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sctors of the Northeastern and the broadening of its services membership and objectives
py Producers Council have to members. committee and referred it to the
their approval to a plan Meeting in Hershey recently, executive committee for
i would involve the the NEPPCO board “approved in refinement and implementation
icturing of the organization principle” a report of the goals, in co-operation with members of
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the committee which made the
proposal.
Operating on the principle that
if NEPPCO is to grow effectively
and if membership is to be gained
certain accomplishments are
needed prior to a membership
drive, the committee suggested:
1. Poultrymen must be made
aware of what NEPPCO has been
doing for them.
2. The objectives of NEPPCO
must be restructured along
service lines.
3. The entire poultry
organization structure of the
Northeast must be changed, so
that NEPPCO is no longer an
arm of state organizations but
that it functions as a strong
regional service organization
with state divisions.
4. Membership in NEPPCO be
structured around the people who
own birds as the base.
The committee then suggested
that, as a service organization,
NEPPCO should concentrate on
some or all of the following areas,
to meet members’ needs:
a. Service as a technical
clearinghouse on problems of
ecology, residues and special
diseases. It should find the best
means and personnel for at
tacking a problem in question,
especially among NEPPCO
members and state universities.
b. Operate as a technical
clearinghouse to ascertain what
laws are coming up, what they
mean, how they might affect
members and what can be done
about them.
NEPPCO also should give a
realistic interpretation of present
laws, find out whom to approach
to see that the laws are in
terpreted properly by local in
spectors and provide assistance
in getting around and through
bureaucratic red tape.
The organization would
determine what legislative help
is needed by NEPPCO members
on such matters as freight rates,
taxes and taxing structures and
agricultural land use. This might
involve lobbying, either alone or
in co-ordination with other
poultry organizations
c. As an information
clearinghouse, NEPPCO would
tell members what is going on in
the industry, how it might affect
the northeastern poultryman and
what can be done about it.
d In the area of education,
NEPPCO would embark on
programs to be sure that the
northeastern poultry industry is
represented properly and con
tinually to both state legislators
and the Congress.
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NEPPCO also would be
charged with making sure these
legislators have a clear un
derstanding of what the industry
is, not only as an agricultural
enterprise, but as a group per
forming extemely useful nearby
services to northeastern con
sumers
In the same area of operation,
NEPPCO would be involved in
training through selfsustaining
meetings —holding such sessions
as the egg quality school,
marketing schools and turkey
schools, among others.
The committee emphasized
that the executive director must
be freed to be on the program at
each state at least once during
the year, to explain the current
situations in all of the above
areas and to answer questions
and get “grass roots” im
pressions on needs.
With the approval of the change
in NEPPCO’s approach, the
committee outlined a campaign
aimed at adding 200 new mem
bers during the coming year.
In addition to publicizing
NEPPCO’s revamped setup, the
drive would include the mailing
of a brochure and a newsletter,
the setting up of state or area
meetings to acquaint poultrymen
with NEPPCO’s aims and ser
vices and the use of personal calls
on poultrymen.
Members of the goals, mem
bership and objectives com
mittee, which was chaired by Dr.
John Dodge of Agway, Syracuse,
N Y., included George W
Robinson, Kreamer, Pa.; George
L Humphrey, Poland Spring,
Maine, aad Henry Sagho,
Glastonbury, Conn. Their
meeting also involved Hendrik
Wentink of Lancaster, president,
and Richard I. Ammon, Fairless
Hills, Pa., executive director
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