Kenai Bank Construction
Set for Completion Soon
The Kenai branch of the City
National Bank of Anchorage is
expected to he moved to its new
building within the next six
weeks, according to J. R. Lietzke,
assistant vice president and man
ager of the branch. The building
j.~ located between Hartley’s De
partment store and Kenai high
school.
Construction was delayed re
cently due to tardy arrival of
steel beams for the ceiling. The
iteel arrived Thursday and prog
ress is expected to continue with
out further interruption.
Floor space of approximately
1874 square feet will provide much
more room for banking opera
tions, Lietzke said. There will be
a sidewalk put in front of the
building and more than ample
parking space will be provided.
Arrangements have been made
ftr the bank to use two lots next
door. These with the remainder
of the bank’s lot not used for the
budding will provide a parking
area of 38,000 square feet.
The building itself is being bas
ica’ly constructed of concrete
blocks, aluminum and glass. Safe
ty deposit boxes will line one en
tire wall of the bank’s interior.
The wall toward the high school
SCHOOL CONFERENCE
Winiford A. Hoover, Kenai
school superintendent, and Char
lie Griffith, superintendent o f
schools at Soldotna, returned on
Saturday from Fairbanks where
they had attended the Oct. 18-20
conference of superintendents.
23 gallons gas to be given away
by Kartell's Service Station a t
Rege>’s Garage, Soldotna. (adv.)
Packrat Pete
—the homesteader huddled up,
warmed only by Mabel’s wrath
and he said, “Okay, okay. I know
we need a stove and I figured
out how to make some money to
buy it. I’m gonna' seli a poem I
wrote,” Mabel just about split.
“Ha! I’d like to hear a poem you
mote.”
And Packrat said grandly “I
hoped you’d say that. Here it is.”
Mabel had an awful shack
But the cold couldn’t beat her
Cause Mabel went to Kenai
town
And bought an Ashley heater
at
Kenai Korners
LUMBER and HARDWARE
BUILDING M ATERIALS
Stan Thompson
Appliance Service
ALL MAKES
Commercial and Domestic
and Mobile Home Units
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Peninsula
Refrigeration Co.
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BOX 388. KENAI PH. 262-tfiOO
i-nd the one at the front of the
building will be of aluminum and
glass. The large vault will have
a block exterior, reinforced con
crete and steel interior and will
be laced with ceramic tile.
Most of the workmen on the
job have been hired locally, the
bank manager said. Russ Han
's ahan has superintended the
(lock laying and Chuck Parker
the carpentry work. Both men
ate employees of Master Build
ers of Anchorage, the construc
tion film in charge of the building
erection.
The Kenai branch of the bank
was established on Nov. 7, 1960.
I ietzko has been manager since
January 1961. Bank deposits have
increased 500 per cent since Jan
uaty, he said, and otheir bank
business is increasing constantly.
lit addition to Lietzke, the Ken
ai bank has two other employees
at the present time. They are Loy
Moser, head teller, and Pat Rose,
secretary to the manager.
Two and possibly three more
emp’oyee? will be added after the
move to the new bank, the man
ager said as there will be need
for a bookkeeper, another teller
and a bank clerk.
Bush Country
Organizes Area
Development
The first area development
committee in Alaska’s bush coun
try became a reality at McGrath
on Oct. 2, with the organization
of the Kuskokwim Valley Devel
opment committee and the elec
tion of six members of a nine
member committee. Three seats
were left open to be filled later
by representatives from Bethel
who were unable to attend be
cause of bad weather conditions.
The organizational meeting cli
maxed several months of ground
work carried out by local people
in the Kuskokwim River Valley
and was headed by Mrs. Robert
Carpenter of Stony River.
Informal meetings were held
all weekend with community lead
ers and Virgil Severns, remote ar
eas agent for the Cooperative Ex
tension Service which has the re
sponsibility for helping with the
organization of area development
committees. The meetings con
tinued with Ralph Mills, Rural
Electrification Adm. field rep
resentative; Burke Riley, field
committee chairman of the De
partment of the Interior; and
Gene Roguszka, director of the
State Division of Aviation, also
in attendance.
Enthusiasm was high, and
several businessmen offered free
use of their equipment and facili
ties to help the new organization
get off the ground. The term
“getting off the ground” is par
ticularly important in the Kusko
kwim, because practiaclly all trav
el is by air or boat.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our sincere
thanks to everyone in the Kenai,
Soidotna and Wildwood area who
were so kind to us following the
death of our son and brother,
Richard Kooly.
Mr. and Mrs. Odman Kooly
and family. 52-1
SPECIAL SALE
5/8-in. by 10-in.
Redwood Siding
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SOLDOTNA PHONE 262-1251
Peninsula
Land Offered
In Lease Sale
Approximately 1784 acres of
uplands on the Kenai Peninsula
will he offered in Alaska's sev
enth and largest competitive oil
and gas lease sale, if concurrence
from the University of Alaska is
received, Roseoe E. Bell, director
of Div. of Lands, has announced.
The sale has been scheduled
for Dec. 19 and will offer for leas
ing an approximate total of 255,
708 acres and wrill include tracts
of tide and submerged lands and
university lands nominated by in
terested parties.
A total of 68 tracts will be off
ered in the lease sale.
The Kenai Peninsula area to be
included is located in TIN, R13W;
T1S, R13W; T1S, R14W; T4S. R
15W; T6S, R12W; and T6S, R13
W. Seward Meridian, on grid num
bers S13-3, S16-4, S16-5, and S
16-6.
Approximately 77,540 acres of
tidelands in the Kaohemak Bay
area on grid numbers S16-4, S16-5
and S16-6 also will be offered.
This area, in the Homer vicinity
extends along the north shore of
Kachemak Bay and along the
coast for about 40 miles, extend
ing approximately 2.5 miles sea
ward.
Additional tracts include ap
proximately 21,337 acres of tide
lands near Icy Bay-Gulf of Alas
ka, 28,531 acres of tidelands in
the Yakutat Bay area and 169,
673 acres in the Cook Inlet. Nom
inations received on the Cook In
let area east and south of the
Tyonek and Moquawkie Indian
Reservation in the inlet of East
and West Forelands are more or
less eheckerboarded across the
greater part of the Inlet, Bell
said.
Maps and legal descriptions of
the specific tracts are now avail
able at the office of the Director,
344 Sixth Ave., Anchorage.
Alaska’s first school land sale,
held Oct. 10, 1961, at Kenai, Alas
ka, was marked by the purchase
of 481 acres by Standard Oil Co.
of Calif., for a potential refinery
site. Purchase price was the min
imum appraised value, $250,000.
Read the classifieds for profit;
use them for results.
RETURN FOR VISIT
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Gross
and children, Joe and Mary, form
er Kenai residents, returned to
renew acquaintances this past
weekend.
Gross, elementary school prin
cipal at Kenai last year and a
teacher at Woody Island off the
coast of Kodiak the previous
year, is currently superintendent
of on-base school at the Naval
Station at Kodiak. Me attended
the superintendents’ conference
held at Fairbanks Wednesday
through Friday and returned by
plane Saturday morning, stop
ping off in Kenai to meet Mrs.
Gross and children who had also
visited in Anchorage while he was
rt the conference.
Due to weather conditions and
the wet landing field they w'ere
unable to takeoff as scheduled
and their Kenai visit was extend
ed longer than intended.
Don’t miss the tire sale being
held by Kartell's Service Station
at Iteger’s Garage, Soldotna.
(adv.)
More Tourists Coming
The Battelle Institute report
forecasts that 860,000 tourists an
nually will be coming to Alaska
by 1980.
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Are you going to write a Christ
mas letter this year? Let Kenai
Kusiness Service duplicate it for
you, appropriate designs, borders,
etc. (ad)
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