A 4 8 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 26, 1966 [• District 7 (Continued from Page 1> mony and hold another hear ing. The latter course is the one that marketing agencies in the New York area are pushing. They have been ag gressive, in instructing their congressmen to so advise the Secretary of Agriculture. He advised the District ■■embers to let their con gressmen know that Order 4 must continue to operate «s a handler pool. This fight by Inter-State and other interested parties to maintain the handler pool milk marketing system in the Phila delphia area will influence dairymen supplying all of the East coast and mid-Atlantic markets. Marketing people from as far away as Wisconsin fcave supported Inter-State’s stand, Hand reported. “We are not opposed to mar ket-wide pools, as such,” Hand said. He cited the Baltimore area pool as one designed to maintain better Class I prices, and therefore make greater returns to members. The New York pool, on the other band, said the economist, is sub sidized by operators of the Older They have no incentive for greater returns to produc er-members On the contrary, they use the subsidization to become bigger and encourage more suiplus milk in the area. “Loss of the handler pool in the Delaware Valley will be the end of the competitive milk handling system,” he said “Under the market pool sys tem, you can’t go anywhere else when you become dis satisfied with your present out let because each agency has its price set by law at the same level. “We are now getting the upturn in milk prices we’ve waited so long for,” Hand said, and he predicted the Philadelphia formula will Improve by 28 cents by April Ist. This is due to short supply on manufacturing milk, and the fact that many dairymen, who could no longer afford to subsidize the consumers, had been driven out of busi ness. “It is especially important now to Veep Order 4 as a handler pool if you are to share in these better prices,” Hand concluded. Gailand E Gingench, voca tional agucultme teacher fiom Penn Manor High School, told Distnet 7 membeis that Amen oa was still the land of oppoi tumty He said the general public must reject the "‘negativsm” that is thiust upon them at eveiy turn ladio, television, newspapers, and magazines, that they must look for the positive factois this eountiy offers As examples, he cited the vast opportunities in agn culture, our mass emphasis on (he individual in education, and our free-choice system of American democracy “So long as we can answei for ourselves the three ques lions - Who. am I 9 What can I do 9 ; and Wheie am I going 9, America will lemain the land of opportunity for all,” Gmge rich said The members also heaid bnef talks by Linda Lou Welk, Lancaster County Dairy Prin cess and Distnct 7 duector E. Suavely Garber. Officers elected for the four locals of Distnct 7 weie Donegal: Daniel L Kettenng, piesident, Lestei Hawthorne vice-pi esident C Witmei Shei ei, secretaiy-lreasuier; dele gates, Robeit H Kauffman and Boy E Sauder alternate dele gates, Donald Heishey; Lan- caster market committee mem ber, Cletus A. Balmer. Lititz: S. A. Dum, president; Daniel L. Martin, vice-presi dent; J. Richard 8011, secretary treasurer; delegates, Clyde M. Buchen and Clarence Stauffer; alternates, John J. Burkholder and Clarence L. Keener; Lart caster market committee, S. A. Dum and No ah W. Kreider, Sr. Millersville: Laban Z. Byers, president; John H. Thomas, vice-president; J. Clayton Char les, secretary-treasurer; Melvin M. Groff and Melvin L. Shert zer; alternates, Thomas D. Grassel and Jacob S. Ober; Lancaster market committee, Laban Z. Byers. West Lampeter: J. Wade Groff, president; Robert M. My lin, vice-president; Jacob R. Houser, Jr., secretary-treasurer; J. Mowery Frey, Jr.; alternate, A. 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