THE KENAI PENINSULA
Cheechako News
Phone 262-4624 KEN AI Drawer 0
MABLE SMITH . Local News Editor & Complaint Dept.
DOROTHY STEWART ... .;.„.. Treasurer
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COLLEEN RIVERS . Glamorous Office Secretary
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Letter to the Editor:
Alaskans Are Asked
To Remember Pioneers
Dear Editor:
Thank you for the very inter
esting- copy of your -paper which
was in the mail this past week.
It is refreshing to read a paper
that has so much personality and
warmth to it.
Personally, I see hut few of the
newspapers aside from the local
ones, although I have monthly
contacts with most of those in the
state, and hope I can with you
from now on through putting
your paper on the monthly mail
ing list of the guests at the Alas
ka Pioneers Home in Sitka that
I send out to some 25 newspapers,
chibs and individuals not only in
Alaska but also in some of the
smaller states.
In 1056 it was my pleasure to
take an all-Alaska vacation from
my work at matron at the local
Federal Jail—when that closed,
transferred to the Fan-hanks
State Jail without missing- a shift.
First I took the train trip to
Anchorage for a visit with my
<hdest son and family. My son
Acre is a partner in Reeve Aleu
tian Airways and he -sent me on
a never-to-be-forgotten 5-day trip
flown the Chain, including a side
trip to the Pribilofs.
I was at Cold Bay when the
Canadian Pacific plane erasned.
killing 15 of the 22 on board and
1 helped care for some of the sur
vivors. I did not have a camera
along but that trip will live with
me until my dying -day.
Returning to Anchorage, took
in the Fair at Palmer' with my
family and on Labor Day flew to
Juneau to visit friends there.
While at Juneau, made the side
trip to Sitka that was the start
of sending cards to each of the
guests at the Pioneers Home not
only for the holidays but far their
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t all our office today. Telephone
2S-’J-750I and ask for Leo.
(Leo T. Oberts
INS IRAN(E
Kettai l$o\ Ifj.H
birthdays,
Sitka is a lovely place and the
Home is well kept and nice. How
ever, so many that go there feel
ihat the next move is to the grave
—which is true. They crave at
tention from others not connected
with the town or Home, These
lists have grown from that—to
make each one feel that others
care whether they live or not and
to try to bring some sunshine into
their lives,
Hope to be able to visit there
again one of these summers while
on vacation, However, the last
four have been spent in Virginia
Mason Hospital and in hotels for
surgery and recovery, I am one
of the unfortunate ones who have
twice had cancer—malignant —
and caught it in time, but have to
have checkups there each sum
mer to be sure that a new one
has not started. The two I had
were in no way connected and
have been cancer-free since the
fall of 1059.
1 mail these birthday lists out
about the 25th of each month,
and,- unless I hear from you to
the contrary, will send you a list
also. We wiil appreciate your
printing as much of these lists as
you have room for.
Some of the guests are in their
90s—-some younger than I. The
good we do for them should be
done now—or it may come too
late,
Ar.d thank you again for your
interesting paper. Hope I can
visit your part of Alaska before
I retire and move to the smaller
states in the summer of 1905,
Yours very truly,
(Mrs.) Am ante Tonseth Hanson,
Sec'y Pioneer Women of Alas
ka, Box 220R, Fairbanks.
Alaska.
Air Force Officer
Named to FAA
Maj. Gen. Harold W. Grant,
formerly commander of the Air
Force Communications Service,
has been named deputy adminis
trator for the Federal Aviation
Agency. -
NaJeeb Halaby, FAA adminis
trator, in naming Grant declared,
“Gone -a! Grant is an outstanding
administrator and a leader in
technical areas critical to the Job
ahead of building a national avia
tion. system.’’
C ant has assumed the position
left vacant by the resignation of
James T. Pyle, who left FAA to
join private industry several
months ago.
General Grant, who remains on
active military duty while with
FAA, c-ame to the agency from
.
World War II, he staved in both
the European and the Pacific
theatres,of operation and during
the Korean War was vice com
mand. of the Japan Air Defense
and the Fifth Air Force.
IMBIES* VACCINE ISSUED
Nearly 40# units of rallies vac
cine were given out by the Divi
sion of Agriculture for use on
sled dogs, in the Fort Yukon area
recently after a rabid fox bit a
youngster. Division of Health and
State Police personnel assisted' in
the immunization program.
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Launches
Easter Seal
Campaign
Jenevicve (Mrs. K. K, “Bun”)
Fletcher of Kenai, chairman
of the Easter Seal Campaign of
the Alaska Crippled Children's
Association, Kenai Area Chapter,
has announced her co-workers for
the drive which began March 15
and wall continue until April ‘22,
In Soldotna, the campaign will
be conducted under the leadership
of Ruth Sandstront and Ramona
Brennan, Those assisting Mrs,
Fletcher at Kenai will be Mrs.
Opal James, Mrs. Thomas O'Malia
and Mrs, Lyman McBride,
Other workers and the areas to
Which they have been assigned
are; Mrs. Morris Course!*, Ster
ling; Mrs. ‘Stella Pihoken, Wild
w'ood Station; Mrs. Fran Osmar,
Clam Gulch; Mrs. Chester Walk
er, Ninilchik, and Jack Haekzema,
Kasilof.
Of the funds collected nv Mrs.
Fletcher and her corps of volun
teer workers, 45 per cent wilt re
main in the Kenai-Soldotna-Tus
tnmena auea for direct assistance
in the chapter’s work with crip
pled and handicapped children.
The remaining- 55 per cent goes
to the state organization for simi
lar work throughout Alaska.
With a portion of the proceeds,
the local group hopes to purchase
an audiometer to test the hearing
of children. Mrs. Fletcher said.
The National Society for Crip
pled Children and Adults, of
which the Alaska Crippled Chil
dren's Association is the state
branch, first adopted the sate of
Easter Seals as a fund raising de
vice in 1934. The public has re
sponded each year more gener
ously to this appeal and "Easter
Seals” have come to be synony
mous with care for the crippled.
The stylized Easter lily, adopt
ed in 1952 as the symbol of the
organization and subsequently,
trademarked, is now well known.
Funds from the sate of the smalt
stamp-like stickers provide for
medical care, treatment and edu
cation of crippled children anti for
research.
More than 80 children in the
Eenai-Soidotna-Tustumena area
have benefited from service of the
A CCA during the past year, Mrs
Fincher pointed out. Speech and
hearing therapy work and possi
ble other therapy programs are
scheduled to be continued in the
area.
New Regulations
Aid Homesteaders
Certain regulations of the Bu
reau of Laud Management are
scheduled to be altered to the ad
vantage of homesteaders. The
proposed new regulations ware
published for'the Federal Register
recently.
The new procedure would place
a limit on the number of issues a
person contesting a homestead
entry may raise at later, separate
times. Any issues • or points of:
controversy which an individual
wishes to raise against an entry
man must be raised in the initial
protest, or else it is waived for
ever after, un’oss it is something
the contestant could not have
>vn about at the time of the
initial suit.
Background of the proposed
vision is that certain Alaska
homesteaders were fated with
contests to their entries, only to
: that when the points in ques
tion were settled contestants
raised still other points of contro
versy and the homesteaders thus
faced a succession of actions.
Hen. Ernest Gruerting protested
to Secretary of the Interior Stew
art UdaiJ, pointing out the unfair
ness to the entrant of having to
face a multiplicity of suits. The
secretary promised to look into
the situation. The new regulation,
which will go into effect by April
is the result.
In Alaska -t7 per cent of the
taxes collected come from income
tax; this is second among the
western state to Oregon where
52,7 per cent are flrorri the nim
source.
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CHEECHAKO NEWS—262 4624
FIRST SOUTHERN BAPTIST MISSION meets each Sunday from
10 ami. to 12 noon at Soldotna Community Bldg. James M.
Simmons of Anchorage, Pastor. 61-bc
LUTHERAN CHURCH—Sunday School at 3 p.m. Youth program 4
p.m. Pot luck supper ©t p.m. at Soldotna Community Building.
O. B. Fjelsiad, p&ator,
SOLDOTNA BAPTIST CHURCH, at the Y. Sunday School at lO a m.
Morning Worship 11 a.m.; Sunday evening service 7:30 p.m.
Rev. Paul Weimer, Pastor.
CATHOLIC 1CHURCH SUNDAY MASS SCHEDULES: KenaiTarau
at Our Lady Of the Angels church; Soldotna, 11 a.m. at Village
Shopping Center: Wildwood 4 p.m. at Wildwood Chapel.
KENAI METHODIST CHURCH— Church School 9:45 a.m. and Pub
lic Worship 11:00 a.m. each Sunday. Methodist Youth Fellowship
Sunday 0:00 p.m. Daniel Harlan, Pastor.
KENAI BIBLE CHURCH.—Sunday School at 9:45 a.m.; morning
worship 11:00 a.m.; Sunday evening 7:30, Pastor Fred S. Cromer.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, KENAI, 2nd and Birch St.—Sunday
School at 10:00 a.m. Morning worship at 11:00 a.m. Sunday
Evening Service at 7:30 p.m,
KENAI CHURCH OF CHRIST—Lord's Day^ervices 9:45 aTm., ll:00
a.m. and 7:00 p.m.; Mid-week Services, Wednesday, 7:00 p.m.
KENAI ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH--Sunday School at 10 a.m.
Morning worship 11 a.m. Evening worship 7:30 p.m. Mid-week
services. Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Pastor Carl S. Click.
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BAHA’I WORLD FAITH
WORDS FOR THE WORLD
‘IK THFS MATERIAL world time has cycles . . . apring
, . . sutiMjn . '.'. summer or . . . winter ... It is the same
with the spiritual cycles of the Prophets.*
‘This period of time ^ the Frorniaed Age, the assembling
of the human race to *hi&^Resu^f-efrtion Day” and now is
th# great “Day of Judgment.” Soon the whole world, as in
springtime, wilf change its garb . . . The new 'y&r Rath
appeared amt the spiritual springtime is at hand.’
— Baha’i Writings
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