tustemena news
School Hosts Amer. Legion
Commander For Program
During the month of Febru
ary under the Kenai American
Legion sponsorship, the Tustu
mena School has been partici
pating in the Americanism Pro
gram. During this time all stu
dents learned more about the
stirring history of our nation,
its great leaders and what they
did to help make our USA
great.
This month of learning was
climaxed by a program, pre
sented for Commander Richard
I. Eliason of the Department of
American Legion, Sitka Post
No. 13, on Monday afternoon.
March 6th. Included in the pres
entation were skits, a play, win
ning essays on “Why I’m Glad
I’m a Citizen of the United
States,” and original speeches
on “The Privileges and Obliga
tions We Derive from our Bill
of Rights.”
Commander Eliason gave an
interesting talk to the children
on the activities of the Ameri
can Legion. He commended the
activities of the children here
and awarded silk U. S. Flags to
the individual rooms, a large
American Flag and the “Golden
Book of Our Flag” to Tustu
mena School. These were a
warded by Commander Eliason,
but were gifts from the Kenai
Post No. 20.
We were pleased to be able
to participate in this American
ism Program and feel we are
more patriotic as a result of it,
officials said.
Revenue From Stamps
Great Britain’s lonely St.
Helena Island, in the South At
lantic Ocean, has nearly 5,000
inhabitants on its 47-square
mile area. The island has no in
ternal mail service, but a large
part of its revenue is derived
from sale of its postage stamps
to collectors.
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The happy winners of ihe receni All-Ciiy women's bowl
ing tournament are (L to R) Nikki VonBargen, Maurine Jones,
Millie Marlin, Joyce Mickelson and Shirley Ford. Incidentally
this team is sponsored by the Cheechako News.
BOWLING NEWS
The Cheechako News team
came out winners in the second
annual women’s all city bowl
ing tournament played Sunday
March 19th at the Sky Bowl.
The girls placed first with 2419
total pins. Carvers Court placed
second with 2343 pins.
In the doubles Aletha Me
Farland and Lea Gresham plac
es first with 997 pins with Max
ine Clanton and Shirley Ford
following for a close second
with 990 pins.
Shirley Ford placed first in
the singles with 556 pins with
Maxine Clanton coming up with
second place with 547 pins.
Shirley Ford and Maxine
Clanton were really rolling.
They also won the all events
with 1495 and 1490 pins re
spectively.
There were two 200 scratch
games bowled during the tour
nament. Shirley Ford bowled
224 and Mickey Faa’s score said
204.
The men will roll for the sec
ond annual Men’s City Assn,
bowling championship on April
15th and 16th at the Sky Bowl.
Plans are also being made
for a Junior league of mixed
teams, two boys and two girls,
aged 12 to 15 and a Senior
league also mixed for those
from 16 to 18 years old.
Joyce Carver, Elizabeth Mea
dows, Donna Whitney, Maxine
Clanton and Shirley Ford bowl
ed against a visiting team from
Homer last Sunday.
Bowling for Homer were:
Ann Harfield, Lois Norman,
Cindy Latimer, Jerry Alexan
der and Fran Cronin. Both these
teams will be competing in the
state tournament April 15 and
16 at Ketchikan.
The girls showed spectators
the form and scores they will
be trying to better next month.
The Soldotna team lost the first
game but came back to take the
second and third winning with
2871 pins over Homer’s 2696
pins.
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The teams above will have a
rematch in Homer on April 9th
before going to Ketchikan for
the tournament.
A bandore is a three-stringed
lutelike musical instrument.
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