State Must Select
Kodiak Land
By November 28
The State of Alaska will have
until November 28 of this year
to select 78.39 acres at Kodiak
released through issuance re
cently of a public land order in
the Federal Register.
The order revokes a 1951 order
which withdrew the acreage for
the Alaska Communication Sys
tem. If the state does not select
all the acreage, the remainder
will be open to selection under
the public land laws.
The Federal Register also car
ried a notice that on September
15 the plat of the extension sur
vey covering 8,462.81 acres of
land on Summit Island, High
Island, Crooked Island, Black
Rock Islands and Twin Islands,
all part of the Walrus Island
group located in the Bristol Bay
area, would be filed in the An
chorage Land Office. The ma
jority of the land has already
been selected by the state.
Inquiries concerning any lands
remaining should be addressed
to the manager of the Land Of
fice at Anchorage, as should in
quiries regarding the lands at
Kodiak.
Senators Protest
Arctic & Izembek
Wildlife Ranges
The budget submitted by the
administration for the Depart
ment of the Interior included
funds for the management of two
game ranges in Alaska which
were strongly protested by Sen
ator Gruening and Senator Bart
lett in testimony before the Ap
propriations Committee.
In his statement to the com
mittee, Senator Gruening urged
deletion of $181,000 budgeted for
management of the Arctic Wild
life Range and $206,000 budgeted
for the Izembek Wildlife Range.
The senator characterized expen
diture of funds on the 9,000,000
acre withdrawal as “folly.” He
pointed out that the establish
ment of this range had been
steadily and consistently opposed
by the governor of Alaska, the
Alaska State Legislature, the De
partment of Fish and Game of
the State of Alaska, and the
Alaska congressional delegation.
Gruening further pointed out
that isolation of this area should
be sufficient to protect it and
that its status could not be im
proved by expending the funds
requested by the federal govern
ment.
Seward Visitors
Mr. and Mrs. George N. Wood
ward were accompanied by Oscar
Chappell when they came from
Seward Monday to the Kenai and
Soldotna area on a combined
business and hunting trip.
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Dairy industry and cattle raising are increasing in popularity
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feeding what may well become a prize winning calf is likely to
become a common sight in this section of Alaska.
Bernice Lake Land Lease
Auction Brings State
Coffers $2145 Annually
Twelve of the 13 parcels of
State of Alaska land offered for
leasing in the Bernice Lake In
dustrial Subdivision, Kenai, went
to the highest bidders Saturday
for a total of $2145 in a. public
land lease auction conducted in
the Kenai Civic Center by the
Division of Lands, Department of
Natural Resources. All of the
land is located on the North
Kenai Road, approximately 12
miles north of Kenai.
Lease rentals are all for a per
iod of 55 years, Tctal acreage
offered in the 3 parcels was
21.784 acres, with 20.684 acres
of it being leased at auction.
Sizes on parcels offered ranged
from 1.1 acre to 2.89 acres. Lot 2,
consisting of 1.1 acre with M.A.R.
(minimum annual rental) set at
$135, was not leased.
Highest rental bid was $320
offered by W. D. Van Sky, Kenai,
for Lot 10, consisting of 1.8 acre
on which M.A.R. was $135. Seven
of the lots went for amounts ex
ceeding the M.A.R., while five
leased at the minimum asked.
F. J. Keenan, lease and sales
manager, and Talmadge Nelson,
land classification officer, both
of the Anchorage office of the
Division of Lands, officiated at
the auction. Keenan is a former
Kenai area homesteader. The
Valhalla Heights subdivision,
now within the city limits of
Kenai, is located on his original
homestead property.
All of the lessees, with the ex
ception of the purchasers of Lot
13, listed Kenai as their address.
Numbers of the lots, number of
acves, names of leases and rent
als paid, according to information
released by the lease manager,
Keenan, are as follows:
Lot 3—1.327 acre, Henry Mc
Gahan, $115. Lot 4—1.154, Les
ter Van Devera, $110. Lot 5—
1.285, M. McGahan, $130. Lot 6—
1.349, Carl M. Haller, $160. Lot 7
—1.461, Jess H. Nicholas, Jr.,
$100. Lot 8, 1.575, Leo T. Oberts,
$100. Lot 9 — 1.687, Mildred
Homer, $160. Lot 10—1.8, W. D.
Van Sky, $320. Lot 11—1.939,
Allen E. Bruce, $270. Lot 12—
2.051, Harry A. Boutilier, $260.
Lot 13 — 2.168, William J. and
Bernice Pege, Cooper Landing,
$270. Lot 14 — 2.893, Galen E.
Gray, $150.
To California
Marie Sparks of Moose River
Cafe is taking her little grand
daughter Denny, and leaving for
San Francisco, Calif., the first
of October.
Alaskans Use Airlanes
Alaska had 347,677 air passen
gers in 1960.
Homer Soldier
Now in Germany
BAU.MHOLDER, Germany
(AHTNC)--Army Pvt. David W.
Stoops, 23, son of Mrs. Unice B.
Flooa, Homer, Alaska, arrived in
Germany July 21 and is now a
member of the 8th Infantry Divi
sion.
A surveyor in Headquarters
Battery of the division’s 16th
Artillery in Baumholder, he en
tered the Army last February
and completed basic training at
Fort Ord, Calif.
Stoops is a 1057 graduate of
Taft (Ore.) High School and at
tended Boise (Idaho) Junior Col
lege. He is a member of Tau
Alpha Pi fraternity.
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