# WORLD S TOP MUSHERS
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be retired when one mustier has
won the local event three times.
Prize money and a wards presen
tation will be made Sunday night
at a ntushers dinner to be held at
Riverside House, Soklotna.
Attla, 28, Athabascan Indian
from Husiia on the Koyukuk Riv
er in Northern Alaska, rounded
the three 25-mile heats in the re
cent Anchorage race iti 4 hours,
49 minutes and 20 seconds, best
ing the previous record of
5:30:48, set by Jimmy Malemute
of Galena in 1959. He also set a
new 25-mile lap record for the
Rendezvous of 1:33:46.
Attla started the 1962 race with
16 dogs and ended with 15 on the
traces at the finish line. He has
been racing since he was 8 years
old and previously had won the
Anchorage classic in 1958. He re
ceived $3,300 in prize money in
last ‘week's race.
Doctor Lombard, Massachusetts
veterinarian, who finished third
in total elapsed time of 4:56:11 at
the recent Rendezvous, has won
every major race in North Ameri
ca with the exception of the An
chorage classic. He was 1959
champion of the North American
Sled Dog Derby at Fairbanks and
is expected to be a strong con
tender in the coming weekend
race.
Gareth Wright, three-time win
ner of the Anchorage Classic in
1950, 1953 ami 1957, also took the
North American Championship
trophy at Fairbanks in 1950. The
popular Peninsula m usher was
top driver this year and in 1901
at the Kenai Peninsula Cham
pionship Sled Dog Races held at
Anchor Point. In the 1962 Rendez
vous contest, Wright’s dogs
brought him in for seventh place
in total elapsed time of 5:17:43.
His famous lead dog “Jenny” died
last year after leading his team
to many victories.
Chuck Raymond of Kasilof and
formerly of Soldotna placed sec
ond in the recent Anchor Point
races and was third there last
year. He placed first at Nililchik
in 1»61 and third in a race held
at Kenai earlier that year. He
won the stampede race at An
chorage twice, placed in the top
half in Anchorage preliminary
races several times and once in
the North American Champion
ship races at Fairbanks.
Raymond raises his own dogs
developed from a cross of Mc
Kenzie River Husky and Siberian
strains and uses them.not only
for racing but also for hunting
and transportation.
Joe Brandon started last, but
covered the 22 miles from Anchor
Point to Ninilchik in record time
to come in winner, in the First
Kenai Peninsula Championship
Race in 1960. He placed second in
the 1961 Anchor Point races and
third in the 1962 event.
A retired Navy Chief and now
a commercial fisherman, Joe
raises and races dogs at a hobby.
He also builds his own sleds.
Brandon started bis racing career
in the 1958-59 Homer Winter-Car
nival. In 1960, when trail was
rough and moose were plentiful,
a moose charged Brandon’s outfit
and crippled his leader.
Orville Lake, past president of
the Alaskan Sled Dog and Racing
Association, is w-ell known to all
Alaska racing fans. He has won
and lost more races than most
people can remember. The Grown
Prince of Dog Racing this year
won the David Dial Memorial
Race in January, the first race to
be run in Anchorage this year.
He was also winner of the 14-mile
race.
Lake consistently placed in the
money during the ’oQs at Anchor
Plant Wild Rice
On Moose Range
Some 50 pounds of wild rice
have been planted at 29 locations
on the Kenai National M oose
Range, according to a recent re
port of the Dept, of the Interior
The experiment has seen the
transplanting of the rice from the
Rice Lake National Wildlife Re
fuge in Minnesota.
“Wild rice," the release stated,
“is quite selective as to the kind
of soil, water and climatic condi
tions in which it, lives, so careful
samples were taken at prospec
tive planting sites on the Kenai
Range.
“Among the habitat require
ments for growth and survival
are shallow fresh water— a few
inches to two or three f<?et deep.
There must be sufficient circula
tion of water to prevent- stag
n a cy, and the bottom must have
fairly deep muck.”
C of C Breakfast
Meet to Feature
Roads Discussion
The Greater Soldo to a Chamber
of Commerce has advanced its
schedule for Saturday to 7 a.m.
when a breakfast meeting’ will be
held at Parkers in Rigeway.
Robert G. Dwyre, district engi
neer with the Anchorage office of
the Department of Public Works,
will meet with the group to ex- !
plain the urban development pro
gram for the Soklot.ua area.
In addition, Lee Hubbard, sec
ondary roads engineer, is bring
ing two representatives from his
office to explain the borough
roads system that will have to be
set up under the borough system j
of government. They will also dis
cuss pioneer access road mainte
nance and the secondary roads
program.
At. last Saturday’s meeting,
Charles Parker suggested three
possible hospital sites for approv
al of the Chamber. No action was
taken, however,
Sites listed as available were
land located between the Loren
Stewart and Tom Southard home
steads, land immediately north of
the Loren Heath homestead, and
public service land on Kalifonsky
Beach. Road across from, the Sol
dotna bridge.
In other business, the Kenai
Sokiotna sponsored sled dog races
for March 3-4 were discussed by
Jack Johnson and the Kart races
set for the same days were an
nounced by Bill Gibbs.
Special guests at the meeting
were Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Tressier
of Seward, representing the Ke
nai Sawmill of Seward; James EL
Fisher, and Mm and Mrs. Monty
Coleman, all of Ker,ai»
TOURING MEXICO
Reginald and Laura Hendricks,
skin diving enthusiasts in the Ke
nai Peninsula and Anchorage ar
ea, are ereroute to Mexico and will
tour that country for the remain
der of the winter.
CARL SEAMAN of Seaman’s
Furniture in Kenai says we
have furniture for every pur
pose, including chairs to sit on
and beds to lie on,—Adv,
age, Fairbanks and Tok, In 1961
he placed fourth at Tok and third
in 1959, He has been on the asso
ciation’s board of directors for
about 10 years and handles much
of the dog racing publicity.
Other racers expected in at any
hour are Wade Charles of Chu
giach, Clyde Bastian of Anchor
age and several other well-known
mushers.
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