The VALLEY SETTLER is published,
every Friday by the Matanuska
Valley Farmers* Cooperating Asso
ciation at Palmer,Alaska.
Mng. Editor, Mrs.Verna Eastham
Reporter: Mrs. Carl Erickson
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by mail; ,‘pl.EO year
Mailed anywhere: 10</, a copy
This paper is issued for the pur
pose of giving information and
news of the Matanuska Valley Farm
ers* Cooperating Association's
work, problems, accomplishments
and also news of local and general
interest; and to help foster the
cooperative spirit of the farmers
of the Matanuska Valley.
EMPLOYMENT SET-UP EXPLAINED
The various rumors being circulated
about this, that and the other one
having received his notice, are as
usual only part right.
Every one has known for a long time
that the A.R.R.C* money which they
now have can not last forever. So
it really isn't any surprise that
plans should have been made to cur
tail expenses of the administration
•and to make possible further cur
tailment , on short notice if and
when necessary.
This is what Mr.Leo E.Jacobs, the
manager of the A.R.R.C., says:
’All employees of the Corporation
have been working under an Employ
ment Agreement since the first of
this year. You will remember this
set forth conditions of .employment,
whether or not the employee would
have a vacation due him, whether or
not sick-leave'was allowed, setting
forth amount of notice necessary,
providing for the holding back of
15Jo of the salary, in the case of a
Colonist employee, this to be ap
plied on Realty.
"In order to have the organization
in as flexible a state as possible
that would permit drastic economies
when and where necessary to make
them, we had to be in a position to
terminate employment of any and all
employees at will. So recently
practically all employees were given
due notice. In most cases this was
only two weeks' notice. Practically
every employee will continue as
usual but it will no longer be nccec
sary to give the notice as spccifioc'
in the employment contract.
"There arc a few eases where there
has boon a change in personnel or
a reduction in working time. A
few departments have been placed on
a part-time basis. Savings effec
tive immediately amount to more
tlian v 1000.00 a month in salaries."
And. so you see, it just means that
The Corporation is cutting its ad
ministrative expenses down to the
minimum in order to continue the
program just as long as possible.
A CHUCKLE
Dr.H.M.Colvin sends this clipping,
entitled: "They'll cat the hay."
Farmers in a southern California
county, back when automobiles and
hard-surfaced roads were novelties,
hold a mass meeting to dobato a
proposed fcoad-bond issue.
One forward-looking citizen advanced
the argument that "in a few years
we farmers will be hauling hay over
these roads in motor truqks."
"And then who'll eat the hay? askod
a crusty farmer in the back" row.
Henry Ford, interviewed by a United
Press correspondent in Dearborn
recently, said that laboratory testt
had advanced so rapidly that he was
willing to predict that the time
’would come and would soon bo here
when almost an entire automobile —
body, fenders, doors and paneling—
could'be constructed out of wheat,
chaff, soy beans, corn husks or
other farm products.
Maybe, at last, the farmer's questir
is to be answered. Maybe automobile
and trucks- are going "to oat the ha;
And then maybe the Matanuska Valley
Farmers' Cooperating Association
will be in the automobile chassis
busincss. Who knows ?
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