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WE CONGRATULATE
The people of Homer are being treated to a Perfect ex
ample Of free *,nt emprise in action this week. It has been an
nounced that three new business firms will be started in the
community within the next month or So, He would like to ex
tend our congratulations and best wishes to the folks who aRe
behind these ventures, Helen and Bert Bachman, Bud and June
Uminski and Ora Jones and Inez Peters, All of you have beefi
in the community long enough to know that the road ahead will
be rough Ue admire your courage, your faithy in yourselves
and your faith in the future of Homer'
Helen ar.d Bert Bac.iman will soon start work on the con
struction of a Kwik-JjOg building that will house a Dari-Delite
fountain and lunch It will be built on their peoperty next
to the Bay Cl'otniers, just across from the schoolhouse♦ Ice
cream ana the fountain delights associated with it will be
features as well as hot dogs (a foot long, we hear) and other ^
soft drinks will be served. In their location just across
from the school the Bachman's should do well*.
June and Bud Uminski have purchased the building just up
the street from Bay Clothiers and will soon open a combina
tion apparel shot and home furnishing store, June has pur
chased the stock of Marion's Apparel and Bud plans to start
his part of the store with some unfinished furniture * and
smaller items for furnishing a home, They hope to open their
doors next week as Bud is hard at work finishing the inside
of the building,
Ora Jones is building a.small cafe, or steak house, as
he calls it, next to the Husky Repair Shop, Inez Peters will
operate the eating establishment, Inez is, of course, exper
ienced in the restaurant business and well-known in Homer\
Competition is the very essence of the free enterprise
system and it will be on the basis of that system that the
new firms succeed or fail« Unless something happens to in
crease our ecoifomy this winter, things will be tough for the
restaurants in Homer,but vie feel sure that with the coming op'
Spring and the probable return of one or more oil exploration
crews and the building on Ohlson Mountain there should be
enough customers to go around♦
COMING ATTRACTIONS
There have been rumors for some time around our fair
community that the Union Oil company might bring an oil ex
ploration crew into the area some time this winter Of
course we all hope that the rumor turns out to be true, .Not
only would this increase the possibility of the discovery of
oil but, more important, it would probably give our weak win
ter tjime economy a boost,
In connection with the oil story we ivould like to pass
along a few remarks made last week in Anchorage concerning
our area and oil,
Mrs, Irene Ryan, civil engineer and oil geologist, told
the Anchorage Rotarians that there may be as many as four
pools of oil on the Kenai Peninsula, "each the size of a
township and each immensely wealthy, " We donft know about
you, but that *s music to our ears,
It seems definite now that something will be constructed
of a military nature up on Ohlson Mountain, As we understand
it a well is in the process of being drilled and the contracts
have been let for construction, presumably to begin next
Spring,
It is also very probable that Standard Oil will send one
or more exploratory crews into this area next Spring and that
the Shell Oil crew will return.
All of this, coupled with tourist trade which should in
crease next year as it has in the past, makes for a more
cheerful outlook for the future and should make the coming
winter easier to endure«
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MEM FAMILY HERE
Mr, ‘and Ur Si Lloyd .Wilkins
and their son and daughter-inL^
law, Mr,, and.Mrs*; Ray‘HIkins .
and another son arrived in Ho
mer Sunday -from their former
home at Weippe, Idaho. The
new families plan to farm in
the Homer area. ,
Mr, Wilkins has visited
here twice before and had
planned, forborne time to move
to Alaska,
TO BUILD CAFE
Ora Jones announced this
week that he is going ahead
with plans to build a small
cafe on his property just
East of his Husky Repair. Shop,
The place will be fun by
Inez Peters who is experienced
in the field and well-known
in Homer,
STYLE SHOW CO fa MITT EE MEETS
The style show committee
cf the Homemakers Club met
Tuesday evening at the home of
Mrs Eric Andersen on the East
Road, The club is sponsoring
the style show for the coming
library benefit talent show,
Mrs, Erme.l Gjosund is the
chairman of the committee,
DARI-DELITE PLANKED
Bert and Helen Bachman ■
expect to start soon on a
Kwi'k-Log building to house a
Dari-Delite fountain and
lunch, They expect to have
the new business which is to
be located next to the Bay
Clothiers open by about De
cember t,
CUTTING TREES
Nhitey Schenk is busy these
days Cutting the timber on his
four acres of land located
just behind the Pioneer Hard.
warev
BUILDING MOVED
Homer Thompson moved the
small building next to the
:Inlet Servicf over ike week
•‘eitd-to. <his property down on
the beach, pqst the quonset
hut, The building was pur
chased from the estate of the
late Vaino Salo,
NEV EXTERIOR
T< S♦ Crosby has finished
putting a new clap-board
exterior on his home on the
East End Road.
NUTTY NUGGETS
Ez Tike was telling us Jed
Sommers got a cute little
puppy for his wife^,,said he
wished he could make a good
trade like that«
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Ez Tike’s son has no ob
jections to that new fangled
prepared orange juice, but he
likes to squeeze his own to
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