106—Lancaster Firming, Saturday, January 13,1979
Herman Stebbins wins Cowan Award
HARRISBURG - Herman
E. Stebbins of York R 5,
manager of the Sinking
Springs Farm, Inc., Tuesday
night received the 1978
Charles E. Cowan Memorial
Award from the Penn
sylvania Dairymen’s
Association during
ceremonies at the 63rd Farm
Show.
The award, “for leader
ship contributing to the
improvement and promotion
of the Pennsylvania dairy
industry,” was presented to
Stebbins at the 108th annual
meeting of the Pennsylvania
Dairymen's Association. His
wife accepted the award on
his behalf as Stebbms
himself was recuperating
from an illness.
The award winner has an
outstanding Holstein herd
that has consistently made
records in production testing
programs. The 1978 Dairy
Herd Improvement
Association production
Food Fair ordered to pay for
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Food
Fair, Inc., a retail food and
meat packing corporation
based in Philadelphia, has
been ordered by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
to stop violating the payment
requirements of the Packers
and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
The corporation, which the
department charged in
October with failing to pay
for more than $2.6 million
worth of livestock bought
from at least 42 livestock
firms, has filed a Chapter XI
petition under the Federal
Bankrupcy Act.
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average was 19,593 pounds of pounds of butterfat, noted Stebbins has bred and
milk and 762 pounds of Herb Gilmore, director of developed 34 cows that have
butterfat for 66 cows. For 12 DHIA testing programs at produced more than 100,000
consecutive years his herd Penn State, which super- pounds of milk and/or 4,000
has averaged over 700 vises the records. pounds of butterfat. Also, 13
Mrs. Herman Stebbins accepts the Charles Cowan Memorial Award from
Pennsylvania Dairymen’s Association president David Roth. Stebbins has
managed one of the best dairy herds in the nation for 40 years.
Charles B. Jennings,
administrator of the
Department’s packers and
stockyards program, said
P&S officials worked with
the firm’s attorneys to
arrange payment of the $2.6
million to livestock sellers,
as required by the 1976 trust
provisions amendments to
the P&S Act. All cash sellers
have now been paid.
Food Fair operates retail
food stores in eastern cities
and owns and operates Allen
Packing Co., Elizabeth,
N.J.; Midtown Veal and
Mutton Co., Newark, N.J.;
and United Packing Co.,
Denver, Colo. United
Packing Company is the only
firm currently buying
livestock for slaughter.
The firm waived an oral
hearing and consented to the
order without admitting or
denying the charges filed
against it.
USDA Administrative Law
Judge Dorothea A. Baker
ordered Food Fair and its
officers, directors, and
employees to cease and
desist from failing to pay,
when due, the full price of
livestock, meat, meat food
products, or livestock
products purchased.
The cease and desist or
der, like a permanent in
junction, was issued to in
sure future compliance with
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the P&S Act. Meat packers
are required, under the P&S
Act, to maintain a solvent
financial position and to pay
promptly for livestock and
meat.
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by the award winner.
An Ohio State University
graduate, Stebbins has
managed Sinking Springs
Farm since 1939. The farm
consists of 600 acres, 400 in
crops.
He has served 31 years as
director and ten years as
president of the board of
Atlantic Breeders
Cooperative, and president
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