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The frontiersman., 1957-03-14
Over $500 Realized by
EIks for March OF Dimes

A total of $1,447.85 has been
contributed to the March of DIM
es to date, according to Ed Smith,
March of Dimes chairman. Of this
amount, $807.72 was realized by
the Palmer B-P.O. Elks last Sat-
urday at their dinner-dance.
Much planning and considerable
work was donated by members
of the Elks lodge to make this
event such a success. Smith ex-
pressed his appreciation to the
Elks and the many, many resi-
dents who turned out in support
of the event.
Other contributions this week
included another 60 cents from
Swanson School; So from the
Nugget Homemakers and $l3
from the Happy Valley Home
makers. Collection cans realized
total of $168.22. This figure
went over last years total, Smith
reported. The collection can IN
Bert's Drug store and fountain
contained 1885 and the can from
the Palmer Bar contained $30.87.
From the Alpine Inn, Alpine Ser
vice Station and the Jonesville
Miners came the sum of 1865.
This Saturday members of the
Palmer Moose lodge are planning
March of Dimes benefit dinner
dance and Smith said he believes
this will complete the campaign
in the valley. Residents of the
entire valley are to be congratu-
lated for the way they have
worked and contributed to the
1857 March of Dimes, Smith
stated. 1T is gratifying to see that
the valley people recognize the
need for continued support of the
March of Dimes, he added.
The frontiersman., 1957-03-14
MEMBERSHIP IN MEA
EXPLAINED I'M AID

The attention of Matanuska
Electric Association members is
drawn to an advertisement that
appears in this weeks issue of
The Frontiersman. It is notice
to all members of policy adopt
ed by MEA directors and spec
ial meeting held March 6.
The notice states that voting
member is one who has met the
following requirements: The pay
ment of a SIS membership fee;
agreeing to purchase electricity
from the Association; agreeing to
comply with and be bound by the
Articles of Incorporation the by
law and the rules of the associa-
ton; being accepted for member
ship by the Board of Directors or
the membership.
Only one membership may be
held per person but a husband
and wife may jointly hold a
membership if both have signed
the membership application. In
the event that both have signed
either may vote, but not both.
Board directors have ordered
all duplicate membership fees
previously paid to be transferred
to meter deposits under the same
names.
The annual membership meet
ing will be held in Palmer on
Saturday, April Is.
The frontiersman., 1957-03-14
TAX ASSESSMENT
NOTICES MAILED
In AREA This WEEK

Assessment notices for real
and personal property have been
mailed from the assessors office,
it was announced this week.
These notices are not tax bills
and no money is payable until
the bills are sent out June /, 1857.
However, said William Wake
land, tax assessor, these notices
should be checked carefully. Be
tween now and Board of Equal
ization meetings in late April
mistakes may be corrected by the
assessor. After equalization is
completed, only the City Coun-
Gil and the School Board can
make changes on their respective
rolls.
IF you own property of any
kind and did not receive an as
sessnent notice for each parcel,
call on the assessor and find out
why, Wakeland urged this week.
your real property may be in
correctly listed, or your personal
property return may not have
been received" The latter leaves
property owners open to a stiff
assessment that cannot be ap
pealed, Wakleland pointed out,
and incorrect listing might cost
a property owner his land at a
tax sale.
The assessors office has been
engaged nearly full time in map
ping and plotting preliminary to
re-assessment of the whole dis
trict; devising new tax roll forms
Continued on Page b
The frontiersman., 1957-03-14
TEL. EPH()NE SERVICE
Being DELAYED
DURING CHANGE over

Telephone service going through
the switchboard in Palmer is be-
ing delayed and the cooperation
OF all subscribers is requested, ac-
cording to Lew Hanks, MIA
president.
The delay is being caused be-
cause part of the system is now
on dial service and part on the
Old system. If user calls a num-
Der that is now on dial the opera
tor must first look up the num-
Der then dial at the switchboard.
This is causing the major delays
IN service and all telephone users
are requested to keep their calls
to . minimum, Hanks said. This
inconvenience will be over in a
short time and we will have the
entire system cut-over to the dial
system, he added. Plans still call
for a system cut-over on March
% and "A.
ADSNaAoG ~ Liz NO1l1 QS1Ol1 ia
part Of the system being on dial
mimeographed copies Of new tele-
phone numbers are being print
ed and will be distributed among
telephone subscribers just as soon
as possible. Because a number of
changes In telephone numbers are
anticipated it was decided to hold
off the printing of the telephone
book for a few days.
TO date the new system in
WaSilla and Sutton are nearly
complete and subscribers in those
two towns are now able to call
anyone on the system in their
exchange. Until the entire sys-
tenn is cut over they will not be
abfg To call out or receive in-com-
ing calls from other exchanges.
Part of the Palmer system is
on dial, and part on the old sys-
tenn, with the crews working as
fast as possible to complete the
tle-ins on the two systems.
The frontiersman., 1957-03-14
Seeking Volunteers
For Ambulance Corps

Form letters will be mailed this
week to all first aid card holders
inviting them to meeting to be
held by the Beta Sigma Phi
Council March %. The meeting
is being planned to formulate a
larger ambulance crew. At the
present time there is an acute
need for additional drivers and
first aid workers. The meeting
will be held March % in the thea
ire basement at pm.
All persons qualified to work
with the sorority in manning this
important community service are
requested to attend the meeting,
or contact Joe or Virginia Gal
liant if unable to attend.
The frontiersman., 1957-03-14
Practice Starts
For Minstrel Show

Members of the Palmer XII
wants club are hard at work
preparing for their annual Min
strel show which this year will
be presented in Palmer on April
5 and 8.
The all-male chorus will have
their second practice session to-
night in the music room at Cen
trail School at s pm. Additional
male voices are needed for the
chorus and anyone interested in
singing with the group is asked
to turn out for the session tonight
or as soon as possible. Lee Plum
bley, school bandmaster, will di-
rect the chorus.
End men for the 1857 presen-
tation will be Charles Chuck
Logsdon, Jack Maze, Harold Ste
phan, and Rosco Taylor. Mrs.
Olga Reiger will be pianist for
the show and a band, consisting
of several members of the PHS
Pioneer Band, will play with the
chorus numbers and some of the
speciality acts. Herb Lang, new
in the minstrel show field, will
be Mr.. InterlOcutor.
Costumes have been ordered,
Roscoe Taylor said this week and
committees have started building
new props for the show.
The frontiersman., 1957-03-14
w onlell Planning
Spring Style Show

Plans are under way and a
tentative date has been set for
the Beta Sigma Phi's annual
spring style show. This years
theme will feature home purchas-
ed and home made clothing and
will include the new spring styles
being shown by local merchants
as well as clothing made from
materials purchased from local
shops. Entertainment IS being
planned for intermission and the
close of the show. Refreshments
will be served.
The frontiersman., 1957-03-14

above as he received the Certi-
ficate Of Merit from Charles w.
Wilson. territorial conservation
isl.
ment suggestions submitted by
employees, Clifford Marcus, work
unit conservationist, assisting the
Palmer, Anchorage and Chugiak,
Wasilla Subdistricts, was award
ed Certificate of Merit and a
cash award for his suggestion.
Marcus occasionally uses two
by-two- inch slides to illustrate
technical material and has found
that quite often a simple drawing
or sketch is very effective in
bringing home a particular point.
To present these drawings or
sketches without interrupting the
lecture, Marcus makes these
drawings on a small pieces of eel
lulose acetate which is then
mounted in the regular Koda-
chrome slide mount or a metal
slide mount, and the illustration
is put through the, protector with
other slides. This permits the
technician to present the COM
plete problem without interrupt
ing the lecture to make sketches
on blackboard, and then pro-
ceeding with the lecture.
The frontiersman., 1957-03-14

Record shipments of seed and
fertilizer are arriving at the Ma
tanuska Valley Farmers Coopera-
ting Association Warehouse, ac-
cording to Virgil Eckert, man
ager. Approximately seven car
loads of seed have arrived and
are being picked up by area
The frontiersman., 1957-03-14
HEALTH COUNCIL
TO MEET MONDAY NIGHT

The Matanuska Valley Health
Council will meet at the Health
Center in the valley hospital next
Monday at 7 pm. All represen-
tatives who are members are urg
ed to attend the meeting.
The frontiersman., 1957-03-14
Local C0nseryafiOnisf
Given Merit Award

In line with the policy of the
Soil Conservation Service of the
Department of Agriculture to
give recognition to work improve
The frontiersman., 1957-03-14

The Matanuska Valley Minis
terial Association will meet March
Is at 5 pm at St. Johns Luther
an Church.
The frontiersman., 1957-03-14

Members Of the Flying Club
will meet at the home of Rene
Nielsen, Mile 70, Thursday eve
ming at 7 pm.
The frontiersman., 1957-03-14
new MIA MANAGER
NAMED BY BOARD

Max Clements, former en-
ployee of the Kellogg Switch
board Co. Of Chicago, has been
named new manager Of the Mat
anuska Telephone Association,
Inc. The board of directors nam
ed Clements to the position at
special meeting held last Thurs
day evening, pending approval OF
the Rural Identification Admin
istration.
Clements, who has been in Pal
mer the past six weeks installing
the Kellogg telephone equipment,
has been with that firm the past
year, as installer Of central office
equipment. Prior to his utilization
with the Kellogg company he was
with the Indiana Telephone Cor
poration for 10 years, five of
which were spent in ouside plant
work and five years as central
office supervisor.
The new managers home was
in Monticello, Indiana. He is
married and the father Of two
sons and one daughter. His family
will join him in Palmer at the
close of school. Clements is vet
eran of World War IT having
served in the u. S. Airforce from
l944-1946.
Hotel Designated
The Matanuska Hotel was de-
Signated as the point where oper-
ator assist calls will be received
during the hours that the MIA
office is closed. Evening, week
end and holiday calls that have
to be made through the operator
will be received at the hotel when
the person making the call dials
"O". Emergency numbers will be
printed in the telephone book in
convenient spot and should be
used whenever possible. Toll
calls after hours will go direct
to Anchorage. A contract for the
arrangement will be drawn be-
tween the MIA and the Valley
Hotel Corporation to handle this
required service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
5 Sentenced
In Check Rino

Five members of a bad check
ring accused of passing thou
sands of dollars in worthless
checks throughout Northern Vir-
ginia were given prison terms of
two to six years in Fairfax Cir
cult Court Friday.
The five were part Of a gang
of nine rounded up after a raid
october IA on an Alexandria
house which police said was the
check passers' headquarters.
Sentenced in Fairfax Circuit
Court yesterday on pleas of
guilty we're: Lloyd r. Gordon,
20. Of Route 2. Springfield. six
years on each of three counts, to
run concurrently. for passing
bad checks: Joseph See, %, of
the 100 block North Howard
street, Alexandria, four years on
each of six counts of passing bad
checks. to run concurrently:
Donald NJ. Henderson. 26. of
Route 2, Springfield, two years
on one count of forgery; Frank
L. johnson, 20. of Route 3. Alex
andria. two years on each of two
counts of passing bad checks.
suspended for period of four
years probation, and Nita K.
Robertson. 10. of Luray, Va. two
years on each of. two forgery
charges. suspended for four
years probation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
Uniform Traffic
Laws Are Urged
By House Group
BY the Associated Press


House committee report yes
terday recommended uniform
traffic laws throughout the
Nation.
The report. filed by a special
traffic subcommittee of the
House Commerce Committee,
gave no specific proposals for
Federal legislation, however. 1t
recommended that the study be
continued.
Chairman Roberts, Democrat
of Alabama. noted that the peo-
pie OF Hungary. in their fight
for freedom. had suffered only
about half the fatalities that are
caused by traffic accidents in
the United States in one year.
"A world is aroused, and right
ly So" Mr.. Roberts said. "over
the estimated $4,000 persons
who gave their lives for freedom,
yet few American citizens are
aroused over the fact that we
killed 10000 persons on our
highways last year"
The report recommended ex-
banded research on highway
traffic safety, saying facts ARE
woefully lacking 1t also called
for expanding driver education,
STRENGTHENING drive licensing
procedures. improved traffic
court administration, improved
accident reporting procedures.
public education in accident
victim care and extension OF
vehicle inspection laws.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
Hungary Exi|es
Form Council

STRASBOURG. France, Jan. 5
P).-Some 40 exiled Hungarian
leaders met behind closed doors
today to form a revolutionary
Hungarian council and map
strategy against the Soviet DOM
nation Of their homeland.
Gen. Bella Kiraly. who COM
manded the Budapest garrison
during the city's bloody anti
Soviet rebellion. was unani-
mously elected chairman. Most
of those meeting at the hotel
Pax here appeared to be in their
20s and 30s. So far. none of the
Older" emigres who fed the
country before the October re-
volt has been invited to join
the talks. Former Prime Minis
ter Ferenc Macy and some of
his associates were reported to
be in Strasbourg. however.
1t was reported the delegates
agreed no emigre group should
attempt to direct any under
ground anti-Soviet fight inside
Hungary.
moscow radio asserted the
conference of Hungarian "coun-
ter -revolutionaries" was
matched" in Washington be-
tween emigres and Robert d.
Murphy of the United States
State Department. 1t said the
talks were held ION orders Of the
Observation-Disclosures bosses,
the American intelligence serv-
ice.")
In a message from New York,
Mrs. Anna Kethly called for
creation of a representative
emigre group which would act as
a spokesman for the Imre Macy
government set up during the
revolt. She was a minister in
that government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
Miss Mcdonald ellis
Of Kidnapping by z Men

Continued From First Page
The truck driver brought her
six miles into Indio.
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Cost of SOLVING
|B52 Defects
To Hit Millions
BY the Associated Press

A new aviation magazine, Ae-
ronautical Purchasing. said yes
terday that as a result of Air
Force inquiries into the recent
B-52 crashes, notifications cost
ing millions of dollars may be
required.
The magazine reported that
each Of the eight-engine heavy
jet bombers may require 2l8
notifications, IA Of them major.
1t said the manufacturer. Boe-
ing Airplane Co. of Seattle, esti-
mated the cost to eliminate de-
fects would be quarter of a
million dollars for each bomber.
Delivery Delay Feared
The publication said the Air
Force was mot satisfied" with
these estimates, considering them
too high. The Air Force also
was pictured as concerned that
the modification time might de-
lay the delivery schedule of 20I
new B-52s a month this year.
CA Boeing spokesman said at
Seattle the magazine article was
inaccurate in several places.
(He said the B52s, like all new
combat planes. have undergone
costly notifications almost con-
tinuously since they first took
the air two years ago. The modi-
ficationS were not made because
of the findings after crash in
vestigations. he said. OF three
B52s lost in crashes. he said.
the cause of only one of them
has been publicly announced and
steps have been taken to correct
that, contrary to the magazine
article. the cost of a B52 ready
to fly, including engines and arm
ament, is approximately 81
million. On another point. he
said that as far as he knew no
airplane manufacturer has used
welded fuel tanks since 1940.)
There was no immediate COM
ment from the Pentagon.
Other sources said some 60
B52s might have to be modified
at Boeing's Wichita. Kan. plant
at a total cost of almost SIG
million.
The Air Force crash inquiry
board repeatedly ordered, as one
major modification. the reweld-
ing of fuel tanks shown to have
been affected by vibrations and
by chemical action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
Farmhouse Fire
Kills Four Children

MT. MORRIS. N. Y, Jan. 5 (P).
-Four small children persisted
today in farmhouse fire that
hospitaliZed five other members
Of the family.
Deputy sheriffs said a sheet
of flame engulfed the living
room after one of the family
threw kerosene on kindling in
an attempt to start a fire in a
stove. The house was destroyed.
Firemen found the bodies of
three children of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Cartwright - Robert,
three months; Sherrie, 3: and
Thomas, Sin the ruins. A
daughter, Laurie, Z, died in a
hospital.
Mr.. Cartwright. Al. and his
wife. 81, and a daughter, Linda.
2. were reported IN critical con-
dition. Mrs. Cartwright's mother,
Mrs. Mary Lincoln. SO, and an
other son. Larry. Is. also were
hospitalized.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
Youth Slain Trying
To Protect Girl

SIKESTON, MO-. Jan. 5 Up
A man dressed in dark clothing
shot and killed a young man
then raped his girl companion
after surprising the couple in
their parked car here tonight,
police said.
Dead was John Malugan. 10,
of Charleston. Mo. who officers
believe, was attempting to pro-
tect his date. Miss June Castle
berry. 10, of Sikeston.
Police were unable to piece to-
gether a coherent account of the
Staying. Miss Castlebery, hysteri-
CAL was hospitalized.
Roadblocks we're set up i'm
mediately in an effort to inter-
cept the intruder who was de-
scribed as short and stout.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
.3-Doy Delay Okoyed
On Economic Report
BY the Associated Press

The Senate unanimously
agreed yesterday to let President
Eisenhower send his economic
report to Congress on January
%, three days late.
Republican Leader Knowland
of California won permission
after explaining that the Presi-
dent and Congress would be
busy with the inaugural cere-
monies January 20 and 81, al
though the law requires report
on January 20.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
Georgetown Church
Poor Boxes Robbed

Between So and SO was taken
from poor boxes in Christ
Episcopal Church in Georgetown
by a theft who entered the
Ichurch through first-floor I'M
locked window Friday night. po-
lice reported.
The rector. the Rev. John r.
Anschutz. told police that three
poor boxes we're pried open. and
that three desks also were
forced. Nothing apparently was
taken from the desks, he said.
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same reason.
One of the men found her
making the third call and twisted
the telephone from her hand and
slapped her face. Then she was
blindfolded again and put in a
car.
The men discussed taking hel
to a hideout across the STATE
border" but after listening to ra.
dio reports Of the kidnapping de.
cided to dump her out along the
highway.
One of the men hit her in the
face and pushed her into ditch
before they drove away.
CrawIed to Highway
After lying there about 10 min
'utes she crawled to the highway
and watched three cars speed by
without stopping before truck
driver Richard D. Corn pulled
his big rig to a grinding stop.
She popped up in front OF
me. waving her arms frantically, >
Mr.. Corn told police after turn
ing Miss Mcdonald over to them
Il had hell of a time stopping
"She runs around to the side
of the cab. and open the door
and there she is. crying and car
rying on hysterical."
Miss Mcdonald said that while
they were in her house the men
took some pearls and some dia-
mond earrings. and that they
stripped a seven or eight" carat
diamond ring from her finger
before abandoning her. She said
she didn't know the value of the
ring.
Miss Mcdonald, who was a
pin-up favorite during World
War II. has not been active in
the movies for several years. But
her marital troubles with Mr..
Karl. whom she twice wed and
twice divorced, kept her name in
the headlines.
Although no ransom demand
was made of Mr.. Karl. he told
police. I'D pay ransom for her.
but / don't love her any more"
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Continued From First Page
The truck driver brought her
six miles into Indio.
Has Two Cracked Teeth
DR.. Allen Fisher. who treated
her at a hospital here. said she
had two cracked teeth and abra-
sions on Ter cheek, neck ano
legs. He said there wa. no evil
dence of any type of criminal
attack"
He said she appeared to be "ir
good condition"
Officers at Los Angeles police
headquarters. who issued the re-
port that she said she had beer
raped. said investigators here
had been ordered not to discuss
the angle.
Cautious C. first over the pos
sibility that Miss Mcdonald s
disappearance might be a hoax
police said after questioning her
that lit was certainly a kidnap-
ing"
While police questioned Miss
Mcdonald. local sheriff's deputies
manned road blocks as far east
as the Arizona border and as far
west as Banning. Calf. They had
only meager descriptions of the
abductors and their car.
Although detectives said this
morning that they had finished
questioning Miss Mcdonald, they
returned to her room in relays
this afternoon. But they told re-
porterS there had been no new
developments.
1t. Herman Zander, who con-
Quoted an extended bedside in
terview with Miss Mcdonald.
said she told this story:
She was in her pajamas pre-
pairing for bed about midnight
Thursday when she heard a
noise outside hers bedroom and
saw a man rubbing a stick along
the fence. apparently to attract
her boxer dog.
Threat to Children
When she looked out the win
dow a man with a sawed-off
weapon" was standing beside 1t
He told her to call off the dog
and let them in or he would
shoot into the bedrooms of her
5-month-old daughter by her
former husband. shoe manufac-
turer Harry Karl. and two Z
year-old children they had
adopted.
The men, one about 35 and the
other in his early 20s. stayed in
the house about half an hour
They prepared kidnap note and
put it into the mail box. They
discussed holding her for a $780,
600 ransom.
The men let her put on a robe
and slippers and pack some
things in a small carrying case
and then forced her at gunpoint
into an old model, two-door
sedan parked on the street near
the house.
After blindfolding her. they
drove for some time to a small
bungalow, where the blindfold
was removed and she was forced
to swallow some pills. They made
her feel "dopey" and she lay
down on a sofa.
She stayed in the house the
rest OF thee night and most of
Friday. and on three occasions,
While one man was absent and
the other in another room, she
me- lie telephone calls.
Because she didn't know
where she was and since there
was no telephone number on the
instrument she was using, she
first called Hollywood columnist
Harrison Carroll. a personal
friend, in the belief he would
know what to do. Her other two
calls, to Mr.. Wilding and her
sgent, Harold Plant, were for the
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