Nurses Group
Plans Meeting
All registered and graduate
nurses are invited to attend the
coming meeting of the Kenai
Peninsula Area Nurses Group at
8 p.m. on March 7 in the Officers
Club at Wildwood Station. The
program for the evening will he
on “Cardiac Decompensation.”
Ten members were present at
the last meeting of the group
field on Feb. 7 at which time Mrs.
Keith Hursh of Miller Loop Road,
North Kenai, led the discussion
on “Midwifery,” Training or edu
cation for midwifery and job op
portunities in the United States
for those so trained were dis
cussed'. A movie pertaining to ob
stetrics was shown.
It was voted that future meet
ings will continue to be held in
the Officers Club building as it is
more centrally located for the
majority of those attending.
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OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY
KENAI — Mr. and Mrs. Hom
er Swires, who were married in
TaylorviUe, 111., on Feb. 13, 1937
were doubly honored in celebra
tion of ttheir silver wedding an
niversary.
On the evening of Feb. 10 they
were taken out for dinner at the
Riverside House, Soldotna, by Mr.
and Mrs. Phillip Wilson, Kenai.
On Feb, 13, they were guests
of their son David, 14, and their
daughter, Eloise, 9, at a dinner
at George’s Coffee Shop, Kenai,
which concluded with a decorated
take complete with 25 candles.
Mr. and Mrs. Swires eame to
Alaska in April of 1951 and live
three miles out of Kenai on the
Spur Road on land homesteaded
by them.
Canada to Divide
N.W. Territories
A near neighbor of Alaska is
going to be split in two, accord
ing to a recent issue of the Na
tional Obsaiver.
The vast Northwest Territories
lying across northern Canada and
separated from Alaska by the
Yukon Territory is to be divided
with the western half to be known
as the Territory of MaeKenzie
and the eastern to be called either
Franklin or Keewatin,
“The Territorial Council,” the
article stated, “made the division
to speed up development of the
MacKenzie area, hampered for
years by the thinly populated
wastes of the eastern region.”
POOR FISHING
Predictions by Alaska Depart
ment of Fish and Game statisti
cians and fishery geologists are
for a very poor run of red salmon
in Bristol Bay in 1962.
At best, the catch will be fair
or nil. At worst, the-: e won’t even
be enough salmon for spawning
stock, let alone a commercial
harvest, the ADFG reports.
The Ketchikan pulp mill covers
53 acres and uses about 50,000,000
gallons of water a.jly.
Alaska Looks
Good after ‘Warm’
Trip to South 48
“They’ve got winter out there”,
say Stan arxi Donnis Thompson
Of their trip to the presumably
warmer South 48 states.
“We ran into snow in Geor
gia,” Stan remarked. “We con
tacted the state patrol about the
road conditions. They said we
couldn’t get to the Atlantic be
cause of the snow. When asked
how long before it would be
before it would be cleared, we
wet* informed we’d just have to
wait, until it melts, as the patrol
had no snow removal equipment.”
The Thompsons finally went
to the tip of Florida looking for
a place warm enough to go swim
ming, Everywhere it was too cold.
They finally settled for a heated
pool in a motel.
“Darned if we were going to
come back to Alaska from Flori
da without going swimming at
least once,” the Kenai couple re
ported.
They started from Seattle by
car, going to California then took
the southern route to Florida —
headed north through Georgia, N.
Carolina, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa,
Missouri and then straight across
to Portland. Ore., where they at
tended the lumbermen’s conven
tion, after which they took the
Hart Hwy, back home.
“After seven weeks of living
out of a suitcase, nothing on that
entire trip looked as g'ood as the
sight of home,” added Donnis.
CONTEST WINNER
KENAI — Karen Lee Heath,
member of the senior class, is
Kenai high school’s winner in the
1062 Betty Crocker search for
the American homemaker of to
morrow. Miss Heath’s paper will
be entered in competition with
those of winners in other high
‘schools*in rAjask% fat state hon;
ora. The Alaskan winner , to be
named in the spring, will receive
h $1500 scholarship from General
Mills, sponsor of the contest.
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Fur Seal Harvest
Nears S3 Million
The 1961 fur seal harvest m
the Pribilof Islands, conducted by
the Bureau of Sport Fisheries &
Wildlife, yielded 97,091 skins val
ued at $2,839,862, according to
the Alaska Conservation Society
News Bulletin.
Alaska will get 79 per cent of
the net proceeds of the sale of
the skins and other products of
the harvest. The State may also
have a chance to attract the
fur seal tanning industry here, as
the Fouke Fur Co. of St. Louis
has lost its long-standing con
tract for this work.
The Russian ■ capital of Alaska
was at Sitka.
ORATION CONTEST
KENAI-—The public is invited
to attend the oratorical eltnina
fcion contest to be held at the Ke
nai high school at 8 p.m. Friday,
March 2, The orations, all deal
ing: with phases of Americanism,
are being sponsored by the Am
erican Legion and its Auxiliary
in connection with Americanism
Week. Frank Cline is serving as
director.
The Alaska Railroad runs 470
miles from deward to Fairbanks,
The gold rush that gave rise to
the mining camp which developed
into the city of Fairbanks began
on July 22, 1902, when a few
flakes of gold were discovered at
the bottom of Felix Pedro’s min
ing shaft.
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