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Kenai Bridge Survey Underway
Proof of the economic justi
fication for building; a bridge
over the Kenai River, connecting
Beaver Loop and Kalifonsky
Beach Roads, is being surveyed
by a committee appointed by the
Kenai City Council. The survey
is expected to be completed by
April 1.
It is anticipated the informa
tion will be submitted to the Al
aska Div. of Hwys, Dept, of Pub
lic Works, and will be forwarded
to the federal government to be
included under the 'State’s sec
ondary roads system of the fed
eral road program.
Richard Morgan, city council
man, is chairman of the survey
committee. He is being assisted
by committee meembers Ilomer
Swires, M. T. Simms, and Rev.
ih'-nk'i Hatrian.
The City of Kenai has offered
to pay the State’s share of ex
penses in constructing the span,
so there would be no State mon
i-y expended on the project, Mor
gan said. It would be built on a
matching funds basis with the
federal percentage being about
94 per cent, although that per
centage may fluctuate, he added.
F Proposed construction of the
bridge was also included in the
preliminary overall economic
plans submitted to the Area Re
development Administration of
ficials by the Westerns Kenai Pen
insula Redevelopment Committee.
James E. Fisher, WKPRC
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chairman, represented the City
of Kenai at a meeting' in Juneau
on Jan. 19-20 and talked to Gov,
Egan, Commissioner of Public
Works Richard Downing-, and T.D,
Sharard, director of Alaska high
ways, regarding the matter.
The meeting resulted in Lee
Hubbard, secondary roads engi
neer, placing- the program on his
annual report and recommending
it for study by the Bureau of
Public Roads.
The overall economic develop
ment plans submitted by the WK
PRC for the area encompassed
by former Election Dist. 12 and
including the proposed bridge
was previously approved by the
l iv. of State Planning and by the
governor earlier this month and
have been forwarded to Wash
ingtos, D.C., for concurrence by
ARA officials.
The current economic justific
ation survey is to substantiate
this particular portion of the
program.
Questionairc postcards are
being mailed to residents of the
Cohoe, Clam Gulch, Kasilof, Sol
do tu a, Kenai and N. Kenai areas
asking them to enumerate the
number of times they would have
used the bridge in the past year,
had it been in existence, in trav
eling between their homes and
Kenai and adjacent areas.
Morgan says the committee is
also contacting commercial and
SEE—KENAI BRIDGE— p, 8
Welfare Notice
Mrs, Grace Cole, state welfare
agent for the Kenai-Soldotna
area, has announced her new of
fice hours. She will be available
from 10 a.nt. to 4 p.m. each Mon
day in the City Adm. Bldg, at
Kenai in the room previously used
by the chief of police.
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Reconstruction
Of Fort Kenai
Urged by Malach
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Reconstruction of the old U.S. J
Army post at Fort Kenai was •
recommended by Roman Malach,
guest speaker at the Kenai His- ]
torical Society meeting Friday (
night. Such a step, he said, would j
provide one of the main focal
points of attractions for Alaska’s j
centennial celebration in 1967. j
Malach is executive officer of t
the Alaska Wing of the Civil Air (
Patrol and is superintendent of
on-base schools at Elmendorf Air j
Force base. He has served ’ and
taught in many communities in ;
Alaska and is interested in the ’
history of United States actions i
as successor to Russia in the
Territory of Alaska.
He is gathering data, most of
which has not been previously
published, to be incorporated into
a history of Alaska for the per
iod immediately following the
Territory’s purchase from Russia
in 186.7.
The speaker explained that Ft.
Kenai was founded in 186p and
was one of a series 21 unite*!
States Army posts which were
established throughout the ter
ritory commencing in 1867 and :
continuing throughout 1904. He
pointed out that Fort Kenai is *
the only one of the fort locations »
which can be reached by travel- *
ing over paved highways.
Extension
Sessions
Offered Here
Help for home builders and
homesteaders in this area will be
offered by the University of Al
aska -Cooperative Extension Ser
vice, Feb. G through Fob. 9, at
the Village Shopping Center in
Soldotna.
Mrs. Gladys Musgrove, district
home demonstration agent, and
Ed Liebenthal, district agricul
tural agent, both of Homer, will
be available for individual help
to people during each of these
four days. Anyone interested in
planning farm buildings and ar
rangements, should see I.ieben
thal. Mrs. Musgrove should l>e
contacted by those planning home
construction.
Specilists offering assistance
will be Larry Fainen, manager
of Homer Electric Association, in
the field of electrical wiring;
Clarence Marsh, agricultural ex
tension economist, in the field
of farm planning and Ivan Bran
ton, agricultural extension engi
neer, in the field of farm and
home structures.
Schedule for the evening ses
sions, all set for 7 o’clock, will be
as follows:
Tuesday, Feb. 6— Floor Plans
with a Plus Factor in Livability,
by Mrs. Musgrove,
’ Wednesday, Feb. 7— Planning
the Electrical Wiring for the
Home and Farm, by Fasten.
Thursday, Feb, 8— Planning
the Farm Yard Layout and Plan
ning Facilities for Beef and Dairy
Enterprises, by Liebenthal, Bran
ton and Marsh.
Friday, Feb. 9— Pointers on
Heating and Insulating Homes
for Alaska, by Branton.
Kenai Boundary Dispute Ends in Draw
I lie Kenai boundary dispute
seems to have resulted in a draw
vith half victory and half defeat
'or both city and and petitioning
remesteaders, according to in for
nation received Wednesday by
r ranees Torkilsen, city clerk.
Rodger, Pegues, director of the
>ocal Affairs Agency, called
rom Juneau to advise city offic
als that the decision of the Lo
al Boundary Commission had
seen presented to the Alaska
legislature on Tuesday and that
he recommendation will become
ffective within 46 days after its
presentation, unless disapproved
y the House and Senate.
The recommendation will elim
nate Sections 18, 19, 20, 21 and
np-half of IB, totalling an area
encompassing approximately 9’-2
square miles from the area of
Kenai. This will eliminate from
the city most of the homestead
ers living in the southern section
of the area who sought exclusion
of property from the incorpor
ated city of Kenai.
The city, however, w-iil retain
within the city limits property
along the river front which is
vital to city plans, the clerk said.
The cannery property across the
liv^r will also continue to be
within the city.
Petitionng residents living on
the West sde of the Kenai rivet
had requested exclusion from the
city stating there is no surface
communication between their ar
SEE— BOUNDARY— page five
Borough Study Group
Organizes on Peninsula
An. qvjfaimauomu meeting oi
he Konai Peninsula Borough
Study. Group. held at Riverside
House, Seldotna, on Jan. 27, was
n:nrfreii hy a sprdi .1
iul hy ! > r. J • > *.-ph f »it• - (t*i of >•» •
vai-if, an ejection of officers and
he setting up of committees to
tudv borough problems.
Diesher, who served as tempor
iry chairman, was elected as per
nanent chairman. Other officers
d acted were Charles Griffin, Sol
lotna, vice chairman, and Rusty
Lancashire, Ridgeway, secretary
reasurer.
Committees, with the first
nember named as chairman, in
•luded:
Revenue— Frank Mullen, Sol
lotna; Mrs. Jack Randall, Cooper
banding; Jim McCoy, Soldotna;
darion Hylen, Ninilchik; Art
fauriainen, North Kenai, and Sol
Jne, dewawl.
Schools— Charles Griffin, Vir
ginia Gibbs and Dr. Elmer Gaede,
all of Soldotna; Mrs. Elmer Ban
tu, Ninilchik; Kenneth Brittill,
Cooper Landing, and George
Faubricus, Seward.
Roads— Clarence Goodrich ami
Charlie Parker, both of Soklot
ra; Dave Bell and Wally Van
Sky, both of North Kenai; Ros
alie Garroutte, Ninlchik, and H.
A. Armstrong, Moose Pass.
Administrative Costs— Burton
Carver, John Mack and Bertha
Midyett. all of Soldotna; Larry
Fan?on, Homer, and Mrs. R u b y
Bishop, Ninilchik.
Legislative— Mai Cole and Al
lan Petersen, both of Kenai; Yule
Kilcher, Homer; Bob Palmer and
Dave Cooper,, both of Ninilchik;
and Grady Thomas, North Kenai
Nikiski.
Boundaries— James Fisher of
Kenai; Dan Garroutte. Ninlchik;
Per Osnrar, Clam Gulch; V illiam
Mason, Moose Pass, and C. Rich
ard Hills, Sterling.
Burton Catver reported on a
borough meeting he had attended
at Anchorage and Bob Palmer on
cne held at Niliichik.
Dr. Diesher asked “Are bor
oughs a good thing? Is the State
Board of Education pushing bor
ough government? Can we sup
port it? and How Large should
a borough be?”
Considerable discussion followed
presentation of the last question.
The group vetoed the sugges
tion that the Kenai Peninsula join
with Anchorage in forming one
large borough. No votes at all
-were east on the suggestion mat
the Peninsula be divided into two
or three boroughs but 37 out of
the 50 community representative's
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t'ro J’f ii'iisui.-i nhouhi bo u -<-p
arate and distinct boinugh.
Communities represented a n d
the number attending from each
was Se Ido via 1, Homier 3, Nihil
chik 7, Clam Gulch 1, Soldotna
13, Cohoe 3, Krnmi 7, North Ke
nai-Nikiski 6, Sterling- 1, Cooper
Landing 4, Moose Pass 3, and
Seward 3.
The next luncheon meeting to
held at noon on Sat unlay, Feb. 17
at Riverside House is expected
to attract even greater interest.
All interested persons are in
vited to etatnd and to make their
reservations early.
Terminal is
Busy Place
Winter operation of the Arn
ess Terminal, locate 1 approxi
mately 17 miles north of Kenai,
has proven to be a reality ac
cording to Jim A mess, owner
operator.
“With the loading- of the mo
tor vessels Chilk-oot- and Pacific
for their trips to Shorty Creek
and the hauling of oil by heli
copter to West Forelands, there
has been quite a bit of action
along the otherwise quiet water
front,” says A mess.
The terminal has been wide op
en for vessels coming and going;
all winter, except for a short per
iod during the recent 40 to- 50 be
low weather. The ice did not set
in the Inlet that ice got crowded
into the hay where the terminal
is located.
Constructed last summer after
most commitments for f r e i g h t
movement had been made, this
terminal still got its share, says
A mess. As he sees it, people
will not necessarily use a dock
just because its there. They have
to be convinced that it is the
right move.
Although he lost out on some
tonnage, the past year was good
and A mess anticipates a better
year in tid'd.
The main feature of this com
ing year, as far as the local level
SEE—BUSY TERMINAL— p. 8