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CO-OP NOTES
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The, Vegetable Committee,rhich ras named by
the Board of Directors from a group on nom
inees elected at the last meeting of the
Vegetable Growers last reek,met on Thursday
evening of this meek to dismiss prices,
production estimates and other problems
relating to Vegetable production and mar
keting. This committee is odmpbsed'of the
following members: Charles Schaefer, L.C.
Stock, Don Parks, Johan Johnson and Virgil
Eckert. Some of the Board Members, James
Vilson and Harold Stephan mere present
at the meeting,
N1 W t l\E£/£ti Gi >£ £ tl\i T C
PRCC'UC 7/0 A*. k’
The ner Freer,cr.rh i c h ’:as recently nurcbas
ed hy the Association, ran‘its first batch
of Ice Cream on Friday evening of this reel:
Not ouito all of the necessary adjustments
nere made oil It at ‘thfr time of this rri'ting
so re cannot tell you just hor much ice
cream per hour it is going to put out for
us.
The Association also acquired a second-hand
packaging machine rhich has been used trice
nor hith good results. This rill enable
us to put out the brick ice cream much'*
faster. • -
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7 Hi' M JNTH
rether the hens have suddenly gone all out
Tor better production records this month
or rhethcr bad roads have kept a fev; eggs
it hone a feu ion'ger, has not been de
cided, but the past feu days have been tho
biggest egg days in the candling room for
the year.
This influx of eggs './as particularly heavy
on Wednesday of this reek and although 13
casfis uere candled, graded and packed that
lay, there ’aero a feu left over for the
following day. Consequently, the last eggs
brought in on Wednesday uere not grqdejl in
time for this Friday’s check. Egg produ—
cers uho find their checks a little shorf
on uhat they expected, will find thoy have
a larger check.next ueek.
To make matters worse, the Egg Department
has much difficulty in obtaining crates in
uhich to pack the eggs. Every day it is
a scramble to round up pasteboard boxes,
apple boxes, orange crates, butter boxes,
and any kind of a.box in uhich to pack egg:
The return of all crates uould be greatly
amorecited by the Egg Candler._
PETERS GETS
WASHINGlON -POSH!-: H
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|C, li, Peters anno'unced this ire ok that he .iar
accepted a position with the Division c ' Ter
ritories raid Island Pssossions as Tech : a'1
Assistant in the Alaska Branch which in he'd
ed by Joe Flalme, He and Hrs. leters aivi
family are leaving by Northwest Lines for
Seattle this coming Friday morning:, liay 13,
jHowever, lir, Peters stated that he would not
We reporting in Washington, D, C,, until, in
iJune-, Theyreckpect to visit in the northwest
;for a few days, in Washington and Oregon es
ioecially, From there the?- vri.ll go to Wis
;consin and visit friends and relatives there
jbefore going on to Washington,
jjj. Peters stated that no definite decision .
I had been reached as to who would fill his
| place here as General lanager of the Alaska
* .ural rehabilitation. He has held this no
si t ion since the-fall of 1947 when-he and ' .
j his family came here from Portland, Uregon.
I ARC FENCES
j BE hOvcO BACK
press ugl ivse
The past winter'brought the most severe snow
'conditions on record to the I&tanuska Valley.
! All•available heavy ecuiment of the -la sis.
I [load Commission-was in continuous operation
i for months, drawing heavily on funds which
: are, normally available for maintenance and
| improvement of Vail ey "loads. I [raiment,
uhich ,i3 usually held in readiness for sum-'
j mer work in first class operation condition,
| must now be overhauled 'to undertake summer
■work. The entire program for maintenance
| and improvement of va.llev roads, and con
! struction of additional farm roads, is there
| by thrown out of balance,
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! Iruch of the snow removal should not have b<-\er
| necessary; The fences, and brush along i/eu
j acted as a natural snow fence to catch tin
jdrifting snow, piling it high on the r v>dr
: when the adjacent fields were bare, Uhan
removal of the snow with large bulldozer* he
came necessary, nany riiles of fence worn
broken down. It was either that or leave
the roads blocked.
| when the sprang thaws came, the melting snovr
.oiled up along the roads, soaked and .soften
! ed the roadbed, (Continued on page 6)