WILDWOOD STATION NEWS
Wildwood’s Snow Scene
Viewed with Enthusiasm
With the return of the snow,
personnel at Wildwood Station are
fast becoming quite the outdoor
types, says Pfc. Winston J. Car
ioll of Wildwood television sta
tion.
Special Services branch on post
report all the skis in good repair
ate checked out by enthusiastic
young men willing to risk a few
bruises in order to learn this pop
ular winter sport. The ski area
on i ie right hand side of the road
going toward the television sta
tion is being put to good use and
confidence built up as each slope
is conquered with patient prac
tice.
Newly landscaped by post en
gineers, the area offeis the stu
dent skier a variety of slopes on
which to learn. The veteran win
ter sportsman finds the m a i n
slor>e fast enough to polish up his
individual form.
If the present enthusiasm is
anything to go by, the Soldotna
-Ski dub will certainly be swamp
ed with applicants from the post,
Carroll says.
WORST WINTER IN 138 YRS.
On the subject of getting out
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and about during the coming win
ter months. Mr. Ernst from the
Safety Director’s office at Fort
Richardson, gave a lecture on the
hazards of winter driving in Al
aska when he addressed the per
sonnel. both civilian and military,
and their dependents presently
stationed at Wildwood.
The lecture was held in the
post threatre with an attendance
of 100 per cent at both lectures.
Two films accompanying the talk
po', nted out various steps to be
taken to prepare both driver and
vehicle for coming winter months,
which if the Farmers’ Almanac
is correct, promises to be the
worst in DW years.
Comments after the lectures
were very favorable. Many driv
ers who were at the post last
year expressed the opinion that
tliis year’s class was the best yet.
1'his is proving self evident in
the care and thoughtfulness that
is now being put behind the wheel
says Pfc. Carroll.
WILDWOOD GIRL SCOUTS
STAGE UNICEF PLAYLET
In taking a look at the teen
age set at Wildwood Station, Pfc
Winston J. Carroll of the Wild
wood TV station production de
partment, says the Girl Scout
troop killed two birds with one
stone this week with the help
of Mrs. Haldeman, wife of Capt.
R. L. Haldeman, and Mrs. Fos
berg, wife of E. W. Fosberg, plant
branch on post.
The girls wrote the script, act
ed and presenter! a 15-minute
playlet over Channel 8 in aid of
UNICEF. The staff at Channel 8
agreed the young ladies were
quite professional in their execu
tion of the short skit and certain
ly earned their merit badges in
dramatics.
On Halloween night, they went
from quarters to quarters collect
ing for UNICEF. At the end of
the evening they had suceeded
in doubling last year’s figure by
collecting $55.64, certainly no
small achievement, Wildwood per
sonnel feeb
‘‘A vote of admiration is ex
tended to all for the thought and
hard work put in by the girls
while working on this project,”
says the Wildwood reporter.
Visitors from Seward
Mr. and Mrs. Irving Tressler,
owners of a sawmill at Seward,
and Mr. and Mrs. Vance Hitt, of
the Alaska Shop in Seward, were
in doldotna on business last week.
New Law Office
Tern O. Martin, attorney from
Anchorage, plans to open up a
law oifice on Oct. 28 in the Trade
Bldig. in Kenai.
News want ads get good re
sults at small cost.
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ACCA Benefit
Persons desiring to aid the
Alaska Crippled Children’s Assoc,
and to obtain Christmas cards at
the same time may do so now,
Mrs. Lyman McBride, president
of the Kenai area chapter of AC
CA, has announced.
A shipment of Alaskan Christ
mas cards made especially for
the ACCA has arrived and will
he distributed through Vera’s Va
riety Store in Soldotna, at the
Kenai library on Thursdays, arid
from Mrs. Opal James who lives
in Apt. 4, Federal Aviation Auth
ority housing in Kenai.
Food barrels for ACCA contri
butions have been placed in sev
eral stores and shoppers are in
vited to deposit canned goods or
other (non-perishable) food items
in the barrels as a further ACCA
benefit.
Additional cash donations tot
aling $15 were received by the
local chapter last week from
Frank Selenite, Seldovia; Opal
Hall and Bud Dye, both of Ke
nai. and Service Printing Co. of
Anchorage.
All funds go to support the
work of the chapter, including the
iceently initiated speech and hear
ing therapy program among area
children.
Bid Opening Set
Bids will be opened Nov. 16 for
the construction of one bridge
and the redecking of a second
span on the Haines Cutoff.
A. G. Gardner, assistant state
highway engineer for the Alaska
Division of Highways, said that
the project includes construction
of a new 40-foot bridge over Mun
caster creek at Mile 29, and put
ting a new concrete deck on the
54-foot bridge across Little Boul
der creek at Mile 32.
The now Muncaster creek span
will have a 36-foot roadway and
will be constructed of structural
steel supported on 19 steel piles.
The decking and abutments will
be concrete, Gardner said.
Terminal Building
Plans Authorized
Architectural firms in Fair
banks and Anchorage have been
authorized to draw up prelimin
ary plans for new terminal build
ings at the international airports
in those two cities.
Milton L. Donncr, administrat
or cf the Alaska Division of Avia
tion, said that letters of authoriz
ation resulted from a meeting
Oct. 27 at which final approval
was given the schematic plan for
the Fairbanks International Ait
port. Dormer said that the letters
went to Manley Mayer, Anchor
age architectural firm designing
the Anchorage terminal, and to
Bray, Rogers and Osborne, Fair
banks architects designing the
Fairbanks terminal.
NOTICE
All Kenai Precinct
DEMOCRATS
A Democratic precinct caucus will
be held on Nov. 10 at 8 p.m. in the
Kenai Public Library.
THE PURPOSE WILL BE ELECTION OF OFFICERS
AND DELEGATES TO THE ANCHORAGE DISTRICT CON
VENTION. NOV. 25 AND 26.
REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED.
Billv McCann. Precinct Chm.
9/ 7
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