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HOMER FAIR
Final plans for tha Horae r Fair to be
bald August 26-S7-88 neared eafcfletIon
this week* Two work days at th$ fair
grounds have been set for Saturday and
Sunday to oreot tests, spread sawdust
and complete other final tasks.
It is hoped that a quoneet hut be- •
longing to the Alaska National Guard
will arrive In tins to be set up on the
fairgrounds* The hut will provide much
needed space for e access lone end ex
hibits for the fair and will provide
badly needed armory space tor the Guard
wh©» the weekly drills begin this Fall*
The fair will get underlay at Z p.m.
Friday when two former paratroopers
will jump from a plane at an altitude
of about 5000 feet. The men, Jon Sten
eon and Bud Hirschback, promise that
they will provide ample thrills iw
their drop to the earth.
For the first time ia the history.of.
the HOebr Fair there will be rides fOr
ths fairgoers to enjoy and numerous .
concessions to provide entertainment*
It is expected that there will be .
more exhibits im aearly every field
this year than even* before* All exhi
bets will be under soma kind of cover* r
Exhibitors are urged* to . have .:theirIK/
exhibits at the fairgrounds befoye -
p*m. Friday* Superintendent a will be'
on hand in each department* to receive
the exhibits from 10 a.m* until \ p.m*
Alaska’s favorite game jjill be $eh- *
tured at the fair this, year with the
prizes donated by the many/enthusiastire
Homer merchants. The prizes range^from
motor oil to fine glassware and '411
will be enjoyed by the winners. *
On Saturday and Sunday afternoons,
there will /be games for the kids with -
prizes and fun tmr all*
RED MOUNTAIN
Operations of three mining eompalie a
ia the well-kmowa efarome area at Bed
Mountain, near Seldovia, were visited
this past week by fhil Holdsworth, com
missions r of mines. Ome operation is
actually delivering metallurgical grade
chrome to Ita loadlag dock at Jakalof
Bay and the otfapr two companies are-de
veloping ore reserves for future ship
sint.
Kauai Chrome Company employee^ a. '
crew of tweaty-five men and is tracking
ninety tons per day of metallurgical
grade chrome a distance of tvfclve miles
to the leading point on tidewater. This
company has its ewn stack pile and dock
installation with cgoveygr belt, ship
sad loading equipment. Deliveries te
the loading dock began the last -wedk in
July and last year's production of
three thousand tons should be nearly
doubled for the 1955 season* • f.j
Alaska Chrome Corporation has a orew u
Of fourteeq men re-opening the old
Chrome Qua a a Mine, which pro duced some
iiyty-si* hundred tons of chrome ore in
1941 and 1942, A new adit level has
been started fifty feet below the old
haulage and come ore is being prepared
for tricking to tidewater, a distance
of nine miles. Loading - facilities at
Jhkalof Bay have yet to be omstruoted
by this company,
(Cont. on Page 6, Col, 1)
EVERN DEATH
Ernest (Bab©) Evera, 24, son of Mr*
and Mrs. Curt Even, longtime Homer
residents, was killed instantly last
■Thursday evening when he was struck by
the wreckage of a crippled jet fighter
plane that overshot the runwsy at El
'meniorf Air Force Base and crashed into
the construction site where he was
working. His brother, Frod (Bud), ras
also working"at the site and was a wit
ness to the tragedy.
Ernest was an employee of the Oaks
Construction Co* and ras a heavy duty
oworntor. *
Memorial services rare held in An
chorage Monday evening and.the body ms
brought to Homer Tuesday where services
were held in the Methodist diureh with
Rev# Nelson Moyer in charge.
Burial ms in the Auer lean Legion
Memorial Cemetery with Erling Broderson
Glenn Bowers, Jr#, Ben Bowers, Rex El
liott, Lloyd Maxwell and Budd Doitz as
pallbearers# '
The victim’s father, Curt Evern, ms
working in KotzCbue' at the ’time of the
accident and proceeded to Anchorage im
mediately upon learning 6? the death of
his son# Mrs# ^vam was in Puyallup,
Y/ashingtoa and alsh returned to‘ Ala ska
.,for t&e services#
In addition to'his parents, £abe is
survived by his brother, FrOd, 6hd fair
sisters, Mrs. Helena Dahlgrdn^of Homer;
Mrs* Alice Freeman, Alexandria, Egypt;
vMrs. 3rna Glaspie, Puyallup, TYn#, and
Mrs. Katherine Hobbs of Tacoma, Wn# --
*;Ke .was proceeded in death by '%
brother, Curt, vbo died in a "Nome hotel
■ fire, in 1941# "f
He was bom at Candle, Alaska, March
15, 1931.
PUD MEETING
The PUD directors and' local resi
dents learned Monday evening that there
will be no mat eking funds available1
from the Territory to operate the hos
pital, that there is a possibility of
getting Hill-Burton tu&o for supplies
and equipment, and that the Homer hos
pital-health center is’nftt in any sense
a hospital but only a health center*
The tnqn who provided all of the'in
formation was Dr* C*. S^rl Albrecht,
territorial .commissioner .off health*
Dr* Albrecht was in t^e ccmmunity to
check on the progress of'the hospit al
health center and to offer his assist
ance in the oper&tioAel planning* The
Monday evening meeting/ droved educa*
tional for both the fcaamissioiEr and
the directors, from all observations*
The discussion concerning matohlng
funds led the commissioner to explain
that only hospitals showing a deficit
. An operation cm receive the funds*
:'.:-3uch money, he said, ip appropriated by
the legislature and the next'session is
to be held in 1957, Shohid ^Horner be
eligible and fun<te be appropriated,
they would not be forthcoming until
April 1, 1957. , r
Dr. Albrecht said that he iras most
happy to learn upon his arrival in Hom
er that E. E, Bartlett had donated
SID,000 for supplies and equipment for
the hospital-health center, He said he
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returned" to Horner Thursday evening to
continue their investigation in the
death* of Mrs# Florence Rees of Seldovia
The body of Mrs# Rees was found on the
beach a mile end a half above the mouth
of Diamond Creek a to ut noon last Satur
day by Dave Jones# local homesteader*
Here for further investigation is
Deputy Marshal Che no we th and Joe .Grey#
special investigator for the Native
Service. It is reported that a fisher
man, supposedly the last man to be seen
with the 42*-year-old Seldovia mother
is aide missing. He was supposed to
have returned td Cordova two weeks ago' ;
and did not show up*
Mrs. Rees, . wife of Orlin Rees, 3el
cbvia fisherman, and the pother of four
children, died at the hands of. a person
or persons unknown, according to the
* verdict of ji cc rone r•s jury oelied late
last Saturday night by Commissioner
King* Htfr, body ms flovm to Anchorage
Sunday* for an autopsy by Dr* .Janes
(Wdllsy* The autopsy revealed that
there no water , in the lungs and
that the victim, had suffered a broken7
neck s6yc<re injuries on the head# : 1
u ' SlM was? last seen in Seldovia AugUst
'5 and5 re»Jttrtod missing to the Anchorage
-‘Marshall*s' nffice several dgys latey* •
The^authorities belloved that she hd<!
been in,the water about three daya and
had be6n on the beach about one day be
fore her body was discovered#
Territorial Patrolman Ed Martin had
boon in charge of the case, Jiere* Work- #
ing with him in the early stageof the
investigation was Joe Grey who happened
to bo in Homer on his.vacation when the
"body was discovered* Grey returned to
‘Anchorage Tuesday after spending Monday
in Seldovia with Martin*
• The authorities have not declared
“that’ Mrs* Rees was murdered and are
checking into the possibility that she
may have fallen from a bluff on the
Seldoyis bide of the bay and was killed
in ther'plunge* * .
Oil' LEASES
Six lease men from Standard Oil Co.
of California, .under' the direction of
J* L*. 7Connelly, are completing acquisi
tion. pf exploratory oil and gas leases
from the owners of private lands on the
Kenai Peninsula. The men have their
headquarters' in Homer and have been
working primarily in the Nlnllchik and
Homqr areas* The oil company is paying
50 cents per,a era* with the first year
in advance plus fa 12^ percent royalty
to .the landowners on all petroleum
products discovered, according to Con
nellys ' v\‘
ponnfelly s tatedy ’’These leases are a
necessary preliminary to any .further
exploration of an" area where our comp
• any has done some geological and exper
imental seismograph work* Due to the
excellent -cooperation from the land
owners, our leading progress is near
completion* Leases axe being acquired
from those who have patents from the
Oovexn&ent' covering the oil and gas
rights undex?their land* The form and
terns are similar to those used.in ex
ploxatory areais in the Stotts#M
All of the men are from various Cal
ifornia offices of the oil company, and
state they a re enjoying their w©lk tore.