VOL. III.
PALMER. ALASKA, DECEMBER 22, 1949
NUMBER 15
Stock Named President Of Chamber
MVFCA Seeks Court
Help To Hold Six
To Sales Contract
BULLETIN
Judge Anthony Dimond
signed a temporary restrain
ing order last Tuesday after
noon. enjoining the six dairy
men named in the Co-Op's
suit from "selling or disposing
of their milk products to any
person, firm or corporation
other than the Maianuska
Valley Farmers' Co-Operat
ing Association."
The restraining order be
came effective immediately
upon the MVFCA'S posting
$1,000 bond for each of the
six individual suits. The
bond was posted that same
afternoon.
The restraining order is ef
fective, pending a hearing to
be held in Federal court in
Anchorage at 10 a m. on Jan.
5 At that lime each of the
six is ordered to be present
to show cause why the re
straining order should not be
permanent.
The long-awaited and previous
ly announced planned court ac
tion of the Matanuska Valley
Farmers’ Co-Operating Associa
tion against its straying dairy
members became a matter of
record on Tuesday of this week
On that day, six separate suits
were filed bv the firm of Davis
& Renfrew against the members
which the Co-Op contends are
violating their marketing con
tract for milk.
The dairymen named in the
suits include :
Leonard Moffitt, A. A. Rem
pel, Arthur Holbrook, Ernest
Harrington. Frank McAllister
and Arvid Johnson.
Each suit specifically requests
that the dairyman be restrained
from the delivery of milk to the
Alaska Dairy, or to any other per
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Chest Fund Now
Exceeds ’48 Total
With the final accounting still
to be made, Community Chest
contributions this year have
reached about $2,400 drive chair
man Louise Kellogg announced
this week. Although still short
of the goal of $3,000, this year’s
fund already has exceeded last
year’s, Miss Kellogg said.
The Chest’s board of directors
expects to meet with the budget
committee next week to prepare
a final statement of receipts and
expenses, and to apportion the
funds received to participating
agencies
MEJ3
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SANTA WILL MISS ONDALA CABIN THIS YEAR
Christmas in the home of Mrs.
Olga Ondala hasn't been very im
portant for the last five yeais
It has been that long since the
husband and father of the family
of seven children has been gone.
But Christmas in the Ondala
home this year won’t count at all,
for there’s not even a roof the
family can call its own this year.
On Dec. 9, the family lost the
three-room cabin at Birchv.ood,
where they have lived since the
father died. Fire destroyed the
frame structure that morning
Food, clothing and shelter blaz
ed into flames and smouldered to
ashes in a matter of minutes. To
day Mrs. Ondala and her three
children, their only possessions
the clothing they wore that
morning their home burned, are
living with the widow's father at
Eklutna.
The wages of a 19-year-old son
are all they have to purchase the
minimum necessities for living.
There can be no thought of
Christmas for three young chil
dren, all of school age but who
have never been to school Four
other children are now away at
children’s homes and will share
in whatever Christmas there is in
store for those institutions.
However, if Mrs. Ondala could
voice a plea (and she has never
asked for help although the past
five years have been very hard)
she would request warm winter
clothing for her brood. Any cast
off clothing would be acceptable,
for the mother is a capable seam
stress and can re-seam hand-me
downs to fit.
Anyone who would like to
know sizes for the children’s
clothing, or who is interested in
learning more of the family’s cir
cumstances, should get in touch
with Miss Marjorie Myren, local
health nurse. Miss Myren also
can supply the names of other
families in need at this Christ
mas season
CLOSED FOR CHRISTMAS
The local Extension Service of
fice will be closed tomorrow,
through Monday, for the Christ
mas holiday, it was announced
this week.
GOES ON VACATION
Mrs. Bernice Johnson, clerk at
the local Extension Office, begins
he rannual vacation tomorrow.
She will not be back at her desk
until the morning of Jan- 3.
Visit Daughter In Spokane
Mr. and Mrs. George Small left
by last week’s boat o ntheir first
trip to the states in many years.
The Smalls will visit their daugh
ter, Mrs. Bert Stewart, at Spo
kane, Wash. They expect to be
for several weeks.
Mrs. Gorder Hospitalized
Mrs Emory Gorder of Jones
ville is now hospitalized at Val
ley Hospital, where she recently
underwent surgical treatment.
YOHN, KIRSCH,
HURLEY ALSO
HOLD OFFICE
Clr:ir Stock was named head of
the Valley Chamber of Commerce
in a flurry of balloting at last
week’s annual election. Forced
to recruit members from Palmer’s
highways and byways in order to
members present, election judges
get the required quorum of 15
had results tabulated and an
nounced only to learn in a last
minute perusal of by-laws that
proxy ballots were illegal in the
Chamber elections.
Two late comers made the
proxy ballots unnecessary, and a
second election (legal) took place
Mr. Stock again was named head
of the organization, but a three
way tie in directors’ seats neces
sitated a third ballot.
Final results were .announced,
at the end of the overtime ses
sion, as follows:
President—Mr. Stock; vice
president—Everett Yohn; cor
responding secretary — E. V.
Kirsch; recording secretary—
James Hurley; directors—Jan
Koslosky, Carl Meier. Lee Hart
ley. Russell Felzien and James
Wilson
The annual report of Chamber
officers, as well as all other
Chamber business, was postponed
to the Jan. 4 meeting, when Mr.
Stock will handle the chairman’s
gavel.
Charles Wilson vice-president,
did report that he had discussed
the matter of a Valley pu)p mill
with Frank Heintzleman, region
Fairbanks. Mr. Heintzleman re
al forester, at a recent meeting in
plied that he felt any move for a
mill in western Alaska would be
ill-timed now, since plans are not
fully developed for the two pro
posed mills in southeastern Alas
ka
Mr. Heintzleman did feel that
a pulp mill might logically be lo
cated here at some future time,
since the pulp residue has been
found, in experimental laborator
ies, to be capable of producing a
high-protein content cattle feed.
This same residue, when divert
ed to streams and bays, has prov
ed detrimental to fish.
Valdez Court Teams
Postpone Visit Here
A planned basketball visit to
Palmer by Valdez men's and
women’s teams will not be sched
uled until sometime after the first
of the year, it was announced to
day by Clair Stock, manager of
the Rockets.
The visitors originally were
slated to play here immediately
after the Christmas holidays, but
the travelers’ schedule and that
pf the Shamrocks’, their local op
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