rime Factor Operates
In Rejection of
City Truck Bids
Bids on the new truck needed
by the city of Palmer were open
ed publicly Saturday in the pres
ence of four representatives of
bidders.
At a special meeting of the City
Council late Monday afternoon
all bids were rejected because of
the length of time required for
delivery and the uncertainty of
such delivery due to the pending
steamship strike.
The Co-Op was the low bidder,
but the best that could be prom
ised was delivery FOB Palmer in
45 to 60 days. In view of the nec
essity for early street work, the
Council decided to try to purch
ase a truck meeting the necessary
specifications that is ready for
immediate delivery.
Councilmen pointed out that
despite the many good comments
on the condition of Palmer’s
streets this spring. Russ Felzieff
can do little to fill up the holes
and ruts until he gets a truck to
haul gravel. The new road grader
haR done its job in providing
drainage for the run-off of melt
ing snow and ice. but near sur
face outcrops of rock prevent
further grading to fill up the
holes.
KNOW YOUR ALASKA
TRAFFIC LAWS
Operation of Vehicles
Keeping fo right of highway.
(Sec. 29). Whenever any persons
operating any vehicle shall meet
apon any public highway in the
Territory, the persons so meeting
shall reasonably turn their ve
hicles to the right of the center
of the road, so as to permit each
vehicle to pass without interfer
ing' with .or interrupting the
other.
Safety appliances or equip
ment. (Sec. 30) It shall be unlaw
ful to operate upon any high
way within the Territory of Alas
ka, any motor vehicle not equip
ped with a foot brake, emergency
brake and horn that can be heard
a reasonable distance away: and
suitable head lights and tail lights
during the summer period when
there may be no darkness; all ot
which said appliances must be in
good working order and kept up
at all times in a state of repair
except as to the lights during the
above specified summer period
when there may be no darkness.
OFF TO THE NAVY
Tom Day left Palmer Monday
for his annual two-week tour ui
duty with the Navy at the Kodiak
Naval Base.
the Alaska line
PASSENGER LINERS
From Seward
S.S. DENALI S.S. BARANOF
Thurs., Apr. 17 Thurs. Apr. 24
Cordova
Juneau
Petersburg
Wrangell
Ketchikan
Seattle
Sitka
Juneau
Ketchikan
Seattle
FREIGHTER SERVICE
S. S. GEORGE PRENTICE
Sailing from Seattle April Id
calling at Valdez and Sew
ard.
M. V. SAILOR'S SPLICE
Sailing from Seattle April 23.
calling at Sitka, Cordova,
Valdez and Seward.
From Seattle
FOR INFORMATION
T. J. MALONEY, Agent
Phone 22001
Office: Westward Hotel
Anchorage, Alaska
STEAMSHIP COMPANY
"God's Answer"
Rev. Edward H. Immi
St. John's Lutheran Church
Great atomic reactors lurk
among the dunes of Central
Washington Working with fan
tastic power, they rip apait atoms
to produce the new wander ele
ment Plutonium. The vast Han
i ford Atomic Energy Works is 1
testimony to the scientific and
industrial greatness of man.
But in the heart of the city
where dwell the thousands who
tend these great machines of a
new age there is a broad, green
i rectangle, shaded with trees and
marked with silent stones. This
is a testimony to the complete
weakness and helplessness if
man. It is a cemetery. Every city
has one.
Death is man's great Dilemma.
The one problem science cannot
solve.
Easter, with it Resurrection
message, is God’s answer to that
dilemma. Christ died to pay for
our sins, and rose again that we
too might live. The Risen Christ
is offering you eternal life.
Easter increases our life expect*
i ancy by all eternity. Only be
lieve!
We are all marching steadily
towards the white, silent mark
! ers that spell defeat. “Thanks be
! to God who giveth us the victory
: through our Lord Jesus Christ."
I We^re not getting any younger.
, You need Christ even more ur
i gently today than you did yester
! day. Accept Him now and He will
i give you life.
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Near Tragedy at
Alpine Inn Averted
By Highway Patrol
Quirk art ion cn the part of the
local Highway Patrol Sunday
probably saved the lives of two
men near the end of their long
journey to Alaska in search of
work.
Shortly before midnight Sun
day, the Highway Patrol noticed
a truck parked on th« highway at
Alpine Inn The lights were on
and so was the motor. The truck
was hauling a Buick sedan. When
the officer found no trace of the
owners in the roadhouse, he
looked inside the car. The odor
of gas was overpowering, i. <d the
two men slumped over in the I
seat of the truck had been over
come by carbon monoxide fumes. (
It was necessary to use artificial
respiration on one of the men be- ]
j fore he was revived.
' Another 15 minutes and they i
would have been dead." the High-'
way Patrol officer said.
The men revealed that they
had been taking turns driving foi
1 three days and nights from the
spot outside Dawson Creek where
the Buick had gone over an em
bankment with a .housetrailer it
i was hauling. On reaching Alpine,
the driver was so sleepy that he
pulled over to the edge of the
road to awaken his partner. Be
fore he succeeded, the driver fell
asleep also.
Another report from Alpine Inn
gives local emphasis to grim and
pitiful stories regarding the pov
erty of the huge army of men
coming to Alaskan cities for
work. According to a bystander
at Alpine Inn. a man. woman, and
three children—the oldest about
five—sat in a booth last week
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Roy Bicknel! Leaves
Dn Juneau Assignment
Ray Bicknell of the Eklutn*
Project staff left Tuesday for
Juneau where he will be working
for the next three months or
more on the survey of prelimin
ary sites for proposed power pro
jects in the Panhandle. His family
is remaining in the Valley for the
present.
counting out the money they had
left, just 60 miles short of An
chorage. There was money
enough only for one hamburger
When it was brought to the tabl?
the man and woman divided it in
two and ate. while the children
looked on. The angry proprietoi
rebuked the couple and then set
a good meal in front of each 01
the children.
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ANOTHER PALMERITE
RETURNS
Art Marsh returned to the Val
ley last week via the Alaska
Highway, following a three
month vacation spent in Spokane,
Washington
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