Kenai-Homer Teams Tie
In Cross Country Meet;
Wasilla Wins Varsity Race
Kenai and Homer Junior Var
sity teams tied at 34 points for
the 2x4-mile course when the
local sports season was ushered
in Saturday by the Kenai Pen
insula Cross Country Meet.
Wasilla’s fleet-footed team
—scoring 32 points—ran away
with honors in the Varsity races,
placing first from among the
five schools represented in the
competition at Kenai. The seven
man Kenai team placed fourth.
Kenai runners will go to Pal
mer Saturday to participate in
the cross country races to de
termine the state championship
team of western Alaska.
The competition held at Kenai
this past Saturday was for Ken
ai Pen. championship. Teams
from Palmer and Wasilla, while
not from schools actually located
in the Peninsula, were entered.
Peninsula teams were from the
schools in Horner, Ninilchik and
Kenai.
Each team consisted of seven
runners. The team with the low
est number of points was winner,
says Jim Evensen, Kenai coach
for the past three years. Team
scores are determined by the
time in which the five fastest
runners in each team complete
the 2x4-mile course. One point
was given for the boy coming
in first, two for the runner com
ing second and on down to the
fifth runner for which the team
was allowed five points.
Teams participating in Varsi
ty events and their placings were
Wasilla, first, 32 points; Pal
mer, second, 57 points; Home r,
third, 59 points; Kenai, fourth,
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73 points, and Ninilehik, fifth,
118 points.
Runners in Kcnai’s Varsity
team were Mike Tauriavien, Gary
Davis, Larry Ericksen, Jack Por
ter, Guy Hayes, Thor Evenson,
and Jack Mann.
Running in the Junior Varsity
team for Kenai were Ronnie
Swanson, Dustin Rhodes, Bob
Lite, Jim Hall, Ernie Fletcher,
Charles Jackson and Chas. Mar
tin.
Mental Patients
Brought to Valdez
Fifty Alaskan mental patients
—the first to be cared for in a
state-operated facility— are “ad
justing very well” at Harborview
Nursing Home at Valdez, accord
ing to Lowell Swartz, home ad
ministrator.
They have been at the Valdez
home since Sept. 15 when they
were transferred by plane from
the Morningside Hospital in Ore
gon. The 25 men and 25 women
in the group have been hospital
ized a t Morningside, or else
where for from two to 43 years.
All are in relatively good
health and none is in need of
treatment for an acute physia
catric problem, says Dr. Homer
R a y, clinical director of the
State Department of Health and
Welfare Mental Health Division.
Recent
Arrivals
Casey Stanley Miller
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Miller
of Kenai are announcing birth of
a son, whom they have named
Casey Stanley. The infant was
born at the Central Kenai Pen
insula Medical Clinic on Oct. 3,
weighing 7 lbs. 14 oz.
Sandra Lynn Kohut
Sandra Lynn Kohut was bom
Oct. 5 at the Central Kenai Pen
insula Medical Clinic at Soldot
na, weighing 7 lbs. 4 oz. Her
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Kohut of the Reading and Bates
Camp, Sterling.
Rep. Rivers Will
Meet with Kenai
Demo Club Friday
Rep. Ralph Rivers will make
a brief trip into the Kenai Pen
insula area this week and will
be in Kenai on Friday, Oct. 6,
and in Seward on Oct. 7, it was
announced Wednesday by Mrs.
Lyman McBride, program chair
man of the Kenai area D e m o -
eratic club.
There will be a non-host cof
fee at the Rig Cafe in Kenai be
ginning at 2 p.m. Friday. Con
gressman Rivers will be most
happy to meet with people in the
Kenai area at this time, Mrs.
McBride said.
Natural Gas May
Soon Be in Use
At Alaska Bases
A proposal from the Alaska
Pipeline Co. to convert burners
at Fort Richardson and Elmen
dorf Ai,r Force Base from coal
to natural gas is being reviewed
by the Department of Defense
following a recommendation from
the Army that the conversion be
carried through, according to Ed
ward J. Sheridan, deputy assist
tant secretary of defense. The
Air Force is expected to take
the same position, Sheridan told
den. Ernest Gruening,
Under the ten-year contract
proposed, estimated savings to
the government are expected to
run $886,000 per year during the
first five years and $673,000 an
nually thereafter Sheridan re
ported.
This would more than offset
estimated revenue losses to the
Alaska Railroad from coal trans
portation, he said. A standby
source of fuel, in the form of
oil, is an element of the proposal.
Sheridan said the Standard
Oil Company of Calif, has asked
that any decision be deferred
until it can present a proposal
based on conversion to oil which
would be produced in a refinery
planned near the Swanson River
field, which might be even more
economical.
Sen. Gruening has insisted that
any decision take into account
all factors, including the effect
on employment of coal miners
and others.
Kenai Scheduled
For Educational
Survey Study
Members of the Continuing
Education Study Group of the
University of Alaska will visit
Kenai from 11 a.m. to 7:20 p.m.
on Tuesday, Oct. 10, according
to William R. Wood, University
of Alaska president.
Using their observations on the
trip and the advice of local lead
ers consulted as a basis, members
of the committee will present
recommendations to the univer
sity administration and the Board
of Regents which may lead to
significant changes in adult edu
cation services provided Alaskans
by their state university.
Dr. Arthur Buswell, Dean of
Statewide Services, University of
Alaska, and four other members
of the committee will consult
with Kenai leaders as a part of
their visit to various Alaskan
communities between Oct. 3-18.
Other members of the commit
tee expected to accompany Doc
tor Busweil are Dr. J. R. Kidd,
secretary - treasurer, Social Sci
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and former Executive Directoi.
Canadian Adult Education Assn.
Dr. Julius M. Nolte, Dean, Uni
versity Extension, University of
Minnesota; Dr. Lloyd Drury.
Dean, Statewide Services, Uni
versity of Nevada, and Dr.
George W. Adams, Academic Vice
President, University of Alaska,
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