Sports Review
Soldotna Karter Wins
Gveraii Championship
In Rendezvous Races
James E. Gibbs, li>, of the Sol
dotna Kart Club won the overall
Anchorage Fur Rendezvous kart
championship with over 2200
points by taking first place in
Class A Standard Light 1-Engine
Stock division, second place in
•Class A Super Light 1-Engine
Modified and third place in Class
E Open Light 2-Engine Modified
kart racing events.
Zeke Parzeak of the Elmendorf
'Kart Club took second place with
1700 points and Donnley of the
Arctic Kart Club placed third
with 1100 points.
Rex Williams of the Soldotna
Kardinals
Defeat
Challengers
by Michaelene S. Pendleton
Wasilla challenged the cham
pion Kenai Kardinals to two
frames that were played last
Thursday and Friday at the Kenai
gym. Kenai won the first game
69 to 44. The first two quarters’
scores were 15 to 10 and 29 to 27
with Kenai barely leading. Then
the Kardinals caught fire in the
third quarter and made 24 points
to Wasilla's (5. In the fourth quar
ter Kenai racked up 1G points
while Wasilla made 11.
Scorers for Wasilla were Dick
Carl with 15, Joe Leone with 12,
Pete Hjellen with 7. Bill Gilbert
son with 4, Larry Hill with 2,
Ron Pierin with 2, and Wallace
Cronin with 2.
Kardinal scoring players were
Gary Martin with 15 points, Gary
Davis with 12 points, Mike Taur
rainen with 11 points, Kevin Wells
with 9 points, Thor Evenson with
S points, Jim Hall with 7 points,
•Guy Hayes with 4 points, Dave
Barksdale with 2 points, and Les
Youngblood with 1 point.
The Kardinals were victorious
in the second game on Friday al
so. They won by a score of 74 to
59. Again Kenai’s lead was slight
at the beginning but it widened
at the end of each quarter. The
quarter scores were 20 to 19, 43
to 33, and 60 to 46.
Wasilla scorers were Pete
iHjellen with 16 points, Dick Carl
with 14, Ron Pierin with 12, Joe
Leone with 8, Bill Gilbertson with
6, Jay Sellens with 4, and Pat
Patterson with 5.
Kenai scorers were Mike Taur
iainen with 18, Gary Davis with
18, Thor Evenson with 14, Larry
7, Jim Hall with 7, Gary Martin
with 2, and Dave Barksdale with
1 point.
Sterling School
To Host Soccer
Tourney March 9
Two separate tournaments, one
for girls and the other for boys,
will be included in the competi
tion on March 9 when the First
Annual Kenai Peninsula Soccer
Tournaments get underway at 10
a.m. at Sterling School.
The Kenai Peninsula Teachers’
Assoc., at its recent meet in Sol
dotna, voted endorsement of a
multi-activity program with each
activity to be sponsored annually
by some one individual school.
The Sterling School, of which Joe
G. Widman is principal, was de
signated as soccer sponsor.
Expected to participate in the
tournaments next weekend are el
ementary schools at Kenai, North
(Kenai, Soldotna, Sterling, Homer,
Ninilchik, Moose Pass, Cooper
Landing, and Tustumena, and also
the Alaskan Christian School at
Homer.
Kart Club entered the A Super
Heavyweight Class events but did
not place. This was Williams'
first race, however local karting
enthusiasms report that he shows
increasing promise of becoming
a real racer.
The Anchorage event was the
fourth race for young Gibbs and
was the first time he had partic
ipated in Rendezvous competition.
He has been racing only since
last fall and previous racing par
ticipation was in two events at
Palmer and one at Elmendorf. He
brought home second place honor
in Class B Open competition from
both Palmer and Elmendorf. Jim
my is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Gibbs of Soldotna.
The Soldotna Kart Club antici
pates an active race program at
Soldotna this season. The club
recently gained several new mem
bers. Other persons interested in
karting are advised to contact
Bill Gibbs, club president, at
Gibbs Apparel or Montana John
son, secretary.
Near Record
Fish Harvest
Fishermen in Alaska shared in
a near record fish and shellfish
catch in 1962, according' to a Bu
reau of Commercial Fisheries
compilation just released.
The nation’s salmon catch was
up from 310,412,000 lbs. in 1061
to 315,000,000 in 1062. King crab
take was up from 43,412,000 to
50,000,000 lbs. and shrimp from
174.404.000 to 190.000,000.
Halibut was down slightly
from 40,024,000 to 39,900,000 lbs.
and Alaska herring down from
49.465.000 to 32,000,000 lbs.
Postmaster
Position Open
The U.S. Civil Service Commis
sion has announced it is now re
ceiving applications at Washing
ton, D.C., for the position of post
master at Copper Center. Appli
cations must be received or post
marked not later than March 19.
The position pays an annual
salary of $4,965 plus a 25 per
cent cost-of-living allowance. Ap
plication blanks and copies of ex
amination announcements may be
obtained from local post offices
or from the Commission.
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The Soldotna Kart Club is justly proud of Jimmy Gibbs, 196.J
overall champion of the Anchorage Fur Rendezvous Kart Races.
Jimmy began his racing career this past fall and the Anchorage
event was his fourth race. Grouped here around his Met ulloch
modified Mc-6 kart are first, second and third and overall tniphies.
Wildwood Station Celebrates Army
Dental Corps Anniversary March 3
The 157th Medical Detachment,
the Dental Branch at Wildwood
Station is being offered birthday
congratulations along with the
Army Dental Corps, which cele
brates its 52nd anniversary on
March 3.
In HH1 Congress enacted into
law a bill which included provi
sions for commissioning dentists.
The Act provided for a Dental
Corps consisting of (50 dental sur
geons.
Today, fifty-two years later,
the Army has several thousand
dental officers who are constant
ly striving to make available to
service personnel, and when au
thorized, their dependents, the
latest in modern dentistry.
As a result of these constant
efforts, the Army Dental Corps
is second to none in the quality
of dentistry which it provides.
The mission of the Army Dental
Corps is to conserve manpower.
This responsibility includes the
prevention, detection and treat
ment of dental diseases in order
that the dental health of each
individual in the command is
maintained at the highest pos
sible level.
Modern techniques, equipment
and materials have eliminated
much of the pain and discomfort
HAS EYE SURGERY
NINILCHIK — Word has been
received in Ninilchik that School
Superintendent Don Lawvere is
recovering satisfactorily at Ca
brini Hospital in Seattle follow
ing serious eye surgery. Mrs.
Lawvere returned from Seattle
earlier this month and is again
teaching her third and fourth
grade classes. The superintendent
is expected back in a few more
weeks. Eddie Blain is acting sc
perintendent in his absence.
associated with dentistry in the
past, and have made available
to the military patient the finest
of all types of dentistry.
Kardinals Lose to
Eielson 57 to 47
The Kenai Kardinal basketball
squad was bounced out of the
winner’s bracket last night jn An
chorage by Eielson by a score of
57 to 47, in the opening round of
the Western Alaska basketball
tournament.
Other games saw Kodiak up
setting West Anchorage High by
a score of 48 to 47, Fairbanks
defeating Homer C>0 to 42, East
Anchorage High trimming Palm
er 72 to 48.
(lames this afternoon and eve
ning will be West High against
Palmer, Fail banks will tackle
Eielson, Kodiak will try to stop
East High and Homer and Kenai
will battle it out for a win.
Should Kenai win today, they
will be in a spot to bid for third
place in the tournament in a game
to be played tomorrow night.
Games are being- played on the
West Anchorage High School
gym floor.
Estimated expenditures by the
petroleum industry in Alaska dur
ing 1962 for exploration, produc
tion and the construction of a re
finery on the Kenai Peninsula
amounted to $60.5 million.
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McCulloch Wins*
McCulloch karts swept
s OUT OF 7 FIRST PLACE
EVENTS IN THE 1963 FUR
RENDEZVOUS KART RACES
McCulloch engines took
ALL 7 REST PLACE TROPHIES
KMW THE CHAMPIONS
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