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Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-29
"NoTHING NEW" IN ToLOFF KILLING

Today there were no new devel- opments to point toward the slayer of Mrs. Margaret Toloff, found beaten to death on a lonely Pal mer lane last week. Law enforce ment agents are systematically tracing every possible clue, but at press time they had no definite leads.
 There's nothing new, but we're still working on it." Deputy Mar shall Bill Bouwens stated. Mr. Bouwens is expecting Marshall Paul Herring to arrive soon for a conference which will correlate the information available in An chorage and Palmer.
 At press time, there was no def mite information concerning the whereabouts of a brown coat Mrs. Toloff was supposed to be wear ing when last seen. MT. Bouwens said he did not know whether the coat had disappeared, or whether the dead woman had left it in her son-in-law's automobile.
 The marshall scoffed at one the. ory, advanced here, that the slayer is we'll acquainted with Palmer and its surroundings, since the body was hidden beside such rarely-travelled lane. He was un- able to say whether Harvey Car
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Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-29
Guest Tickets
 For Game Dinner Are In Demand

There's no more popular person in the Valley these days than the lad or lass who holds a member ship card in the Matanuska Valley Sportsmen. The reason for the esteem of their fellow man is oc- casioned by the impending date of the Sportsmen's second annual game dinner, to be held on Sat- nrday, Oct. 8.
 Plans now are complete for the occasion, according to President Clare Stock. Food, cooked and ready to serve, will be brought to the school kitchen where it will be carved to serving portions by a special committee.
 The food then will be arranged on a buffet table set up in the gymnasium. Sportsmen and their guests, after heaping plates with their favorite game delicacies, will sit down together at a banquet table in the gym. which will be especially decorated for the oc- casion.
 Following the dinner, which is open only to members and invited guests. there win be . dance, to which all Valley residents are in- vited.
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Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-29

Been wondering when the tax collector will be knocking at your door to get your share of the fold ing money that is to help finance the Palmer school district? Rest easy, friend-it will be while yet.
 At present, nobody knows for certain just who is going to collect that tax. The Palmer school district has a tax collector that they'd like to put to work, but it's going to take legal opinion to find if he has job, first.
 The question, and by no means one which predicates a financial crisis for the school, revolves about the date when the Palmer district became incorporated. Lawyers are going to have to decide whether the district legally is entitled to any share of the property tax col lectible before the districts organ ization early last summer.
 Board members, assuming that they were responsible for assess ment and tax collection within the district, appointed Neal Miller as district assessor several weeks ago. However tax commissioner M. P. z 'Mullaney. district tax commission CT, has stated that his office will collect the tax in the Palmer dist rict. Lawyer E. C. Davis of Anch- orage is delving into the matter for the local district.
 Meanwhile, tax forms are arriv- ing in the mails in the Valley. What to do? My advice" counsels
Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-29
Hospital Board Names Manager

Mrs. Elizabeth Davis, who has been acting as head nurse at the Valley Hospital for the past sev- eral weeks, will assume the man. agership on Oct. 1, it was an- nounced today by Mrs. Neal Mill CT, hospital board publicity chair man. Mrs. Davis replaces Mrs. Janet Mills who will go Outside.
 Although the boards managerial problems are solved at present, they're still looking for an x-ray technician, Mrs. Miller said. The board particularly would prefer someone who could act as techni- clan and double as nurse when the need arose.
Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-29
Local Grocer Plans Daily
 Milk Delivery

Tentative plans for doorstep de- livery of milk, cream, dairy prod ucts and eggs were announced this week by Everett Yohn of the Val ley Grocery. MT. Yohn said the future development of the plan depended upon the need expressed by Palmer residents living within a half-mile radius of the towns center.
 The proposed route, as Mir Yohn has it outlined in his thinking, would run south of town to the families living in the vicinity of Ketchikan Spruce, out to the air. port residential area, and back to North Palmer and all of the res- idential additions there It would include all downtown families living in the area reaching to the crest of Bugge's hill on the Wasilla highway.
 The plan would entail the pur- chase of tickets by subscribers, which they would exchange with Milkman Yohn for their needs in milk, eggs, cottage cheese and cream.
 To be developed successfully, there would need to be at least 100 subscribers on the milk route, MT. Yohn estimates. If his plan is fulfilled, he will purchase the milk from the creamery of the Mata- nuska Valley Farmers Co-operat- ing Association.
 In order to definitely determine the attitude of Palmer residents with regard to the plan, MT Yohn has worked out a questionnaire. It appears on Page Six of this issue of the Valley Frontiersman. It is requested that everyone in- terested clip the questionnaire, fill it out completely, sign it and bring or mail it to the Valley Grocery.
Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-29
SUCCUMBS HERE

Joseph Mayer, 78 years of age, died at the Valley Hospital on Monday of this week. MT. Mayer is the father of Mrs. Merle Puddi- combe of the Valley.
Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-29
Valley Residents will will Discuss
 ANS School Plan

A public meeting has been called as result of the P-TA meeting held last Tuesday, when Jack Maze and William T. Zahradnicek made public the plans for the construc- tion of Eklutna school on Valley location near the center of Pal mer. The meeting, to be held next Tuesday at pm. in the Palmer Gymnasium, is expected to sound out public opinion with reference to the placing of the school here.
 The plan, as discussed by MT. Maze and MT. Zahradnicek, is completely different than that out lined by Don Foster, head of the Alaska Native Service, when he visited Palmer several months ago. MT. Foster said the ANS was seeking a location on which it was proposed to rebuild Eklutna School.
 However, present plans would construct dormitories only on the selected site atop the John Bugge hill Children entering the home would be limited to grade school pupils. These children would be enrolled in Palmer Elementary School. Best estimates now on the homes population indicate there would be 380 native children and 160 white wards of the territory.
 In order to properly educate the homes children, the ANS pro- poses to build the additional school quarters needed by Palmer School. This school would be administered and controlled by the board of the Palmer school district, which would be paid the per capita cost of educating each child from the home.
 In return for the financial and construction aid, school board members must promise that there would be no discrimination against the native children from the home additional vocational education al- so must be provided.
 Mrs Lucy Mick, president, felt that the plan needed thorough study, and asked that no P-TA action be taken until the public meeting could be scheduled. She asked that MT Maze and MT. Zah- radnicek be responsible for plan ming the meeting.
 Rev. Victor Alfsen will act as chairman. He will thoroughly re- view the plan presented by the ANS, and will answer questions from the floor. He then will ask for an expression of opinion with regard to the rebuilding of the school in Palmer.
 Howard Burkher representative from the ANS office in Anchor age, will be present. It is possible that pr. Dorothy Novatny, repre- senting the commissioner of edu- cation, also will be present at the meeting.
 It was emphasized by the plan
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Marion progress., 1949-07-21
CHRISTIANITY VS.. FREEDOM

Communism has now run afoul of a real
force.
We are talking about the call of Protestant
church leaders in session in England for Chris
tians to "stand squarely' for freedom.
It must be recalled that in the vanguard of
every worthwhile movement of freedom on
this earth, have been the Christians.
'Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall
make you free,'' spoke the Author of Christian
ity. And since He spoke those words His dici-
pies of high and low degree have dared death
and torture in every known form. They have
borne their crosses. They have been fed to the
lions. They have been burned at the stake. But
the torch of freedom which they carried for
little while is still being passed from hand to
hand on this earth
We remember back but little while to our
American Revolution where freedom of
mankind was given perhaps it's greatest impet-
us. The great Christians of the world were
also the ones who bore the brunt of the bat
ties. We think Of DR.. David Caldwell, a North
Carolina Presbyterian minister who was SO
hated by the people of his day that price was
put on his head We think of General Nathaniel
Greene, Quaker born military leader, who
yielded CORVALLIS such costly victory at
Guilford courthouse. We think of the heroes of
Kings Mountain who came from the hills and
caves of Western North Carolina with their
Kentucky rifles with but one idea in mind
to protect the freedom of their homes in the
new world. They had first learned to have this
freedom from Christian tradition and precept.
The beauty of this Christian support of free
dom is that it works from the inside. Dr. Wiser
T. Hooft, of Holland, general secretary of the
Central Council of Churches says there care
always many indications that in the Commun-
ist dominated countries of eastern Europe the
spirit is moving with power in the congrega-i
tions.''
No. With Christianity on the march, COM
munism doesn't have a chance The spirit is
what counts. And Christians have ever dared
to protect their spirits above everything.
Shelby Star.
Marion progress., 1949-07-21
LET'S MAKE 1T CERTAIN

Representative Carl Vinson of Georgia,
chairman of the House Armed Services Com
mittee, wants to amend the pending unifica-
ton bill to make certain that mo military die
tator will ever arise in the United States.''
There will be some to scott at the danger
referred to by the Georgian, but, nevertheless,
the people of this country should not be will
ing to take any chances Once the armed serv-
ices of the nation come under the control of
one man, there is the possibility that the free
dom and liberty of all Americans will depend
upon his decisions.
For this reason, we hope that Mr. Vnson
will be successful and that the Congress will
promptly pass whatever legislation may be
necessary to prevent the possibility of a future
dictator. Free people, everywhere in the world,
should be alert to future perils to liberty re-
gardless of how improbable the danger ap-
pears.
Marion progress., 1949-07-21
GET HIM! LYNCH HIM"

"There he is-get him! Lynch him!" The
cry came from angry mob, surging around
man unable to protect himself from the VEN
geance of those about him.
The quotation comes from news dispatch
telling how some 200 persons in the metropoli-
tan city of New York fought with police to Sc
cure a hit-and-run driver after an accident in
(which a boys leg was broken. Police captured
the man and took him to hospital to be treat
ed for cuts and bruises.
Coming out of the hospital, the police
fought their way back" to staton-house with
the man, whose shirt was torn in shreads by
the mob. His face and body were covered with
cuts and bruises
Only the presence of competent and cour-
ageous policemen saved the man. If the same
incident had happened in rural area where
police protection is sparce, the man would
have probably been lynched. News dispatches
do not indicate that there was any racial factor
in the New York incident.
Marion progress., 1949-07-21
Inqlis Fletcher
Writes New Novel
OF jamestown

Nags Head, N. C.-Inglis Fletch-
er, the author of several best selling
historical novels with scenes laid
in the Albemarle region of North
Carolina is now working on another
which is scheduled for publication
in 1850.
A guest at The Carolinian Hotel
here for the past several days with
her husband, John Fletcher, the
writer said that her next book, now
being written, will be built up a.
round the first permanent English
settlement in America-the James
town Colony of the early 18th Cen
tury. Her last book, Roanoke
Hundred" which has been on the
best selling list since it's publication
dealt with the Governor Lane Colon
lists of Roanoke Island area during
the late 1500s, was built up around
unsuccessful attempts to coIonize
America by the English.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fletcher returned
to their home at Bandon Plantation,
Edenton, early this week. While
here she had been one of the princi-
pal speakers on the N. c. Press As
sociation convention.
Marion progress., 1949-07-21

ing a month with Mr.. and Mrs. W.
R. Taylor.
"Mr. and Mrs. James Upton spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Miles P.
Flack at Vain Mountain
"L. A. Haney of Nealsville made
business trip to Dysartsville last
week."
By August 10, 1916, some pro-
gress was being made toward re-
pairing damage caused by the flood
the previous month. The following
items appeared in the Local and
Personal column:
"Supt. H. H. Tate and force have
made fine progress on repairing the
water works line and had hoped to
have water running into the reser-
voir by today, but owing to several
blow-outs yesterday it may be two
or three days yet before the town
will be provided with water. How
ever, work is being pushed as rap
idly as possible.
ga. W. Gillian, of Crooked
Creek Township, was in town Mon
day. this being his first trip to Ma
rion since the flood. He said his
apple house was washed away; that
his orchard and from six to eight
acres of good bottom land was bad
ly damaged, and that his corn field
is completely covered up with huge
rocks and other debris. He estimat-
es his damage at about $1,000.
"The temporary wooden bridge
over the Catawba at the Corpening
place was completed and opened
for travel last Thursday. Work is
now under progress on the Greenlee
bridge and Mr.. Grubbs hopes to
have temporary structure COM
pleted there by the latter part of
the week. In the meantime forces
are at work on the damaged spans
of the steel bridge which will be re-
placed as soon as possible"
Marion progress., 1949-07-21
THE WAY TO PREVENT A DEPRESSION

Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, has doubts
about the existence of recession.
The Texan says that when So, 100000 people
are employed in industry and 100000 farm
ers have money to buy what they need, he does
not see how anybody call it recession -
There is something in what Mr.. Rayburn
says. Undoubtedly, the nation will not go back
to its pre-war level but, just the same, it will
not maintain its economic level close to the top
of the wartime boom.
While there are many economists who pre-
dict serious depression for the United States
one should not overlook the difference between
conditions today and those that existed after
World War I. The Government continues to
spend billions of dollars, and the people of the
nation have managed to set aside something
for a rainy day."
We do not think that depression is impos-
sible but we believe that it can be avoided.
This will not be accomplished by penny pinch
ing economy or by tax reductions designed to
persuade timid business men to go ahead with
progressive programs. It centers around intell-
igent efforts to revive world trade and to create
economic conditions that will boom interna-
tional commerce higher than ever before.
Marion progress., 1949-07-21
Looking Backward
From The Progress Files
AUGUST 3, 1916

"W. C. Smith has returned from
a trip North
Robert Nichols is confined home
on account of sickness.
"Miss Agnes Phifer, of Charlotte,
is visiting Miss Joyce Decker.
"James Simmons, of Charlotte,
is visiting his cousin, Leon Justice.
"Dr. M. F. Morphew is confined
to his home on account of sickness.
"W. M. Pratt and family have
moved to the Morgan property on
Morgan street.
"Mrs. ]. E. Guy has returned from
a visit to Mr.. and Mrs. E. C. Guy at
Newland.
"Attorney J. w. Pless left Tues
day for Raleigh and Johnson City,
Tenn, on business trip.
"H. F. Little returned last week
from a business trip to New York
and other points North.
"Miss Martha Whitten returned
Sunday after visit Of three weeks
with relatives in Knoxville, Tenn.
"Mrs. S. P. Daniel and children,
of brakes Branch, Va, are visit
ing the formers mother, Mrs. J. E.
Guy.
"Miss Gladys Goodson has re-
turned home after spending the
summer school at Chapel Hill and
a visit to friends in Faison.
"Mrs. Pescud Craig, Misses Mar
garet Winslow, Elsie House, and
Grace Finley, who have been at
tending the summer school at Chap
ell Hill, returned home during the
week.
'"Miss Mary Ledbetter has Sc
cured the appointment to position
in the Treasury Department at
Washington. She left for Washing
ton last week and has entered upon
the discharge of her duties"
Marion progress., 1949-07-21
Fun In Summer
Can Be spoiled
By Home Mishap

Summertime is fun time-but} the
fun can be short-lived if a mem
Der Of your family is the victim of
a summer accident, the National
Safety Council says.
Since much of the summer ac-
tivity revolves around the home,
the Council offered these tips for
summer safety at home:
Store storm windows and other
winter equipment safely. Poor stor-
age is one of the big reasons for
accidents and fires.
Repair broken outdoor furniture,
broken porch floors or steps, rail-
ings and fences.
Clean Up Debris
Clean up winter yard debris
broken glass nails and other OBJ
jects. Be sure the children's sand
pile is clean.
Check the condition of window
screens. Repair weak frames and
wire, and be sure they are fastened
securely to keep children from fall
ing out.
Have a place for garden and
yard tools, and put them away after
each use. Lock up insecticides,
weed killers and the like.
Have guards for all electric fans
and place them out Of the reach of
children.
Don't forget that open windows
increase the possibility of gas pilot
lights blowing out. Be sure kitchen
curtains will not blow over stove.
When you can food, follow can
ming directions carefully. Never
use the oven canning method.
Marion progress., 1949-07-21
UNLoADED GUNS DANGEROUS

ing state, where a -year-old girl was kill
ed by playmate. The children had gotten hold
of shotgun and didn't know it was loaded
Apparently, the gun had been kept around
the house although the owners were under the
impression that it could not be fired. The ham,
mer had been jamned, and, besides, it wasn't
"loaded.''
those who read this article will take extra pre-
caution in regard to firearms that may be lying
around the house. This is especially important
where children play because parents, even of
the utmost intelligence, can never foresee what
children will do or what they will get to play
with.
Marion progress., 1949-07-21
DYSARTSVILLE

"Our farmers are most through
threshing wheat. They report the
crop badly damaged by the heavy
rains of the past few weeks.
eve are glad to say that this
place has not sustained very heavy
damage from the flood, There was
some damage, of course, but our
loss is light compared with other
sections.
"Miss Ethel Cowan is home from
the Asheville Normal School.
&C. N. Duval spent several days
with homefolks here last week.
"Misses Maggie and Mamie Co.
forth returned last Thursday from
Greensboro where they attended
the summer school for teachers.
"Crawford Lands has returned
from Georgia.
&c. D. Taylor of Nebo was Wis
itor here one day last week.
az. R. Cowan and Miss Iona Go.
forth left Sunday for Chapel Hill
where they will open school today
"J. F. Parker made a business
trip to Crooked Greek last week.
'Miss Maggie Goforth left Sun.
dap to open school at Vein Noun.
tain Monday.
"Miss Begina Matthews and Mrs
Tobie Persley Of Rock Hill, S. c..
returned home today after spend
Marion progress., 1949-07-21
EARLY CANCER is Durable!

The American Cancer Society stresses the ne
cessity of educating the public to the fact that
early cancer is curable It also wants the pub
lie to realize the number of Americans who
die from cancer every year.
For some reason, relatives of those who die
of the dread disease are reluctant to announce
the cause of DEATH This feeling is so wide
spread that a prominent Georgia society wo-
man, knowing that she would die of cancer,
specified that the cause of her death be made
public.
The cause of cancer is notsyet thoroughly
understood but medical men and scientists are
working hard to discover the facts about the
disease. They tell you, however, that every
person should be carefully examined for pos
sib1e cancer because, and don't forget it, "early
cancer is curable'
Marion progress., 1949-07-21

The oldest known man in the
world was produced about 4,50O
years ago. A clay tablet unearthed
in ruins 200 miles north of Bah
ylon, it is now preserved in the
Semitic museum Of Harvard Univer-
sity.
Marion progress., 1949-07-21

believe the first test Of truly great man is
his humility. I do not mean, by humility, doubt
of his own power. But really great men have
curious feeling that the greatness is not in
them but through them. And they see some
thing divine in every other man, and are end
lessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful-Ruskin.
Marion progress., 1949-07-21

North Carolina laying hens pro-
duced an average Of 17.3 eggs each
during April. Total number of eggs
produced was I27.
Marion progress., 1949-07-21

People who own yards that are waist-high
in weeds, should be made to clean them up
Marion progress., 1949-07-21

If you think you're too busy to write letters
to that loved one away from home, send The
Progress It's like "letter from home.''
Marion progress., 1949-07-21

Farm residents join in the observance
of National Farm Safety Week. 1949, by re-
solving to do things the right way, which is the
safe way.
Marion progress., 1949-07-21

There aren't many workers, however eff
cient, who won't take time out for little re-
Taxation when the boss is absent.
Marion progress., 1949-07-21

Freedom of speech is valuable possession
of every but it is foolish individual who
speaks too freely.
Marion progress., 1949-07-21

You don't have to go to church, even your
own, but the practice will not hurt you.
Marion progress., 1949-07-21

The average youngster can tell his, or her
parents how life should be lived, and then
some.
Marion progress., 1949-07-21

Advertise, brother, advertise; wiser mer-
chants than you have done it to their own ad-
vantage.
Marion progress., 1949-07-21

Life changes; our neighbors no longer take
pride in the vegetables that they grew
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