The latest thing in Air Force equipment, is only part of the big display at Wildwood Station s annual
Armed Forces day exhibit. The plane above was open for public inspection at last year’s show.
JtneJuly Scheduled
For Start of Refinery,
Soldotna Chamber Told
Standard Oil Company’s Alas
kan refinery, now nearing com
pletion north of Kenai, was de
acribed by Tom Hurd. Greater
SoWotna Chamber of Commerce
president, as “a shot in the arm
to the Peninsula’s economy” when
he introduced D. D. Drowley. re
finery general manager, as the
principal speaker at Saturday’s
Chamber luncheon. Drowley was
accompanied by his assistant, A.
M. Tibbetts.
The refinery head prefaced his
i remarks by staling that Standard
| Oil was not exactly a “cheecha
| kou or newcomer in the state but
, had heen actively engaged in var
*)tt* aetmties in Alaska in terri
torial days as far back as 1888.
I
Standard was on hand when the
first sourdoughs invaded-the Yu
koa in the gold rush days and
told them kerosene and mining
undies and later .supplied fuel
»nd lubricants for mining rnachin
wyi Standard was in Alaska to
wrvice the first trucks in the
mo’s and participated in the
to# Ml exploration along Cook
Inlet and in the Alaska Peninsula.
j6®to»d>rd krached an oil ex
#r*tioa ob tW Kenai Peninsula
•_■ W&4 and participated with
Richfield Corp. in the Swanson
Rarer discovery well in 1&57 and
hi* continued operation of the
too field.
The next step was the building
of Kenai Pipe Line. Now follows
*h#’refinery designed to handle
*h* Alaska produced crude and
jjjjtoed to fit the demand, using
existing distribution system
towtoarketing the products not
Alaska by shipping them
out by. mar ine tankers.
The future is an enigma,”
Rowley said. “We do not know
. t more Alaska has to offer
ln the way of oil—or what the
*WK«t will be.”
He added, however, that the
“tor refinery is nearly completed
of M. Parsons Co.
t as principal con
*Ct0r assisted by many local
subcontractors, and that process
ing of the first products is ex
pected to get underway by the
end of June or early in July.
The processing of 20,000 bar
rels of crude oil daily from wells
in the Soldotna Creek and Swan
son River Fields will chiefly cen
ter in production of civilian avia
tion fuel, stove oil, diesel fuel,
military aircraft fuel, and kind
led products as well as a heavy
distillate fuel such as will be used
by Chugach Electric Co. to fire
its turbines at the nearby new
Bernice Lake power plant to gen
erate electricity to be wholesaled
through Chugach.
Drowle.v also mentioned that a
training program to train opera
tors and maintenance employees
was underway and, except for the
advisory staff consisting of him
self, W. W. Warren, operations
foreman, and H. R- Coleman, ser
vices foreman, the bulk of the 28
employees had been hired locally.
Prior to Drowley's talk, Wally
Jeannerett of Shaffer Tool Co.
was introduced as a guest at the
meeting and several brief reports
were heard.
• Larry Lancashire, chairmaa of
the 19615 Progress Days commit
tee, Mentioned several new fea
tures to be included as soon as
verification can be secured and
said an attempt is to be made to
expand the event so as to include
Peninsula-wide participation.
Jbe Scarantino reported that
the tourist information center
work begun last year is to be
completed and that all the logs
needed for the building have been
cut.
W. S. Olsen reported that the
clearing of seven acres on the
200-acre recreation and puhlic
park area south of Soldotna was
to begin Wednesday. It will be
available for a fair grounds, Boy
Scout and Girl Scout encamp
ments. and other events. He also
mentioned that a cabin housing
some of the workers burned ear
ly Saturday morning.
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COUNTRY COFFEE
SHOP
LOCATED 1»2 MI. SOL'TH OF REFINERY
ON NORTH KEN AI ROAD
TO REOPEN FOR SEASON ON
MAY 6
• SANDWICHES • SOFT ICE CREAM
• COMPLETE FOUNTAIN SERVICE
OPEN 10 A..M. TO 7 P M.
CLOSED SUNDAYS
COYE HINERMAN. Owner-Operator
Alaska Consumer
Ineome Up 2%
In 1962 Over 1961
Individual incomes, the most
comprehensive measure of econo
mic activity available on a geo
graphic basis, rose to a record
high in Alaska last year, accord
ing to the Office of Business Ec
onomics of the U. S. Department
of Commerce, reported by the
Anchorage Field Office of the
Commerce Department.
Total personal income in Alaska
amounted to *642,000,000 during
1962. a 2 per cent increase over
the $6:10,000.000 personal income
received in 1961. Alaska's 2 per
cent increase compares with the
national increase of 6 per cent.
Brightest spot in percentage in
crease of Alaskan income was
from state and local government
al sources, where the State in
crease equalled the national per
centage average increase.
Area Club Holds
Evaluation Meet
Last Wednesday night’s meet
ing of the Redoubt Toastmistress
Club was an evaluation workshop,
held at Riverside House, Soldotna,
with Mr'S. Ted Grainge directing
the workshop.
Mrs. Mert Archer gave the
opening and Mrs. Bill Stock was
toastmistress. Mrs. Wayne Hag
erty, as topic mistress, introduood
the discussion on correct posture,
sitting and rising, of speakers.
The entire group evaluated the
speeches of Mrs. Burton Carver,
Mrs. Jame6 E. Fisher and Mrs.
Jack Farnsworth.
AIRLINE HEAD HERE
SOLDOTN A — Merle K. Smith,
president of Cordova Airlines, and
Morgan Richardson, traffic man
ager, passed through Soldotna
Tuesday enroute to Homer to
start Cordova's operations there.
HEA Lineman
Recovering
From Injury
Keith Rivers, Soidotna, jour
neyman for Homer Electric As
soc., Inc., was injured Monday
while engaged with other HEA
workmen in putting service into
the Alaska Aggregate plant on
Beaver Loop Road near Kenai.
Rivers was struck by a falling
shotgun stick ' or long pole us
ed by lineman in handling or sep
arating “hot ’ lines. He was
knocked down but got up again,
then “blacked out" and was taken
to the Soldotna Airport by stret
cher after having received emer
gency treatment from a local doc
tor. Departure of a Cordova Air
lines plane was delayed until Riv
ers could be taken aboard for his
trip to Providence Hospital for
observation and treatment.
The accident occured at about
9 a m. One lineman had ascended
the utility pole, had belted off,
had hung the handline and had
bung the shotgun stick on a neu
tral conductor four feet out from
the pole. The second man began
climbing the pole. Rivers walked
under the pole and began
straightening the handline. As he
looked up, toward the sun, the
shotgun stick became dislodged
and fell 12 feet, hitting the victim
on the cheekbone under the right
eye.
Rivers is reported recovering
satisfactorily and local HEA of
ficials have been informed that
the accident resulted in no dam
age to the victim’s brain or to his
eye, although he did receive a
slight fracture of the right cheek
bone.
Classifieds are news.
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HOOLIGAN RUN BEGINS
SOLDOTNA — Hooligan ara
running. H. C. Jones of Standard
Oil Co. brought home a nice mess
of hooligan Wednesday that he
took at the mouth of Beaver
Creek near Kenai.
Whenever you leave
town, carry money only you
coo spend: Bonk of America
Travelers Cheques. Loss*
proof, theft-proof, cashed only
by your signature. Buy them
here —cash them anywhere.
national bank
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Soldutna Branch
Soldotna Phone 262-113?
%
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Exterior Sheathing
$3.25 per 4x8’sheet
1 We now carry in stock
KAISER
DIAMOND RIB
, and accessories
- • ’ •
Fir lumber and plywood by the
carload.
(We have the largest stock on the Kenai Peninsula)
Superior Building Supply
IN KENAI PHONE 283-7732
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First Quality Concrete
DELIVERED ANYWHERE ANY QUANTITY
• WASHED SAND ANI> GRAVEL • CEMENT • POLYETHYLENE
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