VALLEY SETTLER
Published every Friday at Palmer, Alas
ka by the Matanuska Valley Farmers Cooper
ating Association.
Bv L. H. Allen
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Every Alaska city and town but Seward
fell several thousand dollars below its
quota in July sale of war bonds. Seward
exceeded its quota by $4,000. Seward
will be the receiving end of enemy invas
ion of Alaska and knov/s it.
The editor of the Seward News goes all
out editorially for the highway that is
being built thru and over some swamps in
interior Canada, We don’t. We want a
$1,220,000 piece of road built connecting
Seward and Anchorage so that the soldiers
et Fort Richardson can gallop to the de
fense of Seward with the soldiers at Fort
Raymond after the invading enemy swipes
the terminus of the Alaska Railroad and
proceeds to refuse the soldiers passes on
the railroad.
Highway building foresight (?) has just
about got it fixed so that when the natzi
japs land at Seward the soldiers at Fort
Richardson can foot it to Fairbanks - but
wot t'ell?
Uatanuska Valley potatoes are relieved
to learn that the Congressmen are junketing
to Alaska this time to investigate the war.
(Dairymans Meeting-continued from page 1)
are invited to be at the creamery on the
days when their samples are being tested.
Increased prices to producers was dis
cussed in comparison with Increased costs
of production. There is still an open
demand, for milk at the Army. With the
increased war risk, feed prices may be in
creased to the farmers. However, a ceil
ing has been placAd on the product before
shipping.
All members present were given a copy
of the recent publication,"Cultivated
Grasses and Legumes in Alaska." This
bulletin is a brief summary of the work
which haB been done at the Experiment Sta
tions in Alaska.
4-H Club members have spent a great deal
of time on their 4-H gardens and would ap
preciate having the people of the communi
ty come and visit them.
Miss line Stephenson, Extension agent,
will test pressure cookers with a special
thermometer. If interested in having youi
cooker checked, please notify her.
(Continued from page 1-Liemb.iitg.).
modities and services we have been accus
tomed to and would purchase, are not and
will not be available. We, here in Al
aska, have a far greater problem to face
than the people in the States. Our food
and supplies must come in by water, and
with the heavy demand necessarily made by
the Army, I anticipate that only the es
sentials will be permitted to move. It
could mean that if we are to eat, we will
have to produce what wc eat. It also
means a heavier demand for more and more
production.
How we are going to obtain that produc
tion without machinery or labor, I do not
know, but it is a problem that we must
face. You farmers here in the Valley de
serve a lot of credit for the increases
you have already made in production against
these odds. Your Association is ready
and willing to assist in any way possible.
We have tried to anticipate your needs as
far as we are able and to carry larger
supplies on hand. However, on such items
as feed, we are restricted by the amount
of space we can get on ships, also the
amount of space for storage in our ware
houses."
ACCOUNTAOT'S REPORT
Frank Pokorny, Accountant for the MVFCA,
opened the business session with his re
port and loaned a facetious note to the
proceedings. He said: "In opening bus
iness meetings with my report, I get a bum
deal. Being statistical is a dry busi
ness and doesn't endear you to anyone. Ac
countants are peculiar individuals with
foul dispositions and long faces. After
leading a long and next to useless exist
ence, they die and go to hell and nobody
weeps. However, working for an organiza
tion such as this forbids monotony since
new and difficult problems are continually
arising.
"The operations for the period, December
I, 1941 to May 31,1942 resulted in a net
profit of $2,601,38 or an increase of 84$.
Gross revenue shows an increa.se of 9,6$
over that of the previous corresponding
period. Operating expense increased
II. 2$. " Mr. Pokorny named the items
contributing to increased operating expense
and read 26 legal-size pages of figures.
He followed this with interesting data
about individual operating units. Lack of
space in this issue and the merit of his
report is such that it will be continued
in next week's Valley Settler.
Mr. Pokorny explained in detail how
General Administration expense is distrib
uted to the various operating units and
he illustrated what that item - General
Administration Expense - includes.
The Association now numbers 146 members
in all.