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August 17 ; 63 • 32 August 14, §7 48
August 18 61' 37 August 26 6(* 44
August 19 58 49 August 21 46 ,40
August 20 55 50 August 22 59 50
August 21 56 50 . , August 23 58 $4
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SHOTS SET ' : !"
Public Heei+h Nurge iris Jette will
be giving diptheria, looping oeugh and
tetanus inoculations this afternoon
(Friday) from 1 to 3 clock in the old
health center building and from 1 to 3
on Monday. The shots will be given to
babies 3 months or over who have not
had them.
,Mis.s lette arrived in Homer Monday
from Kenai and, will remain until next
Wednesday* She will return to Hcimer
again on September 19*
PUD MEETING
Only three directors were present at
the PUD board of directors meeting Mon
day night as President Henning Johnson
and director Milt Aim were out of town.
Ken Masters, locsl electrician, whs
present to ask several questions in re
gard to the rewiring planned at the
deck* He said that the job should not
be done by force account and indicated
that he thought there was a law that
stated that such jobs.over a certain
amount should be done by bid* The di
rectors stated that they knew ef n4
such law. Masters them stated that he
thought that if there, was to be aly
rewiring done at the deck, the present
romex cable should be torn out and con
dii t used to replabe it. Board members
Carl Baier and Geme Browning both stat
ed that they felt that the Remex toould
pass safety regulations*
The rather heated discussion was in
terrupted when Territorial Patrolman Ed
Martin entered the meeting roem and re
quested that three ears parked on the
highway in front of the building be
moved off the road* Masters did not
come back to the meeting and the board
decided to go ahead on foroe account
with Fraik White, aaother electrician,
to do the job*
other business the directors ex
tended the completion date of the water
and sewage facilities at the hospital ,
from August 6 to September 5. H rry
Gregoire, the contractor, indicated
tint the plumbers, who have been out on
strike, completed tbBir work and all
that remains to be done is minor work
on the pump building*
Gregoire, who also has the dock
hoist contract, stated that the hoist
had finally arrived and because of its
weight will be installed 'on the bull
rail instead of the hoist arm*
The manager was directed t# write to
the department of health aAing the de
partment to prepare a promissory note
in the amount of $10,000 and payable.
Sept* 1, 1956, to be signed by the PUD*
The note is in lieu of a payment on the
3 hospital*
A'letter presented in person by Mrs*
Harry Feyer infonned the board that she
Is trying to interest a firm of Corti
fied Public Acoountants in opening a
branch office in Homer* She asked the
board Aether or not they would b6 in
terested in having their books audited
by such a local firm. The firm she had
in mind, she sai d, was Beaver & Van
Seventer of Anchorage. The directera
indicated that they would be Interested
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GUN ACCIDENT
Robert Koa Gregory, 26, of Sterling
accidentally shot and killed himself
near his home August 18. Mr. Gregory’s
partner, Glenn H 11, told authorities
that the deceased had gone out to
"sight in his gun for the forthcoming
hunting season.” Thu body was found on
the banks of the Kunai River* Cdrl
Ahlstrom, patrolman, and Burl Farret,
deputy marshal, investigated the,death.
The body was taken to Anchorage and
sent to Red Bluff, California for bur
ial.
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TO GERMANY
Rev*. Gerald Anderson is following
the claim of John Lesley, "the ^orld is
my parish”* Rev* .jiderson came to Ken
ai from Boston in June to serve with
the Methodist Mobile Ministry on the
Kenai Peninsula* Soon ofter arriving
in ICenai he received wo id from the U#3*
State Department that he had been
granted a Fulbright scholarship to
study theology at the University of
• Marburg in Gennany this winter*
Since school doeb'* not" begin until
November, Rev. Anderson is also- going
to have the opportunity to participate
in an "experiment in international liv
ing” by living as a guest with a Ger
man family in Marburg during the month
t of October. This wL11 enable him to
become familiar with German language*
customs* and the city itself.
Konai is certainly proud of its young
minister and wishes him the best of
luck.
, He will be leaving the 39th of this
month and he is quotod as ssy ingf ”If
the people in Germany are as fine us
tip people I*ve met in Alaska, it will
be a great year*”
resented before,thG House of Represent
atives Sub-committee on Territories and
Insular Affairs when it comes to
Homer in late September it was decided
Monday* Comittoes will prepare data
on roads, the boat harbor and hydro
electric development*
The Chamber and the HaU. have been
invited to send representatives to the
dedication ceremonies of the Eklutna
hydro-electric project august 29, and
an invitation has also been extended by
t&o Ninilchik Community Council to all
chamber members and other Homer resi
dents to attend the Ninildiik Fair Sep
tember 10-11*
Don Cutter, Anchorage photographer,
spoke briefly to the members. He told
them that ho was producing a new TV
program called "On The Highway" which
covered Alask a highways on film* He
said, that ho would like to interest
five local business firms or clubs In
sponsoring a 15 minuto program that
, would be A own three times in Anohorage
.-aid onco in Fairbanks*
Ethel Scott reported on the Women’s
Club community birthday calendar* She
told Chamber members that the cost of a
weekly notice on the calendar of the,
organization’s meeting date would cost
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The Homer Fair will open today at 2
p.m. offering the people of this area
something new in the way of entertai
nment*
If the weather holds fair and thejwind
isn’t too strong, the activities will
get underway with a double parachute
jump by Jon Stenson and Bud Hirscliback,
two former paratroopers from Halibut
Cove and Fairbanks, They will drop
from about 5,000 feet and have promised
to provide the crowd with a real thrill
Gene Lawrence and Boots Parks have been
assisting the two men in practice jumps
in the Soldo via area this summer and
will bring them in over the grounds at
2 o’cipok.
, The Frontier Shows of Anchorage
will be here with two ridas, a chair
plane and a ferris wheql, and about 10
concessions to provide, the carnival
necessary to make the fair a success#
By necessity the majority of tlB
exhibits and concessions will be housed -
in tents at the fairgrounds this yeaf#
It was expected that the National Guard
quonset hut would be set up in time for
the fair, tut the truck carrying a por
tion of the bulging met with an acci
dent enroute so the building will not
be erected in tim&irc.
a Butler building* loaned to the
Homemakers* Women’s Club and Alaska
Crippled Children’s Association by
iviaynard Stutzman, ri 11 house the booths
of those groups*
The 4-H, Brownies and children’s
exhibits will be housed in the large
tent at the end Of the ' fairway while
the arts and drafts will be placed in a
frame building recently purchased by
the fair board*
Other exhibits and concessions will
be placed in other tents on the grounds
Races and games for the kids will be
held from three to four o*clpck Satur
day and Sunday afternoons with prizes
to be awarded to the various winners*
The exhibits are expected smaller
in the adilt groups but will be larger
in the 4-H division* Extension Agent
Ed Leibenthal has been working hard
with the yqung people and has stated
that the 4-H boys and girls have re
sponded very well#
Alaska’s favorite game will be play
ed during the afternoons and evenings
, with the winners receiving prizes do
nated by the merchants 6f the ocm
nun it y.
FUNERAL HELD
3\ineral services for Mrs. Florence
Rees of Seldovia Oire held Thursday in
^oir.i, according to CorunissioiB r Gens
King.
The death of Mrs. Rees, tfhose tody
ms found on a beach near Homer August
13, is tin center of a widespread in
vestigation being carried on by the
Territorial Fatal, the U. S, Marshal'*
office end the Alaska Native Service.
At the present time the authorities are
searching for a slim fisherman named
Ray Thom the is believed to have been
. the last person to have seen Mrs. Bees
alive* He is from Cordova but author
ities. have been unable to locate him
since the investigation began two tweks
ago.
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