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_July 22, 1954_
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PLAN WORK DAY
.A work day to clear the new American
Legion cemetery site will be held this
Sunday, July 25, according to plans made
at the Legion meeting Monday evening at
the Dana Newman home* The cemetery site
is located on the Ji'ggs Tice property
approximately six miles up the Sterling
Highway from Homer. Dana Newman has
offered his "cat” to plow the field and
other Legionaires have given assurances
that they will be on hand to help clear
the five-acre patch. The work will get
underway at 9 a.m.
Other business conducted by the Le
gion included the hearing of a thorough
report of the recent convention, given
by Orville Waddell and George Miller.
Of primary interest to the local post
in the report was the increase in the
membership quota given to them. During
the coming year the Post will be expec
ted to increase to 50 members, a gain
of 15 over the present membership.
After the meeting the Legion members
and the Auxiliary enjoyed an outdoor
weiner roast. ’
CADETS LEAVE
■ tight eager and ambitious Civil Air
Patrol cadets from as many central and
western states* their chaperones and
cameramen were guests of the Homer CAP
squadron from 10 a.m. Tuesday until
early Thursday morning. The girls seem”
ed to enjoy their tour of the area as
expressed by the taking of many pictures*
the picking of armfuls of wild flowers,
and miles of hiking.
The rteceptipn planned for the young
ladies Tuesday evening was not well at”,
tended by the Homer fol ks but those who
did manage to get in heard the girls
tell of the CAP activities in their own
communities in a most convincing manner.
After the program they were served cake
which had been beautifully decorated
with the words "Welcome CAP Cadets*"
ice cream and punch. Wild flowers and
driftwood decorated the table in the
Elks hail where the reception was held.
The girls making the visit were: CAP
Maj. Gerry Birnbaum* Albany, N.Y., a
chaperone; Cadbrts Capt. Darle. Whisler*
Des Moines* Iowa; Capt. Joyce Anderson*
Watertown, South Dakota; Capt. Barbara
McBride* Pueblo, Colorado; Lt. Carma
Monsen, Salt Lake City* Utah; Capt.'
Maureen A. Knapp, Berkley, Michigan;
Lt. Carol Kitzmiller,North Canton,Ohio;
Capt. Ha^el Henrickson* Kansas City*
Missouri* and Lt. Darleen Gleason* Mil”
waukee* Wisconsin. Capt. Lucille Busch*
WAF liaison officer from Washington*
D.C., accompanied the g-fcup as di*d Maj.
Strong of Elmendorf Air Base. All the
girls were given Homer Booster Buttons
by the Chamber of Commerce and were
wearing them as they left Homer.
CHAMBER MEET,
The Homer Chamber of Commerce heard
an annual auditors report Monday and
learned that there was more money in the
bank than there was entered in the
books. The report stated that the Cham”
ber had a bank balance of £268.48, but
only £239 was entered. The auditors
(Cont. oh Page 4* Col. 11
MEASLE REPORT
Three deaths last week in the Port
Grahacrfnglish Pay measles epidemic are
all that have been reported thus far,
according to Mrs. Ruth Harsh,t public
health nurse for the Peninsula. Mrs.
Hursh and public health nurse Ann Zal~
daris from Anchorage were sent into the
stricken area with medicine last week
to administer to the sick.
Mrs. Hursh reports that the.oldtimers
in the Aleut village of English Pay
could never remember of having seen the
measles before. This fact accounts for
the nearly Kf percent coverage of the
-disease among the natives. The sickness
was complicated by the lack of anyone
to care for those hit the hardest, the
oldest and youngest members of the pop
ul ati on.
She stated that it was her opinion
that a doctor was not needed in the area
of the epidemic as the nurses had medi
cation and the natives responded rapidly.
The Peninsula will be without the
services of apublic health nurse during
the month of August as Mrs. Hursh will
be taking her vacation then. She ex
pects to return to Homer during that
month and will 'probably start giving
typhoid shots about September 15.
During her present stay in the com”
muni ty she will remain until July 29.
GSG MEETING
Approximately 35 persons attended
the first permanent action meeting of
the Citisen's Study Group 1 ast Fri day
night at the school house.
President Don Smith announced that
six committees had been set up to carry
on the worK of the g*oup. The commit”
tees were:, Economic Development, beau
tification and Planning, Legislative,
Hecreation, Education and Publicity.
It was agreed by the membership that
the people attending the meetings as
representatives of specific community
organizations would act as liaison men
and should urge the attendance of all
members of their organi zations at the
CSG meetings..
t/r. William L.M at thews read portions
of the "Port Angeles Plan” to the group.
This plan of operating a community
study was used with success by the citi
zens of Port Angeles, Washington.
It was decided that a constitution
and ’by-laws for the permanent action
group should be drawn up by the advisory
board.
Bob Norman, speaking in the absence
of Dan Larson, president of the Fair
Board, told the group that on July 3D
the board was sponsoring a .free weiner
roast at the fair grounds. The board,
he announced, would hold its next meet
ing Wednesday, July 28.
BOAT HARBOR
Information received from Delegate
Bartlett this past week on the small
boat harbor for Homer indicates that
the so-called Cook Inlet report of the
.Army Engineers is still before the Bu
reau of the Budget. The report was
presented to the budget bureau December
29, 19,]53 and must go back to the Army
(Cont. on Page 4, Col. 2)
Jrafnc on the Sterling Highway in
, the vicinity of Hotter has doubled for
the second year in a row, according to
Carl Sholin, foreman of the Alaska Road
Commission shop in Hotter.
The ARC traffic counter set up on the
: highway just past the Husky Repair Shop
shows an average of 600 cars a day coar
pared to 350 for last year at this time
and W per day for two years ago.
Sholin also revealed that the Road
Commission has extended the Sterling
Highway fro® the post office corner in
Hooter to the dock at the end of the Spit.
The extension represents the realination
of plans local ARC men have had since
the highway was built down the Peninsula.
PASSES AWAY
Death came last Friday, July 16, to
Mrs. Irene;Abbott, 38, aresident of the
Hotter area since 19-bO. She had been
ill for the past several months and had
been a patient in the Providence hospi
tal in Anchorage for several weeks.
Porn in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Jan
uary 15, 1916, she married Charles Ab
bott in 1945 in Anchorage, Alaska. She
is survived by her husband and two chil
4 dren, Lynette, 4 and Charieen, 3.
She was preceded in death by one son,
Allen, who passed away at the age of 16
months last January.
Also surviving her are her mother,
Mrs. Antone Czarapata and several bro
thers and sisters, all of Milwaukee.
The body was shipped to- Milwaukee
for burial in the Czarapata family plot.
OIL CONTRACT
The Anchorage Daily Tices last week
in a story from their Washington corres
pondent, A. Robert Smitn, announced the
details of a large oil exploratory con"
tract that has been signed by the Der
partment of the Interior and the Stan"
dard Oil Coepany of California.
■A total of $450,000 must be spent by
the company over a four-year period in
exploration and development on the
750,000 acres awarded to the company
under the contract. Exact location of
the area concerned in the contract was
not given except to say that it - was
south of Lake Tustumena and .on the west
side of the Peninsula.
Geophysicists of the Robert H. Ray
company have been employed by the Stan" ,
dard Oil company in drilling shot wells
along the Peninsula for the past two
months.
The Times Quoted Lewis E. Hoffman,
chief of the division of (minerals in the
Bureau of Land Management as having
saar'd that the company may start drill"
ing operations this summer. Under the
terms of the contract, however, the com
pany does not have to start its first
well until July 1, 1959 and the second,
well must ilave begun by July 1. i960.
CIVIC CENTER
The PUD this week received a letter
from General John R. Noyes, the . Ad jU",
tant General of the Alaska National
Guard ^informing the directors of the
steps necessary in obtaining an Armory-.
Civic Center for Homer.
The General said that be believed *
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