—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. Jan. 17. 1976
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Strasburg farm
On the Chester Wilson
farm at Strasburg R 2,
cerebral palsy is a most
familiar word. Two of three
Wilson sons were bom with
cerebral palsy, that is, brain
damage resulting in physical
disabilities. Nine year old
Vincent is receiving his
education and therapy at the
home of the Mericful Savior
in Philadelphia. The oldest,
Rodney, pictured here, is 25
years old and works at the
Child Development Center in
the furniture refinishing
department.
Although Rodeny is
limited by his physical
handicaps from helping on
the family farm to any ex
tent, he is a great helper in
the U.C.P. program by
assisting in running the
projector for showing the
full-length movies which are
presented during the af
ternoon of games,
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Pork program okayed
DES MOINES, lOWA - A
ten cent voluntary checkoff
program for market hogs to
be used for promotion and
research was approved at
the recent quarterly board
meeting of the National Pork
Producers Council held here.
The board accepted a plan
that would send an ad
ditional one cent to the
National Live Stock and
Meat Board and the
remaining eight cents would
be proportioned between the
NPPC and its member
Dairy leader
defends milk
market orders
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A
recent attack on the Federal
Milk Marketing Order
program, during a
December meeting in
Washington, D.C. sponsored
by the Community nutrition
Institute, is unjustified and
of grave concern to our
nation’s dairy farmers,
stated John C. York of
Eastern Milk Producers
Cooperative.
Eastern’s General
Manager said Tuesday, that
during the meeting, billed as
a “Conference on Milk
Paces and the Marketing
System,” it was charged that
Federal Milk Marketing
Orders increased the cost of
milk to consumers “in the
range of $4OO million to $1
billion per year ”
The co-op leader explained
that the Federal Order
legislation, enacted by
Congress in the 1930’5, was
the basis for stabhzmg
prices to farmers and
assuring consumers an
adequate supply of milk at
economic prices.
Contrary to the charges,
York noted, the lack of
sufficient returns to
producers, occasioned by
inadequate prices, has saved
consumers many millions of
dollars a year
socialization, refreshments,
and entertainment. Each of
the forty or so CP youth
attending the program, no
matter how severe his
handicap, contributes to the
success of the afternoon for
his fellow handicapped
friend.
The Saturday recreational
program is one of many
services offered by U.C.P. of
Lancaster County to
disabled individuals and
their families. An adult day
center with therapy classes
social and recreational
activities, an adult club,
transportation in a van
equipped with a lift, coun
seling, home service nur
sing, and whatever sup
portive services are ap
propriate throughout the
individuals life-time are
available. Cerebral palsy
does not go away, and the
needs are continual.
states. At the present time,
one cent goes to the
NLS&MB and four cents is
used for state and national
programs.
The ten cent program will
be presented to the
delegates, NPPC’s ruling
body, at the organization’s
annual meeting in March at
the American Pork Congress
in Indianapolis. Only after
approval by the delegate
body will the program go
into effect
“The decision to go to the
dime was made after
detailed study by the NPPC
Policy and Planning Com
mittee,” President Gerald
Beattie of Summer,
Nebraska, explained. “The
committee also met per
sonally with representatives
of the NSL&MB to discuss
additional funding to that
group.”
J. Marvin Garner,
executive vice president of
the NPPC, explained that if
boys stricken
Rodney Wilson, Strasburg, is one of two children
in the same family to be stricken with cerebral
palsy.
the delegate body approved
the program, the NPPC and
its member states would
most likely set July 1,1976 as
a target date for cooperating
markets to change from a
nickle to a dune checkoff.
At the request of a number
of member states, the board
also approved a recom
mendation of the committee
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to establish a feeder pig
committee and to begin a
five cent voluntary checkoff
program for feeder pigs. The
program would also have to
be approved by the delegate
body. The national share of
this will be used in the area
of production research and
activities of the planned
NPPC feeder pig committee.
$10.82 milk
price announced
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -
Market Administrator
Joseph D. Shine this week
announced a uniform base
milk price of $10.82 per
hundredweight (48.5 quarts)
for December 1975 milk
deliveries to Middle Atlantic
order pool handlers. This
price Is up 37 cents from
November and is $2.05 above
last year. The December
price for excess milk Is $9.11
and the weighted average
market price is $10.65. Base
milk accounted for 90.45
percent of total pooled milk
during December. The
butterfat differential is 11.9
cents for each tenth of a
pound of fat above or below
3.5 percent.
December producer milk
receipts totaled 418.6 million
pounds, 2.2 percent above
November, on a daily basis.
Pool handlers utilized 285.3
million pounds or 68,15
percent of total receipts for
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Maxatawny
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Khngerstown
Ph 717 648 2088
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Shartlesville, PA
215 488 1326
H Daniel Wenger Prop
fluid milk products. The
November Class I utilization
percentage was 66.37 in
November and 63.60 last
December. Handlers paid
$11.38 per hundredweight for
Class I milk in December
and $9.16 for Class 11.
Shine stated that the gross
value of pooled milk m
December was 45 million
dollars. This figure Includes
adjustments for location
differentials.
A total of 8,019 producers
supplied pool handlers in
December, a decrease of 10
from the previous month
The average daily delivery
per producer was 1,684
pounds, compared to 1,647
pounds in November.
Middle Atlantic order pool
handlers reported fluid milk f
sales of 7.8 million pounds
per day within the marketing
area during December, an
.ncrease of 2.4 percent over
November.
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Jonestown
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Bernville
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Bethel
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