Top Mushers Invited to Try for
Alaska State Championship Honors
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race, is being asked to perform a
similar service this year.
Tuesday, the planning group
meeting in the Colonial Room in
Soldotna, decided t at 60 per cent
nf all money collected will go for
prize money with cash awards to
go to first, second, third and
fourth place over-all winners of
the two-day events. Of the re
maining 40 per cent, which goes
to the committee for expenses,
trophies will he purchased and
each musher competing in the
race, who is not one of the four
winners, will be given $5.
An entry fee of $15 is to he
charged for each team participa
ting in the race. The fee also en
titles each entry to two tickets,
one each for the driver and the
handler, to the musher’s banquet
at Kenai Sunday night, March •!.
Trophies and prize money will be
awarded at that time.
In addition to the perpetual
trophy, inscribed last year with
the name of l’r. Roland Lombard
of Weyland, Mass., as first holder,
additional trophies will be pre
sented the four top mushers. The
perpetual trophy, presented by
Wright Truck and Tractor Co.,
Soldotna, will be retired after be
ing won by the same musher
three times.
Merchants and other business
firms are urged to get “Welcome
Mushers’’ signs made and to pre
pare in other ways to greet the
visitors. Invitational letters are
being mailed to all mushers parti
cipating last year, whose address
es may be obtained, and to' many
others.
It was reported Tuesday that
the Kenai-Soldotna race is al
ready being talked about favor
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ably among mushers at Anchor
age. Since the twin-city event fol
lows shortly after the Fur Ren
dezvous at Anchorage and pre
ceevis the North American Cham
pionship Dog Races at Fairbanks,
it is expected that many of the
same teams participating there
will also try for the prize money
in the Peninsula race.
Benefit Show Planned
Bill Cardwell of the Soldotna
Theatre plans to donate the en
tire proceeds of one night's show
to the purse. The exact date of
the show and the special film for
that occasion will be announced
soon.
A man-on-th e-streets sweep
stakes to be held in connection
with the races is expected be an
added drawing card. No musher
entered in the races will be allow
ed to buy a sweepstakes ticket.
The course upon which the
races will be run is unique in that
it lies along the highway and
viewers may remain in their cars.
Saturday's race on March 2 will
originate in Kenai and end in
Soldotna. The Sunday race will
begin in Soldotna and terminate
in Kenai. Complete radio coverage
by KEN I will be maintained with
two remote control units.
The Kenai Tourist Center will
remain open both days with heat
available for those who may be
come chilled. Hot dogs, chili and
coffee will be available at a con
cession stand on the Kenai end as
a benefit to the Kenai Communi
ty Clinic building fund. The Ki
wanis Club and the Soldotna Vol
unteer Fire Department are ex
pected to operate food concession
booths at the Soldotna terminus.
Although no definite committ
ment has been made, it is possible
that a kart race during the same
weekend may be an added attrac
tion under sponsorship of the Sol
dotna Kart Club.
The next meeting of the dog
race committee will be at Noon
Tuesday at the Kenai Bowl.
PLENTY OF COFFEE NOW
KENAI — Ladies of the Elks
have purchased a coffee urn and
presented it to the Ivenai Bill’s
Club. Plans are in the making for
the ladies to take their husbands
out for dinner soon in the Trophy
Room at the Kenai Bowl. The next
meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m.
on Feb. 18 in the Elks Club
Building.
BARROW PLAN APPROVED
The Area Redevelopment Ad
ministration in Washington, D. C.,
has approved the overall economic
development plan for Alaska
Election District No. 17. the Bar
row area, making organizations
and individuals in the district el
igible to apply for assistance un
der the area redevelopment act.
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Kenai-Soldotna
Dimes Drive
Totals $1,2(58
Residents of the Kenai and Sol
dotna area contributed over
$1,268 to the March of Dimes, ac
cording' to an announcement made
this week following a final tabu
lation. The money raised in indi
vidual drives in the separate areas
is being turned in to the state or
ganization as a joint collection.
Spearheading the drive in Sol
dtttna and Ridgeway were Mrs.
Richard Douville and Mrs. .John
Wood, co-chairmen. Mrs. John
Shaffer and Mrs. H. S. Jones co
operated in heading the drive in
Kenai and North Kenai. The cam
paign officially ended on Jan. 21.
Total collections in the Soldot
na-Ridgeway area amounted to
$663.27. Of this amount $160.26
was raised in the benefit dance
held at the Soldotna Elks Club,
$73 in a high series bowling tour
nament at the Sky Bowl, $114.'!'!
in the Mothers March in which 12
women participated, $112.81 from
requests mailed out by the co
chairmen, $74.29 from collections
by school children and $109.47
from coin containers placed in
business establishments.
The Kenai-North Kenai total
was $615 of which $439 was col
lected by the 37 women partici
pating in the Mothers March con
ducted on the final day of the
drive. Benefit bowling at the Ke
nai Bowl netted an additional
$ 12.65, the Kenai Elks Club bene
fit bingo game another $32, the
Women’s Society of Christion Ser
vice of the Kenai Methodist
Church contributed $15 and school
children collected $21. Approxi
mately $70 was from the coin can
nisters.
Nazarenes Begin
Soldotna Services
Thi past Sunday, Feb. 10, the
Church of the Nazarene at Sol
dotna began holding services in
the basement of the church con
structed near the “Y” junction of
the Sterling Highway on property
recently purchased from Leroy
Knab.
Half of the large basement has
been finished to function as a
temporary chapel pending com
pletion of the upper structure.
The other half is devoted to Sun
day school rooms.
Proclaiming scriptural holiness
in accord with the Wesleyan in
terpretation, the Church of the
Nazarene operates in 43 world
areas with a total membership
of about 400,000.
Recently released statistics in
dicate the membership gain for
1962 to be in excess of 8,000 and
total funds raised during this
period to have been $49,504,444,
an increase of about 2V2 million
dollars over the previous year.
This brings the per capita giving
of the church to a new high of
$147.78.
The pastor of the local church
is the Rev. John L. Vaughn. Rev.
and Mrs. Vaughn; Mrs. Vaughn’s
mother, Mrs. Alice Banker, and
Mrs. Vaughn’s sister, Mrs. Ethel
McKinney, reside in a trailer
house located on the church pro
perty.
Mail Stepped Up
In Uiamna Area
Six Alaska communities across
Cook Inlet will receive increased
mail service jn the area of Uiam
na with the new stepped up _star
route service being put into ef
fect twice each week. The Post
Office Department says the trips
are to be operated on Tuesday and
Friday upon receipt of mail from
Anchorage.
The contractor has tentative!'7
agreed to provide an additional
trip each week at less than pro
rata. As soon as the formal agree
ment is completed by the contrac
tor and his sureties, service will
be increased to twice a week to
the communities of Port Als
worth, Nondalton, Pedro Bay"
an°y Landing and Kokhan
ok v lllage.
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★ Coming Events ★
Friday, Feb. 15
Soldotna Elks Club, regular
meeting, in Elks Club Bldg., 8 p.
m.
Saturday, Feb. 1<>
Soldotna Chamber of ( om*
nieree, Parkers in Ridgeway, 1
Noon.
Monday, Feb. IS
Central Kenai Peninsula Dem
ocratic Club, in North Kenai Com
munity Hall, 8 p.m.
Registration begins for adult
education classes, at Kenai High
School, 7-!* p.m.
Kenai Planning Commission,
City Administration Bldg., 5:30
p.m.
TO SOI TH l> AKOT.V
SOLDOTNA — Mrs. Don Mad
den left today to spend two weeks
in Aberdeen, S. Dak., where she
was called due to illness in the
family. Mrs. Madden’s parents,
and her hi other and sister, noth
married, live in Aberdeen.
Tuesday, Feb. 19
Kiwanis Club breakfast meet
ing, Parkers in Ridgeway, 7 a.n,
Registration continues for adult
education classes, at Kenai High
School, 7-9 p.m.
I>og Race Committee meeting
at Kenai Bowl, 12 Noon.
Wednesday, Feb. 20
Sterling Homemakers, three
movies on food buying, patterns,
and seeds, at Community log
in, 7:30 p.m.
Kenai Chamber of Commerce
Jet Cafe, 12 Noon.
Kenai City Council, City Ad
ministration Bldg., 8 p.m.
Open House at North Kenai
School, 7-9 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 21
Kenai Masonic Club, regular
meeting, in Kenai Community Li
brary, 8 p.m.
Soldotna Planning Commission,
Community Hall, 7 p.m.
Soldotna City Council, Com
munity Hall, 8 p.m.
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