Public Health Program
For 1963 Gets Underway
With Hearing Screenings
Plans of the Public Health Ser
vice as administered by the Kenai
Health Center and Miss Jeannine
Lyerly, public health nurse, have
been announced for 1963 and a
summary of activities reported
for 1962.
The new audiometer recently
purchased by the Kenai Area
Chapter of the Alaska Crippled
Children’s Association was put
into use on Jan. 9 at the first of
the hearing: screenings to be held
at the Kenai Health Center- in
preparation for the work to be
done by the speech and hearing
therapist. The first visit by the
therapist to the area is scheduled
tentatively for Feb. 1.
Another hearing screening is
to be held at the Kenai Health
Center on Jan. 23. Hours for the
screenings Avill be from 7 to 8 p.
m.
Immunization clinics for the
communities and schools will con
tinue to be held twice monthly at
the Kenai Health Center and in
field trips scheduled each month
to Soldotna, Sterling, Clam Gulch,
Cohoe, Kasilof, Ninilchik, Cooper
Landing and Tyonek.
A mental health clinic is tenta
tively scheduled for sometime in
March. Plans are also in the mak
ing for health programs in con
nection with venereal disease and
for expectant mothers, Miss Ly
erly said.
Tyonek had its first public
health service field clinic last Oc
tober when a doctor from the Al
aska Native Service Hospital in
Anchorage was there for two
days. Two or possibly three more
such service clinics are planned
at Tyonek in 1963 with a doctor
from the same hospital in atten
dance. It has been found that,
cronic illness can be better fol
lowed and treated by such a pro
gram conducted in the villages.
In a report of services complet
ed by the local branch of the Pub
lic Health Service during the past
year, Miss Lyerly said that 4,200
persons attended the immuniza
tion clinics. More than 900 tuber
culin tests were given and more
than 1,500 x-rays were taken in
the TB survey. Annual school ex
aminations held in cooperation
with local physicians numbered
approximately 300, the public
health nurse added. All of this
was in addition to the extensive
speech and hearing therapy pro
gram which is to be continued in
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Hearing Tests
Are Scheduled
On Peninsula
January has been designated as
hearing screening month in the
area covered by Miss Jeannine
Lyerly, public health nurse whose
offices are in the Kenai Health
Center. The territory covered by
Miss Lyerly includes many Kenai
Peninsula communities as well as
Tyonek across Cook Inlet.
Everyone is invited to get his
hearing tested in preparation for
the visit of the speech and hear
ing therapist who will come to
the area in February.
Residents in the Clam Gulch,
Cohoe and Kasilof areas are ask
ed to be at the Tustumena School
for hearing screening and the im
munization clinic on Thursday,
Jan. 24, from 3 to 4 p.m.
There will be no clinic held at
Cooper Landing- during January,
Miss Lyerly said.
In Kenai, an immunization clin
ic will be held at the Kenai
Health Center on Wednesday,
Jan. 23, from 1 to 4 p.m. There
will also be a hearing screening
and immunization clinic there
from 7 to 8 p.m. on the same day.
Hearing screening for adults
will be held at the Ninilchik
School from 7-8 p.m. on Monday,
Jan. 21 and an immunization clin
ic is scheduled there from 12 noon
until 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 22.
Soldotna School was the set
ting for the hearing screening for
adults on Jan. 11.
Miss Lyerly was at Tyonek
from Jan. 14 through Jan. 17 to
conduct similar clinics and hear
ing tests.
High Times
At Kenai High
By Michaelene S. Pendleton
The American legion Talent
Show turned out to be a big suc
cess. The night of Jan. 1 will be
remembered for quite a while.
Winners and prizes will be pub
lished in the next edition.
Report cards were given out
Wednesday, Jan. 16, and the Hon
or Roil .. membership is very en
couraging. The students who
made the Honor Roll will be an
nounced in the next issue of the
Cheehako News also.
There were meetings of the Na
tional Honor Society and the Stu
dent Council but nothing radically
new was discussed.
There will be a Victory Dance
after the Kenai-West Anchorage
basketball game at the Kenai
gym Friday, Jan. 18.
Atomic Treated
Seed Experiment
Planned Locally
Forrest Ford of the Nu-State
Nursery and Flower Shop in Ke
nai plans several innovations this
spring. One will be the inaugura
tion of a soil testing service.
Another will be the planting of
atomic treated seeds obtained
from Oakridge, Tenn., for trial
purposes.
Results are unpredictable from
atomic treated seeds. Ford ex
plained. It is said that giant ve
getables sometimes may be ob
tained from seeds so treated
while mutations of various kinds
often result from others.
Ford experimented with other
trial planting last year. The hor
ticulturist from the Agricultur
al Experimental Station at Palm
er was much interested in a cylin
der shaped beet and took exten
sive notes in connection with the
trial planting.
The beet was shaped more like
a carrot, was dark red in color
and had a wonderful flavor, Ford
said. Seeds of the cylindrical beet
will be available at the nursery
this spring for area garden grow
ers who would like to try the new
variety.
Persons wishing to have soil
tested will also be able to have it
done at Kenai instead of having
to ship it elsewhere, the florist
added.
Classifieds are news.
Adult Education Courses
To Be Offered at Kenai
Soon in Evening Classes
An adult education evening pro
pram has been established by the
Kenai City School Board in con
junction with the military branch
es at Wildwood Station and will
pet underway the first week in
February at the Kenai Central
High School. The program is be
ing developed under auspices of
the University of Alaska Exten
sion Division. College courses,
both graduate and undergradu
ate, will be offered. High school
courses for adults who have never
completed high school are also
planned. College credits granted
will be those of the University of
Alaska and will qualify as on
campus credits.
Established fees of the Univer
sity of Alaska will be charged
for college credit courses. Fees for
other courses will depend upon
class enrollment and cost of pre
senting the instruction. A mini
mum of 15 students is required in
a course before it can be pre
sented, according to Conrad Pot
ter, school superintendent, in
making the announcement.
Three courses already are ten
tatively scheduled, two of them in
Education. These are Ed. 305, Sci
Honor Society
Elects Officers
By Michaelene S. Pendleton
The National Honor Society, in
a meeting held Monday, Jan. 7,
elected Michael Tauriainen presi
dent. His opponent was Beverly
Zehrung, who then defeated Lar
ry Jordan and now holds the of
fice of vice president. Susan Erl
wein was elected secretary and
treasurer. Her opponent was Mi
chaelene Pendleton.
The next order of business was
the problem of the student hand
books. Conrad Potter, Kenai Cen
tral High School superintendent,
has proposed that the books be
composed by the Honor Society.
These handbooks will tell various
facts about K.C.H.S.
Mid-term tests have started
and groans can be heard in Kenai
High from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. The
first semester was over Wed
nesday, Jan. 16, and report cards
will be issued the following Fri
day. All overdue book fines at
the school library must be paid
or a report card will not be given.
Magazine Honors Student
Mary Ellen Doolittle of K.C.H.
S. has been named Co-ed corres
pondent for the ’62-’63 school
year, according to an announce
ment by Margaret Hanson, edi
tor of Co-ed Magazine. Mary El
len is a freshman. She was ap
pointed by the ballots of the home
economics girls.
Selected for her qualities of
leadership and her home econom
ics record, Mary 'Ellen will serve
as junior advisor to the editors of
Co-ed, national magazine for teen
age girls, and will keep them in
formed of activities at K.C.H.S.
Mary Ellen was presented with a
special Co-ed pin and identifica
tion in recognition of her appoint
ment.
ence for Elementary Teachers, i
credits, with emphasis on subject
matter used in grades one t
eight; Ed. 306, Teaching of Sci
ence in Elementary Schools, 3 cre
dits, emphasis on present-day cor
cepts, methods and material; and
the third possible course is Physi
cal Fitness and Elementary Phy
sical Education.
Mrs. George Denison. Kenai
High School teacher, will be th
instructor in the Ed. 305 or E( .
306 course and Joe VVidman, prir
cipal of Sterling School ha
agreed to teach the physical edi -
cation course. Both graduate ant
undergraduate credit will be
granted in the education course-.
A survey currently is be in _r
conducted to determine in which
courses the public may be most
interested.
Clayton E. Brockel, who wi .
serve as director of the adult ed
ucation program, says that add -
tiona] courses in mathematics, sc -
once, English and literature at
considered. Classes are bein.
planned for Tuesday and Thur.
day evenings, but if necessai •
may be extended to include four
evenings each week.
Brockel, English instructor at
Kenai Central High School, o! -
tained his bachelor of arts degre
from Montana State University
at Missoula and a master of arr
degree from Colorado State Co -
lege at Greeley.
Those wishing additional info -
mation concerning the adult edu
cation evening program are eo
vised to call the school, phones
283-7531 or 283-7533, or write t<
Director, Adult Education, Kenai
City School District, Drawer B,
Kenai.
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