—Lancaster Farming* Saturday, Jan. 31, 1976
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Farmer’s union elects area officers
NEW CUMBERLAND -
The Pennsylvania Fanners
Union, which claims to have
approximately* 3,000
members state-wide, met
here at the Sheraton Motor
Inn on Monday and Tuesday
of this week to hold its an
nual convention.
The Pennsylvania Far
mers Union, as yet, Is not
large enough to hold its own
charter, but is nevertheless,
active and affiliated with the
National Farmers Union
which claims family
memberships of nearly a
quarter million. In the
Tuesday afternoon session,
13 county organizations were
either chartered or
rechartered to allow for
increases in membership. A
list of those chapters, their
presidents and respective
home towns follows:
Lancaster County local,
president over by Albert
Mellinger of Strasburg.
York County local, Albert
Bentz of Ttaomasville is
president. He succeeded
Albert Garber, who stepped
down last Tuesday.
The Chester County local
is led by Cox Shepherd of
Cochranville, who along with
Bentz was elected to serve as
a director to serve on the
executive committee.
The Perry County local
has Truman Holman as
president. He’s a fanner
from the MUlerstown area.
Lehigh County’s chapter
selected Lester Loch of
Kempton as president.
Franklin County’s chapter
president is Harold Goshom,
who hails from Dry Run.
Columbia County farmer,
Paul Zeisloft of Danville
heads the loot! in his County.
The Somerset local is
headed by George Stahl,
Somerset.
The Mercer County local
has Robert Ross of Green
ville at the helm.
In Washington County it’s
Irk McConnell who will
preside over the local
chapter.
Clarion County’s local
selection Ronald Whitling of
New Bethlehem to head its
unit.
Jefferson County Fanners
Union local is presided over
by Ivan Himes of Brookville.
Crawford County’s Donald
McNamara from Meadville
is bead of his County’s
chapter.
The two-day meeting, held
just across the river from
Harrisburg in the spacious
facilities of the Sheraton,
was attended by ap
proximately 70 members
and delegates from all over
the state. Highlights of the
affair included an address by
the state’s secretary of
agriculture, Raymond
Kerstetter; remarks by
Edison Osborne who heads
the Bureau of Markets
within the Pa. Department of
Agriculture; and Tony
Dechant, National Farmers
Union President.
Not being chartered yet,
the Pennsylvania Farmers
Union does not have its own
offices and is guided instead
by the national office.
Fomey Longenecker, who
farms outside of Lititz,
Lancaster County, serves as
organizational director for
Pennsylvania.
In continuous existence
since 1902, the National
Farmers Union has
“Cooperation, Legislation,
and Education” as its motto,
and proclaims the protection
Albert Mellinger, president of the
Lancaster County chapter of the
Pennsylvania Farmers Union,
receives a newly signed charter from
Bob Lewis of the National Farmers
Union. The Pennsylvania Farmers
of the family farm as its “Farmers* Education and temoon, the group selected
single most important Cooperative Union of five people to serve on an
purpose. It has used the term American.’Headquartered in executive committee for the
“union” - meaning “united Denver, Colorado, it is advisory board which is
effort” since its beginnings sometimes confused with the comprised of the presidents
which was before labor National Farmers of all local chapters.
organizations became
widely identified with the
term. The national
organization’s full name is
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