• The I
Kenai I
Peninsula 1
Printers I
Can I
Give You I
5-Day I
Service.. .1
on • • •
if Letterheads!
if Envelopes 1
• Tickets I
if Business J
Cards I
• Try
Our J
Service 1
Kenai I
Peninsula J
Printers I
CHEECHAKO NEWS I
BUILDING I
Write Drawer “O,” Kenai 1
or
Call 262-4624 J
Oil Exploration
Need Not Disturb
Alaska Wilderness
“Oil, Alaska's youngest Pied
Piper, is playing a pretty tune
as he leads us along the road to
economic betterment,’’ says John
Burns recently in Alaska Con
servation Society News Bulletin.
“Let's follow him, by all means,
and even help him over occasional
rough places in the way—but let’s
not overlook a few wrong notes
in his serenade, Perhaps, with a
little instruction, the discords can
become harmonies,’'
Many of Alaska’s best potential
oil yielding areas are in regions
that city people consider waste
lands. The Yukon-Kuskokwin
Delta is one such area. This area
is tundra, a thin mantle of sea
sonally thawing soil underlain by
-permanently frozen ground. Like
all tundra areas, it is amazingly
sensitive to disturbance by fire,
overgrazing and heavy' equip
ment.
’Surveying, trail construction,
geophysical activities and other
preliminary exploratory work
have been carried out by oil com
panies there for several summers.
Whenever “weasels,” “bombar
diers,” “cats” or other tracked
vehicles move across thawed
tundra they leave 'behind them
twin trails of torn vegetation and
churned soil, the article ■stated.
The summer’s sun-warmth is ab
sorbed faster on this disturbed
ground than eke where, and soon
parallel tracks become deep ruts.
Like a festering sore, the tiny
thawed area widens, spreading
and deepening each summer until,
much later, vegetation is re
established and the frost line
rises.
“If it were only the disturbance
of a few square miles of ground,
perhaps the price would not be
flooding and freezing of the
significant when weighed against
the benefit® of 'knowing how
much oil lies beneath the tundra,”
Burns says. “But there is some
evidence that whenever tempor
ary roads are made beside the
larger lake# (and that is a com
mon summer route for vehicles),
the resulting thawing, slumping,
shoreline prevents mink and mus
krats from denning.
“What, then, of the trapper
who finds his traditional line
yielding a smaller aivd smaller
return? Do we have the right to
call this a wasteland when it
supports this man and his fam
ily? Do we have to sacrifice
presents in mink for futures in
Did you know YOU CAN *
MAKE MONEY
up.. $9500* SELLING ICE CUBES...
a week with a
FRIGIDAIRE
up to 450 lbs. a day
up to 220 tbs. a day
AUTOMATIC
ICE MAKER
• makes up to 450 lbs. of solid
cubes or bite-sized cubeteta,
or both, a day
• stores up to 350 lbs, for rush
periods—cubes don't lump to
gether in storage bin
• quiet, low cost operation—no
grinders or cutting knives to
break down
*CALL 2624600 T0DAY F0R PROOF-OF-PROFIT
PENINSULA REFRIGERATION CO.
Serving Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula with Frigidaire Sales and Service
. DAN HAMLEK SOLDOTNA
oil, or can we have both in abun
dance ? ” he asks,
There are ways to reduce the
loss to trappers, the article point
ed out. For example, exploratory
work when the ground is frozen,
or by helicopter (which one com
pany is now' using) is not as
detrimental as travel over thawed
terrain,
“The problem isn’t insoluble, it
only needs to be recognized,”
Burns added.
Hub Club
Soars Again
The Soldotna Hub Club’s re
cently purchased Cessna 140
training plane has been complete
ly overhauled and is now housed
at the Soldotna airport.
The plane, formerly owned by
Jim Marshall, was purchased at
Homer on Feb". 2 with insurance
money from the club’s previous
plane, also a two-place Cessna
140, which was damaged exten
sively by fire on Dec. 5. The local
flying chib carried $3,000 insur
ance on the damaged plane.
Walt Voiies, A & P (airframe
and power plant) mechanic, did
most of the overhauling job on
the current plane. It was flown
for the first time on Feb. 23 by
Eki Back and Jess 'She!man at less
than normal cruising speed to
hbreak in” the engine.
1 he club gained a new member,
Ron Harper of Franklin’s Supply,
at abut the same time the latest
Cessna was obtained.
The club currently has six ac
tive and four .inactive members
and could use three more new
members. It costs $200 to join the
club and $8 for each hour of fly
ing instruction. Inactive members
are those who.se entrance fee has
been paid but whose work or bus
iness obligations are temporarily
■preventing' them from continuing
with instruction for flight time
necessary to otain a private
pilot’s license.
Officers of the club are Ed
Back, president; Montana (Mrs.
Roy B.) Johnson, secretary-treas
urer; A1 Hershberger?, flight
officer, and Wayne Filkel, main
tenance officer.
Open House for
1962-631st Graders
To all parents of pre-school
children:
All children that will attend
first grade in Kenai for the com
ing school year (1962-1903) and
their parents are invited to attend
an open house at the Kenai Ele
mentary School March 22 and 23,
during the hours of 9 to 11 and
1 to 3.
This open house will serve sev
eral purposes: (1) To familiarize
the children with the school, and
(2) give the school district an
idea of the number of children
who will enroll in the first grade
next school year.
If anyone knows of a family
who will have children that will
attend first grade next year and
who might not read this, would
you please inform them of the
open house.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
WIN FORD HOOVER,
Superintendent of
Kenai Schools
DID YOU KNOW?
Tie Seward-Hope highway
closely parallels the Alaska R.R.
from Seward to Moose Pass, 80
miles to the north.
Kerad, located at the mouth of
the Kaknu (Kenai) river, was
originally named Fort St. Nich
olas by the Russian founder.
Seward, long known as “The
Gateway to the Kenai Peninsula"
is the southern terminus of the
Alaska RR and the northern ter
minus of the Alaska Steamship
Company.
Alaska's panhandle is the cen
ter of a rapidly growing pulp in
dustry. Hemlock, which is used
for pulp products, grows so rap
idly there that the supply is con
sidered practically unlimited.
Congress Set For Tariff Battle ~~|
Lower Tariffs? There you have the hottest issue before the
new Session of Congress.
President Kennedy - strongly hacked by President. Eisen
hower—urges a “bold advance” in tariff rutting. The objective
is to expand our exports to the world. Expanded trade, many
add, is also vital because it brings the Free Nations closer,
strengthening our links in the battle against world communism.
Right here on the home front world trade has a real bread and
butter significance. It means jobs in our industry, cash for our
farmers, sales for our retailers.
A case in point is trade with
Japan. The U. S.-Japan Trade
Council has just published a re
port in Washington that shows
that over 190,000 American jobs
were owed to trade with Japan in
1960.
Our 1960 sales to Japan were
valued at $1.3 billion. This total
soared 30% in 1961 to about $1.7
billion. In fact, Japan now ranks
next to Canada as America’s best
customer. Imports from Japan, on
the other hand, actually fall off a
little in 1961, to below $1.1 billion.
This means we reaped a profit of
over $600 million in our trade with
our chief Asian ally,
Texas did the best of all the
states in terms of jobs produced
by trade with Japan. Almost
34.000 Texans owed their liveli
What Japan Buys in U.S.
CllttM
$219 fflilHoii
Met*i Scrap 1
4173 5 mifitsnj
Chw-ic^t '
S1S1J
miiiion
Htch'mty
i *254.7
I miilgii
r cisi
. $53 4
\ mtitien
/ Farm-- ' \
/PrsdacU (whut sojheMs.t
/ hides etc.) $255 7 m®sn|
m w
todacts
$78.2 V
»Ste» \
itjhow *' 'Trirn: ~ miiijp ’
hoods to exports to Japan, California came next with 20,570
jobs based on sales to Japan, while Mississippi followed with
11,620.
One of the biggest factors in the exports of these Southern
and Western states to Japan was King Cotton, All-in-ali, Japan
bought $219 million of raw cotton from the U. S, in 1960. That
netted us a tidy profit of $145 million, our exports over Japan's
return sales of cotton textiles and apparel.
As a group, the industrialized mid-western states had the
biggest cash stake in trade with Japan, shipping goods valued
at $257 million to Japanese customers. The number of jobs
created came to 21,480,
Prospects for the future are even brighter. The Japanese
economy is growing fast. To build its industry. Japan plans to
triple its purchases from America during the 1960s,
The details on just how trade with Japan benefits job holders
all over the United States will come as a surprise to some. Japan
is usually cast as the villain by the tariff lobbyists. Very few
know', for instance, that Japan has put limitations on 40% of
its exports to America in order to cushion the impact of inter
national competition on many of our producers,
Our country wall soon have to decide whether it is going to
move ahead on tariff-trade legislation. The record seems to in
dicate that too much of our past thinking on this vital subject
ha? been fogged over by mere sloganeering. It would be worth
while if many of us made a fresh analysis of the issue. A look at
the facts on trade With Japan would be a good place to start.
Fishing Season Is Coming!
Be Ready!
JEEP OVERHAUL
6cyl.$125 4cyL$90
ENGINE OVERHAUL INCLUDES:
LABOR — RINGS — ROD BEARINGS — GASKETS
OIL FILTER — OIL — VALVE GRIND
Smoky’s Garage
Phone 283-7747_Kenai
CG1H0VA AIRLINES
Arrives Soidotna
From Anchorage
SOUTHBOUND
7:55 a,m.
(DC-3)
(FLAG)
9:30 a.m.
(Widgeon)
4:25 p.m.
(DC-3)
SCHEDULE
Arrives Seward
From SoMotna
and Returns
8:30 a.m.
(DC-3)
5:00 p.m.
(DC'3)
Leaves Soldotna
for Anchorage
NORTHBOUND
9:15 a.m.
(DC-3)
(FLAG)
11:30 a.m.
(Widgeon)
5:45 p.m.
(DC-3)
SOLDGTNA OFFICE OPEN 8 A.M. TO 4 P.M.
Phone 262-4101
“ITS CHEAPER TO FLY!"
CALL 262-4161 FOR NEW LOW PASSENGER
AND FREIGHT RATES
C
AFTER HOURS CALL 262-4461 SOiOOTNA