Wednesday’s Speak-off
Banquet to Determine
Winning Toastmistress
rour finalists, selected in a ser
ies of speech contests during the
past two months, will vie for first
place at the Redoubt Toastmis
tross Club’s annual speak-off
Wednesday, March 27. The speak
off will be at a banquet to be at
8 p m. in Riverside House, Soldot
na, to which husbands and guests
are invited.
I lie speakers will be the four
first place winners in the recent
speech contest series. They are
Mrs. Mary Willets, Kenai; Mrs.
Newcombe Hayes and Mrs. Wayne
Hagerty, both of Soldotna, and
Mrs. Hilly Joe Mize, Kenai, who
won first place in the last con
test of the series on March 13.
Second place winners will serve
as alternates. They are Mrs.
George Denison, Ridgeway; Mrs.
Rurton Carver, Soldotna; Mrs.
Stanley McLane, Ridgeway, and
Mrs. Janies E. Fisher, Kenai.
Just 48 hours prior to the
speak-off date, each of the final
Cub Scois
Hold First
Pack Meet
Soldotna Cub Scout Pack No.
161. currently comprised of throe
dens and sponsored by the Sol
dotra Parent-Teacher Association,
held its first pack meeting on the
evening of March 11, at Soldot
na School.
Over 30 boys were present, a
near perfect attendance. A few
of the Cubs were absent because
of being ill. Bobcat pir were pre
sented several charter members
with one of the parents of each
boy present to “pin" his or her
son.
• Cubs receiving bobcat pins in
Iglu ed; Konns-,. inis
;.Jue .son. Walts i; .L. . r, John
V, i , alike hi'iir • iai»
P, ' on, Ronald Gr.gr. >n, Charles
■ . Kenneth Carrico, Richard
C i ■ .c Scott Cassaj}, Eric Hines,
i TR>. >:i bines, liabev; Melton,
Ba: • y Srr.:b . Gary Carver,
Jimmie. 1 Tolich, Billy Pool, Denny
Hag* 'y and Ter ■ Kvilvik. Oth
• -er.s will receive their pins in the
second pack meeting, to be held
. on April 8.
I) . tinner Gaeda P-TA presi
- dent. • plained what Boy Sc-out
• ing arid Cub Scouting means and
• suniiiruzed various achieve
ments. The meeting.was also at
tended y Sgt. J. D. Buffington of
Wildwood Station, accompanied
by two of the \\ ildwood Cub
. Scouts in full dress.
Den Mothers of Pack No. 161
are Mrs. Victor Frolich, Den 1;
Mrs. George Pool, Den 2, and
Mrs. Wayne Hagertv, Den 3.
Charles Hines is Cub master
and committee mbei-s are
Wayne E. Hamrty, .-hairman;
Harry H. Casson. .-term ary; J. S.
Smith, treasurer, and John H.
Mack, Kenneth C.r . a d Arth
ur L. Jess, Jr., me a hers.
Rules Changed
New regulation* ; s announced
by the Department of th“ Interior
are aimed at stopping oil anti gas
lease speculator o p e r a t ions
through eliminating multiple
“dummy” filings of federal lease
offers for the same tract of land.
The new regulations deal with
the phrase “sole party in interest”
and what constitutes "interests
in leases and also deal with the
problem of collusive fid mgs of
lease offers.
The Department of the Interior
also announced a change in bond
ing requirements lessees must
meet on land where sui tace rights
are held by patentees but subsur
fac> rights are to be reserved to
! the United States.
Until now, the lessees had to
Hi Ida ( St.000 bond before a lease
; { v. ( aid be issued. The change de
| fers the filing of a bond until ac
> tmd entry on the land by the
lease holder.
ists will be given three subjects
from which she is to select one
upon which to base an original
speech lasting from five to seven
minutes.
The winner of this dub-level
speak-off will go to Anchorage
on April 27 to compete in similar
(•vents on the State Council level.
W inner of that will enter regional
competition in Seattle in May.
The regional winner then goes to
San Francisco in July to enter the
International T o a s tm is t ress
speak-off.
Two speakers from Redoubt
flub have advanced to regional
contests in the past two years.
Mrs. Lyman McBride, Kenai, not
only participated but also placed
second in regional competition
last year. In 1%1, Mrs. Jack
Farnsworth, Soldotna, represent
ed the local club as well as the
state at the regional meet.
Reservations for next Wednes
day night’s speak-off banquet
should be called to Mrs. M. L.
Grange, Soldotna, by Tuesday,
March 26.
Mistress of ceremonies for the
evening will be Mrs. Ted Grainge,
Soldotna. Mrs. McBride will be
topic mistress. Mrs. Fisher will
give the invocation and Mrs. Jack
Thompson, Kenai, will have the
closing. Judges for the speeches
are yet to be selected.
Tilman T. Dagle, with more
than 30 years experience in Al
aska waters, is one of two first
mates to serve aboard the
State of Alaska’s M/V Malas
pina which is in operation in
Southeast Alaska. Alternating
with Dagle as first mate is
James W. Sande of Ketchikan.
WITH EXPLORATION CREW
NORTH KEN, AI — Mr. and
Mrs. Carol Meyers of Oroville,
Wash., have returned to their
home after a 10-day visit with the
Don Johnsons of North Kenai.
Meyers had spent a month during
October and November flying
helicopter for seismic explora
tion of Cook Inlet by United Geo
physical. This was Mrs. Meyer’s
first trip to Alaska.
Read the Classified ads—it pays
Soldotna Public Library
Annual Meeting Set Sunday
The annual meeting of the Sol
dotna Public Library is set for
3 p.m. Sunday (.March 24) in the
library rooms in the basement of
the Central Peninsula Clinic. En
trance is obtained at the rear of
the building. The meeting is open
to the public and all persons in
terested in the progress of the
library or in assisting the volun
teer organization in its work are
especially urged to attend.
A financial report will be made
and other business discussed.
Election of officers is also ex
pected to take place. Mrs. Bur
ton Carver has headed the library
board since the first annual meet
ing was held last year.
Interest in the library has
grown so much since it was of
fically opened for use during
Soldotna Progress Days last July
that additional opening hours
have been necessitated. Formerly
open only from 10-12 on Satur
days the public is now able to
use the library from 3 to 5 p.m.
every Thursday and Friday and
from 1-3 every Thursday night.
The Saturday morning story hour
conducted bv Elizabeth Douville
at 10 a.m. continues to gain pop
ularity.
Recent additions to the book
shelves include 28 books, many
priced at $25 each, devoted to
works of artists, paintings and
other art work. These include not
only great artists of the Renais
sance period and 18th Century
but also many books devoted to
the how-to-do-it-yourself tech
nique for beginners. This collec
tion came recently as a gift from
the Alaska State Library.
A complete set of all Alaska
State laws since statehood is
another new addition to the
shelves. Fiction and non-fiction,
books for both adults and children
arrive at frequent intervals and
current selections are wide and
varied.
Slikok Club
Organizes New
Garden Group
The “Meet Your Neighbor"
party at the Slikok Valley Com
munity Club on Kalifonsky Beach
Road was well attended Saturday
night. Pinochle, checkers and oth
er games, in addition to much
around the stove visiting, occu
pied the evening.
A newly formed Slikok Valley
Garden Club, which had its in
ception at this meeting, will hold
its first meeting this Saturday.
March 23.
Mrs. Tommy Con’, chairman
of the garden group, invites all
who are interested to meet at the
log cabin club house at 1 p.m.
Helpful hints will be offered for
getting gardens off to a good
start.
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close of business Wednesday, March 27.
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