Milk War lireaks
Out In Matanuska
PALMEH, Alaska, i/Ih—A milk
war bioke over the Matanuska
* Valley yesterday.
The backdrop appeared to be
rugged individualism vs. collective
enterprise.
The Matanuska Valley Farmers
Cooperative Association, formed
about the time this federal colony
was launched in the depression
’30s, Thursday succeeded through
court action in temporarily enjoin
ing six fanners from selling milk
to anyone but their co-op.
The six farmers are Arthur
Holebrook, Arvid Johnson, Leon
ard Moffitt, Ernest Harrington, A.
A. Rempel and Frank Mclllister.
Apparently outside the argu
ment is Merle Anderson, who
brought 15 cows in by air from the
Pacific Northwest Thursday and
who plans to import more for the
rich Anchorage milk market.
The six farmers named in the
injunction left the Co-op associa
tion last month to begin shipping
milk to the Alaska Daily in An
chorage.
The Alaska Daily now pays $11
per cwt. lor milk while the co-op,
after a recent raise, pays $10.50.
The cooperative court conten
tion was that the six farmers were
breaking their market contract by
wholesaling their milk to the
Alaska Dairy.
^ Contracts are renewable annu
ally. and farmers are required to
give notice between Feb. 15 and
Mar. 15 if they do not intend to
renew.
Dairymen say the Alaska Dairy’s
higher price for milk makes mar
keting through the Co-op econo
mically unfeasible.
Judge Anthony Dimond of the
; Son To Take Up
I Mother’s Job
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (JP)—
True to circus tradition, an 18
year-old boy who endangered his
own life in a futile attempt to save
his mother from death in the jaws
of a lion will take over her animal
act.
l “Mother was training the act
for me and I know she would want
me to go through with it now that
she’s g o n e,” explained grief
stricken Michael Kovar.
Mrs. Mary Kovar Schaefer, 42,
widely known animal trainer, was
“breaking” a powerful and newly
acquired lion named Sultan, Tues
day when the beast sprang at her
and bit her in the neck, severing
the spine.
Michael and his sister, May, 14,
rushed into the cage and tried to |
beat the enraged animal off with
| clubs. But the lion ignored them.
Doris Barnes, former Mayor of
Wrangell is a candidate for elec
tion to the Alaska Legislature. She
is a Republican and one of the
three women in the last Legisla
ture.
j Third District Court in Anchorage
will hold a hearing on Jan. 5 to
decide the case.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the
dairymen said he had not given
much thought as to what he would
; do with his milk until the matter
j is settled, but guessed he would
seek immediate legal advice.
As the matter stood last night,
the six farmers are without a mar
ket for their milk.
And not so far from here, An
! chorage will pay 50 cents a quart
for that milk.
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