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JUNEAU ALASKA
The Kenai Peninsula
THIRD YEAR
MARCH .‘iO, 1962
PRICE 10c COPY
NUMBER 7.5
Hospital Assoc.
To Consider Sites
Up “One of the final community
|| meetings of the £ite Committee
‘ r of the Central Kenai Peninsula
fH Hospital Association will be held
Ip in Soldotna at the school on 3
April 19'-2, at the hour of 8:00
: p.rn.,” announced Chairman James
; E. Fisher. “Other meetings would
be committee meetings at which
final recommendations of the Site
B Committee would be formulated.”
“Upon completion of the com
munity meetings, it is my hope
that the Hospital Association will
mail to its membership a list of
the offered locations plus a map
shewing the potential sites,” Fish
er said.
Weather Station
In Operation Now
The weather station at Soldotna
Airport is now completed and in
Open ation.
Jim Hardhig of the U. S.
Weather Bureau, Anchorage,
spent two oay> installing* station
equipment and in giving instruc
tions and examinations to M. L.
Grange and Joann Ho!Her. the ob
servers.
Weather observations will be
taken at 7 a.m., S a.m., 9 a.rn. and
at :j p,®„ 4 p.m. and B p.rn. These
reports will be given to Federal
Aviation Agency at Kenai for re
lease on the air to aircraft and
airports.
The station -will record cloud
ceiling-, horizontal visibility, wind
direction and speed, maximum
and minimum temperatures, dew
point and amount of precipitation.
This station was made possible
through effort? of Cordova Air
lines and cooperation of the U, S.
Weather Bureau.
ANN WELLS, Kenal seventh grader and daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Wells, is congratulated by Robert Puckett after she won
the spelling bee championship in Renal. On April 26, Ann goes on
to state competition at Anchorage. Puckett, eighth grade instruc
tor, was chairman of the committee in charge of the local spelling
bee.
'Tied” Grants, observer as well
as being local Cordova manager,
wishes to remind the public that
he is not a fo>ceeaster and will not
predict the .weather in advance.
Me will be glad, however, to re
port local aviation weather to
anyone calling 262-4101.
Recording weather informa
tion began on March 21. Temper
atures on that date were a maxi
mum ox 28 dagrees and-* mini
mum of six degu-ees below zero.
(Spring officially made its debut
on the preceding day at 4:80
p.rn.) March 22 readings were 28
maximum and —-9 m'nimum,
A week-to-week report is ex
pected to be published in forth
coming issues of the Cheechako
News through the courtesy of the
observers, Grange and Mrs. Hoi
lien.
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RENAL ALASKA
Filing Period
Near at Kenai
Petitions, for nomination for
Kenai City Council, Mayor am!
School Board offices must be
filed with the City Clerk at Kenai
between April 9 and April 18.
Petition -form; may be procured
at the City Clerk’s office.
City election is scheduled for
May 8.
To Hold School
Board Election
There will be an Advisory
School Board, election in Soidotna
on April 9 for the election of one
member to the board to' replace
Stanley McLane, whose term is
expiring. Voting will take place
in the office at the Soidotna
school building from 8 a.m. to
8 p.m.
Candidates desiring, to file for
the post roast register at the
school office on April 6. Term of
office will be for three years.
Current members of the three
member Advisory School Board
are McLane, Mrs. Ted Grainge
and Richard T. Hail.
The Weather
Date Max, Min, Free.
March 21 28 —6 None
March 22 28 --9 None
March 23 31 : —21 None
March 24 25 —-23 None
March 25 21 —25 None
March 25 1# —10 None
March 27 35 2 None
March 28 43 —2 None
March 29 44 11 None
Inside See ...
COMING EVENTS .p*. 2
EABIES BORN .pg. 2
PEOPLE & PLACES.. re. 2
COMING EVENTS .pg. 2
T ETTERS TO THE
EDITOR .Pg. 1
CHURCH SERVICES.pg. 4
PENINSULA PROGRESS
:: REPORT * . , y ».t■‘yir- '*-*.',* f -r* ‘ • * .pg- e
JOBS >
Work planned and
contracts let . .!>g. fc
The OUTDOOR ALASKAN
Hunting & Fishing pg. 1
OIL NEWS.-. pg-1<
SPORTS REVIEW .pg. H
WANT ADS . Pg- 1
This Saturday, March 31, marks
. the date for a very important
meeting which concerns every
resident of the Kenai Peninsula
in connection with the borough
system of government, it has been
announced by Dr. J. D. Diesher
of Seward, chairman of the Kenai
Peninsula Borough Study Group.
Some of the issues to be decided
at this meeting will he—the size
of the borough, should it be incor
porated as a first class or a sec
ond class borough, where should
the borough seat be located and
what shall the borough be named.'
Final reports are also expected
to Ire heard from committee chair
men.
The luncheon meeting is sched
uled to begin at 1-2 noon at River
side House, Soldotna. Persons de
Peninsula Size
Borough Okayed
By District P-TA
A resolution, drafted by the Ni
nilch-ik Parent-Teacher Associa
tion as to incorporation of the
. entire Ken&i Peninsula into one.
borough fo- -chnnl purposes, was
approved by District 5 Parent
Teachers Association at a second
biennial district conference held
in Soldoina Saturday. Copies of
the resolution are being- sent to
state legislators and other lead
ers.
Mrs. Paul Isaak, Soldo to a, was
elected district vice president and
will replace Mrs. Mary Hawkins,
Ninilc-hik teacher, who previously
held the post. Term of election is
for two years.
It was also voted that a Penin
sula Council should be formed.
The first of tire Council meetings
has been set for April 5 in Soldot
na at which time the newly elect
ed vice president, Mrs Isaak, will
confer with superintendents and
P-TA presidents front throughout
the district.
Featured guests and speakers
at the various meetings and ban
quet held Saturday were Mrs. A.'
L. Hendricks of Jackson. Miss.,
former vice president of the Na
tional Congiess of Parents and
Teachers Association and current
national P-TA representative, and
Mrs. Robert C. Cole, Anchorage,
president of the State P-TA Con
gress.
Meetings were well attended,
Dr. Elmer Gaete, Soldoina P-TA
president and one of the SoMotna
delegates to the meeting, was as
sisted by other Soldoina dele
gates, Mrs. Don France and Mrs.
Charles Hines, with arrangements
and in greeting guests.
Mrs. Hines was appointed only
recently as a delegate to replace
the elected delegate, Mrs. Edwin
Thompson, who was called Out
side because of illness of her
mother.
BULLETIN!
The following telegram from
Washington, D. C., was received
early Thai-sday morning:
Loren Stewart, Editor
The Cheeehako News, Kenav
Have today on behalf of myself
and Senator Bartlett, introduced
a bill to authorize construction of
Bradley hydroelectric project. Wt
intend to do every tit lag possible
in support of this proposed legD
, latiOR.
simig to hear and participate in
•the. discussion -but not desiring to
attend the luncheon are invited
to join the group at 1 p.ra, for
the business meeting.
A largo delegation from Homer
is expected to attend the meeting;.
Homer has gone on record as not
favoring a Peninsula-wide bor
ough.
A motion “that the Kenai
Chamber of Commerce gc on rec
ord as favoring a first class bor
ough, formed of Election Districts
9 and 10 (as recently rcMippdr
tioned); and that the name of this
borough be Kenaitze; that the
borough seat be in Kenai, Alaska;
and that the borough study group
be so informed” was passed by
the Chamber at its noon meeting
March 28 at the Western Corral,
Kenai.
Mr . Frances TorkiUee, city
clerk of Kenai, introduced the
motion. She also explained that
“Kenaitze” (pronounced Kee-riah
tzy) was originally the name of
a tribe of Indians indigenous to
the Kenai Peninsula and seems
appropriate as a name for the
present inhabitants.
Citizens of the Kenai Peninsula
should let their desires be known
Saturday to members of the Ror
(Continued on Page 12)
Chamber
Supports
Highways
The Greater Soldotna Chamber
of Commerce in its March 24
meeting voted to support Sen.
Ernest Gruening in his Joint Res
olution Xo. 137 in which special
appropriations amounting to
$b0Q,000 are requested for road
study and planning of a state
highway system for Alaska.
Earl W. Westphai, manager of
the Employment Security Com
mission office in Soldotna, an
nounced that a manpower survey
in the area is planned and that a
training and • retraining program
may be instigated.
In other business of the meet
ing it was reported that 60 choice
logs had been cut from the Joe
Scarantiho homestead to be used
in the building of the tourist in
formation center. The logs are to
be taken to the Creary Brothers
sawmill to he slabbed out (free of
charge) and additional logs will
.
Mrs. Bui ton
to and Joe "Scar-anirao were
donating time and ability toward
writing up SMdoina’s part in the
Peninsula-wide brochure to be
presented for distribution at Cen
tury 21 Exposition in Seattle and
also at the opening of the Tok
Junction tourist information cen
ter on May 1.
A special entertainment feature
at the meeting was the showing
of movies and slides by S. Sgt.
Vince De Rose and Sp. 5 John
Dam, Jr., both of Wildwood Sta
tion, of the recent Kenai-Soldotna
dog races*
Special guests were Dr. Win
throp Fish, doctor of internal and
nuclear medicine, and John Whit
tier o# Lederk Laboratories, both
of Ancle.age; James E. Fisher,
Rev. Daniel Hu.Ian and Mr. ami
Mrs. Monty Coleman. Kenai.
The next meeting will be oh
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