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JUNEAU ALASKA
THIRD YEAR
APRIL 12, 19G3
PRICE 10 CENTS
NUMBER 127
The lr.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bear, after a legendary career in Alaskan waters, now rests at the bottom
of the Atlantic. The “Bear” brought mail, medical care, government agents and often the only law
and order known to the Territory when she served Alaska from 1»85 to 1926. She saved the crews of
eight whaling vessels, about 27."> men, in 1897 when they were trapped in an ice pack off Point Har
row'. The “Bear” sank on March 19. 1963 in a viscious and turbulent storm off the coast of Nova Scotia
while she was being towed to Philadelphia to become a combination museum and restaurant.
Refinery Enters Final
Stages of Completion,
Operation Begins Soon
Progress on Standard Oil Co. of
California’s Alaskan refinery
north of Kenai is proceeding ac
cording to schedule and the work
is three-fourths done, D. D. Drow
ley, refinery manager, said Wed
nesday.
Operation of Alaska’s first re
finery is expected to begin in late
June or early July with the pro
cessing of 200,000 barrels of crude
oil daily from wells in the Soldot
na Creek-Swanson River fields.
ICiwaiiis Cliiii
T© Observe
Anniversary
The Soldotna-Kenai Kiwanis
Club will hold its first annivers
ary dinner Wednesday, April 17,
at the 4 Royle Parkers in Ridge
way. A cocktail hour beginning at
7 p.m. will precede the banquet.
Arrangements are being made
for an “outside” speaker and
(members of the Anchorage Ki
wrmis ^lub and the North Star
Kiwanis C’ub, also of Anchor
age, a. e bcir.g invited.
The regular weekly meeting of
the local club will be held at 12
ronrt on Tuesday as usual, despite
the banquet for the following eve
ning.
The Ralph Parsons Co. is pre
sently erecting furnaces, two
storage tanks, installing piping
and completing concrete construc
tion in connection with machinery
installation.
Refinery buildings, themselves,
are completed with the exception
of a few utility hookups and in
clude an office, a shop building
and a combination testing labora
tory and boiler house. To keep
out of the way of the construction
force, the permanent staff is
“sort of camping out” while con
tinuing with necessary work.
Except for the three-man su
pervisory staff .— consisting of
Drowley as manager, W. W. War
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Magistrate Makes
Schedule Change
The magistrate’s office in Ke
nai will be open only in the after
noons next week while Jess Nich
olas, assistant district magistrate,
is in Anchorage attending a court
seminar.
Mrs. Nicholas, however, will be
in the office from 1-5 p.m. and
will take care of recordings, vital
stat'stics. issuance of marriage
license:., driver's licenses and oth
er matters with the exception of
court cases. Business ns usual,
’■'h mrrin-s end afternoprs,
will be resumed the following
Monday morning.
Senior Play
Is Cancelled
Cancellation of the Senior Class
play “Granddad Goes Wild” was
announced Tuesday. The play,
previously set for next Thursday
night, ran into difficulties when
two members of the cast became
disabled. A third member dropped
out and had to be replaced last
week.
Diane Roh.veder, cast member,
was taken to the hospital in Sew
ard Monday and Lee Thomas suf
fered a severly cut foot in an ac
cident at his home over the week
end.
Replacements and sufficient
time to practice were impossible
to find before the scheduled date.
Postponement to a later date was
also found to be impossible due
to the many other activities on
the calendar for the remaining
weeks of school, according to Von
Phillips, high school principal.
The Weather
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Apr. 5
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Apr. 10
Apr. 4
Apr. 5
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Apr. S
Apr. 0
Apr. 10
Max. Min.
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Precip.
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Trace
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Borough Organization
Study Resumes April 20,
Soidotna to Host Meet
Meetings of the Kenai Peninsu
la Borough Study Group will be
resume 1 nex* Saturday, April 20,
at a 1 p.m. luncheon meeting’ in
Riverside House, Soldotna, For
mation of a borough is the objec
tive of the study. The executive
committee and all members of
committees are asked to arrive at
12 Noon for prior meetings before
the general session.
Ann uncement of the resump
tion of the borough study was
made by Charley Griffin, vice
chairman of the study group, at
tne conclusion f a public hearing
held at Soldotna Friday, April 5,
by the L >eal Boundary Commis
sion in regard to the proposal for
incorporation of the Homer-Ni
nilchik area as a first class b r
Condacting this meeting* were
Paul < hoquette of Homer, chair
man of the -Cate Boundary Com
mission; Ronald Cease, director
f the L la 1 Affairs Agency in
Juneau; Be*; Fleenor of Ketchi
kan, Henry Camarot of Fairbanks
and Mrs. Gaia Lyon of Anchor
age, all members of the Local
Boundary Commission.
Cease explained that amiti the
mandatory clause in the Alaska
Legislature’s HB 90, any local
group may get together and de
cide upon borough organization
RE-ELECTS BOARD MEMBER
NORTH KENAI — The North
Kenai School Advisory Board
election held Monday, April 8, re
sulted in the re-election of Mrs.
Guy Moore for a three-year term.
r
prior to Oct. 3. 1963. Tni.s report
will be submitted to the Local
Boundary Commission which can
take one of three steps—accept
it as submitted, reject it as not
meeting standards, or make
changes.
In areas in which an organized
ough is not voluntarily incor
porated by local option by Oct. 3,
the Local Affairs Agency will di
rect the secretary of state to hold
elections for all borough officers
(Continued on Page ;3)
Explains Legality
Of (ify Sales Tax
The office of the city clerk of
Ke. aided rec< nt
ly with cadis regarding legality of
■>.lection of sales tax if the cus
tomer resides outside the City.
In order to clarify any misun
derstandings, the city clerk says
all sales made in the City are sub
ject to the sales tax regardless
of the place of residence of the
buyer. There are certain exemp
tions. but these are not based on
locality of residence of the pur
chaser.
The public is also reminded that
the sales tax return for the first
quarter of the current year was
due after March 31. Any returns
made during the first 2i) days in
April may take advantage of the
discount of 30 of the tax for
prompt returns. Any returns
made after April 30 are subject
to a penalty for each month
overdue.
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NOW every mile you drive, new
ROYAL 76 gasoline gives your
engine a
Chemical Tune- U p
Change to new Royal 76 today, by
driving in to.
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