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cooperativeslt was no Idle
boast, os he brought along a
complete financial report for
each member to look at and
among the findings was that
4.7 cents of the eight cents
per hundredweight taken as
patrons' contributions for
capital will be returned.
Touching for a moment on
the controversies which
developed when independent
.shippers come under the
Order 4 marketing umbrella,
Gartlcy pointed out that his
cooperative has undertaken
a public relations campaign
which included placing full
page ads in several
newspapers and a
Harrisburg area labor
magazine. He also told the
group that Inter-State has
contacted 50 news centers
throughout the country in an
effort to make the con
sumers in town aware of
rural problems.
Gartley’s office announced
recently that the Pennmarva
organization has taken on
two new members Capitol
Milk Producers and Lehigh
Valley Cooperative. The new
merger allows for all five
members (Inter-State,
Maryland Cooperative Milk
Producers, and Maryland
and Virginia Milk Producers
are the others) to work
together in communications
and legislation, Gartley
explained. He emphasized
that the individual
cooperatives will maintain
their independence in areas
other than that.
With milk prices being on
every dairyman’s mind,
Gartley informed the group
that the Pennsylvania Milk
Marketing Board hearing -
which started in 1972 and just
ended last May - was the
longest on record and in all
that time accomplished
nothing. Gartley had no
newsworthy item to report
from the PMMB except mat
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"they haven't done
anything."
A congressional hearing
Involving milk prices was
held In Meadville lost
Friday, ond a summary of
the proceedings can be found
elsewhere in this issue if I
end up having the time to
make a phone call or two In
between covering fairs and
shows going on this week. It
was learned that Blair
County dairyman and Inter-
State member Willis
Greaser testified at the
meeting. He’s the Blair
Countian who visited the
White House in January to
tell his story to the
President. He revealed to
this reporter at that time
that White House aids were
sympathetic to the
dairyman's cause. The
suggested measures were
shot down, however, when
ranking congressmen put the
pressure on President Ford
and Agriculture Secretary
Butz. Mrs. Greaser, who
accompanied her husband to
Washington and Meadville,
came out of the White House
meeting with the impression
that the Treasury Depart
ment pulls a string or two at
the Agriculture Department.
She blamed the Treasury
Department and its
secretary (William E.
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the dairyman'a problems.
Getting back to the Inter-
State meeting at the Witmcr
Fire Hall, Gartlcy an
nounced that nationally
known columnist and radio
commentator Paul Harvey
will be the speaker at this
year’s annual meeting. Mr.
Harvey is the fellow who has
come to realize (among
other things) that "the
farmer finishes his 40-hour
week by Tuesday noon."
Gartlcy read a commentary
written by Harvey which
received an enthusiastic
respond from the audience
and I tnl< nd to ask the author
for perm, don to run it in
this paper across a full page.
Chances are many of you
will want to save it.
That wraps it up for news
of interest to dairymen no
matter where they ship to
now for information per
taining primarily to District
6 members of Inter-State.
The district has been
altered somewhat and there
are now five locals instead of
four. An election of officers
was held and the following
people emerged as
presidents of the five locals:
Melvin Groff, president of
New Holland - Leola local.
Harvey Heller, president
of Witmer local.
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president of Gap local.
Charles Rohrer, president
of Christiana local.
Aaron Lapp, Jr., president
of Paradise local.
Roy Book stays on as
director of the district.
Most of the changes in the
redistricting came in the
Paradise and Christiana
locals, with the new Gap
local coming primarily out of
those areas. The Christiana
local will be shifted to create
a new district (12) along with
the Quarryville local.
District 6 had three 25-year
members honored at the
dinner meeting on Tuesday.
They were: Marvin Hershey,
Lester Landis and Harold
Umble.
Other speakers for the
evening Included the Rev.
Randall Heckman, and die
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A physician In the mid
1800's has this advice (or
farm wives: "Few things
will bring a more certain and
happy reward to a farmer
than for him to remember
his wile Is a social being;
that she is not a machine,
and therefore needs rest and
recreation, and change. No
farmer will lose in the long
run, cither in money, health,
or domestic comfort, en
joyment and downright
happiness, by allotting an
occasional afternoon, from
midday until bedtime, to
visiting purposes. Let him
with the utmost cheerfulness
and heartiness, leave his
past and present young
cooperators of the district,
Charles Rohrer and Robert
Landis, respectively.
Rohrer, who attended the
National Cooperator Con
vention a year ago, en
couraged dairymen less than
35 years of age to participate
in the program.
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take hli wife to aome
pleasant neighbor's friend's,
or kinsman's house, for the
express purpose of
relaxation from the cares
and toils of home, and for the
Interchange o( friendly
feelings and sentiments. All
of these, in turn, tend to
cultivate the mind, to
nourish the affections, and to
promote the breadth of view
in relation to men and things
which elevates, and ex
pands, and ennobles, and
without which the whole
nature becomes so narrow,
so contracted, so barren and
uninteresting, that both man
and woman becomes but a
shadow of what they ought to
be.”
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