CALENDAR
of EVENTS
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 15
BOY SCOUTS. Legion hall, 7
p.m.
CAP SQUAD., Moose hall, 7
p.m.
LXr MjORERS, Legion bldg.,
7:30 p.m.
AMERICAN LEGION, Legion
bldg., 8 p.m.
LEGION AUXILIARY, Legion
bldg., 8 p.m.
HOSPITAL ANNUAL MEET,
high school, 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 16
REBEKAH LODGE, Carp, hall,
8 p.m.
I.O.O.F. Lodge, Carp, hall, 8
p.m.
HOSPITAL BOARD, Hospital,
8 p.m.
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 17
MOOSE VALENTINE DANCE,
Moose hall, 8 p.m.
SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 18
GRANGE BREAKFAST, Gran
ge hall, 11 a.m.
U. P. CHURCH, Family dinner,
noon
DOG OBEDIENCE FUN
TRIAL, Central school, 1
p.m.
MONDAY. FEBRUARY 19
PALMER KIWANIS, Grange
hall, noon
BETA SIGMA PHI, Member’s
home, 8 p.m.
PROSPECTORS COURSE,
High school, 7 p.m.
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 20
FUR RENDEZVOUS OPENS
HOSPITAL AUXILIARY, Hos
pital, 1:30 p.m.
PALMER PTA, High school, 8
p.m.
PALMER MOOSE, Moose hall,
8 p.m.
WOMEN OF THE MOOSE,
Moose hall, 8 p.m.
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 21
PTA CAREER DAY, High
school
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,
Sourdough Room, Frontier
Cafe, noon
BOY SCOUTS, LDS Church, 8
p.m.
GRANGE CARD PARTY,
Grange hall, 8 p.m.
PALMER ELKS, Elks home, 8
p.m.
EASTERN STAR, Carp, hall, 8
p.m.
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 22
WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY
BOY SCOUTS, Legion hall, 7
p.m.
CAP SQUAD., Moose hall, 7
p.m.
EXPLORERS, Legion bldg.,
7:30 p.m.
PIONEER GRANGE. Grange
hall, 8 p.m.
Church Members Name
Bishop's Committee
The election of members to
the Bishop’s Committee was
held February 2 at the annual
St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal
Church meeting.
Ray Holtz was named war
den; Esther Thompson, trea
surer; and Marion McIntyre,
Richard Demming, and Walter
Glaser, committee members.
Licenses and pins, issued by
Bishop William J. Gordon, were
presented to lay leaders by the
Rev. Dennis Walker. Receiving
the honors were Ray Holtz,
Richard Demming and Roland
McIntyre.
WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT
It takes irom seven to ten
years to develop a major L. S.
weapon system, such as the
Army’s Nike-Zeus program,
fiom inception to operational
status.
MERRITT LONG
United1
OF OMAHA
Pox 773, Palmer
PI 5-4600
STATE AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL
WOULD AFFECT ALASKAN FARMERS
Editor's note: The following Bill (known as the marketing
bill is reproduced below in its entirety for the study of in
terested persons. The bill, which was first introduced last
year, has caused considerable controversy among persons
affiliated with the agricultural trade.
By Senators Pollock, Logan and V Phillips
SENATE BILL NO. 193
IN THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA
SECOND LEGISLATURE - SECOND SESSION
For an Act entitled: “An Act relating to the establishment and
/ maintenance of orderly marketing con
ditions for agricultural commodities; and
providing for an effective date.’’
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
ALASKA’
Section 1. MARKETING OF AGRICULTURAL PRO
DUCTS. (a) It is hereby declared that the marketing of agricul
tural commodities in Alaska in excess of reasonable and normal
market demands therefor; disorder and unfair competitive
practives in the marketing thereof; improper preparation for
market and lack of uniform grading and classification; and the
inability of individual producers to maintain present markets
or to develop new or larger markets for Alaska grown agricul
tural commodities, result in an unreasonable and unnecessary
waste of the agricultural wealth of Alasak Such conditions
jeopardize the development of industry and the production of
adequate food supplies for the people of Alaska and prevent agri
cultural producers from obtaining a fair return from their labor
and investments. As a consequence, the purchasing power of
such producers may be low in relation to that of persons en
gaged in other gainful occupations within the state. They may
thereby be prevented from maintaining a proper standard of
living and from contributing their fair share to the support of
the necessary governmental and educational functions, thus
tending to increase unfairly, the tax burdens of other citizens
of this state.
(b) These conditions vitally concern the health, peace,
safety and general welfare of the people of Alaska. It is hereby
declared to be a policy of this state to aid agricultural producers
to be a policy of this state to aid agricultural producers in
preventing economic waste in marketing agricultural commod
ities, to develop more efficent and equitable methods in market
ing, and to aid such producers in maintaining their purchasing
power at an adequate, equitable and reasonable level.
Section 2. PURPOSES OF THIS ACT. The purposes of
this Act are:
(1) to enable producers, with the aid of the state, to cor
relate the marketing of agricultural products with the demand
therefor;
(2) to establish orderly marketing of agricultural commod
ities;
(3) to provide for uniform grading and classification and
proper preparation of agricultural commodities for market;
(4) to insure consumers an adequate supply of such com
modities;
(5) to prevent unfair competitive practices;
(6) to aid in orderly adjustment to changing conditions:
(7) to maintain reasonable incentives for continued
growth of agricultural industry in Alaska.
Sec. 3. DEFINITIONS. For the purposes of this Act, the
term:
(1) “producer” means any person or firm in this state in
the business of producing or causing to be produced for market
any agricultural commodity;
(2 “handler" means any person or firm engaged in sell
ing, marketing or distributing agricultural commodities within
this state other than to the ultimate consumer, but including
producers who also perform these functions and retailers sell
ing such commodities not theretofore subject to regulation under
the terms of this Act.
Sec. 4. MARKETING ORDERS. The director of the divi
sion of agriculture, Department of Natural Resources, hereafter
referred to as the director, may issue marketing orders to regu
late the marketing of agricultural commodities in Alaska. A
marketing order is issued for the purpose set forth in Sec. 2 of
this Act and for conducting research and providing information
to benefit both the producer and the conumer.
Sec. 5 ADMINISTRATION, (a) The director of the di
vision of agriculture shall administer and enforce the provisions
of this Act and the provisions of marketing orders.
(b) The director shall issue change and repeal marketaing
orders under the provisions of the Administrative Procedure
Act, and the additional requirements of this section. In initiat
ing the orders, he shall consider the following economic factors:
the quantity and quality of the commodity available, quantity
required, cost of production, purchasing power of consumers,
level of prices of productive goods and services farmers buy, and
the prices of competing commodities. Before the director may
issue, change or repeal a marketing order, it must be approved
>y a referendum by (1) at lease two-thirds of the producers voting
who each, during a representative period, have pruduced for
market commercial quantities of the commodity specified, and
who, during the same period, have produced in total at least
two-thirds of the volume of the commodity in the market area
specified in the order, and by (2) handlers, in the satte area
and during the same period, of not less than one-half of the
volume of the commodity covered by the order. The director,
with the approval of the commissioner of natural resources, may
issue a marketing order rejected by handlers if issuance ol
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Call PI 5-2070 or FR 6-3022
FOR INFORMATION AND FOR APPOINTMENTS
TO INSPECT
the marketing order is the only practical means of effecting the
purposes of this Act.
Sec. 6. COMMODITY BOARDS, (a) For each regulated 1
commodity, a commodity board shall be appointed by the direc
tor. The board shall consist of five members selected from Alas
kan producers and handlers. No more than two members may
be handlers. The duties of the board shall be to advise the
directors in the formation of policy for the operation of the
market program, to receive and report complaints and violations |
of a marketing order and to assist the director in collection of I
data.
(b) The board shall be responsible for the collection, cus-'
tody and accounting of assessments authorized under Sec. 8 (8),
and shall permit at least an annual accounting of the fund by the
director. !;
(c) No member or employee of a commodity in his activ
ities as such shall be held personally responsible or liable except
for his own individual acts of dishonesty or crime
Sec. 7. REGIONAL MARKETING ORDERS. A marketing
order may be limited to a geographic region in the state, but it
must be applied equally to all persons of a specific agricultural
industry in that region.
Sec. 8 CONTENT OF MARKETING ORDERS. A market
ing order may contain the following provisions regulating agri
cultural commodities marketed within Alaska:
(1) provisions for determining the existence and extent of
a surplus of an agricultural commodity and for the disposition
of the surplus with the burden prorated among handlers;
(2) provision for limiting the quantity, class or grade
which may be sold during specified periods;
(3) provision for allotting the quantity a producer may
sell during specific periods based on past sales records;
(4) provision for apportioning the quantity or grade a -
handler may handle during specified periods. Apportionment
shah be based on the quantity a handler has available, or on 1
quantities previously handled, or both, with the result that '
amounts distributed or handled during a period may be equit
ably apportioned;
(5) provision regulating the periods during which a com- (
modity or grade may be distributed;
(G) provision for establishing a surplus pool of a com
modity, or of the representative value, grade, quality, or com
binations thereof, with allowance for sale of the surplus and
the equitable distribution of the net income therefrom;
(7) provision for inspection and the establishment of
uniform grading and classification of agricultural commodities;
(8) provision for levying assessments, not to exceed three
per cent of value, on the sale of a commodity to provide a fund
for advertising, sales promotion and expenses of the commodity
board;
(9) provision for advance posting by handlers of prices at
which any grade, class, size or quantity shall be sold;
(10) provision requiring labeling and branding not other
wise required by law;
(11) provision for establishing stations for inspection,
weighing, and receiving payment of assessments;
(12) provision for cooperation with other state or federal
agencies.
Sec. 9. LIMITATION. No action is authorized under the
provisions of this Act which shall have as its purpose the main
tenance of prices of agricultural commodities in excess of those
resulting from the continued normal flow of commerce with
other areas.
Sec. 10. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect on the
day after its passage and approval or on the day it becomes law
without such approval.
4-H NEWS
Best or Bust Club
The Best or Bust 4-H Club
met February 2 at the club
bouse at the Experiment Farm.
Jerry Hoskins, Jay Dearborn,
and Mrs. Don Breeden were ap
pointed to plan a combination
box social and sledding party
sometime soon Jimmy Marsh,
Sam and Steve Hermon, Donna
Breeden, Jay and Jeff Dear- I
lorn, Mrs. Breeden, and Mrs.
James Hermon were appoint
?d to plan the fair booth for
his year.
Jimmy Marsh gave a demon
stration on “Gluten in Bread
naking” Steryl Sullivan told us
ibout "Making Centerpieces for
he Table.’’ The next meeting
•vill be March 2 at the club
louse.
Jimmy Marsh, reporter
’OOD PRESERVATION
Freeze-drying — a modern
.ersion of the ancient art of de
lydration—may well he the
nost significant development
n food preservation during the
9(j(J's. according to scientists at
Arthur D Little. Inc. Compared
o frozen or canned foods,
reeze-dried foods reduce
veight and eliminate need for
efrigeration throughout the
ntire distribution system.
21 Students Listed
On Junior High
Honor Roll
Twenty-one students in Pal
ner Junior High School were
lamed to the second quarter
November 4 — January 12)
onor roll, it was announced
his week by Norman Rousey,
Central School principal.
Members of the eighth grade
named to the roll were: Sheryl
Haire, Dean Taylor, Dorothy
Stout, Ralph Hulbert, Karon
Braught, William Demming
and Lendalva Swoboda.
Seventh graders listed on the
roll included Greg Chapman,
Keith Hooks, Ronald Bissett,
Jay Dearborn, Henry Hill,
Charles Shaefer, Kathy DeJu
lio, Deborah Deming, Kon
stance Frost, Kathleen Hurt,
Lynne Leppanen, Kerry Mick,
Marie Mielke, and Karola
Moore.
INSECT DAMAGE
Scientists estimate that in
sects destroy about 12 per cent
>f the total U. S. agricultural
>utput each year, including 14
million board feet of saw tim
ber or enough lumber to build
.Mi million houses.
Look into your fire
insurance coverage
Today, building costs are
higher. Replacement value
of home furnishings is
higher. Your present fire
insurance may not be
enough to cover possible
loss. Better check!
PIPPEL INSURANCE AGENCY
PI 5-3260
This is the Ford Fairlane's new Challenger ‘260" 1-8.
There's no other V-8 like it. It’s the latest in a series of Ford V-8 triumphs
that started back in 1982 when Ford introduced the world’s first popular
priced V-8. Today—30 years and 30 million Y-8's later—the Challenger
“260” adds new fuel to the hottest performance record in Y-8 history. It
gives you all the time-tested toughness of iron—with a lightness and com
pactness iron never had before. A muscular 164 lip, this new Challenger
“260” V-8 is all snap, sparkle and smoothness. It runs on regular yet glees
you better gas mileage than any standard-size 6-cylinder car Price it and
you’re in for a surprise—a Fairlanc V-8 carries a smaller price tag than some
compact Sixes. And, of course, a Fairlane gives you big-car room and line
car quality you’ll find in no other car anywhere near Fairlane’s amazing
low price. There’s never been a buy like Fairlanc because there’s never
been a car like Fairlane; that’s why this all-new car from Ford is now out
selling every other “ilew-size” car!
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MOTOR COMPANY
FAIRLANE 500 . . . Right size . . . Right price . ..
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Whatever you’re looking for in a car, look to the long Ford line
FALCON
America's best selling compact
GALAME/500
Its silence whis|)ers quality
THUNDER BIRD
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HARTLEY MOTORS, INC.
PI 5-2600
PALMER, ALASKA
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VALDEZ, ALASKA