Dorothy M. Bell,
Editor
FIBER, ALASKA
Published every week at Palmer, Alaska,for the Matanuska Valley Farmers’ Cooperating
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Accomplishments as well as News of general interest to the Valley,
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71 FREAS, the President of the United States has called upon the nation to inaugurate
immediately a voluntary food conservation program in order .to meet our important com
mitments abroad, and
WHEREAS, in order to save vitally needed food stuffs, this program applies particular
ly to meat and wh eat products, and includes the snec'ific 'and urgent requests that all
citizens use no meat on Tuesday and no eggs or poultry on Thursday and sdve at least
one slice of bread daily, with the modification that during Thanksgiving, Christmas '
and New Year weeks Non day may be the day for no egg or poultry consumption, and that
public eating places serve bread and bUtter only on demand, and
NFEREAS, compliance with this proposal, extremely moderate in view of our nation's
relatively great'abundance, is essential to America's purpose, to win the peace, as we
have won the war, and ' ’
WHEREAS, I am confident that Americans in general and those of Alaska in particular,;
who have willingly made whatever sacrifices were necessary during the war years, will'
be clad and ready to comply fully with the President's plea for this voluntary action,
provided they are aware of what they are asked to do, *
KTOTf 'tfSjlREFDRE, I, ERNE SEP GHUEUING, Governor of Alaska, do specifically call this
program of President Truman to the attention of the people of Alaska, believing that
this notification is sufficient to secure their whole-hearted and enthusiastic com—
pliance in the realization that the slight deprivation which they are asked to under
go is a very snail contribution for all of us to make for the further preservation
of the principles for which we have just fou^it and won thfe greatest war of all time,
and for the enhanconent of the prospect of permanent peace.
By the Governor: IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto
subscribed my hand and caused the
Seal of the Territory of Aidska to
• . be affiied. Done at Juneau, the
Capital, this 10th day of October
in the year of our Lord'nineteen
hundred and forty-seven.
Ernest Gruening
_Lew I-, ..ill jams Governor of Ala ska
Secretary of Alaska
ARE COOPERATIVES TAXABLE?
As Editor of the Valley Settler, which is the educational organ of -the Matanuska
Valley Farmers* Cooperating Association, I feel it ray duty to attempt to correct the'
false impression that crops up now and then that Cooperative property is not taxable.
A great deal of misleading propaganda has been circulated throughout the nation in ah
attempt to discredit 'Cooperative Associations in this light. True the indome received
by the Cooperatives is not taxable while in the hands of the Association, but immedi
ately becomes taxable when it reaches the members pockets.
In order to clear this natter allow me to-quote from the "Farm Credit Administration
bulletin" U.S. Department of Agriculture,. Tlashington D.C. on 'ILegal Phases of Cooper
ative Associations" by L.S. Hulbert. ' i • ; • •
TAXES f •
General Tares »
,T-n every state it is believed the physical property of a cooperative association,
such as buildings and office or other equipiiient, is liable for property taxes on the
samd basis as similar property owned by others. Taxes must be imposed pursuant to
law, and those imposed by a State or any municipality or subdivision thereof must be
imposed in accordance with laifts that axe in harmony with the State and Feddral Con
stitutions. Broadly speaking, a State or.the Federal Government has relatively cor*
prehensive powers with respect to the classifying of property for taxation."
S ..nee the local Cooperative is subject to all other taxes,-such as, the Sales Tax,
Unemployment Compensation, Social Security, and all licenses required by the Terri
tory in the operation of their business,-Tfay should it be exempt from Property
Tax?