VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
Entered as second class matter on Oct. 21, 1947, at the post office at
Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
PRINTED AT PALMER, ALASKA, EACH FRIDAY
By the Matanuska Press, Inc.
A1 J. DeJulio.Manager and Advertising
Opal Lu Smith ..Editor
Valdez High School ...Valdez Correspondent
Barbara Carter .Wasilla Correspondent
Subscription Rates.50c a month, $5 a year
Mailed to all points in Alaska and the United States
PITY THE POOR EDITOR
(Idaho Argonaut)
Consider the editor! A child is born to the wife of
a merchant in the town. The physician getteth 10
plunks. The editor writeth a stick and a half and
telleth the multitude that the child tippeth the beam
at nine pounds: Yes, he lieth even as a centurion.
And the proud father giveth him a Cremo.
Behold, the young one groweth up and graduateth.
And the editor putteth into his paper a swell notice.
He telleth of the wisdom of the young woman and of
her exceeding comeliness. Like unto the roses of
Sharon is she and her gown is played up to beat the
band. And the dressmaker getteth two score and
four iron men. And the editor gets a note of thanks
from the sweet girl graduate.
And the daughter goeth on a journey. And the
editor throweth himself on the story of the farewell
party. It runneth a column solid. And the fair one
remembereth him from afar with a picture postal card
that costeth six for a jitney.
Behold, she returneth, and the youth of the town
fall down and worship. She picketh one and lo, she
picketh a lemon. But the editor calleth him one of our
promising young men and getteth away with it. And
they send unto the editor a bid to the wedding, and
behold the bids are fashioned in a far city.
Flowery and long the wedding notice which the^
editor printeth. The minister getteth 10 bones. The!
groom standeth the editor off for a 12-months subscip- j
tion.
All flesh is grass and in time the wife is gathered;
unto the soil. The minister getteth his bit. The editor
printeth a death notice, two columns of obituary, three
lodge notices, a cubit of poetry and a card of thanks.
And he forgetteth to read proof, on the head and the
darned thing comes out, "Gone to her last roasting
place."
And all that are akin to the deceased jumpeth on
the editor with exceeding great jumps. And they j
pulleth out their ads and cancelleth their subs, and j
they swing the hammer even unto the third and fourth j
generations.
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SOURDOUGH CLUB
CHANGES PLANS
The February meeting of the
Sourdough Homemakers Club
will be held at the home of Mrs.
Nan Curtis, club reporter Mrs.
Viola Thuma, announced this
week. Pottery making will be the
project at the day meeting. Mrs.
Thuma called members attention
to the change in the meeting
place which was originally set at
the home of Mrs. Victor Falk Sr.
January meeting of the club
was held at the home of Mrs.
Karla Duff. An interesting dem
onstration in oil painting was
given by local artist, “Rusty”
Dow, following a short business
session.
Lloyds of London Quote
50-1 Odds Against War
The famous insurance firm of
Lloyds of London quotes odds of
I 50-1 against a world war outbreak
before September 1951. It is in
suring the Canadian Philatelic
International Exposition against
hostilities interfering before the
convention opens in Toronto,
Canada, next September. Lloyds
is charging a premium of 2 per
cent on the insured value of the
stamps—on the basis of odds that
works out to be a 50-1 shot.
Coffey Insures Everything—
Remember?
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Alaska Board of Health Makes First
Report Since Its Creation in 1945
JUNEAU—Making its first re
port since its creation by the 1945
Territorial legislature, the Alaska
Board of Health has just issued
an illustrated “Five-Year Report”
addressed to the people of Alaska.
The 28-page booklet describes
in photographs and words the
progress of health protection and
disease prevention activities
throughout Alaska. It explains
how communities have cooperat
ed with sanitarians, nurses and
doctors in attempting to combat
increasing health problems in the
territory’s fast - growing towns
where expansion of facilities has
not been able to keep pace with
the rapidly increasing population.
Members of the Board of Health
represent the four judicial divi
sions of Alaska. They are Dr.
Dwight Cramer of Ketchikan,
Mrs. Katherine Kehoe of Nome,
Rev. R. Rolland Armstrong ,of
Anchorage, until his recent trans
fer to Juneau, and George Pres
ton of Fairbanks.. Appointed by
| Governor Gruening, chairman of
'< the board, and approved by the
I Territorial legislature, the Board
j of Health is charged with super -
| vision of the work of the Alaska
Department of Health.
Copies of the “Five-Year Re
i port” are being sent to all Alas
1 kans who have already placed
j their names on the health de
j partment mailing list to receive
informational materials, accord
ing to Dr. C. Earl Albrecht, com
missioner of health. He said that
copies will be mailed upon other
requests made to the Health De
partment, Box 1931, Juneau.
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federal experiment station here.
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