To Name New Snow Queen;
Three Seek Coveted Crown
Three contestants are seeking
the Sno-Queen crown to be award
ed Saturday night at the Sno
Flake Ball being held at Anchor
Point in conjunction with other
activities of the annual S n o -
Festival this weekend.
Vieing for honors are Verda
Bice, 17; Donna Mae Norman, 17,
wj'-i Baiba.ru Ann O'Rourke. IS.
The favorite candidate is to be
selected through ticket sales and
the winner will he announced at
midnight.
The coveted crown will be pre
sented to her successor by Phyl
lis Wilson of Kenai, reigning Sno
Queen, who was selected last
year. The newly chosen queen will
officiate at the presentation of
the mushsrs* award.- Sunday eve
ning to winners in the sled dog
racing and weight pulling events.
Verda is Anchor Point’s own
candidate for queen honors and
i the daughter of Mr. ami Mrs.
Kverett Bice of Plain Gulch. The
-petite dark brunette is af Freneh,
Portuguese and Hawaiian descent
—is 5 feet 1 ha inches tall and has
measurements of 36-22 *i>-35.
Miss Bice came to Alaska from
New York in 1959, is a senior at
Ninilehik high school this year
end was successful queen for the
Ninilehik rodeo in 1961. She was
introduced at the New Year’s Eve
dance at the Anchor Point Com
munity Hall and, with her moth
er, was called upon to do an im
promptu hula dance.
v er«a lists ner noooies as—
horseback riding and softball. She
spends her summers on the beach
at Clam Guh-h. fishing with her
family.
Sponsoring Verda are the An
chor Point Chamber of C om
nieree, Aiklu's Ceramic and Gift
Shop, Riekley’s Dept, Store, Ap
1 ill’s Motel and Silver King Lodge.
Donna Mae, Konta’s candidate,
is a blonde and has green eyes.
She is the daugbtejr of Mrs, Betty
Norman, Kenai, and is sponsored
by the Rig-, Inc., and Peninsula
Builders.
Miss Norman, a junior at Kenai
high school, is 5 ft, 2% in, tali.
She lists her hobbies as sewing
and ice skating.
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Barbara Ann, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas J. O'Rourke,
who live between Soklotna and
Kaailof, is Soldotna’s selection for
queen honors. Her height is 5 ft.
6 in., her weight 125 lbs., and her
other measurements are 37-25-36.
Brown-haired and hazel-eyed
Barbara Ann graduated in 1961
from Kt-nai high school where she
was secretary- of the Student
Council and sang in the chorus.
She previously attended high
school in Homer for two years
while living with her parents at
Ar-cTior Point.
Barbara, horn in Massachusetts,
came to Alaska from Boston sev
en years ago and the past two
summers set beach nets and was
engaged in commercial fishing
with Sherry (Mrs. Mack) Cobb of
Homer.
Miss O’Rourke, sponsored by
B and B Texaco (formerly Roy’s
Texaco) station in Soldotna. has
appeared in talent shows and lists
her hobbies as euokfiig, S-wimmfeg
and commercial fishing.
The successful queen candidate
will be presented a rabbit f u r
parka jointly by Anchor Point
Chamber of Commerce and Jonas
Bros., furriers, Anchorage. She
will also be sponsored by the C
of-C as a candidate for further
honors at the Homer Winter Car
nival, scheduled in March,
House Trailer
Goes in Ditch
The 50-foot house trailer of the
Walter Schultz family, formerly
of Soldotna, was reported on Jan,
10 to he in a ditch upside down
about 50 miles from the Sterling
highway toward Seward,
The trailer, being pulled by a
v:»r. iir.es romp any flatbed truck,
left Soldotna about 2 p.m. the
preceding day. Household posses
sions and clothing of the family
were in boxes packed in the stor
age compartment of the truck
and the Schultz’ Volkswagen was
being driven ahead of the truck
when it left Soldotna.
They were all to have been
loaded on a barge and shipped to
southern California where Schultz
has been tran- ferred by Standard
011 Co. of Calif. He formerly was
assistant production foreman in
the Swanson River Field.
According to friends of the
family who saw' the wrecked
trailer house, all windows were
broken and the mobile home was
badly damaged. Truck and Volks
wagen were not in evidence.
Mr, and Mrs. Schulte and three
children, accompanied by the dog
Skippy, left Kenai on Jan. 10 by
Pacific . Northern Airlines plane.
Cheoehako News, mailed any
where, only $5 per year.
Doctor to Head
Soldotna C of C
Dr. Paul Isaac will head the
Sokhvtna Chamber of Commerce
a.* president for the coming year,
succeeding 51. L. Grange. Joe
Scarantino is the newly elected
vice president.
The board of directors for 11)02
will consist of Charlie Parker,
Jack Farnsworth, Clarence Good
rich, Scarantino and Dr. Isaac
Bertha (Mrs. Dick) Midyett was
reappointed as secretary-treasur
er. d- :■ vi .. ,;:‘
Parker, Scarantino and Farns
worth arc newly electee! to the
board. The other two rnen are
holdovers from iUtii, Officers and
board members assumed their du
ties at the last Chamber meeting-,
held this past Saturday.
(Jam Gulch Hosts
Site Committee
The community of Clam Gulch
was host to a meeting' of the hos
pital site committee of the Cen
tral Kenai Peninsula Hospital As*
soeiation the evening of Jan. 9
in the community hall.
Arlyn “Speed” Thomack was
elected as Clam Gulch site com
mittee representative, Mrs. Per
Osmar is the area’s membership
committee representative.
The board, at trustees was rep
resented by Dan Harlan, Marion
Oberts, Jess Nicholas, James E,
Fisher and Daphne Methane. Dr.
Paul Isaac gave additional infor
mation concerning the proposed
hospital which quickened inter
est in the meeting.
A question and answer period
was followed by refreshments.
News from Cohoe
TO ATTEND AMU
Michael Burton, of Cohoe, left
la*t week to attend Alaska Meth
odist University at Anchorage.
Mike has been a student at Ke
nai high school for the past three
semesters., His first two years of
high school were at Menlo Park,
Cali;
REPORTS FOR DUTY
Nels Julinssen, Cohoe, has re
ceived orders to report for mili
tary service at Fort Richardson
on Feb l-3:
TWINS NAMED
The little Tri twins, born Dec.
21 at the Central Peninsula Clin
ic in Soidotna, have been named
Denise and Diane. The little
girls have two sisters and five
brothers,'making nine children in
the family for Bud and Dorothy
Tri of Cohoe.
SOLDOTJsA— M.-trvene Stmd
by, proprietor and operator of
*larvem-’s Dresa Shop in the Vil
lage Shopping Center is leaving
Anchorage by Jet, Jna. 19, to
attend a .buyer’s market being
held in Seattle on Jan. 21-24.
Beverly Erlwine will manage the
shop during her absence.
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