VALLEY
CO-OP 6 ~MAfmjSKA VALLfZ NEWS
VOL. 10
Palmer, Alaska
Kay 29, 1947
No. 22
CO-OP nOTES
CLOSED fOR. MEMORIAL DAY
The Trading Post, Vfarehouse'and Office
rill be closed Memorial Day, May 30,and
the Garage rill operate only the Service
Station. The PorOr House and Creamery will
operate as usual.
It was decided to close in tribute to our
dead^e cause we feel that Alaska ores
more than the States to those‘who gave
their lives in our protection. Alaska
Could have been the battle ground.
The secondary reason for closing is that
Inventory will be taken again on Sunday
and in all fairness to the employees it
was felt that they needed one day rest,
BOARD MEMBERS ELECTED
At the membership meeting last Saturday
evening of the M.V.F.C.A. the following
members were elected to the Board;
I".S. Bauer, Harold Thuna, Joe Kircher,
Victor Falk Sr., and Joe Lents.
On Tuesday of this reek the new Board met
and'elected the following officers:
H.S. Bauer, President; F.A. 31 am,Vice Fre
s id ant; Harold Thuna, 3e cret ary. Comitt ees
were appointed for supervision of the var
ious units as follows!
Finance: Bauer, Thuna, and Lentz
Dairy: Falk, Linn, Lentz'
Store and Warehouse: Falk,Blom,Thuna
Produce: Blom, Kircher, Bauer
Garage, Power'House'and Dormitory;
Kircher, Linn, Blom
ANCHORAGE DAIRY BEING
REMODELED Frank Clark has been in
Anchorage this reck remodeling the
Cent, on n- 3
fllERCUR'd SOARS
Tho ram weather of this week rather took
Valley residents by surprise, but a plea
sant one. On Wednesday the thermometer'
reached an unusual high reading for this
time of the year when it reached 83 above.
The week’s readings for the first part of
the week v/ere:
Maximum M inn imum
Sunday May 25 6-6 41
Monday May 26 66 48
Tuesday 27 73 42
Wednesday 28 83 41
Thursday 29 72
RURAL TELEPHONE SERVICE
Ralph Arnold announced this week that the
Valley Telephone Service has purchased
8000 lbs. of telephofi^££hich is now here
and stored. The construction of Rural
telephone service will begin this next
Monday Juno 2,
memorial day services
Memorial Day will be observed with a short
program at the Cemetery at 7:00 p.m. to
morrow evening May 30",
Francis Henry, Comnander of the Legion,
said that those participating would meet
at the Recreational Kail and proceed from
there to the Cemetery.
The ladies of the Legion Auxiliary have
made wreaths for the decoration of tho
graves of the Veterans buried in this
cemetery.
The new addition to the Creamery in Pal
mer is nearing completion. It needs seme
paint and the installation of equipment,
etc. is not complete.
THE CLOUDS GATHER RGfllD .
COITORIAL
Not long ago a writer said that Alaskans would have to ’’take it on the chin again".
would like to know—Why? But here we are on the brink of another shipping tie-up.
~t happens to be the Longshoremen again for the word reaches us this week that a
rtf ike is being contemplated by the Longshoremen and Warehousemen, effective June 15.
:v.-cording to reports the Coast Longshoremen Negotiating Committee have rejected the
ip Owners’ demands for a three months extension of the present contract which ex
pires June 15, of this year. Ihe International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s
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