Milk Sky High;
* o\V8 Go Higher
KVERETT Wash. (/P)—Fifteen
ni 'k cows flew from Paine Field
~ We Inesday to Alaska.
It’s a modern adaptation of the
Alaska gold rush. With milk bring
ing around four bits a quart in
Anchorage, the milk pan has be
come a rival of the gold pan in
A'aska.
The cows are heading for the
Matanuska Valley, near Anchor
\ age.
It is the vanguard of a 45-cow
barn” was an Alaska Airlines
movement by air. The ‘‘flying
Dr-4.
Merle Anderson of Palmer, in
the Matanuska Valley, went along
as- the cows’ caretaker. He plan
ned to milk five of them during
the flight. Along with his milk
stool, he afto took a .38 revolver
just in case any of the four-legged
passengers should go berserk at
10 000 feet up.
Anderson said it is cheaper by
about $85 per cow to ship by sea,
but the buyers expect to make up
• the difference by milk sales dur
ing the period the cows would be
at sea. Also, the Matanuskans are
wary of what seasickness might do
to a cow’s milk production.
Additional cows will be shipped
by sea later—during their dry
seasons.
^ Anderson said there now are
about 350 cows in the Alaska val
ley, but theiy fail to fill the An
chorage demand. Additional milk
is flown from here twice a week.
The cows were separated in the
plane by board barriers. They
faced the eight-hour flight calmly.
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Prospects Bright
For Consumers
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WASHINGTON, (/P)-There
were some signs today of a Happy
New Year ahead for consumers—
with money more plentiful, a drop
expected in pork and egg prices,
and the easiest installment terms
since the war.
The good news for those who
like ham and eggs came yesterday
from the department of agricul
ture. It reported prospects of a
record-breaking peacetime pork
supply in 1950, along with a possi
ble eight to ten-cent-a-dozen drop
in the cost of eggs.
The federal reserve board fol
lowed that up today with a report
that:
1. “The tendency seems to be
toward progressively easier terms
for all borrowers” who are buy
ing goods on the installment plan.
2. It expects an expanding mon
ey supply next year. This includes
bank deposits (both checking and
savings) and currency in circula
tion. It will be swelled by large
public outlay by federal, state and
local governments—made with the
use of bank loans since tax income
doesn’t ocver the cost.
It is probable that consumers
will continue to pay the same
rate of income taxes and also the
cost of steel products and coal is
exnected to rise. However, these
increases bay be offset in part by
the mounting Congressional drive
for a cut in the taxes levied on so
called ‘luxury items.”
That would bring somewhat
lower telephone bills, cheaper
transportation, and a saving on
such other things as electric light
bulbs, cosmetics, leather goods and
jewelry.
When that warm glow fill* your being and you
tingle with desire to tell everyone what a wonderful
place this old world is, you know it is Holiday time
. . . and neighbors, we just want to say Merry
a
Christmas and Happy New Year to all.
A. & A. GAR AG K
and SANITARY SERVICE
ALASKA TELEPHONE
& TELEGRAPH CO.
NORTHERN LIGHT & POWER CO.