Organization of first aid train
-,g classes in the Central Kenai
Peninsula is being considered as
v el! as possible establishment o'
■ nergency first aid stations along
the Sterling Highway, it w a s
announced this week. A sponsor
for the classes, which will be un
er direction of the South Cen
tral Alaska chapter of the Am
erican Red Cross, is being
sought.
Mrs. Mildred Kirkpatrick of
Seward, regional director of the
American Red Cross, was in the
Soldotna-Kenai area Monday to
contact civic groups and other or
ganizations in regard to the pro
posed classes.
Standard and advanced classes
of volunteers interested in re
ceiving instruction in first aid
training are planned, to be fol
lowed by an additional class for
those desiring to become instruc
tors. Each class will continue for
10-15 weeks, Mrs. Kirkpatrick
iEfaid.
A class at Homer is being or
ganized and instruction will be
gin about the middle of October.
3Irs. Kirkpatrick will serve as
instructor-trainer.
Two emergency first aid sta
tions have recently been opened
fclong the Seward Highway. One
is located in the Portage area
ex Wilburn’s (formerly Red
nan’s) on the curve in the high
way just across from the Union
Oil station. The other is located
&: Moose Pass in the Moose Pass
garage.
Stretchers, blankets, first aid
supplies and trained personnel
are available at these two em
ergency stations. They are be
ing sponsored by the Civil De
fense and the Sew’ard ambulance
■corps.
Similar emergency stations are
needed along the Sterling High
way, Mrs. Kirkpatrick pointed
cut, to provide adequate first aid
treatment to persons involved in
accidents or who become ill.
It is up to the communities to
volunteer for the first aid train
ing, which is available if request
ed, Mrs. Kirkpatrick said. She
may be contacted by calling or
writing to her at Seward, Box
1415, phone Castle 4-5934. Per
• jns in the Sterling-Kenai-Sol
tna area may also leave a mes
age for her at The Cheechako
2\’ews, phone 262-4624.
Soldafna Shots
Granges Have Guests
Mr. and Mrs. Harris Dinta
?-■ an of Anchorage were Monday
1 rough Sunday visitors last
week of Mr. and Mrs. M. L.
Grange at Soldotna and at the
I ntaman’s former home at their
Melody Lane homesite at Kenai.
Came from Oregon
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jauger of
Portland, Ore., and Mr. and Mrs.
Don 11. Clark, Anchorage, were
Saturday guests in the home of
J’r. and Mrs. M. L. Grange.
Dairying Is Tops
Dairying is Alaska’s major type
ei farming in 1961.
Kenai Chitchat
New School Secretary
Gloria (Mrs. Ted) Rackowski
has been in Kenai since August
and is employed as new secre
tary for the school district. Glor
ia, better known as “Patti”, came
from Chicago, 111., but originally
is from Arkansas. She and Ted
have been married about two
years. He has been an Alaskan
for 16 years and is now working
as an electrician on a two-year
contract bush job at Sparravone
in the interior. Mrs. Rackowski
has two children by a previous
marriage. The son, 13, attends
Culver Military Academy at Cul
ver, Ind., and the daughter, 14,
is at Bryn Mawr Finishing School
in Philadelphia, Penn.
Bakery Changes Owners
Mr. and Mrs. John Rohweder,
formerly of Lonesboro, Minn.,
have purchased the Cottage Bak
ery at Kenai from farmer own
ers, Ray and Leora Knoblock.
Rohweder has had 30 years ex
perience as a baker. Mrs. Rohw
eder will also work in the bak
ery. They have three sons and
three daughters. Mike, 18, is a
senior in high school; Diane, 15,
is a junior; Stanley, 14, and
Terry, 13, are in the eighth
grade; Jean Ann, 12, in the sev
enth, and Marilyn, 10, in the
fifth.
AMU Students
Doug Jones and Pat McCol
lum, both of whom are enrolled
at Alaska Methodist University,
Anchorage, spent the past week
end visiting their parents at Ke
nai.
To Lower 48
Mr. and Mrs. John Cuvelier are
leaving soon for the lower 48
states to spend their vacation.
John is a toolpusher for Rowan
Drilling Company.
ON ALASKA NATURAL GAS
PRODUCTION FOR 1960
Because erroneous information
was received from a Bureau of
Mines official, the Sen. Gruening
newsletter of Sept. 8 contained
misinformation about Alaska na
tural gas production in 1960. The
correct figures are: A total of
305,325,000 cubic feet of gas was
produced in Alaska in 1960. Of
that, some 16to million cubic
feet came from the Kenai field
for use in connection with the
Anchorage pipeline. Some 116'a
million cubic feet were produced
from the Swanson River and Sol
dotna wells and 17214 million cu
bic feet from the South Barrow
field.
Of the total produced, 5814
million cubic feet were dissipat
ed in venting, which includes
transmission and other losses.
The value of the gas at the well
head averaged 12.2 cents per
thousand cubic feet. No natural
gas is used at the Army’s Wild
wood Station at Kenai. Govern
mental use of natural gas in Al
aska was confined through 1960
to the village of Barrow.
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Bible Classes
Begin Tuesday
First classes in the extension
classes from Moody Bible Insti
tute. being sponsored locally by
the Kenai Bible Chapel, are to
start Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the
Soldotna Baptist church, of which
Rev. Paul Weimer is pastor.
Rev. Vince Porte, who will be
the instructor, says that 15 per
sons have registered in Soldot
na and 10 in Kenai, with regis
tration continuing this week at
the chapel in Kenai.
McSmiths Now
Homesteading
Blanche McSmith, former state
representative in the last State
Legislature, and her husband,
William McSmith, have moved
from Anchorage and are now
homesteading in the Soldotna ar
ea. They live across from the
Bible camp, three miles firom the
“V” intersection of the Sterling
Highway toward Anchorage.
McSmith formerly operated an
electrical appliance shop in An
chorage. He' noiv has a three
piece band, featuring piano, sax
aphone, and drums, and is cur
rently playing in various places
in the area for dances and par
ties.
Pioneers Will
Observe Birthdays
Two former residents of Sel
dovia are listed among the 20
persons at Alaska Pioneers’ Home
at Sitka observing birthdays in
October.
Martin Jorgens, born in 1874,
will celebrate his 87th birthday
on Oct. 18 and John R. Erickson,
born in 1882, will be 79 on Oct.
27.
The Pioneer Women of Alas
ka, organization compiling the
list, ask that the oldtimers be re
membered with letters, cards, or
small gifts.
Flight Stations
Alaska has 32 flight service
stations, seven towers or com
bined station towers, and two
air route traffic control centers
—all operating directly under the
Federal Aviation Agency.
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mittee.”
Communities in the Peninsula
district have been listed in four
areas, according to the suggest
ed plan of the Extension Service
for structure of the program.
Area I includes Homer, Anchor
Point and Seldovia; Area II, Ni
nichik. Cohoe and Kasilof; Area
III, Kenai, Soldotna and Sterl
ing; and Area IV, Seward, Coop
er Landing and Moose Pass. A
separate area, also in the dis
trict to be covered by Liebenthal
and Mrs. Musgrove will be Ko
diak Island.
The structure is to be made
Packrat Pete
The homesteader leaned back
real comfortably, put his feet on
the stove and told about the king
who used a glass house to store
all his old used thrones, but a
terrible hailstorm ruined him and
the moral is that people who
live in glass houses shouldn’t
stow thrones.
Mabel pulled her jacket clos
er and hung another towel up to
keep the rain out and said,
“Packrat, I’m not talking about
a whole glass house and I’m not
going to stow thrones but I’m
going to throw stones if you don't
get a piece of glass for a window
lite and everyone knows the best
place to get a lite is at . . .
Kenai Korners
LUMBER and HARDWARE
BUILDING MATERIALS
Stan Thompson
up of interested business organ
izations and civic and agricultur
al groups working on a local lev
el to study proposed projects and
to form sub-committees.
Liebentha! suggested that
each community hold a town
meeting to determine what
project that particular commun
ity needs.
At the town meeting a com
mittee is to be appointed for
each project selected and a chair
man named for each committee.
These chairmen are then to meet
wuth chairmen from other com
munities on an area level and
will be known as the area level
steering committee.
Studies will be made by the
area level steering committee and
the feasibility and workability of
projects will be checked. Lieben
thal and Mrs. Musgrove w 11!
meet with this area steering
committee, providing them with
necessary professional and tech
nical advice and assistance. Final
plans of this group will be passed
on to the district committee,
members of which will correlate,
discuss and recommend before
passing on the completed plans
to the state committee.
“This is not a project just for
Chambers of Commerce, but of
entire communities,” it was point
ed out when the Council of
Chambers met at Anchor Point
on Sept. 19. “The Council of
Chambers has acted only to spark
the movement to organize a pro
gram to make all of the Kenai
Peninsula eligible under the two
programs.”
“The local committee should
not be composed of Chamber of
Commerce members only, but of
members in the community inter
ested in helping the Kenai Pen
insula as a whole,” the Council
stated.
It was also stressed that any
plan considered should be one of
wider scope than just for a local
community or just for today. To
be accepted by the state commit
tee, and ultimately by the Unit
ed States government, it must
prove to lie feasible, .workable,
and of benefit to the entire Pen
insula and for the future as well
as for the present.
Other members of the Coun
oil of Chambers, in addition to the
Secretary, Mrs. Meyer, are Jack
Randall, Anchor Point, president,
and Howard Myhill, Homer, vice
president.
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