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Valley frontiersman., 1948-03-20
Shamrocks Meet Moose In PHS Gym Saturday

Palmer's Shamrocks are plan ming to conclude a highly suc- cessful basketball season with what promises to be the best game of their career, when they meet the Moose, leaders of the Anchorage city league, on the local court Saturday evening.
 The game is one for which the local squad has long been plan. ming, for manager Duny Philips, guard and high scorer of the Moose squad, asked for game dates several weeks ago. Philips should provide some of the fin est basketball thrills of the sea- son, when he appears in the Pal mer gym Saturday, for he was high scorer of the Anchorage league during both halves of the just-completed season.
 Two high school squads will play an 8 o'clock preliminary to the Stacey-managed Shamrocks featured engagement. Contend ing for victory in that first game will be the graduating members of the Palmer high school varsity against the varsity undergradu- ateS.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-03-20
Polio Group Is Disbanded

The Valley chapter of the In- fantile Paralysis Foundation, which has been inactive this year, met last Tuesday evening to vote for disbanding of the local group.
 Principal subject of discussion at the Tuesday meeting, was dis position of the fund of slightly more than $45O remaining in the local treasury.
 It was the groups decision to equip an isolation room in the Valleys permanent hospital, con- struction of which is soon to get under way here. Polio patients always will have first priority for use of the room, it was stipu- lated. However when no polio patients are hospitalized, the room is to be used as an isola- ton room for disqualification of anyone with an infectious disease.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-03-20
Now They've Done It

They've changed their minds again. The ladies of the Butte Homemakers' club, who set their meeting back last week, this week have changed their minds and moved it to new date again.
 That meeting now is scheduled to be held on Monday, March 22, at the home of Mrs. Diana Nc Kechnie. The club secretary will issue zero-hour communiques, should the matter require further changing.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-03-20
EIks Ask To Come Again

That last Saturdays weekend excursion was marked success for 175 visiting Elks and their ladies was fully proven by the visitors themselves. They ex- pressed the wish to come back to Palmer for another excursion in the coming year.
 About 125 of the visitors ar rived by special train Saturday evening and returned early Sum- day morning. The remainder of the group drove to Palmer in private cars.
 They were entertained at a dance and buffet supper in the Palmer gym, at a dance in the new hall in the Wright Bldg, and at number of private parties.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-03-20
Pace Family Thanks Valley

The Pace family of Lynden, Washington this week sent this note of thanks to Valley friends for their expression of sympathy at the recent death of Julius Pal mer, father of Mrs. Pace:
 We wish to thank the friends and neighbors of our father, Julius B. Palmer, for their kind ness, floral offerings and the memorial gifts"
 Mrs. Lydia Pace
 and family. Valley friends who wish to write Mrs. Pace, may reach her by addressing her at Lynden.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-03-20
CHURCH OF GOD FULL GOSPEL

George Savchenko, pastor
 Sunday Sunday School, 10 am. Morning Devotions, II am Services at Butte, 3 pm.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-03-20
FAIR BOARD TO MEET

Members of the recently elected board of directors of he Valley Fair Association will meet next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in the Extension office. Election of officers and a study of proposed bylaw revisions is on the order of business for the evening.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-03-20
C OF C BOARD TO MEET

Members of the board of di- rectors of the Valley Chamber of Commerce will meet next Wednesday in the study at St. Johns Lutheran church, presi- dent Jack Maze announced this week. Approval of standing com mittees for the years work is one of the matters on the agenda for the evening.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-03-20
HILLToPPERs TO MEET

The Hilltop Service club vii. meet at the home of Mrs. Louis Ungaro at the farm next Wednes- day. Mrs. Rex Monahan will as- sist Mrs. Ungaro as co-hostess at this meeting.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-03-20

Members of the Legion of the Moose will meet in Palmer's Moose Hut at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. They're to plan the next Moose frolic, which will be held in Anchorage.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-03-20
PLAN TO WED

Miss Veronica Heck, Anchor age schoolteacher, and Clarence Walston filed application to marry at the U. s. Commission CTS office here this week. De tails of their marriage plans are not yet known.
Evening star., 1948-02-11
Gun and Fiddle Pleasant Memories OF Yukon
Pop Morgan Has Won Contest SO and Violin He Poyed

1000 ems of hand-set type and
he could set about 1900 an hour.
He was a model of sobriety and
drew a fat pay envelope each
week. The son of a Methodist
minister and an ardent. foe Of
demon rum, Morgan would. sidle
up to the bar with the toughest
miners in the Klondike, but when
they called out for three fingers
of good, raw whisky he pulled a
lemon from his pocket and asked
for a hot lemonade. His reputa-
ton as a marksman was suf-
ficient guarantee against trouble
if anybody objected to his choice
Of drinks.
whisky helped me win the
Westy Hogan tournament at At
lantic City one year." he recalled.
Another fellow and myself broke
an even 100 birds to tie for the
prize and got 20 more in the first
round of the shoot-off. Then,
before starting the next round he
took a drink and missed a bird
while I got 20 more and won the
prize"
One OF tn most valued trophies
of several thousand dollars worth
collected by Morgan during his
career in the States was a silver
bowl awarded him by the w. c.
T. U. Drink, ne always told his
miner-cronies, wasn't nearly as
warming and satisfying as hot
lemonade and he abided by that
theory.
Pop has won more District
trapshooting titles than a college
freshman can count and in 1919
he tied with Frank Wright of
New York and Bill Akard of Mis-
souri, for the North American
championship at 1879 out of 200
He missed the 95th bird and had
to break 105 in a Sow to get into
the shoot off.
Morgan still thinks about the
old Alaskan days, remembering
, watermelons selling for $50 each,
coffee Is cents a cup, and pro-
portionately high prices in those
comparatively inexpensive times.
Even had a fellow who
charged us 81 letter for deliver
ing mail to miners along the
trail" he said. "He got disguised
one day and threw his pack on
the snow and said help yourself,
and I found Is letters from
home"
Would he like to go back again?
I'D go in a minute if I had
any way Of getting there" he
says, his eyes flashing with the
eager CLINT of a sour dough
Give me that 40-below Alaskan
weather to this 20-above Wash
ington temperature. It's like
summertime up there compared
to this.S
Evening star., 1948-02-11

name of Morgan on the violin
case. And when Lloyd discovered
his new employe was a crack
shot he had him stand guard
duty over sluice boxes containing
$4,000 and more of the wildly
sought metal.
Morgan and his partners
struck it rich themselves and
didn't know it. They shovelled
up some $1,000 worth of gold
dust in five days, then quit the
claim when the pay streak ap-
parently ran out. Another crew
came along later. hit a richer,
deeper vein at the same spot and
made a fortune.
But money was easy in those
feverish days of prospecting. Be-
tween working claims Morgan
spent his time as a printer on the
Dawson Midnight Sun and struck
up an acquaintance with Jack
London and Robert w. Service,
author and poet. who later were
to win immortality with the pen.
He shot the White Horse rapids
in a 26-foot boat with Will Dickey
of Seattle, discoverer of Mount
Mckinley, and lost $500 pounds
of food and supplies when the
boat was wrecked,
Pop, or Doug, as he was known,
made good money printing. On
the Sun he was paid $1.50 per
Evening star., 1948-02-11
Record Breaking Golf
by Pros
In Texas Tourney
Ny the Assoeigtsd Press

HARLINGEN, Tex, Feb. 1.-THE
crack shots of golfdom have started
tearing Harlingen municipal course
apart, indicating that the Lower
Rio Grande Valley Open, beginning
tomorrow, will see the worst deba-
Gle in par wrecking along the win
ter tournament trail.
Fresh from the Texas Open at
San Antonio, where the touring
pros and a sprinkling of amateurs
bested regulation figures 148 times
in three days of rain and cold, the
field moved through its second
tuneup over the 6,045-yard course,
with is of the entries having al
ready clipped par 35-36-7l figures.
Some of the others either didn't
play the full course or didn't keep
score, as they practiced putting on
each green.
Field Of It's Entered.
Ben Hogan, Jimmy Demaret,
Bobby Locke and National Open
Champion Lew Worsham joined the
touring brigade today. They went
from San Antonio to Corpus Christi
for an exhibition yesterday while
their fellow-players got in first
rounds at the local course.
Some ITS will begin the battle for
the $4,000 in prizes tomorrow, but
rs of them will be eliminated in
the first 18 holes. This means OF
thinning the field was taken in
preference to a qualifying round
Eighteen more holes will be played
Friday and the low go and ties
will go into 18-hole rounds Satur-
Gay and Sunday.
The record for the course over
the 72-hole route is 266, set by
Henry Picard in 1941. But Tony
Butler, local pro, predicts the par
shattering army will push the win
ner to 262. 1t is a short course,
the greens are smooth as glass and
Butler even thinks his own COM
petitiye course record of 81 will be
bettered.
THE man with the best putter
will win," said Tony. -.. ..
Players to Hold Clinic.
A golf clinic with 16 of the
name players" doing the demon
strating will be held this afternoon
1t will be the only one in Texas.
All of the stars of the winter
tour except Sam Snead, the drawl-
ling Virginian who won the Texas
Open, are here. Snead returned
home to Hot Springs, Va, to- work
on his income tax.
Leading money winners to date
this year are Lloyd Mangrum OF
Chicago, with $5,988.33, and Locke
the South Africa putting wizard
with $5,745.83.
Best tune-up round shot yester-
day was a 65 by Dale Andreason OF
GlenWew, Ill.
Evening star., 1948-02-11
Murray Is Suspended
By Ring koguIs, but
Receives His Purse

Lee G. Murray, one-rotnd techfli-
cal knockout victim of Johnny
Haynes on Monday nights fight
card at Turner's Arena, Is under q
90-day suspension after yesterdays
District Boxing Commission hear
ing. However, his purse of $3.50,
held up pending the hearing, was
released. The suspension Is effec-
tive in all National Boxing Associa-
ton States.
The reason given for the s,spen.
sion was unsatisfactory perform.
ance," but the commission was un-
able to find any explanation for
Murray's performance. Murray, q
prominent and liked heavy.
weight fighter for years, couldn't
explain the poor showings made in
Mondays fight and q previous one
In which he also was knocked out.
Those are the only two knockouts
against him In eight years Of fight.
ing. He went undefeated through
1947.
Murray denied he was taking Q
"dive," and there was no evidence
that he did. Also there was no
evidence Of drugs or alcohol Best
explanation may be that all OF O
sudden he's reached the end Of
the road. Certain it is that his
crouching, stumbling performance
Monday was far different from his
usual stand-up mixing style that
had made him a popular fighter
throughout the East. It was sug-
gested by Boxing Commissioners
Thomas Morgan and Clarence Talley
that Murray use his 90-day suspen- j
sion to get q thorough physical
checkup.
Questioning by. these commits
sioners brought to light some un-
savory things about the boxing
game, however. Murray said the
reason he had not had more big
fights, but was forced to fight in
such small clubs as Turner's, was
that he refused to do business"
"All the big boys wanted me, to do
business, but I wouldn't, and I've
had hard time getting fights, even
when I'm ranked in the first 10 all
the time. never would do business,
and that's why have to fight for
small purses"
Murray also revealed that it cost
him $3.50 to fight Shamus O'Brien in
New York last December. He had
to guarantee O'Brien $1,000 to fight
him, and O'Briens percentage end,
of the gate was $3.50 less than that, i,
which Murray had to make up. He
wanted that fight, he said, because
it was in New York and because it
would be shown on television. He
beat O'Brien with q second-round
knockout.
Evening star., 1948-02-11
Hia|eah Sprint Today
May Provide Answer
Ito Armed Riddle
BY the Assoeioted Press

MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 11.-Today's
SIC, ,000-added Seminole Handicap at
Hialeah Park may provide the
answer to the Armed riddle.
If Calumet Farms golden gelding
wins the ,7-furlong dash or even
shows some of his old speed, he will
be pointed for his rematch with
Assault in the Widener.1 - .s'>s'
But If his performance with top
impost of 1923 pounds is no better
than his sixth place finish in an
overnight handicap 10 days. ago, he
may be taken out of training for a
while. e. 80.
Calumet General Manager Ben
Jones and Trainer H. A. (Jimmy)
Jones are anxious to know If the
7-year -old still has the spark and
speed that carried his turf winnings
to $767, ,700-second highest in turf
history.
Warren Wright, owner Of Calumet,
will have two other threats in the
race-Faultless at 124 pounds and
citation, carrying 112. Citation won
the sprint handicap in which Armed
failed last week.
Seven other dependable perform
ers have been named for today S
feature, tuneup for the $4,000
Widener to be run February 81.
Principal competition is expected
from Woolford Farms delegate, at
1913 pounds, and Sunshine Stables
Buzfuz, going at 122. Buzfuz won
the event last year and the $4,000
Gulfstream Handicap last month.
Early odds favored the Calumet
entry at 2-5 and Hialeah officials
predicted it would produce minus
pool in wagering. Last week the
citation victory, paying 10 cents on
the dollar, cost the track about
So, 400.
Indications were for "fast" track
and a crowd of about 10000 was
expected, with wagering likely to
exceed 100000 for the 10th
straight day.
Evening star., 1948-02-11
Garden Goes 10 Dogs
2,540 Of Them
By the Assoeiofed Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 11.-Madison
Square Garden went to the dogs
today.
The best CANNES in the country
2,540 of them-were on display in
the 72d annual Westminster Kennel
Club show.
ALL but the puppies already are
blue ribbon winners. Tomorrow
night a new best-of-show champion
will be picked from a half dozen
variety group winners.
The blue ribbon feature of the
show is new. Only dogs that won
firsts at previous shows licensed by
the. Canadian or American Kennel
Clubs have been admitted.
Thirty-nine States, the District o1
Columbia and Canada are repre-
sented in the show. There are more
dachshunds - 148 of them - than
anything else, followed by boxers
139; fox terriers. 113, and collies, 108
Altogether, 102 breeds are en-
| tered
Evening star., 1948-02-11

better team. With Simon back in
the lineup, the Lions defeated Syra-
cuse, 40-35, on Saturday.
Despite its 500 record, Penn State
ranks fourth in the Nation on de-
fense, according to the latest NCAA
figures. Only Oklahoma A. and M.
Alabama and wyoming top the
Lions.
Georgetown will be making Its
first appearance locally since 1t up
set Texas Wesleyan January "a
The Hoyas have lost two since then
but their opposition was Holy Cross
and N. c. State, the best In New
England and the Southern Confer
ence.
Terps' Lineup Revised.
Maryland will present a slightly
patched lineup tonight with Spen-
Ger Wright, who was ineligible for
the-first half of the season due to
previous schooling at Bloomsbury
Pa, Teachers, in the starting line
up. Wright will replace Bill Wan
ish, who resigned from the team
and left school last week.
Maryland has a 6-won and 3-lost
standing in the Southern Confer
ence but with two games with the
Colonials and one with North Caro-
lima and a road trip coming up, the
Terps could we'll use a victory to-
night to insure a place in the Con-
ference tournament. George Wash
ington already is assured OF a tour
nament invitation with 10-s
standing.
G.. w. will be without Dave
Shapiro for the remainder of the
season but the other eight of Coach
Art Zahn's FIRST nine" are ready
including Bill Cantwell, captain anc
the second high scorer in the con
ference, and Maynard Haithcock
steady center.
Evening star., 1948-02-11
Program 10 Be 1ipoff
To Schools Plans
For Future TiIfs
By MerreII WhittIesey

The biggest collegiate basket ball
bargain ever offered locally-and at
no advance in prices-f1nds George
washington and Georgetown pre-
senting double at the Ma
tional Guard Armory tonight with
the Colonials entertaining Maryland
at s o'clock and the Hoyas hosts to
Penn State at 9:45.
Both G. w. and Georgetown will
be looking for box Office encourage
ment tonight If they are to plan twin
bills Of major proportions next year,
when the Armory seating capacity
will be boosted.
Although only George Washington
takes a winning record into tonight's
games, there doesn't appear to be
more than point or two difference
in either game. The Colonials have
won Is and lost 5, but Maryland,
with an 8-and-8 mark, has beaten
two teams that defeated G.. w. on
trips here-South Carolina and
Washington and Lee.
Hoyas Have ell Record.
Georgetown, with a good claim TO
the toughest schedule In the Nation,
has won 8 and lost II while the
Nittany Lions, zone defense masters
of intercollegiate basket ball, show
an even break in IL games. Penn
State, however, numbers West Vir-
ginia, Syracuse and Colgate among
its victims.
Tonight,s program calls for four
bands, with the Army Air Forces
Band entertaining between games
and George Washington, Maryland
and Georgetown student units vie
ing at other times. Halftime
amusement will include show by
boxers and acrobats from the boys
clubs.
Georgetown and George Wash
ington student books will be hon
ored, with students confined to one
sideline and one end zone. The pub
lie will find the entire balcony, one
sideline and one end zone open.
Broke Even Last Year.
In home -and-home series last
year, the rivals in both games to-
night broke even. Maryland beat
G. w. at College Park, but lost to
the Colonials at Uline's, while Penn
State topped the Hoyas here but
Georgetown squared accounts at
State College.
Penn State depends mostly on
Milt Simon, Irwin Batnick and Syl-
vester- Bozinski and the fact that
John Lawther has record as one
of the slickest coaches in the busi-
ness. The Lions always have given
Georgetown lots of trouble. even
when the Hoyas obviously had the
Evening star., 1948-02-11
Huefner and Yost Sign
Contracts With Mats

Pitcher Mickey Haefner and In
fielder Eddie Yost joined the in
creasing list of Mats who have signed
contracts, Secretary Edward B.
Eynon, jr., announced today on the
receipt of a telegram from the Mats
boss. Clark Griffith, now is in Or
lando, Fla, Washington's spring
training base.
Outfielder Leon Culberson and In
fielder Clarence (Jay) Difani for
warded' signed contracts to Griffith
YESTERDAY.
Evening star., 1948-02-11

shooting around town knows of
the gun the former secretary of
the Washington Gun Club won
in a contest at the Arctic shoot
ing gallery so years ago, 1t was
the first Remington pump gun
brought into the gold fields and
still shoots true. But the violin
he packed, also the first to 60
into the Klondike, is just as
much a part of his story.
USED to ride a bicycle so miles
from Crete to Lincoln, Nebr., to
take lessons when I was a stu
dent at Doane College" he told
U.s.. And 1 played up until
four years ago when I had a
stroke. Used to play at the
Methodist Church in Vienna,
Va, but I don't have much con-
troll over the fingers in my left
hand any more" he added, ig-
noring the fact that few persons
recover from such things at his
advanced age of 78 years.
The fiddle was a gift of his
brother. the late Raymond Nor
gan, Washington correspondent
for New York newspapers, and
while his shooting piece kept
fresh meat on the table the vio-
lin brought a ray of sunshine
into the miners drab lives and
helped relieve the monotony of
their dull existence.
"You should have seen me at
Circle City the time played for
some miners who'd been in the
Arctic two years and hadn't
heard a note of music in all that
time. They kept me up all night
playing for them" Pop said.
The fiddle, too. got him his
Sirst job in the Klondike when
Tom Lloyd, Welsh foreman of
the fapeus No. II El Dorado
mine, n6eced the good Welsh
Evening star., 1948-02-11
Gonzales Spurns
Davis Cup Offer
For Citizenship
BY the Asseeiafed Press

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11.-Ten-
mis- Player Richard (Pancho)
Gonzales says he has turned
down an offer to represent Mex
leo in the Davis Cup challenge
round play next summer.
The 20-year-old Gonzales said
last night: When representa-
tive of the Bank of Mexico made
the offer I didn't realize that II
"a accepted I would lose my
american citizenship. I prize
my citizenship above all the BEN
efits and after discussing the
problem with my parents, I made
up my mind to stay right here. !"
He plans to campaign IN the
East next summer. e
Evening star., 1948-02-11
BeIeion Figure Skaters
Capture World Crown
BY the Associated Press

DAVOS PLATZ, Switzerland, Feb.
1.-the Belgians Micheline Lannoy
and Pierre Baugniet today won the
world championship in figure skat-
ing.
/. They defeated the European cham-
pions, Hungarians Andrea Kekessy
and EIDE Kiraly, who placed second.
Six judges ranked the Belgians In
first place, three judges ranked the
Hungarians in first place. I
Evening star., 1948-02-11
Gridiron Dodgers Sign
VoyIes for ; Years
By the Associoted Press

BROOKLYN, N. Y, Feb. IL
Brooklyns gridiron Dodgers today
were one good step up long trail
to success in the Au-America Foot
ball Conference.
They have a new coach and eight
new players signed to contracts.
Now, Branch Hickey declared, "be
patient with us and We will have
the best football club in the league" "
Hickey, who spends most of his
time guiding the baseball Dodgers.
didn't suggest how long patience
would have to substitute for results.
Carl Voyles, formerly of Auburn,
is the new coach and director Of
football. Hickey announced yes
terday that Voyles had signed for
three years. AS usual, he didn't say
for how much.
Evening star., 1948-02-11
Belmont Races Value
Increased to $780, 900
Rx the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-THE Jock
ey Club Gold Cup, 2-mile classic to
be run at Belmont october 2, has
been increased in value from SEE, 900
to 100000, it was disclosed today
with announcement of complete
1948 stake dates for New York
States five racing associations.
A total of lis fiat and jumping
stakes, carrying $2,665 900 in added
money, will be offered during the
196-day New York season, which
begins April l at Jamaica. This
does not include the United Hunts
meeting to be run at Belmont June
Is and Is.
Evening star., 1948-02-11
Miami Yachts
Nearing Finish Line
Nv the Associated Press

py ms ~sSOSidico TWO
MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 11.-Ten OF the
II yachts which started the 1884,
mile Miami Nassau race were
nearing the finish line early today.
The 18th, the Lord Jim, skippered
by James J. O'Neill of Manhasset
Bay, Long Island. withdrew from
the race yesterday without giving
any reason. At that time it was 6
miles west of Great Isaac Light
and reported it was returning to
Miami in good order"
The 72-foot ketch Ticonderoga,
sailed by Allen P. Calisle of Miami,
moved into the lead at the end of
the first mile after the craft got
away yesterday.
Aided by calm sea and with a
19-mile northeast wind, the yachts
began to round Great Isaac Light,
about one-third the journey, with
the Ticonderoga still in the lead.