Chamber of Commerce
Luncheon Guests
At Ft. Richardson
Construction under way at
Fort Richardson is “staggering”
and will result in long-time ben
efit to Palmer.
So reported members of the
Palmer Chamber of Commerce
after their guest tour and lunch
eon Wednesday.
Twenty-five made the trip and
returned impressed with what
the military installations means
now and will mean in the future
to the Matanuska Valley.
“We had an overall tour of the j
Fort but even then did not begin
to see it all,” President Jim Hur
ley said today. “I think we all
were impressed with the perma
nency of the installation. For
the next 35 years or so, it ap
pears that it will result in grow-1
ing business for Palmer and the
Matanuska Valley.
Statistics dished out by top of- i
ficers at the luncheon meeting at J
the officers’ mess were “almost!
beyond comprehension,” the visit- 1
ing Chamber of Commerce mem- j
bers said.
“We have a better understand
ing of our mutual problems,” Hur
ley said.
The flow of income into Palmer
from the military, from construc
tion workers and their families,
and from all the activities which
converge around a permanent
fort, will be a definite stimulant
to business in the Valley, mem
bers of the tour agreed.
The Music Appreciation Group
will hear a program for orchestral
understanding of roles played by
the individual instruments at the
meeting to be held Thursday,
May 10, 8 p.m., at the Allan Mick
home. The folk opera “Down in
the Valley”, also will be heard.
PALMER STARTS SCRUBBING
FOR CLEAN-UP WEEK CAMPAIGN
Enterprising citizens of Palmer
are getting out their scrub
brushes, their paint brushes, their
rakes, shovels, dump trucks, ham
mers and ladders preparing for
Cleanup Week.
Dates are May 14-25. Sponsor
ship is the Health council. Co
operating and cosponsoring are
the Chamber of Commerce and
the Kiwanis Club.
Jumping the guns on civic re
sponse, Betty Mears has put a
brand new apple green front on
her exclusive clothing shop. Steve
Ward has had 20 loads of gravel
hauled in at his own expense to
fill the mud holes which made
driving hazardous front and side
of the Ward building. A1 King
has aluminum-painted his garage.
Pul Out Your Garbage
Eugene ' Kirsch, chairman of
Cleanup Week, is * asking all
home owners, renters, stores,
restaurants, bars, and what-have
you to rake-up and clean-up their
premises. Furthermore, he’s tak
en action. He has enlisted trucks
and workers to pick up your ref
use Saturday afternoon, May 19.
Have it out and ready, for the
workers on this campaign are
volunteers.
Kirsch needs more dump trucks
to help on the big over-all clean
up May 19. Two hours’ work
that Saturday afternoon will do
it, and will help give Palmer a
cleaner face. Anyone who will
give this brief stretch to make
Palmer a cleaner city, is asked
to contact him. Senior Scouts
will load the trucks.
Poster Contest
In the schools, every pupil who
can draw a straight or crooked
line is making Cleanup Week
posters. Prizes are being offered
by age groups so all have a fair
chance. Winning posters will be
exhibited.
Cooperation Requested
Voicing the feeling of the
sponsoring groups, Kirsch ap
pealed to all merchants to “po
lice up” the walks and entrances
to their buildings. Colony Day
is in the offing when hundreds
of visitors will be here. Numbers j
of construction workers and their [
families will be coming into the
area to work, and perhaps to
stay. Military personnel from
virtually every state in the
Union are in and out of Palmer.
The impression this city makes
upon them has unknown possi
bilities, he pointed out.
“If we would all get together—
each shining up his own place—
we could make Palmer the clean
est city in Alaska,” he said.
“Right now it’s—well, it’s not the
cleanest.”.
Beta Sigma Phi to Install
New Officers.
New officers will be installed at
the meeting of Beta Sigma Phi
Monday night, May 7, Dorothy
Saxton, president, announced.
Place of meeting will be an
nounced by cards to members.
The following members attend
ed the Founders Day banquet and
Ritual of Jewels at Anchorage
April 30: Mrs. Don Irwin, Dor
othy Saxton, Esther Brock, Bon
nie Bettine, Elizabeth Rice, Jean
Mae Yohn, Helen Crites, Helen
Maze, Dorothy Graham, Ita Zah
radnicek, Blanche Ryan, Rivera
Hiber, Marive Laird, Dorothy
Anderson, Barbara Hecker, Fan
nie Wirtanen, Marie Louise Johns,
Mary Lou Lashbrook, Eileen I
Branton and Marne Hanks.
Starting Saturday, May 5
-WHILE THEY LAST
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