m HERE'S MORE'ABOUT
1981 Peninsula
Highlights
((.'ontinued from pace 4)
pects to be moved into its new
builing soon, near the high school.
Formation of a Western Kenai
Peninsula Redevelopment com
mittee took place in late Octo
ber with James E. Fisher, Kenai
attorney, elected as chairman.
NOVEMBER
Two fishing boats, the Rose
Marie and the Two Brothers, sank
in the Kenai river and a third, the
heai, broke from its moorings and
drifted into Cook Inlet. (The
craft >'<;>'* later salvaged and re
paiicd.)
An -jobirfajii-e corps to senre
the North Kenai Peninsula is be
ing organized with Charley W.
Griffith, Soldotna superintendent
of school, as organization chair
jnaii.
Newly elected trustees of the
Kasilof-Cohoe Cemetery Associa
tion are Wayne Webb, Walter
Pollard, Enid MeLane amt Iioy
Burton. Isabella Bird is scribe.
D. C. “Pappy'’ Walker died of
a heart attack in Arkansas and
the Kenai Peninsula iost one of
its old-timers. Walkerville, or the
Walker addition to Kenai, was a
part of his original homestead.
With the first tractor on the Pen
insula, Pappy cleared land for
other homesleaders.
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Water Heaters
Wall Heaters
Calorie Ranges
Quaker Heaters
iUuiiartt and Forced Air
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Store Hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Katherine Marie and Karen Ma
rie, daughters of Kenneth and
Sbirlcy Thomas of Kenai, were
the first twins bom in the Cen
tral Peninsula Clinic at Soldotna.
Bora on Nov. 5, they also were
the first babies to actually use
the Clinic’s new baby incubator.
Proposed widening of the Ster
ling highway through the business
district of Soldotna to a width of
at least 86 feet was discussed at
length by Robert Dwyer, district
engineer for the Alaska Div. of
Hwys. at a Chamber of Commerce
dinner. Grading of the remainder
of the highway to Homer is to
be completed in the 1963 season.
An oil bloc has been formed by
23 homesteaders in the East Fore
lands district north of Kenai to
taling 2654 acres for the purpose
of leasing the land to an oil com
pany to get drilling activity start
ed in that area.
The Kenai Community Library
marked its 12th birthday anniver
sary with an open house.
Mayor John Swanson, of Kenai,
officated at the drawing of 351)
permits awarded applicants for
the December antlerless moose
hunt.
Freezing rains on top of snow
converted Sterling Hvvy, into a
vertib’e ice rink and caused haz
ardous driving conditions. Flights
from airfields were cancelled in
many instances or flights were
rerouted,
DECEMBER
Heaviest snowfall in many
years ushered in December, and
drove the moose herd down to
winter feeding grounds.
The ghost town of La Touche,
65 miles of Seward, has been pur
chased by commercial fisherman
and developer James Sumpter of
Anchorage, He plans to convert
the island, formerly owned by the
Kenneeott Copper Co., into a tour
ist resort,
The final draft of an overall
economic development plan is now'
completed and is to be submitted
by the Western Kenai Peninsula
Redevelopment Committee to the
Alaska Division of State Plan
ning on Dec. iti.
Vorne O. Martin, attorney from
Anchorage who recently opened
offices in Kenai, threw his hat
into the political ring and has an
nounced his candidacy for govern
orship of Alaska in the forthcom
ing 1962 elections.
Kenai City Council has approv
ed Kenai Power Corporation’s
franchise proposal for presenta
tion to voters in the City of Kenai
and a special election is to be set.
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SOLDO!NA BRANCH
Soldafea ■ ; Rhone 262-4*22
two-place plane _ w&* jejtt£tun£aly
damaged by fire while being pre
heated at ttoldrttna airport.
Bertha Midyett, Sddoina, has
announced she will be a candidate
on the Republican ticket for the
legislative office of state senator
from this district in the 1962 el
ections.
Annual moose tally shows over
5000 animals ors the Kenai Moose
Range.
A survey of Kal if onsky-Kasilof
roads has been authorized by pos
tal authorities in response to a
petition requesting that a star
route be established.
Arthur Vernon Watson, Soldot
nat has been charged with murder
iii wiie first degree m collection
with the Dec. is slaying of Mar
ion T. Grissom, Sport Lake area
homesteader.
Local crude oil shipments ex
ceeded 5 million barrels during the
first year of operation of Nikiski
Beach Marine Oil Terminal, with
production in the field being in
creased to more than 26,000 bar
rels per day.
Final week in December saw
two disastrous trailer house fires;
the Justin Maile home in Soldotna
and the Carl Heft home in Sterl
ing both burned to the ground.
Tideland and submerged oil
land leases on West Forelands—
across Cook Inlet from Kenai—
reaped the state nearly $15 mil
lion. Pan American Petroleum Co.
—largest bidder— is reported to
have a good oil strike in the area.
Commercial fishermen were
advised that changes in fishing
regulations have been made, es
pecially regarding trap sites and
set netting.
Friday, Dec. 29, finally brought
a break in the intense cold that
had persisted over two weeks
with temperatures in some Pen
insula areas plunging to 62 de
grees below' zero and persistently
being mare than 25d. below for
the entire period. A wanning
trend and a light snow Friday
night brought welcome relief and
citizens relaxed in the relative
comfort of only 10 degrees above
zero.
Gets Land Lease
Odin Strand berg, manager for
Consolidated Utilities, Ltd., was
the successful and only bidder on
the 5.013 acre parcel of land of
fered at a public land lease auc
tion held at 1 p.m. Friday, Dec.
2<L .at the Her-ai dm Qrtjrtifft The
acreage was offered for a 55-jrasir
term.
Consolidated Utilities, Ltd. is
the firm whose new power gene
ration plant, in conjunction with
Kenai Power Corp., is expected to
provide power for the city of He
rat providing voters in a special
election to be called soon by the
city of JCenai *rm* approval to
the Kenai Power Corporation’s
franchise.
The plot of land obtained in
Friday's lease auction is expected
to be used as a site for buildings
in connection with the enterprise.
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