Vol. 4
January 24, 1941 Palncr, Alaska
No. 4
CO-OP FOUNTAIN LUNCH RECEIVES
HIOH SCORE.
You can cat with confidence
at the fountain Lunch. • Sanitation
and methods were pronounced 100/;
yesterday by inspector Morely.
Equipment scored 98. It seems
desirable however that a special
kind of devise or gadget be used
to perfect the final touch--the
exquisite finesse to the art of
dishwashing. Only the lack of
t is it -m of equipment prevented
a perfect score.
LIVES LOST BY THE i.IISUSE OF
GASOLINE
(C orr ic r ci a 1 Fish o man)
Fir-is from gasoline and other
potrolo'ui products in Canada numb
ered 1, -3 in 1930 and caused
property damage■of nearly ^600,000
and resulted in the loss of 53
livesi hundreds of millions of
gallons of gasoline arc consumed
annually in this country but it
is the misuse of a few gallons
which has been responsible for the
mounting toll of dead and injured
and her -y property damage.
If people could only realize
that a allon of gasoline properly
vaporiz d has the explosive force -
of 82 pounds of dynamite, they
would exorcise more care in it3
use. Oh solinc should, never be
used in the house for dry clean
ing purposes. Oven the very act
of cleaning clothes in gasoline
develops static electricity which
is liable to set off the fumes
without warning. This has often
happ nod too, when floors arc
c 1l.ancd wi th tas olinc.
(Alaska Fishing News)
REGISTRATION CCMPLET2D
114 registered at Palmer for
selective service Wed. ,Jan.22.
It has boon announced over the
radio thatAlaskan registrants will
probably not be drawn for service
until July and those drawn will
not go to camp until Siptember.
co-op iioths
After rending numerous editor
inis and news dispatches all toll
ing what a miserable failure the
folks in the Hatanuslca Valley turn
ed out to be, it was certainly a
pleasure to pick up a paper and
find just the opposite point of
view. The Grange Cooperative Hews
carried quite an article on the Val
ley in a recent issue and instead
of the usual ranting and.raving
found in the reactionary press of
the Frozen Horth—"hiss fit farmers
-"Our money did it" and "I told you
so", they wrote in the usual Co
operative way of what the farmers
were attempting to do and the pro
gress that had been made,'
Of course we shouldn't bo too
critical of the editors that take
delight in throwing mud balls at us
as they .arc only human and like you
and I arc only working for the fel
low that pays them. Some publishers
would bo very indignant at the sta
tement and would mumble about the
froo press and reader interest but
I’ll bet my bottom dollar that if
y^u show the same bird ,'40.00 or
h50*00 a week in advertising from
each farmer the same paper will re
verse its stand pronto and you
would be told -that i.latnnuska was
another Valley of the Hilo with a
Cleopatra on each Tract.
It has boon open, season on
Fa mors so long that it has become
a habit. They tell you that Farm
ers don't have brains enough to run
their own business yet they arc do
ing it not only here but in thou
sands of other spots in the United
States and doing a better job of it
than the other fellow.did.
If some one wants to help the
farmer let then ones some legisla
tion that will put him on a par with
the nnnufacturer. You don't catch
a nan producing far;; machinery sell
ing his product below cost or" the
auto manufacturer making cars with
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