Kenai-Soldotna
Free Plane Rides
Twelve pel-sons will have an
opportunity to take free airplane
rides between Kenai and Soldotna
on the two days of dog racing this
weekend, according to .Jim Gibson
of Aviation Services, Inc.
Registrations for the drawing
are to he made at Aviation Serv
ices hangar at Kenai airport. !Six
names will be selected there at
noon Saturday and another six
at noon Sunday. The free flights
will he made before and after the
dog races.
Gibson will also make flights
over the trail between the two
cities during the races. These
trips, ho-wever. will be at the rate
of $5 per person.
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SOLBOTNA
AMONG THE many now homes becoming available in the Kenai
Soldotna area are those being built by Lewis & Metzger in the
Marydale Subdivision at Soldotna. One of these homes, which is
handled by M-K Realty Co,, is shown above completed and ready
for occupancy.
California Car
Wreck Injures
Former Soldotnan
Tom Jones, former Soldo ina
resident, was seriously injured
tafce Saturday night, in a car acci
dent occuring between Bakers
field and Santa Maria in Califor
nia. He is the son of H. W. Jones,
Standard Oil Company of Califor
nia’s chief foreman for drilling
operations in Alaska, and Mrs,
Jones, who live in Soidotna,
Jones only recently had been
released from a hospital after
treatment for a thyroid condition
and was driving on a detour when
the accident took place.
He is reported to have shat
tered his hip bone, and to have
fractured two vertebrae and some
ribs as well as suffering other
njuries. He was first taken to
Our Lady of Perpetual Help hos
pital at Santa Maria and later
transferred to the Sawtelle Vet
eran’s hospital in Los Angeles.
The wreck occurred on the
same night in which Jones’ sister,
Mrs. Pat Kettles, and Walter Mc
Kern were married in Soklotna,
Water Pollution
Control Lab Site
Is Selected
The new water pollution con
trol laboratory that will be built
at College on the University of
Alaska campus will contain some
50,000 square feet, Senator Grue
ning has announced. The $2.5
million building will be located on
1.2 acres on the campus, on an
easterly slope just east of the
present Engineering Building
and south of, but nearly adjacent
to, the proposed forest research
laboratory (for which $350,000
has been appropriated).
Selection of sites of the seven
laboratories across the country is
necessary before' $1.6 million of
funds for design planning for all
seven can be released.
Oil, Gas Lease
Drawing March 6
12,038 applications had been re
ceived by the Division of Lands
by 3:00 ,p,m„ February 5, 1002,
the closing time erf the 30-day
simultaneous filing period for
Alaska’s second noncompetitive
oil and gas lease drawing. Appli
cations were submitted for each
of the 144 tracts offered; encom
passed by these tracts are 341,020
acres in the Susitna Valley and
the southern Tyonek area.
Alaska led the states in filing,
with 7,235 applications, followed
by Colorado, Washington, Texas,
California and Oklahoma. In all,
29 states, Canada and Washing
ton, D. were represented.
The public drawing, at which
the first three priorities for each
tract will be drawn, is schedule*#
to be held in the former Council
Chambers of the ltoussac Library*
beginning at 8:30 a.m., March 6.
19(>2. The first .priority drawn on
each tract will be the application
offered a lease; subsequent prior
ities for each tract may avail
themselves, according to their
priorities, of a leasing opportuni
ty ^should the preceding priorities
default. All applications, except
the first three on each tract, will
be drawn, to determine a com
plete priority list for each tract,
at the Division of Lands office,
beginning March 7, 1962.
GRAVEL HAULING
A. A. Farmer
Sterling Phone 262-4739
Fishing Season Is Coming!
Be Ready!
JEEP OVERHAUL
6cy].$125 4cyl.$90
ENGINE OVERHAUL INCLUDES:
LABOR — RINGS — ROD BEARINGS — GASKETS
OIL FILTER — OIL _ VALVE GRIND
Smoky’s Garage
Phone 283-7747 Kenai
THE YARN SHOP
Soldotna Phone 262-4711
Charlotte Slawson.
NAPTOWNE INN
MILE 83Vi — STERLING HIGHWAY
GENEVA ARM IT AGE
RIG BARBER SHOP, Kenai
THE 4 ROYLE PARKER’S
Cafe—Bar—Lounge—Motel
Liquor Store—Union Service Station
ALASKA SHOP
, SEWARD
ESTES BROS., INC.
MOOSE PASS
SLAWSON and ASSOCIATES
Soldotna Phone 262-471!
Slim Slaw son
“SERVING KEN AI COUNTRY*’
KENI Radio, 550 kc.
RIVERSIDE HOUSE
SOLDOTNA
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