Langlois Riles Held
At Kenai Chapel
Services for Edward Arthur
Langlois, 44, farmer and rancher,
were conducted at the Kenai
Chapel on July 3, with the Rev.
Fred Crozier officiating. Burial
was in the Kenai cemetery.
Langlois, who came to Alaska
from Malta, Mont., about a year
ago, died in his pickup truck on
his way home from Homer on
June 29. Two of his older chil
dren, Connie Jean and Frank
Earl, were in the truck with him
when he became suddenly ill and
pulled the vehicle off the road.
He had been in poor health and
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Soldatna
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Registered
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Soldolna Box 367
under doctor’s care for about a
month. Death was attributed to
coronary occlusion.
The Langlois family lives sev
en miles from Soldatna on the
Kenai Spur road. Survivors in
clude the widow, Betty Louise,
and six children from 9 to 16
Myrtis Henry, Douglas Dean,
Frank Ear], Bonnie Kay, and
Edward Arthur, Jr., all of the
home, and a half-brother, Allan
Robinson, of Iowa. Parents are
deceased.
Back from England
Lisette McBride, 10, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman McBride
of Kenai, made the trip unac
companied from England to
Alaska v i a Copenhagen, Den
mark and over the North Pole
recently aboard a Scandinavian
Air System’s plane. She spent 15
months in Hertfordshire, Eng
land, with her maternal- grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Maylin, and attended boarding
school there.
Buy Anchorage Home
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Rhodes of
Kenai have purchased a home in
Anchorage and moved there Sat
urday. He was a commercial fish
erman and also did masonry con
tracting around Soldatna.
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AT NEW LOCATION
Beaver Creek on Kenai Spur Road
PTA Workshops
Scheduled This Month
Parent - Teacher Association
workshops for District 5 are
schedule*! throughout the Kenai
Peninsula this coming week with
Mrs. George Tonkin, Jr., of Boise,
Ida., conducting the sessions.
Mrs. Tonkin is vice president of
Region 7 and serves as national
board member of the PTA Con
gress.
Mrs. Robert Cole of Anchorage,
Alaska state PTA president, will
also assist at the sessions.
Each workshop will be for a
three-hour period, from 1 p.m. to
4 p.m., calendared for Aug. 17 at
Seward; Aug. 18, Kenai; and
Aug. 19, Homer.
All persons interested in youth
of the communities and future of
young people have been advised
these study groups will be of in
terest and value and are invited
to attend.
Recent
Arrivals
Bertha Katherine Trenton
Mr. and Mrs. David Trenton
of North Kenai added a new
name to their family list this
past week with the arrival of a
daughter, who was born on Tues
day, August 2. Bertha Katherine
tipped the scales at 7 pounds 2
ounces and made her debut at
the Kenai Peninsula Medical
Clinic in Soldatna.
Garrett Lee Hooper
Garrett Lee Hooper yelled a
lusty greeting to the world in
general last Thursday, August 4,
when he announced his arrival at
the Kenai Peninsula Medical
Clinic in Soldatna. Weighing in
at 6 pounds 9 ounces, he brought
special smiles to his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Garrett P. Hooper
of Soldatna.
Debra Lynn Chaffin
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Chaffin
are announcing the birth of their
first child, a 6 lb. 11 oz. daugh
ter, whom they have named
Debra Lynn. The baby was born
in Providence Hospital in Anchor
age at 8:30 a.m. on Aug. 4. The
Chaffins live on a homestead
about one-half mile east of Sol
datna on Skate Lake and he is
employed as a butcher at Kenai
Food Center. Maternal grandpar
ents are Mr. and Mrs. Ward
Showalter of Kenai. Paternal
grandparents are deceased.
Out of Hospital
Erie llallenback, three-year
old son of the Byron Hallenbacks,
is now out of the Palmer hospital
and recovering at home from
results of a recent attack by a
husky dog.
Both of Eric’s arms and one
leg have remained paralyzed
since the attack friends here
have been informed.
Opens Air Strip
Ray McNutt, registered guide
who also does charter flying,
now has his air strip open. Con
tructed primarily for his own
landings and take-offs, McNutt
has thrown the strip open foi
public use.
Tie-down space only is avail
able at present although he late*
plans to put in gasoline pumps.
The stiip is located near the
post office and currently uses
the flag as a wind sock.
New Fire Chief
Frank Wisearver has been
transferred to Wildwood Station
as new fire chief replacing
George Martinson, who in turn
was transferred to Fort Greeley
near Fairbanks. Wisearver lived
in Anchorage the last 10 years
and assumed duties here on July
22. He formerly was assistant
fire chief at Fort Richardson.
His family consists of his wife
Clair, and daughter, 9-year-old
Shelley, now living here. The
Martinson family left for Fair
banks about a month ago.
Kenai Natural Gas |
Pressure Tests Made ,
Natural gas from the Kena
Peninsula gas wells began flow
ing into the main lines in An !
ehorage this week with pressur '
tests being made Wednesday, i
Final phase of construetio: i
work by the Alaska Pipelin “
company will continue severa
days. Testing of transmission
lines from the well heads in th
Kalifonsky Beach field nea
Soldatna and including the sub
marine lines across Turnagai:
Arm have already undergone sue
eessful tests.
Vetoes Incorporation
Homer residents deafeated ;
proposal for incorporation as ;?
fourth class city in a specia
election held Saturday, July 22"
Two hundred and fifty vote^
were cast in the election and thn
incorporation measure was de^
feated 131 to 119. Also defeated
at the same time was a sales ta:
proposal of 3 per cent.
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