THE KENAI PENINSULA
CHEEGHAKO NEWS
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LOREN STEWART .. Editor
DOROTHY STEWART . Foreign Correspondent (Retired)
MABLE SMITH .. . Local News Editor
MAURINE JONES . . Roving Reporter
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Letter to the Editor:
CITY OF KENAI
Kenai, Alaska
Nov. 25, 1961
Mr. Loren Stewart, Editor
The Cheechako News
Kenai, Alaska
Dear Mr. Stewart:
At City Council meeting, Wed
nesday, Nov. 22, 1961, the Clerk
was instructed to write The Chee
chako News regarding a petition
signed by citizens of Kenai which
would repeal the Interim Zoning
Ordinance No. 11. This ordinance
was tailored especially for the
needs of the City of Kenai by the
planning consultant and his staff
of the Alaska State Housing Au
thority working i n conjunction
with the Kenai City Planning
Commission who, in turn, held
open meetings and public hear
ings on the proposed Ordinance.
The cost of this project for the
City has been $4800. This is an
appreciable sum but if the City
of Kenai attempts to obtain funds
through bond issues, etc., for
general improvements such a s
water and sewer lines, or monies
for building schools, the fact that
we have this Zoning Plan will
make funds more readily avail
able.
Nevertheless, because it IS an
interim ordinance (having- a max
imum period of effectiveness of
two years); and because it does
affect the health, safety, morals
and general welfare of the com
munity; and because it is of maj
or importance in stabilizing and
preserving property values; and
because it is laying the founda
tion for a comprehensive Zoning
Ordinance which will be a perma
nent guide post in Kenai City
Government—because of all these
factors and in view of the present
petition, the Council has made
two separate attempts to hold
hearings on the Zoning.
Mr. M. G. Gebhart, Director,
and Mr. John Ault, Planning Con
sultant, of the AHA, two FHA
officials, representatives from
the Divisions of Lands, and water
and sewer engineers will be in
Kenai for this hearing about the
middle of December. The exact
date will be announced as soon
as possible after definite confir
mation is received.
Interim Zoning Ordinance No.
11 may be procured at the City
Clerk’s office or by addressing a
request to Box 580, Kenai. The
cost is twenty cents.
Very truly yours,
Frances Torkilsen (Mrs.)
City Clerk.
Memorial Fund to Honor Pioneer
TO: Local News Reporter
-Viable Smith—
My good friend from my home
town of Hominy, Oklahoma
FROM: Amanda Walker.
Nov. 18th, 1961
Fear Mable:
I just returned from St. Joe,
Arkansas yesterday where I laid
Pappy beside his father and mo
ther. He was an only child.
Pappy was getting things lined
■up and had told the people there
that he was coming back here to
stay the winter with me. From
what I was told he was already
fed up with Arkansas. Pappy was
the best guy in the world but he
was flightly as the birds. H e
drove up to Hominy on Saturday
the 4th. Got to Mabel’s around
5 p.m. and stayed all night there.
He left the next day at 5 p.m.
and started back to Arkansas. St.
Joe is 265 miles from Hominy.
Mabel (Amanda’s sister) said they
begged him to stay all night that
night. She said he looked so bad
she was worried about him. But
you know Pappy . . . when he
made up his mind to do some
thing, he did it.
He stopped in some little town
an Arkansas and slept for awhile
then drove on. He got to Woodie’s
and ate breakfast with them at 6
o’clock. Then he went on to the
farm. He had a man there help
ing him. Pappy always laid down
after each meal and when he got
home he laid down. The man
went in to ask him something and
thought he was asleep so went
on back to his work. He went
back an hour later and noticed
that he was in the same position
and went more closely to look at
him and saw that he was dead.
He had been back about an hour
and a naif when he died.
Well, Mable, you have known
us for a long time and you can
know a little about how I feel. It
just seems that the whole world
has dropped away from me.
Things have happened so fast
and I am so confused and tom
up I don’t know what to do. Of
course if Pappy were here he’d
say, “Now Mom, what’s the use
to worry about it.”
Mable, you have proba,bly been
informed about the “Pappy Wal
ker Memorial Fund” being start
ed in Ivenai. I would like for you
to write up the article to the ef
fect that I intend to deposit the
money in the Soldotna branch of
the Bank of Alaska in a savings
account which is to remain in the
bank. The graduating senior who
is deemed most worthy by the
Supt. of the School will be awards
ed the scholarship (fund).
The writeup in The Cheechako
was especially nice and I vant to
thank Loren, Dorothy am all the
rest of you for the nice things
you said about Pappy, i surely
would like to have 6 or of the
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TWO OUT OF THREE FLY
Airlines carried 65.6 per cent
of the total traffic to and from
Alaska in 1960. Highways carried
29.1 per cent and steamships con
tributed 5.8 per cent of the total.
Passenger Traffic Up
During the past decade total
passenger traffic to and from Al
aska has increased by 138 per
cent while population of the state
increased by 75.8 per cent.
Recent Arrivals
Shawn Ruth Phillips
A baby daughter was born to
J, Vonn and Sheila May Phillips
of Kenai at 11:38 a.m. on Tues
day, Nov. 7, at the Central Kenai
Peninsula Medical Clinic in Sol
dotna. The infant weighed 8 lbs.
13 oz. and has been named Shawm
Ruth.
Christopher James Nordgulen
Robert and Rose Nordgulen of
Ridgeway have announced the
birth of a son whom they have
named Christopher James. He was
bom at 2:13 p.m., Monday, Nov.
13 in the Clinic at Soldotna, and
weighed 8 lbs. Young Christoph
er’s father recently took over the
operation of Ridgeway Service
Station.
Theresa Elizabeth Dowden
Theresa Elizabeth is the name
Wallace and Elizabeth Dowden of
Kasilof have selected for their
new daughter born Thursday, the
ninth of Nov. at the Soldotna
Clinic. The baby weighed 7 lbs.
8 oz.
Read News wan tads for profit.
copies if you have them, want to
send them to the folks back home.
The car is snowed in and Norm
an Williams is doing the running
around for me now. I’ll drop by
to see you as soon as I can.
Pappy passed away on the 6th
of November and was buried on
the 10th in Saint Joe.
Love,
Amanda.
(Editorial comment—A mem
orial fund to honor D. C. “Pap
py” W’alker, one of the Kenai Pe
ninsula’s oldtimers, was started
by J. W. Thompson at Kenai—
where the Walkers lived many
years before moving to a home
stead near Kasilof. Friends in Al
aska were not notified of his
death in time to send flowers.
Since it was customary for both
Pappy and Amanda to aid young
people the scholarship fund was
suggested as an appropriate me
morial for this well known pio
neer who was a favorite on the
Peninsula.)
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