'* Community
Calendar
TODAY
WASILLA vets on-farm training
class at Community Hall at 8
p.m.
SATURDAY
SPOONS & Spool 4-H Club bake
sale at Trading Post at 10 a.m.
VALLEY Volunteer Fire Asso
ciation dance at Gym at 9 p.m.
MONDAY
^VETERANS’ on - farm training
class at former library at 8 p.m.
KIWANIS club dinner meeting
at former library at 6 p.m.
WASILLA dance at Community
Hall at 10 p.m.
TUESDAY
WASILLA fourth celebration at
baseball field at noon.
VFW-sponsored dance at Commu
nity Hall at 9 p.m.
DANCE at Butte Hall at 9 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
CHAMBER of Commerce lunch
eon at noon at former library.
THURSDAY
AMERICAN Legion at Legion
Hall at 8 p.m.
LEGION Auxiliary at Legion Hall
^§t 8 p.m.
FRIDAY
WASILLA vets on-farm training
class at Community Hall at 8
p.m.
PRINCETON choir concert at
United Protestant Church at 8
p.m.
Coming Events
July 11—Chamber banquet for
field committee members.
July 16 — Matanuska Valley
Sportsmen’s fish fry.
EXPLORERS STUDY
SOUTHEASTERN GLACIERS
A group of 15 glacier explorers,
headed by Neil Douglas, who has
made five trips to Alaska to study
the territory’s glaciers, arrived in
Juneau recently. The men plan
to record glacier activities on all
of the fjords in southeastern
Alaska for the American Geo
graphical Society and for scien
tific publications. They have
chartered a boat on which they
plan to spend a month in the
waters of southeastern Alaska.
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VALLEY
THEATRE
FRI.-SAT., JUNE 30. JULY 1
Nights 7:15-9:00, Sat. Mat. 2:00
“Desperate Trails”
Johnny Mack Brown
Bob Baker Fuzzy Knight
SUN.-MON.. JULY 2. 3
Nights 7:15-9:00. Sun. Mat. 2:00
“Words and Music”
Judy Garland June Allyson
Perrv C-mo Lena Horne
Gene Kelly Mickey Rooney
Ann Solhern Cyd Charisse
Gala Technicolor Musical based
on lives and music of Rodgers
and Hart.
WED.- THURS.. JULY 5-6
Nights 7:15 and 9:00
Bob Hope Jane Russell
“Paleface”
Gold Miners
At Cache Creek
Waif on Weather
Cache Creek gold miners are
finding the improper combination
of water and frozen ground is
slowing mining operations there
considerably, thus far this season ;
—where there’s a proper amount
of the one, the other is lacking.
It works like this:
On Cache creek and its tribu
taries, there’s a good quantity of
water available for sluicing, but
the ground is still sealed so tight
ly with frost that stripping op
erations aren’t reaching pay dirt.
On the other hand, on Bird
Creek and the upper benches,
where there wasn’t too much
snow last winter, frozen ground
is no problem at all, and strip
ping operations are proceeding
easily. However Bird Creek has
been gripped by a cold wave re
cently, and there’s no water with
which to sluice.
The solution is the same in
either case. The miners are sim
ply sitting out the weather, and
hoping that a break will come
before the season gets too far ad
vanced.
FIRE GUARD RESIGNS
Fire guard Charles Kendall of
the Palmer station has resigned
his position here. The station is
now in charge of Dick Shires.
FAIRBANKS LINEMAN
IS ELECTROCUTED
Ed Sandberg, line foreman at
Fairbanks, died in the Interior
city last week as the result of
burns he suffered when he
brushed a high-tension wire. Fel
low workmen did not see the ac
cident. They reported they
glanced aloft to see their foreman
hanging unconscious with his
arm hooked over a 2300-volt
wire.
The man was alive when res
cued, but he died at St. Joseph’s
Hospital later that afternoon. He
leaves a widow and three chil
dren. Sandberg had been a resi
dent of the Fairbanks area since
the middle twenties.
U.S.G.S. Men Too Busy to Talk
Visiting staff members of the
U. S. Geological Survey, Dr.
Thomas Noland and Dr. John
Reed, whisked through Palmer in
a tremendous hurry last Tues
day. They were far too busy to
spend time with a newspaper re
porter, but Dr. Reed will be re
turning for the field committee
meeting early in July. It’s hoped
he’ll have time then to answer a
question or two concerning USGS
work in Alaska.
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MATANUSKA VALLEY BANK
Palmer, Alaska
Open Friday Evenings^-5 to 7 P. M.
2 PER CENT ON SAVINGS
Fairbanksans Surprised
At 1909 Property Values
Fairbanks property owners got
something of a shock recently,
when the town’s original trustees’
map, dated 1909, was displayed
there. Price tags on the city’s
most valued business locations in
1950 were far different in 1909.
A location at Second and
Cushman, considered today to be
the most valued property in Fair
Si,050 in 1909. The First National
bank corner was priced at $732,
banks, was appraised at only
and the business lot at Third and
Cushman was valued at $408. The
owner of that corner was Martin
Pinska, present - day merchant.
He remembers that the lot was
covered with trees at the 1909
appraisal.
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Navy Ships Overhauled
For Overseas Transfer
Six Navy landing ships are now
undergoing overhaul operations al
the Bremerton Navy Yard, ir
preparation for overseas transfei
under the Mutual Defense Assist
ance Program, it was announced
this week from Seventeenth Na
val District headquarters at Ko
diak. This brings to a total of 20
the vessels which have beer
transferred under the program
In addition, two shipments of car
rier-based fighter and bomber
planes have been sent to France
aboard the French carrier Dix
mude.
GETS BASEBALL EQUIPMENT
WASILLA—Carl Paulson spent
Tuesday in Anchorage on busi
ness. While there he took de
livery of some baseball equip
ment ordered by Wasilla clubs
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