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It took ten years to learn that
we havo to produce good stuff,stan
dard in quality, in order to keep
our markets year after year. It
has also enabled the farmer to con
centrate his efforts on the farm
and has assisted him in getting ma
chinery and capital to operate on.
During the years just after the
War when the management of the Co
op was so poor, some of our farmers
got dissatisfied and left the fold.
This period almost broke the Co-op
financially, which was bad, but it
had it's good side too--it taught
the farmers and the management that
the Co-op has to run on a business
basis or it will fail. Up to date
we doubt If any farmer who left us
at that time has improved his po
sition in a financial way, when all
of the benefits of the Co-op are
considered. Thi3 is evidenced by
the applications of quite a few
now farmers for membership.CRR
John Ossov/ard, formerly fiscal
a rront for the ARRC , made a fricndly
visit to the Valley last weekend.
He is the Seattle representative of
the Co-op and other Alaska firms,
~n Seward on business purposes con
nected with the Stevedoring com
pany in Seward.
The wedding of Bill Ising and
Sa' -indgren will take place Sun
day,. September 9th at St. Johns
i'uthorn Church, Palmer.
TH’jmPS'TO RLPISKP
A mother, of 12 children who took
up hitch-hiking for a hobby after
her family was raised, arrived in
Fairbanks last week. She was at
the end of a 5>000 mile journey "by
^humb" from San Diego, via the A
loska highway.
"I hitch-hiked every inch of the
way," she said. "I think I am the
first woman to ’thumb’ to Alaska."
A small woman with sparkling
brown eyes, Mrs. Fern Woods says
she just "loves to hitch-hike arourd
the country," even though her family
doesn't quite approve of it.
She has hitch-hiked through every
state in the union, she said, and
she has always considered a trip up
the Alaska highway to be her crown
ing achievement. "Here I am," she
said. "San Diego to Fairbanks in
12 days 1"
She says that hitch-hiking is very
inexpensive. The biggest expendi
tures, of course, arc for food and
shelter. Outside of that, she says
she has spent less than $87 on her
many hitch-hiking trips.
Mrs. Woods didn't think the trip
up the highway was very difficult.
It was dusty and there were mos
quitoes, but motorists were about
the same as they arc everywhere else.
"No one is afraid to pick up a harm
less lady," she said. "I don't have
any t rouble at all."
The Office of Price Stabilization
is now preparing simplified trade
guides for each new regulation. Pur
pose of the guides is to reduce the
technical language of regulations
to make them more understandable.
Defense spending will reach the
rate of over a billion dollars a
week by next summer.
General Marshall recently told
Congress that ’2 out of every #10
appropriated for defense had al
ready been lost to inflation.
Inflation is defined as a.“rise
in purchasing power without a com
pensating rise in the supply of
things people can buy."
Tho Commander, 17th Coast Guard
District, announced that Ketchikan.,
alaskn has been selected as a site
for examinations of licensed offi
cers of the Merchant Marine next
February. Both licensed deck of
ficers and licensed engineer offi
cers will be examined for perman
ent commissions in the Coast 'juard.
Waffles for dessert? Mix them
in a jiffy with a ready-mix for pan
cakes. Fold in -g-cup cocoanut and
top each waffle with a generous
scoop of ice cream.
HOUSE FOR RENT
Located in Falmer
see; A.F.Martin at Co-op TradingFost
List your property sale with M.D•
Snodgrass for quick sales. Office
in home on Lower Daily Hill Street
West of the Lumber lard.
WANTED: One Warehouse Man and one
Helper at the Trading Fost.