HIGHLIGHTS OF 1962
(Continued from Page 1)
Lou’s Market, Sky Bowl and Na
tional Bank of Alaska earlier the
same night. On Jan. 4 burglars
took about $200 from Riverside
House and broke in at Howard’s
Y and Roy’s Texaco in Soldotna.
Two Soldotna slayers, Arthur
Vernon Watson and James Frank
lin Bush, were indicted by the
Grand Jury in Anchorage on two
separate charges—Watson for the
shooting of Marion T. Grissom
and Bush for the bludgeon death
of Jack Edward Griffiths.
Standard Oil Co. of Calif, com
pleted two more wells in the
Swanson River Field, making a
total of 47 producing wells. Stan
dard also said, except for explor
atory drilling, that drilling for
immediate production would term
inate about April 1 and that a
repressuring program on existing
wells would be inaugurated as a
conservation measure.
Dr. Paul Isaak assumed duties
as president of the Soldotna
if
Chamber of Commerce and J. R.
Lietzke became president of the
Kenai Chamber.
Groundwork began toward in
corporation of a farmer’s feed
mill and processing plant with the
bank in Soldotna named as trus
tee.
Gareth Wright, Soldotna, was
champion dog musher in the Ke
nai Championship Sled Dog
Races held at Anchor Point in
connection with the 1962 Snow
Festival and Barbara O’Rourke,
Soldotna candidate, was festival
queen. Kart racing, a new sport
for the Kenai-Soldotna area, was
inaugurated on Jan. 7.
Estes Bros., distributors for
Standard Oil Co. products, open
ed a new bulk plant on Beaver
Loop Road.
FEBRUARY
A Kenai City Council commit
tee was appointed to survey eco
nomic justification for building
a bridge over the Kenai River
connecting Beaver Loop and Kai
NOW OPEN!
JACK’S SHOE REPAIR
HOURS 8 A. M. TO 6 P. M.
NEXT TO COASTAL DRILLING CO.
SOLDOTNA
Now is the time to get that
SUN ANALYZING EQUIPMENT
ALL WORK AND
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FOR LESS
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PRODUCERS OF GAS GENERATED
WHOLESALE ELECTRICAL POWER
if on sky Beach Roads.
Reconstruction of the old U. S.
Army Post at Fort Kenai was
urged as an attraction for Alas
ka’s centennial celebration in 1967
The Kenai Peninsula Borough
Study Group was organized and
officers elected in a meeting held
at Soldotna.
Winter operation at the Arness
Terminal, 17 miles north of Ke
nai, was pronounced to be a real
ity despite bitter winter weather.
Fire extensively damaged the
laundry and boiler room of Bing
Brown’s Sportsmen’s Service at
Sterling.
Two pilotless planes owned by
Kenneth Allen of Allen Oil Tool
and Odin Strandberg, president
of Consolidated Utilities, Ltd.,
took a spin down the runway of
Kenai Airport and crashed into
a snowbank damaging both planes
in the freak mishap.
The first gas generation pow'er
plant on the Kenai Peninsula and
the first in Alaska to be built di- '
rectly at a well head was opened
for public inspection. Built by
Consolidated Utilities, Ltd., the
plant about 10 miles from Kenai,
was to furnish power to Kenai
Power Corp. during term of a
20-year contract.
The Towne Dorm and Cafe were
completely leveled by fire despite
combined efforts of volunteer
fire departments from Kenai and
S Idotna and loss was estimated
at $39,000.
Kenai’s glistening new building
to house the local branch of the
City National Bank of Anchorage
was presented to the public at a
well-attended open house.
Kenai’s battling Kardinals won
second place in Western Alaska
Class B double elimination tour
naments at Fairbanks.
Rose Anne Malone, eighth
grader at Kenai school, was first
place wrinner in a contest sponsor
ed by the city for designing of a
city seal.
MARCH
March of Dimes collections in
Soldotna totaled $252.18 of which
ver $135 wras netted in a women's
bowling tournament at the Sky
Fowl. Mrs. R. J. Hardin was drive
chairman.
A head-on collision at Mile 70
on the Sterling Highway resulted
in death to a former Kenai Pe
ninsula resident, Mrs. Dora M.
Herr, and injuries to others.
Top-ranking mushers partici
pated in the first Alaska State
Championship Sled Dog Races
over a 15-mile course between Ke
nai and Soldotna and winners
split a purse of $2,200. Dr. Roland
Lombard, Massachusetts veterin
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LEGAL NOTICE
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE
INTERIOR
BUREAU OF LAND
MANAGEMENT
Land Office
Cordova Building
6th and Cordova
Anchorage, Alaska
Date: Dec. 20, 1962
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that
Gordon S. Best has made applica
tion for a Homesite under the
Act of May 26, 1934 (48 Stat.
809) identified by Anchorage Ser
ial Number 057898 for a tract of
land described as
Lot 5, U.S. Survey No. 3531,
situated on the Southerly
side of the Snug Harbor Road
at Kenai Lake, containing
1.58 acres.
Any person, corporation, or as
sociation having or asserting any
adverse interest in or claim to
the tract of land or any part
thereof may file in the Anchor
age Land Office their objections
to the issuance of patent during
the period of pi ’ ,r -nthm or with
in 30 days the: ter. objections
must be filed ir ' It. etting
forth the natur< cm of the
adverse claim; -'k- adverse
claimant shall, t ! t af
ter the filing i c
gin action to q
of competent !■
ka, and there
be issued in c
final decree or
AlDvn P. Steger
Chi;:
Date First Pub.: Jan. L I96;s
Date Last Pu1 " ■ : .
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