FLYING HERDS ARE VALLEY’S AHSWER
TO ANCHORAOE’S AIRBORNE MILK
Seattle cows will come wing
ing north, beginning next week,
to take up the slack in an over
abundance of feed and a shortage
of milk in the Matanuska Valley.
The Matanuska Valley Farmers’
Co-Operating Association is the
financial push behind the air
borne bossies, all of which are
destined to find a stall in one of
the existing Grade A dairies in
the Valley.
Virgil Eckert and Merle Ander
son left for Seattle last week to
make the purchases for the Co
Op. Fresh Guernseys and Hol
steins will be shipped north. The
first two planeloads, considered
as an experiment in cow trans
portation, will arrive here next
week. If the experiment proves
feasible, the Co-Op expects to be
gin bovine importation on a wider
scale. Just how wide that scale
may become, James Wilson, man
ager for the MVFCA, wasn’t say
ing this week.
However, Mr. Wilson did em
phasize the fact that these cows
are solely for the purpose of en
larging existing herds and are
not planned to establish new
herds for prospective dairymen.
Next week’s shipment will con
siderably increase the Valley’s
cow population, which added 23
animals purchased by individual
dairymn in the past few weeks.
Each plane is expected to bring
10 or 12 cows, and the Co-Op ex
pects two plane loads on this first
experimental flight.
Mr. Anderson, one of the two
Co-Op representatives, also ex
pects to purchase an additional
10 cows for his own herd.
Coffey Insures Everything—
Remember?
MVFGA Still Waits
For Court’s Decision
On Dairy Site
No decision had yet been ren
dered at press time in the suit of
Arno Lebsher, represented by L.
V. Roach, vs. the Matanuska Val
ey Farmers’ Co-Operating Asso
ciation. It may be several days
yet before that decision, which
vitally affects the future opera
tions of the Anchorage Daily, is
made public.
Suit was initiated by Mr. Roach,
acting for Mr. Lebsher who is
now a patient at Morningside
Hospital in Oregon, to reclaim
the land on which the building
of the Anchorage Dairy is located.
That land was leased to the
MVFCA, under a long-term
agreement, at a rental which the
suit contends is now most unfair.
The present rental is too low’ to
pay taxes on the leased land.
However, representatives of the
Co-Op contend that the lease was
negotiated under the sanction of
the court, and that considerable
assets actually are accruing to
Mr. Lebsher. Terms of the lease
require that the building reverts
to the owner of the land, when
the lease expires in 1956. Esti
mates place the value of the
building and lot at $60,000. The
land rental is $45 a month.
Last wek’s trial required de
tailed testimony from L. C. Stock,
James Wilson, Clayton Esslinger,
C. Swoboda and Carl Rasmussen.
Questioned concerning what an
adverse decision could mean to
the Co-Op and the operation of
the Anchorage Dairy, Mr. Wilson,
Co-Op manager, said several al
ternatives were open to the court.
The Co-Op might simply be re
quired to pay more rent for the
land on which their building is
located, or they might be given
a 90-day period in which to va
cate the premises.
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