Dog Race Cancellation
Won’t Check Big Weekend
Plans for Kenai-Soldotna
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at Parkers in Ridgeway at 10:30
a.m. Sunday and terminating at
the Elks Club building in Kenai,
is designated as “preliminary
training” for one of the 50-mile
hikes that is taking the country
by storm.
Expected to attract many per
sons is the Fourth Annual Kenai
Peninsula Arts and Crafts Show
to be held in the Kenai Central
High School gymnasium. Doors
will be open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.
m. on Saturday and from Noon
to 6 p.m. on Sunday. Artists and
craftsmen from throughout the
Kenai Peninsula have submitted
entries in painting, ceramics, lap
idary, leather work, wood craft
and many other mediums. There
is no charge for admission al
though persons wishing to help
defray expenses of the exhibit
may give a silver offering.
Also at Kenaj will be the free
smorgasbord planned Saturday
and Sunday evenings at the Elks
Club building. Ladies of the Elks
have signified that the smorgas
bord buffet may get a “workout”
from the healthy appetites devel
oped after the group participates
in the Bunion Derby.
An openhouse at the Village
Shopping Center is scheduled Sat
urday afternoon with door prizes
from the participating business
es—Soldotna Drugs, Woodford’s
Men’s Wear, M.K. Rialty, Mar
vene’s Dress Shop, Colonial Room,
Village Inn Lounge, Village Inn
Motel and the Village Barber
Shop.
Door pi'izes at the openhouse
will include a steak dinner for
two at the Colonial Room, a fifth
of champagne from the Village
Inn Lounge, a motel reservation
for two (with king-size bed) at
the Village Inn Motel, a free hair
cut offered by Leo Niedens at
the Village Barber Shop, a cer
tificate for a down payment on a
lot plus $25 on the first month’s
payment from the M.K. Realty
Co., and merchandise prizes from
Marvene’s Dress Shop, Wood
ford’s Men’s Wear and Soldotna
Drugs.
A style show and tea, jointly
sponsored by Marvene’s Dress
Shop and the Colonial Room, is
to begin at 3 p.m. as is the free
smorgasbord to be served in the
Joint Anniversary
Celebration Held
Sunday, Feb. 17, was the occa
sion of a dual wedding; celebra
tion by Mr. and Mrs. H. C.
“Casey’' Jones of Kenai and Mr
and Mrs. Russell Bagley, Soldo.t
na. The two couples, married for
a combined total of 65 years, ob
served the occasion with an an
niversary dinner at Parkers in
Ridgeway.
The Bagleys repeated their
marriage vows 35 years ago on
Feb. 16 at Torrington, Wyo. They
have been in Alaska for 22 years
and in the Soldotna area since
1952. Bagley is associated with
the B and C Auto Electric in Sol
dotna.
Jones, of the Kenai Commer
cial Co., and Mrs. Jones, who is
one of the regular workers at the
Kenai Community Library, have
been Alaskans for 17 years and
residents of Kenai for 11 years.
They were married 30 years ago
at Cheyenne, Wyo.
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Village Inn Lounge.
A public dance, also in the Vil
lage Inn Lounge, is being spon
sored by the Greater Soldotna
Area Republican Club and will
feature live music beginnig at
9 p.m.
Bud and Beit Bennington of
Riverside House are returning
from Outside in time to reopen
the supper club for a big party
and smorgasbord on Saturday
night.
Bowling fans are being advised
that a “Make That Spare” con
test, starting at the Sky Bowl in
Soldotna with a $50 prize on Feb.
24, will continue this weekend.
Another bowling attraction is the
benefit games for March of Dimes
in which all leagues have been
participating this week.
A “Catfish Fry” with plenty of
“Hush Puppies” is planned in Sol
dotna for Friday at the Ace of
Clubs, beginning at 8 p.m.
The Soldotna Theatre, which
broug’ht in two special shows for
the dog-racing weekend, will show
them as scheduled with “The
Girl Can’t Help It,” starring
Jane Mansfield and a rock and
roll cast on Saturday night and
Walt Disney’s “Pollyanna” set
for Sunday at the 3 p.m. matinee
and the regular 7:30 p.m. show
ing.
Twenty-three mushers had con
firmed entries in the dog race
competition planned for this week
end, among them Dr. Roland
Lombard, the Massachusetts vet
erinarian, who won the event
when it was held here for the
first time last year.
Lombard, after five previous
attempts, was the victor in the
Anchorage Fur Rendezvous World
Championship Sled Dog Race last
weekend, the first Outside mush
er to capture the Anchorage
championship. He had previously
won all other major dog racing
events in North America.
Other previous Rendezvous
champions, George Attla and Gar
eth Wright, were also to have en
tered the Kenai-Soldotna races as
were such well-known mushers as
Bergman Sam, Orville Lake, Earl
Norris, Jimmie Malemute, Joe
Redington, Bob Barclay, Joe
Brandon, Clyde Bastian, and
many others.
Attla won the Anchorage race
last year and placed third this
year. He was the second place
winner of the 1962 Kenai-Soldot
na event. Wright, prior winner
of two Rendezvous championships
and many other major racing
events, placed fifth last year in
the Peninsula races and was sev
enth in the Anchorage competi
tion last weekend. Bergman Sam
was last weekend’s second-place
Rendezvous winner.
Local mushers had also been
placing- high hopes on Joe Bran
don of Anchor Point this year.
The hard working musher had
purchased several dogs from the
Koyukuk area on the Yukon
where many of the winning teams
have originated and is reported
to now have an exceedingly fast
and sturdy team. Brandon placed
third in the 1962 Anchor Point
Snow Festival race and was in
seventh place in the first Alaska
State Championship Sled Dog
Races last year with a much
weaker team.
Despite cancellation of this
year’s big local event, plans are
already in the making for another
race to be scheduled next year,—
with hopes that trail conditions
may be more favorable.
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Peninsula Land
Included In
Withdrawal Order
Public land orders appearing
in the Federal Register recently
withdrew MOO acres in Alaska for
federal purposes, including two
parcels on the Kenai Peninsula.
In addition, dl0 acres previously
withdrawn for the War Depart
ment by a 1941 executive order,
were restored for state selection.
Peninsula land in the withdraw
al order included 120 acres in the
Halibut Cove area for a natural
forest study area and 8.6 acres
bordering Kenai Lake and the
left bank of Ptarmigan Creek for
a Forest Service recreation area.
The 610 acres restored to entry
comprises 10 small islands in the
Makhnati Island area near Sit
ka, lying east of Japonski Island,
with the State having a preferred
right of selection until May 1.
The islands are described as be
ing composed of rocks and gravel
with a vegetative cover of dense
alder. If not selected by the state,
the lands will be open under the
homestead and homesite laws and
to location under the mining laws
beginning at 10 a.m. on May 1.
Inquiries should be addressed to
the Manager, I^and Office, Bur
eau of Land Management, Anch
orage.
Weekend Highlights
Include ‘Bunion Derby’
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pick up any who fall by the way
side. Homesteader friends living
along the Kenai Spur Road are
invited to keep the coffee pot hot
and to greet the racing (or plod
ding) contestants at the road as
they come along.
Preceding the group of women,
and starting a half hour earlier,
will be the Kenai Hoy Scouts,
under the supervision of Scout
master Lyman McBride. It is re
ported that “some of the kid sis
ters of the Scouts will tag along.”
The first Scout over the finish
line will also receive a prize.
Although the entire member
ship of Ladies of Elks will not
enter the event, those already
signed up and presently getting
together their hiking garb are:
Peggy McBride, Mary McGuire,
Rose Navarre, Rosalie Stoddard,
Gladys Youngblood, Kay English.
RAIL BELT CENSUS
An estimated 140,000 now live
in Alaska’s “railbelt” area with
the population in the same area
expected to reach 175,000 by 1970.
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Faye Archer, Dee O’Maiia and Tla
Davidson.
The Bunion Derby is not re
stricted to Ladies of Elks or Boy
Scouts, it has been announced.
Others who wish to try out their
legs in a 10-mile portion of the
popularized 50-mile jaunt are in
vited to he at Parkers prior to
starting time and be ready to join
in the fun.
Homemakers
Invite Newcomers
Kenai Homemakers are extend
ing a special welcome to new
comers and other women in the
area to attend the next meeting
scheduled for March 5 at 7 p.m.
in the Kenai Community Library
rooms.
At the last meeting on Feb. 19,
the club voted to donate $25 to a
family whose possessions were
damaged in a recent fire in Kenai.
It was also decided that the group
will be represented at the Kenai
Peninsula Homemakers Council
meeting on April 26-27 in Soldot
na. There was no program and
Mrs. Monty Coleman was hostess
at the social hour.
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Help!! HELP!! Help! HELP!
HELP US CELEBRATE OUR RE-OPENING
On Friday, March 1 -- 5 p. m.
AND COME HELP TAKE CARE OF OUR
Free Smorgasbord
Saturday, March 2 -- 6 to 10 p. m.
BUD AND BERTIE BENNINGTON
THE RIVERSIDE HOUSE
SOLDOTNA PHONJE^.262-4448