Daring feats of the “Climbers in the Sky,” heliborne troops using
rappelling techniques, were among events which interested on
lookers Saturday during Wildwood Station's Armed Forces Day.
Charges Dropped
In Murder Charge
Against Seal Hunter
Criminal charges against an un
employed Homer fisherman in
conection with the Monday death
of his seal-hunting companion
have been dropped.
Richard F. Luttrell, 23, suecess
fullp passed a polygraph or lie de
tector test showing the shooting
of Jay Kenneth Frederickson, Sr.,
32, was an accident.
State police filed charges of
first degree murder against Lut
trell Monday after Frederickson
was killed by a single shot
through the head. Investigating
police said the bullet was from a
higli-powered rifle, a 22-caliber
Hornet with a telescope mount.
The two men left Homer Sun
day night on a seal-bounty expe
dition on Tutka Bay, about 10
miles from Homer on Kachemak
Bay. Monday morning they sepa
rated to hunt in opposite direc
tions. Luttrell said shortly there
Kenai Family
Moves to Utah
M'ith the closing of school this
week, Kenai is losing the J. W.
Sample family, including Mr. and
Mrs. Sample and two grown sons,
George and Dan. They have been
Kenai residents since May 1959.
J. W. Sample, who has been
working as foreman for Oilfield
Services, left by plane Saturday
foi Price, Utah to join Dan, who
left early in April and is now em
ployed there by Barker Well Ser
vice. Dan, a Kenai High School
graduate in 19G2, attended Alaska
Methodist University at Anchor
age one year and then worked for
Coastal Drilling Co. in the Be
luga oil field across Cook Inlet
from last July until April.
Mrs. Sample has been on the
teaching staff of Kenai Central
High School as Spanish instruct
or. Her departure was delayed
until the close of school. Mrs.
Sample and son, George, are leav
ing this weekend and will make
the trip by car. George also has
been attending A.M.U., working
during the summers for Oilfield
Service, Coastal Drilling Co. and
H<jmer Freight Lines.
TO HAVE BIRTHDAY
SEWARD — Henry A. Larson,
formerly of Seward, is one of 11
residents of the Alaska Pioneers
Home in Sitka celebrating birth
days during the month of May.
Larson was born in 1888 and will
observe his birthday on May 20.
Cards, letters or other remem
brances from former friends in
the. area will do much to make
<-His Day” brighter, according to
Amante T. Hanson, secretary of
the Alaska Pioneers Assoc.
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after he saw a seal on the rocks
below. He was moving along a
ridge to get in better shooting’
range when he saw what he
thought was the seal bobbing up
and down.
Luttrell told officers that it
was drizzling rain and his scope
had clouded before he fired. He
clambered down the rocks and dis
covered he had shot his partner.
According to their neighbors in
Homer, the two .men had worked
together as cowhands in Colorado.
They recently had moved to the
Homer area to become fishermen
after coming from the Leadville
Climax area of Colorado. Lut
trell had been staying with the
Frederickson family after his ar
rival.
Luttrell was arraigned Monday
night before Mrs. John Waterman,
district magistrate at Homer, and
bail was fixed at $5,000. He was
then transferred to Anchorage
and held in Federal jail there.
District Attorney Robei’t Erwin,
in announcing that Luttrell’s lie
detector test showed he was tell
ing the truth, said the case had
been returned to the Homer dis
trict magistrate with the request
for a coroner’s inquest.
The victim’s survivors include
his wife, Mary, and his two chil
dren—a 10-year-old son, Jay Ken
neth, Jr., and a 4-year-old daugh
ter, Joan, all of the home at Hom
er.
Sewing Workshop
For Area Women
Scheduled Soon
Women interested in improving
their sewing skills will have such
an opportunity at a workshop be
ing offered in Soldotna during the
first week in June by the Univer
sity of Alaska Extension Service.
Mrs. Gladys Musgrove, Kenai
Peninsula home agent with the
Extension Service, has announc
ed that she will hold a clothing
construction workshop in Gibbs
Apparel, Soldotna, on June 4-5-6.
The three day session will in
clude pattern layout and altera
tion for beginning sewers, plus
fitting problems. For others more
advanced there will be one day
devoted to “tricks that make the
difference” in giving a tailored
look to a garment.
Women interested in attending
should contact Mrs. Bill Gibbs and
sign up for the course,” says Mrs.
Musgrove. “Each person attend
ing should also plan to bring her
own machine and sewing sup
plies.”
Details as to time, equipment
and supplies necessary will be
sent to each person signing up
for the course.
RIDGEWAY MAYOR RETURNS
RIDGEWAY .— A1 Buonassissi,
the self-styled “Mayor of Ridge
way,” returned Monday from Cal
ifornia and is “home again,” ar
riving just in time to be named
chief umpire for the Little Lea
gue baseball games this summer.
A1 says he is about recovered
from an operation and a car
wreck and will be wielding his
barber shears as usual at Park
ers in Ridgeway.
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TO ELECT OFFICERS
SOLDOTNA —- The Soldotna
Kart Club will meet at 8 p.m.
Tuesday, May 21, at Reger’s Gar
age for the purpose of incorpora
tion and the election of new of
ficers. Bill Gibbs currently is
serving as president of the organ
ization.
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I
REEVES BILL GOES
TO WHITE HOUSE
Passage by the House last week
sent S.395, by Sen. E. L. Bartlett,
to the White House. The bill, of
which an identical measure was
sponsored in the House by Rep.
Ralph J. Rivers, would validate
disallowed homestead entries by
Leo F. Reeves of Soldotna.
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