Peninsula Girl Gets
Runner-up Honors
In IVlIss Alaska Contest
Three Peninsula girls were
among the 10 from various com
munities in the state competing
for the title of Miss Alaska
awarded Saturday night at the
pageant held in the West Anch
orage high school auditorium.
They represented Homer, Seward
and Soldotna.
Linda Fay Kilcher, daughter of
State Senator and Mrs. Yule Kil
cher of Homer, was fourth run
ner-up in the competition in which
Colleen S. Kendall, Miss Alaska
State Fair, representing the Ma
tanuska Valley, was crowned Miss
Alaska 196:5.
Miss Kendall, 19, was sponsored
by the Alaska State Fair, Inc.,
and is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Sherrod H. Kendall of An
chorage. She will represent Alas
ka in the Miss America contest.
In addition to Miss Kilcher,
who was sponsored by the Homer
Winter Carnival Assoc., Inc-.,
other Peninsula contestants were
Carole Jean Olsen as Miss Sol
dotna and Beverly Frances Pe
terson, Miss Seward.
An international setting and
stage show, with "Big. Wide,
Wonderful World” as its theme
provided background and enter
tainment thoughout the pageant,
directed by Jacques L. Conder.
All 10 girls competed in ballgown,
bathing suit and talent divisions.
Susan Diane Koslosky, the 196:;
Fur Rendezvous Queen repre
senting Anchorage, was first
runner-up for Miss Alaska hon
ors. Second and third runners-up
were Katherine Faith Williams as
Miss Fairbanks and Roberta
Christine Gordaoff as Miss Cor
dova.
Miss Kilcher, as fourth runner
up, received a scholarship award.
For her talent number the Homer
Winter Carnival Queen sang
“Mack the Knife” in German,
with accompaning dance steps.
The 1962 graduate of Homer
High School is 18 years of age,
has copper-blonde hair and bine
eyes. During high school years
she was active in speech and dra
ma and was Alaska State Foren
sic champion in 1961. She also
spent two years in Europe study
ing ballet. The multi-talented can
didate is a horsewoman who also
paints, writes and does fashion
designing. She was sponsored by
the Homer Winter Carnival
Assoc.
Miss Soldotna, 21, sponsored by
the Village Shopping Center and
Peninsula Sportsmen Assoc.
Queen, is the daughter of Mr.
anil Mrs. W. S. Olsen of Soldot
na. The blue-eved blond is a grad
uate of Kenai High School and
Griffin Murphy Business College
in Seattle. She is employed by
the Soldotna branch of National
Bank of Alaska. She did a Latin
American dance number in the
Saturday night pageant.
Seward business men, repre
senting Solly’s Lounge, Andy’s
Oil Delivery, Seward Music Shop,
Werner’s Market, Gil’s Lounge,
Harbor Dinner Club. Seward
Trading Co., Seward Elks Club,
I iberty T h e a tre, McMullen’s,
Don's Cafe, Seward Distributors
and Bay City Motors, cooperated
in sponsoring Miss Peterson. The
auburn-haired, hazel-eyed daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. William P.
Peterson, has studied modern jazz
and the Hula in Fairbanks and
was presented in an Hawaiian
dance in the talent competition.
Other candidates were Lurisse
“Lari” Lowe, Miss Nome, who
presented an authentic Eskimo
dance; Katherine Rebecca Schi
manski, Miss Juneau, who did a
comedy skit, and Patricia Ann
McGill, Miss Valdez, who was
awarded the Miss Congeniality
trophy at the selection of her
fellow contestants. For her talent,
she also did a comedy skit.
Commerce Dept. Opens
Alaska Field Office
An Alaska field office of the
TJ. S. Department of Commerce
has been opened in Anchorage and
is located in Room 60 of the Post
Office and Court House building.
Funds for the long-awaited Al
aska facility, one of five new
field offices for the entire nation,
will permit initial staffing of the
office with two persons. John F.
Durr, a business analyst from the
Seattle field office, will serve as
temporary manager until a per
manent manager is appointed.
The Seattle office has up to now
served Alaska as part of its re
gion.
In the Truman administration,
the Department of Commerce
was persuaded to open an Alaska
field office, which was operated
from February 1947 to September
1948, then closed because of
budgetary insufficiency. Manager
of the office at that time was M.
Wilfred Coding of Skagway, now
serving at Siapan as high com
Fund Dinner Set
By Eastern Star,
Masonic Clubs
The Kenai Methodist Church
will be the setting at 7 p.m. Sat
urday, March 9, when area Ma
sons and members of the Iliamna
Eastern Star Club meet jointly
for a fund raising dinner and so
cial get-together.
Prospective members of the
Eastern Star Club as well as all
area members of the Order of the
Eastern Star are being especially
invited. The respective husbands
and wives of members will also be
invited.
Plans -will be discussed for pur
chasing a building site and for
erection of a building to be used
jointly by the Masonic and Blast-'*
em
missioner of the Trust Territory
of the Pacific Islands.
Necessary funds for reactiva
tion of the Alaska field office
were made available by Congress
last year in passing the Com
merce Department Appropriation
Act for the 1963 fiscal year.
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