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Or. Lombard Winner of
First Annual Alaska State
Championship Races
Dr. Roland Lombard, 61, veterinarian from Weyianri, Mass., adde,
another victory to his long string of dog mushing honors this pasl
weekend by winning the first annual Alaska State Championship Sled
Dog Race. He is the first holder of the perpetual trophy presented by
rtirbt i ruck & Tractor Co., Soldotna. The trophy will be retired
after being won by the same musher three times.
Sponsored jointly by Kenai and Soldotna, the race was run in two
heats over a 15-mi!e trail laid out between the two towns, mostly
paralleling the highway. The race originated in Soldotna on Saturday
and in Kenai on Sunday.
Lomoard had best time on both heats and walked away with
in prize money. Total elapsed time was 1 hour 58 minutes and
2d seconds.
George Attla, the ‘IHuslia Hustler" who carried away the "World
Championship" racing honors at the Anchorage Fur Rendezvous on
the preceding weekend, fell to second place in total overall time for
the two-day event. Attla’s total tune was 2-hours am' t minute.
Novice Skiers Plan
Giant Slalom Race
The Peninsula Sportsmen’s As
sociation will hold its Soldotna
Giant Slalom Ski Race, beginning
at noon-on March 18, on the Soi
dotna Ski Hill.
This will be a non-sanctioned
race for the novice skier and will
be open for the following classifi
cations: Junior Novice, Boys;
Junior Novice, Girls; Mighty Mite
No. 1, for 9 and 10ryear-old boys
and Jfirls, and Mighty Mite No. 2,
for boys and girls 8 years old and
younger.
There will also be a special
race for non-racing men and
women.
Trophies will be awarded to the
first three contestants placing in
each class.
The Katchemak Ski Club at
Homer and the Wildwood Station
Ski Club have been invited, to
participate and have signified
that they will enter the event
An entry fee of 50 cents has
been set for juniors and $1 for
adults. Each of those wishing to
enter are advised to send name,
age and entry fee to Stanley S.
McLane, Box 346, Scldotna, by
March 17. Drawing of position
numbers for the race will -be- at
-the McLane home at 8 p.m. on
that date
Bulletin!
Encouragement as io possible
addtions to two schools in the
Kenai-Soldotna area was received
via telegram Thursday afternoon
frm Gov. William A. Egan.
The wirp, addressed to Leo T.
Oberts, Kenai, read:
“Bond proposal offered by me
to Legislature today includes 8 to
10 classroom addition and multi
purpose room for North Kenai
School, total cost $554,000; also
4-classroom addition to Sterling
School, total cost $150,000.”
Oberts was appointed by Egan
in November, 1361, to serve on
the Governor’ Advisory Commit
tee to replace J. E. McGuire, who
was unable to serve.
Lombard spent bis entire $1,000
in prize money by buy mg- one of
At’la's lead dogs.
A totai of 11 mushers Were en
tered in the first heat and nine
completed the second heat.
Third-place winner for the two
days was Orville Lake of Anchor
age, the “Crown Prince of Bog
Mustang,” with total elapsed time
of 2:02-; 4-2.
Clyde Kasdan, Anchorage, old
est musher entered, placed fourth
with overall time of 2:17:35 and
bested. Gareth Wright of Soldotna
by only 25 seconds.
Wright, whose dogs crossed the
finish line in fourth shortest time
in the first heat, fell to fifth place
in overall time with an elapsed
time of 2:17:5Q.
Bud Smith of Big Lake made
fourth best time on the second
heat bat was ninth in total
elapsed time and was awarded the
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Hospital
Group Picks
Trustees
Election of a nine-member
board of trustees took place Mon
day night when the Central Kenai
Peninsula Hospital Association
held its first annual membership
meeting.
A total of EOS votes were oast,
including- those by proxy as well
as by members in attendance at
the meeting held in the high
school gymnasium at Kenai.
Election to the board was from
a slate of 18 suggested candi
dates.
Those elected were James E.
Fisher, Rev, Carl Click. J. H.
Lietzke, Jess Nicholas, Dick Mor
gan, Raye (Mrs. M. L.) Mullin
and Marion (Mrs. Leo) Oberts,
ail of Kenai, and Sylvia (Mrs.
Don) Johnson and Ruth (Mrs.
Keith) Hursh, both of North
Kenai.
New officers for CKPHA will
be elected from within the board
of trustees at a board meeting to
be called ne>" week.
Lietekr. Morgan and Fisher are
OK. LOMBARD (L), winner of the Alaska State
Championship Sleti Dog, Race, receives the
Wright, trophy from Gareth Wright, owner of
Wright Truck and Tractor Co,, while Kenai and
Soldotna Queens Pat McCollum and Barbara
t; fiourke look on approvinsfly. Dr. Lombard's
time for the two 15-mile heats between Kenai
ami SwJdotna was 1 hour 58 minutes and 26
seeconds.
AUSTRALIA BOUND
SOLDOTNA—Caii Green, der
rick man with Reading and Bates
Driftfftg Company, Inc., is leaving
for Melbourne, Australia, to work
in the oil fields there. Greene will
be working with Bill Clanton, tool
pusher in Australia, who formerly
was connected with local opera
tions of the company in the Sol
dotna area,
to serve three-year terms; Mrs.
Mullin, Mrs. Johnson and Rev
erend Click for two-year terms,
and Mrs. Hurst, Mrs. Oberts and
Nicholas for one-year terms.
Other candidates suggested for
the board, but not elected, were
George Denison, Ridgeway; Ted
Gaines, Sterling; Ira Miller, Co
hoe; Eugene Morin, Kenai; and
Charles Griffin, Lottie Edelman,
Virginia (Mrs. Bill) Gibbs, Clar
ence Goodrich and Kearlee
Wright, all of Soldotna.
The recently incorporated asso
ciation has been headed tempo
rarily by Rev. Daniel Harlan,
first president, and by a boast'd
of trustees, all selected at an
organizational meeting on August
30, 1961. Fisher, Nicholas, Mrs,
Oberts and Mrs. Mullins served
on this temporary board.
Total membership in the
CKPHA now stands at 385 per
sons as of March 5, date of the
annual membership meeting.
A quorum of half of the mem
bership. or 193 votes cast either
by attending members or by
proxy, was necessary for the elec
tion to he in accordance with -the
organization’s by-laws. Total
votes cast numbered 15 more
than a quorum.
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