ONE OF THE NEW SERVICES provided by Trans-Alaska
Telephone Company is this phone booth recent!* erected outside
of their Kenai Exchange.
Farmers Corporatism
Flans Being Competed
Peninsula fanners and home
headers, meeting jointly with the
Soldofna Chamber of Comma.oe
recently, aj:pr >ved of the farmers'
committee', recommendation that
the ofgnization be formed as a
corporation lather than as a co
operative association. Plans for
set tag up the corp- .ate structure
are now underway.
.V full report of the overall plan
for developing the livestock in
dustry in If.e area is expected
to be compl ied by Sunday. Re
ports on possibilities of a dehy
drating plant and a pelleting mill,
considered essential to the live
st .;•!< in ustry, were made at the
dime) meeting* Clarence Go. i
rich, C ©f C.representative on the
farmers’ committee, conducted the
meeting.
0 st *' a dehydrating and pel
leting pimu Fur t!op_aiva is esti
mated to eo.,t about $41,000, ac
id.p i ■ IM Liebenthal, txion
i service agent from Homer.
Pe ential farming land on the
Peninsula is estimated to be
about 100,000 acres, according to
Kenai Peninsula Soil Conserva
tion Agent Harry Wakefield.
It was also suggested that fish
processing ami slaughter house
operations might also be possible
under the program of the Area
Redevelopment Administration.
A firming up of the plans for
the area as presented at the din
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■will form part of She Western
Kenai Peninsula Redevelopment
program.
Tal Nelson,
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N. Talmadge Nelson, land class
ification officer with the state
PiV.skm of Lands a 1 loagtirt#
K- nai resident and homesteader,
is reported to he recupcrati: g at
. his home in Anchorage following
iris recent release from an An
chorage hospital.
Ta! was critically injured in a
two-car collision in September.
He was unconscious for ays af
ter the station wagon he was
C. ivinjy and a ear driven by a
Fort Richardson serviceman col
lided at the corner of Ninth Aye.
dan (Runbell Street- in Anchorage.
Nelson’s car was thrown against
a power pole by the impact and
he was hurled to the sidewalk.
Nelson, who is not married, was
released from the hospital about
three weeks ago and is being
cared for by his sister Who came
from Salt Lake City, Utah.
Although he is now living in
Anchorage, Nelson has been ac
tive in developing the Valhalla
Heights subdivision in Kenai,
which is located on his original
homestead and is now within the
city limits of Kenai.
Prior to his accident, he was
in Ksnai on Sept. It! as one of
the state land men officiating at
the Bernice Lake land lease auc
tion.
Friends in this area, who have
visited him since his accident, say
that he appreciates the interest
Peninsula resident have shown
him and will welcome further vis
its.
It is believed that it will be
some time yet before he will be
able to return to his work, al
though his present progress is re
ported as “doing fine.’’
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Monitor Fallout
JUNEAU—Three members of
the Radiological ^Health division
of the U. S. Public Health Service
returned to thek stateside posts
this week after establishing sev
en additional monitoring stations
in the USPHS Radiation Surveil
lance Network in Alaska.
The new stations at Barrow,
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• LOOK FOR THE RED ARROW
Program for Peninsula
Ready for Final Draft
1 he West©, n Kenai Peninsula
Redevelopment Committee will
Polish up the final draft of a pre
liminary overall economic devel
opment program covering Elec
tion District No. 12 at a meet
ing announced to begin at p p. m,
thi- Sunday, Dec. d, in the Kenai
of: ices of James E. Fisher, chair
man.
The first tentative draft for
overall dev< lepment was submit
ted to the' committee in a meeting
hch! at Anchor Point on Nov. 25.
Repres(,*nta.ti\es from 'Sterling,
So'dotna. Noilh Kenai, Ninih-hik,
Kenai, Ka d if, Homer and An
chor Point brought in suggestions
from their communities to be in
corporated in the program which
is expected to be of benefit to the
entire Peninsula,
Members of Pro Western Kenai
Peninsula Redevelopment Cnm
mmitteo are: Mrs. Elizabeth Ap
nill. Anchor Point- B, K. Umin
i -• . lb, iner; Floyd Blossom, Nin
ik-hik; Charles B, Mend, Jr., Kasi
lof; Eugene f m :h, Cohoe; Bud
Keener, Clam Gulch; I.eo T, Ob
erts, Kenai; Harry Drew, North
Kenai; ( . L. Parker, Soklotna,
and Francis J. Hall, Sterling, with
Fisher as representative at luge
tor the entire Peri insula ami Mrs.
Bertha Myer. deputy magistrate
.1 isomer, as see rotary.
Observers present at the An
chor Point meeting1 also were .• vi~
*•' ; upon for a--.: • tarn-c. These in
cluded Homer Swires aid Jess
Ns ' ejas, . 2pre?entin.(f Kenai: Bob
VVai’.or, Notik Kenai; Mrs, Peg.
"T Chariton, Joe April! and Ken
Kic'.y, ii! of At: hoi Point; Ethel
•Scott and iiir. Browsing, both of
ITcmer, and t'"arl Williams of Au
thor Point and the ’Minina area.
The proposed < ntline of this
tentative draft will be further
stu disci and consolk! ;ted at trie
-meeting planned f. • Sunday,
Fisher said.
After this meeting, the draft
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Hospital Site
(To; S ated from Page 1)
far only one organization, Sohiot
na Hcmcnnhr:r, ( Jab, has nom
inated a representative to t h e
site committee. Mrs. Dee Stock
will represent that group.
Fisher is publicly calling1 for
assistance from all groups thru
out the Pen’iv ula to name repre
sentatives at once to see that the
site committee meeting- in Cohoe
is well attended and that a loca
tion may be selected that will
meet with general approval.
Nome, Cold Bay. Kodiak. A d a k,
Attu and St. Paul bring to ten
the USPHS radiation monitoring
points in the state and- were es
tablished following a request of
the Alaska Dept, of Health and
Welfare, according to Commis
sioner Paul P. Winsor.
Surveillance stations at Juneau
and Anchorage have been moni
toring radioactive fallout since
195G and at Fairbanks since 1958.
will be sent bark to the commun
ities and given time for objec
tions. If there are no objections,
the polished outline will be sub
mitted for approval on Dec. 16
to the Alaska Division of State
Planning- and from there it will go
to the Area Redevelopment Ad
ministration (which operates as
a responsibility of the Depart
ment of Agriculture) at Wash
ington, D. ('.
Considerable thought and plan
ning has gone into this program,
the program as outlined will qual
Fislier said, and it is hoped that
ify the Peninsula as an area for
benefits under the ARA and other
Cedera 1 assistaru o programs,
Kardinals Make
Good Showing
In Gaines to Date
Ke-nai Karriinals opene the bas
ketball s.eas'-ar. by t ruun-itig the
^ Ha Warriors in both p,;”>i
piayi i at Konai Nov. 17-18.
.Scores w< '* 09-13 and 47-32 in
flavor of Konai.
Wasi!la ha i all it- players from
last year back on (!:•• cm rent sea
son’s team ami playerl a swift
prime with a pressing style of
defense. The Kardinals bested
Wusilla last year also by over 20
points in gamei played success
ively two nights.
’1 ho folKwing weekend of the
c i * r calendar, the Kardinals
Were dc anted by the West An
cle*:',,'.- • Kag’les when the it i •••
team met local con tenders ion the
Kenai -. an t'-. The game ended 69
A-r the West Ernies and 52 for
’ ea; i. The .Junior Vai ity
tilt* war j:l favor of the
West Anchorage visitors.
The Wert A nth., rage teams had
the Kardinals' bested as far as
heighth war concerned. The game
renortedk was rather rough with
evei"one on the team waylaying
Wildwood Post
Supports ACCA
Several groups at Wildwood
Station have given support' to the
Kenai chapter of the Alaska Crip
pled Children’s As-soeiation in the
fund raising drive to pay for the
services of an itinerant speech
and hearing therapist during t-he
current school year.
On Nov, h the Officers' Wives
club gave a western theme parly
and ouffet dinner which netted
$130 for the fund. In addition,
.the Non-Commissioned Officer
Wives (Tub pledged .$10 monthly
through the current school year.
The NCO Club contributed $25.
Nearly 50 persons from Wild
wood Station have paid their an
nual $1 member-ship fee. accord
ing to Mrs. Stella I-'dikokeU, 1 e
membership chairman for Wild
wood. Other’ individuals have
made contributions.
Remember the Ace of Clubs New
Year ,’ Eve party starting at 2:00
p. m. Bigger and better than
eve.. Plan now to be there.
on the floor at one time o,r an
other. Kenai made the first point
with v the Eagles returning by
making six points. The first half
ended with Kenai in the lead by
one point with a score of 24-25.
West Anchorage coach was Jim
Martinson. Jim Evenson coaches
the Kenai teams.
Saturday, Nov. 25, Kenai cage
teams went to Homer coming
back , Vtorious in ' i<- Varsity and
Junior Varsity games and defeat
ed in the Junior High game.
Harry says:
Tom; “That nu t Ik* one of my
teachers dri\ in;; that car ahead
of us”
Hud: "How can you tell?"
Torn: “ife won't let me pass!”
HARRY WEST
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