First Aid Training Finished
By Peninsula Hwy. Workers
The names of 17 Alaska Division of Highways employees,
who successfully completed a standard course in first aid training
during the past three weeks, have been released by James H. Messiek,
safety supervisor for the division. All of the employees ace on the
Kenai Peninsula.
Messiek said the 47 have passed all of the requirements set
jorth by the American Red Cross
for the standard course. The
group includes eight employees
from Homer, 29 from Soldotna,
eight from Portage and 11 from
Seward. Portage is regarded as
the gateway to the Kenai Pen.
Those from Homer are Frank
M Wise, Paul E. Jones, Robert
W. Kranich, Edward Rehder Jr.,
Noel T. Holt. Donald Franklin,
Harris L. Gordon and Lawrence
Rogers.
From Portage are Marjorie L.
Carter, James W. Carter, Tom L.
McCoy, Mrs. Tom L. McCoy, Car
rol R. Bolton, Bruce L. Baker,
Robert L. Newcomb, and John
Nesheim.
Those from Seward are Ernest
Blatchford, Robert Condit, Wil
Harry says:
EDUCATION—
Something made from the
flower of youth and t h e
dough of old age.
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HARRY WEST
INSURANCE AGENCY
Call Collect
CA 4-3021
Seward
k
liStti F. Frazier, Louis Soper,
Harvey Ainsworth, Robert Nich
olas, Leroy W. Bryson, Walter
E. Hedman, Paul Phillips, Dennie
P. McCart, and Arlington Flow
er.
From Soldotna are Edgar A,
Spruce, James C. Burrell Sr., D.
A. Sholin, Ralph Sobert, Edward
E. Hollier, Geo. L. Jaynes Jr.,
Wilbur Tri, Leroy Godes, William
Olsen and Justin Made.
Also William L. Hines, Melvin
C. Carlson, Lemoyne I. Gardner,
Charles O. Lewis, Raymond A.
Sandstrom, Richard J. Momm
sen, Raymond Steinberger, D. Ed
ward Smith, John J. Brennan and
George Denison.
Building Office
In Beaver Loop
KENAL-—Paul Sparks of Paul’s
Bookkeeping Service, is building
an office building of three-sided
logs in the Beaver Loop sub-divi
sion between Kenai and Ridge
way. He hopes to have his busi
ness operating from the new
building by February.
Sparks and his wife, Lottie,
and their children, Jimmy 2, and
Mike 1, have moved into the
Tom Hayes’ house on Homesite
Loop in Kenai.
Meanwhile the Sparks family is
being visited by a daughter, Mrs.
Monica Ross, and the Sparks’
new-born grandchild, Timothy
James Ross, both of whom ar
rived Monday night from Detroit.
Mieh.
James Ross, father and hus
band of the visitors, is on a tour
of duty with the U. S. Army in
Germany.
Alaska Motor
Registrations
Lead All States
Alaska leads all 50 states in
percentage increase of registered
motor vehicles this year over last
year, T. D. Sherard, director of
Alaska Div. of Hwys. reported.
Sherard said preliminary fig
ures released by the U. 3. Dept,
of Commerce show 1961 registra
tions in Alaska are 7.5 per cent
higher than 1960’s figure.
Alaska’s increase was made up
mostly in automobiles where the
1961 registration is 8.3 per cent
higher than last year. In truck
registrations Alaska’s total this
year is 5.6 per cent higher than
in 1960.
Child Care Facilities
There are 23 child care insti
tutions and 10 day nurseries in
Alaska for which the Division of
Public Welfare has issued a li
cense or permit to operate.
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DRY
CLEANING
and Laundry
4-day service
PICKUP STATION
CORDOVA AIRLINES
TICKET OFFICE
Soldotna
FLOWN BY CORDOVA AIRLINES TO
Anchorage Lndry. & Dry Cleaners
PHONE 2«2-4f61 HOURS: 8 A.M. TO 5 P.M.
Homesteaders Form Oil Bloc
Twenty-three homesteaders in
the East Forelands area north of
Kenai have committed their oil
ami gas rights to a bloc of 2654
acres, called the Nikiski Bloc,
for the purpose of leasing the
land to an oil company to get
drilling activity started in that
area.
The group is now endeavoring
to contact 100 major and inde
pendent oil companies in the U.S.
and Canada to see if any of them
will he interested in drilling ami
developing the bloc.
The land is near an area that
will be offered by the State for
offshore leasing next month and
is west of the present Swanson
River and Soldotna Creek units.
All land in the bloc is patented
with oil rights held by the var
ious homesteaders involved.
Oil rights have been committed
under special power of attorney
to Ivan Gilliam, who has author
ity to represent the group. Gil
liam formerly taught in Kenai
schools, homesteaded in the area
and currently is teaching in An
chorage.
Harry Drew and Mac McGahan,
both of North Kenai, and Fred
Bailey and Quinton Smith, both
T
now of Anchorage, have worked m
hard to pull the group together
and get the bloc organized, Gil
liam said. Committment plans’
were completed at a meeting held
Nov. 1.
Scrambled Garbage
KENAI — Myron Cronce,
while driving his garbage truck
on Oct. 27 missed the driveway
when he skidded on the icy road
turning into his place from Kenai
Spur road. The truck landed on
its side and Cronce had to get
Morris Coursen with his tractor
to right it. No damage was done
to truck or driver. Myron lives
2’j miles out of Kenai toward
Soldotna.
ARCHE IT of KENAI
OPPOSITE POST OFFICE
^ GAS
★ GROCERIES
★ PROPANE
★ KITCHENWARE
“If you can keep your
“Standard Brands"
when all about you
Are losing theirs to make a buck or two,
If you collect sales tax when all men spurn you
But make allowance for their spurning too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting
With eight ’nd a half years of distance run
Yours is the Store and everything that goes
with it
And what is more . . .
You’ll be a Groceryman!”
(WITH APOLOGIES TO RUDYARD KIPLING)
All Meats Sold Here Strictly
U.S.A.
Standard Products I