HISTORICAL MUSEUM 5 LIBRARY
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JUNEAU ALASKA
The Kenai Peninsula
SEE BOROUGH MEETINGS PAGES 6 and 14
KENAi SCHOOL BONDS SOLD
Jhc S®,dotna'K*nai Kiwanis Club had their first anniversary dinner last week at the 4 Royle Parkers
Cafe. This affair was attended by about thirty people including members and their wives. Attending
..rn0m-,?^AnCh°^Re^,Ub W3S Hal DeF°e and from the North Star Kiwanis Club of Spenard was
KbsiI Dawes. Hal DaFoe gave the major address of the evening, speaking about the aims and pro
grams of kiwanis using the Anchorage and Spenard Clubs as examples how these programs can be
-",etOUVn ,Alaska- Mr- DaFoe’s talk was followed by a short talk by “Basil” Dawes of the Spenard
Club, the final part of the program, following dinner, was a travelogue by Dick Hall of Soldotna, who
illustrated his talk with color slides.
Soldotna Voters to Elect
New Councilman on May 7
Only one issue will confront
voters in Soldotna’s city election
on May 7—the election of one
member to the Soldotna City
Council to succeed Jack Farns
worth, whose term is expiring.
The office will be for a three
year term.
Three candidates have filed for
the vacancy. They are Ray Girves,
John Mack and Dick Hardin. Re
gistration of candidates closed at
5 p.m. Monday.
Registration of voters began at
noon Monday and will continue
Soldotna GOP
Dinner Planned
SOLDOTNA — Republican le
gislators from the Kenai Penin
sula and the Anchorage area are
being invited to speak at a no
host dinner to be sponsored in Sol
dotna on May 11 by the Greater
Soldotna Republican Club. The
dinner is scheduled for 7 p.m. and
will be at Riverside House.
Legislators expected to be pre
sent include Clem V. “Red” Til
lion and Charles “Chuck” Cole,
both of the Kenai Peninsula, and
Vance Phillips, Brad Phillips, Bill
Wiggins, H a r o Id Strandberg,
Bruce Kendall, Jack White and
Bill Sanders.
Information concerning borough
legislation and other matters per
tinent to Alaska and especially to
the Kenai Peninsula is to be
brought r,"rl **> lV'' rn»ot;n'T
until 6 p.m. on April 30. Persons
qualifying to participate in the
election may register at one of the
following places: Soldotna Store,
Big K Market, Lou’s Market, Sky
Bowl or Soldotna Bookkeeping
Service.
To qualify for registration, the
prospective voter must be 19
years of age or older, must have
lived in Alaska for one year or
more and must have lived within
the city limits of Soldotna for a
period of 30 days or more prior
to the May 7 election date.
Other members of the Soldotna
City Council are Burton Carver
and Don Wilson, whose terms will
expire next year, and Ted Grainge
and Dale Rorrison, both of whom
have two more years to go on
their terms.
Grainge’s right to serve on the
City Council was questioned by
John Mack in the Council meeting
last week on the grounds that
Grainge has moved out of the
city limits since his election. It
was requested that Mack present
a formal protest and that the
city would send a letter to the at
torney general asking for an
opinion. This has been done but
a reply has not been received to
date.
The election will take place
from 11 a.m. to 1 p,m. and from
5 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Soldotna
Community Hall. Election judges
will ^e TTT”:-m Haworth, Mildred
Bagley 'vn H'*,-c!hbergpr.
Election Set
For Fishermen
Election of officers and two
directors to the board of trustees
will take place at the annual
spring meeting of the Kenai Pen
insula Fishermen’s Cooperative
Assoc, next Wednesday. The meet
ing will be held in the Clam Gulch
Community Hall, beginning at 1
p.m. The two new directors will
replace two members whose
terms are expiring.
There also will be further clar
ification of HB 161, pertaining
to the leasing of fishing sites,
which was passed at the last ses
sion of the Legislature.
Bud Keener, Clam Gulch, is
presently serving as president of
the fishermen’s organization and
Florence Burton of Cohoe is se
cretary-treasurer.
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Break Ground Next Week
^Negotiation for the sale of
$1,200,000 of general obligation
bonds to Marshall and Meyer,
Seattle bond brokers, was com
PNA Flight
Schedules
To Change
A general change in flight
schedules for Pacific Northern
Airlines will be effective April
27, it was announced this week.
Definite hours for the various
schedule changes are expected to
be designated within the next
few days.
James Clinton, city sales man
ager for PNA at Kenai, says the
change will include inauguration
of early morning flights to An
chorage, one-day service to Jun
eau and time changes in other
schedules. PNA carries about 600
passengers per month out of Ke
nai so the change definitely will
affect this particular area, he
added.
Clinton left Tuesday for Seattle
to attend a three-day over-all
sales meeting beginning Wednes
day for all PNA station managers
and sales managers. Clinton has
been with the Kenai office since
February following the resigna
tion of Lee Heater from the city
sales manager’s position. Heater,
it is understood, is now in Calif
ornia.
f
pleted Wednesday ni^’ht in a
joint meeting of the Kenai City
Council and the Kenai School
Board with Donald Meyer, finan
cial consultant for the purchas
ing brokers. The bonds in amounts
of $5,000 each and dated June 1,
payment plan and will be at 4'^'o
1063, are to be issued on a 20-year
interest.
The bond sale is to finance con
struction of a new Kenai Central
High School building to be used
not only by students from Kenai
and North Kenai but from Soldot
na and other neighboring com
munities.
Mayor James G. “Bud” Dye, in
making the announcement of the
bond sale, also said the low bid of
Lease Co., Inc., contracting firm
of Seattle, has been accepted for
construction of the building. The
Lease Co. bid of $1,052,900 was
one of six considered by the Coun
cil at the bid opening last Wed
nesday night. The signing of the
contract is to be completed to
day and ground-breaking for the
start of actual construction is ex
pected to begin next week. Com
pletion is scheduled for the se
cond semester of the 1963-64
school year.
Location for the new building
will be about two miles from the
Kenai business district on 40 acres
in the Beaver Loop area obtained
from the federal government at
a cost of $2.50 per acre. The le
gal description of the location is
the South half of the Southeast
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