PFA Convention To Adopt Policies
The Pennsylvania Farmers’
Association (PFA), a general
farm organization, will hold its
23rd annual meeting and con
vention November 18-21 at the
Penn Harris Motor Inn, Camp
Hill. Purpose of the convention is
to elect officers and adopt
policies for 1974.
The convention theme is “PFA
- Link to More Net Income.”
PFA has more than 17,200
family members and is affiliated
with 52 county units. The state
group is affiliated with the
American Farm Bureau
Federation, the largest general
farm organization in the world.
The convention officially opens
Sunday, November 18, at 7:30
p.m. with a slide presentation -
America The Beautiful - which
will be presented by Glenn M.
Eshelman of Lancaster County.
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Hoffman Seeds more successful with each passing year.
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This program will be followed by
the traditional vespers services
with the Rev. R. Blair Moffett,
pastor of the Silver Spring
Presbyterian Church,
Mechanicsburg, as the speaker.
The voting delegates, num
bering 150 and representing
county units, will go into session
Monday, November 19, at 8:30
p.m. They will be reading
suggested policies presented by
local farmers’ associations, and
final adoption of 1974 policies will
take place Wednesday,
November 21, at 8:30 a.m. at the
organization’s annual business
meeting. Election of officers,
including the state group’s vice
president, will also be held at the
business meeting.
Jane Alexander, deputy
secretary of the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture, will
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address the women attending a 9
a.m. Monday, November 19,
conference. ___
The women members will hoUMT m WT
several conferences througho
the four-day convention M m-J ###
climaxing their part in 1
program with the naming
persons to serve on ti. ’
organization’s women’s co,
mittee and the naming of a st
women's committee chairm ..
Dr. Russell Larson, Provost"*"
Pennsylvania State Univerf
will keynote the convention ‘T. '
the opening speech at a n
luncheon Monday, November '
An annual meeting of * .
Pennsylvania Agriculti ! * ..
Cooperative Marke 1 ..
Association (PACMA) wi .
held Monday at 2:30
PACMA is the marketing jj
bargaining affiliate of & ..
Speakers for this occasion i '
Ward Cooper, procure 1
director, Knouse I '
Cooperative; Paul Fleist’ y .jJ
owner-manager, United Po> -
Company, and Carl Car Qur
General manager, Ezra
Martin Company. le
At a dinner Monday at 6 0
the finals of a statewide ‘
contest within the organii«»ui’. .
will be held. Finalists include:
Diane Campbell, Bucks County;
Christine Holsopple, Somerset
County; Norale Morton, Warren
County; Carla and Ginny Con
beer, Wayne County; and Linda
Apple, Snyder County
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LANDISVILLE (Lancaster County), PENNSYLVANIA 17538
Since 1965, when the in
flationary spiral began,
disposable income per person has
risen 62 percent. Food prices
have gone up only half as much.
During 1971 and 1972 food prices
and wages were up about the
same amount, 13 percent. But
food prices were rising at a much
slower pace until the last quarter
of 1972 when they shot up rapidly.
For 1973, food prices will far
outstrip wage increases and this
has struck a rather responsive
chord in the minds of consumers.
People are eating more meat
than ever before and bidding up
the price. Americans consume
twice as much beef as they did 20
JofuTfi 3 ?-®' ARb° u Bb beef supplies
and Charles R. Ord, PFA ad
ministrative secretary, will
present their annual reports at 7
a.m. and 11 a.m., respectively,
Tuesday, November 20.
Speaking at a membership
v>
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
AND DISTRIBUTOR OF
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Lancaster Farming. Saturday, November 10,1973—9
people have left over to spend
after taxes - was up 11 percent in
the first half of 1973 over the
same period last year. Personal
income is expected to hit an in
credible trillion dollars this year,
adding more buying power to the
market.
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Stay
shopper is spending about 28
percent of the grocery store
dollar for items that are not food.
Cosmetics, records, cigarettes,
clothing, magazines, and a host
of other items make the food bill
seem higher than It really is.
Most Americans now buv lame
amounts of “built-in maid ser
vice” with the remaining 72
percent of the grocery money.
Prepared foods are convenient
and have most of the kitchen
work already done. This saves
work at home but it does cost
money. The cost of this built-in
service actually has gone up
more than the cost of the
ingredients in most of the
prepared foods.
The world wants
more of our food
Standards of living are im
proving rapidly in industrial
countries all around the world.
People are demanding more
meat in their diets and have the
money to pay for it. Un-
William Swank, executive vice
president, Ohio Farm Bureau
Federation. Roger Fleming,
secretary-treasurer, American
Farm Bureau Federation, will be
the speaker at the joint con
ference of Farm Management
and Business Analysis Service
and Farm Family Insurance
Companies. The latter session
will be at 2:30 p.m.
Also, the annual meeting of the
PFA Supply Co. will be held at
2:30 p.m. Tuesday, with J. S.
Hanse, vice president, Allied
Lines, General Tire and Rubber
Co. as the speaker. The Supply
Company, an affiliate of the farm
organization, is a group pur
chasing company for PFA
members.
U.S. Senator Hugh Scott will
address persons at the annual
awards banquet Tuesday at 6:15
p.m. County program awards
will be presented that evening.
The election of officers and
adoption of policies will take
place at the Wednesday,
November 21, 8:30 a.m. business
meeting. Policies which will
govern the organization for 1974
will be adopted along with the
election of an organizational vice
president and eight board
members.
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