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VOL 13
Palmer,Alaska
Sept amber 1,1950
No. 34
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The long awaited authority to proceed on
the army milk and ice cream contract was
given to Manager Wilson and Secretary
Carl Rasmussen by the purchasing and
contracting officer last Friday at Ft.
Richardson.
The contract calls for delivery of ap
proximately 30,000 gallons of recombined
milk and U300 gallons of ice cream month
ly to Fort Richardson and Whittier. The
contract carries a five year option which
will assure a stable market for products.
Equipment has already begun to arrive and
when installation is completed we will
have new equipment throughout our plant
for handling both milk and ice cream.
The entire processing operation, includ
ing milk for Anchorage distribution, will
be done in the Palmer plant. The Anchor
age dairy plant will then be used as a
sales and distribution station. To ac
commodate the larger equipment an ad
dition is being made to the palmer facil
ity. By doing all processing here it is
expected that no increase in personnel
will be required.
ui particular interest to an win De tne
paper bottling machine which is to be in
stalled. It folds, waxes, fills and
closes the cartons in a continuous oper
ation. Paper containers being light and
non-returnable have found a ready accept
ance wherever used and should be partic
ularly popular in Alaska where weight
means so much._
(J.p LADIES SERVE
The United Protestant Ladies' Aid is serv
meals on Saturday, Sept. 2, 1950, at the
■school dining room. They will begin serv
ing at 11:30 A.1,1. and continue until late
evening. The menue will be a ham dinner,
new potatoes, salad, fresh vegetables,
with cookies and ice cream included.
There will also be short orders of ham
sandwiches and homemade pie or cake
served at all hours. Mrs. Florence Mau
is in charge of the arrangements for the
dinner.
Next Veterans Farm Class: Tuesday -
September 5.
VETS CLASS-TALKS SPUDS
The Anchorage veterans training class had
their meeting Thursday night at the An
chorage high school. Clyde Sherman -
commissioner of agriculture, Mr. Osborne
from army food-service, Hoy McCue and
James Wilson attended the meeting, Mr.
Sherman pointed out that his department
expects to enforce the Alaska grade stand
ards this year on potatoes and urged all
growers to cooperate in the program, "We
cannot allow a few careless individuals
to endanger the market for thoaowho are
conscientious in their effort to market
a good grade", Sherman stated.
Mr. Wilson stated that many persons have
an unwarranted mistrust of Alaskan pro
duce largely due to the lack of uniform
ity of grade and in too many cases due to
a lack of proper grading. We want people
to look for produce labeled "grown in
Alaska" rather than avoid it. He stated
that his association is definitely behind
the grading program and urged individual
growers to assist in the effort. Mr.
McCue demonstrated grading of potatoes
showing a no, 1 grade, no. 2 grade; and
culls. He gave a very interesting talk
and answered many questions from the group.
GRADING SESSIONS A T F AI ft
Roy McCue, Inspector at large from the
State of Washington, will conduct grading
sessions at the fair daily at 10:0C a.m.
according to present plans. Afternoon
sessions are also planned,the time will
bt_ arranged later and notices posted at
the fair grounds;grading standards, meth
ods of packing, defects of product and
all matters pertinent to produce growing
.will be discussed. Deliveries are sched
uled to begin in December,_
OFFICERS ELECTED
At last weeks meeting of the Co-op Board
of Directors, officers for the coming
year were elected. Following the action
of the Stockholders at the Annual meet
ing all of the present officers were e
lected to the various offices they have
held for the Last year. Roy Brock was
reelected President, Roland Snodgrass was
reelected Vice President and Carl Rasmus
sen was reelected Secretary-Treasurer.
Director John Church was not present but
is expected at the next meeting.