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Valley frontiersman., 1951-01-12
Pretty and Talented Valley Girls Eligible for Queen of Rendezvous

Palmer's attractive and talented young ladies will be interested in learning that they are also eligible this year to become the Queen of the Fur Rendezvous. The contest went into full swing in Anchor age last week with the announce ment that it is a wide open race with any local bona fide organiza- tion or outlying community or city allowed to be represented by candidates.
 Entries are now being accepted for the Rendezvous Queen which this year will be selected under prevailing Miss America contest rules with the local winner going to compete in the Miss Alaska contest. The winner of that con- test will then take part in the Miss America event at Atlantic City next summer, according to Hal Bockoven, manager of the 1851 Fur Rendezvous.
 To enter as a Queen Candidate the Rendezvous committee must be satisfied that the young wom- an can meet all the requirements, which are as follows:
 l. Contestant must be resi-
 dent of city or territory for six
 months prior 10 contest. This
 rule is waived for contestants whose residence is out of city or territory. but who is a col
 lege or university student in city or territory where contest is held at the lime contest is
 held. She may not compete in
 more than one official prelim- mary contest each year.
 2. Contestant must be single and never have been married, divorced, or had marriage an nulled.
 3. Contestant must be high school graduate or a senior at tending high school at time of contest
 4. Contestants age on Septem- Der l, 1851, shall be not less than eighteen, nor more than twenty eight years of age.
 5. Contestant must be of good character and possess poise, per sonality, intelligence, charm and beauty of face and figure.
 6. Contestant must possess and display in a three-minute
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Valley frontiersman., 1951-01-12
MEA HAS 30 NEW
 CHUGIAK LINE USERS

Matanuska Electric Association announced this week that there are now 30 new consumers on the Chugiak line which runs from Eklutna power plant to Peters creek. Work on the new line to Evan-Jones coal mine is also pro- gressing, Mrs. Ruth Pierson, man ager announced, although MEA is still short of strategic materials to make the final hook up, she said.
Valley frontiersman., 1951-01-12
Call Roland Snodgrass From Palmer 10 Senate Hearing Set January I8

hOlanQ SnOdgraSS, secretary of the Palmer Airport Association, summoned to Washington, D. C., to attend Senate investigating committee hearing on the Pal mer Airport deal" is to leave here Sunday for the capital. MT. Snod- grass has been called as a witness for hearing set for next Thurs day, January 18, together with Tony Schwamm, director of the Alaska Aeronautics Commission, and Stanley McCutcheon of An chorage, counsel for the Commis- sion. According to word received at Anchorage by MT. McCutcheon from Senator Clyde H. Hoey, David Duncan and Joseph Hatton, District Engineer employees, will also be called to the capital as witnesses at the hearing.
 We welcome any kind of an investigation they want to make" Clair Stock, vice president of the Palmer Airport Association, said here this week. "All the informa- tion in our possession has been available and our books have al ways been open to anyone con cerned with these investigations" MT. Stock added. MT. Stock is acting president in the absence of Rex Monaghan, president of the association, who has been Outside for the past year. Leo Lucas is treasurer and Ralph Goodrich a board member of the Association.
 Too bad they don't take the
 $l00.000 ii will take 10 make
 this investigation and use ii 10
 put a hard surface on the air
 port and some kind of facilities
 10 mark the runwaYs for pilots
 landing here" Mir. Stock said.
 Right now discarded Christmas
 frees have been placed by resi-
 dents of Palmer to indicate the
 runwaYs on the snow covered
 field.
 In giving a short resume of the history of the Palmer Airport As sociation, Mr. Stock pointed out that when residents here got to- gether to try and get some kind of an airstrip, Palmer was "actu- ally about the only community in Alaska that didn't have some kind of a landing strip where air planes could land"
 In 1899 four local organiza-
 lions got together to try and
 remedy the lack of an air strip
 here. Those organizations were
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Valley frontiersman., 1951-01-12
LOCAL nIhp0RT InVES TICnTIon REOpEnEn
ORDERS POSTED HERE SET INCORPORATION HEARING FOR FEB. Is

An order from the Third Dis trict Court signed by Judge An thony Dimond setting February Is, 1851, as the time of hearing at Anchorage on the proposed in- corporation of Palmer, was posted in six different public locations in Palmer this week. The loca- tions include the post office, Kos losky's store, Matanuska Valley bank, Matanuska hotel, Hartley Brothers garage, and the Palmer fountain in the Coop building.
 The petition which was pre-
 sented by Attorney Harold J.
 Butcher to the Third District
 Court on January 5. was signed
 by 228 residents of the proposed
 area for incorporation. Of these
 signers more than 90 are prop
 ertY owners here. business men
 behind inc incorporation move
 pointed out today.
 The petition presented last Fri day is the second bid that Palmer has made for incorporation within the past few months. A previous petition for an election on incor- poration was denied by Judge Dimond on September 29, 1850, following court hearing.
 Eight facts and needs" are
 listed in the present petition to
 show grounds for incorporation. "A financial statement listing
 estimated revenues and expen-
 ditures. both totaling $46.750.
 is attached 10 the petition.
 Failure to present "any finan- cial statement showing sufficient funds can be found to maintain such a city" was one of the three counts on which Judge Dimond based his denial last September. Another was that considerable area of farm lands" was included in the proposed incorporation lim- its. Some of the farm land has been eliminated from the area cited for incorporation in the present petition.
 In the present petition it is also declared that farm land operated as a farm unit will not be taxed at a higher rate than farm land outside of the city limits. How ever, any land subdivided from farm land will be taxed at regular city rates.
 The pressing need" in the area for fire, police and health pro- lection, utility services, surfaced etc., are cited as we'll as the petitioners declaration that further growth of the community, which now numbers more than 800, will be handicapped without the benefits of municipal gov following the commence ment of work on the Eklutna project. AKrD C~T@NY @YYYY nnrRY
Valley frontiersman., 1951-01-12
To Transmit Air Raid Warning to Palmer
 Through ACS Facilities

The installation of direct line from Elmendorf Air Force Base to Palmer for the transmission of air raid warning information is not possible, Maj. James B. Grif- fin, Civil Defense officer for the 10th Air Division informed Di- rector Walter E. Huntley in let ter received here this week. The letter was in answer to MT. Hunt ley's recent request for the direct line.
 Air raid warning will be transmitted. however. over ACS on a priority basis. according 10 tentatively approved plans. Major Griffin added. This would result in the warning reaching inc telephone ex- change in Palmer rapidly and in the best means present avail able. the major explained. The suggestion that one of the An
 chorage radio stations be mon itored constantly as secondary means of receiving air raid warning information is also considered sound by the nili- tarY. Major Griffin added.
 At a meeting called last Mon day by the local Civilian Defense committee, at which six people were present, a carefully set up proposed rationing plan for this vicinity was submitted by Mrs. Barbara Smart. The plan was worked out by Mrs. Smart and Elmer Leduc heading the supply service committee of the local Civilian Defense.
 Miss Marjorie MYren. public health nurse here who has been named head of special weapons defense. reported that Frank Pauls has volunteered 10 carry on an additional blood tYpine program here. The program is one suggested by pr. C. C. Bailey at a previous meeting of the Civilian Defense commit tee. when he said that adults of the community should also be typed. MT. Pauls. assistant di- rector of the Division of Public. Health Labor atories. had also indicated willingness 10 arrange for metal dog tags" for the program. The dog tags similar to those issued 10 soldiers in the Army are now on hand in An. chorage and would be used as the official blood type card to be carried by all men. women and children who have been typed. Ii was also indicated that the tags would be provided here without charge upon prop CT request being made. ..:.
 William T. Zahradnicek, deputy director of the civilian defense committee here, announced that Mrs. Allen Mick will be in charge of the, emergency welfare divi- sion. Mrs. Mick will be assisted
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Valley frontiersman., 1951-01-12

Palmer High School plays Hailbelt confer ence basketball game
 at Anchorage tomor- row night.
Valley frontiersman., 1951-01-12

Graduate Nurses of Matanuska V alley meet tonight. Health Center. 8 PM.
Evening star., 1951-03-18

Mrs. Minnie Louise Raul,
well-known Washington artist,
has prepared for The Sunday
Star Pictorial Magazine a series
of etchings and pencil sketches
of interesting trees here and in
other parts of the country.
There are 18 drawings in all,
each accompanied by a brief
explanatory text by the artist.
To Mrs. Raul, every tree has a
character, or personality, of its
own, and it is this quality
often elusive-that she seeks to
capture in her pictures.
Readers of The Star whose
memories go back to 1889 may
recall with pleasure a series in
the same vein which Mrs. Raul
(then Minnie L. Briggs did
for the rotogravure section
under the title, Famous Trees
of Washington and Vicinity"
Since then, she has discovered
and sketched these other trees
Comrades of the Road" she
calls them because. she ex-
plains, They have frightened
my travels"
The accompanying article,
with it's Illustrations, is in the
nature of prologue to the new
series, which will start next
Sunday, March Is.
Evening star., 1951-03-18

This is not every dogs day, but
with $50 of them taking over the
National Guard Armory, it may
seem that way at the National
Kennel Clubs annual all-breed
show.
One of the American Kennel
Clubs most venerable enterprises
the show gets under way at noon
and runs through a long per-
formance by dogs and handlers
of all sorts.
Big dogs and little dogs, cham
pions and near-champions, will
vie for top honors. The tiny
Chihuahuas, babied in heated
cages, and the huge Saint Ber-
nards and bull mastiffs, will come
Evening star., 1951-03-18

first shown here), Biard, a Rott-
weller, a Harrier and blood
hound.
Among the II Pekingese will be
one with national championships
won in the United States, Eng
land, Canada and Cuba.
The obedience classes duSng
the afternoon will draw an even
so contestants. Young dog lovers
dignified by the title of Junior
showmen" will have their inning,
too.
Show chairman is John G
Anderson, 1901 Georgia avenue,
Silver Spring, Md, National Capt.
tai Kennel Club president. Aomis-
sion price is $1.20 for adults and
rs cents for children.
Evening star., 1951-03-18
D. {. Citizens Plan Dinner
To Honor Mason, Donohue

A special committee of District
citizens will hold a testimonial
dinner April IL for former Com
missioner Guy Mason and F. Jo-
seph Donohue, who succeeded him
Chairman of the special com.
mittee is Thornton w. Owen
president of the Washington
Board of Trade. Members of the
committee include representatives
Of more than so local business
professional and civic organiza.
tions.
Mr.. Owen said the citizens de.
cided to hold the dinner to ex.
press to Mr.. Mason their appre.
citation of his labors in behalf
Of the District as we'll as vel.
come Mr.. Donohue to his new
post. -
Assisting Mr.. Owen on arrange.
mentS are 10 V. Morgan, vice
chairman; William H. Press, sec.
retary, and Daniel w. Bell, treas.
urer. Frank E. Weakly is chair.
man of the ticket committee.
The dinner will be held at
pm. in the Presidential Ballroom
OF the Hotel Statler. Tickets will
sell for $3.50 each and are avail.
able in the Board Of Trade Office
Evening star., 1951-03-18
District Rent Control
Extension Due 10 Be
Voted During Week

Congress this week probably viii!
extend rent controls for the Dis
trict and the Nation from the
present termination date, March
81, to June 80.
A House-passed measure on Dis
trict curbs is pending on the Sen
ate calendar, and could be ap-
proved quickly, if it can be worked
in between speeches on sending
troops to Europe.
A Senate-approved bill to eX-
tend Federal controls has been ap-
proved by the House Banking
Committee, and may be acted Or
by the House itself before the
Easter recess begins Thursday.
Meantime, legislation to pro-
vide pay for the payless employe!
of the District rent control Office
also may be approved by Congress
this week and sent to the Presi-
dent.
In the form of a House join
resolution, the measure was ap.
proved Friday by the House Ap.
propriations Committee, and will
be reported formally to the HOUSE
tomorrow. 1t could be called III
for action tomorrow by unani.
nous consent, but otherwise may
lay over for another day.
The measure would make avail.
able for pay rolls funds already
in hand but reserved for termina
leave, and new funds totalins
$21,2 $50. This combination o.
funds is designed to carry tht
local rent office through June 80
the date to which controls ar,
expected to be extended.
When the House returns from
/ its Easter vacation early in April
the House District Committee MA!
hold hearings on what kind o
rent control this city should hav,
after June 80. if any.
Evening star., 1951-03-18

Morris A. Bealle. Washington
author, who was one of II de-
PENDANTS named in a $5.1 million
damage suit filed March 2 in Dis
trict Court by Columnist Drew
Pearson, yesterday asked the
court to require Mr.. Pearson to
file more definite statement" :"
In a motion filed through his
attorney, P. Bateman Ennis, Mr..
Bealle contends that the two
counts which name him in the
four count suit, are vague" The
motion asks that Mr.. Pearson be
required to state in detail just how
Evening star., 1951-03-18
Young Virginia Couple
Found Dead Of Gas
In Florida Apartment
SpeeioI Dispatch to The star

! WINTER PARK, Fla. Mar. II
"A husky Rollins College senior
and his Arlington (VaD bride OF
less than three months were
found dead today in their tightly
locked, gas-filled efficiency apart
ment.
Attracted by the gas, police
forced their way into the place
and found Philip Martin Mon
niger, jr., 81 of Richmond, Va.
stretched nude on the bed.
His wife. the former Gloria
Weichbrodt, 81, of Arlington, was
seated in chair in the room. clad
in a nightgown.
Police Chief Carl Buchanan said
the couple apparently had been
dead "a to 36 hours. After an
exhaustive investigation, Coroner
E. G.. DuckWorth signed certifi-
cate of suicide.
The Moningers were married
December 80. in st. Mary's Epis-
fcopal Church, Arlington, and re-
turned to the Florida school where
Mr.. Moninger was a student and
Mrs. Moninger, formerly a stu
dent, was secretary to the dean
of administration.
Mrs. Moninger was the daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Valdemar
Weichbrodt III, 3940 North
Glebe road, Arlington. Her father
is a Federal Housing Admins
tration supervisor. Her sister
and brother-in-law are Mr.. and
Mrs. William A. Martin. MI.
Martin is proprietor of the we'll
known Georgetown restaurant
bearing his name,
Mr.. Moninger's parents live in
Richmond. His father, Philip
M. Moninger. is vice president
of the Virginia Tractor Co., Inc.
Chief Buchanan found no notes
in the Moninger apartment. All
doors and windows were locked,
including a bathroom window
always left open. The three up
per jets and oven jet in the kit
chen range were wide open. The
apartment was orderly and there
were no signs of violence.
Suffered from Asthma.
Papers in the apartment indi-
Gated Mr.. Moninger had been
seeking a commission in the Air
Force and took a physical exam
ination March II. Chief Bu-
chanan learned the youth suffered
from asthma.
Mrs. Moninger had been home
i'll with influenza for three days.
Mr.. Moninger, a 215-pound, g.
footer, had borrowed 5000 from
the University Club some time ago,
apparently to help complete his
education, and was paying it back
through a job as caretaker around
the club, Chief Buchanan said.
The bodies were discovered
about 9:15 am. after Girl Scouts
in an adjoining meeting place
detected the gas and called police.
Evening star., 1951-03-18
Dean Benjamin 10 Deliver
Ruediqer Lecture at CIV

DR.. Harold Benjamin. dean OF
Maryland University's school OF
education. will deliver the Rue
diger Lecture at George Wash
ington University at 8 pm. Tues
day in Woodruff House, Twenty
first and G streets NV.
He will speak on the goals of q
national system of education.
The Ruediger Lecture, sponsored
by the George Washington chap
ter of Pi Lambda Theta, educa-
ton fraternity, is held each yea1
in honor of the late Dean William
C.. Ruediger, who served on the
CIV faculty for 27 years.
The university announced thai
late registration for six non-credit
courses being offered by the new
college of general studies will be
continued this week. The classes
hold their first sessions this week
and will run for eight weeks. The
courses are in landscape garden
ing, fundamentals of editing, ef-
Ifective speaking, interior decora-
ton, modern American novel ano
a course called Know Your Wash.
ington."
Evening star., 1951-03-18

Not until then did 7 realize how
universally trees are loved. Ir
these letters I was told of many
trees with historic and romantic
lore-too numerous to include al
of them in this series. So, with
pencil and pad, I started again
over the lovely road, sketching ano
making notes.
Among the letters and messages
that came was one from the
officer in charge of Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery. saying: II should
like to have our oak. known as the
Sheep Shearing Oak pictured ir
your series" When I went tc
sketch it, I found it to be ar
enormous tree that had been care
fully protected through many
years.
The dean Of American Univer-
sity wrote, asking if I would be
interested in including in the
series the noted old oaks at the
chancellors house. When sketch
ing them some years ago, while
they were leaf1esS in winter, had
called them Ghosts of Yesterday
I went again to see them and
found them healthy and green in
luxurlant summer foliage.
Word also came from another
correspondent about "a group of
trees that shaded the spot called
Drovers Rest, situated between
Reservoir and Conduit roads, just
one days journey by foot for cattle
and sheep that were driven from
Maryland and Virginia to the
Capital City"
I was asked to sketch the
magnificent old trees on st.
Elizabeths Hospital grounds, over
Evening star., 1951-03-18

from as far away as Salt Lake
City and Canada.
Last night the vast armory was
"a busy scene as station wagons
trucks and autos drove up with
their expensive cargoes of dog
dom's elite. Before judging starts
at l pm. all will be benched and
beautif1ed for their big day.
The climax will be about 9 pm.
when Miss Anna Katherine Mich
olas of New York awards trophy,
rosette and designation of best
in-shoW to a dog picked from six
group winners.
Competition will be keen among
So boxers. sponsored by the Boxer
Club of Virginia. and the largest
field of any breed. They will be
Evening star., 1951-03-18

Judged by J. r. Hill of Darien
Conn.
Cocker spaniels are almost aS
popular, with So on the entry list
in addition to English-type cock
ers, springers and one Irish water
spaniel, a rare breed.
A DachShunds There.
Low-slung dachshunds will have
"A representatives. German shep-
herds and collies number So each
and there will be 38 Boston ter
riers, speciality of the Boston Ter
rier Club of Washington. Mrs
John H. Musgat of Shadyside
Ohio, will judge the latter.
Unusual types include a Ber-
nese Mountain dog Cbelieved the
Evening star., 1951-03-18

ceived plan" to hold Mr.. Pearson
up to public ridicule and damage
him in his business and that the
defendants contrived to publish
libelous statements about him.
Besides Mr.. Bealle and Sen
ator Mccarthy. other defendants
named in the Pearson suit are
Fulton Lewis, jr.. radio commen-
tator; Edward K. ,Nellor, an as
sistant to Mr.. Lewis; George
Waters. Washington publicity man
formerly employed by the Times
Herald and later by Senator Nc
Carthy; Don Surine. administra-
tive assistant to Senator Nc
Carthy; J. B. Matthews. writer
Evening star., 1951-03-18
Safety Talks
Mansfield to Visit
5 Schools in Week

Inspector Richard Mansfield,
The Stars safety director, will
give safety circus" talks in five
District and nearby Maryland
schools this week. The schedule
is as follows:
Tomorrow-Blair and Madison
at Stuart Junior High. II am.
Tuesday-Landover Hills, Md,
10 am.
Wednesday-Orr, II am; Ran.
die Highlands, 2 pm.
Thursday-Wheatley, II am.
and 2 pm.
Evening star., 1951-03-18
Silver Spring Woman
Heads War Widows

Mrs. Myra Long, 10141 Suther-
land road, Silver Spring, has been
elected president of Maryland
Chapter No. 8 of Widows of
World War I.
Other officers are Mrs. Irma C.
Miller. secretary; Mrs. Rachel
Snapp. treasurer; Mrs. Kathleen
Cooper. sergeant at = arms, and
Mrs. Achsah Jett, chaplain.
Evening star., 1951-03-18
points out, contains many rare trees

looking the Eastern Branch oi
the Potomac Diver and the Cap.
itol, and also the beautiful Cedars
of Lebanon in the Bishops Gar
den at Washington Cathedral
Another letter came from George.
town University, telling of the
i"old pecan trees, great old trees
grown from nuts given by
Thomas Jefferson. that were
taken from his estate, Monticello
Pierce Mill Oaks.
I was told of the aged poplar
in Franklin Park where a Unior
soldier carved his initials wher
encamped there in 1861. and that
across the street from this tree
in 1881 the first meeting of the
American Red Cross Society ir
the District was held.
In a secluded spot near ole
Pierce Mill. in Rock Creek Park
tall oaks shade a marble sea-
placed there in memory of TIL,
late French Ambassador anc
Nine. Jusserand.
was reminded, too, Of the elms
of Lafayette Park, often called the
Presidents Park, and other trees
there that have come from many
foreign lands. and of a white
birch on the Capitol grounds
which was planted and dedicated
to all mothers in America, and of
another white birch on the south
lawn Of the White House, SINH
iarly planted in honor of the
mothers of the Presidents, by
public-spirited citizens; a Chinese
oak, rare in America, growing on
the Mall at the foot of the Capt.
tol near the Botanical Gardens;
the huge old trees that shade
Evening star., 1951-03-18

he contends he was damaged by
Mr.. Bealle.
The four-count suit named
Senator Mccarthy, Republican,
of Wisconsin. in all of the counts.
Two of them, naming only Sen
ator Mccarthy, seeks 100000 on
charges of assault and libel. The
assault count accuses Senator Nc
Carthy of kneeing Mr.. Pearson at
a private dinner party in the Sui
grave Club last December IL.
The other two counts in which
the 10 other defendants are
named. along with the Senator,
seek damages totaling $4.5 million.
Those counts charge q "precon-