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Alaska Milk Producers Protest to Ike
On Military Procurement Practices
ANCHORAGE, Ufl — President
Eisenhower will be asked to close
Alaska to further homesteading
until Alaska farmers are placed
on a “fair competitive position in
military markets here.
The request for the closure of
homestead rights' will be sent to
the President in petitions now
being circulated among Alaska
farmers and homesteaders.
Sponsoring the petition is the
Fresh Milk Association in Palmer,
which has been attempting to earn
equal status with outside milk
producers supplying the Alaska
military market.
Alaskan farmers charge mili
tary procurement practices sub
sidize outside producers, but not
the Alaska producers. They point
out that milk and other products
sold in military commissaries are
passed on to the customers at cost
delivered to Seattle. Transporta
tion costs from Seattle to Alaska
are not figured on the commissary
sale price. •
This, Alaskan farmers contend,
makes unfair competition for lo
cal producers, since the cost of
transportation must be absorbed
by the federal government, al
though it is not reflected in the
sale price.
Forced Out of Business
Harlan Hamilton, president of
the Fresh Milk Association, cited
hardship of Alaskans. He said:
“Twenty per cent of the dairy
farmers in Interior Alaska have
been forced out of business in the
past nine months. At the same
time, the equivalent of five mil
lion pounds of fresh milk per year
j is being shipped in to the com
missaries and sold at Stateside
wholesale cost. We have had the
milk to supply this market for
more than a year.”
Other officials commented in
similar tones. Said Alaska Agri
culture Commissioner James Wil
son:
“For years we have been trying
to correct this situation. It has
been pursued through all normal
channels without result. I am not
surprised that these people are be
coming impatient.”
Dr. Allan Mick, director of the
Alaska Experiment Station at
Palmer said:
Lower Prices Barred
“The present policies followed
by the military bar tt)e expansion
of our agricultural industry to a
scale which may permit a general
lowering of prices to all Alaskan
consumers on a sustained basis.
At the same time, the illusion of
a sizeble market leads the unwary
homesteader into an investment of
time and money which result only
in undue hardship.”
The entire subject was aired at
a purchasing and procurement
conference called by Governor
Mike Stepovich in November of
1957. The military relaxed some
of its policies to include local pur
chase of many brand commodities,
but the milk purchasing policy ap
parently has remained the same.
Somebody In The
Chimney — Not Santa !
PHOENIX, Ariz., UP) — The
janitor was absolutely right.
“There’s somebody in the chim
ney and I don’t think it’s Santa
Claus,” Johnny Ybarra told the
sheriff’s office early yesterday.
There was — and it wasn’t
Santa.
Deputies found James E. Vance,
24, of Phoenix trapped in the
vent pipe.
Boosed for investigation of bur
glary, Vance said he had jammed
nimself into the top of the vent
shortly before 2 a.m., when offi
cers climbed to the roof of the
building in nearby Sunnyslope to
investigate reports of a noise.
When the police left, Vance
said, he was unable to get out.
So he decided to go down. He
reached the bottom, shoved his
legs out, and got stuck.
He tried to go up again. No
luck. He hung there until Ybarra
heard him and called police.
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