sterling news
Jess Robinson Injured
WEDDING BELLS
Donna Eylar, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Eylar
of the Funny River area, was
married in Anchorage Feb. 14
to John M. MacArthur. They
will make their home there
where the groom is stationed
with the U S. Air Force.
SHOPPERS GUIDE
The Sterling Grade School is
holding a White Elephant Sale
from 2 to 5 p.m. March 4 in the
quonset on the school grounds.
Money raised will go into a
fund for school improvements.
HOME AGAIN
Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Prather
are now back on their home
stead after a brief visit with
Mrs. Prather’s parents in South
ern California.
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BOOM TOWN
Two trailer parks are in the
early construction stages in the
Sterling area, although work
on one is temporarily halted.
Frozen ground has stopped
work on the new park on the
Weaver homestead, but Jess
Robinson is continuing work
on his trailer court off the
Robinson Loop Road.
TEMPORARY SHUTDOWN
Walt and Laura Pedersen on
the Moose River are going to
be closed for a couple of weeks
for remodeling or finishing the
inside of their building.
Jess Robinson of Robinson
Loop Road near Sterling badly
injured his leg last week.
Classified ads sell for you.
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Kenai 283-5161 or 283-6456
Soldotna 262-4254
The Cheechako News photographer caught the first landing
at Kenai of Inlet Airlines new 380 hp DeHaviland Dove on
its maiden flight.
Designed to carry 8 to 10 passengers plus freight, the plane
cruises at 185 miles per hour. This plane is going into regu
lar scheduled service on Inlet's route between Anchorage and
Homer. Pilots will be Jim Whitehead and Si Nayo.
Kenai Peninsula P.T.A.
Presents Annual Report
Mary R. Hawkins, secretary
for the Kenai Peninsula Teach
ers Assn, which is composed
of the faculties of Homer, Ke
nai, Anchor Point, Ninilchik,
Tustumena, Soldotna and Ster
ling schools has prepared a re
port based on the latest re
lease of the NEA paper of
February 1961 and of the stud
ies of the active committees of
the KPTA.
The report voices a plea for
a raise in teachers’ salaries
and points out that it is essen
tial if Alaska is to recruit and
keep competent teachers.
Although in recent reports,
California is rated as highest
for average salaries paid to
teachers and Alaska, second
this is a distortion as the aver
age cost of living in Alaska is
47% greater than in Washing
ton, DC. And based on this,
Alaska would actually be 34th
in the nation, rather than 2nd.
The average now paid in Al
aska is quoted at $6600 but to
equal California’s average of
$6700 in terms of buying pow
er, Alaska would have to pay
their teachers an average of
$9650.
The report from Mrs. Haw
kins also pointed out that the
“average” in Alaska included
the rather high-paying city
schools, which distorted the
whole picture in terms of what
many rural teachers and small
town teachers receive.
Some other interesting sta
tistics included in the report:
Alaska is first of all the states
in the number of school-age
children per 1000 adults; sec
ond in enrollment increase—
165 per cent in the past 10
years; ninth in pupil-teacher
ratio with 23.2 students to each
teacher; lowest in per cent of
personal income used for stale
and local tax collection—$6.08
per $100 as compared with a
national average of $8.49; third
in general population gain in
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the past 10 years—75.8 per
cent; lowest in per cent of per
sons 65 years or older in the
population; and forty-fifth in
public-school holding power.
Only four states have more
drop-outs between eighth grade
and high school. The report
from Mrs. Hawkins urged all
persons interested in the
schools to write the legislature
supporting pay increases.
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We notice that the calendars
sont to us by banking institu
tions marked February 13—
a bank holiday—in red but ne
glected the 14th. which was
Valentines Day.
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