Homemakers Fall
Schedule Begins;
Donation Voted
Soldotna Homemakers Club
members voted Monday night to
donate $25 out of club funds and
to start a basket campaign for
additional funds to help make it
possible for Dr. Helen Dittman
of Anchorage to come to Soldotna,
as planned, for speech and hear
ing therapy work for children in
this area. Doctor Dittman is a
therapist connected with Alaska
Crippled Children’s Association.
This first meeting of the club
year was held in home of Daphne
McLane at Ridgeway. Officers
are Audrey Shelman, president;
Pauline Back, vice president;
Ann Roser, secretary; Betty Har
ris, treasurer, and Maurine Jones,
publicity chairman.
Fifteen members were present,
four of whom are new to the
club. They are Pat Robinson,
Patsy Ulen, Lorrie Singleton and
La Donna Hansen.
Knitting was done as business
was discussed. Membership dues
of $1 per year were voted to re
main the same as in the past.
Future bake sales were planned
to increase the treasury. Discus
sion concerning a fashion to be
held later in the year also was
discussed.
The next meeting will be on
the evening of Oct. 2 in the home
of La Donna Hansen, Birch
Trailer Courts.
North Star Funds
Will Continue
Boat to Villages
The appropriation of $375,000
for refitting a new North Star—
the ship operated by the Bureau
of Indian Affairs to ports in the
remote areas of the Pacific Ocean,
the Bering Sea and the Arctic
Ocean—was upheld.
It will be recalled that the
Senate Appropriations Commit
tee deleted funds for the opera
tion of the North Star and that
Senators Gruening and Bartlett,
after a hard fight, obtained res
toration of the money during
Senate consideration of the In
terior appropriation bill on June
6. At that time Senator Gruening
pointed out that the North Star
is essential for the supply of
commodities for 98 ports, 90 of
which are not served by com
mercial carriers. He also pointed
out that the North Star performs
numerous important and varied
services fo>r the welfare of native
villages in addition to the deliv
ery of freight.
Restoration of the $375,000
needed for continued operation
of the North Star was considered
a major victory for the welfare
of the native population of
Alaska.
At Lease Auction
F. J. Keenan and Talmadge
Nelson of the State Division of
Lands office in Anchorage were
in Kenai Saturday officiating at
the Bernice Lake land lease auc
tion. Keenan is lease and sales
manager and Nelson is land
classification officer.
Gunsmithing
and
Machine Work
* Scopes
* Reloaders
* Slocking
+ Rebarreling
Harold
FULLER’S
Gun & Machine Shop
Cooper’s Landing
Motel lliamna, built by Tom McCahill in Kenai, is pictured here.
Kahaki Robertson and his wife, Frances, are currently managing
the motel. Robertson is preparing here to show the recently
constructed building to a prospective customer.
Soldotna Makes Plans
For Police Protection
Securing a law enforcement
officer for the city of Soldotna
is being considered by city offi
cials, Burton Carver, Soldotna
mayor and Council chairman,
said Monday.
The city is proceeding on plans
similar to those used by the city
of Douglas, in which a state
trooper also doubles as city law
enforcement officer. This would
be the most economical solution,
Carver said, as the State of Alas
qa would share with the city in
paying the officer’s salary and
expenses. Douglas pays $3000
annually toward the salary of the
trooper there, with the state as
suming the remainder of salary
and expenses.
A trooper, working in Soldotna
under such an arrangement,
would give a portion of his work
ing time to city law enforcement
problems and would also spend a
portion of time patrolling the
highways. He would work direct
ly under supervision of the Alas
ka Highway Safety Commission.
Carver and Dick Hall, manager
of the Soldotna branch of the
National Bank of Alaska, will
serve as Soldotna City Council
representatives at the 1961 con
vention of the League of Alaska
Cities to Ik* held at Kodiak on
Oct. 2fi-28. They will bring the
police enforcement matter before
the League at this time. Carver
said he and Hall are paying their
own expenses to the League meet
ing.
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Airlines Listed
A small folder listing all >f
Alaska’s airlines, cruise - ip
companies, bus services, rail
roads, liver boats and sightseeing
carriers is available from the
Alaska Division of Tourism, J n
eau. Name of the folder is Ala ka
Travelers List of Carriers and
Transportation Companies. T e
is no charge for the folder.
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A. A. Farmer
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Phone 262-4739
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