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The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1963-09-19
Council Plans
To Put Generator
Into Operation

At the Sept. 10 meeting of
the Palmer city council, act
ing city manager Don Irwin
was authorized to call for bids
for a hot air coal furnace to
heat the building where city
equipment is stored, also to call
for bids to put tn e standby
generator in operation at the
city pumps.
The city clerk reported re-
ceiving four applications for
the position of city manager.
The problem of what to do
about city police being called
out of town on emergency
cases when state police are not
in the area was discussed.
General fund bills in t h e
amount of $4,313.92 were ap-
proved, as were total W a tie r
fund bills in the amount OF
$4,000.
Balances in h e Matanuska
Valley Bank as of Aug. 81 in
cluded $17,929.34 in the gen
eral fund, $7,484.l6 in n e
water fund, n d $1,983.92 IN
the property tax fund.
The general fund savings ac-
count totalled $7,358.6O, water
fund savings $26,176.26, prop
erty tax savings $10,51227, ac-
crued leave savings, S3,9Oo.oi
and depreciation fund savings
60 620 AZ
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1963-09-19
ALASKA PRODUCE
TO APPEAR AT
MEMPHIS FAIR

Fairgoers from several south
ern states Will get a chance to
see some of Alaska's biggest
vegetables when the M id :
South Fair opens tomorrow in
Memphis. Tenn.
The Matanuska Valley vege-
tables were flown to Memphis.
arriving there t h j S morning.
They'll be displayed in Mem
phis neWsman Eldon Roark's
Museum of Unnatural His
tory a display of the oddities
Naturce produces, including
the biggest vegetables IN d
fruits Roark can obtain.
Roark wrote to the Alaska
State Fair office in August.
asking that the big vegetables
shown here be sent to Memphis
for exhibit there during the
Mid South Fair, which runs
from Sept. 20 to Sept 80
One Of John D. Bush's big
cabbages. estimated to weigh
between 40 and Sc pounds,
went to the Memphis fair, also
a huge 2l-pound turnip from
Max Sherrod S garden. Contri-
buted by the Experiment Sta
ton was a Is pound zucehini
squash.
Dick Hamilton of Hamilton
Flyteways flew the big vege-
tables to Anchorage Interna-
tional Airport, where they
were shipped out on a direc
flight to Chicago.
Mrs. Barbara Hamilton, fai
secretary, and DR.. Curtis Dear
born, president of the fai
board of directors, made tn
arrangements to get the king
sized edibles on their way.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1963-09-19
WRITTEN CROP
FL0URISHES

Every election has its crop OF
write in candidates, som e
named in all seriousness, some
the work of humorists who pro-
pose such unlikely prospects as
Yogi Berra or Gina Lollobrig-
ida.
In District Z, Matanuska pre-
cinct election officials tailed
the most write-ins, with a de-
cided preference shown for
Secretary of State Hugh Wade.
Wade was named for borough
school board, for borough as
semblyman in Section 2, and
for assemblyman in Section =
all on different ballots. And
Gov. William Egan was written
in as borough chairman. Other
write-ins from the Matanuska
precinct were Merritt Long,
borough chairman; DR.. Bailey,
Richard Miller, and Marjorie
Cook, borough school board;
and Lowell Sutton, assembly
man from Section z.
In the Wasilla precinct, Neal
Browne was write-in for Dor
ough school board, assembly
man from Section 2, and as
sembyman from Section 3.
Robert Vroman received one
write-in for borough chairman
in the Palmer precinct.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1963-09-19
Tomorrow Is Last
Day To File For
School Board

Persons wishing to run for
the five-year term now open
on the Palmer Independent
School District board of direc-
tors must file before 5 pm. to-
morrow, Sept. 20, R. c. Carter,
superintendent of schools, en-
phasized this week. Prospective
candidates may file at the Pal
mer high school office.
Don ingalls,, incumbent, will
run for reelection. Thus far he
is the only candidate.
Carter noted that, according
to the borough law, present
school board terms will run out
within two years, although
candidates in the election will
technically be running for a
five-year term.
The school board post will be
filled in the Oct. | election.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1963-09-19
new BUILDING
TO HOUSE D&A

Nearing completion is a new
cement block structure located
north of the Glenn highway at
the Valley Street intersection
which will house the D & A
Super.
The new supermarket, owned
by Darrell and Ann Frank of
Palmer, is being erected by the
Hare Construction Co. of Pal
mer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank are the
present owners and proprietors
of the D & A Grocery on Val
ley Street, a business they OPP
ened in February, 1859.
The new D & A will occupy
5000 spare feet of floor space,
half of which will be utilized
for storage. The extra space
will make purchase of carload
lots of groceries more practic-
able, Frank said.
Included in the new market
will be custom meat service,
with a butcher on duty at all
times-"no pre-packaging," the
proprietor stated.
The D & A will move to its
new location in early Novem-
Der, according to Frank.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1963-09-19
Tax Office To Stay
Open Late Sept. %

Palmer Independent School
District taxpayers may register
for the Oct. | bond election un-
til 9 pm. on Saturday, Sept. %,
tax assessor John Marshall has
announced
To vote in the bond election,
your name must be listed on
the last tax assessment roll of
the school district, and you
must register at the tax office
before the Sept. % deadline.
The tax office, located on the
second floor of the Matanuska
Valley Bank building, is open
regularly from $50 am. to S
pm weekdays.
Marshall said he hoped that
the majority of school district
voters will register early to
avoid a last-minute rush on
Saturday evening.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1963-09-19
DON'T USE new
NUMBERS UNTIL
CUT0vER DATES

Although { h e Matanuska
Telephone Association has ISIS
ued a new temporary directory
the new numbers do not 90
INTO effect until the two cut
over dates, Sept. % at 10 I'm.
Tor Pioneer exchange num-
bers, and Sept. 80 for the new
Big Lake exchange numbers,
Max Clements, MIA manager
emphasized this week.
Some subscribers have at
tempted to use their new num-
bers upon receipt of the tenn
porary phone books, which
were mailed this week.
There will be no change in
dlallng Wasilla and Sutton
numbers, the manager said. AL
though the letter prefixes will
be dropped and numbers sub
the dialing proceed
ure remains unchanged.
Big Lake subscribers will
continue to use their old
Frontier numbers until h e
cutoVer date on Sept. 30
Don't reach for that ne w
phone book yet-the old one
is good until the cutover
dafeSi
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1963-09-19

Matanuska Valley farmers
are experiencing the most IA
vorable harvest season in years
according to the USDA stats
teal reporting service.
Harvest conditions have been
ideal for the past three weeks,
with plenty of sunshine, tenn
pertatures above normal, alb
sence of a general area frost,
dry ground, and sufficient la
Dor available.
Farmers have been busy
seven days a week thus far
this month, with virtually no
delay because of weather, stat
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1963-09-19
Way Opened For
SEPARATE Elections

Willow. IS mot Officially; ard
Talkeetna, 55.
District went along with
the Anchorage trend IN voting
for borough chairman, giving
Dyer top billing with 303 votes.
Asplund was second with l46.
Some effort on the part OF
Anchorage voters to give the
Valley area representation on
the school board was evident.
with Joyce Kerttula and Ed
Smith placing sixth and SCI
enth. respectively, IN the over
all election totals The pro
posed borough would have had
a seven=member# school boara=
District : voters for school
board member put Joyce Ker-
ttula first with a total of 1856
votes A scant two votes behind
was Lew Hanks. who tailed
754. Ed Smith polled 708, and
Barbara KaImbach vas fourth
with 49I. Mrs. KeHttula gar
aered the most votes in the
+ Sutton. WasiIla. Big Lake, vi
low. and Talkeetna precincts.
Smith was nigh in Palmer and
Matanuska. and Hanks polled
highest in the Butte precinct.
For borough assembly, Sec
ton / (the Only representative
the unincorporated area of Dis
trict I would have had). Robert
Vroman was high with AGO
votes. Second was Ken GilloW
with 1853, and Rose Palmquist
was third vas 162. "a voted
! for Robert Burner. and Tai
keetna,s Orzechowski polled A.
; Vroman was also first in th'
Anchorage area vote, with Bur
: ner placing second. Vroman le'
q in six of seven District Z pre-
4 cincts, tying with GilloW
q Big Lake precinct voting.
/. Local voters went along wit
d those in Anchorage on til
question of borough chairmal
2 versus borough manager, 80
!, voting for borough manage
and 49, approving the borough
;; chairman form of government
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1963-09-19

District Z voters voiced OPP
position to the Captain Cook
borough by a vote of nearly
five to one in Tuesdays cleo
ton, along with the Greater
Anchorage vote of about three
to one against the borough
which would have combined
Election District Z and 8. Two
hundred eighteen District 7 re-
sidents voted yes" on incor-
poration, While the no tally
was l011.
Failure of the Captain Cook
election opens the way for in
corporation Of separate District
I and 8 boroughs under the
mandatory borough law. Ac-
cording to the law, incorpora=
ton must be completed by Jan
l, 1864. Elections in the two
districts will probably be held
in late November or early De-
cember, state officials said yes
terday.
Voters will at that tim e
choose between a first and sec
ond class borough and between
borough chairman or man
ager. In District :. voters will
choose three assemblymen at
large nom me area outside
Palmer's incorporated city lin
its two will be appointed from
the Palmer city eounciD plus 6
borough chairman unles vot-
ers approve a borough man
ager
The turnout in both Distric
and in the Anchorage are;
was termed light by election
officials, who also noted con
siderable confusion on the par
of voters and some misunde1
Standing of the ballot. A nun
Der of voters were under tt
impression that their ballC
would be discarded if, after
no vote on incorporation
they voted for other issues an
, offices on the ballot.
In the Palmer precinct, %
voted; Matanuska. 285, Butte
1853; Wasilla, 287 mot officia
tally; Sutton, SO; Big Lake, SO
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1963-09-19
Valley F armers Have Best
Harvest Season In Years

though they have sized fairly
we'll during the past few weeks
they have not caught up to last
years crop, and yields are gen.
orally a little below t h e 1862
crop. Valley potatoes are yield
ing nine to Is tons per acre.
Harvest of head lettuce, cab
bage, carrots, celery and minor
vegetables is continuing, with
almost nc loss to frost as yet.
The last paintings of head let
tuce are being harvested now,
and quality of this crop is very
good, according to the report
ing service.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1963-09-19
Carrier Estimates
'41-Mi|| Tax Increase

Each additional tax mill will
add one dollar of additional
taxes for each $1,000 of assess
ed valuation of your proper
ty, Palmer Independent School
District Up ri n e n dent of
schools r. c. Carter told a
Matanaska Valley Chamber of
Commerce audience yesterday.
Carter estimated that h e
first two of the four PROPOSE
lions on the bond election bal
lot would amount to three
fourths Of a mill each, h a t
Proposition 3 would amount to
one and three-eighths mills,
and that the fourth proposition
would require one and five
eighths mills-a total of four
and half mills.
The first proposition would
provide funds for a six-class-
r Q 0 m addition to Swanson
school, plus library, lavatories,
and book room.
The second is for six-class-
room addition to the Palmer
high school. The cost of each is
estimated at S195, 900.
The third would provide for
a gymnasium with playing
court, seating capacity for
1900 spectators, and four teach
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1963-09-19

Five candidates for city coun-
Gil offices have filed petitions
with the Palmer city clerk,
with three more still circulat-
ing theirs. Closing date to file
is tomorrow at S pm. when all
petitions must be returned to
the city clerk. The election
will be Tuesday, Oct. l.
Running for the two year
mayors term is Ralph Moore,
and a petition for Ted
Schmidtke for ayor is
now in circulation. Walt Briggs
and Lee Plumbley have filed
for the one-year term on the
council and Darrell Frank and
Jack Maze will run for the
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1963-09-19

istician Paul Pownall said.
Combines were busy in the
valley during the past week
harvesting barley, for which
quality and yield are general
ly good, according to Pownall.
Combining of oats is expected
to start this weekend. A con-
siderable acreage of oats has
been bound and shocked, some
to be threshed, but most of it
for feed in the bundle.
Weather for bronze harvest
ing could hardly be better,
Pownali said. An unusually
high proportion of the second
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1963-09-19
Council Candidates
Must File Tomorrow

two three-year terms, as will
Earl Goodrich and Merritt
Long, who have not yet re-
turned their petitions to the
city clerk.
Polling place for the city ell
ection will be the city council
chambers in the basement of
the city hall, with polls to be
open from 8 am. to 8 pm.
Voters in the election must
have been residents of til
state of Alaska for one year
and of the city of Palmer for
80 days. They must be 10
years of age and able to read
and write the English lang
uage.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1963-09-19
PALMER WOTM GET
CONFERENCE HONOR

Palmer Chapter, Women Of
the Moose will be honor chap
ter at the WOTM convention to
be held in Juneau Sept. 1928
in conjunction with the Alaska
Moose Association conference.
Another honor for the local
chapter is Rosina Hardisty's
title of Queen of Sponsors" for
the entire state.
Irene Vasanoja will report
on monthly meetings of the
chapter. Also attending will be
Fanny Wirtanen.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1963-09-19

crop of bronze grass made high
quality hay this year because
of the dry weather during the
past three weeks. About 70 per
cent of the crop has been har-
vested.
Some farmers have complet-
ed their silage harvest, and
others expect to finish this
week. Yields are expected to
be a little better than last year,
and quality of the silage is
high.
All commercial growers are
now digging potatoes. AL
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1963-09-19
INTERCLUB LIONS
MEETING Is TONIGHT

The Matanuska Valley Lions
Club and the Eagle River Lions
Club will join in an inter club
meeting tonight at the Palmer
Moose Hall, local members an
nounced this week.
A no-host cocktail hour be-
tween Z and 8 pm. will be fol-
lowed by dinner at 8 pm.
The regular meeting date of
the local Lions chapter has
been changed from 8 pm. each
Friday to Fridays at II noon at
the Palmer Moose hall.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1963-09-19
Captain Cook Takes ST. Beating In District J
Reporters
Notebook

"a cara received from Heinie
and Alice Snider this mornine
reports, I'VE are having the
time of our lives = good food
and vine, and the weather is
excellent. Next week Paris. =
The card is poStmarked ST
Louis, in French Rhineland.
Mrs. kusum Nair, an agricul-
tural economist of New Delhi
India, visited the Palmer area
Sept. lib, gathering material
Tor a book she is writing about
the agricultural industry in the
United States.
Mrs. Nair was given permits
SION to travel and study here
by the US. Department of Az
rlculture in Washington. DC.
and has spent the past year in
this country.
During her Palmer stay, she
visited d Try and produce
farms, talked with pioneers M.
D. Snodgrass and Don Irwin
and attended homesteaders'
party at the Dick Karnofsky
homestead.
Mrs. Nair went to Japan af-
ter leaving here, and from
there will return to India.
Carol Wilson. daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Wilson of
Palmer, will leave next Mon
day evening for Henneger's
Business College in Salt Lake
City, Utah. Carol, a 1863 grad
uate of Palmer high school,
was second princess in the 1863
Miss Alaska State Fair contest.
Mrs. Lila MELVILLE of Palmer
left here on Aug. "a for treat
ment at Virginia Mason hos
pital in Seattle, and underwent
surgery on Sept. Is. Friends
may write to her in care of
Mrs. Carol Jackovich, 1875
Sc. Third, Bellevue, Wash.
Machinist's mate second class
Henry Wright, U S N, son of
Donald B. Wright, ST., of SUIT
ton, was recently awarded
good conduct medal on the
basis of an unblemished record
for the past three years.
Young Wright is stationed
aboard the USS Sellers, now
with the Sixth Fleet in the
Mediterranean. The Sellers is
now doing good will ambas-
sador work at orphanages in
Mediterranean ports, giving
parties for the children and
doing painting and construc-
ton work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-28
nasty Dialogue

To use a horrid new word now In
currency, "KremlinologistS" Zone might
also say "Pekingologists') have Just
been given lot Of additional food for
convoluted thought and speculation.
The windfall has come from Nikita
KhruShchev and the chief journal of
the Chinese Communists, and 1t I'M
doubtedly will be much appreciated by
all those who make business of trying
to explain, at great length, the vast and
often inordinately dull subtleties Of
Sino-Soviet relations.
Actually, there are no Subtleties
whatever in the latest editorial comment
$1,000 words Of it) published by the
official Peking Peoples Daily. In sum,
without mentioning anybody by name,
this says that Premier Khrushchev is
a no-goodnik guilty of terrible perfidy
and double-dealing against Generals
simo Mao Tze-tung and his regime. 1t
says also, at least by implication, that
there can be no Sino-Soviet reconcilia-
ton unless and until Moscow abandons
renegade" YugoSlavia, embraces Al
bania, abjectly apologies to Red China
and reverses its policy of peaceful CO.
existence" by meekly subscribing to
Macs basically violent, pro-war Stalmist
line. ~
These are obviously harsh criticisms
and unacceptable demands, but Mr..
Khrushchev, in the "electioneering"
speech he has just delivered to his
constituency" In Moscow, seems to have
turned the other cheek, more in sorrow
than In anger. Still, without referring
directly to Peking'S bellicoSity, he has
politely damned the Mao line by re-
affirming that the Soviet Union is con-
vinced that "the policy of peaceful CO.
existence is the only sensible policy" in
the thermometer age. At the same
time, though, as If to throw sop to the
warmongering Mao, he has served notice
that If the "imperialists" (meaning
America, Of course) attack Cuba, Red
China or any other Red land, "then the
USSR will come to the aid Of It's
friends and give decisive rebuff to the
aggressors."
In essence, this is a WORKOUT line
of Communist propaganda. Certainly it
is not likely to appease Peking or intimi-
date the free West. All in all, therefore,
the continuing nasty Mao-Khrushche
dialogue seems to be getting nowhere.
Perhaps there is some Westinghouse
gist," though we have yet to meet one,
who can clarity the situation. We're
just waiting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-28
New Kind of Aid

In their physical appearances, at
least on the map, California and Chile
are such look-alikes that it Is quite
natural to compare them geographically
as they stretch along the Pacific in two
continents Closer inspection indicates
many other similarities, which have not
escaped the notice of the respective
governments.
This feeling Of sisterly togetherness
has led to one of the more interesting
and potentially more fruitful outgrowths
Of the Alliance for Progress program. It
simply calls for California to share its
know-how with its geographically larger,
but economically less fortunate, relative
to the south.
Potentially, Chile has the productive
capacity Of California In many areas.
1t abounds in untapped minerals and
nitrate, coal, and other resources. Under
government stimulus, economic and
industrial growth have made headway,
but in terms of American productivity
most Of Chile resembles our West Coast
in the frontier days.
Extending more than three times
the length Of California, Chile has a
greater variety Of climate and topog-
raphy, but much of 1t is similar to the
Golden States. So are many of the
agricultural products, cattle, etc.-items
on which California will concentrate,
at least in the first phase Of the good
neighbor plan.
What the Chileans need to know is
how to turn their comparatively limited
farmlands into something resembling
the Imperial Valley. With twice as many
people to feed as Chile, California has
been able to export rs per cent Of It's
food production, while Chile has trouble
raising enough to 60 around
In launching the State Nation
relationship, President Kennedy sug-
gested this may be only the beginning
There is no reason, he said, why other
States cannot offer help to other Latin
American countries of comparable
interests. Properly pursued, the idea
not only could lift some Of the aid burden
from the Federal Government, but could
give the States closer alliance with
eur friends to the south.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-28
Sevoreid on News

Eric Sevareid, who usually has some
thing to say and always says 1t elo-
quently, is not at all sure he can say
the same for others in his profession,
particularly the televiSion radio seq
ment Of It,
Mr.. Sevareid has sounded off lin
the Columbia Journalism Review on
what he calls radios nervousness"
and "non-news" broadcasts-"the STAG
cato Of the teletype machine, then the
breathless accents Of a self-conscious
baritone, fresh out Of his high-school
speech class, reading five quick bulle-
tins. The alleged news is not only
quite meaningless to the listener but
to the announcer as well. get
the feeling people tune in these pro-
grams just to see what hasn't happened,
that atomic war or bubonic plague
hasn't, after all, broken out. :"
That for radio. The medium would
do we'll to return to It's early-day, simple
formal, Mr.. Sevareid thinks. AS for tele-
vision: 1.-THE performer with the fas-
tidious mind has been replaced, in con-
siderable degree, by the performer with
the chummy voice, the friendly face, or
with the trick manner Of speaking"
Mr.. Sevareid is all for good TV
documentaries, but believes the great,
deeper and more subtle problems of
our day should be treated accordingly
by newsmen with mature and per-
spective minds And he also is nostalgia
for the day when no one had to I'M
learn "the basic lesson Of all human
communication, past, present and eter-
nal-that In the beginning, as in the
end, is the Word"