Gareth Wright Wins Races
Sunday’s Anchor Point Sled
Dog Races more than lived up
to their advance billing.
First place in the Anchor
Point Snow Festival Sled Dog
race went to champion dog rac
er Gareth Wright of Soldatna,
who completed the two fifteen
mile heats in one hour, fifty
eight minutes and twenty-two
seconds.
Gareth was pushed hard by
his younger brother Jules
Wright who turned in the best
time in t h e second heat and
pushed Gareth to the finish line
in one of the most exciting one
two finishes to be seen in sled
dog racing.
Jules’ total time for the two
day racing was 1 hour, 58 min
utes and 43 seconds, a bare 21
seconds slower than Gareth’s
and cinched second place and
$150 prize money. More excep
tional is the fact that this race
was Jules first major money
race.
“Chuck” Raymond, always a
tough competitor turned a time
of 2 hours, 4 minutes and 9 sec
onds for a solid third place and
$50 in prize money.
Larry Clendenen, Anchor
Point, 1960 winner, came in
carrying an injured dog, to
place sixth.
Cal Thurmond, smallest mush
er entered and running only
five dogs, completing the
course in the excellent time of
2 hours, 15 minutes and 14 sec
onds for fourth place.
Fifth place went to Joe Bran
don, Anchor Point, and Inez
Clendenen came in seventh.
Veteran Anchor Point racer
“Wild Bill” Brody who got his
nickname for a barehanded
fight with a brown bear, finish
ed eighth and last. Bill’s ex
planation was he rested on his
sled at the finish line was, “Old
man, young team.”
There’s more to the story of
course. Between the Anchor
River floods and lack of snow,
the Anchor Point dogs just
weren’t worked enough to get
into condition for this race.
Now with good snow condi
tions and a full schedule of
races for each weekend (tenta
tively including one at Kenai)
to get the dogs and mushers in
condition, the Anchor Point As
sociation Racers will be tough
competition in anybody’s race.
Most unusual for a jamor
race of this kind was the fact
that of the eight adult entrants
all finished both heats.
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Gareth Wright rests on his sled after finishing the second
heat of the two-day Anchor Point dog races.
Sky Bowl League Results
A windup of the bowling
league winners, bowling at the
Sky Bowl, at the half of the
1960-61 season.
Monday night (mixed) Oil
Field league was won by Rig
III. High team game, Rig III,
with 825 pins; high team series
Rig II with 2263 pins. High
scratch game, men, Lyle Von
Bargen with 243 pins, women,
Maxine Clanton with 209 pins.
High scratch series, men, Lyle
Von Bargen with 631 pins;
women, Maxine Clanton with
522 pins. High handicap games,
men, Mike Humesky, with 270
pins; women, Babe Wade with
244 pins. High handicap series,
men, Ben Demanay with 653
pins; women, Babe Wade with
629 pins.
Monday night (mixed) Hi
Binders league: Carver’s lead
ing with 57 wins. High team
game, Kenny Carver Drilling
with 834 pins. High team ser
ies, Kenny Carver Drilling
with 2235 pins. High scratch
game, men, Don Stephens with
243 pins; women, Marge Shad
ura with 181 pins. High scratch
series, men, Dan France with
583 pins; women, Marge Shad
ura with 493 pins. High handi
cap game, men, Don Stephens
with 248 pins; women, Marge
Shadura with 229 pins. High
handicap series: men, Pete
Shadura with 638 pins; wom
en, Marge Shadura with 610
pins.
Tuesday night Bowlerettes
Women’s league: Arctic Oil
Tool won first half. High team
game, Cheechako News with
862 pins. High team series,
Cheechako News with 2401
pins. High scratch game, Max
ine Clanton with 220 pins. High
scratch series, Shirley Ford
with 515 pins. High handicap
game, Maxine Clanton with
229 pins. High handicap series,
Shirley Ford with 554 pins.
Tuesday night Business Men's
league: National Bank of Alas
ka won first half. High team
game, NBA with 1013 pins.
High team series, NBA with
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Peninsula Fuel
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fuel has added a second road
tanker for hauling fuel oil and
,gas from Seward. The new
truck is a 7,000 gallon semi
banker. He plans to get a new
delivery truck in the near fu
ture.
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“I believe that I have talked
with the vast majority of voters
in my district in the two months
since the election and I have
asked each group how they ex
pect the state to pay for the
services they ask. Only one per
son has not been whole-hearted
ly in favor of a state sales tax
and that person said that he
would prefer an increase in the
income tax rate. People of my
district expect to have to pay
for the things they are asking
from the state.”
In the controversial legisla
tive pay question, Rhode stated
that he personally favored a
per diem expense of $26 a day
in place of the $40 now author
ized.
Among other things that his
constituents have requested.
Rhode said, is a hospital for
the rapidly growing Kenai
Soldotna area. Presently there
is only a doctor’s clinic in the
area and hospital cases must go
to Seward or Anchorage.
Rhode, an accountant for the
Homer Electric Association,
left January 19 for Juneau. He
has been an Alaskan resident
since the early 1930’s and is a
graduate of the University of
Alaska, in business administra
tion.
In the past two months he has
held meetings with groups in
Kenai, Soldotna, Kasilof, Co
hoe, Ninilchik, Anchor Point,
Homer and Seldovia. No re
quests for meetings to discuss
legislative matters were receiv
ed in Sterling, Port Graham or
Tyonek.
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