Former Wildwood
Soldier Now With
Extension Service
Ray Pierce, former soldier at
Wildwood Station and now newly
connected with the Department
•:f Agriculture Extension Service
at Fairbanks, visited the Kenai
Peninsula this week to familiar
ize himself with agriculture in
-his area. He also conferred with
Gladys Musgrove, home demon
: ration agent, and Ed Lieben
- >al, district extension agent,
>th with offices in Homer, and
v. as taken on a tour of Homer
£ ea fat ms by Liebenthal.
Pierce was accompanied by his
wife, Janet, whom he married in
Delaware on June *3 and brought
to Alaska on their honeymoon
enroute to assuming his work
with the extension service on
July 1.
Stationed at Wildwood Station
from December 11)63 to August
1954, Pierce saw prior service
v hen stationed at Fairbanks for
21 •> years. After termination of
-ervice, he attended Michigan
college and after graduation ap
ied for an extension service
position in Alaska. None was
available so he was sent to Dela
v are. He was assistant extension
editor for three years at the
University of Delaware at New
ark, befoie being transferred to
Alaska.
Pierce said he was especially
interested in the development of
a *4 -acre plot of land that has
een leased near Homer for a
roject in which experiments are
to be made with plantings of
fruit trees and berries in cooper
ation with the experimental sta
tion at Palmer.
One of the farms visited by
him was that of George Dahl
gren, who homesteaded his land
and has lived near Homer since
3938.
Pierce deplored the lack of an
adequate market for farm pro
duce. He said perhaps with in
creased population growth that
large scale agricultural opera
tions may be more economically
feasible.
Democrats Set
Monday for Meet
Phil Holdsworth, commissioner
<: natural resources for the state
of Alaska, and James Wilson,
d.rector of agriculture from
Palmer, will be guest speakers
of the Central Peninsula Demo
cratio Club at a meeting set for
8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 18, in the
.<- Jdatna Community Hall.
Holdsworth and Wilson will
seuss problems relating to the
< partment, especially farming
a id access roads. All persons in
terested in these problems will be
eleome to attend.
MOOSE RIVER
CAFE
HOME COOKING
PIES — CAKES
Family Style by Reservation
Open 7 Days
Per Week
MONDAY thru SATURDAY
6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
SUNDAY
7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Some of the fruit and vegetables grown on the Kenai Peninsula
are being judged by Ed Liebenthal, Homer Extension Service
agent, during the recent Kenai Days home and garden show.
Hunting Victim’s
Memorial Rites
Held at Wildwood
Memorial services for Sp. 4
Baylus Herren, Wildwood Sta
tion soldier who was killed acci
dentally in a recent hunting acci
dent, were conducted at 11 a.m,
last Wednesday in the post chap
el. Capt. Fobert Rockwell, post
chaplain, officiated at the rites.
Herren, 22. a member of Head
quarters and Signal Operations
Co., was moose hunting on the
Donald L. Groeleske homestead
on Holt Loop Road, 11 miles north
of Kenai, when the accident oc
curred. According to state police,
he reportedly was shot in the
chest with a pistol by Sp. 4
Octavio Sapien, member of the
same company, who was one of
his hunting companions. He was
brought to Wildwood Station by
his fellow hunters, who said the
accident took place at about 3:20
p.m. on Aug. 26.
The victim was born at Wa
silla, S. C. Survivors include his
father, Robert Herren of Salem,
S. C., and a brother, Pfc Ansel C.
Herren, Co. A. 9th Infantry, Ft.
Waanwright, Fairbanks.
The body of the Wildwood sol
dier was returned late last week
to South Carolina for burial. His
brother accompanied the body as
military escort.
Second Oldest Settlement
Kenai is the second oldest set
tlement in Alaska.
More Patrols
Needed in Alaska
Waters, Says Gov.
Gov. William A. Egan has
asked for stepped up patrol ac
tivities by the Coast Guard and
Navy to puevent encroachment
on Alaska’s territorial waters by
Russian and Japanese fishing
vessels.
In a telegram to Secretary of
State Dean Rusk, the governor
said:
“Russian and Japanese fishing
vessels reported conducting whal
ing operations within territorial
limits Alaska waters. State pa
trol vessels unable cope with situ
ation. Urge State Department re
quest Navy and Coast Guard
increase vigilance immediately
with additional vessels dispatch
ed to scene if possible.’’
Egan’s request followed reports
received by the Bureau of Com
mercial Fisheries, Fish and Wild
life Service, from the Fisheries
Research Institute vessel Renown
that a Russian whale catcher
was sighted less than two miles
south of Unalga Island in the
Aleutians on July IS with two
whale kills alongside.
The governor said the federal
bureau also received reports of
two other whalers, believed Japa
nese, operating within about two
or three miles north of Chitka
Point on Amchitka Island on
July 3.
News classifieds bring results.
Don’t Get Pat’s Goat
Ss Moral of This Tale
Mrs. Mike Humckey, more of
ten called Pat, heard a commo
tion in her back yard on Kalifon
sky Beach Road, at about 5:15
a.m. on Aug. 27. She hurried to
the window and saw a glossy,
black bear trying to kill the
family goat.
Mike was away from home
working for Coastal Drilling
Company so the rescue of the
goat was up to Pat. She picked
‘Buffalo Bill’
Gets His Bison
On Delta Hunt
August 28 was a big day for
Bill Gresham of Naptowne Inn.
Gresham and three friends,
Glenn and Nate Rinehart and
Bill Hanson, left for Big Delta
on the previous day to fill the
inn owner’s bison permit. After
arriving, checking in and being
told which group of buffalo was
on the legal side of the road, Bill
with his trusty .270 brought down
one of the huge animals.
Horn measurements will be en
tered in the Boone and Crockett
record book. Fish and Wildlife
agents estimated the animal
weighed 1700 lbs. on the hoof.
After about five hours dressing
out the bison, Bill reported he
was barely able to carry the 40
lb. liver back to his vehicle. The
head is being mounted by taxi
dermists in Anchorage and will
be on display at “Buffalo Bill’s’’
Naptowne Inn in about three
months.
Bill Hanson took movies of the
entire proceedings and friends
are waiting to see how true the
story is.
Gresham reports Fish and
Wildlife men went with each
hunter and took various tests
on the buffalo in the field. He
now has to send the lower jaw
bone to the university at College
for further study. Age and eat
ing habits can be told in this
manner, he was told.
On the way home, the hunters
stopped at Tazlina Lodge and
flew out for caribou, getting
four. Bill had gotten his trophy
so he left the caribou for his
friends.
Since arrival home on Sept. 2,
“Buffalo Bill” is promising ev
eryone a taste of meat from this
very rare animal.
up her husband’s 30.06 Win
chester, aimed and fired. Pat got
her “bar.”
Valetti Smith, whose husband
Rodney works for the same drill
ing company, dropped in and the
two women, who never before
had attempted such an undertak
ing, decided to skin the animal
and provide Pat with a bearskin
rug.
With the help of the children,
Pat and her friend tied ropes to
the bear’s legs and hung him
from a tree.
Other friends dropping in later
found the women both to be a
gory mess from head to heels.
The bear had been decapitated,
his head safely placed to one
side and the bear skin spread out
on the ground. The animal weigh
ed over 300 pounds.
The skin, incidentally, has been
sent to a taxidermist to made up
into a rug.
Mike is warning everyone, ad
ditional bears included, “Don’t
try to get Pat’s goat.”
INVITATION TO BII)
(11M51-1) The City of Kenai,
Alaska, requests sealed bids for
furnishing all labor, equipment,
and materials to perform all work
required to haul and truck spread
pit run gravel on the City of
Kenai’s streets. Bids are request
ed for 300 cubic yards, and for
cubic yard1 price for gravel in
excess of 300 yards to 4000 yards.
The sources for gravel to be
Beaver Creek Pit or the Bidder’s
own private gravel pit. Further
details, bid forms, and specifica
tions may be secured from the
undersigned.
Frances Torkilsen
City Clerk
Box 580
Kenai, Alaska
We Still Have Our
SPECIAL
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Kenai Korners
BUILDING MATERIALS
Kenai, Alaska
Remember the
tOCKTHILS
GRAND OPENING
of the
RIVERSIDE HOUSE
im. tM jm.
In Soldotna Behind the Sky Bowl
THIS WEEKEND
Friday—Saturday—Sunday
SEPTEMBER 8-9-10
OPEN 12 NOON on SUNDAYS —5 to 1:00 p.m. WEEKDAYS
3 BIG DOOR PRIZES—ONE EACH DAY
Friday, 8th — Saturday, 9th — Sunday, 10th