will be serv
ed.
Other officers for the new year
include Mrs. Jean Stassel, vice
president; Mrs. A. J. Colberg,
! secretary and Keith Stanton,
j treasurer.
BAPTIST ENCAMPMENT
TO CLOSE TONIGHT
A three-day Baptist Encamp
ment, being conducted at King’s
Lake Camp, will come to a close
tonight with a special invitation
! to the public to attend the even
j ing service.
| Rev. Marvin Lytle, moderator
j of Chugiak Baptist Association,
j has been the special Evangelistic
j speaker each evening and will
speak again tonight at the final
service. More than 60 persons
! have attended the services each
i night.
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