THE KENAI PENINSULA
CHEECHAKO NEWS
Phone 262-4624 Kenai Drawer 0
LOREN STEWART .Editor
DOROTHY STEWART .Society Editor
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Gunnison Bids Kenai Goodby
DEAR EDITOR:
It would please the writer of this correspondence if you
might choose to insert the following in your current publication:
Since November 1960, I have had the pleasure and privilege
of serving in a dual capacity of teacher and city clerk. Now it
is w’ith deep regret that I submit my plans to cease serving in
either role.
Last fall, when asked to substitute for an interim, I hesi
tantly accepted to act as city clerk as I possessed a minimum
knowledge of the duties involved. Many avenues have been
traveled since and I have found that no roads are impassable
when so much cooperative assistance is so near at hand.
It has been a real pleasure to have shared experiences with
the few well chosen people who are responsible for municipal
government. Not everyone would consider the gift of time and
energy to become public servants, to put selfish interests aside
and energetically attempt to plan and build a city for their
posterity.
1 have been associated with Kenai’s first chosen Common
Council and I have had the duty to have administered the oath
of office to the second elected group which now holds office. To
these few people, whose decisions are subject of so much debate
and controversy, I wish to extend my gratitude, for I know of
their sacrifices of time and energy which has been seldom
recognized.
Kenai, as an incorporated first class city, is now slightly
over a year old. It has a sound tax structure which will meet
the budget obligation. It has a sound planning program which
will provide for future developments that will include the public
utilities so sorely needed. And above all, I believe it has the
citizenry who are willing to put good government above their
own self-aggrandizement. It is my hope that all this will be
continued in future years, for Kenai could well become one of
Alaska’s leading cities.
Please let me express my deep appreciation to all the
understanding people who have helped me in doing my work
as city clerk. I will long remember having been associated
with a task that has caused me to learn so much and from which
I have gained so much personal satisfaction. It will be a real
pleasure to return to Kenai City someday.
Sincerely yours,
JOHN P. GUNNISON
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Fishing Tackle & Information
Popular Cheechako News staffer Maurine Jones is toasted
by husband Harold on occasion of their 35th wedding anni
versary and just prior to Maurine leaving on a month's vaca
tion Outside.
Ag. Men At Kenai Pen. Meet
John A. Baker, chairman of
the board of the Department of
Agriculture, and George E.
Bradley, expeditor of the Rural
Areas Development Board for
the Northwest District of the
United States, were featured
speakers at a Kenai Peninsula
wide meeting held July 23 in
the Porpoise Room of the Bay
Crest hotel in Homer. Area de
velopment of the entire penin
sula and its problems were dis
cussion topics.
Alaska Senators E. L. (Bob)
Bartlett and Ernest Gruening
arranged the visit of Baker and
Bradley to the state to give
them an opportunity to investi
gate first hand the area devel
opment problems of Alaska.
Baker said the Kenai Penin
sula has been declared a Class
B depressed area and is in line
for preferential treatment un
der the area redevelopment bill.
He assured the group that the
present administration will do
HERE FOR BRIEF VISIT
Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Baer
of Anchorage are visiting and
fishing in the Kenai and Soi
datna area this week.
Baer, who is in the construc
tion business, recently com
pleted work at Nikolski in the
Aleutian Islands where he was
blasting superintendent and
supervisor of part of the mili
tary construction of a radar de
tector. Mrs. Baer is the for
mer Carole Colvin, free lance
writer from Anchorage, whose
feature articles have appeared
in national magazines.
The Baers’ wedding on Ni
kolski in April was the first
marriage ceremony involving
white persons to take place in
Nikolski and was attended by
practically all of the natives as
well as the white population
of the community.
everything in its power to de
velop resources of Alaska. Both
he and Bradley urged interested
groups in the peninsula to form
an area development comm;ttee
and that it prepare a complete
development plan for the area.
Ed Liebenthal presided at the
meeting. Communities repre
sented were Homer, Anchor
Point, Ninilchik, Cohoe, Kasil
of. Clam Gulch, Seldovia and
Soldotna.
SBA Loans
Planned
Low interest long-term loans
for small businesses sustaining
economic injury in being forced
to relocate under federal pro
grams involving urban renewal,
highway and other construction
were announced this week by
Small Business Administrator
John E. Horne.
SBA w'ill make loans for
terms up to 20 years either in
participation with banks or di
rectly to the applicant to assist
in the reestablishment of the
business. SBA loans approved
through June 30 of next year
will carry an interest rate of
3% percent a year.
“A bank or private lending
agency participating in such
loans,” the announcement stat
ed. “may charge a rate of inter
est higher than 3% percent,
provided the rate is legal and
reasonable. Participations by
SBA may not be more than 90
percent of the total loan.”
CARE, the foreign relief
agency, which marks its 15th
anniversary in May, now de
livers food and tool aid to 28
countries. In 1960, some 131 ^
million people a month received
food aid; more than nine mil
lion lives w!ere rebuilt with
educational and wrork tools.
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