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The Kenai Peninsula
Cheechako News
"NEWS FROM THE OIL CENTER OF ALASKA"
SECOND YEAR
Friday, February 17, 1961
10c a Copy
Number 30
Clendenen Dogs Pull 6175 lbs; Break World Record
Father Dies
Mother Hurt
Word of the death of her
father from a heart attack in
Temple, Texas, was received
by Mrs John W. “Mildred”
Martin of Soldotna on Monday
Feb. 6th. Mildred immediate
ly called her brother only to
be informed that her mother
had been in an auto accident
the same morning and was in
the hospital critically injured.
Mildred caught the first plane
to the states to be with her
mother.
Anchor Point Snow Festival Queen Phyllis Wilson of Ke
nai present Gareth Wright with the first place trophy he won
last Sunday in the 30-mile sled dog race.
Fire Destroys Seabreeze Inn
Fire totally destroyed the
Sea Breeze Inn (until recently
Jackinski’s. Ranch) at Ninil
chik. The fire started about
8:30 last Sunday night while
the Inn was closed.
Only one person, an em
ployee, Frank Zdorsky was in
the building at the time. The
fire was out of control when
Frank was awakened and he
managed to escape through a
window receiving severe lac
erations on his face and hands
and 2nd degree bums on his
back and arms. Mr. Zdorsky
was taken to the Homer hos
pital for treatment and re
leased Tuesday.
RoadsTop List of Requests
By Voters of District 12
Leo Rhode of Homer, repre
sentative-elect from District 12,
the Western Kenai-Cook Inlet
area, recently completed a ser
ies of meetings in Sterling
Highway towns on what the
voters want from the forthcom
ing legislature.
“The desire for access roads
tops all the requests that have
been made to nS* by voters in
the Western Kenai area,” said
Rhode. “This is the most urgent
request from residents all along
the Sterling Highway in order
to open up land for easier set
tlement.
“Second on the list of re
quested legislation is to allow
deputy magistrates in Kenai,
Homer and Seldovia to handle
juvenile problems. Presently
only a traveling magistrate out
of Anchorage can sit in a juven
ile case and court loads in the
Anchorage area have permitted
very little travel by district
magistrates for the purposes of
handling juvenile problems in
outlying areas of District 12.
“Many residents have also re
quested a change in the elec
tion code to abolish party vot
ing and to provide for an elect
ed attorney general. Other
changes in the election law
also been requested.
“A raise in the salary of
state employees and revision of
the land laws particularly with
regard to the Kenai Peninsula
were also asked. In the city of
Kenai, the land problem is
acute since a portion of the
land within the city limits is
owned by the State govern
ment and another portion is
owned by the Federal Govern
ment, making only a part of the
land within the city limits sub
ject to a property tax.”
Rhode also stated that he had
been asked to introduce legisla
tion which will permit a sales
tax proposition to be put on the
ballot at the same time that a
community votes on incorpora
tion.
ESC legislation to change cer
tain portions of the law has
also been asked, Rhode said,
along with an open range law,
improvement of airports, con
trol of erosion in Ninilchik and
Homer and a tax on dogs. In
formation on boroughs and
what the legislature will do on
their implementation has also
been an important topic
(Continued on page S)
Comm. Fishing Regs. Ready
Commercial fishing regula
tions for 1961 have been releas
ed by the Alaska board of fish
and game after a ten-day meet
ing in Juneau.
Important changes in the
Cook Inlet commercial fishing
regulations include establish
ment of Kamishak Bay, west of
a line from Chinitna Point to
Cape Douglas, as a distinct
management area, and modifi
cation of the Southern District
to include Koyuktolik (Dogfish)
Bay within its boundaries. The
former Eastern District of Res
urrection Bay will now be in
cluded in the Cook Inlet Outer
District.
North of Anchor Point salm
on season opens June 8, with
no mesh size restriction on nets.
All other districts of Cook In
let will be opened by field an
nouncement; all districts will
be closed by field announce
ment.
The gear timetable has been
dropped in Cook Inlet.
Trolling will be allowed in
the Eastern District south of a
line extending from Callisto
Head to the northern tip of
Hive Island to Cape Resurrec
tion.
One end of each set net must
be fastened to a stake that has
been driven without the aid of
any floating craft, and one
stake of each set net must go
dry on one end in the lowest
minus tide of the season.
Herring may be taken by any
type of legal fishing gear.
A 30-pot limit for crab fish
ing remains for the Southern
District; there will be no pot
limit for crab fishing in all
other districts of the Cook In
let management area, and a
float design registration sys
tem is to be required for all
crab pots.
The use of trawls in Kache
mak Bay for obtaining bait is
restricted to the area south of
a line drawn from Point Pogib
shi to Glacier Spit, and extend
ing along the most northerly
points on Yukon and Gull Is
lands.
No subsistence fishing will
be allowed in the Susitna Riv
er.
The new regulations are to
be printed and available soon.
The Anchor River Snow Festival, which featured a thirty
mile Kenai Peninsula sled dog Championship race, and three
dog and one-dog weight pulling contest, also included a Junior
Musher five, three and one dog races, a snowshoe race. High
light of the Snow Ball wras the queen crowning ceremony. The
seven candidates included Janie Regan, Ninilchik; Judy Kra
mer, Anchor Point; Phyllis Wilson, Kenai; Connie Langlois,
Anchor Point; Carole Olsen, Soldotna; and Ellen Murto, Anchor
Point.
Phyllis Wilson of Kenai (17) sponsored by Archer’s Gro
cery Store and the Rig Bar and Cafe was selected queen and with
the princesses, presided over the Snow Festival dance and had
busy time appearing at the dog races and presenting awards
following the mukluk dinner Sunday night at the Community
Hall.
Also scheduled were a snowshoe baseball game, a skijuring
exhibition, ice sculpture exhibition, a carnival at the commun
ity hall and an Arts and Crafts exhibition, although the latter
was deferred in favor of the Kenai Peninsula Art Show which
was held in Homer on the same weekend.
Clint Thurmond of Anchor Point won the men’s snowshoe
race, Betty Platt was first in women’s division and Gary Case
beer won the Junior race.
The Junior mushers three mile 3-dog race was won by Paul
Mutch of Anchor Point with total time of 34 minutes and 10
seconds. Larry Smith with 39 minutes, 29 seconds was second.
Competitors Darlene Robbins and Kenneth Leffel were disquali
fied.
The one dog 100 yd, race was won by David Anderson with
a total time for two heats of 1 minute 46 seconds to beat out
his sister Joyce Anderson by two seconds.
Diane Griner, 1960 Champion, who turned in a terrific
time of 38 seconds for the first heat was disqualified the second
day when her dog left the track. Anyone who saw Diane’s ef
fort to complete the race knew they were watching a real cham
pion. The other competitor Fred Griffin, disqualified on the
second heat.
The five dog Junior Mushers turned in the race of the Snow
Festival on Sunday when all three entrants finished nose-to-tail.
Johnny Howard turned in the best time for the two day 12 mile
race to win the trophy with total time of 1 hr. 23 min. and 46
sec. for the two six-mile heats. Mike Plath w-as second with
1-24-52 and Lance Leffel 1-25-17 third.
The Snow Ball was a standing room only affair and Musher
Joe Gordon was quoted as saying that the 30 mile race wasn’t
so bad, it was that all night dance that tired him out.
The weight pulling dogs were the real stars of the Anchor
Point Snow Festival. Larry Clendenen’s dogs £at, King and
Charlie buckled into their traces and moved over a ton apiece to
set a new world’s record for the three-dog heavyweight pull
moving over the 50’ course, the unbelievable weight of 6175
lbs. for a new world’s record. This weight which was 1101 lbs.
greater than the pull this same team made to win at the 1960
Fur Rendezvous was only barely enough to take the trophy from
Stanley Hundorf’s 3-dog team which pulled 6085 lbs. for second
place.
In the one-dog heavy pull Inez Clendenen’s urged King on
to win with a 1595 lb. pull and Emil Jasky’s dog took second
with 1325 lbs.
In the one-dog light pull Bill Brody won with a pull of 475
lbs. and little Darlene Robbins took second.
In spite of the twm Anchor River floods and lack of snow*
which caused postponement of the Snow Festival the affair was
finally run off under near ideal conditions of blue skies and a
foot of new snow and is now secure in its place as one of the
major events of the Alaska Winter Season.
Chamber Backs Borough Bill
The Kenai Peninsula Cham
ber of Commerce meeting was
hosted by the Homer Chamber
last week. Main discussion was
on the borough bill now before
the State Legislature. The ef
fect of boroughs on federal im
pact funds for schools and pro
cedures for splitting boroughs
were among topics considered.
Elizabth April of April’s Mo
tel in Anchor Point reports
that at the previous meeting in
Seward, the Peninsula Cham
ber went on record as recom
Bordinelli To Be On TV
Tony Bordinelli, owner and
operator of Jet Bar in Kenai
leaves soon for a trip to New
York where he will appear on
the program “I’ve Got a Sec
ret.” Tony’s secret? Since last
winter he’s the new world’s
champion endurance bowler.
mending passage of t h e bor
ough bill this session to be
come effective April 1, 1962.
Next meeting is scheduled
for Soldotna on Saturday, Feb
ruary 18 th.
ANNUAL MEETING
of
Stockholders of
Central Kenai Peninsula
Medical Clinic
MONDAY FEB. 27th
at 1:00 P.M.
in the Clinic
All Stockholders Welcome
Only Class A stockhold
ers allowed to vote.