THE HOMER NEWS
Alaska’s Largest Mimeograph Weekly
Published every Thursday in Homer, Alaska
Bill Raver, Editor and Publisher
Dorothy Raver, Compositor
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PNA LOOKS AHEAD .
Bob Smith, local agent for Pacific Northern Airlines, has
announced that starting this aeek Homer will have four
flights daily departing here for Anchorage and Kodiak. This
new schudule means a great deal not only to the people of
Homer, but to the business people of Anchorage and other
parts of Alaska as well.
To Homs rites going either to Anchorage or Kodiak, it will
mean a choice of two flights either way. To those wishing to
make quick business trips to Homer it Jill mean that they can
arrive in the morning and spend nearly a whole day in town
instead of just a couple of hours as has been the case.
However, of greatest interest to local people is the an
nouncement that the new PNA Constellation flight will leave
Anchorage for Seattle just 30 minutes after the arrival of
the flight from Homer. In other words the Homer traveler can
leave here at 12:30 p*m. and arrive in Seattle in the early
evening. That is progress!
It is apparent that Phcific Northern has placed a great
deal of faith in the future development of the Homer area in
establishing their new schedule. We hope that Homer will
justify the company*s faith with ever increasing traffic and
with a greater show of hospitality to PNa personnel and pas
sengers who are our unexpected guests at times.
THOSE STORIES
A. new circulation gimmick apparently is being sprung on
the people of Homer by the Anchorage Daily Times* The idea
seems to he ,to make the local people alternately laugh and
get angry with the news items in the city daily concerning
our community. The stories appearing in the, past few weeks
hare seldom been correct in detail, but rather expressed the
desires and opinions of the local correspondent, Bob Norman.
The latest in this fantastic series of "news* items ap
peared in last Wednesday’s Times, It was concerned with the
recent PUD election In which Henning Johnson and Mrs, Margar
et Anderson swept to victory, *
The following paragraph concludes the story: "Johnson and
Mrs, Anderson, both critical of PUD politics, especially re
garding the construction of a health center, were named in a
hotly-contested election.”
Now everybody in Homer, except the writer of the article,
knows that there was absolutely nothing hot about the elec
tion. Only the two winning candidates expressed their opin
ion over the radio and in the paper. The voting turn-out
was good, but not exceptional. It reflected the increase in
population very well. As to the politics of the PUD, we
don’t recall that politics entered into the picture at all.
Feifcape the word that the writer was groping for was "pol
icies."
The Times story also stated that the new members would be
{worn in "Monday evening." The truth is that no date had
een set fbr %the first meeting of the new board. The date
has since been set fbr Thursday*
On March 28 the Times carried a story by the same writer
telling the public that the board of directors of the Homer
fair Association had granted pemission to a group of local
sportsmen to install a rifle range on the fairgrounds. The
story was as erroneous as it could be. The writer is the
president of the fair board and apparently he thought that he
was running the show so he wrote the article before the board
had rated on the project. To date the board still hasn’t
voted a range site at the fairgrounds. When asked at a board
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ed that he had written "a story" and hadn t naa
up to see whether he or the paper had made the erro .
Some time ago the Times carried a story cone
new Homer hospital-health center. Of oourse ‘
not call the new building the hospital health center. ^Itras
referred to as a "clinic". All official oorrespo
oerning this projeot refers to it as the Home I
health center. The blue phints are clearly marked
health center." The tern "clinic" was applied as a ug
coating for the benefit of those who did not favor the p
Je°We sincerely doubt that the circulation of the Times has
gained one paper through the writings of their l00^1
sentative, despite the laughs and the cries of anguish heard
on the streets of Homer and we hope that the Times ..
to check more closely on their facts before ttey appear in
print. The Times is still the leading daily newspaper in
Alaska and we doubt that they reached that position by faulty
news writing. ___
PATTY SLONE, JBMIE CHOATE
WIN SPELLING TROPHIES
Two Homer students, Patty
Slone and Jimmy Choate came
home from Ninilchik Friday
with two trophies earned in a
spelling contest,
Patty, an eighth grade
student, represented the 6th,
7th and 8th grades from the
local school and Jinny, a 4th
grade student, represented
the 3rd, 4th and 5th grades.
Local students have been
preparing for the contest for
the past several weeks and
credit is due to the teachers
who worked hard with the stu
dents to prepare them. Miss
Thoo Edwards is the fourth
grade teacher and Bob Safley
the eighth grade teacher.
Others going to the con
test from Homer included Pat
sy King, 8th grade; Kat%
Slone, 4th grade, and Dorene
Hollis, Phillip Nichols, Em
ery Robirts and Rosemary Ost,
high school.
Schools represented in the
contest were Kenai, Kasilof,
Ninilchik, Anchor Point and
Homer.
Kenai won the high school
division.
Mrs. Arthur Nichols and
Bob Safley escorted the stu
dents to Ninilchik.
VOLUNTEER HELP NEEDED
FOR REBUILDING
Word r:as received this
’.reek from the Frit* Creek
Social and Civic Center or
ganization that all of the
lumber has been sared to re
build the Dave Morse home
rhioh tfas recently destroyed
by fire. Anyone -Ishing to
donate labor to build the
house may help at this time.
Work ra3 to have gotten under
uay on Wednesday of this reek
N TUBAL HliTOFY SOCIETY
TO MEET SATURDAY NIGHT
The Natural aistory Socie
ty of Homer Trill meet Satur
day night at the Tim Scott
residence# Meeting time has
been set at 7 p*m#
According to President Jim
Scott, plans for a field trip
to China Poot Bay on Simdary
rill be discussed. Members
of the society and their
guests will leave the dock at
12 noon on Sunday and return
at 7 p.m. At China Poot they
will start digging for arti
facts# Scott said that all
those planning to riake the
trip should take a lunch
along and wear ample uana
clothing#
TERRITORLIL COMMISSIONER,
VETERINARIAN DUE HERE
Jim Wilson, Territorial
Canmissioner of Agriculture
and Dr# Fred Honsinger, Ter
ritorial Veterinarian, will
visit Homer about April 23,
according to Ed Leibenthal,
extension agent. The two men
had planned an earlier visit
here but were unable to make
it.
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