Speech-Hearing
Calendar Set
Speech and hearing therapy
•work with ai*ea children is sched
tded for the week of Feb, 12,
tinder direction of Dr. Helen Ditt
Order now
for spring
0 All Frigidaire Household
Appliances
• Frigidaire Ice Cube Machines
0 Any Size Under Bar, Beer or
Beverage Cooler
• Glass or Solid Door Beach-in
Refrigerators
• Vulcan Hart Gas Restaurant
Ranges
0 Walk In Freezers or Refrig
erators
• 7 Flavor Soda Water. Push
Button Dispensers.
0 7 Flavor Speed Bar. Pushbut
ton Dispensers
• Globe Meat Slicers Any Size,
Type or Make Commercial
0 Refrigeration Compressors
0 Bar or Restaurant Tables and
Chairs
0 Ice Cream Machines
0 Vent Hoods for Restaurant
Ranges
• Stainless Steel Sinks and
Cocktail Units
0 Frigidaire Launderette
Set lip
• Milk Coolers
SOLD, INSTALLED AND
SERVICED HERE AT HOME
Peninsula
Refrigeration Co.
Service and Sales
Commercial and Domestic s
Restaurant and Bar Fixtnres r\
—DAN 11 AMEER—
Phone; Soldotna 262-1600
Horn- r 2BS-88U
BOX 398 KEN AI
man, Anchorage. Her visits are
sponsored by the Kenai area
chapter of the Alaska Crippled
Children’s Association.
Dr. Dittman’s schedule begins
at Kenai where she will be avail
able at the Kenai Health Center
on Monday and Tuesday, Feb, 12
13, beginning at 8 a.m,
Wednesday, Feb. 14, at the
same hours, she will be at Sol
dotna school.
Thursday, Feb. 15, will be di
vided. The morning schedule will
we at the Tustumena school and
the afternoon at the Baptist
church in Sterling.
Friday, Feb. Ifr, Dr. Dittman
will return to either Kenai or Sol
dotna, depending on which com
munity expresses the greatest
need for her services.
REVIVAL CONTINUES
Evangelistic services at Soldot
r a Baptist Chinch will continue
through this Sunday night, Feb.
4, according to Rev. Paul Weim
er, pastor.
Rev. Floyd C. MeElveen, pastor
of the Conservative Baptist
church in Anchorage, is the evan
gelist.
Peninsula Loans
Granted by SBA
Ten Alaska loans totalling
$680,000, including three on- the
Kenai Peninsula, were on the No
vember list of the Small Business
Administration, and were among
the 695 just approved for the en
tire nation in the aggregate of
$34,055,000.
The Alaska loans, all involving
bank participation, included a to
tal of $65,300 for the three issued
in the Kenai Peninsula. The , re
mainder were for three firms in
Anchorage and one each in Jun
eau, Ketchikan, Palmer and Wil
low,
• i rA°wf^ninsula c<*i
cdriis wefe-llsttednrs $16,000 An
C la n\ Shell Lodge, in Chfru
Gulch; $15,000 for Alex Flyum
Jr., of Homer (hauling freight
by boat) and $.11,300 for the
Snorter Arms Co, of Homer. 1
Kenai Longshoremen
Find Work Challenging
Since November 1960, when the
first tanker ‘‘Berg’’ docked at Ni
kiski, the Kenai Longshore Unit
AFL-CIO has faithfully reported
for work as line handlers despite
obstacles that some of the long
shoremen have to overcome.
Dutch and Ross Renecker have
the biggest transportation prob
lem with six miles of rough trail
to navigate, but somehow their
ancient Dodge 4x4 never seems
to give up and they always make
it.
Les VanDovere and Jim Sprue
her are a little better off with
only two and one-half miles of
trail to fig'ht.
Bud Cupps, secretary and trea
surer of the union, is two miles
off the road, still has a long hike
if his truck g-ets bogged down
in snow or mud.
About the only one who is not
a homesteader- is Jack Walsh, %vho
lives in Kenai.
Ken McGahan is fortunate as
he lives a few yards from the
North Road.
Hank Bartos, newest member,
has it made as he lives right next
to the dock.
Ships may dock any time of
the day or night and the long
shoremen must keep in constant
touch with the dock for a “call
time.'’ Sometimes they get a 15
minute notice to get to -work.
For some longshoremen many
hours are lost waiting around
...... ■ 11 "I""*..'"'.mn
for a call time; it seems more
hours are spent in search of a call
time than are actually put on
the dock. In many cases it is
impossible for the dock superin
tendent to set a call time in ad
vance due to weather conditions
slowing' down the ships arrival.
The actual tieup of the ships
is usually easy, Lines are taken
to the dock with a 10 h.p. electric
capstan. Some ships use wire rope
while others use maniia lines and
a few use the new dacron lines
which are the “greatest.” They
are vary pliable, light and ex
tremely easy to handle. They do
not freeze like manila lines which
can give the longshoremen a bad
time when they are to be let go.
After the ship is tied up the
three oil hoses go aboard and are
bolted up. The ship usually pumps
several thousand barrels of bal
last ashore to a special tank be
fore taking- on the oil.
Several weeks ago the oil hose
was nearly torn loose when one
ship began parting lines due to
tons of ice that built up between
the bow of the ship and the dock
during the flood tide. Through
efforts of longshoremen and the
dock workers new lines were
brought on dock while the cap
tain skillfully maneuvered the ves*
sel to save the still attached oil
hose.
Ice has created problems sev
eral times. It comes up along- the
beach wan a gocxt iiooo tme and
slams into the dock shaking and
bouncing the outside dolphins to
such an extent that the long,
shoremen can scarcely walk on
the catwalk.
Many good friends have been
made between longshoremen and
the seamen aboard the tankers.
Though most seamen act as tho
Nfikiski is the "worst place on
earth to dock” they always have
a good time when they go ashore,
it is reported. Some of them have
been treated to moose dinners,
homebrew, fishing trips, and oth
er Alaskan treats'.
Longshoremen consistently tell
seamen of each ship that their
craft will make Nikiski as a reg.
u!a, run. Usually the seamen’s
faces drop a foot or so wjien
they hear the “good news.” The
Bosun on the “Catawba Fowl”
swore up and down that he’d quit
if he had to make one more run
to Nikiski.
However, there are many sea
men who like this country. Two
of them like it enough that they
plan to quit sailing and make Al
aska their home. This summar
they will move o.rt their home
steads which were obtained for
them through one of the long,
shoremen.
PASTOR’S WIFE ILL
SGLDOTNA— Mrs. Paul Wei
rner, wife of the pastor of the*
Soldotna Baptist church, has been
seriously ill for the past two
weeks. During her illness, women
of the church have been helping
to keep the Weimer home fires
burning. .
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First New Gas Generation Power Plant
ON THE KENAI PENINSULA! Built by Consolidated Utilities, Ltd., this new power plant is one of the first keys to opening
the Kenai area for industrial and low cost home use. Powered by natural gas with a first stage capacity of 15&GKW, the
new power plant will be hooked up to Kenai Power Corp., distribution lines thereby backing up the City of Kenai with four
times more power than they are now using. Come on out. Engineers will be on hand to explain the operation and answer
your questions. Take the Sports Lake Rd. (just below Site No. 17) and follow the signs to the big new power plant building.
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