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Show Is It A Cooperative Or Not? Our elected Garkane Board of Directors and 63 percent (a clear majority) of the cooperative's members have voted to move the company's main office from Richfield Rich-field to Hatch, but no action has yet been taken by company management man-agement to begin the move. At this point, consumers could say to the elected Board and to the general Garkane membership that the company is no longer a cooperative. Webster's dictionary defines a cooperative as "a jointly-owned enterprise engaging enga-ging in the production or distribution distri-bution of goods or supplying of service operated by its members for their mutual benefit." Obviously, the greatest majority ma-jority of Garkane's "owner-members" "owner-members" have agreed that moving the office out of Richfield onto the company's distribution system is an economic issue. For over half a century, Richfield has benefited from Garkane's office J.W. Dunham Cannonville M. Douglas Ahlstrom Tropic Howard Leaviit Cannonville Robert Joseph Oit Tropic Paul O. Mangum Tropic Lewis Haas Tropic Alma D. Fletcher Cannonville Lamar LeFevre Tronic headquarters. It's time to move on. At the next Board meeting, set for Koosharcm this next week, the general manager should act on the motion of the board. A schedule of dates and procedures for the move should be presented to the board for approval. If this action is not immediately immedi-ately taken, it will become crystal crys-tal clear that Garkane is no longer a cooperative operated by the majority of its member-owners for their mutual benefit. It will be obvious, instead, that Garkane is controlled by a minority of members, a resisting few employees employ-ees with a vested interest in Richfield, and a powerful Richfield Rich-field business community that doesn't want to lose the money that daily flows into the city directly and indirectly from Garkane. Gar-kane. It's time to move the Garkane office and restore the real mission of the company. Al Stone Cannonville David Cowan Tropic Joe Thompson Cannonville Mondcll Syrett Lowell Mecham Tropic Wallace Ott Tropic Anna Dunham Cannonville Reed LeFevre Tropic |