davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1952-04-04
Sheer NylOn BlOuses
to Frost Easter Suits
$5.95

They look like sweet frosting (even the coors have
that spun sugar look) ;. I. they look yummy and
their fragile faces Best of ALL whether you choose
a simple topping, or frothy Gibson style with
pleats and lace, you'll find the upkeep equally
painless-quick to launder and dry new as new
without an iron! White or pastels Sizes 80 to SO.
Street Foor-Washington and Arlington
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1952-06-26
Clyde. KING SENIORS
SELL Interest IN
LOCAL ENTERPRISE

Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde King, Sen
ior announced this week the in
corporation of Valley Concrete
Products on June IL as 500, 900
enterprise and the subsequent
sale of their one-half interest in
the pioneer Valley industry.
The so percent of the stock of
Valley Concrete Products, Inc.
owned by Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde
King, Sr. was sold to James and
Albert Frye, Valley residents who
make their home near the Nc
Kechnie saw mill. The remaining
so percent of the stock is still
held by MIR. and Mrs. Clyde King,
Jr. The younger Clyde King is
president and general manager of
the new corporation.
The Kings, mother and son, and
Clyde, Jr.'s cousin, John King,
started the business on the An
chorage-Palmer Highway site
about six miles out of town in
the Spring of 1916. Clyde King,
Jr. had worked as an apprentice
Outside for a year to learn the
concrete business. Later, when
John King and Clyde King, Sr.
build Clara's Variety, John King
exchanged his interest in Valley
Concrete Products for a full in
terest in the store.
In a country where the great
est need is for building materials,
the concrete block business grew
rapidly. Although some of the
equipment was purchased Out
side, much of it was improvised
through the hard work and in
genuity of the owners. This year
for the first time, the Kings ad-
ded a ready-mix cement service
to local businesses. Only this past
week it was used for the pouring
of the new sidewalk around the
Neal Wright building.
The sale leaves the Clyde King
Seniors almost free of local bust
ness responsibilities. Free from
care, they plan to head south
about the middle of August OF
early in September. However, the
homesteaders who settled the
land where the Kings Lake Camp
now stands are still unable to turn
their backs on Alaska for good
Each spring they hope to come
back to make their summer home
n the Valley.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1952-06-26
SUSlTNA WITHDRAWAL
HEARING SCHEDULED
FOR TUESDAY,, JULY

A public hearing on the Army's
request for withdrawal of $4,000
acres in the Susitna flats area
across from Anchorage has been
scheduled for next Tuesday, July
l, at 10 am. in the Legion Log
Cabin, Anchorage.
The announcement was made
by Secretary of Interior Oscar
Chapman last week. Lowell M.
Pickett, regional administrator
of the Bureau of Land Manage
ment will preside at the hearing.
The Army has requested the
withdrawal area for anti-aircraft
firing at lowed targets. Use of the
land would be confined to two
six-week periods beginning in
April and October; the land would
remain under the jurisdiction of
the Bureau of Land Management
when not in use by the Army.
In Anchorage, Pickett suggest
ed that organizations choose one
person to represent the group and
instruct him to have prepared
statement that can be inserted in
the record. Such representatives
should notify Pickett at Box 48O
of their wish to be heard at the
hearing.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1952-06-26
I3 New Business
Offices Ready For
Occupancy in Palmer

With the beginning of a new
fiscal year coming up next week,
Palmer will have Is new attrac-
tive office rooms ready for oc-
cupancy.
Completed this week will be
six large offices in the new addi-
ton to the Neal Wright building
and seven in Lloyd Severns' re-
Gently enlarged building. All IS
of the offices are on the second
floors of the two buildings.
Offices in the Severns building
are reached from the west en-
trance on Matanuska Street. They
have acoustic tile ceilings and
are we'll lighted with thermopane
windows with adequate provision
for ventilation. Embossed ply
wood walls are attractiVely fin
ished with natural varnish on the
lower half of the walls where the
grooves run vertically and with a
soft grey paint on the upper half
where the grooves run horizontal
ly. Floors are covered with green
and grey notified tiles. Missing
because of strike-bound shipments
are the venetian blinds, which
will be hung at all the windows
and the electric light fixtures.
Temporary lighting fixtures will
be installed as each office is &C.
cupied until the permanent ones
arrive.
Slightly larger than the offices
in the Severns building are five
of the offices in the new Neal
Wright addition These rooms are
all we'll lighted by thermopane
windows with the same ventila-
ton features as are in the Severns
offices. Fluorescent lights provide
artificial illumination. The sixth
office is an inside one, somewhat
smaller and adequately lighted
by a dome skylight. Walls OF the
six offices are painted in pastel
colors that harmonic well with
the darker wall in the outside cor
ridor and the reddish brown and
black tile floors.
Already several of the new Of
fees have been rented and some
have been spoken for under ten
tative arrangements. Even so,
there are still a few available for
new office seekers. Attorney John
Shaw, who assumes the duties OF
Continued on page 81
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1952-06-26
Palmer Man Named u. Of Alaska Dean Of Agriculture
Co. rdinuted Alaskan Agricultural
Program Sought in Mick Appointment

COLLEGE-The promotion of
DR.. Allan H. Mick, at present
Soil Scientist at the Alaska Ex-
pertinent Station, to become Dean
of Agriculture, University of Alas
ka, and also to become Director of
Agricultural Extension Services
of the University's cooperative
program with the Department of
Agriculture, effective July l, 1852,
was announced by the Office of
the President of the University
here today. The appointment was
made last week Immediately upon
receipt of the Secretary of Agri-
cultures formal approval of the
Regents vote at their recent
meeting in May.
Expressing the belief that the
selection of DR.. Mick marked a
milestone in the forward progress
of the University of Alaska as the
recognized Land-Grant institution
for all of Alaska, DR.: Moore said:
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1952-06-26
WASILLA GRANGE
TO SPONSOR NEW
FARMERS MARKET

The formation of a Farmers
Market in Wasilla was announced
this week by the Wasilla Grange,
as sponsoring agents.
A meeting will be held at Com
munity Hall Monday evening
June 80 from 80 pm. All persons
interested in selling home grown
or home made products are in
vited to attend this meeting.
Regulations, opening date, and
other important issues will be dis
cussed.
Opening date of the market will
appear in a later issue of the
FrontierSman.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1952-06-26
Visiting Newsmen Find Accomplished
Chun,pion Of Alaska in Gov. CrUeninq

delighted to give his views on this
subject in complete detail. Asked
if the Dixiecrats were responsible
for the defeat of the most recent
statehood bill in the Senate,
Gruening stated that % out Of
26 Senators from the Southern
states voted to return the bill to
committee. Not only the Dixie
Gratis but nearly all the Southern
Senators are opposed to the ad-
mission of any more states whose
Senators might vote in favor of
cloture. What opposition is there
to Statehood in the Territory?
There's no opposition to statehood
in principle the governor said;
there are those who think the
Territory isn't yet ready for state
hood and there are others who
believe that we should have a
more favorable bill.
''These are precisely the same
arguments used by opponents of
statehood for every other state"
he added. IF a referendum were
held in Alaska today, the state
hood question would pass by four
or five to one" Commenting on
his belief that Alaska is ready for
statehood now, he observed: Q)
We have far greater resources
than any state in the Union. (2)
Our finances are in good shape
much better than in the state of
Washington. (''I believe that our
present financial structure with
very few notifications is suffici-
ent to support Alaska as stately
90 Statehood would accelerate
development. Alaska is gaining
Continued on page 81
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1952-06-26

This year Alaskans are in a
better position to withstand the
annual strike of the West Coast
sailors Governor Ernest Gruening
told over 30 visiting newspaper
and magazine writers who cor
nered him for a press conference
last Friday in DR.. Lee McKinley's
spacious living room.
The occasion for the meeting of
the press with the governor and
many other Territorial officers
was the barbecue given by the
Anchorage Chamber of Commerce
in honor of the World Premiere
Troupe and press group which is
accompanying the troupe on its
ten-day tour of Alaskan military
posts.
Governor Gruening's reply re-
garding the current strike came
in answer to a newsman's query
about the governors views on the
annual West Coast shipping strik-
es. Gruening replied that it has
been extremely unfortunate that
Alaskans are always the victims
of these strikes. Alaskans this
year, he said are not completely
at the mercy of the strikers be-
cause they now have air trans
Notwithstanding they did not
have until ten years ago. Also this
year other shipping companies
such as the Coastwise lines and
the Alaska Freight Lines have
continued to operate in spite OF
the strike.
Statehood Favorite Query
Favorite question of the news
men concerned Alaskan statehood,
and the governor was obviously
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1952-06-26
LAST RITES FRIDAY
FOR LAURITZ LOBERG,
LONGTIME RESIDENT

Everyone in the Valley was sad
dened to learn that Lauritz
Louie" Loberg lost his long and
gallant struggle for life at Valley
Hospital Saturday afternoon,
June 81.
Only 48 years of age at the
time of his death, Louie" was
real old-timer. He settled in
the Valley about 1925, when his
father was foreman of the Lucky
Shot Mine. At that time, the Lo-
berg family lived in Wasilla dur
| ing the winter months. In 1929
he married Pearl Soper, whose
payents had homesteaded a Val
Ley tract near a lake that still
bears the Soper name. Part of
| this tract was subsequently pur-
chased by Mr.. Loberg. The newly
married couple settled in Wasilla
and later purchased property on
Wasilla Lake, near the present
location of Green Acres. In 1886
the 'Lobergs purchased an aban-
doned Colony tract of so acres
near the Matanuska Experiment
Station and later added another
8O-acre parcel adjoining. The Col
ony tract was sold only this
spring.
Five years ago, Mr.. Loberg'S
health began to fail; after a long
period of illness in 1949, he was
forced to give up farming for
good. He tried to make a working
adjustment commensurate with
the senate of his health by setting
up a much needed shoe repair
tservice in Palmer. Mrs. Loberg
has been trying to keep this bust
ness going in addition to her dut-
les at the Palmer Fountain since
MIR. Loberg was advised to go
Outside for treatment last fall.
Believing his health improved
Mr.. Loberg returned to the Valley
May /, but by May 4 he suffer
ed sharp recurrence OF hls
! chronic illness. He entered the
hospital for the last time June
10 and was there until his death
Saturday afternoon. Cause OF
death was rheumatic heart dis
ease. Complications Of silicosls
contributed to the illness that
marred his later years.
Surviving Mr.. Loberg besides
his wife, Pearl, are four children
Lauritz, Jr, 20; Mrs. Lloyd Hale
| Uillian); Louise, IA; and Left, o.
Also surviving are his mother,
Mrs. Thorborg Loberg OF Taco
ma, Washington, and three SYST
ers: Mrs. P. M. Alberg and MRS,
Lois Larsen, both of Tacoma and
Mrs. E. Mollerin, who is working
at Miller House near Circle HoI
Springs.
Mr.. Loberg was an active mem,
Der of the local Moose Lodge and
the Northland Pioneer Grange.
Funeral services will be held at
the Church of God at pm. Fri
day afternoon, June n. Rev
George Geiwitz will deliver the
sermon. Funeral arrangements are
being made by the Loyal Order
of Moose. Serving as pallbearers
will be Harold Winegarner, Will
liam Lentz, John Reed, Harold
Thuma, Lewis Burcher, John
Starr, and William Hoskins. In
terrment will be in the Moose
plot at the Palmer Cemetery.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1952-06-26

'At last we feel we have. located
the individual properly qualified
to make top decisions in agricul-
ture and to direct the University's
work in teaching, research in
agriculture and extension service
to farmers throughout Alaska.
The selection of an individual
adequately qualified to head all
this has been most difficult, for
he must combine extension prac-
teal experience together with the
educational qualifications, includ-
ing the necessary advanced de-
greeS, so he can properly carry
the University title of Dean. We
know that while he should be
familiar with the latest in State
side techniques and practical de-
velopments in agriculture, much
of this is not applicable to Alas
ka for we must develop QUIZ, own.
Therefore he must know both
Stateside practices in Agriculture
and Alaska problems also.
With his doctors degree from
Michigan State and his four years
of practical experience in Alaska
and the fact he is nationally
recognized in Soil Science, we
think DR.. Mick is fully qualified.
The fact that DR.. Mick's personal
speciality is in soil science makes
his choice appropriate. For the
big agricultural problem of Alaska
really is that of soils: namely,
how best to use the immense land
areas of all sorts throughout the
Territory"
DR.. Moore also paid tribute to
the work done by Lynn 0. Hollist
during the past year and half,
improving the work of the Exten-
sion Service as its Director, and
added: THE combining of Dean
of Agriculture and Director of Ex-
tension Service into the single
person of DR.. Mick is technically
necessary to the new program;
and Lynn Hollist will continue on
as associate director.
Or. Mick's program, the details
of which will be announced by
him from time to time, is primar-
lily designed to give to students in
the University the benefit of
classroom lectures from the spec
ialist staff of the Alaska Expert
ment Stations. 1t is also designed
to bring about closer relations
between farmers and the research
work at the Experiment Sta
tons"
In co-ordinating the teaching,
extension, and research programs
in Alaska agriculture, DR.. Mick
will continue his local association
with the Alaska Experiment Sta
ton, where he will be associate
director under Director Don L.
Irwin. With the able help of DR..
Winston Laughlin, he will con-
tinue also as head of the Expert
ment Stations soil science depart
ment. Although his new positions
will demand his frequent pres
ence at the University, he hopes
to be able to maintain his home in
Palmer.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1952-06-26
JONESVlLLE MINERS
NAMED IN
$40 MILLION SUIT


Court in Fairbanks Tuesday by
the Usibelli Coal Corporation was
a $40 million damage suit NAM
ing the United Mine Workers of
America and the union locals
operating at the EvanS-Jones
Coal Company in Jonesville and
the Healy River Coal Company in
Suntrana.
The suit stemmed from alleged
violence resulting in property
damages at the Usibelli corpor-
alton site. The corporation also
seeks damages for illegal picket
ing and potential loss of contracts.
The long-standing dispute be-
tween the corporation and the
miners burst out into the open
Monday when union miners from
the nearby Healy River Coal Com
pany clashed with non-union Usi-
! belli miners. Three members of
the Jonesville Local 1901, UNIV,
were also on the picket line.
According to Irwin Curly"
Doyle, president of Local 1901,
the picketing results from a fail
ure of the Usibelli mine manage
ment to recognize an election held
at the mine last March. At that
time about IS percent of the en-
ployees voted to organize as a
local of the United Mine Workers
of America according to proceed
ure outlined in the Taft Hartley
Act. Under that act, only a 81
percent majority is required. AL
though the president of the COM
pany appeared to be in accord
with plans to set up the union
shop at the mine, he stalled in
giving recognition to the union.
Cutting down on operations, he
laid off seven men, according to
Doyle-seven of the approximate
ly II who voted in the election.
The Usibelli mine is largely a
strip operation, with the peak
production period in the summer
when men can work out in the
open. AS the peak season began,
the management hired about so
new miners to bring the total to
sixty. Now the management de-
clines to recognize the March cleo
ton and insists upon holding a
new one. Healy River and Jones'
vile union men insist that the
March election was a legal one
and that the management should
abide by it.
Both of the organized locals
had participated in the organiza-
ton of the Usibelli mine. Accord
ing to Doyle, the organization OF
workers in non-union mines COM
peting in business with unionized
mines is a duty which union men
owe to their employers. Other
wise, management providing good
wages and working conditions in
response to union pressure would
be at a disadvantage when COM
4 peting with non-union cOmpetit-
or. ...-.
l Until last year the Jonesville
mine had the only organized
union in the Territory. Last year
the Healy River Coal Company
was organized. This year the two
unions negotiated a joint working
agreement for union recognition,
which was hoped to set pattern
for the rest of the Territory. Late
last March the Evans-Jones Coal
Company granted Jonesville min
ers Is cent hourly pay boost and
established the first welfare and
pension fund in the Territory.
Regarding the $40 million suit
filled by the Usibelli Corporation
Doyle said that he knew moth
ing outside of what he had read
in the papers. AS far as he knew
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1952-06-26
RICHARD DEMMING RECEIVES
WORLD WAR II MEDALS

Although they were several
years in getting here, Richard
Demming of Palmer received the
Purple Heart and Bronze Star
medals this week. They were
awarded to Demming for service
in the U. S. Army in the Sicilian
campaign during World War II.
The delay in delivery is believ-
ed to have been caused by the
shortage of medal at the close of
the war.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1952-06-26

IN FAIRBANKS the sun
rose at 1887 am. and set at 10:48
pm. on Saturday, the longest
day of the year. At 10 pm. began
the traditional midnight sun base
ball game, but no lights were
used on the diamond. For the
unique affair this year the Laid
Army team took on an all-star
team made up of midnight sun
league players.
IN TANANA this week Deputy
U. S. Marshal Francis Wirth was
repairing his damaged Jail. A
reluctant prisoner, six feet four
inches in height and weighing
200 pounds kicked the side out
of the wooden building. At first
Wirth patiently stood outside
mailing the boards back on as fast
as the prisoner kicked them off
He settled down for the night only
after handwriting the prisoner tc
his bed and removing his heavy
boots. By morning, though, the
prisoner had succSeG,Id III kicking
out a good sized hole with his
bare feet.
IN JUNEAU record 1882 citiz-
ems turned out at recent specia.
election to vote a decisive mo
to the question of extending the
closed time for bars on specia
occasions.
IN DOUGLAS grief was turned
to hot anger when it was learned
that a 14-year-old youth, who
died in a recent automobile &C
cident following speed in excess
of 80 miles per hour, had beer
furnished whiskey by 19-year'
old youth.
IN, KODIAK commercial sal
mon fishing in the island district!
was described as poor by FWS
Agent Roy Lindsey. So light wa:
the run in the Red River distric
that a closure order was expected
to be clamped on soon.
IN BIG DELTA DR.. John Buck
ley of the U. of Alaska Co-opera
tive Wildlife Research Unit
amazed to verify a report thai
rabbits in that area have beer
eating the telephone poles.
IN CORDOVA the local chapter
of the ISaak Walton League i:
sponsoring a moose colony which
will utilize the whole Copper
River flats area. Four moose
heiferS from the Anchorage Mat
anuska Valley area are due tt
arrive shortly.
IN ANCHORAGE a total of s.,
O38 pints of blood were donated
at the blood bank set up by the
King County Washington Blooc
Bank team last week.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-10-29
THE TABOR CITY TRIBUNE, TABOR CITY, N. C.

and attended the ice show in Ra-
leigh Friday afternoon.
Miss Martha HARRISON has re-
turned to South Boston Va. after
spending the weekend with her
parents.
Bruce HARRISON of Raleigh
spent the weekend here.
Mrs. Grover jolly is progressing
nicely at her home here after un-
dergoing surgery at the James
Walker Memorial hospital in Will
mington recently.
Mrs. H. B. Bell and daughter
Martha Brooks, Mrs. Q. v. Hicks
Mrs. Walter P. Cox, Mrs. R. R
Rogers, Jr. and son, Franklin at
tended the ice show in Raleigh
Saturday.
MIR. and Mrs. ]. L. Winsteao
spent the weekend in Fayetteville
and Raleigh and attended a pres
entation of the ice show in Ra-
leigh during the visit.
MIR. and Mrs. Walter Leonard
returned Monday from a weeks
visit with their daughter, Mrs. w
B. Pugh, Mr.. Pugh and son, Leon
ard, in North Wilksboro. The
Pugh's accompanied them and are
returning home today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo F. Thompkins
and daughter, Frances Keith
spent the weekend here with hel
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. V. C. Ward
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-10-29
Rainbow Girls

The local Rainbow Assembly
for Girls will hold a benefit Rum
mage and Bake sale here Satur-
day Mrs. Mae S. Young, mother
advisor, announced.
The girls will be stationed at
the Carolina Beauty Shoppe on
Fifth Street Saturday with a full
stock of cookies, cakes, pies, cand-
les and rummage.
"We are grateful to the manage
ment and employees of the Caro-
lima Beauty Shoppe for their CO.
operation in letting us use their
building while their work goes
on" Mrs. Young said.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-10-29
American Legion
Calls Meeting

The Tabor City American Leg
ion Post, 1O1, will meet at the
hut tomorrow Thursday night at
7:3O, Vernon Morris, commander,
announced.
This meeting is most important
and all members and prospective
members are urged to attend"
Commander Morris said.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-10-29
EDUCATION MEET

On Wednesday, November 5, at
4:3O D. M, DR.. E. J. Carter from
East Carolina College will meet
with all persons interested in TAX
ing extension work. The meeting
will be held in the assembly room
of the Columbus County Educa-
tional Building in Whiteville. DR..
Carter said he was not sure what
course he would be able to offer
but he hoped to be able to offer
one which carries both graduate
and undergraduate credit. If you
are interested please be present
and invite others who are interest
ed to meet with you.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1952-10-29
VOTERS WILL
GO TO POLLS
ON TUESDAY

Next Tuesday, November 4,
that's the day that has been talked
about on every street corner for
months. That's the general cleo
ton date and citizens of this and
every other community of the
nation will 60 to the polls and
name the team that will lead the
United States through the next
four years.
Of primary interest to the whole
world is the presidential and vice
presidential races in which
Dwight Eisenhower and Richard
Nixon, Republicans, oppose Adlai
Stevenson and John Sparkman,
Democrats, for the top executive
posts.
In the South there has been the
greatest interest shown in Re-
publican candidate since the De-
mocrats ran Al Smith in 1928.
Several Southern States are given
some chance of favoring the Re-
publican candidates in Tuesday
election.
In Columbus County and North
Carolina where the Democratic
Primary is the real election, many
other offices are at stake but only
in name. Practically no opposition
is expected from the Republicans
in various county offices nor IN
the Governors race in which Will
liam Umsted will be named North
Carolina governor officially.