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SALK VACCINE
according to Public Health Nurse
.. Iris Jette, the local share of the, Salk
vaccine is to be received the last of
January, and this area is one where the
vaccine (to prevent polio myelitis) is
to be offered to all children and young
people from one year of age through 19
years, and to all pregnant women*
Forms will be sent to parents of
school children to obtain written con
sent, and children from'the third grade
through high.School will receive tnis
in school ...only if written consents are
received, MissJette said*
dmall children one year or over, up
to and including those in second grade
. —vmstriTie dt^the Health
Center. Parents may bring their childr*
ren at the following times*
Tuesday, Feb. lit from 1 to 3:30
vVed. Feb. 15 from 1 to 3:30
Thurs. Feb* 16 from 1 ,to 3:30
The vaccine will also be given to
p:regnant women, wno wish to have it at
the above hours.
Vaccine for giving the second in
jections will be sent to us, after the*
first ones are completed; we shall re
ceive then as much as needed to give
second injections only to those having
the first.
The latest information fran the Al
aska Dept.- of Health, is that vaccine
to use in giving the booster injections
to tile children who had their- first and
second inoculations last May and Junb,
will not arrive here until later .in the *
spring. The aim at present, is tQ use
the available supply for as many as can
be started on their immunization, to
increase the number * who are thus pro- -
tec ted. * -t t
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RAVING-.'SET
The Sterling highway is to receive
funds for paving, according to a report
coming out of Juneau* The work is in
cluded in the ^25,000,OCX) budget of the
Alaska Hoad domnission for 1956-57»
Carl Sholin, local AHC‘-foreman, sold
Saturday that he had not received def
inite word concerning the program for
next summer. He said, however, that
the wofd paving covers the pre par a terry
work that precedes the actual blacktop*
ping. a survey crew spent several
weeks here last fall working the high
way.
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MO PAPER
The Pioneer is short on paper but
long on news this week* .*e were about
all set to go last week when our paper
supply failed to arrive. We phoned
♦an Anchorage firm for enough to carry
us through for 'two weeks but they fail
ed to get our paper on the Saturday bus
last week. , The phone service was out
so we were at a loss as to. what we
should do. Finally on Wednesday we put
in another special order for more paper
through the local PMA office. It ar
rived Wednesday afternoon...but it was
three inches too short. What to do? we
finally decided to give the whole thing
up for last week and put out a double
“short1* paper today. We have last
week*s hews j and the latest news. We *
have enough paper * on hand' for another
two "weeks and by tnat time our paper
shipment from the states will certainly
have arrived#
NOMINATED
.Seven men ;ave been nominated for
election to the posts of directors for
the ndmer electric Association* inc.
Those chosen -by the nominating commit
tee include Howard Myhill of Homer vho .
is currently the ’president of HEA* Bel
soh Moyer and ~<iim Calkins of Homer*
Burton Carver ana hale Rorrison of Sol
do’tna* Wayne Bishop of Hinilchik and
Per Osmer of Clam Gulch.
Three candidates Will be elected at
the annual meeting of the HEa February
7 at 8 p.m. at tne Methodist church.
BISHOP GORDON ,
A good crowd was on irfnd Thursday
night to hoar Bishop Gordon *p"61ate some
of his experiences as an Episcopal mis
sionary in Alaska before the Homer'Par
ent-Teachers Association*
The Bishop told of living at Point
Hope on, the Ajrctic Ocean for about five
years* hy told of trie life in tHo com
munity^ of 268 natj.ves* Point Hope, he
said, is not as cold as tne interior of
tae Territory, One boat a year brings
in the supplies, and the mail is de
livered once a month by plane from
Kotzebue*:. The Bishop said that ne ad
mired the wonderful spirit of t*ie peo
ple of Point Hope, as, they had learned
to live together ,and cooperate*; -in a
way unknown Outside*
(Cont* on Page 8, Col* 3)
A special meeting o1 the directors
of the Kenai Peninsula ‘ Public Utility
District -directors has been called for
tonight (Monday) to iron.out boundary
line difficulties for the partial dis
solution election scheduled for Febru
ary 21* The directors voted last Mon
day night to a boundary line circling
a smaller area -than that in the peti
tion presented earlier* Public opinion
seems to be that the area proposed is
too small so the directors will meet to
discuss the matter further.
at the Monday night meeting the di
rectors vnted three to two in favor of
the smaller PUD adopting a resolution
put forth by the president* The bound
aries of the new MJD area would be as
follows: 1 beginning l/h mile west of
the Hamer schQol at the Bay, thence
north between the Crittenden and Har
rington homesteads, one mile to the
southwest corner of the Choate'home
stead; thence running east l| miles to
the west boundary of the James Waddell
■ homestead at a point on the section
line near the former Jack . Mills resi
dence, thdnce south l/h mile to the
section comer at the northeast corner
• of the Gfirl Kibbey homestead; 'thence
east 1 and 3/k 0 miles to the northwest
corner of' the U*S* BLM small tracts,
whiph begin approximately 1/U mile east
of the airport, - thence south along the
west boundary of the small tracts ^
mile to itachemak Day thence westerly
along Kaohemak Bay including tiie Spit
to the point of beginning.
’ President Johnson told the board
that he .thought this area was the most
practical because;it contained the bulk
of *ttt3 population and that it was small
enough so that some improvements could
be gained' from the taxes raised* He
said-that such an area could conceiv
ably ,be the%basis o£-a city should the
people -of the area ever wish to have a
city* ne noted that at the present
time approximately |>7,000 in taxes is
b«-ing paid by residents living within
the boundary of thC smaller area arid he
; noted' that if the "land were to be re
valued #at &200 per acre, an additional
4i>U,000 could- be raised for a total of
*11.000.
Directors Milt Aim and Gene Browning
objepted to cutting down the PUD. Aim
said that he felt that tne people of
the area should work together and Gene
Browning suggested that the matter
could wait until the spring elections#
,Qa the latter point it was noted th%t
(Cont# on Page 8, Col# 1)