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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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The small attendance of townspeople at the first
hearing of Palmer's new sales tax ordinance recalls to
mind a certain biblical tale about two brothers and the
loss of a birthright.
If our memory serves us correctly, the crafty
younger brother Jacob cheated the older brother,
named Esau, out of his birthright to inheritance of
their father s property and tribal leadership. He did
this by offering a mess of pottage to satisfy Esau s then
present hunger, in exchange for future rewards of
pribogeniture. Esau could only sulk bitterly while Jacob
went on begatting the twelve sons who were to found
* the twelve tribes of Israel, famous to this day some four
thousand years afterward.
The analogy to the present situation is clear. In
this country sovereignty belongs to the people who
elect officials to take care of the burdensome details
of self government. Provision is made in the law for
people to exercise their rights through public hearings
on objections, and suggestions on matters pertaining
to their vital interests, can be aired freely.
If people neglect this sovereign right because of
pre-occupation with affairs of the moment, they have
only themselves to blame if their unspoken ideas are
not incorporated in ordinances to which they are
subject.
EDWARD BARRETT FLOWN
TO STATES FOR SURGERY
Edward Barrett was flown Out
side yesterday in an army plane
for surgery at an army hospital,
according to Mrs. Barrett.
He had been at the Base hos
i
pital for a week prior to his de
parture for the states, and had
been under treatment here in
Palmer for the same length of
time.
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Afterward, he sends his daughter, Miss Fortune
Unless children get a good start in music before they are 12,
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Eminent Scientists
On Geographical
Advisory Committee
Dr Detiev Bronk. president of
the National Academy of Sciences (
has appointed Drs John A Flem
ing. retired. Carnegie Institute of
Washington. Merle Tuve. direc
tor of the Carnegie Institute
Henry G. Booker. Electrical En
gineering Department of Cornell
University, and Henry A. Joest
ing of the United States Geologi
cal Survey, as an advisory com
mittee on matters pertaining to
the Geophysical Institute as re
quired by the Congressional Act
establishing the Geophysical In
stitute.
Dr. Terris Moore, president of
the university, has appointed the
same committee to advise him on
matters coming before him con
cerning the Geophysical Insti
tute. Dr. Fleming is chairman of
the committee in both of its
capacities. ,
Advisory Scientific Director
Upon recommendation of the
acting director, approval of Pres
ident Moore of the University
and the above advisory commit
tee, Dr. Sydney Chapman of
Queen’s College, Oxford, England, i
has been appointed advisory sci- i
entific director of the Geophysi- i
eal Institute and Visiting Profes
sor of Geophysics at the Univers
ity of Alaska beginning July 1,
1951.
Dr. Chapman will reside at the
University for a period of eignt
weeks during the year. He will
participate actively in the scien
tific program by this actual pres
ence and through correspond
ence. Dr. Chapman will, through
this affiliation, aid in promoting
a program at the graduate level
in physical science at the uni
versity. The, university looks for
ward to interesting public lec
tures and seminars during each
af his visits. Dr. Chapman will
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KILLS GRIZZLY CUB
WITH STONE
Edward A. Uwck wa* back in
Palmer thi* week following main
tenance work on fourteen miles of
road in the Golden Zone mine
area. He brought back an inter
esting grizzly bear story
It seems one of the men work
ing for the Bureau of Mines
named Stephans, ran into a fami
ly of grizzly bears near the ARR
Colorado station, south of the
south boundry of McKinley park
While walking in a heavy fog.
Stephans was suddenly surprised
by a female grizzly who eviden
tly had scented him through the
fog. An expierienced woodsman,
Stephans had his rifle with him.
"It took three of his five shells
to stop the old lady”. Ueeck re
lated. Then, one after the other
three cubs came out of the fog.
With but two shells remaining in
lis rifle, Stephans shot and killed
two cubs. The third fellow was
iispatched w^ith a rock. The cubs’
>n occasions give short courses
)f instruction on specialized top
es in Geophysics during residence
is well as guide work for theses.
"It is indeed an honor for the
jniversity and the Geophysical
Institute to have the association
if one of Dr. Chapman’s emin
ence in the field of Geophysics.”
>ay staff members of the Insti
;ute.
FAREWELL PICK 1C
TOR ALTSENS
A firrwi‘11 picnic, to be held in
honor of Rev. and Mr* Victor
Alfwn. will be held by the par
i isher* of the United Protestant
; Church at Linn's Lake July
22. Mrs Neil Miller annnounced
| this week
Sunday school and church serv
1 ices will be held at the usual
hours, at the site with the picnic
dinner scheduled to follow.
Each family is requested to
take their own eating utensils
and complete meals, coffee and
ice cream will be served by the
church.
weights were estimated at about
one hundred pounds each. All in
all. Ueeck said, it would appear
as though the old timers are still
holding their own.
Note: There were more bear
brought into the Valley for tan
ning and mounting during the
past two weeks than any time
in this year, according to GeTry
Brunner, local taxidermist.
Contrary to this time of the
season, all pelts are in prime con
dition. indicating the bear have
but recently come out of hiber
nation. Perhaps some of the old
timers could tell us if this is an
indication of something or other.
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