Kaknu Toastmasters
Install New Officers
Kaknu Toastmasters installed
"heir newly elected officers at
"heir regular meeting at Riverside
House last Friday. Walter Jerde,
listrict governor for International
Toastmasters, was on hand to do
?he honors.
Larry Ellery gave the invoca
*ion and Fritz Hall, the outgoing
president, turned the meeting over
:o the former president, Jess
Nicholas, who proceeded to act
as chairman. Prior to the instal
'ation, the meeting was handled
. n the same way as other regular
Soldotna
City Election
Set Tuesday
Soldotna voters will go to the
aolls Tuesday to select one of
three candidates for the Soldotna
City Council post being vacated
iy Jack Farnsworth, whose term
?s expiring. Farnsworth did not
file as a candidate for reelection.
The selection of one man to the
Only vacancy on the City Council
will be the only issue confronting
Soldotna electors. Can didates
peeking the post are Ray Girves,
John Mack and Dick Haidin.
Polls will be open from 11 a.m.
to 1 p.m. and again from 5 p.m.
to 9 p.m. Voting will take place in
the Soldotna Community Hall
with election judges to be William
Haworth, Mildred Bagley and
Marlyn Hershberger.
Registration of qualified voters
ended at 6 p.m. April 30. Regis
tration books now show a total
rf 210 qualified and registered
prospective voters, all of whom
have lived within the city limits
of Soldotna for at least 30 days,
in Alaska for at least one year
and are at least 19 years of age.
Persons who did not register
last week but who voted in prior
city elections and are otherwise
qualified as to age and residency
requirements in both state and
city, may participate in the elec
tion as well as those who have
just completed registration.
Much interest in the race has
been manifest the past couple of
weeks and a good turnout at the
polls is expected.
ly scheduled meetings.
Speakers for the evening were
Fredrick H. Hoffmann, chaplain
at Wildwood Station, and Bob
Wade, assistant refuge manager
of the Kenai National Moose
Range. Hoffmann in his “ice
breaker” speech permitted the
members and honored guests to
have a closer look at him.
Bob Wade, speaking on “The
Quality of Food for Moose on the
Kenai Peninsula,” drew from
years of experience in this field
and gave a most informative talk.
George Navarre, Kenai Food
Service, acted as chief evaluator
and pointed out minor discrepan
cies in structure, delivery, ges
tures, voice modulation, eye con
tact and terminology.
Walter Jerde then proceeded to
install the newly elected officers:
Jack McGuire, president; George
Denison, educational vice presi
dent; Robert Wade, administra
tive vice president; Fredrick H.
Hoffmann, secretary; George Na
varre. treasurer, and Robert Biele
feld, sergeant at arms.
The outgoing president, Fritz
Hall, was presented with a past
president pin for his outstanding
work.
Radio Activity
Course Attended
By SCS Technician
HOMER— Art Hawk, Soil Con
servation Service technician for
the Kenai Peninsula with offices
in Homer, has returned from a
week’s radio activity training
course in Anchorage.
The U. S. Department of Agri
culture is participating in the
government-wide defense prepar
edness program. Plans are made
and personnel trained to check
available food for contamination,
in event of atomic attack.
The SCS will check feed and
water supplies at Peninsula dair
ies, poultry plants and livestock
operations, Hawk said.
Farmers Home Administration,
Extension Service, Forest Service
and Agricultural Stabilization
Service are all participating in
plans to maintain a safe food sup
ply in case of emergency.
Classifieds are news.
Negotiation to Break Labor Deadlock
Fails, Standard Plugs Wells
I continued from Page 1)
ly prefered not to work through a
hiring hall in employing workers.
According to past custom, each
of the three drillers on each rig
has been arranging for employ
ment of members of his own crew.
The majority of Reading and
Bates workers are reported to
have came from Canada or from
states outside Alaska.
Gets Restraining Order
Standard obtained a temporary
restraining order on April 23 to
prohibit the Alaska Petroleum
Crafts Council from preventing
an orderly shutdown of the two
exploratory wells. The restrain
ing order was sought after Coun
cil members blocked Standard's
efforts to remove oil waste by
truck from the well sumps.
Standard claimed that crude oil
was overflowing the sumps and
threatening t o pollute local
streams, in violation to U. S. Fish
and Wildlife Service regulations
for providing proper disposal of
r -
waste products. Helicopters re
portedly were used by workers
shutting down the wells to avoid
trouble at the picket lines.
Standard, following release of
the contractor, proceeded with the
work of plugging and abandoning
the wells. There has been no indi
cation that the company plans
further drilling in the immediate
area within the near future. Sev
eral Standard men are said to be
preparing for transfers outside,
including local drilling operations
foremen, H. W. Jones, Soldotna,
and Charlie Pounds and Tommy
Thompson, Kenai.
Reading and Bates rigs are
stacked and several members of
the drilling crews living in the
Reading and Bates camp at Ster
ling are selling their trailer homes
and are preparing to move else
where. Some of them say they
are being transferred to other
Reading and Bates jobs in Louis
iana.
H
DOYLE’S FUEL SERVICE
283-765S
‘Heat With The Best”
24 Hour Service
TEXACO FUEL OIL
n”OPA N E
»
★ ★
PRICES EFFECTIVE
MAY 6 through 12
★ ★
GIANT SIZE
FAB.59c
• •
REGULAR SIZE
KOOLAID ...... 6for25c
POTIVTO_
I-- . 75c
MM70HHMSE
POUND CAN
. 79c
SH0B«N1N®UJ
MABREt . A
freestone
O/.. BAGS
3 tor
• •
'potato flakes
frozen D\NNERSjJJ_^
MARKET
NO. 303 CAN
Red Kidney BEANS . 5 for *1“
CRYSTAL WHITE
46 OZ. BOTTLE
LIQUID DETERGENT ... 79c
LOCAL
10 POUND BAG
SPUDS.79c
Lou’s Market
hours — 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. OPEN SUNDAY—11 b, in. to 6 p. m.
Phone 262-4473 Soldotna