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“NEWS FROM THE OIL CENTER OF ALASKA” ~ ~ —
The Kenai Peninsula
third year
DECEMBER 15, 1961
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NUMBER 68
Kenai Council Calls Hearing on Taxicab Charge
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DOG RACING IN ALASKA is for everybody and the kids and
women get into the act. Here a contestant with a team of pure
white Siberians takes off from the starting line at the North's
Fur Rendezvous.
1962 License Plates
Available Locally Now
Vehicle licenses for 1962 will
go on sale throughout Alaska on
Dec. 15.
Licenses are obtainable in Sol
dotna and Kenai from deputy
collectors Margaret Mullen at
Soldotna Laundry and Mary Nis
sen at Hartley’s Dept. Store in
Kenai. Hours will be 10 a.m. to
3 p.m. each place.
Alaskans will notice increased
fees on the new plates, also that
several new categories of plates
will be issued in the same colors
as 1961.
NEW RESIDENTS
RIDGEWAY— Joan and John
Wood and children, Linda, Rickie
and Scott, aged 6 years, 5 years,
and 6 months, are new Sol dot na
residents. Joan is a sister of Mic
key Parker of the Four Royle
Parkers. Joan and the children
came up by plane a couple weeks
ago. Johnny is chiving a 1962
pickup up the Alaska highway
and is expected any day.
The Wood family formerly
lived in Las Vegas, Nevada, where
he was a mechanic for Bonanza
Airlines for several years. He
will be associated with the Park
ers in the 76 Service Station por
tion of the Parkers’ varied en
terprises.
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KENAI, ALASKA
Choral Group
In Concert
Appearances
A series of pre-Christmas con
certs has befen scheduled by -the
Kenai Peninsula choral society
with this week’s concert to be
Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Kenai
Methodist church.
The group will be featured in
a similar concert at Soldotna Bap
tist church next Tuesday, Dec. 19,
at 7:30 p.m.
Due to scheduling problems, the
concert planned at Wildwood Sta
tion has been postponed until a
more favorable date.
Sacred and secular music will
be presented and will include
such numbers as the Hallelujah
Chorus, selections from Bach
and a Pied Waring arrangement
of The Night Before Christmas.
The first concert in the series,
scheduled for 4 p.m. this past
Sunday at the Homer Methodist
church, was called off due to bad
weather and road conditions.
However, another performance
also set for Sunday was presented
at 8 p.m. at St. Peter the Fisher
man Methodist church at Ninil
chik. The Homer concert will be
rescheduled for later this month.
Thane Curry, Ninilchik, is di
rector of the Choral Society, and
Miss Pat Rose, Kenai, is accom
panist.
The organization is composed
of 26 adult singers fro,m Ninil
chik, Cohoe, Clam Gulch, 'Soldot
na, Kenai and North Kenai.
Practice sessions are held each
Tuesday evening at the Kenai
Methodist church.
Another series of concerts is
planned during Easter season and
again in late spring, about time
for schools to close.
Music Groups
Present Kenai
PTA Program
Music by the high school band
and the high school chorus was
featured Monday night at the
meeting of the Kenai PTA. The
meeting was opened with a pray
by Rev. Fred Crozier, pastor of
Kenai Chapel.
The Star Spangled Banner ami
several Christmas numbers were
Rabies Shots Due
Saturday in Kenai
Innoculation of dogs against
rabies is to take place in Kenai
Saturday from 9 a.m to 5 p.m.
at the city clerk’s office.
The City of Kenai recently
passed an ordinance that a 11
dogs within the city limits be
licensed and no license can be
obtained until the owner presents
a certificate showing that the
animal has been given the rabies
shots.
A qualified veterinarian from
Anchorage will 'be in Kenai to
administer- the shots. Dog own
ers are advised to have their pets
on leases when brought to the
city clerk’s office. Fees are to be
$2 per dog.
Dog Races
Scheduled
For Kenai
Dog sled races are to be held
in Kenai in the first week of
March under sponsorship of the
Kenai Days committee. Proceeds
are to go into a building fund for
erection of a community building.
A purse of $MOO is to be offered
with prizes of $150, $100 and
$50 to go to fir st, second a n d
third place winners.
Plans for the event were out
lined Monday at a breakfast
meeting of committee members.
An announcement is to be made
soon as to the amount of the small
entrance fee to be charged and
as to where entries should be
made.
This will be the first year
that a purse has been offered ami
is the first time that the races
will be sponsored by the Kenai
Days committee, although much
interest was manifest in the sled
dog races held at Kenai last
year.
played by the band, under direc
tion of Mis. Helen B. Pickett.
There was a clarinet solo by
Lois Eagle, accompanied by Don
na Ruth Eagle, pianist.
The high school chorus, direct
ed by Mrs. Albert Munson, sang
six songs,
The meeting was well attended
and at its close refreshments
were served by mothers of sev
enth grade students.
A public hearing on propose#
taxi rates for the City of Kenai
has been set by the Kenai City
Council for 8 p.m. Wednesday,
Dec. 20, in the Civic Center Bldg.
A motion that Resolution No. 12
I the taxicab rate resolution) be
brought before the public for dis
cussion was made and passed at!
this week’s Council meeting.
The same rates have been a
greed upon by all three of Kenai’.*
taxicab companies, Mrs. Fiance*
Torkilsen, city clerk, said. The
concerns are Stan’s Cab Co., the
Yellow Cab Co., and Northway
Cab Co.
The i<ate schedule submitted is;
Minimum fare in business dis
tinct $1. From middle of Kenai
to Jet Bar—$1.50; from middle
of town to Wildwood Station—
$2.50; from middle of town to
Cast Frontier—$2.50; from mid
dle of town to Kenai Packer*
tannery.—$1.50; from mid-town
to Northwest Cannery—$2.
Country miles will begin at the
town sides of Beaver I mop Road
and Homesite Loop Road and will
be at the rate of 75c per mile.
Standby time—$9 per hour.
Cruising time $12 per hour for
maximum of 10 miles. Extra
passengers—15c each.
The Council would like to hear
reaction of the public in regard
to these rates before taking any
action upon the Resolution, the
city elerk said.
Dog Packs
Spell Danger
Dogs running in packs within
the Soldotna. city limits are be
coming a nuisance and even worse,
a menace to small children.
The city of Soldotna as yet
has no ordinance curbing dogs,
regulating possession of animals
within the city' limits, or provid
ing that such pets be duly7 inoc
ulated against rabies and licensed.
Two little girls were knocked
down and mauled by several dogs
in front of the Soldotna post
office a few day's ago. They may
have been seriously injured—or
worse—if post office patrons had
not driven the dogs away a n d
rescued the children.
Most of the dogs are pets, it
is true, and many of them follow
the children to school. The school
yard is reportedly fast becoming
a playground for dogs as well as
children. What starts out as play,
however, sometimes develops intc
a quarrel or fight between t h e
animals and some of them become
vicious.
Irate citizens are becoming
worried and fear that tragedy
may come such as it did at Kenai
and Palmer in the past. Several
years ago a Kenai child w a s
killed and partly chewed up by
dogs. A Palmer boy in recent
months was mangled and is still
paralyzed from a canine t -
tack.
The City Council is aware of
the situation and may find it nec
essary to pass an ordinance to
restrict dogs running at large if
dog owners do not voluntarily see
that their pets are kept at home.
The public is asked to cooperate
for the safety of the community,
especially as it may safeguard
their children or the children of
neighbors.
BABY SHOWER
Dorothy Fisher was guest of
honor at a baby shower given by
Ann Miller in her home at Cohoe,
on Dec. H. Eighteen werre there.