The frontiersman., 1955-03-31
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 A public bake sale is planned By members of the l.. D. s. Re- lief Society for Saturday, April Z at Koslosky's Department store from LOO to FOO pm. Profits rom the sale will go toward the building fund.
 Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Hodgson and three children of Palmer re- turned to the valley this week following four months in the States, where Hodgson obtained his PhD in agronomy from Iowa State College. He is head of the agronomy department at the Agriculture Experiment StationL
 Mrs. Cloycine Driggers was hostess at the March "A meeting of the Womens' Mission Union of the First Baptist Church. De- votions were offered by The Rev. Avery Richey. Following the meeting, which was closed by Mrs. Edith Richey, refreshments were served by the hostess.
 Corporal Gordon K. Jaynes, USING. was a Palmer visitor this week. Cpl. Jaynes, who is enjoy ing leave time is a former Pal merite and recently returned from tour of duty in Japan and Korea. He is son of Mrs. Dorothy Sheldon of Anchorage.
 A bake sale is being planned by members of the Altar and Rosary Society of St. MichaePs church for April 2 at Bert's Drug store from 10 am. to 4 pm.
 John Groth of Dayton, Ohio, was a visitor at the Larry Carl son home this week end, while 4nroute to Kenai where he plans to homestead.
 Mrs. LaVonne Johnson and her mother Mrs. Ida Foley and Mrs. Johnson's daughter, moved from Pioneer Apartments this past weekend to Mrs. Foley's pro- perty at Lake Ida, Mile "A.
 George Mcclure of Baldwin vile, Mass, arrived in Palmer last week and is visiting the Joseph Gallants.
 MT. and Mrs. Roger Moore and daughter Diane arrive in Pal mer from Medford, Oregon, fol- lowing a trip over the highway. Roger is son of MT. and Mrs. Harold Moore of Palmer.
 Pvt. Joseph (Jerry) Flander, formerly with the Palmer Fire Guard station is now at Ft. Leonard Wood in Missouri.
 Mir. and Mrs. Ben Redmond were recent victims of a moose. Their vehicle was damaged when a moose ran onto the highway near the Matanuska Valley Gar den greenhouses last Sunday night Mrs. Redmond was slight 
 ly injured ir the accident,
 Anyone who doubts that spring ! ls on the way has only to drive short distance on the city streets. Then there are those who are gaugirg it's arrival on the depth of standing water in theil baSementS.
 Springfield College in Massa chusetts had new citizen amon& it's students on March q wher Sigurd Haaland, '55, took ou naturalization papers. HaalanC who formerly lived in Palmel is a teacher education major a the college and will receive hi degree in June. He is married t the former Virginia Carle Wh' taught in the Palmer School They have a son, Day Knowlton II months old. The Haaland hope to return to Palmer afte graduation.
 The second Civil Defense 500 man first aid station has arrived in Palmer and is now located a the new high school, accordin, to Al ". Hagen, civil defense di rector in the Greater Palme Area. The first unit is located a the City Fire Hall
 o. A. Wilcox, dean of Sheldol Jackson College at Sitka, was guest at the March 28 Palme Kiwanis meeting, and spok' briefly on college operations Business conducted at the meet ing included financial reports Q the Minstrel Show.