Steel Building Franchise
Awarded to Kenai Firm
Luke Caro and Bob Oehler, both of Kenai, have obtained a
franchise to sell and/or erect StranSteel buildings on the Kenai Pen
insula. The new business will operate under the name of Kenai
Steel Buildings, it was announced this week.
Caro, operator of Luke’s Welding business in Kenai, says
clearing of land is underway for erection of a new 75-ft. x 100-ft.
StranSteel building to be located
at the junction of Beaver Loop
and Kenai Spur roads. The build
ing will be the new home of Luke’s
Welding and will also house of
fices for Oehler Construction Co.,
and Kenai Steel Buildings. It
will also house and store a com
plete line of welding supplies.
They hope to have the building
r< ady for occupancy by Nov. 20.
The new concern reports the
sale of a steel building to Ed
Spalinger, Soldotna, to be erected
immediately upon arrival, which
is expected to be about Nov. 1.
Luke’s Welding has just com
pleted erection of a warehouse
for Standard Oil Co., located hack
of Kenai Packers’ cannery at the
City of Kenai docksite. The build
ing will house Standard Oil prod
ucts for local distribution.
Luke also subcontracted the
steelwork on the Moose River and
Eagle River bridges, setting steel
beams, reinforcing rods and hand
rails, and also recently disassem
bled the King River bridge.
Area men connected with work
include the foreman, Ira Miller of
Cohoe; Cliff Kirkland, Ninilehik,
and Bud Brewington, Sterling.
ATTEND DINNER
FOR SENATOR GREENING
Those attending the Monday
night no-host dinner at River
side House honoring Sen. and Mrs.
Ernest Gruening included Mr.
and Mrs. Archie Ramsey and Mi\
and Mrs. Gene Smith, all of Co
hoe; Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Mc
Bride, Mr. ami Mrs. Leo Obect.
.Mr. and Mrs. Mel Cole, Mr. and
Mrs. Waldo Coyle, George Na
va* re and Billy McCann, all of
Kenai.
Also Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mul
len, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Grange,
Mr. and Mrs. George Denison,
Mr. and Mrs. Tom O’Rourke, Mrs,
Mable Smith, and Clarence Good
rich, all of Soldotna; Mr. and Mrs.
1 arty Lancashire, Ridgeway; Bill
Gresham, Xaptowne. and Francis
“Fritz” Hall, Sterling.
The Kenai chapter of the Al
aska Crippled Children’s Assoc,
has re-elected Mrs. Lyman Mc
Bride as president for 1962.
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More Housing
Need for Tourists,
Travel Head Says
A warning that Alaska is not
preparing adequately to meet the
need for housing for the coming
tremendous expansion of tourist
travel to the state, coupled with
a recommendation of state-guar
anteed loans fee tourist accom
modations, was voiced by ('. I>.
West.
West. who is president of Arc
tic Alaska Tours, largest merch
andise- of Alaska travel in the
Unit*. .1 States, and who also op
erates two luxury cruise ships to
Alaska, pointed out in a hard
hitting talk last week before the
State Chamber of Commerce con
vention in Ketchikan that the Ol
ympic Hotel in Seattle alone has
25 per cent more rooms with bath
than are available in al! of the
hotels in Anchorage, Fairbanks,
Juneau and Ketchikan combined.
West cited the report of the
Battelle Institute to the Alaska
Joint Rail and Highway commis
sion, created by the Congress to
study future development of the
U. S. and Canadian areas adjoin
ing Alaska. This report forecast
850,000 tourists annually would
be coming to Alaska by 1980.
This he said would require a
5000 per cent increase in tourist
accommodations. He pointed out
that tourism in the volume fore
cast by the Battelle study would
bring $380,000,000 annually to Al
aska.
VETERANS DAY LEADERS
Gov. William A. Egan has des
ignated C. Russell Huber of Col
lege, Alaska Dept. Commander of
American Legion, and Eugene
Darken of Juneau, Alaska Dept.
Commander of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, to serve as co
chairmen of Veterans Day activ
ities in Alaska. The annual ob
servance is held each Nov. 11.
News want ads get good re
sults at small cost.
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To Train Leaders
Two Girl Scout leaders, Leila
Aebrung and Idell Gee, are in
Anchorage this week attending
a training course for trainers.
After completion of the course
they will be qualified to train
Girl Scout leaders, says Mrs. Geo.
Turmell, neighborhood chairman
of the Kenai Girl Scout Neighbor
hood Association.
An organizational meeting of
Girl Scouts was held Oct.. 3 and
all Brownie and Girl Scout troops
are meeting regularly now.
Under Lease
There were 34 million acres of
land under mineral lease in Alas
ka cr Jan. 1, 1961. Of this total,
only 12,160 acres had then proved
productive of oil or gas.
Oil and Gas Workers
According xo the Independent
Petroleum Assoc, of America,
there are more than 600 per
sons employed in Alaska crude
oil and natural gas production.
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