Vol. 5 No. 3
HOMES * ALASKA
June 24, 1954
10 Cents Per Copy
CHAMBER COVERS WIDE FIELD
The Homer Chamber of Commerce covers;
ed a wide variety of topics at its noon
, meeting Monday. i
Dan Larson, president of the Fair j
Board announced that there were 23 paid j
i members in the association to date and
! that there was approximately $2100 in
the board fund. Some money will also
be forthcoming from the territory and j
about S100 in advertising revenues will i
be added to the total when the fair5
1 book comes out. This amount, he indi
cated, would be used lo put on the fair
j and improve the fair grounds. No build
j ings have been planned for the fair
j grounds as yet until a final decision
J is reached on the proposed community j
center building.
] ..A resolution was passed that the
( Chamber would spend a maximum of $40
1 to advertise the fan and Bob Hormar
f was appointed to take charge of this
\ program.
j President Myhii1 announced that Sam
I P'jatt was drawing up a windshi eld stick
j er dea.igo unu prices for printing the
1 stickers will he obtained soon.
Wm. Mathews announced■ that while he
was in Seutt e ne looked through two
j Alaska tourist folders put cut by the :
! Alaska Visitors Association and that
I The Homer brochure was net in the fold
er. Homer Thompson reported that the
Homer brochure was in the folders that
he checked in Anchorage. •
i A decision was reached to.place some ;
! type of Chamber sponsored wall display
I at the fair- Maps and pictures should
| be used, it was decided.
| Rev. Dale Davis announced his withdraw
, al from the Chamber as he will be leav
ing tfor the outsids ( in a short while.
’Secretary Grad reminded the group
that only paid up members could hold
offeree or vote for the directors in the
election scheduled for July 6.
HOMER MAY GET DEPUTY MARSHALL
Commissioner Gene King states that
every effort is being made to get a
deputy. U- S. marshall for the Homer ar
ea- Contacts have been made with the
U. S. District Attorney, the U. S, Mar
shall and other responsible offices in
Anchorage to get a law officer here.
It was the feeling of the Commis
sioner that an of fa jeer is needed here
&s much or more than officers are need *•
ed elsewhere in this region. He point
ed out that Seldovia has a Constable as
well as a marshal- and that Keaai has a
Territorial Patrolman and a marshal1
It would be almost impossible to get a
patrolman here, he said, because there
are already three on the Peninsula, two
stationed in Seward and one at Kenai.
HOW ABOUT FIREWORKS FOR THE FOURTH
It has been suggested that the Elks
have a fireworks display on the Spit
during their Fourthcf July celebration.
Fireworks, of course, cost money. It
has been suggested that a donation .be
taken up for this cause. Anyone inter
ested might contact Coke Kelson, chair
man of the Elk's affair, for further
discussion on the idea.
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CECIL WYANT GETS WAIL ROUTE
The United States Fost Office Depart
I ipent announced this-week, that Cecil Wy
j ant of Homer has been awarded the .rural
! mail route contract out of Hotter.' His
‘contract, which was for $5,556, runs
j frott July 1, 1954 to June 50, 1968,
j Actually the route has two parts,
j Part A- goes from Homer out to the end
! of the East End road and then back to
| the East Hill road and up tha t road ap -
i proxittaiely two-and-one-half iriles and
! back Tio Hotter. Part B runs from Hotter
' out to Diamond Ridge road on tne.Ster
I ling highway, then out the Diamond
, Kiage roaa- io ine wesi. pni rvm iiixr
1 section and along the tfest Hil-l road to
! the highway ar.d back to Homer.
According to the schedule he will
J leave Homer at about 9 a.in* and be hack
; about 10;30 on route A and leave again
i at 11 a.m. on route B and be back in
j town by-about 12.20 p.m. '
Mrs. Fob Kranich, Homer postmisth*
ress, states that regulation mai-i boxes
must be set up for the carrier ana axl^
of the people along the route wishing*
to have their mail delivered must pre
! sent a written statement to that effect
| to the postoffice.
Also, it would pay the HKD people to
I check the Bulletin on the upper right
hand corner of the postoffice bulletin
beard. It concerns the Alaska. Read
Commission’s approved way of putting up
a mail box so that it will not oe
knocked down by the first snow plow of
the winter.
' PAR BOARD TO HOLD WORK .MIGHT
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i The Homer Fair Board has announced
i plans for a work night scheduled for
tMonday at 7 p.m. A11. able bodied citi*
; zens are urged to show up at the fair
|grounds to help get the area in shape.
|If the bulldozing has been done there
i will be some burning and an attempt
will be made to set up a picnic area.
It is the feeling of the Fair Board,
• according to Dan Larsen, president,
that the grounds should be a part of
the community recreation facilities be
longing to all of the Homer area. The
!board is now in the process of complet
■ing an access road into the grounds.
!‘ 4s has been announced earlier, the
;fair will be held this year August 27
28-2£ in the Homer school house.
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j: ARCHITECT‘GETS CONTRACT
It was announced at the PUD meeting
uonday night that the architect for the
Homer clinic. Mr,Crittenden, had re
ceived his contract from the Alaska Pub
lic Works department and that it was
his oD.mibn that a general contract
:might be let in the next three to five
'weeks;
4s there were no tax complaints to
•be heard, the board discussed numerous
,1minor matters concerning the PUD.
Harry Gregoire, treasurer, announced
; that 86 * of the approximate 160 delin
i'quent tax payers listed had - paid up.
;j _ It was also decided that a check
j|should' be made on some property lying
''just west of the town to see if it could
; be purchased and used as a garbage dump.
Homer Thompson was hired as* a mana
j ger for the PUD on a 4-hour a day basis.
ijHe started to work on bis new joo Wed
| nesday morning.
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! COMPLAINT'-FI LED 1 r
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j' Joe Frown signed a complaint at the ■
| Commissioner’s office Monday against
| Harley K. i, Red ) Poole. Frown com pi - |
j. ained that Poole threatened him with a j
i shotgun in the Kachemak Bar and kept j
! him in the building for several hours j
! threatening him with the gun.
State Patrolman Carl Ahlstrom and J. |
S. Deputy Marshall Allan- Peterson of .
| Kenai 'arrived Wednesday afternoon to <
j take charge of the matter and to take j
ii care of other business in town.
:AP COMMANDER RAPS RUMORS
Captain Bob Edlund of «be Homer Civ
il Air Patrol unit spoke out strongly
Tuesday night against rumors concerning
the CAP. Speaking to about ;.5 members
gathered for the meeting, Ed] and said
that be had heard it sa_d that the CAP
plane was not in Anchorage on business
over the weekend when an emergency sup
posedly arose hare ir town He explain
ed that the esercise in Anchorage was
an annual affair in which most of the
territorial CAP units participate. Be
cause of the bad weather last weekend
he said, the Homer plane was the only
plane from outside the finchorage area
that participated.
In regard to tne supposed emergency
he said that the individual involved
had been taken to the hospital the day
before the C£P plane left to partici
pate in the Anchorage exercise with the
A 1* n
i The Commander again stressed the
meaning of the word 'emergency* as in
; terpreted oy the CAP. He said that the
I'CAP will always be available to fly
! stretcher cases, or cases where the in
!;dividual could not, because of his ccn
| dition, lie prone, to Anchorage for
^ hospital)ization. The CAP does not in
ij tend, ne said, to compete with commer
Ijcial air lines but will stand ready to
! assist in cases of extreme necessity.
' • In regard to operation of the CAP
|!plane, Edlund stated that it must be
\ flown at least V) hours per month by
‘'the local unit or it will be taken away
!,and given to some other unit that would
I put it to use. For the past two months
I'the Homer squadron has logged more
i,hours than any other squadron in the
j Anchorage wing. Since the plane
^arrived in Homer, he said, nine emer
gency flights have been flown indicat
ing that the plane has been of great
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i vaiue to the area.
jj W'ben the p]ane is used.for anything j
i but emergencies, such as training
flights, the CAP charges a standard
rate' of ,per hour to cover the cost
of operation.
The group also heard a report by Lt,
..Ethel Scott who acted as an observer in
‘|the Anchorage exercises. She told of
||the order1, of trying to find a 'lost1
;'party ?:■.On the air. She stressed the
I peed of observers to know map reading
Hand to lean how to look for and spot
i j signs of distress parties.
Lyle Seitz was. appointed to set a
ijdate and to get the materials ready for
! a practice search and rescue mission
j,which will be held in the near future
Jlto give more observers and pilots tra in
| ing.
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HELP HOMER GROW