THE A ENA I PENINSULA
CHEECHAKO NEWS
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LOREN STEWART ..;_Editor
DOROTHY STEWART Foreign Correspondent (Retired)
MABLE SMITH .. Local News Editor
MAURINE JONES .-. Roving Reporter
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Cows—Crops—Criticism
A passage from the Gruening amendment to the Wilderness Bill
states that “Alaska is still in the homestead era, the period of its
development when distribution of public lands is desirable to encour
age development, ami a period when the resources are largely
unknown and the pattern of ultimate settlement undetermined."
In spite of the many canneries, the millions invested in pulp
and lumber mills, and the more recent millions invested by the oil
industry, the above statement is accurate. Alaska still is in the
homestead era.
The “Homestead Laws” unrealistic and inapplicable as they are
to Alaska still do apply, and they require that land be taken for
“farming.” There are other ways to acquire Alaskan lands but the
fact remains that by far the vast majority is taken under the home
-tead laws for farming.
In view of this, the Department of Agriculture’s budget for
Alaska of $6,'788,366 is wholly inadequate. Of this amount the Forest
Service gets $4,935,026. They need this money and more, but still
that leaves considerably less than 2 million dollars for all the other
agriculture programs in the state. After research, school lunches,
administration costs and what have you, come out of the remainder,
it all boils down to this—in Ala3ka, the largest state in the Union,
where hundreds of thousands acres of land have been, and can only
be taken for farming, the total agriculture loans available to farm-.rs
totals’ only $580,000 of which only $300,000 is available for farm
operating loans. And further the only, direct aid (not including an
estimated $6,500 to wool growers) is $64,000 in ASC cost sharing
funds.
When one considers that $300,000 would set up and equip one
good cattle operation or possibly two fair sized cattle ranches and
that $64,000 would give one potato grower, or a small dairy only
a fair start, the budget becomes not only “wholly inadequate” but
wholly ridiculous.
Clinic Bates Set
By Health Nurse
The September schedule for the
Kenai Peninsula itinerant nurse
has been announced. Immuniza
tion clinics "will be held at these
locations on the followihg dates:
Ninilchik—At school building,
from noon to 1 p.m., Friday,
Sept. 8.
Sterling — At Heading and
Bates camp, from 11 a.m. to
noon, Monday, Sept. li.
Clam Gulch, Cohoe and Ka
silof — At Kasilaf post office,
from noon to 1 p.m., Tuesday,
Sept. 12.
Kenai—At Kenai Health Cen
ter, from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
on Wednesday, Sept. 13; and
again at the same hours on Wed
nesday, Sept. 27.
Cooper Landing — At school
building, from noon to 12:30
p.m.; Friday, Sept. 15.
Soldatna — At school bqilding,
from noon to 1 p.m., Tuesday,
Sept. 26.
The nurse will also be at Ty
onek fpr an immunization clinic
to be held there from Sept. 28
through Sept. 22.
New Postmaster
Lyman McBride was installed
as acting postnmster at Kenai
on Aug. 4, succeeding Mrs. Joyce
Rheingans. Mrs. Rheingans re
signed shortly after the dedica
tion o,ft the new- post office and
moved to Ohio.
McBride and his family have
been residents of Kenai «ince
1952, coming here from Portland,
Ore. He formerly w'aa connected
with the mdfhtefiartce and opera
tion of White Alice installations
throughout Alaska.
100 Million in Gold
Over 100 million dollars worth
of old was mined during the four
years following the great Klon
dike gold strike of 189G.
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Mann-Boldini
VoUs Exchanged
Miss Patricia Ellen
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.-Harry
Mann of Kenai, became the bride
of Pfc Albert Roland Boldini in
a ceremony performed Aug. $ irt
the Church of God in Kenai. The
Rev. Carl Click officiated a: the
nuptial rites.
The bridegroom is to complete
his tour of duty at Wildwood
Station late this month after
which the couple will move to his
former home in New Hampshire.
For her wedding the bride wore
a floor-length gowm of white net
over satin and carried a white
Bible topped with a bouquet of
pink roses.
Gloria J. Wik was the bride’s
only attendant and wore a floor
length gown of lilac net. Tradi
tional wedding music was played
by Phyllis Wilson, organist.
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Matrona “Ma” Pedderson Still
Remembers Russians in Keftai
Not many people in Kenai re
member the days when Russia
still owned Alaska, but Mrs.
Matrona “Ma” Petterson is one
of these.
At the first meeting of the
Kenai Historical Society in April
1956, “Ma” told of her memories
of those early times.
“When the news came to Kenai
that Alaska was to be taken over
by the Americans, many Russians
became terror-stricken,” Grand
ma Petterson remembered her
n.other telling her as a girl.
“They expected to be robbed,
beaten, put into slavery and their
women stolen. Some Russians,
who had the money, returned to
Siberia. But most of them stayed,
fearing the worst.
“The Americans came and
treated everyone fairly. No wom
en were stolen. Soon after the
Americans came things got much
better on the Kenai. The big can
nery at Kasilof was built and
everybody was paid 10 cents per
salmon for fishing. The cannery
CHUCK'S INN
BAR & LIQUOR STORE
Mile 84 Vi
Sterling Highway
packed more. tfyan lQP.QP.O cases
year after year 4ftjer. yeay.
“In those days we had big
farms on the Kenai with lots of
dairy cows and big pigs that ran
wild all summer long. The Kenai
had thousands and thousands of
deer in those days. I remember
them as a girl. Then the deer
disappeared. Why I don’t know,
I never saw a moose until I was
a growm woman,” Grandma Pet
terson recalled.
“The first American school
was not established in Kenai un
til 1905. Before then all the chil
dren attended church school and
we all spoke Russian.”
“Ma” has lived in Kenai over
70 years and is still active. When
the w'eather is nice—and some
times when it isn’t—^you’re liable
to meet “Ma” downtown doing
her shopping or just out for a
walk.
F. J. Malone
Registered
| Surveyor
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Bex 568 Kenai
Here from Washington
Ralph Mattock.:, formerly"^]
Pullman, Wash., arrived* by
on Aug. 16 to vi*&“th£^Ert*&
Stewarts and to assist them ir
their building- projeois... ^..for
merly worked for the
when they lived at Pullman.
Church Dedication? * ~ “
The Assembly of God churcl
in Kenai plans its dedicator
service on Labor Day, at 2:8(
p.m. and 7 p.m. Rev. Carl Glicl
is pastor of the church.
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