Peek at the Past: As it appeared in the Aug. 15, 1963, Frontiersman

Raceway construction to begin Monday

Jim Jones, Anchorage businessman and owner of the Alaska Speedway, has been engaged as project manager of the new Palmer Raceway, and Tex Noey, Anchorage sportsman, has been named promotional manager.

Engineering, design and soils investigation will begin Monday for the first portion of the project, a 3,650-feet drag strip. The raceway will include a two-mile racing course for sports cars, a half-mile horse race track, facilities for stock car racing and a track for go-cart racing.

Co-op application appears competitive

The determining factor in REA's decision as to location of a power-generating plant to serve Southcentral Alaska will no doubt be area economy, Mason LaZelle, MEA's manager, said this week.

The MEA application for REA funds to build the Sutton Electrical Center will be highly competitive with CEA's application for an addition to the Knik Arm Plant, according to LaZelle.

At the B&B Market, you could buy steaks for 98 cents a pound, ribs for 49 cents a pound and slab bacon for 57 cents a pound.

Benson's Department Store has having several sales. Hooded sweatshirts were $2.89 and men's short-sleeve dress shirts were $2.25.

At Kirk's Sales and Service, a 1961 Rambler Classic was $1,345 and a 1959 Studebaker Lark VI was listed at $695. If you wanted to inquire, you could call them using their phone number -- PI 5-2200.

In the classified section, you could have bought a "large, three-bedroom modern home" in Palmer for $17,000. Four house listings used the word "modern" or the term "ultra modern."

A two-bedroom home in Palmer was renting for $65 a month -- but no word on if it was "modern" or not.