HOMER NEWS
Your Community Newspaper 51
Vol. 5, No* 40 _March 17, 1955_ ■ ,
PUD NOTES
The Kenai Peninsula Public Utility
District may get its long awaited gar
bags dump sjte in the near future, the
directors learned Monday night. Howard
Wicker sham told the directors that he
had contacted Bruno Agustino about
dumping over a cliff on his property
near the old coal mine. Agustino told
Wickersham such an arrangement w>uld be
satisfactory with him and the PUD man
ager was instructed to complete the
final details..
The proposed site is about a half
mile from town and the garbage would go
over a cliff on to a wide ledge that
irould keep it from the sea* Wickersham
had offered to find a dump site alter
he had attended an earlier meeting and
learned that the PUD had been unable to
locate a suitable site.
In other business tha directors in
structed the manager to write to the
Maritime Comnission for information on
boat freight rates. It is understood
that if a bonded tracker were available
in Homer, then freight destined for the
Sterling highway cduld be sent over the
dock here at a cheaper rate. Ray Deitz
has indicated that he is willing to
bond himself if such is the case. The
understanding is that the people would
pay for freight by the pound and not by
the cube as is the case at the present
time.
The board appointed Eric Anderson,
Bud Uminski and Walter DuFour as the
judges for the coining PUD election and
listed Mrs. Bill Eklof and Mrs. Bob
.Wall! as alternates. They also accept
ed the petitions of Ora Jones and Ben
Bellamy as candidates for election. The
csndjdates have until 3 p.m. on March
33 to file their petitions.
Several letters were read and action
taken. A letter from Vic Rivers. Fair
banks engineer contained information
relative to the Homer dock. Rivers en
closed plana that he had made to expand
the Homer dock in 1952. The plans will
he included in a letter to Irving Reed,
Territorial highway engineer for his
information.
A letter from Wilson & Wilson, PUD
attorneys, informed the directors that
they did not have the power to license
or restrain peddlers.
A letter from Irving Reed contained
the information that he believed that
the proposed Pi11ingham-Iltamna-Home r
road could be pushed through in the
nexc four or five years. The road por
tion would run from Dillingham to II
*cjnna with a ferry running from IliamnA
to Homer with a stop at Seldovia. 'Reed
expressed the opinion that the road
would be of great benefit to Homer.
A, letter from the CAA informed the
directors that it would grant a land
use permit for a small piece of proper
ty on Beluga Lake providing certain
specifications were met.
The directors instructed the. manager
to invite Lou Sjosund, president of the
local longshoremen's union, and F. E.
Hollis, crew foreman for tbs last boat,
to the March 28 meeting to discuss the
operation of the old fork lift at the
dock* It has been reported that the
lift was operated in a reckless manner
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HOSPITAL BID
No information has been received
from Juneau to date concerning the
awarding of the bids for the Homer hos
pital • -health center but a letter,from
Edwjn B* Crittenden and Associates,
architects for the project to the PUD
states tint a low bid of approximately
$75,000 was entered by a firm from
Hood River, Oregon. Crittenden further
states "I am sure that this assures
construction of the job and I congratu
late you on finally getting the Health
Center under way."
SKI RACES
The high school ski tean took the
lead Sunday in the annual ski meet by
capturing the most points in the down
hill race. The paint tally stands at
29 for the high school team and 26 for
the ski club teem.
Ronald Elliott streaked down the
hill to capture first place honors in
1:59.4. A ski dub member, Guy Rosi
was second in 2:27, and Hill Kronich of
the high school team came in third in
2?28.7. The remaining seven of the top
ten skiers in order were^eith Elliott,
Victor Bowers, Brantley Edens, Lee
Browning, Dave Schroor, _ Mid McLay end
JoAnn IJillard. In the grade school
races Willie Flyum placed first; Woodie
McLay, second; Louie Gjosund, third;
Chifck Gjosund,4th,and Skip Hegdahl,5th.
First place medals fbr the races
were won by Mid Mc^y for the ladies,
Ronald Elliott fbr tbe men and Willie
Flyum fbr the grade school*
This coming Sunday will.jsee the sla
lom and cross country races held at the
ski tow starting at 1 p.m. The high
school ski club teams will be competing
for the travelling trophy awarded to
the team with the most points*
ARCHERY CLUB,
A group of local people,interested
in the sport of archery are making
plans to establish an Archery Club in
Homer, according to ]Peul Choquette. The
group will hold ‘its first meeting
tonight at th3 schoolhouso to organize
the club. Choquette stated that abotit
15 couples have indicated their desire
to set up a club.
In pointing out the advantages of
the sport, Choquette noted .that archery
is a sport which every manber of the
family can enjoy at a minimum of cost.
The sport, he said, has gained greatly
in popularity both in the States and in
Alaska. Seldovia, he noted, has an ac
tive club that is eager to compete with
local archers.
Choquette has organized a high
school archery club which held Its
first session last Friday at the school.
WEATHER
March 10
March 11
March 12
March 13
March 14
March 15
March 16
High
32
26
29
34
37
37
35
Low
25
13
9
6
31
26
28
Members of the Homer Chamber of bomr
merce learned Monday that the water
flow studies of Bradley Lake were most
encouraging for hydro-eleotric develop
ment. News of the report was brought
to the Chamber by Harold Moats of tbs
District Engineers who stated that tbs
studies had only recently been com
pleted# Moats was cjuoted as saying
that there are indiceition3 that a pro-*
ject built on Bradley would cost only
half the price of Eklutna and yield one
third more power. Cost of the power
was estimated to be 3.8 mills per kil—
lowat if the project is built through
government financing and 4.7 mills if
financed with private capital.
Herman Schults, HE A director and
president of the new G & T co-op, re^
ported briefly on his recent trip to
Seward and stated that Bob Retherford,
HEA consulting engineer, returned last
week from WashingtonP D* C. and reports
that things • look favorable in that
city for the co-op* He stated that
there would be hydro power available, on
the Kenai Peninsula in the next 2 years
Jack Scott asked the Chamber for
its support of the Homer Volunteer Fire
Department* He noted some of the prob
lems facing the organization, dwelling
on the lack of leadership and education.
Due to a lack of interest, he said,
only Don Smith and himself were on the
board of directors* Henning Johnson
Civil Defense director, should be on
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CSG TO MEET
A full and Interesting program is
planned for tomorrow (Friday) evening’s
Citizens* Study Group meeting,' to be
held at the school at 8 p.m. %
A progress report will be given by
the Education Committee,which has been
gathering facta and figures about the
school* The Committee is expected to
present some facts about a school dis
triot,pointing -out good and bad points.
, CSG"bylaws will be discussed, in re
gard to the election of officers, and
in regard to what constitutes a quorum*
The group will be asked to vote on
some small project which the CSG might
undertake on behalf of the school,, and
Henning Johnson will speak on Civil De
fense.
The Beautification Committee will
meet before the regular meeting to el
ect a new chaiimai, and to lay plans
for the second annual clean-up day.
lack Scott is expected to speak con
cerning the Fire Department, and a
short meeting of interested citizens
may be called inmediately after the CSG
meeting.
WORK STARTED
Two Turnapulls and a carryall from
the Kemi yard of the. Alaska Road Conk
mission arrived in Horner *on Tuesday to
start work on a load running around the
south and east sides of the airport.
The road will serve several home sites
in the area.
Funds fbr the road were set aside
last year by the office of Irving Reed,
Territorial highway engineer.
Ope rowing the vehicle s on the job
will oe( Mel prison Lawrence Rogers
of Kenai and Dale Sholin of Homer.