HIGHLIGHTS OF 1962
(Continued from Pape 5)
protection of Alaska’s fish.
Rebuilding of the former Kasil
of Chldren’s Home was announc
ed to begin soon with the home
to be renamed Alaska Christian
Children’s Home.
The Peninsula was shocked
when the worst aircraft disaster
in its history brought death to
five and injuries to others when a
Grumman Goose amphibian plane
sir i<hed into a hillside near Sel
dovia.
I'1 a s-Alaska Telephone Co.
mod that extended area
t lee between Kenai and Soldot
v, >ubl be continued and there
w mid be no toll charge as had
previously been planned.
SEPTEMBER
Ninilchik began the school year
with three brand-new 60-passeng
er buses.
Kenai schools opened with a
total enrollment of 655 students,
with 261 of them in high school.
Due to merger of the City Na
t! rial Bank of Anchorage and
the Alaska State Bank of Fair
1 the name of the Kenai
bn nch of the former banking es
as changed to Al
Bank, Kenai Branch.
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opening in a new building on
Sept. 22. Also in Soldotna, the
second sale of lots conducted by
the Alaska Division of Lands was
held bringing more than $21,000
to state school funds.
Ninilchik Schools reported an
enrollment gain in both grade and
high school and at Sterling a con
crete playground pad was poured.
In Soldotna the Baptist Mission,
the Church of God and the Luth
eran Church embarked on build
ing programs.
The Soldotna post office moved
into its new modem building on
Sept, 16-17 and announced a de
dication set for Oct. 1.
The Trans-Alaska Telephone
Co. switched over service to the
new central dial office in Soldot
na at midnight on Sept 22 and
new telephone numbers in the
Soldotna and Sterling areas went
into effect.
Kenai High School welcomed
its long-awaited student, Ben
Blastus, from East Africa. Also
at Kenai, the Bill’s Club building
was undergoing final repairs pri
or to the Sept. 29 opening.
At Homer, funeral services
were held for a 1-year-old youth,
Bruce Arthur McDowell, w’hose
body was recovered from the bay
after his disappearance from the
60-foot vessel “Greyling” charter
ed to Geophysical Service Inter
national.
Secretary of Interior Udall, ac
companied by Governor Egan and
party, made a whirlwind tour of
Kenai and the Standard-Riehfield
refinery, saw an oil tanker load
ing; at the Kenai Pipeline install
ation, and conferred with local
Fish and Wildlife staff concern
ing the portion of the Moose
Range under consideration for
opening to oil leasing.
Ground breaking ceremony for
the building of Chugach Electric
Association’s new $2.5 million
10,000 kilowatt oil-fired Bernice
Lake plant north of Kenai took
place with operation of the plant
tentatively set for the last of
March in 1963.
A corporation to push construc
tion of a Kenai Community Clinic
was formed and fund raising be
gan.
OCTOBER
The Bishop Creek-Swanson
River Road survey began Oct. 10
and construction set for 1963. The
“Wild Duck” fishing boat was
roasted in a dock fire at Kenai
while moored to take a duck hunt
ing party across the Inlet.
A raging fire completely de
stroyed the Soldotna Body and
Paint Shop and its contents, in
cluding two cars, and also damag
ed extensively a trailer house
owned by Ridgeway Mobile
Homes and occupied by the Chuck
Walkers.
The Holt Farm Road Assoc, or
ganized and began a campaign to
Jim Doyle’s Back
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Ground breaking for the Kenai
Community Clinic took place on
Oct. 14 and construction began.
At Soldotna workmen were
busy in 12-hour shifts extending
and widening Soldotna’s City Air
port and the new post office was
dedicated.
Civic problems were of interest
to the Kasilof Boosters Club
which was endeavoring to get the
garbage dump cleaned up.
Bush Lanes, Inc. held its big
grand opening of the Kenai Bowl
for Oct 20 at which time Gov.
Egan and other political hopefuls
were special guests.
The Local Affairs Agency in
Juneau reported receiving a pe
tition for a proposed incorpora
tion of a Homer-Ninilchik Bor
ough as a borough of the first
class. The area included also took
in Anchor Point.
An intensive search was under
way for Carl S. Glick, missing Ke
nai man. whose plane was believed
to have ditched while enroute
from Anchorage to Kenai. (As of
the end of 1962, there still had
been no trace discovered of him
or his plane )
Political rallies and spirited
campaigns were being waged
throughout the Kenai Peninsula.
NOVEMBER
Cooper Landing’s well known
Kenai Lake Lodge burned to the
ground in approximately 30 min
utes in a fire believed to have
started from an exploding fur
nace.
Write-in campaigns sparked the
interest of voters as the Peninsu
la prepared for the Nov. 6 elec
tion, while the huge GOP rally
at Soldotna was dubbed one of the
top political gatherings.
Peninsula voters flocked to the
polls in record numbers and cast
votes giving a plurality to De
mocratic candidates, with only
two exceptions, and favoring In
itiative No. 1 to relocate the
>tate capital by an approximate
2 to 1 margin. The two Republi
cans winning favor of Peninsula
voters were Clem V. Tillion of
Halibut Cove, candidate for State
Representative from District 10,
and Charles E. Cole, Sr., of Se
ward, for State Representative
from District 9.
Kenai in a special city election
in conjunction with the general
election, voted overwhelmingly in
favor of issuance of nearly one
and one-half million dollars of
bonds for high school construc
tion.
The Central Kenai Peninsula
Hospital Association, Inc., in a
special membership meeting on
Oct. 29, selected site "Kenai No.
A” as first choice from four lo
cations suggested by the hospital
board for the proposed new com
munity hospital. The site lies be
tween Kenai Spur and Beaver
Loop Roads and adjoins the site
selected for erection of the pro
posed Kenai Central High School.
A total of 839 persons were is
sued permits at the Kenai Na
tional Moose Range Office in Ke
nai for the special antlerless
moose season, Nov. 1 through
Nov. 7.
The late bull season opened
Nov. 1, running through Nov. 30.
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