Reggie English
To Wed Teacher
The encasement and forthcom
ing mam i age of >her daughter,
Miss Rose Ann Arnold of Anchor
age, to Reginald English of Sol
dotna, arc announced by Mrs.
Wade l.arce of Com ant he, Ok! a.
The father of the bride-elect is
deceased,
English, crew chief with the
geological firm of Core Labora
tories, Inc., is well known
throughout the Kenaj Peninsula,
especially among persons connect
ed with drilling operations. He is
the son of Garnett Willard Eng
lish of Two Hills, Alberta, Can
aria, and Mrs. Bart Brandle, Har
ris Mills, British Columbia.
The wedding will be an event
of March 31 and will take place
at 7 p.m. in Trinity United Pres
byterian Church in Anchorage,
with the Rev. Ralph Weeks offi
ciating.
Miss Arnold, born at Waurika,
Okla., has been in Alaska two
years. Her bachelor of ants degree
w as obtained in Oklahoma at Cen
tral State College, Edmond. She
currently is teaching the first
grade at North Star elementary
school, Anchorage.
Bom at Vegreville, Alberta,
Canada, the prospective bride
groom was graduated from the
University of Alberta with a
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MAIN PARTICIPANTS in the Walker-Wilsack wedding were
Janice Walker and Duncan F. Wilsack. The couple were radiant
as they posed for the Cheechako News photographer following the
ceremony which was one of the outstanding affairs of the season.
bachelor of science -degree. This
is his fourth winter in. Alaska,
English has been engaged ir
petroleum reservoir engineering
with Core Lab in Kenai Peninsula
operations and was on the first
discovery well, Richfield's No. 1,
which opened up the Swanson
River field, and on subsequent
wells in the area.
AT REA CONFERENCE
SOLDOTNA -— Burton Carver,
mayor of Sokiotna, returned
Tuesday from a two-week trip
which took him to Atlantic City,
N. J.. and Washington, D. C.
Carver. president of the Alaska
association of the Rural Electrifi
cation Association, attended the
national ICE,A. convention held
in Atlantic City.
Alaska ranks 39th among the
states in state and*local taxation;
the per capita tax amounts to
$161.83 annually. This figure is
the lowest of the six fair Western
States.
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Soldotna Couple
Plights Troth
Announcement!; of the engage
ment and approaching marriage
of their daughter, Miss Dixie Lee
Suthard, has been announced by
Mr, and Mrs. Thomas Suthard of
Soldotna. Miss Suthard will be
come the bride of Jerry Gibson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Gibson,
also of Soldotna.
The wedding will take place on
the evening of March 24.
Best Spellers
To Be Determined
In Coming Contest
Spelling hooks are being dusted
off and preparations are being
made for the Kenai Peninsula
Spelling Contest, to be held at
Tustuniena school on Wednesday,
April It.
Schools expected to participate
are those at Homer, Ninilchik,
Anchor Point, Seldovia, Tustu
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Mary E. Willetts, teacher in
Kenai school, is chairman of the
committee in charge of the con
test. Serving with her are two
other teachers, Mildred Griffing,
Tustumena"' school, and Thane
Curry, Niniichik school.
Students will enter eompetion
in four divisions: (1) Grades 3-4,
(2) grades 5-6, (3) grades 7-8
and (4) high school.
For elementary competition,
each school is asked to send two
contestants for each division.
Far the high school contest,
■there may be four entries, two to
be selected from grades 9-10, two
from grades 11-12,
Elimination contests are ex
pected at each school to deter
mine which students are eligible
to go to the Peninsula-wide event.
Words for elementary spelling
will be selected from “The New
Spelling Goals” by Lambader &
Kottmeyer. The high school list
will be taken from the glossary
list in “Adventures in American
Literature,” published by Har
court, Brace and Company.
Contestants should be prepared
to spell any word selected from
the textbooks in their representa
tive grade group. In case of no
elimination with the selected li3t
in each elementary group, the
judges will offer the pronounper
the spelling list of the next gride
level.
If a winner has not been de
tes mined with the high school
list, spelling will continue with
the 1962 practice list of “Words
of Champions.’*
Alaska officially became a state
at 12:02 p.m, on Jan. 3, 1959,
when President Dwight D. Eisen
hower signed the Alaska State
hood Bill. k .. ..
Jury Finds Watson
Guilty of Murder
Arthur Vernon Watson, So]dot- his arrest following: the shooting,
»a motel operator, in a trial be- Wayne Morgan of Konai, state
fore the Superior Court jury in trooper who investivated the kill
Anrhorage last week, was found ing, and several Soldotna area
guilty of second degree murder in persons testified at the trial,
the slaying of Marior T. Grissom, These included Watson’s wife,
Soldotna area homesteader, last Elizabeth, and Frank Mullen and
Dec, J8. Maxine Bear. Several area resi
Grissom, 57, dies! at the Watson tlentli attended the trial and were
home from a gunshot wound 1,re!icnt when the verdict was
caused by a slug fired from a .300 Mra* Wats°n. who had te^ti
Savage rifle, following a quarrel ae<* on her husband’s behalf, was
arising during a drinking party. at tne !'eiJding of the
Matson was indicted hy the Watson’s attorney, Peter B
grand jury for first degree mur- Walton, stated that'he definitely
Jiei and was held in custody after plans to appeal the case.
lews of Kasilof Area
Kasilof Library
Continues Growth
New books continue to arrive
at the Kasilof Public Library.
During the evening of March
8, a group of volunteer workers
met with library board members,
Mrs. Archie McLane, Rev. Main
waring and Jeanne Jaekinsky to
accession new' books and make
them available to the public.
The library board, and in fact
the entire community, greatly ap
preciate their efforts and wish to
thank them for their services and
help.
The Methodist C-hurch at Ka
silof held its regular meeting Fri
day, March 9, at the home of
Verne and Verna St. Louis.
STUDY GROUP MEETS
_ The Ladies Study Group of the
Kasilof Community Church met
during the afternoon of March *?
at the home of Mrs. Trudy Webb.
The subject under study was the
Book of Revelations.
Ten members were present Re
freshments of coffee, nut bread
and salad were served^
The nest meeting of the group
will be on the afternoon of March
16 at the home of Mrs. Alice
Huebsch.
Swanson River
Discoverer Paid
Special Tribute
W. C. (Bill) Bishop, the geolo
gist who picked the location for
the drilling of Alaska’s first com
mercial oil welt, was given spe
cial recognition recently. Rich
field Oil Company's No. 1 discov
ery well on the Kenai Peninsula
opened up the well known
Swanson River field. The well
was drilled in July of lt'57.
Tribute was paid to the oil and
Bishop to Address
AMU Nite Dinner
Bishop A. Raymond Grant of
Portland, Ore., resident bishop of
Methodist churches for the states
of Idaho, Oregon and Alaska, will
be the guest speaker at an Alaska
Methodist University night din
ner meeting on March 2 at River
side House. Soldotna.
The meeting:, beginning at 7*30
p.m., is open for the public and
is especially for the area on the
western side of the Kenai Penin
sula, extending from Homer to
Kenai. Tickets are available lo
cally, according to the Rev. Dan
iel Harlan, .pastor of the Kenai
Methodist Parish.
Bishop Grant is president of
the board of trustees of Alaska
Methodist University, Anchor
age, and is in Alaska to speak in
various cities in behalf of the
university. Speaking engage
ments wfil also take him to
Ketchikan, Juneau, Anchorage
and Fairbanks as well as to the
Kenai Peninsula.
Although Bishop Grant htads
the Division of Human Relations
and Economic Affairs of the
Methodist Church, his address in
Soldotna will not be in the inter
est of Methodism but will deal
with the university and is expect
ed to be of interest to persons of
all denominations.
gas industry in Alaska at the
Alaska Night banquet of the Atre
tic Club in Seattle on March. 2 at
which time Bishop was honor
guest.
The designation of the “Hem
lock Zone” so often noted in Alas
ka geological reports stems from
the landmark Bishop used in se
lecting the location for drilling
the exploratory well which
opened up the rich crude oil field.
Bishop, after intensive geologi
cal surveys, choose an area near
a tall hemlock tree. Using it as a
landmark, he spun around on his
heel ami instructed the crew' to
drill on the spot thu3 marked on
the ground. The formation in
which oil was struck was named
the “Hemlock Zone*’ in tribute to
the geologist's landmark. Many
subsequent produce*!a have been
found in the same zone.
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