WEEKLY SERVICES
SOLDOTMA — Rev. James M.
Simmons. Anchorage, is- now eoat*
iixg to Soldotna each week to
serve as pastor of the First
'Southern Baptist Mission. Sunday
school and church services are
held from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at
the S»Uk>tna Community Bldg.
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Kenai Looks at Financial
Picture after One and Half
Years of Incorporation
A financial summary for the
City of Kenai following one year
and six months of incorporation
has been released by City Clerk
Frances Torkilsen,
Kenai residents voted to in
corporate the village of Kenai
into a city of the first class on
May 10, I960,
“During the first stage of or
ganization there seemed to be
no time to consider what this
change means to the area," says
Mrs, Torkilsen. “With the pas
sage of time, a schedule gradu
ally emerges and there are mo
ments of retrospection when
one begins to think ‘What have
we accomplished ? What are we
going to do? Has it been worth
it’?”
Some of the answers, she add
ed, may be found in the follow
ing account:
The citizens of Kenai have as
(of Dec, 1, 1961) $45,738.50 in
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Sno-Festival
(Continued from page one)
sled racing follows at 1 p.m. for
both junior and adult racers, A
community movie is scheduled for
8 p.m. to be followed by Alaska’s
favorite game sponsored by the
Anchor Point Homemakers at 9
o’clock,
Saturday, Jan. 20, will feature
the second and final heat of the
dog races, beginning at 1 pun.
for adults and juniors.
The queen’s coronation will
take place during the Sno-Flake
Ball, which begins at 9 p.m. The
candidates for queen honors are
Donna Norman, Kenai; Barbara
O’Rourke, Sakiotna, and Yer-dn
Bice of Anchor Point, Selection
is based upon ticket sales.
Queen candidates turn in their
ticket stubs at 10:30 p.m. and. at
midnight the winner will be an
nounced and will be unowned with,
•the traditional tiara, presented by
Rickiey's Dept. Store of Anchor
Point,
The queen will be enfolded in
a blue velvet royal robe and her
tiara will be placed on her head
by Phyllis Wilson, Kenai, queen
for 1961.
During the dance a drawing for
door prizes will be held at 11:30.
Sunday, Jan. 21, one-dog and
three-dog team weight pulling
contests begin at 1 p.m. There’ll
be entries in light and heavy
weight divisions in each contest.
Last year’s winning team of
three dogs, belonging to musher
Larry Clendenen, pulled more
than three tons, setting a new
world’s record.
After weight pulling contests,
there will be snowshoe races, sled
and skiing races and skijoring in
which spectators are invited to
participate (bring your own skis).
Dogs or horses may be chosen for
skijoring.
Pinal events of the three-day
winter jubilee will lx? the Mosh
ers’ Mess—a buffet dinner free
to everyone, spectators as well as
participants — and the presenta
tion of awards ami prizes.
The M us hers’ Mess, with food
supplied by the Anchor Point
community, begins at 6:30 p.m.
At 7:30 the newly crowned queen
will present the awards to win
ning dog mushers. Admission is
by queen tickets.
The three-day event is co
sponsored by the Anchor Point
Chamber of Commerce and the
Anchor River Sled Dog and Rac
ing Association.
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the bank. Of this, $20,000 is on
time deposit ami is earning in
terest at 3 per cent. Accounts
receivable (property taxes) as
of July 1, 1901, were $37,006.39
of which all but $8,666,84 have
been collected.
All property tax monies col
lected from property owners a
cross the Kenai River is set a
side in a special fund for help
ing- toward spanning the river.
Wh e n the state builds this
bridge, 94 per cent of the money
will be furnished by the federal
aid program and the City will
pay the remaining six per cent.
Sales taxes collected since
July 1, 1961, amount to $21,776.
66. The budget estimates of $42
750.00 from July 1, 1961 to June
30, 1962, seems to have been a
fair estimate, says the clerk.
Other revenues in the form of
police fines, penalties for de
linquent tax payment, filing fees,
docking fees, interest, subdivi
sion fees, taxi and chauffeur per
mits. business tax refund, raw
fish tax refund, building rentals,
etc., amount to $17,803,26,
Fixed assets of the City amount
to $6,312.02 and consist of a dock
site, a recreation and public pur
poses site, a grader, police car
and office equipment. Upon com
pletion of the jail, fixed- assets
will have been increased by over
$20,000. In addition fixed assets
include the fireball, old federal
jail, the administration building
and grounds.
Expenditures for the same per
iod amount to $37,487.37 of which
$12,644,85 was applied on the bud
get of the school (with $9,318.31
due yet this fiscal year), $2,664.15
was used for land; $4300 for Al
aska Housing Authority assist
ance with city planning; $4,985.79
for power apprdflsal* $3,054.64
for bridge fund and the remainder
for salaries, attorney fees, asses
sor fees, insurance, road mainten
ance, snow removal, equipment
maintenance, telephone, utilities,
and so forth.
“Conducting a city government
is a business,” states the city
clerk. "Its citizens are sharehold
ers. Their interest and participa
tion can promote their invest
ment,”
TOUR RESCHEDULED
SOLDOTNA — The goodwill
tour of the Kenai Peninsula by
the Greater Anchorage Chamber
of Commerce, recently postponed
because of adverse weather con
ditions, has been rescheduled
and the Soldotna C of C has
been notified that the group will
be here Jan. 13,
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in Kenai
asks you to
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and better Kenai.
Show faith in the area you live in
plan now for your spring building program
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