Joe Brandon finishes strong in last year's Anchor Point Snow
Festival race. The Festival, postponed because of weather condi
tions. has been rescheduled for February 8, 9 and 10 this year.
Sports Review
Kardinals Drop Two in City League
Play To Wildwood Teams, 58-50, 79-63
by Michaelene S. Pendleton
The nights of Friday and Sat
vu’day, Jan. 11 and 12 were de
voted entirely to City League
basketball play at Kenai High.
Friday night, the first game be
tween the Kardinals and the Wild
ood Will-O-The-Wisps ended in
efeat for the Kenai team as the
Post took it 58 to 50. It was a
dose game all the way with Kenai
leading 10-10 at the end of the
f:rst quarter. The halftime score
•..as 31-20 with Wildwood on top.
however. Wildwood led by only
one point, 39-38, at the end of the
third.
Scoring players for the Will-O
The-Wisps were Jarus with 24
points, Dam with 13, Pugit with
t, Collins with 8, Brewer with 3,
and Horman with 2.
Scorers for the Kardinals were
Gary Davis with 15, Gary Martin
with 12, Thor Evenson with 8,
Mike Tauriainen with 6, Guy
Hayes with 4, Jim Hall with 3,
and Larry Jordan with 2.
The second game on Friday was
between the Soldotna Misfits and
the Kenai PT-A. The PT-A won
fr y a score of 82 to 26. The PT-A
Led all the way with scores of 24
4. 8-10 and 61-21.
Scoring players for the Misfits
• ere J. Holly with 11, Winkle
v ith 6, Phillips with 4, McFar
land with 3, and G. Holly with 2.
PT-A scorers were Willaford
Big Construction
Year Forecast
By Highway Dept.
The biggest highway construc
tion year in the history of the
.^tate coming up this year, com
ined with a standing shortage
■ f qualified engineering person
nel, has created a critical demand
for trained civil engineers, John
. lechling. Department of High
■ ays personnel, said last week.
The department has been
. arching for trained personnel
n rough out Alaska for a year, of
: . ring direct interviews with the
■ istrict highway engineers, he
aid, but apparently there are
few unemployed civil engineers ip
Alaska. Mechling urged anyone
ho is qualified to fill an engin
tering position with the depart
ment to contact the State Em
loyment office or highway office
earest them.
In 1963 the Highway Depart
ment will have approximately
-70,000,000 worth of road con
t ruction under contract. This ac
celerated program has created the
urgency, Mechling said, leaving
lore than 200 engineering vacan
cies, ranging from recent gradu
ates to high level design and su
ervisory positions.
“With this expanded highway
rogram, rapid advancement cre
ates jobs at all levels,” he said.
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with 24, Mullins with 15, Petersen
with 12, Evenson with 9, Phillips
with 7 and Porter with 2.
Saturday night Wildwood teams
were victorious in both games.
In the first game the Will-O-The
Wisps heat the Soldotna Misfits
by a one-sided score of 129 to 35.
The halftime score was 55 to 17
in Wildwood’s favor.
Scorers for outplayed Soldotna
were Holly with 10, Slaton with 8,
Smith with 6, Harris with 6, Mc
Farland with 3, and Titten with
2.
The impressive scoring players
for the Post team were Herman
with a smashing 64, Pugh with 21,
Dam with 13, Jarus with 9, Man
ning with 8, and Brewer with 6.
The second game was between
the Kenai Kardinals and the Wild
wood Wayfarers. The Wayfarers
won by a not-too-large margin of
79 to 63. At the end of the first
quarter Kenai trailed by one
point, 14 to 15. The halftime score
was still close 31 to 35. The third
quarter ended with Wildwood still
in front, 57 to 51.
Scoring players for the Way
farers were Ward with 44, Comp
ton with 15, Porter with 11, Hol
lingsworth with 6, and Barter
with 2.
Kenai Kardinal scorers were
Mike Tauriainen with 16, Gary
Davis with 15, Larry Jordan with
12, Thor Evenson with 11, Guy
Hayes with 4, Jim Hall with 3
and Gary Martin with 2.
Though the Kardinals did lose
two games, their conference
standing has not been changed.
Bowling Tourney,
Dance to Benefit
March of Dimes
Kenai and Slodotna are cooper
ating in the March of Dimes drive
as far as final collections are con
cerned although each town is au
tonomously conducting its own
drive. Final collections, however,
will be turned in as a joint tabu
lation from the Kenai-Soldotna
area when the drive officially
ends the night of Jan. 31.
Mrs. Richard Douville and Mrs.
John Wood are co-chairmen of the
March of Dimes campaign in the
Soldotna-Ridgeway area while
Mrs. .John Shaffer and Mrs. H. C.
Jones are cooperating in spear
heading collections in the Kenai
North Kenai area.
Mi-s. Douville has announced
several fund raising projects are
planned in Soldotna in addition
to the Mothers March on Polio to
be conducted throughout the day
and evening on Friday, Jan. 25,
by volunteer solicitors.
A high series bowling tourna
ment began Thursday night, Jan.
17, at the Sky Bowl and will con
tinue through Thursday, Jan. 24.
Prize money will be awarded each
night to the player with the high
est series in each league. An entry
fee of $1 is required for bowlers
to enter the tournament. One
half of entry fee collections is be
ing used for prize money and the
other 50CA goes to the March of
Dimes.
On Saturday, Jan. 26. the 25th
anniversary of the beginning of
the March of Dimes campaign to
fight polio will be observed in
Soldotna with a benefit dance to
be held at the Soldotna Elks Club.
There will be live music for danc
ing beginning at 9 p.m. and en
tire ticket proceeds will benefit
the March of Dimes.
Coin containers were placed in
all business houses in both Kenai
and Soldotna on Jan. 1.
Mrs. Shaffer said no special
fund raising projects are planned
in Kenai but a concerted drive
will be made on Jan. SI when the
Mothers March is scheduled there.
SHE GROWS LEMONS
KENAI — Mrs. A1 Lee and her
lemon tree reportedly are creat
ing much interest in the Kenai
area. Mrs. Lee has successfully
grown an orange tree for the past
two years and it developed fruit
of miniature size. The lemon tree
was oi’dered for her by Nu-State
Nursery and Flower Shop, Kenai,
and already had two full sized
lemons when it arrived. The spe
culation now is — will it continue
to produce?
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Peninsula Champions
To Play Professional
Bowler This Weekend
Top bowlers, determined in a
roll-off at the Kenai Bowl this
past Sunday will have an oppor
tunity this weekend to bowl with
a champion, Bill Bunetta, an AMP
staff professional from Califor
nia.
Bunetta is scheduled to bowl
the top scoring Junior League
bowlers Saturday at 2 p.m. and
will team with the Kenai Penin
sula's top woman howler to play
the two top men Sunday at 6 p.
m. Bunetta will also give instruc
tions during his two day stay in
Kenai and plans to show a bowl
ing film at an hour as yet unan
nounced.
In Sunday’s roll-off competition
22 top area men bowlers partici
pated in a 10-game series. Gary
Pollard, who is 14 years of age,
had a total of 1010 pins, averag
ing 191 for 10 games, making him
top bowler in the competition.
Walt Myrick, second, had 1884
pins for an 188.4 average for 10
games. Myrick also rolled a 710
series in a scratch league about
two weeks ago and is now the
33rd bowler in the state to be ad
mitted into the elite “700 Club.”
Following the men’s roll-off,
14 of the best women bowlers in
the area bowled in a 6-ga.me ser
ies with Shirley Ford, Soldotna,
topping competition with 1006
pins. Runners up were Gladys
Youngblood, for second with loot
and Babe Wade, third with 985.
Miss Ford will be billed as Hill
Bunetta’s partner Sunday night
in a match against Gary Pollard
and Walt Myrick.
In Junior League play Sunday
afternon in the Bantam roll-off
for bowlers 12 years of age or
younger, the three top bowlers
were Delores McGahan, Joe Ar
ness and Berry Youngblood. They
will be Bunetta’s partners howl
ing Saturday against the two top
bowlers from the Junior division,
Judi Mann (top girl) and Chuck
Davis (top boy), and the top boy
and girl from the Senior Division,
Dusty Rhodes and Mary Alice
Grainge.
Norm Mapes, manager of the
Kenai Bowl, says persons inter
ested in good bowling have a
treat in store both Saturday af
ternoon and Sunday night when
they watch these players in ac
tion.
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