The VALLEY SETTLER is published every
phrusday by the Matanuskc valley Farmers'
Cooperating Association at ralr.er,Alaska.
Mng.Editor, Mrs. v°rna Rasthan
Subscription rates* £1.00 year
by mail* l.£0 yoar
Hailed anyv/hcro; lOp' a copy
Reporter; Ilrs, Carl Erickson
This paper is iss ucd for the purpose of
giving information and nev/j of the yatar
uska Valley Farmers' Cooperating Associa
tions work, problems, accomplishments and
also nev/s of local end general interest*
and to help foster the cocpomtivo spirit
of the farmers of the Matanuska Valley.
ABOUT TTIS CONTRACT EVERYBODY 10 TALNIHG
ABOUT — THE REALTY SALES CONTRACT
Isn't it true that this is one of the few
contracts you ever read through from be
ginning to end? or HAVE you read this one
through?
Have you ever bought a car or a picco of
land or a life insurance policy and read it
through--all the finely printed clauses
that "arc meant to be skipped over, cause
wc know they're all right?" Did you over
read a bill of lading through and then
wonder if you really dared to ship your new
sofa after all?
If ycu have, you've probably found out that
all contracts are pretty much alike in one
thing, the follow who has something to sell
—a house, a piece of land, insurance or
some sorvioe—hus written the contract so
that he will be protected, it only stands
to reason, Re has the property to sell
and ho has the investment in it.
But here we have a contract that was writ
ten, not tc bring personal gain or profit
to any one or any group, tut rather to
protect a cooperative rural community—our
cooperative rural community. All the
c. ses of the contract arc written with
that in mind.
The contract says that as long as the con
tract is not violated, the purchaser right
to main on the property is inviolate, it
doesn't say that if the 3cn*-roi manager
doesn't like the color of your necktie that
he can put you off. And for those who are
tryly interested in keeping this a compara
tive community with conditions for the
best interest of the people, this provision
can have no threat.
But the best part of it is, and you never
saw it in another contract, that if you de
cide to leave in say two or th:cc years, the
Corporation lias agreed to buy back your
land fcr everything you Lave put into it,
including all your improvements. And
furthermore, if you should have an offer
to sell which was higher than what the
Corporation would pay, you would have the
right to sell to said purchaser providing
he was willing to comply with the contract.
;nd talking about contracts—did you ever
consider the marriage contract? Do you
remember all about the "cherish until death
do j )u part, through sickness and health,
or better or for worse.-' b’hcn you think
of it, that's a pretty largo order, but it
didn't keep a let of people from "signing
up". ;.nd one thing about it, when you
made improvements and additions" and then
got tired of making the payments, it wasn't
easy to just walk off and leave everything,
especially the "additions" let alone ex
pecting to get back everything you'd put in
The Realty Sales Contract may not be just
you:- idea of the perfect contract but you
do know that if you don't want to sign it,
you don't have to. It's just a ease of
asking yourself--can I make a "go" of it
here? 'Jill rvt.sfamily be happy here? And
right there you have an answer to--Shall p
sign the Realty Sales contract?
WHAT THE CO-OP.. • .CORF. AGREE’TErT ITEAHS
TO YOU —
Before there was A Cooperating Association,
The Corporation managed all the enterprises
and industries of tl is community. But when
the Cooperating Association was famed they
agreed to turn certain industries over to
the Association. These included the Trad
ing Tost, the Filling station, the cobbler
Shop and Barber Shop Building. Actually
this made very little difference in the
management inasmuch as the Association had
hired the corporation to act as its sales
agent and management. But it did mean that
from then on these enterprises were being
operated for the benefit of the Association
The profits went to the Association. Fur
thermore the gourd cf pincctcrs of the
Cooperating Association gained strength in
its power to mo"e and more influence the
policy of the management with regard to
these industries.
fair and equitable to
ssociution and The corpo
Furthermore, it was agreed that at such tirr.
as it is mutually agreed upon that the As sc
ciation could lease or Buy the physical
equipment'on terms
both parties--the i
atioii. It was fur .her agreed that that the
Association would not ask tc lease or pur
chase the sane until they were confident of
its ability to fulfill any arrangements
agreed unon. „ , . .
* (End of the Series nejrt week)