Torhilsen New Kenai Clerk
Mrs. Frances Torkilsen as
sumed the duties of city clerk
of Kenai on July 19, succeed
ing John Gunnison who was the
first city clerk for the com
munity since its incorporation
on May 10. I960.
The out-going official re
cently resigned to accept a
teaching position in the Pribi
lof Islands. Mr. and Mrs. Gun
nison left Sunday for their new
home. Mrs. Gunnison will be
head nurse at. the hospital in
the Pribilofs.
KENAI
RIVER
FRONTAGE
LOTS
$1000.00 and up
Vz Miles of
Frontage- will
sell all or lots
Road-Power Avail.
Scout Lake Loop Road
Sterling
See MK REALTY
in Soldotna
Mrs. Torkilsen was appointed
by Mayor John Swanson to fill
the vacancy and her appoint
ment was approved by the City
Council. She will be assisted
until August 1 by Mrs. Wilma
Dority, who has been assist
ant to the prior city clerk. Mrs.
Dority is handling tax collec
tions for the City of Kenai.
The new city clerk has been
a resident of Alaska since 1941,
formerly living in the south
eastern portion of the state.
She moved to Kenai in 1950.
Her husband, Eugene (Gene)
Torkilsen, is a commercial fish
erman on Salamatof Beach.
She has a married daughter,
Mrs. Ken Zonge of Fairbanks,
and a son, Shane Griffin, who
is a student at the University
of California at Berkeley under
a Naval R.O.T.C scholarship
for four years. This summer he
is working on the Beagle, a
cannery tender for Kenai
Packers.
Mrs. Torkilsen said Monday
that she is enjoying her job
and that she especially wishes
to thank the citizens for their
promptness and courtesy in
paying their taxes. She also
urges residents to come to the
City Council meetings and to
share in Kenai’s plans for the
future, some of the more im
mediate projects being the in
stallation of city water and
sewage lines.
Japan-Alosko
Discuss Fisheries
Governor William A. Egan
said today the presence at King
Salmon of a Japanese govern
ment fisheries official may help
pave the wal for a solution of
differences over the North Pa
cific fishery.
Egan said he had talked with
the official, Yoshihide Uchi
mura, during his recent visit
to the Bristol Bay area. Spec
ial assistant to the Chief of the
Production Division of the
Fisheries Agency of Japan,
Uchimura is in charge of nego
tiations on international fisli -
erics matters.
“The firsthand knowledge
and observations he will carry
away of Alaska’s program and
its purposes,” the Governor
said, “could do much to lay the
groundwork for a reasonable
and practical solution to the
offshore fishery problems up
on which depend the success
of Alaska’s Fisheries conserva
tion program in Bristol Bay
and the future of the fishery
itself.”
In his talks with the Japan
ese official, Egan said he had
emphasized that resolving of
differences involving the off
shore fishery will aid immen
sely in assuring Japan of con
tinued wholehearted coopera
tion in other Alaska resources
development in which the Jap
anese have indicated interest.
Fishery Biol. Sought for Pen.
Stationing of a fisheries bi
ologist on Moose Range has
been subject of correspondence
between Eugene D. Smith, sec
retary of Kenai Peninsula Fish
erman’s Co-op; Sen. E. L.
(Bob) Bartlett, and Stewart
L. Udall, Secretary of the In
terior.
Co-op has actively urged the
THE CAMPBELL’S
Sportsman's Lodge
Formerly Henton’s
at Russian River
on the
Sterling Highway
if Banquet Room
if Comfortable Cabins
if Dormitory for Large Parties and Crews
Stop! tor refreshment & information
THE SILVER SALMON
ARE NOW RUNNING
IN THE KENAI RIVER
STOCK UP ON TACKLE
SPORTS GEAR — CLOTHINC
AND PICNIC SUPPLIES
A T
DON WILSON’S
Soldotna Store
SOLDOTNA Phone 262-4511
Department of the Interior to
station a fisheries biologist
within Moose Range to study
sport fish, trout, and salmon
that spawn in this area. Most
of major spawning streams,
from Chickaloon River in
1 urnagain Arm to Kachemak
Bay, originate in Moose Range
or are entirely surrounded by
it. *
The State has tw-o men sta
tioned in Ilomer who are com
mercial fisheries men and are
responsible for the entire Cook
Inlet, Seward area in Resur
rection Bay and outer district
down the eastern side of Alas
ka Peninsula,” says Smith.
Co-op believes they need
some help.”
Niece is Here
Donna Jean Lee. niece of A1
Lee of Kenai, arrived from
ran banks on July 1 for an in
definite visit. She is the daugh
ter of Robert Lee, AI’s brother,
who is assistant manager of
K&L Distributors in Fairbanks
One of Columbia Ward fishing boats loads fish onto the
conveyor into the cannery during the big red run last week.
Alaska Highway Traffic Up
Traffic crossing the Alaska
Division of Highway’s traffic
counter six miles east of Sol
dotna in June was 40 per cent
higher than in May and was up
88 per cent over June of 1960.
T. D. Sherard, state highway
engineer,said that highway traf
fic showed marked increases in
June over the previous month
at all nine traffic* - counters
maintained by the division. On
the Anchorage - Seward high
way just south of Northern
Lights boulevard the counter
showed last month’s traffic as
Back from Denver
The Walter Hart family of
CAA returned July 21 from a
visit to Denver.
KEN'S
Watch Repair
across from
Fish and Wildlife
in Kenai
Box 536
19 per cent higher than in the
previous month and was 24 per
cent higher than for the same
period last year.
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Bar - Cafe - Hotel
Liquor Store
Open weekdays 4 PM until?
weekends 12 PM until?
also
Freezer Space for Rent
PAWNBROKER
SPECIAL RATES
ON BOARD & ROOM
Cafe, under new manage
ment, starts serving 6 p.m.
Closed Tuesdays.
The Last Frontier
Mile 3V2 North Road
Kenai Phone 202-3L
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