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The Kenai Peninsula
THIRD YEAR
September 22, 1961
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Number 47
Classes Start
Next Week
In Child Aid
Dr. Helen Dittman, clinical
director of the Alaska Crippled
Children’s Association, Anchor
age, will begin her speech and
hearing therapy work with Kenai
Soldotna area children next week
end. Classes are scheduled to
start Thursday in Kenai and Fri
day in Soldotna and Sterling.
She will be in the area Sept. 27,
28, 29 on her first visit.
Appointments may be made by
calling the itinerant nurse, Ruth
Tewes, at the Kenai Health Cen
ter.
The Soldotna Homemakers
Club, with its $25 donation, set
the ball to rolling in the fund
raising campaign now underway
by the Kenai area chapter of
ACCA to make Doctor Dittman’s
visit possible.
Mrs. Lyman McBride, Kenai,
chapter president, said the $25
contribution was a big help in
the drive to collect the $600 that
has been set as a goal.
Mrs. McBride announced the
appointment of Ramona Brennan
as Soldotna chairman with Dee
Stock as co-chairman. Audrey
Shelman, Soldotna, will head the
drive in Sterling with Sally Clan
ton of Reading and Bates camp
as co - chairman. Mrs. Thomas
O’Malia, Jr., Kenai, was an
nounced last week as over-all
drive chairman.
20-Mile Speed
Zone Voted
Limiting the speed of motorists
driving by the school buildings
to 20 miles per hour between the
hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. was
one of several motions dealing
with traffic problems in the city
of Kenai that passed unanimously
at last week’s meeting of the
Kenai City Council.
The Council voted to accept
speed signs as designated by
Charles Peavley, chief of police.
These also included a curb on
speed to 35 miles per hour be
tween Homesite Loop Road and
Beaver Loop Road.
City Attorney James E. Fisher
was authorized to draw up an
amending ordinance to the city
traffic ordinance making it illeg
al to have persons standing up
in a moving vehicle and putting
more passengers in a vehicle than
. it was designed for.
It was also passed that there
be parallel parking only on Main
Street.
PTA Supper Set
Saturday Night
A spaghetti supper, proceeds
of which will be used to assist
in purchasing playground equip
ment for Soidotna school, is
scheduled for this Saturday at
the school building from 5:30
to 7 p.m.
The supper is being sponsored
by the Parent-Teacher Associa
tion. Students of the school are
selling tickets, priced at $1.50 for
adults and young people 12 years
of age or older with tickets for
children under 12 years selling
foe 75c.
Playground equipment is much
needed, it has been pointed out,
and contributions to the fund will
be welcomed.
Regular meetings of the PTA
are held on the fourth Monday
nights each month. The first
meeting of the school year has
been set for 7:30 p.m. Monday,
Sept 25, at the school.
Lew Field, Sterling homesteader and farmer, is pictured here
with a field of barley as a background. Lew began the harvesting
of 80 acres of barley at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 16, at his place
on Scout Lake I^oop Road.
Kenai Power Problem
Will Be Considered
By Council Tuesday
The Kenai Power Corporation
will submit its draft for an ordi
nance on a franchise agreement
to the City Council of Kenai at
the Council’s meeting Tuesday
night.
“It is our intention to deliver
a copy of the proposal to each
member of the City Council, the
Mayor and the City Attorney
several days in advance of the
above date to allow sufficient
time for reading, interpretation
and analysis prior to discussion
on'Sept. 26,” says Frank Rowley,
Kenai Power Corp., president.
“We hope this will minimize the
Council’s time on discussion of
this matter at its regular meet
ing.”
Through discussion at the
Council meeting and with James
E. Fisher, city attorney, on legal
points, if any, Kenai Power Corp.,
hopes to have the mutually agreed
draft of the ordinance ready for
its first required reading on the
agenda for the Council meeting
on Oct. 31.
“It is also our intention,” says
Rowley, “to seek a special elec
tion at the earliest possible date
after the Council readings of the
ordinance to ascertain the voters’
approval of the new ordinance
granting a franchise agreement
between the City of Kenai ami
the Kenai Power Corp.”
The Kenai City Couneil, after
a recent long heated debate,
agreed to invite franchise pro
posals from both Kenai Power
Corp., and from Peninsula Power.
The latter is a group proposing
to form a company to build a
new transmission system and to
buy power which would in turn
be supplied to area residents.
Kenai Power Corp., has sup
plied the city with electrical
power for the past 11 years.
Civil Cases Set
Three civil cases will be
brought for hearing on Oct. 5 in
Kenai before a district magistrate
who will come from Anchorage.
Jess Nicholas, deputy magistrate
at Kenai, said Thursday that he
did not know which one of the
four district magistrates will be
coming for the hearings.
Cases to be considered are those
of Robertson vs. McGhee, a water
well drilling dispute; Porter vs.
McGahan. which is over reposses
sion of an automobile, and Gren
ier vs. Blackwood & Winded.
To the Consumers of
HOMER ELECTRIC POWER
In case of power failure between the hours of
8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. weekdays, please call
Homer Electric office, Soldotna
Phone 262-4662
If failure occurs on weekend or holidays call
KEN KVALVIK
Phone 262-4583
Please enter this last name and phone number
in your telephone directory. Remember—the
sooner the trouble is reported the sooner it
is restored.
Homer Electric Association
Soldotna P. 0.
Wins Approval
Galloping Bear
Excuses
Ninilchik Pupils
Donald V. Lawvere, public
school superintendent at Ninil
chik, says three Ninilchik stu
dents presented a good excuse
for missing classes a few days
ago.
It seems that Dvvane and Ray
Newton, Grade 5, and their sister
la Donna, Grade 2, were walking
three miles from their homestead
home out to the road to catch the
school bus when their trek was
suddenly stopped by a huge
brown bear facing them in the
path.
The bear was approaching in
a gallop. The children ran off
the improvised road and finally
deflected the bear’s progress with
their yells.
By the time the children reach
ed the road, they had missed the
bus, but luckily none of them
was injured. Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Newton are the parents of the
children.
Barge Will
Unload at
Kenai Dock
The Magabar Company h a s
been granted permission to use
the City of Kenai dock and land
for the unloading of the com
pany’s 4000-ton barge, subject to
certain stipulations made by the
Kenai City Council. The barge
is expected to arrive soon with
a load of oilfield supplies, includ
ing drilling “mud” for use in
wells being drilled in this area.
For the use of the dock and
adjacent land, Magabar Co., is to
clear and grade east of the road
as required for storage of mater
ial presently at the dock and that
to be unloaded from the barge.
Magabar is to pay the City of
Kenai a $1000 fee for unloading
of the 4000-ton barge.
Magabar also is to remove ma
terial of the company currently
stored west of the road and is to
pay 10c per ton each month for
all storage after 60 days. In addi
tion, Magabar is to insure the
City of Kenai against any dam
ages resulting from the com
pany’s operations.
At the same meeting of the
Council, motions were passed that
invitations to bid be let for sur
vey of dock site, money to com?
from the general fund, and that
the city entertain bids on removal
of the old city jail and policing
of grounds after its removal.
It was also voted that Glenn
McKee be hired for the coming
year at $1800 for tax assessment
work.
Visit in Georgia
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Holter,
Sterling area, are leaving this
weekend for Geoigia, where they
will visit Mrs. Holter’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Pinsworthy,
until after Thanksgiving Day.
Farnsworth Site
Selected; Kids
To Be Let Soon
I he land upon which the new
Soidotna post office is to be
Dili it has been selected.
the location chosen, from sev
eral that had been approved by
postal authorities, is to be on
l ots 6 and 7, Soldotna Junction
Subdivision, Addition No. 2, im
mediately adorning property upon
which the Big K Grocery is situ
ated, on the “Y” junction side.
The property is owned by the
Jack Farnsworths.
A letter addressed to the post
master for immediate release
was received by Micky Faa early
Wednesday morning. The letter
was postmarked Sept. 19 (Tues
day) and read as follows:
“Postmaster General J. Edward
Day announced today that the
Post Office Department has ac
cepted an assignable land option
for the site of a new post office
building at Soldatna, Alaska. The
property is presently owned by
Jack C. Farnsworth and is lo
cated on the Kenai Spur Road.
“Bids will be advertised at a
later date for new. modern postal
facilities to be constructed ac
cording to government specifica
tions.”
Bids for the new post office
for Soldotna are to be let in
about three weeks, city officials
were notified Monday afternoon.
Notification of the postal depart
ment's approval of a 19,000 cubic
foot building to house the post
office came in a telegram signed
by Alaska Senators Ernest G: ien
ing and Bob Bartlett and Rep
resentative Ralph Rivers.
Location for the building has
not been selected. According to
unofficial estimates, city offi
cials expect the cost will be ap
proximately $75,000.
Several locations have been of
fered to the Post Office Depart
ment for consideration. These in
clude two sites offered by Jack
Farnsworth, one of them near
the Big K Grocery, the other
near the “Y” junction of the
Sterling Highway. Thelma M.
Lee, former postmaster, has of
fered a location near Coastal
Drilling Co.; George Dennison a
spot near the Soldotna Theatre,
and Joe and Micky Fan, a site
near the Central Kenai Peninsula
Medical Clinic building. All are
centrally located in Soldotna.
According to information re
received here, the postal depart
ment is to approve one specific
location. I he successlul ' older is
to buy that lot and erec the
building according to plans and
specifications. At its completion,
he will lease the land and build
ing to the postal department on
a 10-year lease rental basis.
The new post office will be a
boon to the staff of the present
overcrowded post office, Micky
Faa, current postmaster, said.
The current post office has only
240 boxes, many serving several
families. At least (500 boxes are
needed to take care of today s
population, Mrs. Faa said. At the
Alaska average of 4.5 persons
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