TTTE I/LVTAIjTJ3tCA VALLEY PIOFEER
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ILL WILL IN TT'"E MAKING
It is be coning: increasingly ap
parent that there will never ,be one
hundred per cent co-operative nar
ks ting of valley raised produce, and
without just that there will always
be difficulty in standardizing
prices *
Since Mr. Sheely returned frcn
Washington with the promise of funds
for loans to old settlers who will
sign ud to join the proposed co-opfs
marketing program, we have tried to
find out how the old settler feels
about the idea. A surerising num
ber have said that they want noth
ing to do with any loans or agree
ments.
"Why should I?" asked one who had
some very definite.views on the sub
ject. "Haven’t they shewn us all
along that we don’t belong? Isn’t
it enough when they tell us-that we
can’t buy in the commissary, for
cash, while the colony group can get
anything they want on credit? And if
I want lumber which they sell on 30
year credit for J35 a thousand I am
told my money is no good, to buy my
lumber somewhere else, and that
means I pay ^55 for the same stuff.
Would it hurt then to give the old
settler a little break on things of
this kind?"
We suggested that it was the
government’s policy never to enter
into cermetition with existing pri
vate business.
"Private business," exploded the
old timer. "Isn’t it enough that
A. A. Shonbeck gets a cut out of ev
ery drop of gasoline and oil that’s
sold here; every truck, car and
tractor that the government has pur
chased? He was never in the lumber
business before; why does the gov
ernment feel so keenly about protec
ting one man at the cost of all us
old settlers?
"I am not blaming the colonists,
they have nothing to do with it,
but certainly, after being treated
for‘a-year like an unwanted step
chiid, I have no heart for entering
into the co-ooerative set-up. They
can keen their loan."
This, unfortunately, is the quite
understandable attitude of many with
L O TT/C b O 1 Vo L.,
NAMES CFO SEN FOR CLUBS
Tie women of District ffl held
their second UomenakersT club
meet in.',: at the home of Mrs. Guil
ford Lemon on Thursday afternoon*
They chose "Upintoin View Borne
makers’ C-mib” as the name for theii
grout),, and elected the following of
ficers: Mrs, Guilford Lemmon,
president; Mrs. E il Larsh, vice
rresident and. Mrs. Edward Moss,
secretary-treasurer.
After the business meeting ’them,
was a discussion, led by Miss Rath
DeArnond, district hone demonstra
tion agent, of handicraft oroducts
suitable for sale in the Craft
Shoo at the Community Center.
The next meeting of the club is
to be at the home of Mrs. Fred
Larson on Tune 11.
The "Pleasant Valley 4-F Club"
with 15 charter nenbers was organ
ized at Butte on Tuesday afternoon»
The club elected Lorraine Fc^ech
nie president, Dorothy Newville
viee-nresident, Angus FeFechnie
secretary-treasurer and Jean line
Sandvik news reporter.
Sucrer projects che s e n by the
nenbers included garden, colt,
nig, -alf, chicken raising, and
sewing and baking. The latter
nroject, with six nenbers, include.
Angus rcXechnie and Dale Sandvik -
the first toys in the valley to
sign un for baking.
Charter nenbers include: Con
stance Andrews, Vary Dreghorn,
Victor Falk, Barbara Falk, J^ck
Fenner, Patricia Fenner, Donovan
Lentz, Fdwin Lentz, Jane Lentz,
Angus LWechnie, Lorraine Fcyech
nie, Toro thy Fewville, Leila ^et
erson, D-le Sandvik and Jean lAe
Sandvik.
OLAV RALVERSON. TO TE,iOTT
Saturday nay have been Colony
Day to most of us, but it was
something far more important- to
Olav Talverscn, Engineerf s Assis
tant *
A few years ago,-while testing
school in rinnescta, Olav had
dreams of sometime holding down a
similar position among the natives
of Alaska. That dream was slated
to come true when rr. Karnes had
Olav sign a contract which will
make him teacher this coming year
at Eethel, near Bering Sea on the
Ku s kekwin River.
About the first of next Sept
ember Olav will fly oveh the Al
aska Rangeto take un his duties
with the nixed classes of whites
ana native's who make un the well
known lower country trading cen
ter nonulation.
A new school building is being
constructed at letnel.