THE KENAI PENINSULA. PIONEER
(Formerly The Hamer News)
Alaska1s Largest Mimeograph Weekly
Published every Monday at Homer, Alaska
Bill Raver, Editor and Publisher
Dorothy Raver, Compositor
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5HAME, SHAME
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• * The directors of the Homer Electric Association have
taken the action that will close their meetings to the public*
In the future anyone wishing to appear - before the directors
must “make arrangements' to be put on the Agenda at least four
days before the meeting."
The directors have, in effect,
corporation and slammed the door
.consumers* We can'only hope that
this dictatorial policy brought on, we believe, by a need for
secrecy, not service. f . / ...
As we said once before, we have never seen a meeting of
the directors that got out of hand, .all of the business of
'the Association is supposed to be public so there., is no rea
son why any consumer should not be a ole to sit .through any
meeting desired. * l
made the HEA a private
shut in the faces of the
a new board will reverse
" Folks up t the line were a bit surprised last Thursday
to see Jfggs Tice, manager of the Homer Electric Association,
personally distributing copied of "Consumers Highlights",,
the newsletter of the HEA. We can’t Imagine why Tice de
livered than himself, unless of course he had nothing else to
do on Thursday and just wanted to take a ride. ^ ;
Consumers Highlights is nothing more or'less than a
propaganda sheet that dispenses sweetness and light about the
HEA and the REA.
* According to several local residents, the HEA tried to
put out a newsletter once before and had to stop because 'it
failed to tell the truth. This one will go down just- the
same way, only faster.
It is rather odd that th£ directors of KEA should de
cide to put out a paper Just before ‘ the annual election. It
is obvious that they are worried for fear that they will lose
their grip on the local coop and their stake in GAPA.
They have been in the water long enough to like it and they
don't want to get out. To this end they put out their own
sheet which will print only what the manager wants to print.
In addition to being a propoganda sheet Highlights
enters another field in competition vath private enterprise.
They are now acting as a power agency,a bank and a newspaper.
They do* all of them poorly.
To the advertisers we can only ask this questions itould
any one of you like to see the HEA start a business in com
petition vd th yours? One advertiser told us that the maijager
told him the HEa paper would have a circulation of UOO. That
just happens to be the circulation of the Pioneerf The ad
vertiser told us what he paid for his ad. for that some ,
amount of money he could have had an ad approximately twice
as large in the Pioneer. If we are going socialistic with
this thing, let’s go all the way and let the HEa run one big
grocery store, one big clothing store, one big hardware store
one big lumber yard, etc. There will be no hidden charges",
we will get everything "at cost." Ridiculous? Of .course it
is and it is as un-American as Joe Stalin*
Finally, it should be.noted that the..paper is printed in
Chugiak by, of course, Cloyce Parks, husband of Justine
Parks, secretary of CAPA, president of aHECa, president of
hatanuska Electric.•..need we say*more?
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CROWD ATTENDS FIMS '
A crowd of about UO men
was on hand Thursday night to
see special 'films presented
in the Hamer armory by the
National Guard platoon* Ac
cording to Lt, Harry Gregoire
platoon commander* 'several
young men indicated that they
would like to join the Guard,
Lt, Gregoire is endeavoring
to build up the strength of
the platoon,
~ ACCOUNTANTS VISIT HOklER
Anchorage_ Accountants
Frank leriah and Terry Mackle
visited Honer Last week on
business. During their stay
they inspected the PUD books
in preparation to placing a
bid for the auditing of the
books.
Slit RATE EUR
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"PHONE 256.
These snowy, cold days
make it rnrd to get around
but you don’t have to wor
ry about your dry cleaning
problems#.• all you have to
do is . ^ *■"
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for pickup and" delivery
service,..wefdo the rest#
Pickup and delivery is
only a part of the service
we offer to our- customers#
He place every 'garment in
a paper bag to keep it'
clean until you need it#
For Quality Dry Gleaning
just call
HOMER ClEANER S
CHRONOLOGY OF.EVENTS IN 195}
(cont. from last week) -
MI 5 :'
- The directors of the1HEA
met to investigate the*’death
of Joe Alonzo. ■-.% ■
Miss uorothy- Ream -of An
chorage announced th^t *:ibhe
would be opening a-\ beauty
shop in Hemer this summer.
Paul ' Choquette combined
the hobby- shop and sport shop
and is novi calling it the In
le t Sport Shop. / * - '
Bob .Norman . resigned as
president of the Homer Fair
Association. Bill Raver took
over those duties#
Dan France ^of the FWS in
Kenai was fired' and petitions
were circulated asking his
re-instatemento
Frank LeMastor ^ REA safety
division man from Washington
visited Homer. '
The Anchor Point talent
show was a big success mth
mary fine acts presented*
MAY 12
The dock;- committee of the
PUD reported that it was not
feasible to merge the jobs
of the PUD manager and the
dock manager.
Nine members of the Homer
Civil Air Patrol Squadron
visited Anchorage for a "Wing
conference* _. * $
The John Ost family left
Homer for Circle Hot Springs.
Mrs. Russell Cronin was
elected president of the
Homer Women*s Club.
Mrs. - Herb McCain has been
chosen to manage * the school
cafeteria next year.*
Five candidates have.filed
for delegate to tfie earning
constitutional convention.
MAY 19 , -'3
The directors of the PUD
passed a 133,000 budget for
that organization for the
year.
Final plans for the Clean-"
Up Day Sunday have;been made.
Representatives of three
engineering firms presented.
bids to the directors of the
CaBA meeting here this week.
Wythe & Son have begun
work on an addition to their
store. ,
The Sea Shell restaurant
reported a good opening day.
It is located on the Spit and
is operated by Lydia Shelford.
Hcmer Latham and Sam Gas
peric have taken over 'the op
eration of the Sterling Bar.•
Fifty-one* first and second
grade children of Homer rer*
ceived their first shots^of’
Salk Polio Vaccine* * *
; J. L. McCarrey.- ad-^
Pressed the six graduates of
the Homer high School this
week* * '
MaY 26
rw.« Mrs. Bert Hansen passed
away May 2$, 1955.
The Chan her votecl to -set
the dues at $2$.
C3e an-Up-day'was consider^
ed successful with 50. to 55 '
loads of rubbish being hauled
away.
The Ground Observer Corps "
set Uplapost in Homer,
. Wuincy Bon,tott of Fairbanks
has set up. a lav/ office in *
Homer.
The Homer Cab company is
a new cab service in Homer.
Carl Kibbey returned tc
Homer for a visit.
JUNE 2
.Harry Gregoire* submitted
the low bid „on the hospital
water and sewage disposal
system.
Morris Killen as'ked the
PUD directors to withdraw his
request for a .franchise on
city water system for Homer. 1
The “Gotlieb: Kohler home ori V
the East Road burned to the. '
ground. J
, : j&r. and Mrs. Robert S.
Thompson arrived to make
fcfieir: home in Homer.
‘ Henry Chamberlain and D.
A. Petersen left4 for the
States Wednesday,
DR. KEPLER VISITS KENaI
* ^Dr. Kepler, an Anchorage
physician, dame to Kenai last
Saturday, the lUth and held
office visiting hours in tht=
doct.qr?s rfdm in the- Civic
Building - from 2 to U p,m.
Dr. Kepler plans to be in Ke-.-.v
nai for three more such Sat-.. .
urdays for his trial period
and then state whether he has
* plans to continue coming*
Anyone wishing to see or meet --d
the doctor, please remembei
that his hours are 2 to 6 pm .
^on Saturday afternoons. Drv
"Kepler was honored at an in- * .'
formal supper and reception
in the roan ’ next to Sully1 s
Saturday evening. Many cbm
munity well-wishers . came in o
to see him. Mrs. Jacquelinu
Sewell acted as" hostess. Dr.
Kepler said that he liked
working in the outlying vil
lages in Alaska and' had done
a great deal of it. Kenai -
* certainly welcomes him.
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HOMER LIBRARY BOARD .
ELECTS OFFICERS
d .Mrs.- Arleen Kranich. was
elected president "'of the Hom
er Library board of directors
Thursday night. Other offi
cers are Violet Wythe, vice
president; Marion Knebpel:
secretary, and Mildred Camp
bell, treasurer.
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II v v-/ I V- L-j »Xhe newspaper with a voice11 is how
one subscriber recently described the
PIONEER* The editor is proud of that
description because that has been one of * *
tne aims of the paper from the beginning
•♦•to use,the editorial "voice” of the
,pfcper for causes that are believed to be
right*, .whether tney are popular or not*
It is not the place of the press to be
popular, ecjitorially, but it is the
place of the 'press to speak out strongly
on the issues of the ,day* Had popular- '
ity been the aim of the editor he ,would
not now be publishing a newspaper*
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