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COzOP 6
VOL. 9
PALMER, ALASKA
SEPT: MPTOR 19, 1946
V'i ■. 52
MATANUSKA VALLEY
FRESH VEGETABLES ON
DISPLAY AT PRESS
BANQUET
Fresh Matanuska Vegetables were flown to
Seattle on Monday of this week to be. dis
played at the International Press Banquet
being.held there this week. Press agont3‘
from all over the world are in attendance,
Mr. Stacy, Produce Manager, selected a
fine display to be exhibited there through
out the banquet consisting of—
1 - bunches green top carrots
1 dozen wrapped cauliflower
cne 20 pound head of cabbage
1C heads of medium sized heads of cabbage
1 dozen bunches of green oikions,
12 stalks of celery
MEAT CEILINGS NILL HE HIGHER SAYS OPA
"Coiling prices will go brick on moot in
Alaska on September 25," Alaska CPA an
'ounebd this wock. Details of the restor
ation of the moat control program is to
-?ko effect in most of Alaska on September
;-:hth. Upon thoir recommendation this of
iactive date, sixteen days late*'than that
sot for retailors in the statos, was os
+nblishod in consideration of tho Alaska
Neat dealers problem of moving stock of
1 iglier cost meat billed and shipped to
thorn since .Tune 30, and prior to September
5, "hen wholesale prices reverted to OPA
control's,
Alaska Consumers should not expect moat
prices to return to their June 30 levels
however, as the recalculated ceilings must
rcT.oct price increases at all lcvols
caused by recent removal of fcodor and
producer subsidies and rising parity re
quirements, OPA saiu,
Tho new OPA. specific prices on Grado A and
AA beef will allow increases ranging from
3 to 0 cents per pound for the various re
tail cuts, while B and lower grado will
return to Juno 30 levels, as no price
change'has been made at wholesale for thosi
grados. Pork and lamb will also cost pro
portionately more under their now coilings
than they did prior to Juno 30,OPA. said.
TASK FORCE FRJDID
PASSED THROUGH
PALMER - TUESDAY
HEADQUARTERS ALASKAN DEPARTMENT, Sept. 13
Task Force Frigid under thS command of
Col Paul A. ^cichle, F.A., comprising ap
proximately 1600 officers and men repre
senting all branches of the Army Ground
Forces, which is scheduled to Oonduct a
scries of tests at -Ladd Fiold during the
ensuing fall and winter months, arrived at
Whittier last Thursday.
Major Gen. Howard A. Craig, commanding
general of the Alaskan Department, was on
tho pier to wclcomo Col Rcichlo end his
force to Alaska,
Immediately following debarkation, approx
imately 400 members of the force left by
train for Fort Richardson, whore they ro
raainod until the arrival of the unit’s
wheeled equipment, which formed a convoy
to movo over the highway to Ladd Field,
(This convoy passod through Palmer on Tues
day of this week.) In addition to person
al baggage, the "Sea Star" brought approx
imately 100 pieces of wheeled equipment.
Movement or the force from Whittier to
Ladd Field is undor the direction of Col,
Leslie G, Mulzof, commanding officer of
Fort Richardson, with Lt, Col, Wilbur M.
Johnson, QMC, post plans and'control of
ficer, as overall supervisor, V:
It is ejected that the force will bo able
to.begin operations in connection with the
forthcoming cold weather tests immediately
upon arrival ar, Ladd Field as a result'of '
preliminary errorgamonts for Billeting,etc.
made by an advance party'which arrived at
that station ]0 days ago.
The Forco will operate as an independent
unit during most of its field’tests, with
a minimum of garrison contact. All typos
of Amy Ground Forces equipment will thus
bo subjected to field conditions in extrome
low temperatures, as a result of which it
is hoped to determine definite?^ rhothor
present equipment and'metorial is suitable
for use in the Arctic, or whother it will
bo nocossary to develop now typos for such
operations,
Cont, on pp, 7