Homemakers Aid
Kenai Musicians
Expenses of sending the Kenai
girls' chorus and the hand to the
music festival in Anchorage in
April is being at least partially
assumed by the Kenai Homemak
ers club.
A fund raising project was de
ckled upon at a club meeting- held
the evening of Jan. 2 to help
defray expenses of the music
groups. A committee, consisting
of Mrs. Monty ( oleman, Mrs. Wal
ter Hart and Mrs. Don Johnson,
was appointed to get tin- project
underway.
After a business meeting con
ducted hy club president-. Mrs.
Pete Jones, a social hour w a s
held. Hostesses were Mrs. Hart
and ^ Mrs. Johnson. .
A Japanese program is to be
presented at the next meeting on
Jan. 16 by Yuriko (Mrs. Ralph)
Roberts. Mrs. Roberts, a member
of the club, is Japanese and is
the wife of an FAA employee at
Kenai.
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Runs Estimated
The pink salmon run expected
in Prince William Sound in 1962
is the principal topic of one re
port given to the Alaska Board
of Fish and Game at its recent
meeting hi Anchorage. Prepared
by the Commercial Fisheries Div.
staff in Cordova, the report deals
with the size and timing of sal
mon spawning runs in 1960, and
the survival of fry produced by
those runs, as indicated by stud
ies the following spring in both
stream gravels and estuaries.
Estimates of the 1962 run of
pink salmon are made by com
paring past spawning and fry
densities with the actual runs
they produced in subsequent years.
The relatively large spawning run
in I960 should produce a run of
about 6 million .pinks with aver
age success. However, variations
in the past, indicate the 1962 run
could be as small as 3 million, or
as large as IQ million pinks, based
on spawning abundance only.
Fry density studies are rela
tively new and only limited re
liance can be placed upon them
at this time. About three times
as many fry were found in 1961
ns in 1959. Becaiijif ui' this, it is
felt that the 196® run will equal
or exceed 6 million pink salmon.
Further, most of these fish should
be of middle-run or late-run char
acter, with a weak early run.
Copies of this report may be
obtained by contacting the Alas
ka Dept, of Fish and Game, Box
699, Cordova, Alaska.
Better Parcel Post
Service Requested
U. S* Representative Ralph J.
Rivers has asked removal of the
legal technicality which reduced
size and weight limitations on
fourth class matter mailed to and
from Alaska with the advent of
statehood.
Testifying at tire public con
ference on reformation of rates
of postage and other conditions of
mailability of fourth-class mail,
Rivers said that as Alaska is pre
dominantly rural in character arid
not contiguous to the older 48
states, it logically fits Into the
exceptions of PL 82-199, and that
the larger limitations on parcel
post packages allowed Alaska
when it was a territory should be
restored front the present re
striction of 72 inches in length
and girth with a weight limit
of 20 pounds to the former limit
of 100 inches in length and girth
with a weight limit of 70 lbs.
Social Security
Date Set at Kenai
A Social Security representative
will be in Kenai from 9 a.m. to
noon on Friday, .Jan. 19, accord
ing to information received by
Frances Torkilsen, city clerk. He
may he contacted at the Civic
Center during those hours by any
one in the area having Social
Security problems or desiring in
formation.
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Village Site Found
A University of Alaska as
sociate professor of anthropol
ogy and geography has revealed
that a preliminary study of arch
aelogical material indicates that
one of the largest Eskimo vil
lages known in North America
existed io.tg ago near Nome.
Prof. Fiederiek West investi
gated the site during the sum
mer under a 111,500 grant to the
state university from the Nation
al Science Foundation.
The site of the investigation
extends nearly a mile and is 15
miles east of Nome, near Safety
Lagoon, West stated. He and his
assistant completely excavated
one house and obtained numerous
side blades and end blades of *
flint form implements used by the
villagers when the settlement was
occupied about 2500 years ago.
Some 450 other house depressions
await further scientific work, the
professor stated.
Preliminary studies further in
dicate that the site is related to
the Norton culture which, in turn,
is related to but pre-dates the
Ipuitafc culture at Paint Hope,
Prof. West explained. The Ipui
tak culture is well known among'
scientists and other researchers
for the knowledge it sheds on the
culture of Alaska’s early Eskimo
inhabitants.
"All these cultures, including
that at Safety Lagoon, are im
portant in gaining an explanation
of the origin of the Eskimo,”
West said.
Prof. West’s work at Safety La
goon is part of a program to sur
vey the southwest coast of the
Seward Peninsula to determine
the kinds of people who inhabited
the region in the past. Safety La
goon is located on the south side
of the Seward Peninsula, toward
Norton Sound.
TRUCK GOES IN DITCH
KENAI — Bruce Hoyt and Joe
Kuchta returned on New Year’s
Eve from Anchorage where they
had gone on Friday in Joe’s truck
so that Bruce might attend the
wedding of his sister, Karen
Hoyt. They attempted to return
to Kenai earlier Sunday but went
in a ditch near Indian House, a
short distance out of Anchorage.
They reported the highway was
slick and icy and said they saw
50 cars in ditches between Kenai
and Anchorage and four others
in the river near Cooper .Landing.
GREET THE NEW YEAR
NORTH KENAI— New Year’s
Eve guests in the North Kenai
home of Mr. and Mrs. Don John
son were Mr. and Mrs. D arrell
McKee and children of Soldotaa;
Mr. and Mrs. Harold McGrady and
children, Kenai; Mr. and Mrs,
Richard Mohr and family, Anch
orage, and Mrs. Bruce Hoyt and
Mrs. Betty Norman, both of Ke
nai.
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Land Fur Animals_
There are 20-odd varieties of
land fur animals in Alaska and
more than 15,000 native and white
trappers in the state depend upon
trapping for their livelihood.
First Oil Exports
In October 11*58 the first 'ship
ment of crude petroleum— from
Kenai Peninsula test well— left
Alaska. It was shipped by Stan
dard Oil of Calif.
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