HOSPITAL PATIENTS
In and out at the Valley
Presbyterian Hospital during
the week of Dec. 4-11 were Eli
nor Goodrich, Mrs. Larry
Hoeldt and infant daughter,
Mrs. Dan Fleckenstein and in
fant son, Iver Konikson, Mrs
Charles DeFreest and infanl
son, Mrs. Victor, Falk, Jr. and
infant daughter, Kimberly Car
man, Erma Smith, Randy Laz
enby. Patsy Gaedtke, and Vir
ginia Dodge.
Still hospitalized vesterdaj
were Frank Clark, Laura Ro
berts, G. Ray Roberts. Ina M
Johnston. James R. Scott, anc
Laura Kloster.
MEA Officials Seek Eaual Membership for G&T
“There can be no effective
generation and transmission
cooperative without equality of
representation,” Mason La
Zelle, MEA general manager,
said this week. “All three co
operatives (CEA, HEA. MEA)
must be equal members in the
organization to make it func
tion as envisioned.”
LaZelle made the statement
following a meeting Dec. 5 of
City of Anchorage officials
with representatives of all
three cooperatives, called by
the City to determine what
progress has been made to
form a G & T. At this meet
ing, CEA representatives stated
that the only way the proposed
G & T cooperative can exercise
responsible management is to
give CEA a weighted vote be
cause of its greater member
ship and investment.
(The local manager said that
G&T organizations in the South
48 are based on equality of
membership regardless of the
size of t h e member organiza
tions. The G&T thus formed is
responsible for generation and
transmission for the area, in
cluding planning, operations.
loan applications for additional
facilities, and retirement of
debt on existing facilities. Thus
the most economical units can
be installed.)
At meetings with REA rep
resentatives last July, CEA
agreed to equal membership
representation, but insisted
that it must have a weighted
voice on the board of directors,
suggesting a 3-2-2 split.
However, on Sept. 26. CEA
advanced a new proposal which
would have set up both t h e
membership representation and
board of directors with a firm
CEA priority in voting. Under
the proposal, one vote would
be allowed for each coopera
tive, and in addition one vote
for each 1,000 members or ma
jor fraction of a thousand. The
result would be 15 votes for
CEA, four for MEA, and three
for HEA.
At the same meeting, MEA
representatives proposed an
equal vote for membership and
board of directors, while equity
for membership would be giv
en in committees such as those
handling the budget or alloca
ting power. The meeting was
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PALMER, ALASKA
adjourned in a stalemate. ,
Since then, a meeting sched
uled for Oct. 31 in Anchorage
was postponed indefinitely by
chairman Richard Smith of
CEA. At the public meeting on
Dec. 3, Dec. 12 was set as the
next meeting date for discus
sion of formation of the G&T.
Just before the Dec. 5 meet
ing, CEA presented a new pro
posal to the other two co-ops,
using 3.000 members as the
base for the number of voting
delegates instead of 1,000. This
would result in six votes for
CEA, two for MEA, and two
for HEA. The proposal, now
under study, will be discussed
at the Dec. 12 meeting, LaZelle
said.
City officials indicated on
Dec. 5 that if some concrete
progress has not been made in
forming a G&T by March 2,
1964, it will have to proceed
without delay with its own
planning for the future.
At the Dec. 5 meeting, CEA
proposed a power pooling ar
rangement with the city, to be
negotiated immediately for an
economy interchange of pow
“The facts here,” LaZelle
said, “are that such a pooling
arrangement on a bilateral bas
is does offer some advantages
to the entities involved. It is
not, however, a solution for the
primary generation problems
in the area, and it cannot go
into actual use without a con
siderable expenditure for swit
ching equipment, and a great
deal of study to see how it af
fects the internal operations of
each system. It is doubtful if
such a plan could be brought
to fruition in less than six
months, and it would have
very little effect on the future
pooling arrangements which
the City might make with the
G&T.”
Phil O’Neill, president of the
MEA board of directors, said
at last Thursday’s meeting that
MEA is still convinced that the
G&T is the best overall ap
proach to generation problems.
He pointed out, however,
that MEA would gain much
less out of such an agreement
than the other two co-ops.
MEA has proved conclusive
ly that when existing genera
tion and transmission financed
by REA is integrated with a 33
megawatt steam plant at Sut
ton. or at Knik Arm. thefe is
less than half a mill difference
in the average wholesale cost
of power.
By itself, the Sutton plant
has an advantage of approxi
mately 1.5 to 2 mills over the
Knik Arm location, but inte
gration into the present system
reduces this advantage because
other sources of generation in
the system range from 14 mills
to 9 mills to 6.8 mills per KWH.
The average cost would be in
the neighborhood of 12 mills,
1.5 mills higher than MEA is
now paying.
The best plan for MEA was
the 22 MW loan application
which MEA submitted to REA
prior to the July visit of REA
officials. This plan did not
take into consideration the as
sumption by MEA of any of
the considerable debt service
on the existing CEA-HEA sys
tem. It was set up in coopera
tion with the City of Anchor
I age as a market for surplus
power during the early years
of operation of the plant. Un
der this plan, MEA would have
had an average power cost of
about 9.5 mills at the end of
the first ten years of operation.
O’Neill said that MEA agreed
to the G&T approach on the
basis of two primary consid
erations: that CEA agreed to
the concept of equal represen
tation in the G&T, and that the
location of the 33 MW unit
would be determined upon
power costs out of the unit.
“We feel that CEA has now
retreated from the first consid
eration, as it has the right to
do. As to the second, we feel
that it has been conclusively
proved that the 33 MW plant
can be installed at either loca
tion, but that a definite advan
tage exists for the Sutton lo
cation.
“Mr. Schultz, general man
ager for CEA, has indicated
that REA representatives have
informed him that the CEA
application for a plant at Knik
Arm will be approved. If this
is true, REA has retreated
from the position it adopted
when MEA agreed to alter its
loan application.
“The MEA board of directors
cannot enter a G&T organiza
tion which carries with it the
obligation of shouldering part
of the debt service for the
present REA-financed genera
tion and transmission system
in the area (the greater part
of a million dollars a year)
without submitting such an ac
tion to the members for their
decision. The decision would
be tempered by the fact that
the entry would immediately
result in the raising of the
wholesale power rate which
MEA pays by approximately 22
per cent.
"The decision would also be
affected by the fact that the
affiliation would do nothing to
realize the construction of a
mine-mouth plant which is the
cheapest source of energy for
MEA and which is needed to
aid in the preservation of one
of our basic industries in the
MEA service area. Certainly, if
MEA enters into a relationship
on the basis of complete dom
ination by one of the other par
ties, this also must be consider
ed.”
O’Neill said that MEA re
spects the desires of the other
cooperatives to protect their in
terests, and feels that they will
in turn respect the desires of
MEA.
“MEA will continue to work
toward the solution of the bas
ic problems of the G&T, which
are many. In the meantime, we
must endeavor to explore all
avenues open to us for a supply
of power adequate for our fu
ture needs and at the lowest
possible cost. We feel that this
will turn out to be the mine
mouth plant.”
HOW II\(i
PIONEER LEAGur.
W L
Bovey Trophies _39 17
B & B Tools_30 26
Hallea Lodge_25 31
Lakers _18 38
High team series, Hallea
Lodge, 2,696; high team game,
Hallea Lodge, 925. High indi
vidual series, Lorenzo (Joe)
Martin, 630; high individual
game, Ray McCartney, 230.
GIRLS' MISSIONARY
GROUP IS ORGANIZED
Missionettes is the name of
the girl’s missionary group
which was organized Friday af
ternoon at the Assembly of
God Church in Wasilla.
Mrs. Homer Mayo is the
leader of this group. Their aim
is to learn various handicrafts
and to use these skills in mak
ing articles for different mis
sionaries. Little Christmas an
gels was the project completed
at their first meeting.
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS we, the people of Alaska and all of the United
States, deeply mourn the tragic and untimely death of
our late, great president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and
WHEREAS people all over the world also mourn the passing of
this good and noble citizen of the world, and
WHEREAS it is foreseeable that many private and national
monuments and memorials will be dedicated to his mem
ory, and
WHEREAS many all over the world feel the need for a mem
orial honoring him and acknowledging his love for all
the world's people and their l6ve for him,
THEREFORE let us resolve to establish a John Fitzgerald Ken
nedy Memorial Fund for the children #nd future citizens
of the world, administered by LjU|CEF |ntj contributed to
by all of the peoples of this world, to th^t these citizens
of the future shall know, as we know, that because this
Christian man lived, all the world is and will be a better
place fot us all.
THEODORE O. SCHMIDTKE
Mayor, City of Palmer