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1961 Peninsula
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more wildcat wells are due this
year,
Kenai Pipeline Co, has related
an expansion program for 1961
for its crude oil handling facili
ties that will cost more than $500,
000. A 200,000 barrel tank at Ni
kiski Marine Terminal will be in
stalled and pumping facilities ex
panded to increase pumping ca
pacity to 30,000 barrels daily. To
date six tankers have been load
ed out at the new Nikiski Ter
minal.
Peninsula homesteaders are
seeking more oil and gas rights
and are submitting applications to
Sen. Ernest Gruening, says Gene
Smith, Cohoe, president of Alas
ka Entrymen's Rights Assoc.
APRIL
A Kenai Peninsula League of
Chambers of Commerce has been
organized,
A sum of $50,000 has been al
loted for the long awaited Funny
River road, which will provide
access for 35 homesteads. A park
of 200 acres is to be located near
the Soidotna airstrip,
Clarence E. Goodrich has been
appointed Civil Defense director
for the Soidotna area.
Frank Cordrey, Kenai school
superintendent, said he will not
"seek a new contract” for the
coming year. Rita Waldron. form
erly of Colorado Springs, has op
ened an accounting office in Ke
nai.
The Cooper Lake power project
has been energized and is soon to
-send power to Homer.
The $60,000 Central Kenai Pen
insula Medical Clinic has been
completed and two doctors are in
process of moving their equip
ment into the building.
The Kenai Civil Air Patrol
Squadron was honored by the
highest aw'ard given to a unit, the
Unit Citation, for its outstanding
search and rescue work perform
ed in the area.
Mairiis Kilcher, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Yule Kilcher, Homer,
has won an Audobon scholarship
which will permit her to continue
her studies in ornithology at the
Audobon camp in California.
MAY
A] Ghezzi, president of Alaska
Freight Lines, was injured when
he walked into an idling airplane
propeller at the Kenai airfield
and received severe lacerations
to his arm and shoulder.
Election results: Kenai residents
cast 175 ballots, of which three
were rejected, and those elected
were John Swanson, mayor;
Councilmen (1-year terms) Carl
Seaman, Chester Cone; Council
men (2-year terms) Tom Hayes,
Carl Swansoh; Councilmen (3-yr.
terms) Mac McGahan, Dick Mor
gan; school board Mrs. Glen Kipp.
Soldotna residents cast 60 bal
lots (70 residents were registered)
—councilmen elected were Don
Wilson, Burton Carver, Dal Ror
rison, L. Hirsehberger, Ted
Grainge and Dolly Farnsworth.
Kenai had a double celebration
on May 13—-dedication of the new
post office with U, S. Postmaster
General Edwaid J. Day and other
federal and state officials partici
pating, and the big Armed Forces
Day celebration and open house
at Wildwood Station.
Mrs. Archie (Enid) McLane of
Kasilof, at present principal of
Tustumena school, has been asked
to help write a handbook for use
of teachers in one ami two-room
schools in Alaska. Mrs. McLane
•has been teaching in Alaska since
1920 with Ninilehik as her first
school.
Bernice Lake is seen as a pos
sible refinery site for Standard
Oil’s new 20,000 barrel per day
refinery. Standard has been Buy
ing options in this North Kenai
area for several weeks.
Thirty-four were graduated at
Kenai high school with Martha
Lancashire as valedictorian for
the Class of 1961 and K a r i n
Mainwaring as its saluatorian.
JUNE
Mr, and Mrs, G. H. Hale and
daughters, Valerie and Lou, were
marooned for four days on Ski
lak Lake’s Caribou island due to
motor failure.
Some 250 signers of a petition
to build housing on Kenai Natl.
Moose Range have received a def
inite “No” to their request.
Elton Anderson, Anchor Point,
required 65 stitches after his
pickup truck overturned on Dia
mond Creek hill.
Installation of the first natural
gas consumer service line on the
Soldotna Transportation Co.
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Kenai Peninsula began Jane 19
•when Locher Pipeline Co. crews
began digging in for their two
inch main across the Cheechako
News parking lot in Ridgeway
between Kenai and Soldotna.
The Aiimess Terminal on Niki
ski Beach is open for business,
says Jim Arness, owner-operator.
This is the first public use barge
unloading facility in the Kenai
area.
Mike Morkroid, commercial fish
erman out of Cohoe, was found
dead in his boat, evidently over
come by carbon monoxide gas
leaking from a broken exhaust
pipe.
The Sam Miller home on Kenai
Spur road was gutted by a fire
started by defective wiring.
Three Redemptorist Fathers
from Portland arrived on the Ke
nai Peninsula June 6 to take up
duties of the Peninsula-wide par
ish which Father Custer of Sew
ard formerly served as traveling
pastor. Father Van Hoomissen
will pastor the Kenai-Soldotna ar
ea; Father Palmer the Seward
area and Father Woodruff the
Homer area.
A brush and forest fire in the
vicinity of the €. M. Garruthers
home on Kenai Spur road burned
over 15 acres of timber and tundra
before being brought under con
trol by Kenai fire department and
volunteers.
JULY
Inauguration of Alaska’s first
civilian consumer natural gas
service line took place in Soldot
na on July 15, the first day of
Soldotna’s Progress Days week
end celebration.
The extensive search for two
canoeists, Reymond Bass and
Richard Yettiek, both of Anchor
age, has been given up by the
CAP and the men are believed
to have drowned in Skilak Lake.
Lew Field, Sterling farmer, re
ports he is being eaten oat of
house and home by an epidemic
of sand hill cranes.
Joe Tietjen was ali-airound cow
boy , winning or placing In seven
events, during the first two-day
rodeo to be held in Soldotna's
brand new 350 x 165 ft .arena.
The sockeye salmon run is ex
ceeding expectations, says A. R.
Pearmain, superintendent for Co
lumbia Ward Fisheries. Approxi
mately 35,000 cases of 1-lb. cans
have been processed since the
season opened June 8.
A walking blood bank Is being
established at the Clinic in Sol
dotna.
Dr. Elmer Gaede, Soldotna res
ident, is now associated with Dr.
Paul Isaak in operation of the
Central Peninsula Clinic.
Frances (Mrs. Gene) Torkilsen
assumed duties of city clerk in
Kenai on July 19, succeeding John
Gunnison, who resigned to accept
a teaching position in the Pribi
olf Islands.
AUGUST
A double tragedy brought death
Jimmy Rose
Eager
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to two North Kenai boys when
Mickey Van Sky, 10, sand Johnny
Seaman, 11, drowned in Bernice
Lake only 300 yards from their
•homes just off Miller Loop Rd.
The City of Kenai staged a big
two-day celebration, Aug. 19-20, to
mark Kenai's 170th anniversary
of its founding by the Russians,
making it the second oldest set
tlement in Alaska. Proceeds went
to CAP for construction of a han
gar to house the squadron’s L-20
Beaver.
A head-on collision between two
cars on the Kenai Spur road
brought death to Pfc. Nicholas
Velazques-Santiago and Opal
Oates and injuries to two. others.
The Kenai squadron of Civil
Air Patrol has flown 44 missions
thus far in 1961.
Don L’Hirondel’e, Sterling, re
ceived a fractured shoulder and
other injuries when his ear was
SEE—1961 HIGHLIGHTS— p. 4
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