peninsula Skiers to Help
Direct fclount Alyeska’s
Alpine Championship Races
Some of the top skiers from
the Kenai Peninsula will be a
Alaskans holding respons
i)!e positions on the Nationals
ict committee for the 1963 U. S.
National Alpine Championships
ami Olympic Tryouts to be stag
ed at Mount Alyeska on April 4,
a anil 6. This will be the first na
tional sports contest ever staged
in Alaska.
Don Flynn of Homer’s Kaehe
inak Ski Club will be one of the
uo men serving as chiefs of the
nurse. Jake McLay, also of Ka
hemak Ski Club, will be one of
’he three chief gatekeepers and
bat McElroy of Kasilof will serve
as chief steward or chief of po
liee. Many other Peninsula skiers
will participate or be interested
spectators in this three-day event
which is bringing fame to the
state.
1 he Chugach Ski Club and Rac
g Assoc, of Anchorage is offi
i ponsor of the Alpine Nation
i ut the key man behind the
ii 2 Alyeska venture is Fran
s le Gunzburg, 35-year-old oil
ni any president, who has
n. formed a vague dream into
b y in four short years.
Skiers’ white gold — powder
•u for which 3939-foot Mount
veika is gaining fame .— was
covered in the old gold camp
Girdwood by de Gunzburg
ei he was in Alaska searching
Mack gold. It was as presi
lt of the Owahah Oil Corp.,
hie i he founded in 1952, that
ci.me to Alaska.
\ ski enthusiast since he learn
oi French slopes at the age of
*> the son of a prominent
n 'h banking family was soon
1 on Alyeska’s potential and
urn sold a group of American
(■ tors on the idea of joining
i to make it a major resort,
be Gunzburg, or “Frenchy” as
is known to Alaskans, took
or as president of the Alyeska
■ i Corp. in 1959. More than a
f million dollars has been ex
ided since then to develop a
t-class ski area. Jim Branch,
mer Dartmouth skier has been
inger since 1959.
May 1961, de Gunzburg con
'd the United States Ski As
ution, that the 1963 National
;ne Ski Championships should
taped at Alyeska — then vir
y unknown to American ski
ninsula Author
ises New Book
s Salmon Fishing
sa Pedersen, Kenai Peninsula
or. will soon be autographing
fifth book, “Cook Inlet De
n.” This is a book about sal
fishing in Alaskan waters
s expected to prove especial
deresting to those familiar
fishing with drift gear in
> uok Inlet. It is being published
by Athenium Company in New
York and was due off the presses
rch 22.
honor Mrs. Pedersen, the
k Library is planning an
iaph party for tier soon.
Airs. Pedersen is a Seldovia
vannery bookkeeper during the
sun nier months and spends the
wi rs writing books for young
p< ole. She was secretary to a
former city manager a few years
ago while her husband, Ted, was
mate on the M/V Expansion and
nn -0 recently has been filling in
a- -eeretary in an insurance of
at Seward.
. iie Pedersens returned to their
homestead at Bear Cove, at the
head of Kachemak Bay, about
then years ago and Ted is now a
commercial fisherman.
Books by the Peninsula author
have the region she knows so well,
th, Kachemak Bay area, as their
ground and interlaced with
ry of that portion of Alaska
anted in fiction form that has
ed to be of interest not only
oung adults but to their el
as well. “Victory at Bear
•” was the title of her first
(V.
ers. In beating down bids from
the nation's most famed ski re
sorts, the “king of the hill”
brought Alaska its first national
sporting event.
Stalled as a stunt several years
ago. Fourth of July races on Aly
eska’s glaciers have become an
annual mid-summer event. De
Gunzburg is banking on the up
coming Nationals next week to
prove to American skiers that
Alyeska’s slopes offer unbeat
able snow and unusually long
seasons.
Jet aircraft put Alyeska with
in a few hours’ reach of Ameri
ca’s population centers. To prove
his claim, “Frenchy” pointed out
that ski teams representing many
major European airlines flew over
the North Pole for a weekend of
friendly competition during the
International Airlines Ski Festi
val at Alyeska in mid-iMarch.
Prominent members of the
United States Ski Assoc., the Pa
cific Northwest Ski Assoc, and
the Olympic Committee will be
on l>and to help in officiating at
next weekend’s racing but the
backbone of the entire organiza
tion is made up of Alaskans.
Russell Read, district account
ant for Union Oil's Alaska opera
tions, is chief of race for the Chu
gach Ski Club and Racing Assoc.,
official sponsors.
“One reason we have gone all
out to develop a race worthy of
champions is the committee’s firm
conviction that winners at Alyes
ka will be the top comnetitors at
alpine events in the 1964 Olym
pics at Innsbruck. We’d like to
think the American winning
streak really got started with the
first championship meet to be
held in Alaska,” Read said.
Peninsula Cities
Seek Airnort Aid
Two airport projects on the Ke
nai Peninsula are among the nine
for which requests for assistance
have been submitted to the Feder
al Aviation Agency under the
Federal Aid to Airports Program.
The requests cover anticipated
Federal participation in work at
Homer and at Seward with total
project funds to include a ratio
of 37%% provided by the State
to 62%% provided by the Federal
Government.
Total amount requested for the
Homer Airport is $85,000 for
apron building, with work sched
uled to commence in June, 1964.
For the Seward Airport, $250,
000 is requested for extension of
landing strip, relocation of road
and land acquisition, with work al
so scheduled to begin in June,
1964.
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Homer Bowlers
Best Soldotna
A preparatory match between
Homer and Soldotna women bowl
ers, prior to participation in
state bowling matches at Juneau,
was held Sunday at the Sky Bowl.
l\ie state contests are scheduled
March 21-31 and April 1-7. Local
bowlers are going to Juneau on
the weekend of April 5.
In Sunday’s matches, the Hom
er bowlers, whose team average
usually in the 106 range, rolled a
total of 223G pins and won the
competition. Members of the team
were Donna Ramsey, Lois Hudec,
Flores Rhode, Alice Thompson
and Ethel Scott.
Soldotna bowlers, Helen Sholin,
Lottie Edelman, Jo Godes, Bea
Southard and Shirley Ford, roll
ed a score of 2218. Their team
average has been 150.
Traditional
Ice Classic
Deadline Nears
Alaskan soothsayers and mys
tics are primed for action—guess
ing- the time of the 1963 Nenana
ice break-up.
One hundred thousand tickets
for the classic are now on sale in
the Third Judicial Division.
Sale of tickets showed a mark
ed increase in 1962, according to
Don Clark, manager of the class
ic. The winners divided $84,000
after the ice slipped out unher
alded at 11:23 p.m. on May 12.
Participants in the 1963 classic
will have until midnight on Satur
day, April 6, to submit their cal
culations, Clark said.
Alaska’s favorite g u e s sing
game .— a major industry for the
village of Nenana—is an old tra
dition in the northland. It started
back in 1917 with a group of sur
veyors planning the Alaska Rail
road.
At first sales were limited to
Nenana residents. Soon people
from all comers of the vast Ter
ritory (began demanding tickets.
Each year the citizens of Ne
nana elect a manager and six
committee members to handle the
classic. Residents of Alaska sup
port the program to an annual av
erage of $106,000.
The ice moved as early as April
20, in 1940, and as late as May
16, in 1945.
Cub Committee
Meet Scheduled
Committee members of the Sol
lotna Cub Scout organization
will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday,
April 2, in the home of Wayne
Elagerty, committee chairman.
Soldtona Cub Scouts, Pack No.
161, currently is comprised of
:hree dens and is sponsored by
;he Soldotna Parent-Teacher As
iociation.
Spores Review
Mat Men Finish Second
At Recent State Tournament
by Michaelene S. Pendleton
The Kenai wrestling team,
headed by Coach Jerry Near, fin
ished a successful season by cap
turing second place honors in the
Alaska State Wrestling Tourna
ment. They were working under
a handicap, taking only 8 wrest
lers while the normal team con
sists of 12. West of Anchorage
took first place in the Tourna
ment. Kenai beat out Palmer, Ko
diak, Fairbanks, and East of An
chorage.
Although individual scores are
unavailable, the results of tourney
play show up very well for Ke
nai. Larry Jordan took a third
place. Gary Bonin, Daryl Leach,
Bob Lite, and Denny Van Sky,
all took second places. KC.'LS is
heartily applauding J. C. Yollen
tine and Jerry Harvey who batt
led it out to become state champs.
ATTENTION I.O.O.F.
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friends of the order interested in
organizing a lodge in the Kenai
Soldotna area are invited to con
tact Howard M. Guyton, In 12 16th
Place, Spenard, Alaska.
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