THIS ROSE-COLORED DAHLIA, measuring 11 inches in dia
meter, is definitely in the prize winner class. It was grown by
Amanda (Mrs. I). C.) Walker, formerly of Kenai, in the yard of
her Kasilof homestead home from one of four bulbs purchased
from a grocery store. Only in Kasilof can you grow such beau
ties, says Amanda. No unusual care, except for a little applica
tion of 10-20-10 fertilizer, was used. Amanda presented the huge
bloom to one of her friends, Mable Smith, who is admiring it
here. Mable recently came from Anchorage to begin homestead
ing in the Soldotna area. She and Amanda attended high school
together many years ago in Hominy, Okla.
Demo Fund Drive
Chairman Named
Ruth Haley Dodds, Southcen
tral Chairman for the 1961 Dol
lars for Democrats Drive an
nounces the appointment of Mrs.
Lyman McBride and Mrs. Law
rence Lancashire as co-chairmen
for the drive in the northern sec
tion of Election District 12. Mrs.
McBride is program chairman of
the Central Peninsula Democrat
ic club, president of the Kenai
Chapter of ACCA, and a member
of the Kenai Health Council.
Mrs. Lancashire was one of
the organizers of the Central
Peninsula Democratic Club, and
at present is secretary of that
organization. She is also presi
dent of the Kenai PTA.
News classifieds bring l-esults.
Gunsmithing
and
Machine Work
* Scopes
* Reloaders
* Stocking
* Rebarreling
Harold
FULLER’S
Gun b Machine Shop
Cooper’s Landing
Volunteer Fire
Fighters Save
Soldotna Home
A two-bedroom rental home
owned by Bill and Virginia Gibbs
was extensively damaged recent
ly when hot tar being used in a
roofing job ignited when being
poured into a bucket.
The house, located in Soldotna,
back of the Frank Mullen’s prop
erty on the Kenai River, is rent
ed by the Tom Colton family.
Tom was busy at his job at Park
er’s Union Oil Station. Mrs. Col
ton, not liking the smell of the
tar, had taken the three little
girls and had gone visiting.
H. G. Van Sickel and Duke
D e e r i n g , employees of Leroy
Knabb, who had the roofing con
tract, attempted to extinguish
the fire with buckets of water
carried from the Kenai River.
After two trips up and down the
bank they realized additional aid
was needed.
Van Sickel went to the Sky
Bowl for the fire truck which
was taken to the scene of the
fire by A1 Morrase. Van Sickel,
Deering, Gibbs, and Dale Shalin
climbed to the roof and hosed
down the fire while Morasse ran
the pumper. Jim Bush and oth
ers also assisted in preventing
the blaze from spreading to oth
er parts of the dwelling.
One of the bedrooms was smok
ing and the ceiling was about
to ignite when the fire was ex
tinguished.
Considerable smoke and water
damage to walls and furniture,
as well as fire damage to the
roof resulted from the accident.
The building was insured, Mrs.
Gibbs said, hut monetary extent
of damage has not as yet been
determined by the insurance ad
justor. Knapp and his roofing
company also had insurance cov
erage.
News classifieds bring results.
Alaska Aggregate Corp.
Government Approved
Concrete and Aggregates
IDEAL CEMENT
MIRACLE LIME —
New Low Prices
Alaska Aggregate Corp.
BEAVER LOOP ROAD
KENAI Phone 283-7575
Baptists Start
Kindergarten
At Sterling
The Northland Baptist Church
in Sterling is sponsoring kinder
garten classes as one of the pub
lic services the church is offer
ing to the community under the
pastoral leadership of Rev. Vir
gil Redman.
The first session of kindergar
ten began Oct. 2 with an enroll
ment of 10 children. Mrs. E.
Sparks of Sterling is instructor.
Mrs. Sparks had previous ex
perience in Christian day schools
in California.
Rev. Redman will have been
with the Northland Baptist
church a year on Oct. 16. The
past year has been filled with ac
tivity at the church and there
has been a steady growth in at
tendance, especially during the
past ofutr weeks the pastor said.
Rev. Redman held the general
Sunday School superintendent’s
position in the North Park Bap
tist church, Grand Rapids, Mich.,
and pastoral position at McLean
Memorial Chapel, Fremont, Mich.
The pastor said his new year
with the church will begin with
special (revival meetings sched
uled for Oct. 18, 19 and 20. with
the Rev. Darrell Bellville, of the
Lake Spenard Baptist church in
Anchorage, as evangelist.
Mines for Gold
Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Henton,
builders and former operators of
Kenton’s Lodge (now known as
Campbell’s Sportsman’s Lodge) at
the junction of the Russian and
Kenai Rivers, were Soldotna and
Kenai visitors last week. They
were accompanied by Henton's
cousin, J. W. Slayden, and Mrs.
Slayden of Tacoma, Wash.
The Slaydens had just returned
from a month’s tour of 11 coun
tries in Europe, coming back by
SAS plane from Copenhagen,
Denmark, and were met in An
chorage by the Hentons. The
cousins had not met in 20 years.
The Hentons built the lodge in
1945, before there wrere roads in
to the area, and operated it for
14 years. The place has changed
owners three times since then.
They now live at Mile 42V2 on
the Sevvard-Anchorage Highway,
where he is engaged in mining
for gold.
Slayden formerly lived in Al
aska when he was a child. His
father mined in Dawson in 1898
and packed the boy, then six
years old, in over the famous
Cbilkoot Pass.
WHITE ALICE’
CONTRACT RENEWED
The Alaska delegation has
been advised by the Air Force
that its contract with RCA Ser
vice Co. to operate ami maintain
the “White Alice’’ communi
cations system has been renewed.
The amount of the contract is and maintenance during the LJ,'2
$14,650,000. It is for operation fiscal year.
GRAVEL HAULING
A. A. Farmer
Sterling Phone 2624739
Cordova Airlines Announces!
NEW LOW RATES
Soldotna to:
Anchorage.$6.00
Kasilof.$3.00
Ninilchik.$4.00
Seldovia.$8.00
Port Graham.$9.00
(One-Way Passenger Fares, Plus Tax)
Freight Rates Reduced 20% to 30%
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