Peek at the Past

Hearings on borough

to be held

The first of three public hearings in the Anchorage area to consider the new Captain Cook Borough will be held May 24.

The Local Affairs Agency has received petitions carrying the signatures of over 600 District 7 voters requesting the formation of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough with boundaries including all of the Seventh Election District, also the area drained by streams emptying into Cook Inlet up to and including the Kustatan River.

Dean Ray to speak at commencement

Commencement exercises will be held Friday, May 24 in Central school auditorium for the 39 graduating seniors of the class of 1963. The group is the smallest to graduate in several years.

Colony Days features sports car races

Matanuska Valley colonists of 1935, traditionally honored during the Colony Day events in Palmer, will find the whizzing sports cars on the mile-long paved track within the city limits of Palmer this weekend a far cry from muddy streets of the tent city which awaited them on a rainy night 28 years ago.

The Frontiersman cost 15 cents and was published once a week, on Thursdays, in 1963.

At D & A Grocery, you could buy a two-pound tin of coffee for $1.27, a three-pound tin of Crisco for 89 cents and a half-gallon of Matanuska Maid ice cream for 89 cents. Their advertisement touted that "colonists and newcomers alike shop the D&A."

At Kirk's Sales and Service, you could have bought a 1959 Chevrolet Nomad for $1,495 or a 1958 Chevrolet Belair for $945.

At the Center Theatre, Yul Brynner was starring in "Escape from Azahrain," Gary Cooper was starring in "The Naked Edge" and Glenn Ford was a hit in "The Americano."