Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-01-02
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que reported this week. Hundreds
Of stores and service stations
throughout the country were
streamlined. New stores and head
quarters buildings, warehouses
and productive units were built.
New sales record were established
i'll retailing, wholesaling and pro-
duction.
The most dramatic steps were in
production where the cooperatives
purchased a $750,000 refinery and
inventory at Scottsbluff, Nebraska.
This supplements the coop refin-
cries at Philipsburg, Kansas and
Mt. Vernon, Indiana and Regina,
Saskatchewan All of these pro-
duction units showed phenomenal
earnings. One of the refineries
saved consumers its entire cost
during the course of the year.
Other productive units built or
in the process of construction in
clude feed mills at Superior, Wis
consin and Reading, Ohio; fertil-
izer factories in Ohio and Indiana;
additions to the coop paint and
grease factories in Kansas City;
coinpounding plant at Amarillo;
100000 addition to the Farmers
Union Central Exchange, St.
Paul; two new warehouses for
Pacific Supply Cooperative at
Walla Walla, Washington; and
new headquarters for Saskatchew-
an Coop Wholesale, Saskatchew-
an.
Eight coop oil wells in Kansas
are feeding the coop refinery
there. The first coop oil well
in Indiana "came in" late in No
vernber.
The process of streamlining
grocery stores and gasoline sta
tions got under way in 1340.
The results achieved were so
effective that scores of coop stores
and service stations from Maosa-
chusetts to California followed
suit during 1941. Coop super
markets have been built in May
nard, Mass, Waukegan, and North
Chicago, H., Winfield, Kansas and
Berkeley, California. And a ma
tional committee on cooperative
architecture and design has Great
ed uniform color schemes and de-
signs for new coop stores.
Grocery co-ops, which pioneered
with government grade labelling
for two years before the ma or
chains followed suit, added a sys-
tenn of l, 2, 3 grading for those
items not covered by government
grading. A new economy COOP
Green Label was introduced to
cut costs for lower income fami-
lies. In coop stores from coast "
coast the red COOP label stands
for the highest quality, with blue
designating second and green Label
third grade.
$5s, 1921 900 DISTRIBUTED
Fifteen regio onal cooperative
WHOLESALERS affiliated with National
Cooperatives distributed $58,821,.
900 worth of commodities during
1910. Sales during 1941 indicate
a substantial increase over that
figure. The Consumers Coopera-
tive Association in North Kansas
City, Missouri, for example, iE-
creased its volume from $6,200,.
900 to $7,200,000 during the fiscal
year. Ohio Farm Bureau Coopcra-
tives boosted sales from $780,
900 to nearly $9,500,000. The
Farmers Union Central Exchange,
st. Paul, Mimi, sales jumped from
$5,250,000 to $7,000,000. Midland
Cooperative Wholesale, Minnea-
polls, reported its biggest year
with sales of well over $5,OO0,U 900
as against $4,400,000 in 1910.
Eastern Cooperative Wholesale,
New York, has had sales estimated
at $2,250,000 as against S1,500$-
900 in 1910. Central Cooperative
Wholesale. Superior, Wisconsin,
passed the $4,000,000. Indiana
Farm Bureau Cooperative Assn
exceeded $7,000,000, with Pennsyl-
vania Farm Bureau Cooperatibes
expected to pass the $3,000,000
mark this year. Consumers Co.
operatives Associated, Armillc,
Texas, expects sales of S1,000,0O0
five times the 1910 volume The
ether regional cooperatives affili-
ated with The Cooperative League
of the USA, national education
federation, expected to have SIM
liar business increases, though
complete reports are not yet in.
Farm Bureau Cooperative In
surance Services in the first II
months of 1941 reported increases
of 40.4 per cent in auto insurance,
65.8 per cent in life insurance,