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1961 Peninsula
l Highlights
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demolished in an accident on Pick
le Hill in Ridgeway.
Incorporation paper's for Cen
tral Kenai Peninsula Hospital As
sociation have been approved by
the state.
Trans-Alaska Telephone Co. an
nounced that a new building and
a complete new- telephone system
is in store for Soldotna, with cut
over date scheduled for April of
i 962.
Ray Lewis’ Cessna 170 float
plane crashed in Sports Lake and
Lewis was hard pressed to save
the lives of his two young daugh
ters, before the plane sunk. (The
plane was later salvaged and re
paired.)
Marcel Bahizi, assistant direc
tor of three national parks in the
Congo, was given a tour of the
Kenai National iMoose Range by
Dave Spencer, regional refuge su
pervisor for all wildlife refuges in
Alaska, and John B. Hakala, re
fuge manager of the Moose R
SEPTEMBER
Bob Schmidt. Kalifonaky Beacir
road homesteader and fisherman,
got a Dali vara with full curl and
a quai-ter horns measuring about
270 points, putting it in the tre
phy class, during his recent hunt
in the Tustemena Lake area. He
was flown in by Kenai guide An
dy Anderson.
Cordova Airlines began its first
daily DC-3 flights into Soldotna
on Sept. 2.
Standard -Oil Co. began this
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week to clear land for erection of
seven homes, a company office
and a -maintenance building in the
Swanson River field.
Standard Oil’s SOU-234-4 gas
-well is completed; is on test and
. expected to make about 10-mil
lion cubic feet of gas.
Winiford A. Hoover is the new
superintendent of schools at Ke
nai, succeeding Frank Cordrey,
who moved to California.
Emmett and Betty Kars ten of
Ridgeway have the distinction of
being the first civilian consumers
of natural gas in the state of Al
aska. The home, on property ad
joining the Cheechako News lo
cation, was hooked up for service
on August 9. Soldotna is the first
incorporated town in Alaska to
receive natural gas service.
Two Soklotna men, Burton Car
ver and Hon France, who the pre
vious week assisted in salvaging
another plane in Sports Lake, this
week had to salvage their own.
The Super Cub, loaded with moun
tain goat meat, crashed on a
mountainside between Tustumena
and Skilak Lake.
Approximately 600 feet of free
airplane tie-downs have been add
ed to Soldotna airport, through
volunteer labor and contributions.
H. W. Jones, Standard Oil Co.
drilling foreman, on his first big
sheep hunting trip brought back
a ram with full curl boras in the
trophy class.
An earthquake of near major
magnitude and centered in the Ka
uai Peninsula alrmingly jolted res
idents from their sleep about 1:35
a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 5. The se
vere jolt, lasting 1'2 minutes,
was preceded by a railing rumble
and followed by a tremor of lesser
density. Minor damage was re
ported in Homer, Kenai anti Sol
dotna.
School registration has doubled
in SoJdotna with 24® students en
rolled in the first eight grades.
Kenai schools, with enrollment of
657, shows a gain of 122 students
over the previous year. Sterling
school began the year with 106
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The City of Kenai has bought
and leased more than 2-1 acres of
land for public parking, dock and
barge service.
Rev. Daniel Harlan, pastor of
Kenai Methodist church, has been
elected first president of the new
ly formed Central Kenai Penin
sula Hospital Assoc.
Pouring of concrete is under
way for foundation walls of the
7bxll0-ft. prefabricated steel
building being erected in Soldot
na to house the Catholic church.
Rains drenched the entire Pen
insula .the past 15 days and con
verted runways at Kenai airport
into a veritable sea of mud. The
heavier planes were unable to
land for several days.
Bush Lanes, Inc., lias begun the
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clearing of land "for erection of
No. Kenai’* .newest subdivision,
which wiil i no hide bowling alley,
cocktail lounge, dining loom, as
well as homes.
The Soldotna Clinic has install
e<J a baby incubator.
Clearing has begun for a new
school building at Sterling.
Installation of a Texaco bulk
plant is underway on the Sterling
highway in Soldotna next door to
the new Texaco filling station.
Five storage tanks are waiting
to be set and more are to be set
in soon.
Slikok Valley homesteading
families on Oiechanski road SW
of Soldotna have been assured by
Homer Electric Assoc, that they
will get power.
A new .post office for Soldotna
has been approved and property
owned by the Jack Farnsworths
has been selected for the site—
which will adjoin that of the Big
K Grocery.
The beginning of a city water
system for Soldotna is underway
in the Farnsworth subdivision and
will be capable of supplying 900
families within 90 days.
Soldotna airport has been a
warded $10,000 from the state for
improvements. Cordova Airlines
is to erect a terminal there im
mediately.
OCTOBER
Four of the five homes to be
erected by Sandard Oil Co, for
its production crew in Swanson
River field arrived by barge at
Anress Terminal,
Heated debate regarding the
Kenai Power Corporation’s pro
posal to supply the city of Kenai
with power has occupied the
City Council at recent meetings.
Tal Nelson, longtime Kenai
resident and homesteader, now
living in Anchorage, was critic
ally hurt in a two-car crash in
Anchorage. He is land classifi
cations officer with the Division
of Lands,
Bernice Land lease auction held
at Kenpi will bring the state an
annual rental of $2145.
About 360,000 barrels of crude
oil produced in the Kenai Penin
sula were loaded out on three
tankers docking at Nikiski Beach
Marine Terminal last week.
An area development program
is underway. Peninsula farmers
have called a meeting regarding
the establishment of a grain de
hydrating plant and pelleting
mill.
Mystery surrounds circumstan
ces leading to the burning of Mrs.
Agrafina Lafflee, Kenai, who
died without revealing how she
received the burns. Investigation
is continuing under direction of
Kenai Police Chief Charles “Red”
Peavley.
Drilcon (Drilling Control Cor
poration) has completed its ware
house at Sterling.
Wait Pedersen, Moose River Re
sort owner, was the civilian res
cuer of a CAP officer who crashed
on takeoff in Moose River area.
More than 30 children in the
Kenai, Soldotna, Sterling, Tustu
mena and Ninilchik areas have
received speech and hearing ther
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Standard Oil Co., paying $250,
tMX) was the successful and only
bidder to more than 400 acres of
land m North Kenai, It is to be
a potential refinery site.
James Franklin Bush, Soldotna,
confessed to the Oct. 8 slaying of
Jack Edward Griffiths, and has
been charged with first degree
muj-der.
Crown Construction and Equip
ment Rental Co. of Soldotpa has
been awarded a contract for con
struction of the pioneer type ae
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?esa softds "to the SHkak Creek
Alaska Subdivision, located 1.4
miles west of Soldofcrta on the
Kalifonsky Beach road. This is
the state’s first venture into the
payment of contract by assign
able land certificates.
A series of recent thefts and
breaking is being investigated in
Kenai by police. They include the
thefts at Inlet Bar, Kenai Pharm
acy, Kenai high school, and the
Seblumberger supply house, where
explosives were missing.
The Kenai branch of the. City
National Bank of Anchorage ex
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