Danville Livestock Auction
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The buying was brisk at the block with Robert Shaylor, pictured
Danville Livestock Market last above, doing the auctioneering.
Saturday for their horse sale held Beside Shaylor is Melvin Lehman,
every second Saturday of the month. Danville, the owner of the auction.
More than 75 head went over the
Saturday's horse sale drew a nice sized crowd and was of interest to
people of all ages.
Conference
to discuss China ag trade
ST. LOUIS, Mo. - A first
time, comprehensive con
ference on the subject of
China’s agriculture,
focussing on China’s
production and trade in
" agricultural products, will"
be held in St. Louis on Nov.
18, sponsored by the
Washington, D.C. - based
National Council for US-
China Trade. China as a
market for agricultural
products and technology will
be the focus of this all-day
event, which will bring
together many of the world’s
leading experts on China’s
agriculture.
Co-sponsoring the
program is the St. Louis
Regional Commerce and
Growth Association, in
cooperation with the US
Department of Commerce
and St. Louis Council on
World Affairs of the World
Trade Club of St. Louis. The
Conference is open to the
public.
The meeting will include
'an overview of the Chinese
political and economic
stiuation; however, the
emphasis will be on the
practicalities and potential
for doing business with the
People’s Republic of China.
Among the speakers will
in St. Louis
be Dr. Carroll Bruntbaver,
Vice President of Cook In
dustries and Vice President,
Agriproducts Division of
Cook, on Selling Grain and
Cotton to China; Julian
Sobin, Senior Vice President
of IMC, on Fertilizer Sales to
the People’s Republic of
China; Ching C. Tung,
Research and Development
Department, Monsanto
Company, on Agricultural
• Chemicals in die PRC; and
Ray Harrington, of the
Product Planning Depart
ment of Deere & Company on
Agricultural Mechanization
in China.
The relationship of
agriculture to China’s
Economic development will
be described by Benedict
Stavis, of Cornell University,
one of the world’s experts on
China’s agricultural
economy.
Who has sold what
agricultural products to the
People’s Republic will be
described in detail by Melvin
W. Searls, Jr., Vice
President of the National
Council for US-China Trade.
Among the sales to the PRC
to be covered in Mr. Searls’
presentation will be:
livestock, including
breeder cattle and sheep.
equipment, including farm
and irrigation machinery.
commodities, including
wheat, raw cotton and
tobacco.
agricultural chemicals,
including pesticides.
fertilizer plant and
equipment,
agricultural technology,
food processing and
packaging equipment.
Mr. Searls will also briefly
describe some of the hun
dred plus foreign companies
that have exhibited farm
products in China during
the past few years.
A presentation on China’s
politics and economic
development by Professor
Michel Oksenberg of the
University of Michigan, a
leading expert on Chinese
politics, will be of special
interest in the light of the
present political situation in
Peking. Other speakers will
discuss China as a market
for animal husbandry
products and food processing
equipment, and China’s
overall agricultural trade.
The session will be in
troduced with remarks by
Christopher H. Phillips,
President of the National
Council for US-China Trade,
who will describe the role of
Luttringer, O’Brien promoted
at Sperry New Holland Co.
H. K. Luttringer
NEW HOLLAND, Pa. -
The promotion of H. K.
Luttringer, 1559 Mission
Road, Lancaster, Pa. to the
new position of Sperry New
Holland vice president for
worldwide marketing and
communications was an
nounced today by President
Kenneth F. Thompson.
Luttringer, who has been
communications and
promotions director of the
company’s North American
Division since 1965, will
report to Thompson in his
new assignment effective
November 1, and become
part of the executive staff
group guiding all worldwide
activities.
Paul A. O’Brien, 645 E.
Millport Rd., Lititz, Pa.
currently product
development director for
North America, will succeed
Luttringer.
According to Thompson,
Luttringer will be respon
sible for the implementation
and coordination of em
ployee communications,
community relations and
public relations involving the
company’s three divisions:
North America, Europe and
Latin America-Far East.
Luttringer will also
supervise the worldwide
coordination of service parts
distribution and promotion
as well as product iden
tification.
“The key role Luttringer
the Council in Sino-US trade.
Ambassador Phillips, who
will have just returned from
China after meetings with
top trade officials in Peking,
will have an up-to-date view
of the state of Sino-US
relations.
The conference is ex
pected to bring together
mud) of what is presently
known about China’s
agriculture to date in one of
the principal centers of
agricultural activity in the
United States. In the past
five years, US companies
have sold China $1.4 billion
worth of agricultural
commodities, as well as
agricultural equipment and
chemicals of various kinds.
Inquiries concerning
registration, which costs
$lOO per person, should be
addressed to Erik T.
Kalkhurst, at the National
Council for US-China Trade,
1050 Seventeenth Street, NW,
Suite 350, Washington, D.C.
20036 or Joseph M. de
Rotaeche, at the St. Louis
Regional Commerce and
Growth Association, 10
Broadway, St. Louis, Mo.,
63102. Telephone (314) 231-
5555. A specially-produced
150 page handbook on
China’s agriculture will be
available to all participants.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Oct 23,1976
will play in our future growth
will be his contribution to
innovative marketing
strategies in our overall long
range planning,” Thompson
said. “He will provide advice
and counsel to our three
divisions in their marketing
planning as well as par
ticipating in the company’s
total planning program.”
Working with the com
munications heads of these
divisions, he will be
responsible for guiding the
advertising and other
communications activities of
Sperry New Holland
throughout the world.
In his new job, O’Brien will
be responsible for all North
American advertising,
public relations and mer
chandising activities, in
cluding incentive programs
for salesmen, dealers and
consumers.
His Communications and
Promotions Department
provides' supporting
promotion and advertising
for both wholesale and retail
sales in the United States
and Canada. This depart
ment also produces
materials for North
American product and sales
training programs, and acts
as a service group in the
area of art, audio-visual and
other communications
production for both the North
American Division and the
headquarters group.
A native of Harrisburg,
Pa. Luttringer joined the
company in 1947 as press
relations manager. He
served as assistant manager
and manager of Advertising
and Public Relations before
being named to his present
position.
Luttringer is a former
chairman of the public
relations committee of the
Farm and Industrial
Equipment Institute, one of
the founders of the American
Forage and Grassland
Council and is a past
president of the Agricultural
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LANCASTER COUNTY -
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met last week at the home of
Mrs. Paul Witmer, 447 N.
George St., Millersville. Co
hostess was Mrs. Lloyd
Herr, 1113 Colonial Road,
Lancaster.
Pat Reed, director of
Conestoga Cottage, spoke
about the work of the cottage
which is run under the
auspices of the Lancaster
County Council of Churches.
There are presently 12 girls
residing there, with a
director, five full time
counselors, one part time
The National CouncU tor
US-China Trade is a non
profit, membership
organization, with about 350
member firms throughout
the US, whose purpose is to
facilitate and promote two
way trade with the PRC. The
Council acts as host to
Chinese trade officials
visiting to the United States,
sponsors visits to US com
mercial groups to China, and
is contact point for
reciprocal exhibitions in the
two countries.
Paul A. O'Brien
Relations Council. He also
has served as chairman of
tile Sperry Rand Corporate
Communications Council.
A graduate of Penn
sylvania State University
with a degree in journalism,
he is active in a number of
civic and professional
organizations, including the
presidency of the Lancaster
Symphony Orchestra, and is
a founding member of the
board of the Fulton Opera
House Foundation. He is
married to the former Elva
Karwois of Giradville, Pa.
They have two daughters.
O’Brien joined Sperry New
Holland in 1950 and has
served in numerous positions
throughout the company. In
1964 he was named in
ternational marketing
manager and was appointed
director of the European
Marketing Center in 1969.
Two years later he was
named marketing director of
the European Division. He
returned to the United States
in 1973 to assume his present
duties as director of product
development for North
America.
A native of Charleston,
South Carolina, O’Brien is a
graduate of Villanova
University. He is married to
the former Florence Stork of
Lancaster, Pa. Theyjiaye
two sons and two daughters.
counselor and two night
watchmen.
The Cottage provides a
home for delinquent girls,
-ages 14-18,-who are assigned
there by the judge when they
are going through a court
process.
The girls go to school
during the day and live in the
atmosphere of home. They
must reach a specified level
before they make tb;
decision about returning to
their home or going to a
foster home.
The Society discussed the
table which they will provide
during the Homemaker’s
Christmas program, and
they voted to entertain at the
state hospital in May.
The next meeting will be
the group’s 25th anniversary
banquet to be held at the
Sherwood Knoll at 6:15 p.m.
Spouses are invited.
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