HIGHLIGHTS OF 1962
(Continued from Pape 6)
Fort reconstruction plans grot
underway at Kenai with organiz
ation of a group to develop this
portion of the area’s colorful his
tory for Alaska Centennial pur
poses.
The Christ Lutheran Church of
Soldotna held its first worship
service in the new church struc
ture on Thanksgiving Day.
Member schools from Homer,
Kenai. Kodiak and Seward form
ed the new South Central Basket
ball Conference.
The National Honor Society es
tablished a chapter at Kenai High
School and nine students were in
ducted into membership.
Tragedy struck three times the
last week in November. A seven
year-old girl died from smoke in a
fire which broke out in the quar
ters of her parents, Sgt. and Mrs.
Robert C. Taylor, at Wildwood
Station. Two Homer brothers, Al
len and Robert Roehl. were killed
in a premature explosion of a
seismic charge which ripped the
stern out the Ketovia, a B4-foot
vessel, in Cook Inlet below Kal
gin Island. The boat was charter
ed to United Geophysical Corp.,
engaged in seismic oil explora
tion work in the Inlet. Ewing Lee
Smith, driller for Coastal Drilling
Co., was killed by a fouled line in
an oilfield accident on a drilling
rig at Ninilchik.
near rrageuy me same weeK
was the crash in which Alex Wil
son. rural mail carrier, ditched
his car near the Soldotna Drugs
to avoid a collision with another
car sliding on the icy highway. He
escaped with multiple lacerations
and bruises.
Also in November, the nation’s
last lamplighter. Raymond E.
Burton, of Cohoe, was retired and
with termination of his services
the Coast Guard replaced the oil
wicks of the range lamps mark
ing the entrance to the Kasilof
River with battery powered elec
tric lights.
DECEM BER
After the November general
election, a recount of votes in Dis
trict 10 for the seat to the Alaska
House of Representatives was
called at the request of Demo
crats after Republican Clem V.
Tillion defeated his Democratic
opponent Allan Petersen by IS
votes. The recount showed Tillion
leading by .12 votes.
The South Central Democratic
Committee blamed Petersen’s de
feat to the write-in campaign of
Frank Mullen. Soldotna, for the
same seat and requested his re
signation as Soldotna Precinct
chairman. Mullen previously had
been defeated by Petersen for the
Democratic nomination in the pri
mary election by a narrow mar
gin. The issue provoked contro
versy within the party with one
faction supporting Mullen in his
stand to remain as the precinct’s
elected chairman. A meeting call
ed to’oust Mullen was adjourned
after being declared out of order.
The year ended without the issue
being settled.
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On the oil front. Standard nam
ed W. W. Warren, originally from
Sapulpa, Okla., to he operations
foreman at the company's new re
finery under construction at Ni
kiski near Kenai. Standard-Rich
field's casing attempt at Anchor
Point Unit No. 1 well failed and
the well was ordered abandoned.
Standard, as operator for Rich
field Oil Corp., and itself, an
nounced completion of Swanson
River Unit Well 41A-15, which
brought the total for the Swanson
River Field to 52 wells completed
iri the Hemlock Zone.
The joint venture well of Stan
dard-Richfield-Shell Oil compan
ies in their Beluga River Unit on
the west side was announced as a
significant gas discovery with the
well flowing dry gas at the rate
of 4,300,000 cubic feet per day
through a one-fourth inch bean.
Kenai’s school program was up
graded and accreditation of the
high school provisionally assured
by the Northwest Association of
Secondary and Higher Schools.
The Seward firm of Brown and
Hawkins announced it would es
tablish a branch store in Soldotna
late in the spring of 1063.
Kenai Kardmals continued to
rank highest in conference play
by scooping up three wins from
the Kodiak Bears and by taking
both games from the Seward Sea
hawks.
The Holt Farm Road, north of
Kenai, was drained, ditched and
gravelled and school bus service
begun on Dec. 12. North Kenai
residents began a movement to
obtain similar improvements and
service from the state on Lamp
light Road.
Christmas Eve High Mass was
the first service held in our Lady
of Perpetual Help C a t h o lie
Church, which was in final con
struction stages in Soldotna.
Churches throughout the Penin
sula observed Christ’s birthday
with reverence and special pro
grams, with the Wildwood Junior
Choir and the Kenai Peninsula
Choral Society also making many
Yule appearances.
At Seward, the 40-man crew
of the Alaska Steamship Chena
played Santa Claus to orphans of
the Jesse Lee home, bringing a
real live Shetland pony in addi
tion to clothes, toys, fruit, candy
and nuts.
In Soldotna. Christmas Day was
marred by the stabbing of George
Arthur Wiggins, a Coastal Drill
ing Co. employee, by a 16-year
old girl during a family argu
ment.
Weatherwise, frigid cold grip
ped the Peninsula early in Decem
ber with temperatures plunging
to 22 below zero. This was fol
lowed by a warming trend and a
4-inc-h snow, then came a couple
of days of fogs and rains convert
ing the snow to ice on highways
and access roads. The year of
1962 ended on a cold, clear note
with most of the paved highways
clear of ice and thermometer
readings ranging from minus 10
to minus 20.
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CAFE HOURS—6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Every Day
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BILLY McCANN, WAYNE STERLING AND
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GENEVA ARMITAGE IN BARBER SHOP
BAR HOURS—8 a.m. to 2 a.m.
BAR, CAFE, LIQUOR STORE
AND BARBER SHOP
• Package Store
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• Meals
• Short Orders
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