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M£TANUSKA_VALLEY- •_FARMERS • COOPEPATING ASS 'JN.
Palmer, Alaska November 2h, 1950
Vol. 13
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CLOSED FOR INVENTORY
The Co-op Garage and Trading Post will be
closed next Wednesday and Thursday, Nov
ember 29 and 30, for their semi-annual in
ventory. The Co-op Warehouse will be
closed Thursday only.
GRAIN SAMPLES WANTFD
It is the desire of the Co-op to purchase
as much local grain as possible for seed
for the coming season. As the quality of
the local grown grains seems to be good
this year, it appears that we should be
able to get a large amount of seed from
Valley farmers.
In order to determine the quality of any
grain that is for sale it will be necessary
to have a germination test, so arrangements
have been made to do this in the Warehouse.
If you have grain that you want to sell
please get in touch with Virgil Eckert and
bring your samples to him.
In taking samples please be careful to get
an average sample, that is, take a little
from each sack or if in bins, take quite a
few samples from different parts of the
bin.
If good seed can be secured from the Val
ley farmers then we can saye a large fre
ight bill, also put a lot more money into
the hands of the local farmers. However,
unless the tests are fair and the grade of
seed good it will mean a lot of dissatis
fied people and would probably injure all
future sales.
iC E CREAM RECEIVED
F AV O R ABLY
The ice cream sent to Oillingham on the
first large plane to land on their new
field was received with great pleasure*
About two hundred school children partici-j
pated in the feed. The ice cream was sentj
as a gift from the Co-op.
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WATER USERS MEETING
The meeting of the water users in the Pal
mer District was well attended on Wednes
day evening in the Co-op Club Room. Repre
sentatives from the entire district were
present. Miss Louise V. Kellogg, president
of the Health Council, acted as temporary
chairman and Dr. Alien Mick was elected to
serve as the Chairman. The minutes of the
previous meeting of the Health Council was
read by Ann Deming who also acted as sec
retary for the evening meeting.
The first order of business was determining
for sure the fact that there was a water
shortage and that it should be considered
immediately. This was stated by the Co-op
officials and the gathering w*s asked to
consider plans for improving the present
system or establishing a new system. Co-op
officials indicated they would be willing
to do anything they could to help but still
disclaimed responsibility for supplying
water for the community without financial
aid from the water users.
After discussing various plans both for
improving the present system and installing
a new system it was decided that it would
be best to elect a committee of five to
work out a plan for the water users as a
whole. This committee wall work with the
Co-op if it seems feasible to improve the
present system or can recommend some other
moans.
Elected to serve on the committee were
Jim Hurley, *Tatt Perkins, Allan Mick, Ralph
Moore and Al Hagen. This committee will
have an organizational meeting on Friday
to get started.
Dr. Paterson and Dr. Beckwith of the Terr
itorial Department of Health were present
and gave some useful advice and expressed
a willingness to help out in any way possi
ble. William Head gave a good talk on the
topic under discussion. Miss Kellogg was
given thanks by the assemblage for her ef
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