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Show Friday, February UTAH VALLEY NEWS What Mount A Lake Assn Proposes For The competition for the radio prize offered by the of a plastic table radio is Utah Wholesale is yet time for any There in intensity. increasing member with a few days of time on his hands to get into this contest and win this radio. The field is ripe for memberships, so members should get busy. ve Answering prospective members of Mount A Lake who want to know something definite about both its immediate program and its long range objectives, the following outline is submitted as a partial answer to the questions asked : Enthusiastic Meeting at Payson The Immediate Program 1. To act as the purchasing agent for its members the in following fields: Gasoline, oils, greases, auto accessories. These conveniently lopurchases will be distributed through 1 in operation now is No. Station cated service stations. be opened will Others in Orem. Scera Theater opposite as the demand and the need shall justify. Bulk storage plant for gasoline and fuel oil is now being established at the Fischer garage site in Orem. This plant will have a capacity of oyer 30,000 gallons. Tank wagon Bervice will deliver to members throughout the area who have their own storage tanks. This will begin early in March. Small portable farm storage tanks with pumps, up to 203 gallon capacity on skids are now available for members for immediate delivery. They are priced right and there is the prosiiect of a healthy saving refund through wholesale buying. Tires, batteries, and miscellaneous items too numerous to mention, and complete car service are now available at the No. 1 service station in Orem. ' Garage And Mechanics Shop Garage and machine shop to service autos, trucks, appliances and farm machinery. This department will be in operation immediately at the Fischer garage Orem. It will expand just as soon as building materials are available for additional rooms, in fact a new garage, fully equipped, is being planned to house this business which is expected to require the service of from 5 to 10 first class mechanics. This is all planned for the immediate future. 3. Miscellaneous Farm Supplies The store building on the Fischer property will be open for business on March 1st, or soon thereafter. In this building the association will distribute all kinds of farm hardware, tods, seeds, fertilizers, sprays, fencing, etc. Some supplies will be on hand at the opening-m- any more as soon as available. Famous Porter-Walto- n sceds will be in stock. 4. Farm Machinery, Trucks, Tractors, Etc. All kinds will be purchased for members as soon as available. We are now taking orders for washers, etc. fruit graders, In fai t, the national Association is now on good terms ami trade relations with the large oil companies of the nation. The oils and greases are processed to meet consumer needs and are of the finest products prod ueod anywhere. Mount A take gets its lubricating oil and greases from this plant. .Mount A ol fiends were very well received and shown every courtesy. They cairn home better informand more enthusiastic tlian ever ed on of the possibilities of Mount A' Lake. Competition Keen For Radio Prize Present and Future 2. 22, rs, 5. Electrical Appliances, Etc. A full line of Co-oappliances will be carried as soon as available. These are the best that money can buy. Hot water heaters and milking machines are now in stock. Ranges, washers, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners and ironers are beginning to come through and but for strikes a small supply would have been on hand now. We are now taking orders for appliances fqr future delivery. p 6. Lumber, Cement, Etc. We expect to carry a full line of building materials as soon as they are available. We can get cement now. Two carloads of lumber have been ordered and should be rolling in any day now. (Yes, they are already sold.) Aluminum roofing should be available soon now that the C. I. O. strike is about settled. NOTE: (This subject will be continued next wevk in these columns. Lack of space forbids more now.) Annual Meeting And Social Events Set For March lltli Monday, Mar. 11th is the date definitely set for the annual meeting of Mount A Lake members for the purpose of electing a board of directors to serve for the ensuing year and to hear reports of progress of the associations up to date. The big barbecue, dance and picture show will be held the same evening. These latter events are based on the membership enrollment being 300 by midnight of March 9th. Inability to get an orchestra, and an open evening for the picture show at Scera earlier made it necessary to extend the dates. Mount A' Lake Officials Return Return of John B. Stratton, President of Mount A' Lake, C. Maston Wentz and Charles II. Poulssn directors of the Association, from their trip to the Center in Kansas City was the sign for renewed activity in Mount A Lake Association and its drive for new members. These gentlemen report a very success- ful trip. Arrangements were made for supplies for future use when production is increased to its pre-wa- r status. Also these gentlemen learned much about how Cooperatives operate in the Kansas area. An interesting feature of the trip was the visit to the giant processing plant for gasoline, oils and greases, owned by the Consumer Association of Kansas City. Here they saw and had explained to them the various steps of the processing of crude oil taken from wells into its various products. This plant is one of the finest in the nation and definitely puts the in the position to maintain itself in competition with the giant oil companies of the nation. Inthusiastic is a mild word to characterize the over at Payson the other evenmeeting of held by a group of farmer was This meeting ing. from the Payson area interested in Mount A Lake. J. Morris Bird, Manager, John B. Stratton, President, A. V. Watkins, board member, were present at the invitation of the group. Seven new members for Mount A Lake were enrolled during the evening with a promise' of many more as soon as application blanks can be sent to them. New members in southwest Provo are coming rapidly and the movement in American Fork ia still under full swing. Three hundred members ia a large number to get in such a short time, but it looks like John Stratton will be required to furnish the beef at the present rate of progress. He insists his terms of 300 members at the end of the drive must be met so members should govern themselves accordingly. $ Ruild vs. Drain Wouldnt this be a dull world U we didnt have some humorous things happen occasionally! We are prompted to make this remark by the recent advertisement of one of our competitors, the XYZ service station who has apparently run across the trail of one of our over zealous members in a membership canvas. Said our friend after remarking that someone was misrepresenting" the truth while trying to obtain new members. First let it be known that we have no intention of becoming affiliated with any such movement. Do you catch the humor of that? The over enthusiastic solicitor must have been expecting the millennium to happen. XYZ join us I That's the laugh of the season. Somebody must have been spoofing, XYZ. Second That our business is in no way benefited by same. What a wise conclusion! We should agree, so what? Also get this: Third Let it be known that. XYZ. Gasoline and other products are manufactured under XYZ specifications and technical supervision and that it is impossible for any company, association or organization to procare XYZ products for resale without displaying XYZ signs in colors, and being an authorized dealer. Shades of the oil trust! Who would want to procure XYZ products and by doing so pay tribute to the XYZ owners in Holland, Great Britain and Wall Street, when a large part of the XYZ gasoline is processed in the same plant in Utah according to the same specifications, and runs out of the same spout into tanker trucks, as our own p gasoline? The only difference is that XYZ gasoline has some yellow, or other coloring, dropped into it, whereas gas ia kept clean. If any one doubts these statements we can specify the where and the how of it. A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet," etc. And as to other products," why buy XYZ oils and greases when our own National Cooperative in which we own an interest, from its own well and refineries, processes oils and greases according to the standard set by consumers like ourselves who know what they want? Surely there can be no purpose in putting out a product to sting" ourselves, the owners, the . Co-o- Co-o- p consumers. But that is only part of. the story. Every cent above p the actual cost of preparing the product comes back to the consumer members of Mount A Lake and other spread over the U. S. ; On the other hand local XYZ service stations get a part of the XYZ profits but only a small part, the rest, the big profit, goes out of Utah nevPr to return, to the absentee distributors of Co-o- Co-o- ps XYZ products. By the way all the savings (profits to the public generally) come back to the State, to the consumers, they build" Utah. By the XYZ way all the profits, except a small portion, go out, they drain Utah. This is not only true of the XYZ Company, but also of all out of state companies operating on the same basis. So its build" vs. drain. Naturally we prefer to build" Utah to keep savings, (profits), at home, and by doing so we can have a more prosperous community. Since we cannot do all the business, our XYZ friend will get part of the general prosperity so after all the over zealous" member may not have been so wrong. In conclusion may we thank our neighbor for his thoughtfulness in providing an occasion" for our little sermon on Build vs. Drain." Saves time, work and money around, the clock, around the year, around the world Universal Jeep as a light tractor does its work both effectively and economically. and rear wheels. Selection is made ini the transfer case at the will of the driver. It has been adapted for use in pulling and operating farm equipment Its shaft is designed to power take-otractor standards, has 1 8 diameter splines apd rotates at variable speeds. A pulley-driv- e may be mounted over the power take-of- f shaft furnishing up to 30 horsepower at a belt speed of 3,100 feet per. minute. The transfer case also provides a high and low gear ratio but the low gear ratio can be used in drive only. This feature protects the rear axle from overload and compels the operator to go into drive when a heavy pull is required. Mounted behind the transfer case is the highly efficient emergency brake The rugged frame of the Universal Jeep has been designed to meet the The Universal Jeep has been tested and proved in the operation of a wide The 4-i- n-l ff 3-- standard drawbar pull requirements for a light tractor. The engine, clutch, transmission and transfer case have been set in rubber mountings to check the transmission of vibration to accessories and the body of the Jeep. co-o- p" The Uinversal Jeep has selective four-whedrive. It may be driven by the rear wheels only or by both front el four-whe- el four-whe- el range of farm equipments, including the following: manure spreaders; single bottom plows and two bottom plows; single disc plows; double tandem disc harrows; two-rocom planters; seeders; five-rorotary hoes; com binders; silo fillers with cutter; ensilage harvesters; side delivery rakes and numerous other 16-in- ch 12-in- ch w w Five Dollars Reward it O the above sermonette to a friend. He liked He thinks there are many more ways that the idea We read may be worked out or applied. So he made this offer: For the best essay or article on Build vs Drain, he will give a prize of $5.00. It must be original and written by a resident of Utah County and contain 500 words or less. The article must be of a constructive nature. All entries must be in the hands of Mount A Lake Association not later than next April 1st. The board of directors of Mount A Lake will be the judges (naturally they will not be allowed to compete). So get the pencil busy. Send in your entries to Mount A Lake before April 1, 1946. 12th North and State Highway Phone 055-J- 4 OREM |