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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-26

classified as an amusement device.
 This Act shall not be construed in any way to legalize gambling. The operation of any device, ex- cept music machines, covered by this Act by any person under the age of eighteen years shall not be permitted by any operators or other person having such device in his charge. Excepting music machines, TO machine shall be placed, used, located or operated within ra- dius of one hundred yards of any school building.
 Appropriate Receipts covering the payment of the tax bill will te issued by the Tax Commission CT and such Receipts" must be at tached to the device for which issued and must also be available at all reasonable times for otIi- cial inspection. The receipts a"e not transferable.
 Gaming or amusement devices placed or in operation January l. 1948, must have the required Re ceipts" attached not later than January 31, 1948. Gaming or amusement devices placed in oper- ation during the period July l to December 31, shall be subject to tax of $100 or S25, whichever applies, in other words, one-half the yearly tax.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-26

decorated doorway with small light ed trees.
 Day Apartments-East Seventh St, near Gold, lighted tree.
 Fifteen other commendable dec- orations were considered by the committee.
 Special commentators were given to the decorations on the residence of Richard E. Garrison, Behrends Avenue in Waynoy Tract, and to the decorations on the Governors Man sion
 The Yellow Cab, Front Street, also had a Christmas tree decorated.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-26
TRAPPER FOUND DEAD

Roy Hurst, a trapper, was found dead at Baranof Hot Springs yes terday according to word received today by U. s. Marshal William T. Mahoney. He said that he did not have any other retails than that and had sent Deputy Marshal Max Rogers and U. s. Commis- sioner Ernest Dennis, from Sitka, to the scene to make an investi- gation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-26
WHITE CHRISTMAS
 ENJOYED, JUNEAU

Juneau and vicinity had a White Christmas that just arrived in time. Snow began falling early Christmas Eve and kept it up for several hours
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-26

ranging in depth from one to two inches Then, in some place, the snow melted, then froze and was it slippery.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-26

The first recorded vessel built ln this country was the Virginia" which was a 3o-ton ship launched in 1907 on the Kennebec River in Maine
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-26

In a normal year close to 69,- C00000 pounds of wild rabbit are harvested in the United States.
Valley frontiersman., 1947-10-15
Fire Department Plans Station

Members of the board of di- rectors of the Valley Fire As sociation will hold an important planning meeting next Tuesday evening. The directors will gath CT in the basement of the Valley Theatre at 8 o'clock.
 First on the order of business to be undertaken Tuesday will be the discussion of plans for construction of a fire station in Palmer.
 Present board members of the Fire Association include:
 Steve Ward, Emil Larsh, Der nie Bouwens, Al Hagen, Buddy Koslosky and Jack Maze. MT. Maze joins the group by invita- tion on Tuesday, to fill the va cancy left by MT. Koslosky.
Valley frontiersman., 1947-10-15
Flight to Health Begins at Palmer

Leslie Greens aerial class room became a hospital plane last week, when Mrs. Eva Plum ley of Palmer was flown to Anchorage from the Valley. Mrs. Plumley was sent to Los An geles for surgical treatment by Dr. R. E. Garrett.
 She had been patient at the Valley hospital for only a short time when pr. Garrett advised her to seek the services of a Los Angeles specialist surgeon.
 Mrs. Plumley left the Palm CT airport with MT. Green late Tuesday afternoon and was transferred immediately to the StateSbound Northwest flight from Anchorage.
 She was scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles short time later, and by this time is expected to have undergone recommended surgery there.
 Mrs. Plumley is due to return to the Valley within six weeks time.
Valley frontiersman., 1947-10-15
.l32 Buildings
 UpFor Bid

All the buildings located at 22 camp sites along the Alaska Highway will go on the block as surplus property next week, it was announced today by Lowell M. Puckett of the Bureau of Land Management. A total of 132 buildings will be sold, but bids will be submitted on lot units only.
 Buildings in the For Sale list include barracks, warehouses, messhalls, fire stations and other camp equipment. Successful pur- chasers will be required to move the buildings within a period of time set by the land office. Priority bidders. which in-
 clude federal agencies. the Re-
 construction Finance Corpora
 lion. state and local govern
 ments and non-profit institu-
 lions. will be allowed 10 days
 grace before the sale is thrown
 open 10 the public.
 These priority bidders must submit their bids between Oct. 14 and Oct. 23. The general pulp lie may bid on the structures dur ing a 2O-day period beginning Oct. "A.
 It is the intention of inc
 Valley Fire Association 10
 submit bid on a group of
 buildings which includes fire
 station. Al Hagen. member of
 the board of directors. said this week. One of the listed units
 contains total of Is buildings.
 one of which is a fire station.
 MT. Hagen said local truckers already had agreed to tear down the structure and haul it to Palmer without charge, if the Fire Association bid is accepted.
 Bid forms and detailed infor- nation concerning listed build ings may be obtained from MT. Puckett's office in Room 52 of the Federal building in Anchor age.
Valley frontiersman., 1947-10-15
Former Resident Dies

Dan Cunningham, formerly of Palmer and a longtime Alaskan resident, died in Providence hos pital at Anchorage last Thurs day morning. MT. Cunningham was former gold miner in this area.
 Little. is known of the details of his illness and death. It is be- lieved that MT. Cunningham left no relatives here and that he will be inferred in the Anchorage cemetery. Funeral arrangements were unknown at press time.
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Valley frontiersman., 1947-10-15
Palmer, Alaska, October 15, 1947
Gift Issues Go Begging

There was no one answering present to the Frontiersman rollcall at the Valley Theatre last Friday evening. Ten names were drawn. Another 10 will be drawn next Friday evening. On the final Friday of the month, names will be drawn until to- tai of 10 months subscriptions are given away.
Valley frontiersman., 1947-10-15
Pup Wants
 To Go Home

There's friendly little brown dog at the Alaska Agricultural Experiment Station who has mis- placed his owner. The Stanley Ballouns there are providing the stray with bed and board at pres ent, but they'd like to return the pooch to his proper owner.
Valley frontiersman., 1947-10-15
!WorkmenC Give Time, Money
 Project

Bankers turned plumbers, skilled union laborers donated both time and money, and farm CTS exchanged hoes for ham, mers in a cooperative communi- ty effort to complete construc- tion on nurses quarters at the Valley hospital last weekend.
 Begun more than year ago, until last weeks work, the Ar my Quonset hut standing beside the Valley hospital was just as base a structure as when it left the Army for civilian duty.
 Chores were legion before the place could be made the cheery livable quarters needed to house the staff of the Valley hospital. Hospital nurses come and go in Palmer with monotonous regu- larity, chiefly because they lack suitable living quarters. Yet the Hospital board has been unable to finance the cost of converting the idle QuonSet hut.
 Season Is Short
 With the summer construction season rapidly drawing to a close, Dr. F. R. Sims, chairman of the hospital board, recently appealed for help to finish the building. He told Chamber of Commerce members two weeks ago, that the necessary work must be completed by the end of October if the Quonset is to be used this winter.
 At that time, he called for volunteers to give time in com pleting odd jobs about the build- ing. He fixed Oct. II as a date for a community-wide work day at the hospital. However, he said it was imperative that plumbing be installed before that time.
 On Friday, Oct. 10, the plumbing was still missing from the Quonset hut. Fixtures and radiators had been donated by Neal Wright, but had not been set in the building.
 Give Days Work
 It was then that II men now working on the construction of the Matanuska hotel decided that a days labor subtracted from the hotel and added to the hospital would bring dividends to the whole Valley.
 On Friday morning these II men reported for work at the Hospital. By quitting time that evening, the plumbing was near ly installed, room partitions in- side the Quonset had been set up and a dormer window had been constructed.
 But there was still work to be done at the. end of the day. So the II men voted to contrib ute money enough to pay two
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Valley frontiersman., 1947-10-15
CUTS HIS FOOT

Jimmy Ball of Gakoma this week was admitted to the Val ley hospital for treatment of an injured foot. MT. Ball gashed the foot while chopping wood.
Valley frontiersman., 1947-10-15
Streamliner Co1ningHere Next Thursday

valley residents Will get a prevue. glimpse of the new streamliner train just imported by The Alaska Railroad, it was announced by w. c. Mau, head of the Valley Chamber of Com merce. Two days before the sleek blue and gold Diesel-pew- cred unit is brought out to per form for assembled Anchorage officialdom, the train will be in Palmer.
 Although inaugural ceremon- ies and the christening of the unit are planned for Saturday, which is Alaska Day, the stream liner will be in Palmer late Thursday afternoon. Cargo on that first trip will be 300 Anch- orage school children and their teachers.
 The trip, as first announced was planned for Friday and the train was scheduled to come only as far as Matanuska.
 When MT. Mau learned of the planned schedule, he reached for the phone and placed a call to Larry Moore, railroad public re- lations officer. He told MT. Moore that Valley residents were interested in getting first hand glimpse of the streamliner and asked that the train be brought into Palmer, most cen tral location for the Valley.
 Backs To Matanuska
 MT. Moore promised that the train would be routed here Thursday, although the big en- zine will have to back to Mat anuska in order to switch for the return trip.
 The streamliner is scheduled to leave Anchorage at 12:45 pm. and will arrive in Palmer at 2:3O. During the next hour the train will be on inspection here. On the return trip the stream, liner will leave Palmer at 3:3O p.m., arriving in Anchorage at 5 pm.
 Souvenirs of the Valley, in the form of Dixie cups of ice cream, will be distributed among the Anchorage visitors by the Chamber of Commerce. The ice cream was sold to the Chamber of oocf hx, ho
 Superintendent of Schools Carl Smelling has announced that the Palmer school children will be released from their classes at 2:15 pm. in order that they might greet their Anchorage wis itorS. .'
 Inspection Invited
 Valley residents are invited to be at the Palmer depot on Thurs day They will be escorted on an inspection tour of the seven-car train.
 The unit has four coaches, a baggage car, a mail car and a diner. Each of the passenger cars will seat 60 persons. Thirty two diners can be accommcdat- ed in the dining car, which is also a lounge car.
 The trains interior is decorat- ed in blue, gold and rust. Re clining chairs rotate so that the passenger may turn to face the window. Inside, venetian blinds reduce glare but permit vision. The cars are equipped with the most modern innovations in lighting and ventilation systems.
 10 Hours To Fairbanks
 The train has a potential speed of 98 miles an hour, although the roadbed must be greatly i'm
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Valley frontiersman., 1947-10-15

Eleven Of the members working the fe change jobs for transform Army quarters for hospital The II. three working the hus interior. tors built dorme flooring during volunteer
 day. Then they made that members
 might return and finish the work left undone. by Palmer Photographic CenterD V F -
Valley frontiersman., 1947-10-15

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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

support of schools, in the list of the fortyeight
states
1T is necessary to increase the minimum annual
downstate pension from its present inadequate
$4,000 to $4,000 1t is recommended that the maxi
mum protection be increased from the present $500
to $780,
The teachers of the State of Illinois willing to
assume an additional financial burden during their
earning years so that they may do their share in
building up system that really permits retirement.
Union teachers concerned over the present
5000 disability payment and are asking for a mini
mum of $780, with the right to acquire disability
pension Immediately from the beginning of employ
ment.
THE sub-standard living opportunities for the
greater part of our working people has caused the
justifiable demand of labor for floor in wages.
Two years ago, for the first time Illinois teachers
granted such a minimum-S1200 year. This
floor must be raised so that our schools demand
qualified young people to take the jobs for educat-
ing our children.
$500 is the level now asked fer California already
has $1,000 minimum.
ILLINOIS has state sick leave provisions for
teachers. The state should enact minimum provisions
from state funds allowing local school boards to give
further protection if possible
To make the size of the school board compulsory in
some cases deprives labor of place thereon gives
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
Threaten strike
i'm Georgia

ATLANTA - FP) "A state
wide walkout of Georgia teach
ers appeared to be developing
here if the general assembly fails
to provide funds to maintain pay
rolls at present levels after March
81.
Teachers in two counties, Bull
loch and Fannin. threatened to
walk out of their classrooms If
the assembly, fails to enact Iegis.
lation guaranteeing continuance
of the present 500 increase in
teacher salaries.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

The UE leaders planned to
meet Wednesday evening at the
Ashland Auditorium to hear the
accounts of four rank-and-file de-
legates who participated in the
Senate Labor Committee hearings
on anti-labor bills last week.
Edward Daley of Local lila,
Adam Smith of Local 1119, John
Bicek of Local 1850, and John
Bobo of Local 1154 comprised the
delegation. They carried with
them petitions bearing over TO-
600 signatures opposing the cur
rent labor-restricting proposals,
which they turned over to Chi
cago congressman.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

against the dictatorial attitude of
the school board" said Manager
Ed Thai of the Detroit Bldg.
Trades council (AFL), "undoubt-
edly will also involve the main
tenance workers employed by the
board. 1t can be pretty well taken
for granted that no member of
the ALL unions will cross any
picket lines established by the
teachers union"
The CLIO in. Detroit has pro-
missed the teachers full support
also.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

It is high time that the state of Illinois assumes the
full responsibility under its constitution for actually
proyiding common school education for all its
youth.
A common school education does not mean mere
ability to read and write, minimum OF geog-
raphy history, grammar, and arithmetic, nor only
an eighth grade diploma
It does mean well balanced knowledge of health
and hygiene of history and values of social back
grounds and culture of the capacity of our minds
and hands to do and of ability to cooperate for
mutual benefit
1t means a training in good social habits, in
thinking and reasoning, i'm sEills, in productive
accuracy and thoroughness, and in faith, hope,
and love toward fellow men.
THE training and knowledge required by the com
mon people of 1947 must be tremendously superior
to that necessary in 1870 if they to provide for
the we-being of their families, for the skill and
artistry necessary to compete in intricate mechanics
and delicate services of the modern day, and for I'M
derstandine the duties of citizen in this day OF the
United Nations
New York, California, North Carolina, and many
other states are no better than Illinois, but they
have given their children better opportunity than
has our wealthy and powerful state.
When organized labor asks the State OF lllnols TO
provide for onehalf of the cost of education from
kindergarten through the junior college for Illinois
youth it is only asking that the State of Illinois
moves from fortieth toward its righfu place In state
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

End of the biggest teachers
strike ever staged in the us. was
voted at 3-hour meeting OF the
Buffalo Federation of Teachers
(unaffillated) which was called
into session after Mayor Bernard
J. Dowd made a compromise
wage offer.
Although a number of teachers
wanted to remain out until all
their demands were met. the
majority voted for the cemsro-
mise. Raymond ]. Asst, school
principal and strike leader, said:
1.-THE feeling was that part of a
loaf should be accepted Instead
Of continuing with the walkout.
For the rest we viii have to
press our fight with the other
teachers at Albany"
=
THE mayors proposal, which
will be financed through add
tional local taxation, will grant
about 800 of the teachers a $6z5
increase for 1947-48 and the 9th
ers wilt receive raises of $500 up
ward. The new scale viii be a
$1,000 minimum for both elemen-
tary and highschool teachers with
a 5000 top for the elementary
school teachers and $3.60o for
highschool teachers.
Demands of the Buffalo, teach
erS, who began their waikeut
Feb. "a, were for an immediate
$500 cost-of-living bonus, permas
nent increases of S1,025 begin
ming next September. and a per-
manent wage scale of from So, 400
to $4,000.
The Buffalo. settlement bypased
higher wage scales proposed in
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's special
education committees report,
which made considerable cences-
sions to upstate teachers but
would force wage cuts on New
York City teachers.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08

labor defensive minority The citizens in each COM
munity should be given permission to adjust the
size within reasonable limits that the people will
be justly represented.
THE Chicago Teachers Union investigated all pos
sible sources of additional income for salary in
creases for the year 1917 Emergency legislation will
be introduced to appropriate thirty millions of the
surplus in the currents state budget for immediate
use of schools
Of this thirty million Chicago should receive at
least nine million.
Since the legislation requires a twOthirds vote,
expressions of support of local labor bodies all
over the state needed
THE Chicago Teachers Union has drawn up
bill that would establish qualified and independent
Civil Service Board of Examiners to certify teachers
and principals for appointment to positions in the
Chicago Public Schools. Thus selection and promo
ton of teachers the basis of merit only will be
assured
This measure endorsed by the Illinois State
Federation of Labor at their 1916 Convention.
Such legislation has been demanded by the Mayors
Commission of the essential requirements
for the continuance of accredtaton of the Chicago
Public Schools
THE Chicago Teachers Union supports the present
flat pension plan for Chicago teachers, which pro-
vdes the benefits to all contributors regardless
of sex, position held salary earned.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
Michigan teachers
picn strike action

FLINT, Mich. - (FP) - Fol
lowing authorization by Detroit
AF'L teachers for a strike in case
all else fails to make the board
of education bargain with them
over wages, the Flint teachers
are preparing to take a strike
vote at mass meeting March Il.
Flint teachers demand a cost
of living bonus.
n n
''The proposed strike Of the De-
troit Federation of Teachers
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
New Orleans teachers organize
despite threats

NEW ORLEANS, La-(FP)-A record number of New Or
out AFI organizing meeting despite
warnings the school board that their attending the rally
would a mistake
which brought school
fighting put a by Alexander
spokesman the teachers.
crowded" the young pretty
the meeting "The iscrowded tOO with a
There time to for the next days work. When
you're not teaching have yard duty duty, the
Junior Red Cross So do next days work at home but
you don't paid for overtime And you don't get enough
to have any domestic help gets
at midnight The next day it again.
you're a and physical wreck"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
Teachers win Buffalo school
strike; will press fight

here March this 24Oo
1925
boosts capital
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
UE stewards hear report
from Washington delegates

Shop stewards and local officers of Chicago plants organized
by the CO United Electrical Radio Machine Workers seized
frstand report Washington
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-08
A union program for Illinois teachers
By ARTHUR w. WALL and WADE ST.


Of
FMetomof labor N "pH@ through A.
undMw Wdsndsa of he Gnayo Teachers and Yves Suburban ~
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-08-14
Wet Road to Heaven

Along the upper reaches of the
Big Sandy, Brother Scanlan was a
Free Baptist preacher of force and
good deeds. One spring, he held a
revival meeting and gathered many
converts to the fold. When the time
for baptizing came the ice had not
gone out, so Brother Scanlan broke
the ice and waded into the water,
followed by his first candidate. I'm
fortunately the latter was a large
man and when the good preacher
ducked him the man slipped under
the ice and foated away down the
river. Undismayed, Baptizer Sean
Ian turned to the crowd on the bank,
lifted his head and cried, Zone
brother gone to glory. Hallelujah!
Amen-Next!
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-08-14
A Chemists View

a NALYSIS of the creature known
"A as woman as seen through the
eyes of the chemist:
Symbol: Wo.
Accepted Atomic Weight: 120.
Physical Properties: Boils at
nothing and freezes at any minute.
Melts when properly treated. Very
bitter if not we'll used.
Occurrence: Found wherever
man exists.
Chemical Properties: Possesses
great affinity for gold, silver, plati-
mum and precious stones. Violent
reaction if left alone Able to absorb
great amount of food matter. Turns
green when placed beside a better
looking specimen.
Uses: Highly ornamental, useful
as a tonic in acceleration of low
spirits and an equalizer in the dis
tribution of wealth. Is probably the
most effective income reducing
agent known.
CAUTION: Highly explosive in
inexperienced hands.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-08-14
Always Something

The old mountaineer was sound
asleep on the porch. He awoke
sleepily as his barefoot son was
shaking the daylights out of him.
Dinner is ready. paw" he an
nounced.
The mountaineer finally opened
his eyes. ''Whut are yer talkin'
about?" he drawled. Didn't jest
eat awhile ago?"
''Sure, Paw" nodded the boy.
''But tibet was breakfast. This time
it's dinner"
The weary father arose. DOG
gone," he grumbled. eff it amt
one thing, it's another!"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-08-14
They Could Loaf

The big executive had made lots
of money and had moved his family
to a fancy country place. He be-
came a gentleman farmer, but his
family was still conscious Of it's
high estate.
A neighboring farmer, trying to
be friendly, asked the daughter:
"Are your hens laying any eggs?"
''They can. of course" replied
the girl haughtily. ''but in our posi-
ton, you know, they don't really
have to-"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-08-14
Mental Hazard

A woman golfer trying to get out
of trap, said, "The traps on this
course ara very annoying, aren't
they?"
"Yes," said the second golfer try
ing to putt. would you mind clos.
Ing yours?"