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5 No« 13
HOMER NEWS
•HOMER ★ ALASKA*
"Where The Trail Ends And The Sea Begins"
September 2, 1954
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CHAMBER MEET
At the regular meeting of the Homer
Chamber of Commerce Monday noon the mem
bers heard Mrs, Lydia Fohn-Hansen, asso
ciate director of the Extension Service
of the University of Alaska tell briefly
of her work in that field and of its
value to Alaskan residents,
Mrs, Fohn-Hansen stated that since
she first came to Homer some so years
ago aboard the old "Princess Pat" many
changes have taken place here as they
have throughout all cf Alaska, She no
ted, however, that the changes were
primarily of a material and physical na
ture and that Alaskans must look to
more progress in the field of human
relations,
More planning is needed, she said,
to make the communities of Alaska the
kind of places that we want them to be.
She stressed, schools as a starting
point for "education for living", The
u3R,sh, she said, must be used to teach
children in all major areas of develop
ment, Alaskan schools, Mrs, Fohn-Hansen
noted, have been slow to adopt new means
■of education and said that all communi
ties should concern themselves not only
with better schools for youngsters, but
should consider adult education as an
aid for better living.
The University of Alaska is not used
to its faldest extent,the speaker said,
and urged that the people of Homer bet
ter acquaint themselves with the Ex
tension service.
Returning' to the youth oj Hoasnur,
she said that the young people should
be asked vuhr-r. they want and be let in
on the planning-. If this is done, she
suggested, aault-s will find t.he youngeT
folks coming up with many good ideas.
In planning community programs, "rs,
Fohn-tiansen said, family groups should
be uppermost in mind♦ Programs that
are centered around the family will a
chieve greater success and be of more
value to the community,
The Chamber also discussed briefly
the statement which they wished to in
, sert in The Milepost for next year.
The space for the statement has been
donated by BUI Wallace, publisher of
The Milepost,
Next week the Chamber will meet on
Tuesday instead of Monday as Monday is
labor Day, A special guest, whose name
was not announced, will be present at
next Tuesday's meeting, President Ael
son Moyer said•
AN APOLOGY
The NEWS this week is happy to ex
tend an apology to Leo Rhode for over
looking his election as vice president
of the jUasfca Rural Electric Coopera
tive Association two weeks ago in Fair
banks* Just how we overlooked the fact
that he had been elected to this high
position we do not know, put overlook
it we did* Homer should indeed be hon
ored to have one of its citizens as an
officer of the Association;
Hr* .Rhode is a member of the board
of directors of the Homer Electric Asso
ciation oftd a member of the Board of
Regents of the University of Alaska*
PRESENTS PAPER
Leo Rhode, member of the Board of
Regent s,University of Alaska, will pre
sent a paper and Lecture at the jorth
coming 5th Alaska Science Conference to
be held in Anchorage on September y-io,
1954*
Papers at this conference will em
brace Agriculture and Forestry, Engin
eering, Biologic Sciences, Medicine and
Public Health, Social Sciences, and
Physical Sciences, all of which will
include over too speakers♦ The paper
presented by Mr* Rhode will be on Homer,
based on the Citizen's Study Group, en
titled, u A Community Faces Its Problems"
and will fall, into the group under So
cial Sciences«
Some of the other speakers -under the
Social Saliences section will be: Henry
Harmon, Director of Public Welfare for
Alaska; Hon• Judge J, L, McCarrey, Dor
othy ffova tney, Territorial Department
of Education, Lola Tilley, Head of the
Home Economics *■ Department, University
of Alaska, and Mr, LeRoy Goode, Director
of the Community College, Anchorage,
The Alaska Science Conference is a
division of the American Association
for the Advdncement of Science, which
is a national organization♦ Ail papers
presented are published in book form
each year and are given International
distribution* Mr« Rhode will secure fpr
the Homer Public Library a copy of this
year's conference, when published,
WIRE GOING UP
Ifork .was expected to get underway
this week on stringing the wire on the
Homer-Anchor Point leg of the Homer
Clam Gulch power line, according to
Jiggs Tice, manager, Tice stated that
taels for the job should pe in Homer
before the end of the week« rlt is ex
pected that it will take approximately
eight weeks to complete the wire string
ing, When the work is complete the
line will be energized to Anchor Point«
STORAGE PLANT
Russ Berteson of flir.il chik . has an
nounced that he plans to set up a cold
storage plant in that community in con
nection with the Berman Packing Company
which he operates, It is expected that
the plant will have a 130 ton capacity
and it is expected to, fie ready by next
season,
Berteson states that he is interested
in buying, fish over the Homer deck if
all of the arrangements can be made,
FIRE OUT ”
Fire Chief Ora Jones and fireman Or
ville Waddell answered a fire call Tues
day at th^i city dump, A .fire had been
set in the garbage near the Jensen boat
houset and it was put out by the fire
men,, The Fire Chief stated that had the
wind been blowing in the opposite dir
ection the boat house might have been
burned, He has requested that no fires
be set in 'the dump east of the boat
shed.
While ^o estimate of the number of
people attending this year's Homer Fair
was available, Bob Norman, secretary of
the Fair Board states that fewer people
were in attendance this year than Last,
The reason, he said, was because of the
recent polio threat, Despite the poor
attendance, he said that he felt that
the fair was successful with many prem
iums and prises being won by local resi
dents,
Bert and Helen Bachman appeared to
be the luckiest people at the fair with
Helen winning the Chinchilla membership
and Bert winning the rug offered by the
Brady Floor Covering store of Anchorage
Eight-year-old Rennee Farsdahl won
the lot in the Benson subdivision, and
Mrs, F, T, McCollum won the quilt Auc
tioned off by the Alaska Crippled Chil
dren's Association,
Some of the other winners listed
were Mrs, Charles Roehi, Jr,, a deep
fat fryer, Mrs, Jake Mclay, a glassware
set, and Gene Browning a ride with the
Lawrence Aircraft Service«
Thirty dollars was raised during the
Fair for the polio fund, and the Crip
pled Children's Association netted $7$
on their quilt, Total proceeds of the
Fair Association were! not available«
(Cent, on Page 4, Col, 1)
PUD NOTES
The Directors of the PUD adopted a
Homer Dock Policy at the special meet
ing held August 25, 1954, with Mr, Hugh
Watson, Homer Dock Manager,
The Delinquent Tax rollforthe years
195t and 1952 is in the process of pub
lication and will be published Friday,
or possibly earlier this week, Hotices
will also be posted at three public
places, Chamberlains Store, Post Office,
and at the PUD office,
Numerous questions have arisen con
cerning the possibility of placing im
provements upon property sold at a tax
sale, and the various problems which
might occur as a result of the former
owner of the property appearing within
the allotted two years and redeeming
the property, A reply is expected from
the PUD attorney on this question, at
an early date.
Request for refund ~QJ act federal
taxes paid by the PUD on t elepkcne and
telegraph service has been made* to two -
local firms in view of the fact that
the PUD is a political subdivision of
Alaska and is therefore exempt from such
taxes* Further investigation is being
made to determine other taxes on ser
vices and facilities paid by the PUD in
order to obtain similar refunds*
Information received from Ur* James
if, Huston, Director of the Alaska Pub
lic Works in Juneau, states that: final
review of the plans and specifications.
has been made by Alaska Public Works of
the Hospital-Health Center project* Ur*
Huston calculates that the APW may pro
ceed to advertise for bids on the proj
ect by the middle of September, provid
ing all site requirements have been met*
Further check of the results on the
water sample from the Hospital well was
made with the engineers, Rutledge, John
ston and Tryck and as yet no information
has been received by the engineers or
the PUD*