veil. 6.
Valley Settler - April 30, 1943,
No. 17
MORE LOCAL FARMS TO GET ELECTRICITY
FOR INCREASED -VaR FOOD PRODUCTION
A Lreater number farms enLooed.
In livestock, dairy and poultry
production in this area are n-~w
eligible f^r electric service as a
result "f the War Production
Board' s recent lowering nf the min
imum number of animal units re
quired from ten t" five, accvrdlnc
t' Manager W.C. Mnu of the Mntan-'
uskn Electric Association, Inc.
The WPB and the U.S. Department
•' Agriculture, in announcing the
new five animal unit minimum, said
it will trinw electric service with
in the r^ach of small farms and is
designed to increase fo-'d produc
tion. Farms eligible f r service
under 7/PB 1 s liberalized service
connection regulations are those
near existInc rural power lines.
Each application for farm service
must re appr >vcf^ by the local
C unty USDA War Board bef re a
connection can be made* The Board
is required f certify that the pro
P;'Scd connection will c mply with
WPB regulations, and, in the opinicr
-f the P ard, result In a substan
tial savin^ in fnro labor. Mr. Mau
sold the C unty USDA War Board al
ready has approved applications f r
connecting four farms to the lines
of the M/.TANUSLA ELECTRIC ASSOCIA
TION.
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CO-OP^/.TIV^ NOToS
I have been assurer1 by Mrs. Ftor-i*
•iet n~ ccilin^ rrice will be es
tablished m potatoes, below rur
contract price. V/e have also re®
quested that before any price is
set rn any pr-Vuce that the ^rewers
in the Valley be _ ivon on '-•rp'rtun
itv t' vc hear'3.
We have a letter infrrnin, us
that Mr. Carrington is in Washington
attempting to have e-ur farm machin
ery released. Iir. Oldroyd, Eirector
rxtensi n w-rk and a member of
the Terrlt rial War Board, informed
me in a discussion this week, that i
it may be necessary to split up >ur
machinery orders between this sec
tl n of Alaska anr’ the ether farm
in^, c mmunitios.
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STATEHOOD PROPOSED POR ALASKA
Senator Lender of N< rth Dakota
and Senatir Pittman of Nevada in
troduced a bill in the U.S, Somite
recently, providing for the estab
lishment <f Statehood f r Alaska,
The ill has prcvisi ns for the e
lecticn of a Constitutional Conven
tion and carries an appropriation
for $100,000 for the expenses that
w uld be incurred.
Just what the people of /laska
thihk about statehood ot the pres
ent time is n't very clear, many of
the ol^er residents <v Sourdoughs,
so-called, are opposed, because
they believe that the deveL ed fin
ancirl resources are not Ire e
nou^-h to carry the burden of ex
pence for an independent c■ vernnent.
They believe that it will be nec
essary to imp 'ae pr'perty rnd per
sonal taxes that v/e d ■> not have now,
in order t maintain the State,
| The E 'itor would like to >,cint
l cut that it w. uld not be necessary
to have personal property trxes if
the Territory became a state, be
cause at least one state has a tax
program that is similar t~ the set
up that we now have in Alaska, That
is the lar^e incorporated c mpanies
in,_ business could be taxed f or
funds to operate the state, and the
only pers-nal property taxes are
for local or c unty taxes, Schools
in cities end counties are support—
er uy n,ith local and state taxes.
In normal times the nig corpora
tions operating in Alaska rr^^uce
and export about one*-third rn^rc
than they have to return t the
business In the Territory and, as
fish rnd (_•-'Id are natural resources
that d > n^t have to he manufactured
hut just secured and process0'% it
seems to us that all of the ,oarle
really own them in their natural
state. Everyone should be entitled
t share in the profits derived from
them, at least to the extent that
the C rp rations should bear a lar^e
part of the expense of ao’mlnistra—
tion policies of conservation and
regulation that are necessary, and
that would be the functi n of the
ffleers elected by the people. We
feel that the present set-up Is -n->t
it all healthy from a standpoint of
_o-d t vernment'ln the fact that the
lontrel Is vested in Bureaucrats,
'ho are tryito handle the affairs
by remote control.