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EDITORIAL Coir!:' from pago 3
Nor: for the other article: An Anchorage
paper also got things slightly twisted in
a neus story appearing on the frdnt page
this past reek, This one ms in connec
tion rith tho visit of Janos P. Davis,
Director of Territories, and his conference
rrith farmers and officials in tho Valley.
1. T7o rould like to call the attention of
the OTitor in this case as to just who ouns
and operates the much discussed Matanuska
Valley Farmors' Cooperating Association.
It is not a government agency. About 8
years ago the farmers of tho Valley through
their organization, the Matanuska Valley
Farriers’ Cooperating Association, agreed to
buy the set-up here from the Alaska Rural
Rehabilitation Corporation. A price ras
set and agreed upon, and a contract signed
by the Boards of the respective organiza
tions in pouer at that time.
In order to get under operation, the Co
operative borrowed $300,000 from the Farm
Security, which as you know is a govern
ment agency. That does not make the gov
emanaat an onner of the Association any
more uhan you would consider the Bank the
owner of your heme because you borrowed
money on it. As long as you keep up ycur
payments, it is yours; and even if you
don't, it takes legal action for the Bank
to take it from you. The same thing is
true with the MVjTCA.
2. This article would also lead you to
believe that the Cooperative (MVFCA) had
signed a contract with the Army to deliver
produce without having any contracts with
its members. As stated above, the MVTCA
holds contracts with all its members and
those contracts are the only valid Market
ing Contracts these members have.
30 The Potato Contr&ct uith the Army was
put out on open bid, and the MVFCA did not
butt in,as these articles imply, YThen the
bid uas made, the Association had its crop
estimates, individual member contracts and
all other data necessary to back up its
bid.
4. The Mntanuska Valley Farmers' Coopera
ting Association has never given any of
its members a permit to sell their produce'
through any other organization. This must,
according to the Standard Marketing Con
tract, be done by a nritten statement to
each member,
(’.Then a member produces some product for
uhich the Association has not developed a
market, as for examplo-irool, the Associa
has given permission for the producer to
handle his ora product.)
Honever, no such permission has been givon
the potato and vegetable producers of the
issociation this year.
rhe statement that farmers are dissatisfied
:ith the a cooperative,as the first article
jtates, is rathor amusing uhon you consider
’ho the cooperative is. In other roris—
he farmers are dissatisfied vith th-m
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