Soldotna Homemakers
To Sponsor Safety
Program for Children
Soldotna Homemakers club
members Monday night decided
that one of the projects for the
the year will be cooperating with
the Safety Council in promoting
a better safety program among
school children. Mrs. Stanley
McLane, one of the club mem
bers, is safety chairman of all
Homemakers clubs in Alaska.
It was suggested that the club
contact the Soldotna school sup
erintendent, Charley Griffin, and
teachers in Soldotna schools in
regard to sponsoring a Safety
M eek during which posters to be
drawn by the children w ould
stress the importance of being
careful and of avoiding accidents
to themselves or others. Espec
ially to be emphasized is the
importance of walking on the
left hand side of the road facing
oncoming traffic when it is nec
essary that the children be afoot
on the highways.
The club voted to buy fluores
cent safety buttons to be pre
sented to children in Grades 1
through 6, which the children
are to wear on coat lapel or on
the sleeve to make them more
visible to approaching drivers af
ter dusk and which, it is hoped,
will make the children more a
ware of being safety-conscious,
Mrs. Jim Whitehead, as guest
speaker, addressed the club speak
ing on plants and landscaping.
The group met at the home of
Mrs. Vern Hanson with 17 mem
ben and guests present.
Circulation of a gift and mon
ey basket began at the meeting
as a benefit to the Alaska Crip
pled Children’s Association and
the speech-hearing therapy work
being done on the Kenai Penin
sula by Dr. Helen l>it$tnan of
Anchorage. The basket is to be
passed from member to member
writh each recipient taking out
a gift and replacing it with an
other, in addition to adding a
dollar or mare to the basket be
fore it is passed on to the next
member and her friends. When
it has reached the first person,
monetary contents will be given
to ACCA.
Also started at the meeting
was the Christmas project, the
making of sequin and fur dec
orated Chd-istmas stockings.
PNA Announces
New August High
Set in Traffic
Pacific Northern Airlines set
new system-wide all-time highs
in August for three main cate
gories of traffic — passenger,
cargo and revenue ton miles, it
was announced recently by Har
old A. Olsen, PNA vice president
of traffic and sales.
20,135 passengers were carried,
topping the previous high month
of August, 1959, and exceeding
August of 1960 by 10 per cent.
A 28.2 per cent increase in air
cargo over August of 1960 re
sulted in a record high of 490,
551 ton miles. 2,463,845 ton miles
of all types of revenue traffic
were carried exceeding the prev
ious high month by 7.44 per cent
and August of 1960 by 9.2 per
cent.
Visiting Priests
View Catholic
Building Progress
Father James Spils, S.J., and
Father Buchanan, S.J., resident
priests at the Copper Valley
School near Copper Center, were
Soldotna visitors last Tuesday.
They were especially interest
ed in seeing the new Catholic
church currently under construc
tion in Soldotna and in talking
with Father James Van Hoom
issen regarding his building pro
jects.
Father Spils, who has been en
gaged in religious and scholastic
work among native children in
Alaska for many years, was sta
tioned at Holy Cross before go
ing to Copper Valley School sev
eral years ago. He is an uncle
of Mrs. Loren Stewart of Ridge
way and took the opportunity, of
visiting briefly with her during
his stay.
Among others whom the priests
wanted to see while here were
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Mack of
Soldotna. Johnny worked under
their direction when the mission
home at Copper Valley was being
constructed,
830-MileHighway
Program on State
Drafting Boards
More than 830 miles of high
ways are now on the drawing
boards of the Alaska Division of
Highways according to the divi
sion’s latest plans, specifications
and. estimates progress report.
However, 67 miles of the 831.6
mile total is made up of projects
on which rights of way estimates*"
are expected to be completed
within the next 30 days.
It is expected that construction
plans, specifications and esti
mates will be completed on 115.6
miles of the total before the end
of October,
A. G. Gardner, assistant state
highway engineer, said that 104
projects are included on the lat
est PS&E progress report. He
said that the projects range in
length from less than a tenth of
a mile to 50 miles.
No More School
Bus Overloading,
K. Council Warns
Students standing in school
buses and overloading the ve
hicles beyond designated capa
city were brought to the atten
tion of the Kenai City Council
and resulted in action taken at
the Council’s regular meeting
last week.
The amendment to Ordin
ance No. 14 now makes it un
lawful for any person to stand
while the motor vehicle in which
the person is riding as a passen
ger is in motion and also makes
it unlawful for any person to
load a motor vehicle with more
passengers than said vehicle is
designed to carry.
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Ben Holly Killed
In Wash.; Rites
Held in Anchorage
Funeral services for Benjamin
Raymond Holly, 21, son of Mr.
and Mrs. G. C. Holly of Soldot
na, were held recently in the Lu
theran Church of Hope, Anchor
age.
Mr. Holly, a heavy duty equip
ment operator, was killed in a
construction accident on the
Tolt River dam project in Wash
ington, on Sept. 15.
Born at Morris, Minn., Sept. 8,
1940, he attended school at Glen
wood, Minn., and in 1952 moved
to Anchorage with his parents
and other members of the family.
He was employed by the Cheney
Construction Co. during the
summers of 1958-59 and during
liHK) joined the engineering crew
Of the City of Anchorage. H e
had been a member of the Lu
theran church there since 1955.
When the family moved to
Fall City, Wash., so the elder
Mr. Holly could work for Ander
son-Wilder Construction Co., on
the Tolt River dam project, Ben
moved with them. After working
for a short time on another pro
ject, Ben went to work under his
father. He was driving a Cater
pillar scraper at the time of the
fatal accident.
The haul road was a long in
cline with drop-off varying from
zero to 500 feet. WThile returning
empty, Ben’s machine zigzagged
a bit, seemingly was brounght
under control, then suddenly
veered sharply to the left, jack
knifed and rolled over the edge.
The young man was caught be
tween the machine and the bank.
Survivors in addition to his
parents, who have returned to
Soldotna, include his maternal
grandmother, Mrs. Mary Pod
ratz, Glenwood, iMinn.; two sis
ters, Mrs. R. H. (Marlene) Rapp
of Anchorage, _ and Mrs. Peter
(Yvonne) HeT/uca, Cambridge,
%wo brothers, George Hol
ly, Anchorage, and Jerry Holly
Jr., Soldotna; a cousin, Robert
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