North Kenai News
New Homes, Building
Projects in N. Kenai
Keep Residents Busy
Construction projects are un
derway at many of the homes in
the North Kenai area.
Jim Goff of Daniels Lake is
putting in a basement for a new
home as is Ray Murphy of Sai
amatof Beach.
The “Cedar" home of the Dale
McGahans is being built between
rain showers and is going up at
an astonishing speed. This is a
“prefab” house and “Uncle” Mac
McGahan is local distributor.
George and Rose Navarre of
Kenai Food Center have nearly
completed a new home on their
homestead 18 miles out on North
Kenai Highway.
Joe and Kathy Kuchta of Holt
Road have occupied their new
home although it is not quite
completed. Construction of a pole
barn is being rushed so as to be
finished before cold weather ar
rives.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Thomas are
completing a new home at the
south end of the Miller Loop
Road.
Additions are being built at the
homes of the Walter Myrieks,
Bud Chamberlains, Bruce Hoyts
and the Ray Gees.
Home on Leave
James Segura, airman station
ed aboard the aircraft carrier,
USS Lexington, is home on a 10
day leave. He is a son of Victor
Segura of Kenai. Upon his return
to the home port of the Lexing
ton at North Island, Calif., he is
to leave on a cruise beginning
in October which is expected to
go to Japan for a period of nine
months. Airman Segura enlisted
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in the Navy in May 1959 and has
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Director of Nurses
Mel Keppel, former resident of
Melody Lane, North Kenai, spent
several days with friends in the
area. Mrs. Keppel, Helen to all
her friends, has just been ap
pointed director of nurses at
Mary Vale Community Hospital,
newly completed 150-bed hospital
at Phoenix, Ariz. The Keppels
have been in Phoenix for the
past two years but still have a
home on Melody Lane.
Australia Bound
Word has been received that
Mr. and Mrs. Marion Hergatt
and family, who are aboard their
fishing boat “Nancy” enroute to
Australia, arrived in Ketchikan
on their way to Seattle. They
are accompanying Kenai Packers
power scow on its southbound
trip.
Flower Lovers
The Wirz family of Coyote
Alley have had the most beauti
ful blooms on their gladioli and
rose bushes these past weeks, ac
cording to those who have viewed
them. For anyone who doubts
they will grow and bloom here
on the Kenai Peninsula, the proof
is in the Wirz yard for all to
see.
North Carolinians Hunt Bear
John Schott and Milton C. May
of Charlotte, North Carolina, are
making a brief visit with the
Don Johnsons of North Kenai
while enroute to the brown bear
country across Cook Inlet. Both
men are impressed by the vast
ness of the 49th state and the op
portunities it affords.
Home Again
Mr. and Mrs. Darrell McKee,
Lori and Mark, have returned
after a week’s visit with friends
in Anchorage. While there they
visited with Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam Schenck (she is a daughter
of the S. A. Hoyts), and Mr. and
Mrs. Jim Rhodes, former North
Kenai residents, as well as at
tending the Alaska State Fair at
Palmer and going on a trip to
Big Lake.
His First Earthquake
H. J. Winters of Silverton,
Ore., spent several weeks with
his daughter, Mrs. S. A. Hoyt,
and family at the Hoyt home
stead on the east shore of Salam
atof Lake. Mr. Winters, who is
81 years young, had his first
experience with earthquakes this
Sept. 5. Between carpentering
chores, he has enjoyed watching
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the floatplanes which rise the
lake as a base. Other visitors
have included moose, sand cranes 1
and trumpeter swans. He return- 1
ed to Silverton Sept. 14. «
Four Generations
Four generations were present
Sunday, Sept. 10, when Mr. and
Mrs. Bruce Hoyt of Miller Loop
Road and Salumota Creek enter
tained at supper with H. J. Win
ters of Silverton, Ore., and Mr.
and Mrs. S. A. Hoyt of East
Shore, Salamatof Lake, as their
guests. Mr. Winter is father of
Mrs. S. A. Hoyt, grandfather of
Bruce Hoyt and great - grand
father of Kimberly Joan, age
41-> years, and Bradley Scott,
age 21'2, the Bruce Hoyts’ chil
dren. Not one of the generations
was born in Alaska. Two other
great-grandchildren, Michael and
Kelly Schenck, live in Anchor
age.
On Driftboat
Mr. and Mrs. Dwayne Johnson
and son Darrell of Mason City,
Iowa, have returned to their
home after spending the summer
in Kenai. Dwayne fished the
driftboat “Shirley Ann” and did
finish work on his brother Don’s
house in North Kenai. Tentative
plans are to return for the sum
mer of ’62. Mrs. Johnson won
the blue ribbon with her entry
of homemade bread at the Kenai
Days celebration.
Back on the Job
Betty Norman is once again
at her job with Peninsula Build
era after a 2-week vacation and
trip to the village of Holy Cross
on the lower Yukon River. Betty
and daughters, Carol and Donna,
were flown to Holy Cross and
returned by Don Johnson of
Kenai Floatplane Service. Return
ing to Holy Cross after an ab
sence of 18 years, Mrs. Norman
visited her mother, Mrs. Frances
Demientief, and brother, Joseph.
Another brother, Luke, and sis
ter, Mrs. Alice Nerby of Bethel
also joined in the family reun
ion. A brother, Mike, of Paxson
was unable to make the trip .All
of Mrs. Norman’s family except
Joseph have been visitors at
Kenai.
Postmaster Appointment
The Senate this week confirmed
the appointment of Mrs. Lillian
E. Ingram as postmaster at Dill
ingham.
From Cooper Landing
Harold Fuller, gunsmith, watch
epairer and machine workei
rom Cooper Landing, was con
iucting business in Soldotna on
fuesday.
Air Travelers
1959 statistics show that every!
Alaskan made 1.4 trips by air I
while in the 48 states only one;
quarter of the people traveled,
by air.
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