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next to Hyland Hotel
You?ll Find*.. Hone'Decorations
CERAMICS ....WOODENVJARE
Pin-Up LAMPS _
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For « POWER .OFF” after Office Hours
Sundays and Holidays call either
Vernon Fridley
or
Ralph Moore
OFFICE CLOSES at NOON pn SATURDAYS
Matanuska Electric Ass’n, Inc.
Palmer Alaska.
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WHERE
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TO SERVE YOU BETTER
WE ARE REMODELING OUR
GROCER DE
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FROM WASHINGTON
Farr, organizations are putting cn a re
- newed and intensive campaign to get Sen
ate action on a bill which would gradukll^
reolace Government capital in the Banks
for Cooperatives with cooperative capital,
The measure is one of these rpre bills
involving, money which require no appro
priation from the Federal Treasury.
In stead the Government being asked to
di; down into its coffers, the coopera
tives and farm organizations are asking
to be permitted to mouy cut” what inter
est the Government has in the Central
Bank for Cooperatives and the 12 regional
co-op banks.
This is one reason why it appears rather,
unusual that the bill, passed May 2,1949,
has seen pending in the Senate since that
tine. It is before the Senate Agrlcultur
Cntmltteft. Inside Vfeshlnn;tori
PHOTO' contest ■
The Matanuska Valley Farriers Cooperating
Association Is sponsoring a contest to
award a prize of $50. in cash for the best
potograph for a .calendar .for the coning
year. Any scene typical of the central
part of nlaska will be considered. Ferns
and rural scenes are preferred but good
pictures of lakes, nountains, rivers or
other typical itls&an scenes will be ac
ceptable. The principal desire of the
Co-op is to get a picture that will be
outstanding for their calendars for the ;
coning year. The roost desirable. < -
pictures are ‘thi.se fron the Matonuska Val
ley, preferably dairy farn scenes. It you
cannot get th.it kind, get scue other scene,
that will be artistic and which -pertains ■
(especially to the Matanuska VIley or places
near the Valley. • •
i*ny size film fron 35nn up Will be. accepts
able. .The franc nay be square or oblong,
color or black and white, preferably black
and white.- » ■
T'he first prize will be .£25; the second
prize $15 and the third £10. as decided
by. ;the judges. ’ •
Lny citizen of Alaska will be eligible and
anyone either professional cr anateur ’.will
be -entitled to enter up to ten 'pictures. .
Uporl request, all pictures will be re
turned tc the owner -except the winning
pictures*
Send your pictures to the Llatanuska Valley
Co-op at Palmer, Alaska or leave then at
the .Co-op" Office in Palmer cr the Anchorage
Dairy in unchcrane.
The contest closes on May <7th, at noon.
-The pictures will be displayed in the Co
|op wlub Room in Palner for the pleasure of
the public on the first day of the 1950
[Matanuska Valley Colony Day. The judges
will select the winner cn the evening of
May 27th. The winning pictures as well as.
others entered, will be. on display on May
^28th at the Club Rood.
'Get out your caneras and get busy—Camera
fans.
WORD FROM ZEILES
ill $regerson had a letter from Walter E.
Zeile recently. They are living in Richi~
gan.where Lev. Zeile has a pastorate in a
small, town. Rev. Zeile wrote that they
were all well. They have two children,
a girl and a boy. The little girl, who was
born in the Valley, is getting to be quite
a little lady.
The Zelles had ’peen visited by the Prcse
cotts whe live only about 60 miles from
then. Rev. Zeije wrote that they are both
very much interested in all the happenings
in the Valley .