Pnlmer, ilia ska
Dorothy M. Bell,Editor
Published onco a roek at Palmer, Alaska, for the Mntanuska V I.ley Earners* Cooperating
Association for tho purpose of giving netro of the Associations rork, problems and
Ac conp 1ishnents.
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MAIL SERVICE' TO WASILLA
Did you ever try to get nail to Wasilla in tino to lot tho pooplc there knorr about
sono important meeting? If you havo— you have already found out that it cannot bo
dono on short notico, So far as nail is concornod, Wasilla night just as roll bo in
Florida. In fact ro can gpt nail to Florida quicker than no can send it to WasiiJ.a0
Did you loior that in order to notify the people in Was ilia that thoro is bo be an im
portant mooting in Palmer that nould liko to have then attend—that the notices had
bettor bo in the nail tno rooks boforo such mooting is ^ahoculod? That just leaves
Wasilla entirely out if you rant to call a special neoting mthin a rock unloss you
find sono otljer means than tho nail to let,tho people -.be-a knon about it.
Mail sent to Wasilla must go via JinchoragOs and to Wa.ril '.a an the nain line trains.
As tho nain line trains do not run every day, Was ilia does not havo daily nail service
as Polnor has. Therefore, it takos a long tino for nail to roach Wasilla fren Palmer,
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We rould suggest that sinco if is often important that re roach Wasilla by nail to let
peoplo thcro knor about sone special meeting or event in v/hich ro rould liko to have #
then participate, that sone carrier botroon Wasilla and Palnor bo given a contract to
haul tho nail by car or truck ovory day if that car or truck makes tho trip that often.
Wo have understood that there are truckers driving botreon Wasilla and Pr imer almost '
evory day. If truckers can bo given contracts to haul nail fron tho States to Alaska,
th?n cortainly some rcliabio trucking sorvico could bo given a contract to haul nail
betuoon Palnor and Wasilla. Tno.community centers within the sane Valloy should not
bo as isolated from each other as tho comunities of. Pain or and Wasilla are.
What do the peoplo in Wasilla think about this idoa? Wo rrould liko to hear fron sene
ono in Wasilla.
CO-OPS SCORE ONE, '
Co-op papers in states are lauding the election returns of last, fall as a victory for
Co-ops* Jerry Voorhis, 3::ocutive Secretary, Cooperative League of America, has this to
say in regard to the outcono of the last general election: ».
"Maybe the election of 1948 vill drive hone the fact that human reactions, human foel
ings, human beings cannot be analyzod rrithin a test tube or vreight upon a scale, —
"All through the campaign the nev/spopors kept talking about hor "little interest uas
apparent, hou dull the rholo prodooding had turnod out to beM-but they roro r.Tong3 Tho
people of the nation cast more votes than havo boon cast in any national election ex
copt one. -
•"It may be pointed out that in'eontest after contest the candidate uith a genuine
understanding-of the true aims, ideals aid benefits to our nation Of cooperatives_\?on
over those eho either lacked tnat understanding or more, opposed to cooperatives0'It
nay be concluded, theroforo, that ae;akoned citizenship activity on tbe part of many
Cooporativo members rns an important if not a deciding factor in neny of tho election
Contests," * . . •
Uorrly elected Senator from Minnesota, Hubert Humphrey made this, statement: " I, and
the othor J-iberals elected from Minnesota rrill not only be defender’s of Co-ops against,
ononios, but propohonts of their growth."