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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 20,1979
Hand
By SUSAN KAUFFMAN
Staff Writer
CHESTNUT LEVEL -
Keynote speaker for District
3 of Inter-State Milk
Producers, Dr. Paul E.
Hand, compared the past
performance and future
dependence of the
cooperative’s success to
family of complex interests
willing to communicate
effectively.
“Inter-State has been a
great cooperative in the
past. It is also, as many have
said, a big business. But It is
more than that. It’s a family
interests - a strong family,
an active family, a lasting,
enduring family,” the
assistant general-manager
stated.
Since its formal
organization in 1917 it has,
according to Hand’s
presentation, grown as a
family in numbers, in value,
and in several other avenues
to meet the needs of
marketing milk in a
changing society and
economy.
Tracing briefly the many
changes in social, moral and
institutional attitudes of
modern day America,
Hand emphasized that the
present task is to understand
the existing society.
Cooperatives are now under
attack, and there has to be a
mutual trust within the coop
itself among its many
branches - members,
directors, management and
employees.
A strong cooperative,
Hand explained, results in
part from a great deal of
personal involvement by its
individual members on the
local as well as the larger
concerns. “The cooperative
will be strong if individual
involvement and input is
given,” he noted.
Pointing out many factors
which have made Inter-State
an effective milk marketing
cooperative in the past as
well as the present, Hand
reported that the mem
bership now stands at 2980,
calls for
having a peak of 3,000
members in 1974. Hand said
that there is a waiting list for
membership but the concern
is keeping the volume
stationary, according to
market demands. Monthly
sales for the co-op tally $2O
million and steps are being
taken to maintain a healthy
reserve and insure security
to the cooperative economy,
he added.
The fust year of Quality
Control, Inc. has been
Ida’s
Notebook
Ida Risser
I don’t know if you are like
me or not, but during the
Winter I try to plan my
driving for days when the
road is clear. There is one
thing that can’t be arranged
for though and that is the
school bus which comes
regularly at 7:05 no matter
what the weather happens to
be. So the windshield must
be scraped and the one mile
journey to the bus stop must
betaken.
In my many years of
driving, snow and ice have
always figured in the few
accidents that I’ve had. drs
just seem to turn around on
icy roads when I’m driving.
Could it be that I don’t slow
down enough to allow for the
road conditions?
Last month, when my
daughter and her husband
landed in Rochester, N.Y.
from Portland, Oregon, she
was disappointed as she
hoped for a white Christmas.
Well, she got one as there
involvement, support of co-op
completed. Holly Milk has
operated on a limited daily
basis since Fall with all
systems operative.
A technical problem with
designing a waste disposal
system to meet standards
set for the early 1980’s has
yet to be worked out for the
plant to operate on fulltime
production, however. “In
reality, the waste from the
plant has to be purer by 1980
than the water found in the
trout stream near it,” he
remarked.
Tr*~y*
was 36 inches of snow in New
York over the holidays and it
was difficult for their family
to get together.
This year we picked a
clear, cold day to travel to
the Farm Show. We took an
Amish lad along and all of us
appreciated the shuttle
buses as one’s feet surely
take, a beating. A few hours
of big machinery, cows and
horses is plenty for me. Then
I gravitate to the food,
vegetable and fruit displays.
And I could circle the flower
plants many times and
forgot how tired my poor feet
are as I try to decide what I
want to buy to take home.
Finally I decide on a yellow
primrose, as I’ve never had
one.
So, if it must snow, I do
hope it will be during the
daytime so that I can at least
enjoy the lovely sight from
my warm kitchen. I’m
always disappointed when it
comes during the night.
Hand cautioned that the
cooperative’s future depends
upon what the total dairy
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