Anchorage Moose
Down Palmer, S-2
Although many of the Jones
ville regulars failed to appear for
Sunday’s scheduled baseball game
between the Anchorage Moose
and the miners, a pick-up nine
made up of miners and local tal-j
ent held the Moose to a 9-2 win. j
While the Moose run tally was
decidedly one-sided, they have
registered much more lopsided
victories against opponents in the
Anchorage city league this year.!
The one bright light in the
gloom of the local team’s loss,
was the creditable performance
of pitcher Dick Shires. He struck
out 15 Moose batters, and held
several of the Moose’s heaviest
sluggers hitless. Most of the
Moose runs were tallied on errors.
Jack Tost, catcher, got the only
flit of the day for the locals. He
rungs of the game.
SEVEN-EIGHTY-NINER
INITIATION POSTPONED
The Seven-Eighty-Niner initia
tion, planned to welcome the in
coming seventh grade into the
teen-age club, has been postponed
until next Thursday evening,
leader Charles Dillon announced
today. The initiation will be held
in the Palmer Gymnasium, be
tween the hours of 7:30 and 10
p.m.
There were 46 teen-agers pres- j
ent at this week’s party in the
Gymnasium. At the close of the j
evening, club members were told |
that the Gymnasium would be I
available to them every Thursday I
evening for the rest of the sum
mer, if they wished to make use
.of it
Oklahoma A & M Grad
To Teach Chugiak Vets
Tom Murton, a recent graduate |
of Oklahoma A & M, has been;
appointed instructor for a veter- j
ans’ on-farm training class to be1
formed in the Chugiak area, Pal- j
mer instructor Eugene Kirsch an
nounced this week. The class will
be made up of a dozen Chugiak
veterans, and probably will in
clude the surplus of students now
attending Mr. Kirsch’s Palmer
classes.
Mr. Murton will make his home
in the Valley.
Seek Salmon ir. Goose Bay
KNIK—Jerry Vickaryous, Pat]
and Phil Plack, Joe Smith and
Dickie Wilson, all of Wasilla, |
fished for king salmon at Goose j
Bay last Sunday.
Conservationist Visits Knik
KNIK — Lew Hanks, soil con
servationist from Palmer, was I
working in the Fish Creek area
last week.
FROZEN
F S3 O D
L O e K E R 5
It's Time Now to j
Reserve Your Locker j
For Next Year
Palmer Cold Storage j
& Locker Service
KENAI WILD LIFE
SUFFERS HEAVILY
IN TRAPS, SNARES
Snares and traps, unremoved at
the close of the trapping season,
are taking a heavy toll of wild
life on the Kenai Peninsula,
Carlos Carlson of the Fish and
Wildlife Service at Seward an
nounced recently. Mr. Carlson
reported 14 moose had been found
dead in snares since last Septem
ber. Other Kenai homesteaders
have reported several instances of
their dogs being caught in snares.
Mr. Carlson says the situation
is becoming so serious, that the
FWTS may ask that snares be out
lawed on the Kenai Peninsula.
Meanwhile he warned that “own
ers of trap lines who leave set
traps and snares are subject to
legal prosecution.”
FWS VESSEL BURNS
AT SEATTLE DOCK
The Penguin, a Fish and Wild
life Service vessel assigned to
duty in Alaskan waters, was bad
ly damaged by a recent fire at Se
attle. The vessel was docked at
Lake Union when flames of un
explained origin broke out. There
was no one aboard the vessel at
the time. To replace the Penguin,
the FWS has leased an army ves
sel, the Lt. Raymond Zussman.
MANY LOOK FOR
FISH IN FISH CREEK
KNIK—Fish Creek already is
beginning to draw anglers into
the Knik area. There were nearly
a dozen Palmer, Wasilla and Knik
residents at the creek last week
end. Among those sighted were:
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Kessler and
family, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Carson
and daughter, Sally, Mr. and Mrs.
Rex Kibbe, and Mr. and Mrs. E.
Sullivan.
TOUR VISITS VALLEY
A tour conducted by Arctic
Alaska Tours brought 36 visitors
to the Valley for an overnight
stay, earlier this week. Members
of the party were guests at the
Matanuska Hotel during their
visit here.
Rett&i
JEWELRY
and
WATCH REPAIRS
Buy your diamonds here
and Save One-Third
We have a reputation for
doing the BEST work, at
most moderate cost. Quali
ty work at honest prices
keeps our repair depart
ment busy!
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Box 1751—Anchorage
342 4th A re. Phone 24471
The
Letterbox
The following letter has been
received from Albert Taylor,'
editor of The Magazine Alaska.!
who is planning to devote the J
July issue of his publication to j
the Matanuska Valley:
To all Alaskans, and particu-l
larly to those living in the Mata
nuska Valley: ,
The Magazine Alaska is to ap-'
pear again, and .1 take this means
of inviting everyone to help me
make it a great success.
The next issue of the maga- j
| zine is to feature the Matanuska
Valley. In order to do the Valley
full justice. I am asking for the :
co-operation of everyone.
Most of you who live in the
Valley have seen me recently as
I made my canvass for subscrip
tions. If I have missed you it
has not been intentional—and I
1 may get you yet. But subscrip
tions are not enough; it takes
. stories and pictures to make a
! magazine.
; Would you like to have pic
i tures of your home or your farm
; in this big' special issue, which
' will be seen not only by everyone
i in the Valley, but by thousands in
; Anchorage, in other sections of
! Alaska and in the states?
Would you like to have a pic
j ture of your organization, club or
i
society in this big issue? Ar-1
rangements can be made to have
pictures taken of veterans' or
ganizations, church societies, fra
ternal orders, gun clubs or busi
ness groups.
It is going to take a lot of work
to make a success of so great an
undertaking. Everyone’s co-oper
ation is not only wanted, but is
necessary.
As the magazine is alreadv
overdue, there is but little time
available. Pictures will have to
be taken at once.
Drop a postcard to me at Gen
eral Delivery, Palmer, or call at
the office of the Matanuska Press
(formerly the Anchorage Shop
ping Guide) and make arrange- i
ments today.
(Signed)
Albert Taylor.
M~ ■ =
Colony Day Committee
Wants to Be Billed *
Anyone having outstanding
bills against Colony Day is re
quested to present them at once,
committee chairman A1 Hagen
announced today. Bills not pre
sented by July 1 will not be hon
ored. Mr. Hagen is most anxious
to clear up all outstanding ex
penses. so that a financial state
ment may be published.
AHA Pours Three and a Half
Million into Anchorage Housing
Loans that will exceed $3,500,
000 will be granted by the Alaska
Housing Authority to Anchorage
builders, it was announced last
Saturday by E. Glen Wilder, ex
ecutive director. The monev will
be used to construct 25 family
homes at Airport Heights, and
two 14-story apartment house
dwellings.
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see
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When the going gets tough — slides,
floods, heavy snowfalls and the like—
The Alaska Railroad can hardly go
crawl into a cave and sleep it off. For
a bear, perhaps, that is routine—but not
for a railroad.
Day or night, summer or winter. The
Alaska Railroad keeps its lines open 12
months of the year to serve Alaskans.
Operating through near Arctic winters,
removing snow and slides means keep
ing two snow-fleets busy in the winter.
Spring floods alert section crews and
bridge gangs who must watch and
guard against washouts along the road
bed.
Railroading is a lough business, but
The Alaska Railroad is forging ahead.
It is a growing industry. Last year it
hauled more than a million tons of
freight and it paid salaries totalling
SI2,000,000. Besides serving, the rail
road is also building the territory.
Many of the normal maintenance costs
are gradually being eliminated as the
big 575,000,000 rehabilitation program
pushes onward. That means that ship
pers will be gelling faster service and
lower rales all Ihe lime.
Right now Ihe railroad has the besl
roadbed and the largest fleet of rolling
slock in history. Rehabilitation is pay
ing off dividends to shippers in the
form of better service at lesser costs.
Summer or winter. The Alaska Rail
road is ready to serve.
The Alaska Railroad Serves You 12 Months of the Year
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