TOTEM DOS IN DIOS H AIDA. SAX.MAN, ESTADO l»E ALAS
KA. means the same in any language, but Maria Garcia, a Juneau
Secretary of Spanish and Mexican descent, needed a dictionary
to translate it from the Portugese. These “Discover a New World"
posters, promoting Alaska tourism, are being distributed to free
world countries in 17 languages. The newly established United
States Travel Service has prepared the posters as part of a cam
paign that includes advertising in 54 Kuorpean publications. The
Department of Economic Development and Planning and the Alas
ka Travel Division are working closely with the U.S.T.S. on the
Vlaska phase of its campaign. In addition to the posters and ad
vertising space. Alaska material is prominent in tourist pro
motion folders available in l .S.T.S. ( enters in principal foreign
cities.— (Alaska Travel Division photo)
State Solons
Asked to Revise
Election Code
A bill proposing; revisions in
the Alaska Election Code has
been submitted to the Alaska
Legislature by Gov. William A.
Egan.
Among suggested changes are
provisions which would:
Authorize the chairman of a
precinct election board to hire ad
ditional counters as a means of
alleviating the fatigue problem
during the precinct canvass of
ballots.
Provide that erasures and cor
rections do not invalidate the en
tire ballot, but only invalidate
those sections in which the era
sures or corrections appear.
Authorize the use of stickers
when write-in votes are other
wise permitted.
Permit the district canvass of
votes to be commenced after
eight >days, rather than present
10 days.
Permit candidates, political par
ties or organized groups to pro
vide at their own expense no more
than two observers to witness
any recount.
Increase the minimum charge
for .a recount if the actual re
count exceeds the minimum
charge based on a formula of
•'12 cents for each ballot counted,
plus V2 cent per ballot counted
for each candidate challenged.
Allow a local candidate to file
with the Secretary 0f State in ad
dition to permitting him to file
through the clerk of the Super
ior Court in a major senate dis
trict in which the candidate re
sides.
Require a filing fee for judge
ships of the Superior Court and
Supreme Court.
PASTOR RETURNS
S0I.DOTNA — Rev. Paul A.
Weimer, pastor of the Soldotna
Baptist Church, Mrs. Weimer and
children have returned after hav
ing spent seven months at their
former home in Pennslyvania.
While Otftside, the pastor traveled
the east coast and the midwest
states engaged in many speaking
engagements.
Garden Club
Holds Meeting
A talk on the making- of casto
lite jewelry, using- native Alaskan
flowers, was given by -Mrs. Phil
Ames at the March G meeting of
the Kenai Garden Club. Mrs.
Ames showed her display, one
item of which received an award
in the recent Kenai Peninsula
Arts and Crafts Show.
Also present at the meeting
held in the home of Mrs. Joan
Warren, Homesite Loop Road,
was hid I.iebenthal, district agent
of the Homer office of the Agri
cultural Extension Service, who
gave a detailed talk on soils in
Alaska.
Several publications available
from the Extension Service were
distributed to club members and
included those on house plants,
1 lowers and gardening as well as
the soil survey booklet of the Ke
nai-Kasilof area. Also distributed
were containers for soil samples
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Winter FaiSs
To Retard
Construction
Construction activity for the
city of Kenai and immediate Ke
nai area reportedly is continuing
despite winter weather conditions.
Of the 172 lots in Mommsen
Additions No. 1 and No. 2. 1*5
have been sold. One water well
lias been completed and another
is to be drilled immediately. Suf
ficient. water mains and fire hy
drants will be installed to service
each lot. Clearing has already
started for a 14-unit apartment
building, with two bedrooms in
each unit, which will represent
an investment of some $182,000.
.Jack Thompson is presently
completing a three-bedroom house
on Birch Drive also a four-plex
apartment building near Superior
Building Supply. Three of these
apartments will contain two bed
rooms. The other is a one-bed
room unit.
Ira English is completing a
four-plex, with two two-bedroom
•units and two one-bedroom apart
ments in the Bush Lanes subdivi
sion. He also plans to complete
his trailer park on the Wildwood
Station road in early spring.
Also nearing completion is a
■40’ x 00' three bedroom house
with attached garage being erect
ed in Thompson Park Subdivision
by the Kenai Construction Co.
Work at the Standard Oil re
finery north of Kenai is also re
ported in full swing again by the
Parsons Construction Co. with
practically all men employed last
year back on the job and several
new ones added.
Former Ranger
At Seward Dies
SEW ARI) — Robert B. Porter
field, forester in the regional of
fice of the Forest Service in Jun
eau, died in a Seattle hospital
March 4. Porterfield formerly
was a ranger at Seward.
Porterfield began his career
with the Forest Service in 1951 on
the Kanisku Natural Forest in
Idaho, transferred to Alaska in
1954 and served as assistant
ranger at Ketchikan prior to his
service at Seward. For the past
year and one-half he had been in
the regional office at Juneau. He
is survived by his wife. Barbara,
and three children at their home
in Mendelhaven.
to be sent to the Agricultural Ex
periment Station at Pajmer for
the determining of soil types and
fertilizer requirements.
The next meeting of the club
will be on April 3 at 7:30 p.m.
in the home of Mrs. O. Kooly in
Kenai.
Ask State Solons
To Aid Projects
On Peninsula
Four Kenai Peninsula projects
and one at Girdwood, located at
the gateway to the Peninsula,
are among the 16 projects in the
Southcentral Alaska District for
which the Alaska Legislature is
asked to provide funds.
These are in addition to the ex
tent in which the district will
share in a $43,392,800 highway
construction program and in ex
penditures from other lump sum
requests for which no breakdown
was immediately available.
The Peninsula projects include
$50,000 to Seldovia to complete
harbor facilities; $5,000 to Ho
mer for dock improvements to
permit docking of State ferry and
to improve commercial docking
facilities; $37,875 also to Homer
for apron expansion, relocation of
taxiway extensions and other im
provements at Homer airport, to
be supplemented with $53,125 in
Federal funds, and $93,700 to
Seward, to be supplemented by
$156,300 in Federal funds, to ex
tend airport landing strip and to
relocate road.
The request for Girdwood is for
$179,000 to provide adequate
housing- for three Department of
Highways employees at a main
tenance camp.
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Phone 283-7591
Oberts Bldg.
Kenai, Alaska
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