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Covering The Western Kenai
January 2, 1956
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The directors of the PUD met last
Thursday night to discuss the dock. It
was decided that Irving Reed, territor
ial highway engineer, should be con
tacted before repair is started on the
dock. bock Manager Patterson was in
structed, however, to hire men to beach
all broken piling.
On Friday need was called and he
stated that he would contact bee Hub
bard, an engineer who had previously
worked on the dock, and ask nim to go
to homer and check the damage. Hubbard
is expected after the holiday.
At the present time there is no pil
ing on hand to repair the dock* An
order had been placed for piling and it
was expected on tne next boat.
With the news that the dock was un
fit for unloading, the Alaska Steamship
Company cancelled the January 12 ship
for Homer.
According to an agreement with the
Territory, all minor repairs to the
dock are made by the PUD and all major
repairs are paid for by the territory.
NEW BAKERY'
The framework for the big Sutler
Building that will house the Homer Ba%-‘
ery went up last week on the concrete
slab laid down last fall.
bocated oeside Campbell's Grocery,
the 32 by 60 foot building vdll be a
welcome addition to the community, ^11 •
of the equipment has not arrived for
the building according to Jim Allen,
bakery owner. He said that tne boiler
still hadn't reached Homer for the
metal building, Allan also statepb th&t
he had not decided as yet as to the
type of face the building will have.
WEATHERED IN
Paul Choquette and Merrill Hatcher
returned to ncraer Sunday afternoon from
Iliamna where they had been weathered
in for a week. The two men flew to II
iamna last Monday where Paul was to in
vestigate a recent plane accident. He
finished the investigation but. the
weather closed in before they could
continue on to anchorage. tfhen they
finally were able to take off they came
directly back to homer, both men re
port that they were able to catch up on
their reading and both enjoyed watching
the sled dog teams in that area.
EMPLOYMENT
A representative of the Alaska Ter
ritorial Employment Service from the
Anchorage office wj11 be in homer $n
January 10 and 11, 1956. The office
will be located in the-P.U.D. building
and will be open from 8:30 to 12 and
1 to 5 on January 10 and from 8:30 to
12 on January 11.
All individuals seeking work and
individuals desiring to file their in**
itial and continued claims for unem
ployment insurance are reminded to ap
pear at the office during the above
hours on January 10 and 11*
r Both the Christmas and iMew Year*s
holidays were quiet in homer. The two
dances on hew Yearns Eve were about the
extent of the excitement ana it is re
ported that .the Fritz -Creek dance was
a quiet one# Lloyd Maxwell won the
Iroprite mangle for which tickets had
been sold by the Fritz Creek group#
Over one hundred local residents
turned out.Thursday night to enjoy the
Community Chorus Christmas Cantata and
other special numbers on the program*
The program began with the junior
choir and high school choir aid chorus
singing "God Rest Xe Merry Gentlemen1**
This was followed by a number of sele
ctions by the Kilcher family which in
cluded numbers on German flutes and
carols in English and German* a read
ing ,,frhe nittlest Angel11 by Theo Ed
wards, followed.
The cantata, "Child© Jesus" was
composed by Joseph w. Clokey and hazel
Jean Kirk and told the story of trie
birth of Jesus in song*
The chorus is composed of twenty
four singers under the direcjtipn qf
Marian Koeppel and with Violet Wythe,
the accompanist.
For the first time the Chorus was
wearing their new robes wnicn added
to the occasion.
MEM DROWN
hope was abandoned last-.week for the
four men who apparently were drowned
^hon- the motorized barge The Seahorse
went down in tne Point Gore rip tides
December 18.
..Missing are * <?aptain, Don ?Petiers ofx
Kodiak, Engineer Arlo^Kee of Seattle
and a man from Seward and one from
Afognak*
The Seahorse witn Capt. Peters had
visited honor and other Alaskan ports
last summer and Peters was fairly well
known in homer* At the time of the
disaster the Seahorse was under tow by
the tug Pawtucket' going from Kodiak to*
Cordova* The Pawtucket captain, Harold
Maxwell, a brother of Lloyd Maxwell of
Homer, said that the barge had been in
a storm of gale proportions for almost
36 hours at tne time she went down in
the heavy seas*
SCHOOL LIBRARY
The Homer high school library boasts
a number of new books this year compar
ed to last year, according to vKichard
’lyier, faculty adviser,. The new books
have been welcomed by students with
real enthusiasm, he reports, if one is
to judge by the number of books checked
out each day.
There are now over a thousand books
on the shelves witn more arriving daily
The library has also received a new and
useful magazine rack constructed by
Ivan Knodel*
Students helping out in the library
ares Pauline williams, Joann Ytfillard,
Jeanne Smith, Marilyn Aim, Linda Wick
ersham and Millie These stu
dents donate their time to tha library*
19$$ ended on a stormy note on the
Komi Peninsula with approximately a
foot of snow at the ncmer .airport and
about tv/ice that much reported up the
highway*.
The storm started in earnest on Wed
nesday night with the snow continuing
to fall until Friday night* A wind
with ,gusts up to UO miles per hour
swept the area Friday afternoon and
early evening blocking roads that had
bc\.n kept open by hard working ARC
crews*
The nomer Spit was about the hardest*
hit area during the storm* On Wednes
day the ice broke about 20 of the pil
ing on the side and front of the dock
disabling it# Fearing that the dock
would go out entirely, the hoist and
other pieces 4 of equipment were removed*
On Thursday the winds seemed to have
removed the ice from the day and, de
spite a high tide, the dock did not
suffer furtnor damage*
during the high wind Friday after
noon the 21*9**foot tide was literally
push c;d over the Cpit and blocks of ice
and large logs blocked the road* At
least two buildings on the dpit were
floated off their foundations and power
poles floated across the road.
Two trucks belonging to the Terminal
Oil Sales were caught out on tne Spit
by tne blocked roads and were rescued
by tlx ARC V-plow* The oil trucks were
driven by Pat Miller and Tom Crosbie,
bob Kranich and Carl dholin were in the
V-plofw*
As of Sunday the dock was still
standing but the bull rail was listing
to tne seaward.
DELEGATE
A small crowd, duo to the weather,
was on hand Thursday evening to meet
with Constitutional Convention uele gate
Yule Kilcher.
Kilcher explained to those present
the makeup of the convention and the
process that determined the way trie op
eration would be run off. He stated
that he felt the convention went into
committee sessions too early. The mem
bers should have held floor sessions
fjtr two or three weeks,. he said, before
going’into the fcommittee s essions. As
a result of the early committee meet
ings, Kilcher said, there was no gener
al agreement as to the type of legis
lature wanted and no agreement, on other
important matters.
In general • Kilcher seemed to think
that much progress had been made toward
the goal of writing a good constitution
He praised William Egan of Valdez who
was elected the president of the con
vention, saying that Egan was doing a
good job of being fair to all concerned
Concerning the Tennessee Plan that
would see Alaska sending two senators
and one representative to Washington to
seek* admittance to' the Senate and
House through immediate Statehood,
Kilcher said that he agreed with the
plan in general^, but would prefer to
see the people name their own candi
dates in a primary election rather than
in party convention..
As to when the convention would end,
Kilcher stated that he wouldn’t be sur
prised to see it run over the February
5 deadline*