THE KENAI PENINSULA
CHEECHAKO NEWS
Phone 262-4624 Kenai Drawer 0
LOREN STEWART . Editor
DOROTHY STEWART ..Society Editor
KEITH ARNOLD . . .Roving Editor
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Editorial
Development of any kind anywhere on the Kenai Penin
sula is of benefit to every person on the Peninsula, Development
is accelerated in direct proportion to the number of communi
ties and people of those communities who support that develop
ment.
If a 1000 foot road is needed and one person can build 10
feet of road a day, it follows that it would take one person 100
days to build the road. Two people could build the road in 50
days and 100 people could build the same road in one day. This
same simple fact can be applied to almost all human endeavor.
The idea that it takes united action to get results is gaining
more and more recognition on the Peninsula.
Thinking people have tried to do something about it. The
Kenai Peninsula Development Association which was organized
on this basis achieved great success in a few months of operation.
They proved what should be a self-evident fact. If you want
action out of a red tape bureau or a politically conscious legis
lation. you need to speak in a loud voice. Few legislators or
government appointees can afford to ignore requests and demands
that carry the backing of the entire Peninsula’s population.
In spite of their early success, the Development Association
is now moribund because of tw'o basic flaws in the organization:
(1) the representatives that composed the body represented
no official body in their community to assure they spoke for
that community and (2) because they were not backed by an
official group there was no continuity of representation.
Now' spurred on by the “Borough Bill,” another organiza
tion—a League of Kenai Peninsula Chambers of Commerce—
has been organized in a second attempt to give the Kenai Pen
insula a voice.
This organization has a much better chance of success be
cause it has eliminated both of the major weaknesses of the
Kenai Development Association. It can be composed of mem
bers who speak for an official group in each community and
it is assured of continuity of representation from each com
munity.
We do not believe that Chambers of Commerce speak for
all members of a community, or even necessarily a majority of
the community. We do not believe that all programs of cham
bers of commerce are always of benefit to all of the people of
their community.
But we do believe that an all Peninsula organization has
become absolutely necessary to bring about the development
of the Kenai Peninsula. Development that has become not only
desirable but essential to the health, welfare and security of the
Kenai Peninsula’s citizens.
At the present time, no other group has so good a chance
of success in forming and maintaining an effective organization
that will speak for a large number of Kenai Peninsula residents
as this proposed League of Kenai Peninsula Chambers of Com
merce.
With the support and cooperation of all the ccommunities
on the Kenai Peninsula, this could be a most effective organi
zation, an organization that could undoubtedly get action on
many Peninsula problems far more effectively and promptly
that any single community or group.
You need this organization. It needs your support. It
deserves your support.
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Old Sourdough Tells
Of Early Kenai Pen. Days
(Reprinted from Alaska
Highway Bulletin)
October 27, 1960
Dear Mr. Sherard:
I am an old sourdough—not
too old tho. I have mushed over
the trails the hard way but the
good old days are gone and for
gotten.
I heard that you have a road
from railhead at Kenai Lake
down to Kenai on the ocean. I
camped at Cooper Creek in
1911 and went as far as Skilak
Lake. This is a grand tourist
country and I hear it is full of
oil rigs.
I am glad that the big bridge
—M.P. 49 Copper River will be
widened. I worked all thru this
operation 1908-10. Bridge Engi
neer A. C. O’Neill went thru
a great strain when the final
span was swung into place.
Shortly after, the river opened
and swept the false work down
stream. ‘’The Iron Trail” tells
the story.
This route will open to the
tourist trade a vast expanse of
marvelous scenery.
After the snow settles in Jan
uary it rivals Switzerland.
Winding glaciers like huge
frozen serpents, dead and dy
ing ice valleys. Baird Glacier
was on the edge of the track
and the rails had to be shifted
all thru the thaw.
Miles Glacier with its 5 mi.
R. front and a live forest and
moraines then Childs Glacier
School Tax Law
Revised By Gatz
Revenue Commisioner Peter
Gatx said recently it won’t be
necessary for Alaska employers
to collect the Alaska School
Tax from new employees if it
can be shown that the employee
already has paid the tax
through a previous employer.
Revised regulations, aimed at
eliminating instances of mul
tiple payment of the tax, have
been sent out to some 8,000
employers, the commissioner
said.
Three aceptable methods of
demonstrating prior payment,
Gatz said, include:
1. A withholding statement.
Form WR-500, from another
employer indicating payment
of the school tax by withhold
ing.
2. A payroll check stub that
clearly indicates the name of
the employer, the year involv
ed for tax payment and shows
the deduction of $10.00 for
school tax.
3. An estimated tax payment
Form 600-ESD, which is issued
by the Department of Revenue
in cases where self-employed
persons pay the school tax in
advance.
The revised instructions su
persede procedures announced
earlier
downstream with huge cliffs of
ice toppling into the drink mak
ing a backwash upstream like
a tidal wave. The great Bering
Ice Field could almost hold
Switzerland.
I hope it will be possible to
erect an observation tower or
platform to get a full sweep of
this field at the hillside across
from IM P. 49.
I hear that Treadwell Mines
have been worked out long
ago. Is the Gastineau Mines
Corp.—Jackling—also dead ?
The ice breakers at M.P. 49
were installed in dead winter
usually from 20- down, at low
water, awful winds too. The
concrete used was shipped
from Belgium all around the
Horn in lots of 12,000 to 14,000
bbls. and a far superior ce
ment than ours and 25c a bbl.
cheaper f.o.b. Cordova.
Well chief you take it from
here. Hope all will be hi yu
skookum.
Cordially,
L. V. KENKEL
Box 6172
Los Angeles 14, Calif.
P S. I suppose the old Iditarod
Trail is back into the muskeg
again.
! Holdeman Heir
Born to Captain Robert and
Natalie Holdeman, a girl weigh
ing 5 lbs. 10 ¥2 oz. Christened
Jolie Vann, the baby girl was
born on February 16. Dr. Peter
B Weber was attending phy
sician.
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