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By Dieter Krleg
LANCASTER - "Let's see
to It that wall have leaders
who will lead rather than
follow. As long as we have
people who take pride In
what they're doing and In
what their cooperatives and
country stand (or. well have
a good future.”
Those were some of the
remarks made by Ronald
Goddard, executive vice
president and general
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Offices in New Holland and Smoketown
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manager of Agway. who was
guest speaker at the Garden
Spot Agway Unit's annual
dinner meeting recently.
Affiliated with Agway's
predecessor organizations
since IMS, and general
manager of the 11-year old
cooperative since 1969,
Goddard warned the more
than 350 people in attendance
that there are some threats
being made which would
hamper activities of farmer
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pride in work
cooperatives and possibly
leave them powerless. This
Is why we must be careful
whom we elect, the
executive continued, and
take steps to Inform
legislators how we stand.
Goddard described Agway
as one of the strongest and
financially sound
cooperatives in the Nor
theast and cited the
"genuine thought which
went into it" as a chief
reason for it. "We are very
close to the criteria which
was designed to be the
perfect criteria," he ex
plained.
He noted Agway’s com
mitment last year which set
a ceiling of 1.75 cents return
for each dollar of sales in
order to bold down inflation.
"This was done at a time of
shortages,” Goddard ex
claimed, “and anytime you
have shortages, you might
see some price gouging.
That’s why Agway made the
1.75 cents to the dollar
commitment. We set a
standard for ourselves, and
for others to follow," he
boasted.
According to figures
released by the Garden Spot
Agway Unit, business for
member stores movpd up 53
per cent in four years.
Goddard praised committee'
members and Agway’s area
Member F.D.I.C,
stockholders for the per
formance.
The Garden Spot Unit
generated over a nine
million dollars worth of
business during the past
fiscal year • a significant
contribution to Agway’s
overall sales total of over a
billion dollars.
Goddard noted that this
year it won’t be necessary to
set a price ceiling because
the laws of supply and
demand are in order. An
average price increase
amounting to around two to
four per cent over last year
is expected, according to
Agway’s economists. That
compares with an expected
price increase of eight to
nine per cent for the nation
as a whole.
Agway could price its
products and services lower
still, Goddard revealed, but
to do so would mean drop
ping a part of its program,
such as research and
development. The board of
directors, however, feels
that such programs are vital
to the business if long-range
programs are to be fulfilled.
It was noted that * v ~
cooperative turned back,
refunds last year totalling
approximately Vh million
dollars. Agway members are
stockholders in the
cooperative and share in
funds at the end of the year.
hi other activities at the
meeting, held at the Farm
and Home Center, Lewis
Denlinger, John Groff, J.
Wilmer Eby, and Robert
Mylin were elected to three
year terms as members of
Garden Spot Unit’s com
mittee.
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Peach Council
seeks nominees
MARTINSBURG, WV -
Across the United States
there are hundreds of per
sons who are working to help
the nation's peach producers
in various ways.
Some of these persons are
doing things for the peach
industry, as well as for
themselves, because they
believe that a better industry
is good for them as it is for
other peach producers and
those in allied industries.
Others are employed by
universities or in private
industry, where their efforts
at producing better peaches,
or means for getting better
looking, higher quality
peaches to the ultimate
consumer are lost in the
team efforts of which they
are a part.
Frank Berry, chairman of
the National Peach Council’s
Awards Committee, says the
Council is looking for in
formation about these in
dividuals who have helped
the peach industry, for each
year an awards committee
sits down to try to select a
person (or persons) to
receive the National Peach
Council Achievement award
the following year.
Since the Achievement
Award was established in
1967, it has gone mainly to
peach producers and
researchers, but each year
the Awards Committee
hopes to receive the names
of others - either individuals
or small groups - which seem
to deserve special
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nominee has done for the
nation's peach industry, or a
source for such Information,
should be forwarded as soon
as possible to: Awards
Chairman National Peach
Council, P.O. Box IMS,
Martinsburg, WV. 25401 so
that all members of the
committee can have time to
study the material before
going to the 1976 convention
which will be held February
22-25 at Hershey Lodge,
Hersbey, Pa.
Previous recipients of the
award, and the year it was
presented, are:
Frank Street, peach
grower from Henderson,
Ky., 1968; L. Frederic Hough
and Catherine H. Bailey,
fruit breeders from the
Agricultural Experiment
Station at Rutgers
University, 1969; Vincent J.
Caggiano and Sons of Sunny
Slope Farms, Gaffney, S.C.
and Bridgeton, N.J., 1970;
Roy J. Ferree, extension
horticulturist and specialist
at Clemson University,
Clemson, S.C., 1971; Dr.
George D. Oberle, professor
of horticulture at Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and
State University, 1972; Dr.
Robert H. Daines of Rutgers
University, 1973; Allen R.
Jones, a Colorado peach
producer, 1974; and Dr. E. F.
(Rip) Savage, Georgia
Experiment Station, 1975.
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