Missionaries
Here From Congo
To Speak Sunday
Rev. and Mrs. Hector McMil
lan, recently evacuated mission
aries from the Congo Republic,
will be guest speakers Sunday at
churches in both Soldatna and
Kenai.
They will speak at 11 a.m.
church services at the Soldatna
Baptist church and at Young
Peoples meeting at 6 p.m. They
will be guest speakers at the
Kenai Bible Chapel at 7:30 p.m.
They spoke Wednesday night at
the Northland Baptist Church in
Sterling and again Thursday
morning at the Northland Bap
tist vacation Bible school.
Rev. and Mis. McMillan and
their six sons are visiting in the
Soldatna area with the R. L.
(Bob) Schmidt family. Mrs.
Schmidt and Mrs. McMillan are
sisters.
The McMillans are sent out
into religious service through the
Unevangelized Fields Mission and
have been in the Congo since the
early 1940’s. Their home was in
Stanleyville, in that part of Af
rica formerly known as the Bel
gian Congo.
The Schmidts are homesteading
12 miles out of Soldatna on the
Kalifonsky Beach Road. Gas well
No. 3 is located on their Home
stead. Bob Schmidt is a commer
cial fisherman.
KenaiKasilof
To Get KTVA-TY
Satellite Station
Application for installation of
a satellite translator station in
the Kenai-Kasilof area has been
filed with the Federal Communi
cations Commission in Washing
ton, D. C., it has been announced
by \. G. Hiebert, president of
Northern Television, Inc.
The translator station will re
broadcast the CBS affiliate,
KTVA-TV, in Anchorage, Alas
ka, Hiebert said.
J he area to be served is in the
heait of the rapidly glowing o'!
and natural gas area on the
Ke.oai Peninsula, which already
has a total of 31 wells producing
over 17,000 barrels of oil per
day.
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regulations to have at least one key to each box on hand at all times.
Under no circumstances may the boxholder or his agent obtain
additional keys for the box assigned to his use from any other source
or supplier.
Recent
Arrivals
Theresa Angela Odom
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Odom of
Soldatna are the parents of a
daughter, born at 7 p.m. Tue-> av.
Aug. 22, at the Central Kenai
Peninsula Medical Center a' S d
datna. The baby weighed 9 ids.
12 oz. and has been named Ther
esa Angela.
Tod Allen Zuroff
Weighing in at 9 lbs. 13 oz.,
Tod Allen Zuroff was born Fri
day afternoon, Aug. 18 in the
Central Kenai Peninsula Medical
Center in Soldatna. His parents
are Mr. and Mrs. Donald Zuroff
of Soldatna.
ACCA Meeting
Slated Tonight
Mrs. Robert Retherford, state
president of the Alaska Crippled
Children’s Association, and Dr.
Helen Dittman of Anchorage,
program consultant for the same
group, will be featured speakers
at & p.m. Friday, Aug. 25, at the
meeting of the Kenai area chap
ter of ACCA to be held at the
Kenai IleaLh Center.
Doctor Dittman also will ap
pear on a television program
from Wildwood station prior to
tlie program. She and Mrs. Reth
erford are scheduled to go to
Homer after the meeting here.
Mts. Lyman McBride, president
of the Kenai area chapter, says
the proram will stress the need
of an itinerant speech and hear
ing program in this area an 1
thu possibility of securing a
speech therapist to work with
local children.
All interested persons are urg
ed to attend the meeting.
Center Service
Kenai
Complete
Auto Repair
CHEVRON DEALER
GRAVEL HAULING
A. A. Farmer
Sterling Phone 262-4739
Missing Boat
Brings on Search
Three persons and a missing
boat were objects of an intensi
ty! -search Aug. 8 at Skiiak
Lake by members of Kenai
branch of Fish and Wild Life and
by the local squadron of Civil
Air Patiol.
A 25-foot turquoise colored
boat, powered by a 75 hp. engine
and containing a man and two
teen-age boys (identity not learn
ed by either the CAP or F&WI.)
reportedly left the lower landing
of r-kilak Lake at about 8 a.m.
Tuesday bound for the upper
landing where friend- were to
meet them. The distance usually
can be covered in approximately
20 minutes.
Five hours later, when the boat
had not been sighted, the waiting
party contacted the Kenai F&WL
and a F&WL boat was sent in
search of the missing trio. The
search was unsuccessful and Bob
Made of F&WL notified the
CAP.
The CAP Beaver, piloted by
Jim Gibson of Aviation Service
and with Clarice Kipp and her
father, If. G. Van Sickcl. as ob
servers left immediately on the
mission. No trace of either the
boat or its occupants was found.
In another routine boat search
by the F&WL that night, it was
learned the boat bad missed tin*.
upper landing, had gone past the
spot where the waiting party
camped and because of rough
water had pulled into a cove
where the trio spent most of the
day.
The man and boys later re
turned to the landing, loaded up
their boat and departed, notifying
the Bureau of Land Management,
when they learned they had been
reported missing, but failing to
notify the CAP.
Demo C lub
Hears Bischel
Tom Bischel, vice president of
the Greater Anchorage Demo
cratic Club, was guest speaker
Monday night at the Central
Peninsula Democratic Club meet
ing held in the Civic Center in
Kenai. Theme of the program
was “Operation Support.”
Mrs. Lyman McBride, program
chairman, introduced Bischel and
the other speakers, Leo Oberts
an-.! James Fisher. Oberts spoke
on President Kennedy’s program
of better homes in better com
munities, and Oberts gave a re
port of the Democratic Central
Committee meeting he attended
the past weekend in Fairbanks.
Kenai precinct women, with
Rose Navarre as chairman of the
refreshment committee, prepared
a buffet supper for approximate
ly 40 persons attending.
The next meeting is scheduled
for 8 p.m. Sept. 18, in the Com
munity Hall in Soldatna.
PNA Cuts Rates on Excursion Trips
five-day round-trip excursion
fare providing for a savings of
up to 50 per cent on the return
portion of a trip between Pacific
Northern Airlines’ points in West
ern Alaska, was announced to
day by Harold A. Olsen, PNA
Vice President of Traffic and
Sales.
Points on PNA routes affected
bj, the tariff include: Anchorage,
Homer, Kenai, King Salmon, Ko
diak, Big Mountain and Iliamna.
Subject to Civil Aeronautics
Board approval, the year-round
excursion rates will hecome ef
fective September 8, 1961, Olsen
stated.
“It is anticipated that the re
duced fare will result in an in
crease of 100 per cent or more in
excursion travel in Western Alas
ka during the first year it is in
effect,” Olsen said.
Baggage allowance on the ex
cursion fare will be 40 pounds,
according to the tariff filed v/ifch
the CAB.
A change in PNA schedules
between Kenai and Anchorage
has been announced for Tuesdays
and Saturdays only. It is as fol
low.- :
Leave Kenai 10:40 a.m., arr .
Anchorage 11:10 a.m.; leave An
chorage 7:20 p.m., arrive K <.
7:40 p.m.; late flight Tuesday,
and Saturdays, leave Kenai 7:1.7
p.m., arrive Anchorage 8:15 . > .
Are Home Again
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Sv\ ' e
who live three miles out of Ke )i
on the Kenai Spur road, retur “
Aug. 1,'! from Seattle, VVa - ’
where they spent two we
Homer spent part of the time it
a hospital for examination
treatment of a sprained f
The Swires flew Outside and re
turned over the highway driv g
back a pickup for a friend.
SEAMAN'S FURNITURE
Kenai, Alaska
BowSers! Metice!
WINTER LEAGUES
START IN SEPTEMBER
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TRl i K TIRES
8:25x20 Truck Tubes 8 5.50
10:00x20 Truck Tubes <5.50
8:25x20 Truck Tires 75.00
WIN TER I IRES
5:90x15 (rayon) $15.95
0:70x15 (nylon) 10.95
7:50x11 (n'Son) 10.95
8:00x11 (..ylon) 18.50
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