PTA Elects Officers; Will
Buy Playground Equipment
Dr. Elmer Gaede. who recently
' ted the staff at Central Ken
Peninsula Medical Clinic, will
head the Soldotna Parent-Teach
er Association as its president
for the coming year. He was
elected to office in the first PTA
meeting of the year held Mon
. : v night at the school and will
succeed Mrs. Frank (Marge)
Mullen.
Dr. Gaede and his family have
teen Soldotna residents since
July 10, coming here from Cali
fcjiiia, where he completed gen
eral practice residency training.
He first came to Alaska in 1955
and was in Public Health Ser
vice in this state for four years.
He and his wife, Ruby, have
four children.
Hayride Is Next
Planned Activity
For Area Youths
A hayride to Sports Lake on
Saturday evening, Oct. 7, will
be climaxed by a wiener roast in
th*. second of a series of youth
activity programs being spon
sored in the Soldotna area by
the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints.
Eiders M. W. Perkins and K.
E. Kikel, Mormon missionaries
from Utah are spearheading the
programs which stress good
health and clean fun among
young people. They report the
first event in the series, a Youth
1.7i Night, held this past Sat
urday, was a big success and had
a.- attendance of 45 although
several other activities in the
area were scheduled the same
1 ght.
Regular meets of the Mutual
organization for young people
begin at 7:30 p.m. each Tuesday
ip the Soldotna community hail.
A Scouting program for boys of
12-14 years, activities for older
teen-agers and associated pro
grams for girls are included in
these weekly meetings.
11 conjunction with Mutual,
t l two weeks some sort, of spe
< : party is planned, such as
the forthcoming hayride-wiener
r ast. A barn dance, featuring
; combo band, will be held in the
Community Hall on Oct. 21. Two
callers have already volunteered
their services.
Kikel, who is an expert ice
skater and hockey player, will
organize junior hockey teams and
gave instructions in ice and fig
ure skating as soon as winter
weather has made ice safe for
such sports.
Keith Fuhriman is branch
president of the church in Sol
dc.na. His wife, Norma, is ac
tivity counselor of the Young
Woman’s Mutual.
There is no charge of admis
sion for any of the programs and
all young people are invited to
attend, regardless of church af
:1 ation, the elders said.
Thelma M. Lee was the first
pi - tmaster in Soldotna.
Other officers elected Monday
night are Mrs. Dan France, a
teacher of one of the first
grades, as vice-president; Mrs.
Edwin Thompson, secretary, and
George Dennison, treasurer.
Teachers were introduced and
28 persons signed up as members
for the coming school year.
Mrs. Mullen, outgoing presi
dent who was in charge of the
PTA’s Saturday night spaghetti
supper, reported a profit of $355
was realized and estimated over
400 persons, including children,
were served. Profits from the
supper will be applied on purch
asing playground equipment for
the school.
In other business, Norma Span
sail, who joined the Soldotna
School teaching staff this week,
was chosen as PTA representa
tive to the Kenai Peninsula
Health Council.
Miss Spansail, whose home
state is Michigan, has been in
Alaska three years living at
Palmer and Anchorage. She
taught in Palmer schools in 1958
59. She arrived in Soldotna Sat
urday and is teaching the fifth
grade. Her bachelor of science
degree in education is from the
University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor.
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State Rejects
Homestead Bids
Following the filing of a pro
test to disallow the award of six
tracts of agricultural land suc
cessfully bid upon at the Aug. 5
Anchor Point homestead sale.
Commissioner Holdsworth h a s
ruled that the six bids be rejected
and that the lands in question be
withdrawn from public offering
at this time.
The protest stated that the pay
ments of the necessary funds at
the time of the award were made
by personal checks, in violation
of state regulations. The six par
cels involved are: tracts No. 1,
280 acres; No. 10, 480 acres; No.
11, 80 acres; No. 24, G40 acres;
No. 33, 480 acres, and No. 44,
640 acres.
In California School
Peggy Mullen, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Mullen of Sol
dotna, is attending Ursuline
High School at Santa Rosa, Cal
ifornia, where she is enrolled as
a sophomore.
To Winter in Anchorage
Lewis and Joyce Mickelson and
their three children of Soldotna
are moving to Anchorage this
weekend, where Mrs. Mickelson
and the children will make their
home during the winter months.
They are being accompanied by
Joyce’s mother, Mrs. Or lean
Griggs, who is making an extend
ed visit in Alaska from her home
in Downey, Calif. Lewis current
ly is working on a bush job with
Tachick Excavating Co., on Ber
ing Lake, 60 air miles north of
Cordova. The entire family plans
to return to Soldotna early in the
spring. i
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