Coastal Drilling
Families Feted
Before Departure
A farewell barbecue honoring
the Rodney Smith and Vic Reid
families was given last week at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. John
Hall on the Kalifonsky Beach
Road. Rodney is a driller for
Coastal Drilling Co., and Vic and
John are mechanics for Coastal.
The Reids left later in the -week
for Bakersfield, Calif., and the
Smiths also are returning to Cali
fornia.
All Alaskan meats wrere fea
tures of the meal and included
bear, moose, caribou and salmon.
Pauline Gregory, sister of Mrs.
Hall, prepared the barbecue which
was served to the 47 persons at
tending the party.
Robert Hollis, cousin of John
Hall, was an unexpected guest.
Hollis, who is from McFarland,
Calif., is reported to be one of the
world’s largest growers of wal
nuts and asparagus.
According to Mrs. Hall,
“Grandmother” Hall recently
wrote from Bakersfield that the
Bakersfield Californian (daily
newspaper) a few weeks ago
carried a “write-up” about Maur
ine Jones, Cheechako News re
porter, when she visited there.
“It’s a small world, after all,”
says Mrs. Hall.
Funny River Club
New officers for the Funny
River Community Club will be
elected at the next meeting
scheduled for 7:30 p.m., Satur
day, Sept. 30.
A potluck dinner in the home
of Mrs. Glen Moore on Fuivny
River ranch will precede the
business meeting. All members
are asked to be present.
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Larry Lancashire, local “Spud King,” is standing here with his
helper, Charles Eaton, in front of the entrance to a tilt-up
concrete slab structure that he expects to have completed in
time for storing this fall’s crop of potatoes. Lancashire’s home
and potato fields are at Ridgeway, between Kenai and Soldotna.
“If the crop turns out like it looks it would, I anticipate to
harvest the best potato crop in years,” Lancashire said.
Soldotna Clinic Installs
Baby Incubator This Week
An incubator, which is expected
to be a boon in the care of pre
mature infants, arrived Friday
at the Central Kenai Peninsula
Medical Clinic in Soldatna and
has been installed.
Like children with new toys,
members of the hospital staff
said they simply had to try it
out although there was no pre
mature baby available. However,
a new baby had arrived at the
Clinic that morning so he was
placed in the new incubator and
used it as a bassinet for about
an hour.
The first occupant of the in
Pure Oil Signs
6-Year Contract
The 12th Alaska oil and gas
development contract was put
into effect this week when papers
were signed with the Pure Oil
Company for exploration and oil
and gas development in the so
called Kahiltna River develop
ment area located in the Cook
Inlet basin about 60 miles north
west of Anchorage.
The company during a six-year
period will be required to drill
at least three exploratory wells
and in the process not to spend
less than $1 million. The contract
covers about 399,000 acres, bring
ing to 5,800,000 acres the total
area included within the 12 con
tracts now in force.
In making the announcement,
Secretary of the Interior Udail
stated that 14 deep exploratory
wells have been drilled or are
now being drilled in the 12 areas
since the first development con
tract was approved in 1953.
Stop in and see
DICK & BERTHA MIDYETT
and Nickie Von Bargen
at
MK REALTY
in their
New Location
in the
VILLAGE SHOPPING
CENTER
on Sterling Hwy. Just N. of Soldotna “Y”
cubator is Billy Dean Smith,
who was born at 5 a.m. Monday,
Sept. 11, weighing 7 lbs. 9 oz.
His parents are Mr. and Mrs.
Roger Smith of Mile Post 92,
Soldatna.
The project for securing an
incubator for the Clinic was be
gun by the Soldatna Homemakers
Club, who donated proceeds from
a style show held last spring as
a partial payment. The larger
per cent of the cost, however,
was assumed by the Clinic. The
Homemakers Club plans to donate
more funds toward the total pur
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chase price through other contri
butions this year, according to
Mrs. M. L. Grange, publicity
chairman.
Dr. Elmer Gaede, one of the
two doctors at the Clinic, said
I
he and Dr. Paul Isaak felt t^e
incubator will prove to be a n- '
welcome addition to the me h .[
center and of great benefit to
residents- in the area the Clt: 3
serves.
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