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Letters to the Editor:
State’s Best Potential
For Industry is Mining,
Recent Article Explains
Anchorage, Alaska
Dec. 25, 1962
Loren Stewart
Cheechako News,
Kenai, Alaska
Dear Editor:
I would like to quote in part
from a recent article, “Boosting
Alaska's Assets” by Mark Ring
stad of Fairbanks in the Dec. 5
Fairbanks News-Miner concern
ing the recent trip to New York
City by civic minded business and
professional people endeavoring
to “sell’’ Alaska to the big money
people.
To quote in part: “I’ll be very
much surprised if the recent trip
East will produce anything in the
immediate future — maybe 10
years hence. What we need more
is to do something for ourselves
that will create payroll industries
for Alaska’s immediate future.
“The Rampart Dam, if it ever
becomes a reality, will bring in
dustry, but, here again, no sooner
than 10 or 15 years. The big ques
tion is: What do we do for indus
try in the meantime? The answer,
as I see it—we create it for our
selves or do without.
“Let’s assume, for sake of ar
gument, that someone in the
States has enough faith in the po
tential of Alaska to think indus
try can be developed here and lists
the possible industries and ana
lyzes each one to determine the
most practical one to go to work
on.
“Here in the interior, his ana
lysis would probably look like
this; (A) Fishing—No commer
cial quantities; (B) Timber—Li
mited semi-commercial quantities
and with limited market; (C)
Fur—Limited to small villages;
(D) Tourism — Presently small
with terrific potential but this in
dustry does not establish w'eekly
payroll; (E) Farming— Limited
to local consumption, nothing
large until population increases
20 fold; (F) Mining — Present
ly very limited but with terrific
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potential, providing the state
government establishes incentives
such as Canada has and requests
our federal government to do
likewise . . . such as elimination
of all state and federal taxes for
the first three years after pro
duction begins on new mines and
incentives to get prospectors out
into the hills looking for new de
posits.
“Our mining industry is the one
industry which will employ peo
ple the year round and will not
be bothered by our extreme wea
ther. It is the one industry which
produces a product that can be
shipped out of Alaska to foreign
markets.
“British Columbia produced ap
proximately $:J50 million worth of
minerals last year while our pro
duction is getting smaller every
year. We have the minerals and
Japan and our own industries
want them. But, the mining indus
try won’t develop by itself. Some
one has to work at it! ‘On the
Inside,’ Nov. 27, Snake River, Ca
nada, SOCAL Exploration says
they have found one of the big
gest iron ore depbsits in the
world.
“What would you say if I told
you we had a similar one in Al
aska? And not Kluwan. My point
is that in Canada such strikes are
news, big news, while in Alaska,
who cares?
“Do the people of Alaska want
a billion dollar a year mining in
dustry? Do our state officials in
Juneau care? They don’t appear
to by their actions of doing noth
ing concrete to get the industry
going. If they don’t know how to
go about it, I’ll be glad to offer
some suggestions.” (Unquote.)
I agree with Mr. Ringstad.
Progress can be had by thinking
big and working hard for that
certain goal.
Yours truly
Morris G. Reese
(Signed)
NOTICE
Taxpayers who have paid interest on property tax levied
under Chapter 10, SLA 1949 (Alaska Property Tax Act)
may be entitled to refund as provided by Chapters 27
and 28. SLA 1962.
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Further information may be secured by writing to the
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Department of Revenue.
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JUNEAU, ALASKA
Interior Department Explains
Bradley Lake Project Would Not
Prevent Native Fuel Developments
Morris G. Reese, in submitting
his “Letter to the Editor” this
week regarding mining as the best
potential industry for Alaska, al
so enclosed a copy of a letter he
recently received from the assis
tant secretary of the Department
of the Interior.
Excerpts from the fetter, dated
Dec. 20 and dealing with propos
ed power projects in Alaska and
in particular on the Kenai Penin
sula, are as follows:
“This will acknowledge your
recent letter enclosing your letter
... as it appeared in the Chee
chako News, Kenai, Alaska, for
Nov. 9, 1962.
“We are interested to learn of
your views on Alaskan power
matters, particularly as they re
late to the authorized Bradley
Lake Project.
“This project has been author
ized for construction by the Corps
of Engineers, Department of the
Army, by the Flood Control Act
of 1962 (Public Law 87-874.) The
marketing of power would be the
responsibility of the Secretary of
the Interior. In the discharge of
this responsibility, the Secretary
is obliged to set rates with regard
to the recovery of the cost of pro
ducing and transmitting power,
including the amortisation of the
capital investment over a reas
onable period of years.
“Authorization of this develop
ment was predicted on studies
which show that power from
Bradley Lake Project could be
delivered to load centers at rates
of approximately 10 mills pet
kilowatt hour.
“These studies further show
that the rate of market develop
ment in the Anchorage-Kenai Pe
ninsula area will be such that the
production can be assimilated be
fore the project can be complet
ed and placed in service.
“Thus there will be a market
for supplementary power supplies
generated from steam driven
plants. We understand that there
are studies indicating that such
thermal energy can be produced
at prices that w-ould be comjteti
Spuds Stockpiled
At English Bay
Preparations for the winter at
the little Kenai Peninsula com
munity of English Bay have in
cluded laying in a supply of po
tatoes in adequate supply to pro
vide for the villagers during the
winter months. These potatoes
were all grown in village gardens
this past summer.
The unfinished basement of the
school house at English Bay is
being used as a root cellar for
storage of two tons of potatoes,
results of this past summer’s
harvest.
Ed Liebenthal of the Agricul
tural Extension Service at Homer
said that in 1960 when he first
started working with residents of
English Bay, only 400 pounds of
potatoes were raised there.
Classifieds are news.
WITH YOUR LOCAL
INSURANCE AGENT
LEO T. OBERTS
Phone 283-7591
Oberts Bldg.
Box 458 Kenai, Alaska
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tive with Bradley Lake Project
production, depending largely on
the size of plant that might be
considered.
"In summary, we feel that the
Bradley Lake Project will serve
a useful purpose in fostering and
stimulating economic growth in
your area.
“It should not preclude devel
opment of power from native
fuels by other interests if this
can, indeed, be accomplished
more economically. If, on the
other hand, non-federal interests
are delayed in the development
of steam-generated electricity by
financial or economic considera
tions, the Federal Government
will have taken an initial step to
ward satisfying the urgent pow
er needs of the community.
“Your interest in these mat
ters is appreciated ...”
Reese’s letter to the editor,
mentioned by the assistant se
cretary as appearing in the Nov.
9 issue of the Cheechako News,
asserted that the Bradley Lake
Project would not provide cheap
power rates. Reese urged that
immediate and growing power
needs could be better met with a
short term 'program and private
enterprise.
Redoubt Club
Installs Officers
Installation of new officers of
the Redoubt Toastmistress Club
took place at the Dec. 26 meeting
held at Riverside House with Mrs.
Stanley McLane as installing of
ficer.
Mrs. M. L. Grange will head
the club as its new president,
succeeding Mrs. Larry Lanca
shire. Other new officers are Mrs.
Jack Thompson, vice president;
Mrs. Hedley Parsons, secretary,
and Mrs. J. S. Smith, treasurer.
All will serve for a six-months
term.
Mrs. J>ack Farnsworth presid
ed at the meeting in the absence
of the outgoing president. Mrs.
George Denison gave her ice.
breaker speech and other speeches
were by Mrs. J. S. Smith and
Mrs. Bill Gibbs.
Mrs. Thompson was topic mis
tress for the evening and Mrs.
Parsons was toastmistress. The
education phase of the program
was presented by Mrs. Burton
Carver and Mrs. Jess Nicholas
was lexicologist. The evaluator
was Mrs. James E. Fisher and
the timer was Mrs. Ted Grainge.
The program was opened by Mrs.
Grange.
The Kenai Peninsula in 1962
harvested crops from 1.590 acres
in comparison to the 1,139 acres
harvested in 1961.
SERVICES
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Sunday Services: Bible Study 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship 11 a.m.
Evening Worship 6:00 p.m. Congregational singing. Thursday
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE GROUP meets each Sunday at 11 a.m. in
building back of Vera’s Variety, Soldotna.
KENAI METHODIST CHURCH—Church School 9:30 a.m. and Wor
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3:30 p.m. John J. Shaffer, pastor.
CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH, SOLDOTNA 1- Sunday School 9:45
a.m., Worship Service 11 a.m., adult instruction class, 10 a.m.,
pastor’s office. Junior confirmation class 10 a.m. and Senior con
firmation class 9 a.m. Saturday. Bible study Thursday evening,
7:30 p.m. Rev. Richard J. Tuff, pastor.
FIRST SOUTHERN BAPTIST MISSION meet* each Sunday from
10 a.m. to 12 noon at Soldotna Community Bldg. Maurice Murdock,
interim pastor.
SOLDOTNA BAPTIST CHURCH, at the Y. Sunday School at 10 a.m.
Morning Worship 11 a.m.; Sunday evening service 7:30 p.m.
Rev. Paul Weimar, Pastor.
CATHOLIC CHURCH SUNDAY MASS SCHEDULES—8 a.m. and
9 a.m. at Our Lady of the Angels church, Kenai; 4 p.m. at Wild
wood Chapel, Wildwood Station.
KENAI BIBLE CHURCH—Sunday School at 9:45 a.m.; morning
worship 11:00 a.m.; Sunday evening 7:30. Prayer meeting 7:30
and Moody Bible Institute Correspondence Study Course 8:15 each
Wednesday. Kenai Youth Fellowship 7:30 p.m. each Friday. Pas
tor Fred S. Crosier.
CHURCH OF GOD (Pentecostal in Doctrine)—Located on Aspen Way
and Binkley Street, Soldotna. Sunday School 10" a,m,;.. Morning
Worship 11 a.m.; Evangelistic Service 7:30 p.m.; BiWe Study and
Prayer 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Millard L. CowdaU, Pastor, Box
514, Soldotna.
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What hath made Thee turn away from our desire and seek
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