Demos to Hear
Guest Speakers
Two well known Democrats,
Kick Begich am! John Rader, will
be guest speakers, when the Cen
tral Peninsula Democratic Club
meets Monday at the Soldo In a
Community Club building at 8
pm.
Begk-h is presently principal of
the Fort Richardson elementary
schools an,-! is an instructor in
political science at the Anchorage
Community College.
Anchorage attorney John Rader
is (l .candidate for governor on
the Democratic ticket.
Topic-; are £%peeted to be of
interest- to ail voting' citizens.
Anyone interested is urged to
attend.
The Central Peninsula Demo
cratic Club includes the North
Kenai, Kenai, Soldotna, Sterling,
Kasilof ami Cohoe areas.
VISITING SISTER
KENAI — Joyce and Beatrice
Fulton, sisters of Mrs. Amos
Gunter, arrived March 8 from the
San Francisco Bay area and will
remain throughout the summer
while their parents, Mr. and Mr3.
Bill Fulton, go to Denmark. Mrs.
Gunter and her young sisters plan
to visit friends in Fairbanks aid
attend the dog races there this
coming week.
Jan Lake and Lost Lake have
been stocked with rainbow trout
by the Alaska Department of
Fish and Game.
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THE KART RACES are going great guns on the Kenai Peninsula.
Here a Kart Racer is just a blur of speed as he rounds the track
in the recent Kenai Peninsula Championship Races in Ridgeway
between Kenai and Soldotna.
Style Show,
Open House
Draws Crowd
latest fashions in casual wear,
sports clothes and formal® at
tracted a laiEge gathering of wom
en-—and more men than were ex
pected—at a style show spon
sored by Marvene's Dress Shop
in Soldotna as an added attrac
tion during the recent sled dog
racing weekend.
The house was packed at the
Sunday afternoon showing- which
originated in Marvene’s and con
tinued through the Colonial Room
and Village Inn Lounge, all in
the recently constructed Village
Shopping Center.
Marvene Sundby, dress shop
operator, and Leona Roentrater,
manager of the Colonial Room,
were co-hostesses in serving re
ft eshments of cake and coffee to
guests.
Baskets of flowers and potted
plants, complimenting the busi
nesses in their open house event,
formed an attractive setting for
the display of the colorful dress
es, suits and coats.
Models included Kay Pease of
Lake Louise (wife of “Doc”
Pease, former “Mr. Fur Face” of
Anchorage Fur Rendezvous re
nown). Others were Jane Renfro,
who husband James is local man
ager of Oil Well Supply; Pat By
ers, petite mother-to-be who drew
admiring comments when she
modeled maternity clothes and
whose husband, Bill Byers, is co
partner in the B & B Texaco
Station.
Mickey Faa, Soldotna’s woman
postmaster; Joan Johnson, wife
of Jack Johnson, co-partner in
Village Shopping- Center; Cathy
James of the Village Lounge;
Fayrene Halstead, operator of
Talk-O'-the-Town beauty salon,
who supplied all of the models
with free hair styling prior to the
style show as well as displaying
many of the fashions herself;
Maxine Lewis of Neath Kenai,
and two high school teenagers,
Karen Heath and Mary Louise
Grainge.
Little Jill Hines, small daugh
ter of Shirley and Charles (Chuck)
Hines of the Crescent Dairy,
modeling a new dress created by
her grandmother, drew the tick
ets for the awarding of door
prizes. Mrs, Hines, who brought
along her electric organ, provided
background music throughout the
afternoon.
To Talk on ‘Wills’
“Wills and the State of Alaska
Inheritance Laws” will be dis
cussed by James E. Fisher, city
attorney for Kenai, when he ad
dresses the Kenai Homemakers
as guest speaker Tuesday night.
The meeting is open to all per
sons interested in knowing more
about the legal aspect of inherit
ance and wills. The group vritt
meet at 1 p.m. in the Ker.ai Civic
Center.
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the most useful advertising
media available. Order your let
terheads, envelopes, business
forms, etc., now. Phone 262
4624, Kenai Peninsula Printers,
at Cheechako News.
Homemakers
Report Projects
At Kenai Meet
The Kenai Homemakers held
their regular meeting March 6 at
the Civic Center in Kenai. The
business session was conducted
under leadership of Mrs. Opal
James, club president.
Mrs. Juanita Coleman reported
that the two hake sales held re
cently to benefit the band and
chorus of Kenai high school had
netted $100, which was enough to
cover almost all of the cost of the
letter scales being sold hy Home
makers arid members of the band
and chorus.
Operating Agency
To Confer With
Hospital Board
Dr. Clifford Hansen of the
American Baptist Home Mission
Society in New York and Rev.
Leo Schlegel, who is in charge of
the organization’s work in Alas
ka, are due to arrive in the Kenai
area next Tuesday morning,
March 20.
The visitors are coming to con
fer with the trustees of the Cen
tral Kenai Peninsula Hospital
Associaton and other leaders in
terested in seeing a hospital
established somewhere in the cen
tral portion- of the Peninsula.
The Amen can Baptist Home
Mission Society is the operating
agency lor trie nospiiai ai Vi
dova. The local hospital associa
ton 'has been in correspondence
with the Society in regard to get
ting it as a prospective operating
agency for the proposed hospital.
Such an agency would provide
for the entire administration and
operation of the institution after
it was built.
Water Control
Bill Submitted
Governor William A. Egan has
submitted to Alaska’s Legislature
a bill to provide for the orderly
establishment in Alaska of water
rights and a sound water manage
ment program to protect indus
trial, economic and human inter
ests in water.
The -bill, which incorporates
many of the suggestions offered
at public hearings throughout
Alaska, would provide for water
pollution and quality control, con
servation of public water, drain
age and flood control and a means
of creating water conservation
areas.
it would create a ulvision oj
Water within the Department of
Natural Resources and provide
for its staffing with a hydrologist
and a secretary.
In submitting the bill, Egan
said he recounts,H1 that compre
hensive legislation of this nature
lequires exhaustive analysis.
“However, it is important that
legislative attention be directed
to the need for enactment of such
legislation,” the governor said,
“in the interests of Alaska's prog
ress.”
Many states he said, have
wasted important water resources
“because of failure to look
ahead.”
JOS s
WORK PLANNED
CONTRACTS LET
SOLDOTNA P.O,
The Soldo In a Post Office con
tract went to C & R Builders, Inc.,
1619 5th Ave. North. Seattle 9,
Washington. The building will be
a 40x54-ft. structure. Building is
expected to start soon..
REFINERY
■Currently about four equipment
operators are employed in clear
ing operations at the 10 million
dollar refinery site in N. Kenai.
Construction is expected to start
there as soon as weather permits.
ROADS
One road job- coming up is the
more than 5 mile extension of the
North Kenai road. Cheney Con
struction Company of Seattle bid
that contract, in at $576,776.
Profits from sale of the letter
scales- will help cover transporta
tion expenses of the musicians to
the Anehorag-e Music Festival in
April, Plans for the final bake
sale on March 17 were also dis
cussed.
Mrs. Betty Rockwell, chairman
of the annual Easter bake sale,
reported on plans for it.
Members of the club voted a
contribution of fSJ5 to the Kauai
Health Council fund. This fund
pays certain expenses incurred by
the public health nurse and the
health center at Kenai.
Clippings and pictures were as
sembled by the scrapbook com
mittee.
Hostesses for the evening were
Betty Glick and Mildred James.
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District PTA
To Convene
AS Soidctna
District 5 of the Parent-Teach
ev Association will hold its second
biennial conference in Soldotna on
Saturday, March 34.
Parents of the area will hare
an oppoituffafcy to moot Mrs. A.
L. Hendrick of Jackson, Mias.,
former vice president of the Na
tional Congress of Parents and
Teachers Association, am! Mrs,
R C. Cole, Anchorage, who is.
president of the State Congress,
Mrs. Cole and Mrs. Hendricks
will conduct a workshop at the
S-oklotna school starting at 2 p.m.
Parents and teacher;-; will exhibit
achievements done in this area
and will be able to discuss P-TA
problems with these-leaders who
have had wider and more varied
experiences.
At the 6 p.m. banquet at River
side House, Mrs. Hendricks will
give the keynote address, “P-TA
Meets Parents' Needs.” The pros
pective speaker is well known in
National P-TA circles. She served
as vice president of the national
office from 1957 until 1961 and
served on the national board
from 1962 to 1955 and again from
1957 to 1960.
Mrs. Hendricks has been presi
dent of her state congress, vice
president, publicity chairman and
chairman of the MCPT-Mtssissip
pi Education Association joint
committee. She also has heen
president of the Jackson City
Council of P-TAs and of the
Enochs P-TA, largest council and
largest junior high school P-TA
in her state.
All adults interested in school
children are invited to participate
in the workshop and to attend all
other meeting's of the district
conference. Registration for the
dinner will be at 5:30 pjn.
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