—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. June I. 1974 18 Lehigh, (Continued from Paft 1| Cumberland, Md., coop which gets milk from producers in western Penn* sylvania. It reportedly will be going into receivership in early June. Country Belle had a management contract with Lehigh until Lehigh’s president and general manager, Richard Allison, was fired several weeks ago for mismanaging the cooperative’s business. Country Belle discovered their troubles when they found out they didn’t have $960,000 to cover producer checks which had already been mailed out. A spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of ■■^attention'VHßl DAIRYMEN’S SUPER SPECIALS "MAES INFLATIONS' 1 95 e each FITS SURGE JET FLOfBOUMATIC OELAVAL Fly Sprays, Foggers, Cattle Dust Bags, Silage Preservative, Mineral Feeders, Farm Gates. ZIMMERMAN’S Animal Health Supply 3 Miles W. oi Ephrata along HOODCORNER ROAD R D.#4, Litib, Pa. 17543 Phone 717 - 733-4466 LOOKING FOR “THE” MISSING // It’s Your Man From YOUNG’S EARL L. 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We’re not members, Just a supplier, so we’re having no problems. They’re picking up our milk and they’re paying us for it, so we have no reason to be dissatisfied.” Bill Stout, Lehigh vice president, said Thursday morning that so far the coop has lost a total of 128 members, but that some bad left and come back. He said that five had come back so far. Where the shippers are now sending their milk is hard to determine. Penn Dairies in Lancaster is rumored to be getting some, some shippers have gone to other coops, some may be shipping to Hershey Foods, and one hauler from the northeastern part of* the state is reportedly taking his farmers’ milk to a receiving point in Virginia. Stout said the future looks good for Lehigh. A new general manager is expected to be named early next week, and it looks like they’re going to be able to pay federal order prices to their farmers for the rest of the year. “We have plenty of milk to keep our plants going,” Stout said, “even without the shippers who’ve left. We need 54 million pounds to keep our two bottling plants and our cheese plant going in Good Land Deserves Good Buildings. ... and good buildings are what our business is all about. Handsome, durable buildings at economi cal prices you can afford. All kinds of buildings— farm, commercial, storage, warehouses, garages, workshops, horse bams, utility structures. Strong, rugged buildings of wood frame construction with beautiful maintenance-free exteriors of color steel or color aluminum. Your good land deserves a good building. A pro fessionally engineered Wickes building. Erected by skilled Wickes construction crews. Backed 100% by Wickes—serving Americans for 120 years. If s America’s greatest building value. 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Stout, himself a former Kraft Co. employee, said there was absolutely no truth to the rumor that Kraft owned half of the Lehigh stock, through dummy corporations, and that the giant food concern would soon be taking ownership of the $7 million Lehigh plant. “Only milk producers are eligible to join Lehigh,” Stout said, “and I’m just about certain that Kraft isn’t tied up with any of our producers. I know, from my experience with them, that Kraft isn’t interested in going through the problems of producer relations and creating their own supply of milk. They buy it as they need it.” Locally, the effect of the Lehigh situation is hard to assess. All shippers have been hurt,'some have gotten out, but more seem to be staying in. A members-only meeting of the Lanchester local has been scheduled for next Friday night at the Gap Fire Hall to discuss the problems. 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The member, who didn’t want to be quoted, said that he knew Dick Allison was withholding information from the board of directors to make the situation look better than it was, and that was unforgivable. But he said that if the cheese plant had opened on schedule-in October instead of four months later, and if the USDA hadn’t eliminated the butter-powder snubber formula when it did, and if consumption hadn’t taken a 16 percent dip, the picture today might be entirely different. “With the proper management decisions, I don’t see any reason why Lehigh can’t make a profit from here on out,” he con cluded. J>/ >r % Or r& lame I Address or R. R, [ Town_ J State_ J County. ences, Instead of writing in formation on a blackboard • or an eaaal pad whlla you sp«ak-and riaking loaing tha attention of your audience you can make copiea of grapha and propoaals ahead of time and distribute them to everybody involved. Distribute material more efficiently. 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