The Kenai Peninsula
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UNEA
THIRD YEAR
MARCH 15, 1963
PRICE 10 CENTS
NUMBER 12 5
Hospital
T rustees
Reelected
Eight trustees of the Central
Kenai Peninsula Hospital Assoc.,
Inc., whose terms were expiring,
were reelected by unanimous bal
lot last Thursday night at the as
sociation’s annual membership
meeting held in Kenai.
They are Chester Cone, Kenai;
George Denison, Ridgeway; Ted
Gaines, Sterling; Virginia Gibbs,
Soldotna; Dayne Marshall, Soldot
na; Ira Miller, Kasilof; George
Navarre, Kenai, and Marion
Oberts, Kenai. They will serve on
the 12-member Board of Trustees
with the four hold-over members:
Raye Mullins, J. R. Lietzke and
Dick Morgan, all of Kenai, and
Sylvia Johnson, North Kenai. Of
ficers are to be elected from with
in the RoaVd membership at a
meeting set for another date.
the meeting- was attended by
47 members, carrying a total of
20 proxy votes.
The group passed a resolution
to make necessary changes in the
articles of incorporation to meet
requirements of the Department
of Internal Revenue in order to
gain non-profit status for the or
ganization.
It was also approved that the
Board of Trustees continue with
an agreement with the American
Baptist Home Mission Society for
the latter organization to ad
minister the hospital when it is
built, if such agreement is satis
factory to the Board of Trustees
and the Baptist organization.
The membership also approved
the contacting of professional
fund raisers, to be paid on a per
centage basis, for the business of
raising money to construct the
hospital. It is expected that fur
ther details concerning the money
raising project will be forthcom
ing after the trustees hold their
organizational meeting.
ACCIDENT WITH SAW
STERLING — Gladys (Mrs.
Lew) Field severely injured her
hand in a table saw accident re
cently at her farm home near
Sterling-. She was taken to An
chorage where her fingers were
sewed back on.
The Weather
Max. Min.
KENAI
I’recip.
Mar. 7
Mar. 8
Mar. 9
Marl 10
Mar. 11
Mar. 12
Mar. 13
39
41
40
39
21
25
30
32
34
32
15
11
15
1
.77
None
.43
None
.02
.06
None
Three inches of snow on ground
and still snowing at 2 p.m. Thurs
day, March 14. Readings for day
not completed. (FAA weather
station.)
SOLDOTNA
Mar. 7
Mar. 8
Mar. 9
Mar. 10
Mar. 11
Mar. 12
Mar. 13
43
42
44
43
30
21
23
28
29
30
23
10
10
-6
.32
.61
.04
.04
None
.08
.05
Four inches of snow on ground
at 2 p.m. Thursday. March 14,
and still snowing. Readings for
day not completed. (Soldotna Air
port weather station)
Winds of over 30 miles per hour that hit the area last Saturday
caused a great deal of damage especially among the planes on the
kenai and Soldotna airports. This was how the Cessna 180 owned
by the Soldotna Flying Club looked the morning after.
Kenai Clinic Equipment
To Be installed Prior
To March 24 Gpenhouse
SiiVi
Equipment and furnishings or
dered for the Kenai Community
Clinic have arrived in Anchor
age. They are to be trucked down
and installed prior to the Clinic’s
grand openhouse scheduled for
Sunday, March 24.
The openhouse event is to be
gin at 10 a.m. and will continue
until 6 p.m. with visitors to be
taken on a complete tour of the
new medical facility. The grand
opening date is just six months
to the day since selection of the
acting Board of Trustees and hap
pens to fall on the birthdate of
one member of the board, Reta
Waldron Steele.
It is possible that x-ray equip
ment will not be ready for actual
use by that date, however, as
technicians will not be available
to install and test it for about
two weeks.
The entire project is the result
Standard Oil
Official to Speak
At Nikiski P-TA
Newly organized Nikiski Pa
rent-Teacher Assoc, will have its
regular monthly meeting on Tues
day, March 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the
North Kenai School..
New officers elected at last
month’s organizational meeting
will preside. They are: Roy
Wacker, president; Carl Roberts,
vice president; Wallace Sidback,
treasurer, and Mrs. Ruth Hudson,
secretary.
The program committee, headed
by Guy Moore and Mrs. Richard
Schuller, has announced that D.
D. Drowley of Standard Oil Com
pany’s Nikiski refinery will be the
guest speaker for the evening.
Refreshments are also being plan
ned by the hospitality committee,
consisting of Mrs. Carl Roberts,
Mrs. Ray Williams and Mrs. Dav
id Lamb.
Thirty members were enrolled
at the organizational meeting of
the P-TA and all persons in the
area, especially those with stu
dents attending North Kenai
School, are urged to join. Regular
meetings are on the third Tues
day evening each month.
of community effort and will oe
owned and operated as a non
profit organization by the entire
community. Finishing work on the
60’ x 40’ frame structure on
Homesite Loop Road at Kenai is
being pushed by many hardwork
ing volunteers.
The new medical facility, with
Dr. A. W. Barr as chief of staff,
is planned to be able to give 24
hour service. An additional doc
tor and possible other members
of the staff are expected to be
added soon. It is expected that
registered nurses living in the
area will be contacted for service
needed by over-night patients.
The new clinic building is said
to feature the most modern ob
stetrics and labratory facilities
in the entire area. There will be
an overnight room as well as
two treatment rooms, operating
room, waiting room, doctor’s of
fices, x-ray room, dark room, bath
room and other conveniences.
Freak
Accident
Injures Boy
HOMER — A freak accident at
Homer, left student Johnny Mul
len with a bloody nose, broken
teeth and a cut on his forehead
Thursday morning.
Johnny and about 15 other
members of his class were seated
at their desks in a temporary
classroom in the old Extension
Building when a pickup truck,
driven by John Hillstrand, slid
off the icy road, struck the build
ing and crashed through the wall,
coming to rest with the front
end of the pickup inside the class
room.
Although Johnny’s injuries
were not regarded as too serious,
lacerations on his head did require
stitches and he reportedly was
complaining of soreness and stiff
ness. He is t.he son of Mr. and
Mrs. “Moon” Mullens of the Fed
eral Aviation Agency at Homer.
Hillstrand, although consider
ably shaken up, had no apparent
physical injuries, it wa3 reported.
High Winds, Falling Trees
Create Havoc with Planes,
Buildings, Power Service
Turbulent winds Saturday night
and Sunday, reaching velocity of
58 miles per hour, buffeted the
Kenai and Soldotna areas inter
rupting power service and causing
extensive damage to buildings and
planes.
The recently constructed Civil
Air Patrol hangar at Kenai lost
its roof and has only one wall left
standing after the winds. A heavy
truss, said to weigh several tons,
fell on the Kenai Squadron’s L-20
Beaver, inflicting considerable
damage to rudder, one wing and
the fuselage. Work was underway
Monday to remove the truss in
preparation for inspection of the
plane by a military crew from
Elmendorf Air Force Base. Ex
tensive repairs will have to be
made before the plane can again
be used for emergency missions.
Maj. Glenn Kipp, commander of
the Kenai Squadron, had checked
the plane and hangar several
times during the night and final
ly returned home at about 4 a.m.
Sunday convinced that everything
seemed safe. Winds changed from
south to the west, which is re
garded as quite unusual in this
section of the country.
Sudden gusts of high velocity
inflated the doorless building
“about like a balloon” lifting the
roof off nearly intact. Much of
the aluminum siding used in the
walls was punctured with holes
when it was blown against trees,
however, most of it is to be sal
vaged for rebuilding the struc
ture. If there had been doors to
the hangar, it is believed it would
have withstood the storm.
At the Soldotna Airport, the
Huh Club plane, used as an in
struction plane by the local flyi: *
club, was, turned upside down <<r:
top of two cars. The tail secitiou
and wings were torn extensively.
This is the second “casualty” f> £■
the Hub Club as a former train
ing plane was destroyed by fire
last winter when it ignited while
in the process of being thawed
out by one of the members.
Jack Hager’s Cub plane took
off with its anchors at Soldotnn
Airport and traveled about a
quarter of a mile on the icy run
way from Jim Adams’ repair
shop to finally come to rest back
of the terminal building. Another
plane anchored near the repair
shop was blown over on its nose.
Two planes on the old air strip
in downtown Soldotna also were
buffeted by the winds. Troy
Hodges’ plane turned upside d wp
and the one owner! by Touts Ha -
stead landed in a tree. Both were
considerably damaged.
The Federal Aviation Agency
at Kenai said winds there were at
their highest at about :> a.m. Sun
day when 45 knots or about 51
miles per hour were recorded.
(Continued on Page 16)
School's Out!
There will be a three-day holi
day for students next week while
teachers attend sessions of the
Alaska Education Assoc, conven
tion to be held in Anchorage,
March 20, 21 and 22.
Regular class work will be re
sumed at the usual hour the fol
lowing- Monday morning, March
25.
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