HOMER NEWS
HOMER ★ ALASKA'
Vol. 6, No. 2
' Your Dependable Community Newspaper
June 23, 1955
Alaska Historical
Library A Museum
Hox 2051
Juneau. Alaska
PAPER TO MOVE
Sometime between now and the next
issue of .the News the equipment of the
paper and the household goods of the
publisher and family will be moved to
new and larger quarters. The new home
for the paper will be the re-built
Heath building across the street from
the drug store and next to the Kachemak
Bar.
In addition to housing the newspaper
the new building will eventually house
the Hornsr News Radio Station and a
phonograph reoord shop.
The move represents the growth of
the News during the past year, accord
ing to Bill Raver, publisher of the
paper, The larger quarters will al
low better service to the readers, he
emphasizad, as the paper will be locat
ed on the Sterling Highway for the
first time and will have a telephone in
the office*
The record shop mil go well with
the operation of the radio station,
Raver noted, by bringing the latest
records to local listeners at all times
Looking to the future, the publish
er noted, that the new quarters will al
low room for expansion as there is a
large room under the building where the
paper could be published should the
space on the first floor prove to be
too small at some future date.
KOCH GUILTY
Darrell Koch was found guilty Satur
day, in his second jury trial, of fail
ing to stop at the scene of an accident
involving his car and that of Wayne
Bishop of Ninilchik*
Commissioner Gene King deferred sen
tencing Koch until August 15 i&en the
red salmon season is finished# Koch is
a fisherman. The defendant will have
30 days from the date of sentencing to
appeal the case*
U. S. Attorney William Plummer and
an assistant, James Fitzgerald present
ed the ease for the government and Dor
othy Tynor Walters represented Koch#
Serving on the jury were Paul Mar
teeny, Milt Aim, Alyce Willard, Dick
Friemuth, Ann Sholin, Bob Turkington,
Herb McCain, Mildred Nelson, Pat John
son, Sam Pratt and Adel Severson.
WEATHER
High
June 16 57
June 17 58
June 18 65
June 19 65
June 20 53
June 21 60
June 22 53
CAP NEWS
n Jiggs Tice, personnel offioer of the
Homer Civil Air Patrol squadron, will
spend next Tuesday at the Don Smith of
fice processing applications to the CAP
Pictures and fingerprints of all
persons interested in joining will be
taken then and all foxms will be prop
erly completed.
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ELI HU HEATH •
Elihu Heath, 87, resident of Homer
for the past 10 years, passed away at
5j45 Sunday morning at the Seldovia
hospital. Death was due ' to coronary
thrombosis*
Mr* Heath had been ill for about 10
days- but had remained at home. Shortly
after 7 p-#m# Saturday evening it was
discovered that he had set his clothing
on fire while smoking his pipe and
burned himself#’ When discovered he had
removed his clothing but had been un
able to put out the fire in*the chair
cushion# He was treated for his burns
by Mrs. Leola Thome and prepared for
the*flight to the Seldovia hospital*
.Bob Edlund piloted the. CAI plane to
Seldovia, leaving here about'7s30» &en
Heath and Bob Smith followed the CMP
plane across the Bay and. Ken stayed
with his father durii^ the evening* •
One of Mr. Heath's wishes was that
no funeral be held and his body was
taken to-.Kodiak for cremation Monday in
accordance with his wishes*
The.deceased is survived by his wife
Mrs* Minnie Heath of Seattle, one son,
Ken Heath of Homer, a daughter, Gerald
ine Heath of Seattle, a sister, Mrs#
Kate Williams of Ranger, Texas and a
brother, Charles, of Minneapolis.
CIRCUS TICKETS
Don Smith announced Monday at the
Cham her of Commerce meeting that two
representatives of the Shrine circus,
were in Homer oyer the weekend and left
45 tickets to be used for underprivil
eged children. Twenty of the tickets
have been paid for by Hal Boyle, as
sociated Press writer, and the remain
ing tickets may be purchased by anyone
locally who could like to have a child
attend the circus which will be in An
chorage June 27 through July 6. en
deavor will bo made to get transporta
tion for the children. The cost to
take 40 of them to Anchorage by local
' bus would be $225. The Salvation Army
in Anchorage has dormitory space for
any youngsters having to stay overnight
.in the city and food has been made
available to feed them. Anyone wishing
to buy a ticket for an underprivileged
child may do so by contacting Don Smith
In other Chamber business the name
of Yule -Kilcher was added to the list
of nominees for the July 6 director’s
election. The nominations . are now
closed with 17 names on the list. El
sie King asked that her name be re
moved from the list.
It was noted that letters on what to
do in Homer, accompanied by maps of the
area, had been sent to travel agencies
in Anchorage.
A oanmittee to study criticism of
information given out by the Chamber
was appointed by ^resident Moyer. Har
ry Oregoire, Jiggs Tice and Russ Cronin
-were named to the committee.
In a brief discussion on rural roads
it was noted that the Kachemak Bay
Fanners Assn, had recommended four
areas- Ttoere roads were presently needed
Three geologists of the KicniieJ-a
Oil company 'arrived in Honor Tuesday
accompanied by a helicopter pilot and
mechanic• 'The men," William Bishop, Ray
Arnett and C. M» Swinncy, xt1.11 be here
for about thrbe xreoks., according to
Bishop., The helicopter will be used to
transport them around the Peninsula and
across the Inlet* Pilot for the heli
copter is Sem Thrasher and Fred Hach is
the mechanic. The machine has large
pontoons on it ‘and has been seen flying
around this area this week* It belongs
to Kern-Copters of Bakersfield, Calif
ornia, end res brought to Seward by
boat and flown to Homer.
All of the men are from California
and are making, their headquarters at
the Heady Hotel.
FREIGHTER DUE
According to Wythe & -Son, local
agent for the Alaska Steamship company,
they have received word that the MS
Coastal Rambler did not leave Seattle
until 5 p.m. Sundry ind will make a
brief stop at Petersburg before coming
on to Homer.
Time did not allow the locrl agent
to make a complete tally of the weigh
bills, but they estimated that the boat
had approximately 800 tons aboard for
Homer.
The next Alaska Stoamship vessel
scheduled for*Homer will sail for Homer
and other Alaskan ports July 21, ac
cording to the new sailing schedule. It
will be the MS Square Knot.
RECEIVE FINES
Two men, Sitoeon Oskolkoff r.nd Sim
eon Oskolkoff, Jr*, of Ninilchik .were
fined $100 each in Commissioner’s court
Tuesday after they pleaded guilty to
blocking the Ninilchik river with a
gillnet* They aero arrested Saturday*
according to Commissioner King it
tras a second offense for both men* For
their fishing efforts the two men
caught only one big king salmon, King
said*
LOW 'BIDDER
The Homer News was announced as the
low bidder * to publish the 1953 delin
quent tax list Wednesday* . The bid of
the News was one dollar while the bid
of the Herald was $58* The tax list
will contain approximately 100 listings
according to TUD manager Homer Thomp
son, and is to be published June 30,
July 7, 14, and 21 in the New3*
The bid of only one dollar was made,
according to Bill Raver, editor of the
News, to point out a shortcoming in the
call for bids by the directors* He
pointed out that the directors ap
proached the problem of publishing the
roll in the apparent belief that both
newspapers in Homer were equal in
standing* Such is not the case, the
editor wrote in a letter to the direct
ors, adding that he was sure that the
News had by far the largest paid cir
culation in this area* He offered to
provide the directors with a sworn af
fidavit of the paid circulation of the
News providing the Herald would do the
same*