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Borough Group Okays Mandatory
Incorporation After Talk With Cease
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state, to devote the remaining
time prior to borough election
upon many vital problems con
fronting the people. He suggested
that an endeavor be made to de
velop a consensus on the Penin
sula as to classfiication—whether
the borough shall be one of the
first class or the second class—
one of the questions to be voted
on by the people at an election to
be called by the Secretary of
State piior to Dec. 15.
An option as to where the bor
ough seat is to be located is to
be considered. A careful study
should be devoted to securing
trustworthy and capable members
for the Borough Assembly and
for the school board, he warned.
He added that the job of being
borough superintendent of schools
will be a terrific responsibility
and not one to be bestowed lightly
upon anyone.
Cease also said much study
should be made as to whether the
borough shall have a borough
chairman from the assembly or
shall hire a borough manager.
Finances — how to secure funds
to support and keep up the work
of the borough will be another
■major problem to be considered.
To Get Grant
Although the borough will re
ceive an organizational grant of
$25,000 from the state for the
purpose of defraying cost of tran
sition to borough government,
Cease warned that the borough
itself will have the responsibility
of raising much additional opera
tional revenue. However, it will be
aided by refunds from many of
the state’s licenses and taxes,
such as the raw fish tax, business
license tax and others.
First and second class boroughs
will both exercise powers on an
area-wide basis, both within and
outside cities of any class within
its boundaries, in establishing,
maintaining and operating a sys
tem of public schools on an area
wide basis—with all school board
members to be elected at large,
Cease explained. First and second
class boroughs will also have the
responsibility of planning, plat
ting and zoning on an area-wide
basis and will assess and collect
all property taxes levied within
their boundaries. Additional area
wide powers of the second class
powqr may be obtained by filing
a petition with the Local Affairs
Agency.
Immunization
Clinics Set
The May schedule of the Kenai
itinerant nurse, Miss Jeannine
Lyerly, has been announced. Im
munization clinics in the various
communities covered by the pub
lic health nurse will be on the fol
lowing dates:
Clam Gulch, Cohoe and Kasilof,
at Tustumena School — Monday,
May 13, noon to 1 p.m.
Cooper Landing — Tuesday,
May 28, 1-2 p.m. at post office.
Kenai Health Center ,— Wed
nesdays, May 15 and May 22, 1-4
p.m.
North Kenai School — Tuesday,
May 14, 1-2 p.m.
Ninilchik — Friday, May 17,
ll a.m.-12 noon at school.
Sterling — Thursday, May 16,
non to 1 p.m. at school.
Oral polio type 1 make-up, May
27, 1-7 p.m. at Kenai Health Cen
ter.
The essential difference in pow
ers between the first and second
class boroughs. Cease explained,
is that the first class borough
may exercise any power granted
a first class city by general law
in the area outside any city in
the borough.
Cease added that the Bristol
Bay area, which incorporated as
a second class borough, is already
dissatisfied with its status and
powers and is considering peti
tion to change to first class.
Cease also remarked that it
would not be surpising if some
towns such as Homer and Soldot
na might find it advisable to con
sider incorporating as first class
cities in order to be assured of
representation on the borough as
sembly by a member of the City
Council from their respective
towns.
As matters now stand, the bor
ough if it includes all of Election
Districts 9 and 10, will elect seven
assemblymen. The three first
class cities in the Peninsula —
Seward, Seldovia and Kenai .—
will supply one council member
each to the assembly. The other
four assemblymen will represent
the remaining area on the Penin
sula.
Discuss Taxes
T'kni'o iifnc
Sunday regarding the raw fish
tax collected by the state and
the provision voted by the last
Legislature concerning the 20
per cent to which the borough
will be eligible or the 10 per cent
to be returned to the city within
which limits the cannery paying
the tax is located.
The 3.5 mill levy on real and
property tax under the school
foundation program also brought
about discussion. Cease said an
assessor’s manual is being pre
pared and the state assessor will
work with the borough assessor
in adjusting the 3.5 mill levy on
real and personal property at 100
per cent value. He added, how
ever, that this will not be borne
wholly by the property owner as
part of this revenue would be
derived from raw fish taxes and
other revenue and the balance
would be made up from the tax
on real estate and property.
Responsibility for school oper
ation will be continued by the
state until July 1, 1965, Cease
told the group. The borough need
not worry unduly as to roads or
highways for the next year or
two as they also will continue to
be a responsibility of the state_
unless the borough requests and
is granted such responsibility.
Another Meeting Set
A motion for the representative
group attending Sunday’s meet
ing to express itself as approv
ing or rejecting that the borough
be incorporated as a first class
borough was tabled for consider
ation at next meeting. This vote
would carry no weight as to the
decision but would merely mani
fest the trend of thought con
cerning the matter. Actual de
cision will be made by voters in
the borough election to be called
a few months from now.
Cease, in concluding the ques
tion and answer period following
his talk, remarked that the area
wdl “have a lot of fun for years
to come” in working out the bor
ough situation.
The next meeting of the bor
ough study group will be at 1 p.
m. on Sunday, May 26, at Soldot
na School.
Remember
These Events
taking, place in the*. Kenai Penin
sula about this same time of the
year one, two and three years
ago, as recorded in the files of
the Cheechako News.
May 6. I960
Kenai is preparing to vote on
May 10 for incorporation as a city
of the first class.
A moose-motorcycle collision
near Cooper Landing proved fatal
to an area musician, George Per
kins, last Saturday night.
The Toastmistress Club is still
singing up charter members.
April 28, 1961
Bids for equipment to build the
Funny River bridge are being
asked by the Highway Depart
ment.
Soldotna’s second city election
has been set for May 9 with coun
cil members to be chosen.
James E. Fisher, Anchorage at
torney who has been practicing
part time in Kenai since last win
ter, will move his office to Kenai
in May.
May 4, 1962
J. B. Warrack Co., Seattle en
tered the apparent low bid of
$332,000 for construction of the
North Kenai Elementary School
at Nikishka Bay.
Standard Oil Co. has announc
ed that D. D. Drowley of Califor
nia is to be general manager of
the company’s Alaskan refinery
to be built north of Kenai on
Cook Inlet.
Sterling School retired the Enid
McLane trophy for the third
straight win in the Kenai Penin
sula Championship Ping Pong
Tournament.
The Kenai Peninsula Fisher
men’s Cooperative Assoc, has pro
tested the jumping of beach loca
tions and has elected Bud Keener,
Clam Gulch, as president.
The Copper Delta Mortuary of
Cordova and Valdez says a simi
lar facility is to be established in
Soldotna with John R. Bacack as
manager.
appenmgs were
social security
Answers Queries
Question: I am 65, but I have
been turned down by Social Secur
ity because I did not have enough
credit for work covered by Social
Security. Can I still earn this
credit and become entitled to ben
efits at a later time?
Answer: Yes, you can earn So
cial Security credit by continu
ing to work. When you have
enough Social Security credit, you
should apply again. A man who
reached 65 in 1962, needs credit
for 2% years of work under So
cial Security.
Question: Does a person have
to stop working in order to get
Social Security chocks?
Answer: Not necessarily. If
he earns $1,200 or less in a year,
he is considered to be completely
retired and can collect all of his
Social Security benefits. Many
workers who earn over $1200 a
months. For every two dollars
earned between $1200 and $1700
one dollar is withheld from the to
tal yearly benefits. A beneficiary
gives up a dollar in benefits for
«inn li°lla'i- °f earnin£s above
S100. Beneficiaries 72 and older
can receive benefits every month
regardless of earnings.
MasonsloConfer
year can get benefits for some
Security Administration,
1331, Juneau, Alaska.
Soldotna.
on the Kenai Peninsula
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CHEECHAKO NEWS—262-4420
KENAI ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH—Sunday School at 10 a.ra.
Morning worship 11 a.m. Evening worship 7:30 p.m. Mid-week
services Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Pastor Mrs. Carl S. Click.
EAST KENAI CHURCH OF CHRIST meets at Mile 105, Kenai Spur.
Sunday Services: Bible Study 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship 11 a.^
Evening Worship 6:00 p.m. Congregational singing. Thursday
Bible Study 7:30 p.m. Billy Joe Mize—Evangelist.
DOWNTOWN CHURCH OF CHRIST (1 block from KenaTFhTlflliij
Bible School - 9:45 a.m., Worship - 11:00 a.m., Evening 7:00 p,m.
Midweek (Wednesday) - 7:00 p.m. Carl Zehrung, Minister.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE GROUP meets each Sunday at IjTT^Tin
building back of Vera’s Variety, Soldotna.
SOLDOTNA CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE — Sunday School at
10 a.m.; Morning Worship 11 a.m.; Evengelistic Service 7:30 p.m.
each Sunday. Prayer Meeting, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
KENAI METHODIST CHURCH—Church School 9:30 a.m. and Wwv
ship Service 10:45 a.m. Methodist Youth Fellowship Tuesday at
3:30 p.m. John J. Shaffer, pastor.
FIRST SOUTHERN BAPTIST MISSION meets each Sunday from
10 a.m. to 12 noon at Slikok Valley Community Club on Kali
fonsky Beach Road. Sunday evening services 7 p.m. Bible study,
Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. Maurice Murdock, interim pastor.
SOLDOTNA BAPTIST CHURCH at the Y—Sunday School at 10 a.m.;
Morning Worship 11 a.m.; Sunday evenings the youth groups meet
at 6:30 and Evangelistic Service starts at 7:30 p.m.; Youth Choi**
practices Tuesday 4 p.m.; Prayer hour and Bible study Tuesday
7:30 p.m. Paul A. Weimer, pastor.
CATHOLIC CHURCH SUNDAY MASS SCHEDULES—9 a.m. at Our
Lady of the Angels Church, Kenai; 11 a.m. at Soldotna; 4 p.m. at
Wildwood 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. Crozier.
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,; Bible Study and
Prayer 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Millard L. Cowdell, Pastor, Box
514, Soldotna.
FAITH BIBLE CHURCH — Now meets at Solid Rock Bible Camp
Lodge. Sunday School 10 a.m.; Morning Worship 11 a.m.; Junior
and Senior Youth Rally 6 p.m. Special speaker every Sunday.
Evangelistic Services at 7:30 p.m.
CHRIST LUTHERAjTCHURChTsOLDOTNA — Sunday School 9-45
a.m., Worship Service 11 a.m., Evening Instruction Classes 7:30
p.m. Pastor’s Class, 8:30 p.m., Holy Spirit Class; Senior Confirma
tion class 5 p.m. Wednesday; Junior Choir Practice 4:15 p.m. and
Junior confirmation following on Thursdays. Richard J. Tuff,
pastor. Phone 262-4757.
FAITH CHAPEL, NORTH KENAI—Sunday School, 10:00 a.m.; morn
ing Worship, 11:00 a.m.; Evening Services, 6:30 p.m.; Wednes
day Evening Services, 6:30 p.m. L. A. Hutchings, Pastor.
BEACON BAPTIST CHURCH—Located on Linwood Lane, Kenai,
near proposed site of new high school. Sunday School 10 a.m.;
Morning Worship 11 a.m.; Evening Worship 6:30 p.m.; Midweek
Services each Wednesday 7 p.m. Harold R. Lewis, Pastor.
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