THE KENAI PENINSULA
CHEECHAKO NEWS
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LOREN STEWART .Editor
DOROTHY STEWART . . Society Editor
KEITH ARNOLD . Roving Editor
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FIELDS WINS APPOINTMENT
Box 18, Sterling, Alaska
THE CHEECHAKO NEWS
Kenai, Alaska
Dear Friends:
Due to your write up on the farming that I have been doing
here on the Kenai Peninsula, I feel won me the appointment
from the Governor to the Alaska Soil Conservation Board. I
must thank you. ,
We have just completed our first meeting which was held
over in Palmer. The meeting lasted two days, 12 and 13th of
Jan. The Alaska board members also met with the soil con
servation people of the USDA. We discussed many phases
of soil conservatio nand what it meant to the State of Alaska.
It is our hope to establish a more thorough understanding of the
importance of soil conservation among our farmers and also our
future farmers.
I will not elaborate on the accomplishments we made over
in Palmer at this time because we have decided to ask you people
of the newspaper business if you would cooperate with us and
help us by printing the facts and importance of soil conserva
tion in Alaska. I believe that we will be able that way to in
terest more people in the agriculture field. I will send in a
letter from time to time for your approval or reject.
I still do not have my last year’s crop thrashed because
I have been unable to get a rig to do it with. Although we do
have a new rig coming up and should have it in another month.
I will let you know when it gets in. It will be another first
on the Kenai. I sure am anxious to see it.
Oh yes, about forgot. We plan to have a few members
of the Soil Conservation Service come down this way to meet
with all of the sub-districts on the Kenai Peninsula. We hope
that will take place in about 6 or 7 weeks. The party will be
headed by our own commissioner of agriculture, Jim Wilson of
Palmer. Yes, and we will have to have a coverage on this
meeting because we expect it to be a “gala” affair. I am afraid
that a person of the masculine gender will have to make the
coverage because we are going to have a Stag Party.
I hope that you can find some news in this letter. If you
don’t, just throw it away and I will try again.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
LEW K. Lewis Fields
FIRST LUTHERAN SERVICES
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1961
At Deering Family Store—Kenai
Rev. Jos. Frenz, Pastor
The Church of the Lutheran Hour
—ALL WELCOME—
ANCHOR POINT ROAD
Editor’s Note: The Pioneer
Access Road program and the
Division of Highways recently
received high praise in a let
ter from William Lehr Ra
bich of Anchor Point to R. A.
Downing, Commissioner of
Public Works.
“It is with greatest pleas
ure that we thank you for the
progress made on our pioneer
access road (extension of
North Fork Farm Road, Anchor
Point).
“This road is of primary im
portance to our community and
opens valuable State lands ad
jacent to our homesteads.
"We would especially com
mend you on your choice of en
gineer, James Burrel. who has
worked exceptionally hard and
the mileage of our new road
gives testimony to his manage
ment and engineering skill.
Never before have I seen
funds expended with such fru
gality and accomplishment. I
am sure my neighbors join me
in congratulations.”
Governor’s Conference
On Fish Research
Governor William A. Egan
today confirmed the dates of
February 15-17 for a Juneau
conference of West Coast fish
eries biologists aimed at pre
paring a cooperative research
program to rebuild dwindling
salmon runs.
Key biologists outside Alaska
have responded favorably, he
said, to an initial inquiry de
signed to determine their inter
est in such a meeting and the
acceptability of t h e proposed
dates.
“Now that we have deter
mined that there is an interest
in such a program elsewhere
than in Alaska,” the Governor
said, “we want the participa
tion of all fisheries groups with
in the state to demonstrate the
concern of Alaska with this
problem.”
All such groups within the
state, he said, are invited and
encouraged to join in the con
ference.
The three-day session, believ
ed to be the first such meeting
of biologists on a regional ba
sis, was called by the Governor
with the hope that it would re
sult in agreement on a joint
approach to problems of t h e
salmon fishery.
“Each of the West Coast
states, as well as British Colum
bia, the Dominion of Canada
and the federal government, is
vitally concerned with this
problem,” Egan said, “and each
is attacking it independently.
Unfortunately, these separate
approaches sometimes result in
duplication of effort with a re
sulting waste of time and mon
ey.
“It just seems logical that if
the various interest involved
can work out a joint approach
to a mutual problem, we can
find the needed answers quick
building back the runs that
er and cheaper, and get about
much sooner.”
ENGAGEMENT — Mr. and
Mrs. Freese, Oxford, Penn.,
have announced the engage
ment of their daughter. Sue,
to Robert Tachick. son of Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Tachick of Sol
dotna. A spring wedding in
Pennsylvania is planned. The
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Cheechako News
Expands Staff
Keith Arnold is the most re
cent addition to the Cheechako
News staff. Keith who has had
eight years experience in the
“front office” of daily and
weekly newspapers will be the
Cheechako’s roving news edi
tor and will assist in all front
office departments.
Several applications have
been received for the job of
shop foreman which will be the
next addition to the staff.
The game of golf is of Dutch
origin and first was played on
ice.
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