Governor William A. Egan and Mrs. Helen M. Fiseher of Anch
orage. State Director of the Alaska Savings Bonds Division, are
'flown above admiring the cover of the certificate noting Gover
nor Egans appointment by Secretary of the Treasury Douglas
Dillon as honorary chairman of the Alaska Savings Bond Com
mittee. The Freedom Bond Drive, to be held May 1 through
July 4. will mark Alaska's first year of active participation in a
nation-wide savings bond drive.
Several Poetry Contests Open
To Kenai Peninsula Verse Writers
several poetry contests have
been announced in which it is be
lieved verse writers on the Kenai
Peninsula may be int-eresteili »
The 1963 World Poetry Day
contest, being' sponsored by the
Poetry Society of Alaska, Inc.,
(Box 1106, Juneau) will accept
entries up to Aug. 15. Winners
will be announced on World Poe
try Day, Oct. 15. Each category
will receive one prize of $25. Win
ning poems will be published in
various Alaska news media.
There will be three classifica
tions—narrative, not to exceed
100 lines, any form; sonnet, any
form, any serious subject; and
Balance of Kasilof
Lots Sold by BLM
Fifty-three remaining lots in
the Kasilof Townsfte were sold at
public auction last Friday in the
Anchorage Land Office by the
Bureau of Land Management.
The opening sale of Kasilof lots
was held at the townsite itself
on April 20 at which time 30 lots
were sold in the first auction.
Total receipts of the two auc
tions were $10,360, or an average
of $196 per lot, which was $1,510
more than the total appraised
value. According to Warner T.
May, land office manager, total
appraised value was $8,850, or
$167 per lot. Some of the lots
sold for more than the appraised
value, which ranged from $80 to
$320.
Five small tracts were also sold
at last Friday’s auction in the
Anchorage office—two tracts in
Kenai, two at Flat Lake and one
at Birchwood.
f
free vcrw
30 lines or*|ess. %ily one entry}
. may be submitted in each eate
"grffjrt Ardditiorrjl- ‘details way be*
obtained from the Contest Com
mittee at the Juneau address.
Laramore-Rader Poetry Group
is offering $1?5 for the best poem
of 30 lines or less on any subject
in any form. Entries should be in
the hands of the contest chairman
by May 20. Details as to how the
poems should be submitted may
be obtained by addressing Phyllis
h laig, Chairman, Ladamore-Rader
Poetry Contest, 30 Romano Ave.,
Coral Gables, Florida.
International Academy of Poets
offers a prize of $200 to the auth
or of the best poem written in
the manner of Edna St. Vincent
Millay. The address for informa
tion and to. submit entries is
Henry Picola, 966 East 25th St..
Paterson 3, N.J.
The Annual Cheltenham Festi
val Poetry Competition offers
prizes of L7o and L25. The closing
date is May 31. For entry form,
the following addresses are giv
en: Festival Organizer, Town
Hall, Cheltenham, England, or
Academy of American Poets, 1078
Madison Ave., New York 28, N.Y.
(HARTER FLIGHTS SUNDAY
TO KODIAK CRAB FESTIVAL
The Greater Soldotna Chamber
of Commerce is sponsoring char
ter flights Sunday to the Kodiak
Crab Festival. Cordova Airlines
will carry two plane loads from
the Soldotna Airport.
Fifty-eight persons from Kenai
and Soldotna will make the trip,
leaving at 7 a.m. and returning
about 9 p.m.
Complete Insurance Service
By
J. C. MORRIS AGENCY
ONE OF ALASKA’S OLDEST INSURANCE FIRMS
Office at Seaman’s—Kenai
Susan Huebsch of Tustumena
School, Kasilof, placed 3rd in the
state last Thursday in the fifth
annual Alaska Spelling Bee and
two other Kenai Peninsula con
testants ranked among the 14 best
spellers. They were Wayne Le
man, Xinilchik, in fifth place, and
Richard Hedman, Seward, in sixth
place.
The Peninsula was also repre
sented by five other spellers, who
had won preliminary contests in
their own schools and made a
good showing in the state event
but did not place. They were Sun
ny Kilcher, Homer; Martha Ames,
Kenai; Boyd Schaffer, Jr„ Moose
Pass; \ ieki Biederman, Soldotna,
and Mary Coursen, Sterling.
Winner of the event was 14
year-old Ruth Avery, eighth
grade student at Central Junior
High School, Anchorage. Ruth,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willis
Avery, received the championship
trophy and many other prizes in
addition to the top prize—an all
expense paid trip to Washington.
D. C., where she will participate
in the National Spelling Bee. Her
father is president of the Anchor
age Independent School District.
Runner-up was Charles Camp
bell of Chugiak, who also received
many valuable prizes.
Last Thursday’s contest to de
termine the state champion drew
contestants from 61 schools
throughout the state. Four other
schools were entered but no spell
ers arrived to represent them.
The event was sponsored by the
Anchorage Daily Times in cooper
ation with the national sponsor,
Scripps-Howard newspapers.
The Peninsula’s third place
state winner, Susan Huebsch, en
tered the contest as runner-up
from the Tustumena School elim
ination in which Stephen S. Webb
had been named school champion.
Stephen, 13-year-old seventh
grader and son of Mr. and Mrs.
Noble Webb, Cohoe, broke his
right leg near the hip about three
f JJb wllfiU ! high jumping
WAS MATH CONTESTANT
KENAI — Kristin Heath. Ke
nai Central High School, was In
dividual contest winner from her
school in the recent National Ma
thematics Contest in Alaska. The
state contest in which nearly 800
high school students participated
was won by a West Anchorage
High School student, Robert Gene
Vodicka.
BEAVER IN MOOSE RANGE
In a recent areial survey of
246 miles of creeks and rivers,
23 active beaver houses and 37
dams were counted on the Kenai
National Moose Range.
had been recuperating in Provi
dence Hospital, Anchorage, but
hopes tp try again next year.
Susan received an AiVl-r'M all
transistor portable radio and a
$15 gift certificate from an An
chorage store.
This is the second consecutive
year that the Ninilehik contestant,
Wayne Leman, has ranked among
the state's top spellers. He was in
third spot last year and fifth this
year. His prize was a six transis
tor pocket radio.
For sixth place, Richard Hod
man of Seward also received a $15
gift certificate.
Troublesome words which elim
inated the Peninsula spellers from
competition were: “repertoire”
missed by Susan Huebsch;
“hodgepodge’’ by Wayne Leman;
“corollaries” by Richard Hedman;
“fraught” by Sunny Kilcher;
“pharmacist” by Martha Ames;
“proprietor” by Boyd Schaffer,
Jr.; “pursued” by Vicki Bieder
man, and “defunct” missed by
Mafy Coursen.
Theatre Group
To Present
Thurber Comedy \
The Homer Little Theatre Group
will present “The Male Animal,”
a three-act comedy by the late
James Thurber and Elliott Nut
Rent, in two evening and one ma
tinee performances, all to be in
the Elks Hall at- Homer. The
schedule is 8:80 p.m. on two con
secutive Saturdays, May 11 and
May 18, and a Sunday matinee at
8 p.m., May 12.
The presentation is by special
arrangement with Samuel French/
Inc., play publishers. Mrs. Marion
Thorn is directing the 12-member
cist. Hetty Stoakes is handling
the publicity.
Proceeds from the entertain
ment will benefit the lloruer Con
cert Assoc, in its endeavor to con
tinue the Alaska Music Trails
program of bringing outstanding
musicians to the Homer area.
Tickets for the individual per
foi mances are on sale now at
Uminski’s Department Store in
Homer at $1.50 each for adults.
Mail orders will be Tilled by writ
ing to Box 1258, Homtff- Such re
quests should specify which of the
three dates would be prefyrjied.
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