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Vol» ll;_Palner, Alaska _August 2k, 1951_No.53
Dr. Bari GreJros
Sec. 3l±.66 P.L. and R.
U.S.POSTAGE
\i PAID
PALMER, ALASKA
Permit No.3
GO-OP nOTES
The Co-op Board net Tuesday even'
inc; after Mr. Wineajarner and Mr.
Newell, the newly elected Board
members, were installed, proceeded
with the election of officers for
the coming year. Roy Brock was re
elected President; Rex Kibbee was
re-elected Vice President, and P.J
Hemner was elected Secretary-Treas
President Brock then selected
three committees to function for
the Board. The Dairy Committee
Newell, Carson and Wine/rarner; The
Vegetable-Potatoe Committee-Car
son, Kibbee and Church; and a Cre
dit Committee---Kibbee, Newell and
Henner.
The Dairy Committee will begin
studying methods to improve the .
policies used for the handling of
the milk and dairy products. The
Ve.retable-Pbtatoe Connittee is
starting an investigation that ■vdll
help members decide about the best
methods to be followed in that de
partment. As soon as possible,
meetings with the producers will
be held to inform them about the
progress that is being made.
The Directors will start to for
mulate a basis on which the Gymna
sium can be sold to the Palmer
School District in accordance with
the wishes of the members as re
corded at the annual meeting.
Co-op officials wore very r;lad
to act as hosts to a group of a
bout 35 Mess Sergeants and their
Officers, under the command of
Captain Kirk from Port Richardson,
who cane to the Valley last Friday
to inspect the food processing
plants of the Co-op and the Valley
f am3. The group was guided
through the Creamery and Dairy by
Manarer Bell, v/ho explained the
various processes in the Creamery.
Then they were taken to the Potato
Storage, where some new potatoes
v/ere being graded. A visit was
made to a local produce farm where
growing crops we.re inspected, and
the men got first-hand information
about the quality of Valley pro
ducts. A lunch was served in the
Co-op Club Room, after which a few
brief remarks were made by Mr.
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Uof R. EXTEHSlOn SERVICE ROTES
After conpletinn the first field
inspection for potatoes, bar ley,and
oats, the field inspectors for the
Alaska Certified Seed Growers' Assh
announced that they were highly •
pleased with the interest shown by
growers in the various areas in pro
1 ducing certified seed for these
crops.
Unless some unforseen trouble a
rises there v/ill be some Certified
Edda Barley and Golden Rain Oats
seed available for commercial seed
ing for the 1952 season.
The potato 3eed stock that is up
for Certification is mostly tuber
unit plots. Such varieties as Arc
tic Seedling, White Bliss, Kennebec
and Alaska show very excellent pos
sibilities for becoming the future
source of clean, adapted seed stock
for Alaska.
Thirteen hundred German expellee
farmers selected by a group of Ger
man-speaking Americans—four country
agents, an extension dairyman, and
a farmer—are ready for immi-ration
to the U.S. as soon as they get A
merican sponsors, according to Hany
N. Rosenfield, Acting Chairman of
the U.S. Displaced Persons Commis
sion.
"If American farmers seeking help
will act immediately, I am sure that
we can bring these 1,300 expellee
farmers and others now in our pipe
line into the U.S. by October, said
Rosenfield. Ho pointed out that a
sponsor in this country must assure
a job, housing, and transportation
from the port of entry to the place
of resettlement in the U.S. He must
also assure that the expellee will
not become a public charge. On his
part, the expellee must sign a good
faith oath, under which he agrees
to atride by the terns of the employ
ment offered.
Rosenfield advised farmers looking
for workers to fill their late fall
labor demands and to meet future
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