Sports Review
Sports Awards Presented
In Special KCHS Program
by Michaelene S. Pendleton
At the seventh period on Fri
day, March 29, a Sports Award
Presentation was given at Kenai
Central High School. At this pro
gram, boys — a few girls — who
had distinguished themselves in
various sports were awarded ac
cordingly.
Lorrie Lancashire, A d r i ane
Brown, Carla Seaman, Susy Erl
wein and Cinda Griffin were pre
sented with letters for a season
of unstinting effort as cheerlead
ers.
Boys receiving letters in cross
country track were Robbie Walk
er, Mike Tauriainen, Thor Even
son, Jack Porter and Jim Lind
gren.
In basketball, some boys re
ceived letters and others received
a stripe to add to their letters.
These boys were Mike Tauriainen,
Larry Jordan, Thor Evenson,
Gary Davis, Gary Martin and
Johnny Monfor. Jim Youngblood
and Ernie Fletcher, managers, al
so received letters.
Members of the wrestling team
who received letters were: J. C.
Vollentine, Bob Lite, Dave Gag
non, Larry Jordan, Jerry Harvey,
Band<Chorus
Concert Set
For Thursday
The first spring concert in the
history of Kenai Central High
School for both the band and the
chorus is scheduled for 8 p.m.,
Thursday (April 11) in the high
school gymnasium.
Funds received from the con
cert will be used to send the band
and chorus to the State Music
Festival in Anchorage on April
25-26-27. Admission charges for
the concert will be $1 for adults
and 50c for children in grades 1-6.
Among the band numbers on
the program will be “Swan Lake’’
and music from “Orpheus” known
to many as “can-can” music. Two
of the featured selections by the
chorus will be “Ave Verum Cor
pus” by Mozart and “Lord Hear
Our Prayer” by Verde.
Highlighting the program will
be a patriotic medley, “Fresco of
Freedom” in which the band and
chorus will both participate. The
narration for this will be read by
Jim Hayes.
The 50-member chorus will be
directed by Jessie (Mrs. Al) Mun
son. Dan Ballard will direct the
23-piece band.
This first spring concert is
hoped by music students and di
rectors alike to be a forerunner
of an annual event.
Correction!
Correction is being made by the
Cheechako News for errors a -
pearing in names in two separate
news items last week.
In the front page news story re -
garding- the drowning of a North
Kenai couple in Seldovia Bay,
where they had gone clam dig
ging, the first name of Mrs. Bas
tien, one of the victims, should
have read Nadine instead of the
way it was given to the reporter.
The other error was in the
wedding story on page 3. Mrs.
Wesley Warren says “Thanks for
listing me as the vocalist at the
Gillespie-Ivanoff wedding — but
really I did not sing.” She men
tioned that she was flattered by
the honor the paper had given
her but felt the real vocalist
should get the credit. It was Joan
(Mrs. John) Warren who sang
“Because.”
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for result*.
Daryl Leach, Gary Bonin anti
Denny Van Sky.
J. C. Vollentine as team cap
tain presented to the student
body, through Larry Jordan as
Student Council president, the
second place trophy the Mat
Maulers won at the State Tour
nament in Anchorage.
The most rewarding part of
the program for participants and
spectators alike was the expres
sion on Coach Jerry Near’s face
when he was presented a trophy
by Gary Bonin on behalf of the
wrestling team for his never-end
ing cheerful efforts to make a
successful group of mat men out
of green kids.
The students of KCHS salute
Jerry Near!
Kenai School
Lunch Menus
Monday, April 8
Barbecued pork on buns, butter
ed lima beans, cabbage and pine
apple salad, fruit Jello, milk.
Tuesday, April 9
Spaghetti with meat sauce, but
tered mixed vegetables, peach
slices, hot buttered buns, milk.
Wednesday, April 10
Wieners and buns, relish, mus
tard, buttered corn, pear halves
and milk.
Thursday, April 11
Fried chicken, mashed potatoes
with gravy, buttered peas, apri
cots, hot cross buns, milk.
Friday, April 12
Clam chowder, buttered green
beans, cheese wedges, crackers,
cake and milk.
State’s Biggest Guessing Game
Has Intrigued Alaskans Since 1917
There’s a special fraternity in
Alaska—those who have won the
Nenana Ice Pool—and application
for memberships are again on
the auction block.
Deadline for obtaining tickets
oil this annual event is at mid
night sharp. Saturday, April (».
And according to latest reports
from the manager of the event,
there is still 50 inches of ice un
der the tripod!
Winnings in excess of one mil
lion dollars have been paid since
the well-known classic first start
ed in 1917. That pot, put together
by men building the Alaska Rail
road, was for $590.
As the big guessing game,
which calls for naming the day,
hour and minute that the spring
ice goes out in the Tanana River,
grew and engulfed the entire ter
ritory and part of Canada, so did
the jackpot swell. Sometimes, a
number of winners are on the
button and the monies are shar
ed.
But there have been big win
ners too. Mervin Anderson, for
instance, held the only ticket a
few years back. It tinkled the
cash register to the tune of $102,
000 for the Fairbanks bus driver.
Anderson’s feat was duplicated in
1952 when Charles R. Montjoy, of
Juneau, tapped the pool for a
like amount. Uncle Sam clipped
off $09,000 as a “fair share,” but
Montjoy was happy nonetheless.
Even the losers sang praises
last year as Bill Otcheck, a Wa
silla homesteader, and his mother,
Mrs. Rachael Zuidhof, pocketed
$42,000, one half of the winnings.
Otcheck, as it turned out, was a
disabled homesteader with eight
children. His wife was in Iowa
undergoing treatment for a curva
ture of the spine.
Mrs. Zuidhof, a resident of the
Pioneer’s Home, picked the win
ning time from 20 tickets she
marked.
Otehek was disabled in 1952
while employed by the Alaska
Railroad. Much of the farm work
fell on the shoulders of his eldest
son, a boy 13 years of age, while
a daughter, 15, helped watch out
for the children.
Jubilance was the keyword at
the Otchek quonset hut on that
bright spring day in May.
Oscar Xeilsen, an Anchorage
Pioneer, hit the bonanza on two
occasions. In 1932 he won $16,000
and a little more than $3,000 in
I9fi8. The winnings brought him
an extra bonus. While on a visit to
Copenhagen, financed by the win
nings. he met the woman who be
came his wife.
Another oldtimer, J. H. Jasper,
a prospector from Iditarod days,
hit the ice bounty once too. He
sent seven dollars north to friends
and asked, “put this money qh
the ice pool so I can come back to
Alaska one more time.”
Despite the good news of his
luck, Jasper was singled out by
death for another journey. His
dream never came to pass.
Since 1955 the Nenana Ice Clas
sic committee has handed out
checks totalling $771,499—more
than three quarters of one mil
lion dollars! The winnings in re
cent years goes like this: 1955,
$104,500; 195(5, $10(5,000; 1957,
$113,500; 1958, $104,500; 1959,
$93,000; I960, $80,000; 1961, $75,
999 and in 1962, $84,000.
Way up north the pot of gold
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THE HILLTOP BAR
Where Friends Meet
IS NOW REOPENED
FROM 8 TO 2 DAILY
• • •
Less than i Mile East of Soldotna “Y”
GETS SB A LOAN
SOLDOTNA — Small Business
Administration loans totalling
$407,000 were made in Alaska in
February in participation with
Alaska banks, according1 to an SB
A release this week. Included ir.
the six businesses receiving this
assistance was the Soldotna Sup
ply, Inc., Soldotna, retail build
ing supplies, $32,000.
Peninsula Road
Projects Okeyed
Several highway projects on the
Kenai Peninsula are among the
21 on which the Department of
Highways has received final ap
proval from the U. S. Bureau of
Public Roads to proceed with in
itiation of preliminary engineer
ing for fiscal year 1963-64.
Public Roads approved $1,588,
000 to carry out this work, accord
ing to Commissioner D. A. Mc
Kinnon. Only one project request
ed by the state was withheld. This
was a Sitka urban job upon which
approval is pending.
Primary projects approved fo?
preliminary engineering on the
Kenai Peninsula are Homer Spit,
the Kenai and Kasilof River
bridges, and Schooner’s Bend
bridge, all on the Sterling High
way.
isn’t at the end of the rainbow—•
it's at the junction of the Tanana
and Nenana Rivers.
exusmam.
The old Louisiana Col. Carl Seaman, an authority on the matter says “The av
erage person spends at least one third of their life in bed.” Therefore says
Col. Carl “It behooves a person to equip their bedroom for sleeping, etc., with
quality bedroom suites that will give satisfaction, comfort, and service for
that most important part of their life”
See the Suite above and others at . .
SEAMAN’S FURNITURE IN KENAI
“Where they’ve got everything fine in the furniture line.”
J