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mn TWO-DAY
GARDEN TOURS
The Palmer Garden club has
extended a public invitation to
join them in a tour of flower
gardens in the Matanuska Valley.
The tour will be split up into two
days because of the wide-spread
areas to be viewed.
On Wednesday, August 17, gar
dens in the Butte area will be
shown. All persons wishing to
yisit the Butte flower gardens
"are asked to meet at the home of
Dorothy Anderson at 1 p.m. The
following day gardens in the city
and to the south will be shown.
-Persons planning to attend the
LADIES AID PLANS
BAKE, FANCY WORK SALE
Members of the United Protes
tant Ladies Aid are planning a
bake and fancy work sale for this
Saturday. They have taken a
booth at Farmers Market and
will open for sales at 10 a.m.
Mrs. Vera Rorrison and Mrs. M.
D. Snodgrass are in charge of the
sale. The public is invited to par
ticipate.
Thursday showings are requested
to meet at the home of Mrs. Val
eria Ulrich at 1 p.m.
Persons who have seen these
gardens report that the flowers
are the most beautiful this year.
The public is invited to attend
either or both tours.
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eprinf from Aug
ifion of Homer News
PUBLIC POWER — NO. 2
EDITOR: BILL RAVER
Public power in Alaska has indeed fallen on some sad days. The smell that is growing out of the
"mysterious" $15,000. spent by the Alaska Committee for Public Power grows stronger and stronger by the hour.
People who have long kept their feelings to themselves concerning the operation of Alaska Co-Ops and some of
their dealings are beginning to talk. The more they talk the more it is obvious that the people of this section of
Alaska have been taken for a ride.
The most disgusting thing to happen in many a year was the action of the board of directors of the Chugach
Electric Association last Friday night. Four of the directors, a majority, of course, voted to loan the Central
Alaska Power Association $25,000 dollars despite the fact that acting manager. Marlin Stewart, was unable to give
an accounting of the $60,000 already loaned the CAPA. According to the story in the Anchorage Times the money is
to be used for core drilling. We can only assume that this work will be carried on at the Cooper Lake hydro site.
If such is the case then we must ask what happened to the $63,000 contract given to North Pacific Consultants to
make a complete hydro study of the lake.
It is rather ironic that only Friday night we had a talk with Herman Schultz, president of CAPA. We asked
him why North Pacific Consultants was chosen as the engineering firm to make the Cooper Lake study when Harza
of Chicago bid $1,000 less. lie told us that the Harza bid contained too many "ifs". Now it appears that the
CAPA is going to have to put out $25,000 to do some of the core drilling at the site. If this is the case, the directors
of the CAPA are the biggest dupes of the century. If the money is to be spent elsewhere the directors should
have been so informed.
According to the Times story the CEA directors were also led to believe that all four of the co-ops belonging
to CAPA had donated to the organization. Such is not the case, according to Jiggs Tice, manager of the Homer
Electric Assn. He tells us that HE A has not put one dime of cash into the CAPA fund and that only Chugach
and Matanuska Electric have put out the cash.
When we talked with Schultz he stated that he could not say anything about the $15,000 belonging to the
Alaska Committee for Public Power, but that it would all come out at a later date. He did say that the people who
went to V/ashington went there to try to get the Eklutna power project turned over to the CAPA by the Bureau
of Reclamation. When he was asked why he thought the CAPA should be sold the project, he gave two reasons:
1—that the CAPA could operate Eklutna much cheaper than the Bureau and 2—so long as Eklutna is operated by
the Bureau of Reclamation is will not belong to the people of Aliaska, but if CAPA buys it it will be owned
by Alaskans in 30 or 40 years.
So Eklutna is the turning point around which this whole things is to revolve. Coopct Lake is the bright
light being used to distract us. Now we know why Captain Riddell of the district engineers is the spokesman for
the secret Alaska Committee for Public Power. It is obvious that the CAPA is being used as a front for the Army
Engineers in their age-old battle against, the Bureau of Reclamation. Someone has told the CAPA board that they
can operate Eklutna cheaper than the Bureau and they swallowed the bait. It may be possible, but we think if is
quite safe to predict that CAPA could never, will never, operate Eklutna cheaper than the Bureau. By the time tbey
get through paying for high priced, inexperienced managers, engineers, lawyers, office help and what have you,
the cost of power from Eklutna will go up and not down.
As to the idea that Eklutna will never belong to Alaskans as long as the Bureau operates it . . . that is just
so much propaganda. The Bureau of Reclamation IS the people of all of the United Stales and its Territories.
It is about time the people of this section of the Territory, woke up to the realization* that the biggest piece
of wool ever seen is being pulled over their eyes.
REA laws have been flouted and nothing is done. The loans continue to be made by Washington. The squeeze
is being put on what little private power is left. The empire grows. There seems to be a never-ending supply of
money from Washington. The time has come to stop and investigate just how things are being run* If the REA
will not stop it then the people must act.
We are not against progress. Bui we want our progress built on rock and not on sand. We do not want
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