LEGION .AUXILIARY MEETS
A regular meeting of the
American Legion Auxiliary,
General Buckner Post 16, of
Homer was held Monday , night
at Ruth Newman's home. High"*,
light of the meeting was the
report given by Rev a Waddell
of the Auxiliary convention
held recently in Palmer.
According to Mrs. Waddell
Homer was well represented at
the convention and might one
day look forward to having a
convention here when facili
ties increase. She also said
the election of Gayle Tice as
Department Serge afftf a t~. Arm s
was quite an honor for Homer.
Mrs. Waddell reminded the
Auxiliary that the pledge of
allegiance has recently been
amended to include the words
"under God."
In the absence of the pre
sident, the meeting was con
ducted by Dorce Schulte, first
vice-president, who announced
that a membership drive was
underway, and urged all eli
gible women to contact Mary
Franklin or Reva Waddell. .All
eligible members are welcome
to attend meetings, Mrs.
Schultz stated..
Ll The next meeting of the
Auxiliary will be held at
Ruth Newman’s home on August
16. at which time discussion
will be held concerning a
booth for the Homer Fair, and
Gayle Tice will be formally
installed in her position of
Department -Sergeant-at-Arms.
Following the meeting a
wiener roast was enjoyed by
members of the American Legion
and Auxiliary.
ANNOUNCING
The J. C. Reynolds Real
Estate Company wjshes tD
announce that after August 1
21 will be known as . the
STROUT REALTY
The association with the
Strout Realty.Company, which
has over 600 offices through"*
out the United States, will
allow the people of the Kenai
Peninsula the widest possible
outlet for real estate sales.
All of our listings with pic
tures will be placed in all
Strout Realty offices giving
wide advertising for them.
You are invited to stop in to
talk over your real estate
problems with J. C. Reynolds
and let him explain how your
listings will be handled.
DRAWING STICKER '
‘-Sam Pratt has been busy
thia week designing, drawing
and coloring a windshield
’> sticker fosr use by the Homer
: Fair Association. -The art
.work, which will be on a round
jtsiickt$r, consists of. an out*",
t line map of Alaska with a
, large moose head at the base.
Depicted on the map is Mt.
McKinley, while outside the
map area is a whale, a salmon
(and a sheaf of wheat.
CHANGES FIRM NAME
J. C. Reynolds . announced
this w$ek in .the NEWS that
after August 1 the J. C. Key"
nolds Real Estate -. company
will be known as the Strout
Realty., ,
Reynolds states that by
joining the Strout firm,which
has Over 600.offices through"
out the Uni ted States, he can
better serve the people of
the Kenai Peninsula. Local
listings, he says, may be ad
vertised in the big. Strout
catalogue and ' should .bring
greater results than ever be~
fore r:eali zed. :
ACCEPTED IN GUARD
Dana Newman has been ac~
cepted as a member of the Ho'*’
mer Alaska National Guard
platoon, according to Lt.Har
ry A* egoire, commander.
HERE FROM DETROIT
Mr. and Mrs.Morris Kushner
of Detroit, Michigan are vis~
itors on the Peninsula this
week. Mr. Kushner is the de~
signer and manufacturer of
the "Kush Spoon"fishing lure.
A firm believer in hi s , own
product, Mr.,Kushner used bis
lure vQff the Homer dock the
other'day and in 15 minutes
he hooked four Dollys and one
salmon.
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DELEGATE BARTLETT WRITES
The Senate Interstate and
Fared gn Commerce # comi ttee, i n
reporting out a bill providing
the mecb&ni sm for study and
regulation of‘the North Paci
fic fisheries, amended the
bill to provide that there is
no intention on the part of
the .Congress to deny the fut
ure state of Alaska control
otfer fisheries in waters cut
side' the three-mile limit*
The amendment had been urged
by Clarence Anderson,Director
of the Alaska Department of
Fisheries and Delegate Part
let t.
Last week the House Mer
chant Marine and Fisheries
Committee in approving sfmi
lar legislation,voted against
Including the amendment urged
by Director Anderson and Dele
gate Bartlett. Director Far
ley of the Fish and Wildlife
Service, Department of the In
terior, which has control over
A) ask a f f sheri es, testi fi ed
in opposition ' to the amend
ment approved by the Senate
comm.i ttee. * .
The purpose of 'the re
port is to negate any con“
gressional intent through the
passage of this bill that the
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries
Act of 1950 should govern the
relative areas of control
over fisheries between the
federal government and Alaska
as a-sovereign state' when Al
aska obtains its statehood.
Obviously this is a legisla
tive determination which will
have to be made through the
basic act creating the status
of statehood for Alaska, the
Senate committed report said.
Legisiation allowing the
Territory of Alaska to incur
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bonded indebtedness was ap
proved this week by the De
partment of the Interior when
Assistant Secretary of the
Interior Orrpe Lewis submitteo
his views to the House |eo®~
mittee on Interior and Insu~
lar Affairs- , s
The committee has-two billt
before it, one introduced b^
Delegate Bartlett confined t(
the issuance of bonds fos
school purposes in the amount
of $12 1/2 million and* the
other introduced by Congress
man Saylor for issuance of
bonds in the amount of $X
million for public improve
ments of a permanent charac
ter, including schools, hos
pitals, colleges, offices,
prisons and other public buil
dings, and roads and water and
sewer systems. The Interior
Department reports favor the
Saylor bill.
The Kish and Wildlife Ser
vice will hold its first hear
ing on 1955 Alaska commercial
fishery regulations in Dil
lingham on "July 30. Light
additional hearings have been
scheduled as follows: Sitka,
September Juneau, Septem
ber 3; Wrangell, September 7;
Ketchikan, September 9; Ko~
diak,September 20; Anchorage,
September 23; Cordova, Sep
tember 27 and Seattle, Octo
ber 2D, 21 and 22.
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