VOL. 25N0.«' Millie Linde starts her reign BY PAT KAUFFMAN OXFORD - Millie Linde, Oxford, was crowned Sun day as the 1980 National Guernsey Queen. South of Union in a valley reminiscent of her German ancestry, is the beloved Lindenhof Guernsey Farm, the new 1980 National Guernsey Queen calls home. In Millie the Guernsey Breed has found a Staunch supporter. Millie had just returned from her big day in Rochester, Minnesota, and little yawns crept into her conversation. But weary as she was, her excitement over her new role, and her enthusiasm for her chosen breed was evident. Millie was selected from a field of 14 contestants during the 103rd annual meeting of the American Guernsey . Cattle Club. For the past year, she reigned as the Pennsylvania Guernsey Queen. Although the last year has been a busy one for Millie who logged 30 events in her official capacity, the year to come will be even busier. Already on her calendar are trips to Penn State in June to crown her PA suc cessor; to Madison, Wisconsin, and the Dairy Expo in October; to New York for a field day in July; to the Eastern Shores Show in Springfield, Massachusetts; to a Virginia field day, July 9; and to next year’s pageant in San Francisco. While her love for the breed may have been Milk marketing machinery in motion BY DICK ANGLESTEJQM HARRISBURG - Machinery is already in motion that could lead to a referendum before year’s end for a statewide man datory milk marketing program. The first step now un derway in the lengthy process that could result in the referendum, according to James Sumner, director of the Bureau of Markets, Pennsylvania Department of In This Issue SECTION A: Editorials, 10; Dairy Pipeline, 18; Farm and home awards, 20; Md. pig show, 23; Franklin Holstein meeting, 26; Milk output record, 36. SECTION B: Settling estates, 2; Del. County ex tension’s new home, 4; Classified ads, 5. SECTION C: Homestead notes, 2; Joyce Bupp, 4; Ida’s notebook, 5; Delmarva poultry princess, 13; Fair dates, 19; Ask VMD, 20; Chicken cook-off, 23; Grassland FFA tour, 25. SECTION D: Adams DHIA, 3; Milk Check, 4; Farm Talk, 7; Huntingdon DHIA, 8; Cecil DHIA, 8; Lan caster DHIA, 10; Tractor pulls, 19; Blair DHIA, 21. Wins National Guernsey Queen Title inherited from her folks, Millie has cultured that love through her involvement in the home dairy operation and her studies in dairy science at the State University of New York at Cobleskill. Millie’s reasons for choosing this particular junior college become clear when she mentions they have a school herd of Guernseys. Inter-State producers grumble over late milk checks BYCURTHARLEK LANCASTER - Lan caster County members of Inter-State Milk Producers Cooperative tied up telephone lines across 'the county when milk checks did not hit the mailboxes as scheduled on Tuesday. The problem was not with the Co-op’s home office in Southampton. Rather, the delay was due to problems in the postal system. By week’s end, it ap peared, all Inter-State shippers had received their full checks. Only Inter-State shippers in areas with ZIP-codes beginning • with 175 or 176 were affected. A spot check of producers in other ZlP code areas showed delivery of the milk checks as ex pected on May 20. Inter-State executives pointed out Thursday that the Co-op periodically has expenenced problems with Agriculture, is the holding or separate meetings with individual dairy cooperatives to get opinions on the referendum proposal. The co-op sessions are part of a 30-day period being utilized to collect opinions and comments from dairymen and dairy organizations on provisions they favor in any marketing program. These opinions are ex pected to be received until Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 24,1980 Millie is 21, has three brothers, and is listed in Who’s Who in American Junior Colleges. She was a member of the FFA during her senior year of high school, and vice-president of the livestock club, a member of the honor society and Collegiate Agriculture Leaders while at college. Her participation in the contests was a result of an ad she saw in the Guernsey late checks in the Lancaster area over the past two years. The latest trouble delayed delivery of checks to over 700 producers. In this time of tight cash flow, producers who did not find checks in the mailbox on May 20 im mediately called neighbors who also were emptyhanded. District Director Daniel Martin was flooded with calls on Wednesday when checks still did not arrive. Inter-State said the checks were “caught in a postal cobweb.” The checks, the Co-op says, were mailed as usual in Southampton in special bags. They were picked up by the Southampton post office. From there they go to King of Prussia to be moved on to Lancaster. Here, the Lancaster Post Office says, could be one spot which caused trouble. If the mail bags were routed into Philadelphia, as about nud-June. After the various opinions and comments are collected and analyzed, plans will move ahead with the scheduling of an industry wide meeting to begin preliminary consideration of a program. This session may either be a single large central meeting or several regional meetings held in different parts of the state. Target date for the in dustry meeting is sometime in July. The next step in the process would be the for mation of an advisory council of dairy industry representatives to develop a specific proposal for the use of funds collected from milk producers under the marketing program. Following the scheduling of hearings to gather ad ditional testimony on any changes or revisions in the Journal for Pennsylvania participants last spring. At the state contest last June, Millie emerged vic torious and after a year of serving at fairs, shows and banquets, she traveled to Rochester leaving last Thursday for a long weekend of events. Her activities started with makeup and fashion advice from a beauty consultant. Then on Friday (Turn to Page A3B) much as two days could have been lost. But Inter-State maintains that a “dock transfer” (where the mail is not sor ted, just routed along) was made at the King of Prussia Post Office and the bags arrived in a timely fashion at Lancaster where they sat on the dock. There is some question as (Turn to PageA34) Airport zoning still up in air BY SHEILA MILLER CAMPBELLTOWN - About a half dozen South Londonderry Township, Lebanon County farmers huddled in a small circle outside the doors of the township’s municipal building late Wednesday evening. They were rehashing the two and a half hour meeting they had just sat through program, the referendum would be held. If plans move ahead as tentatively scheduled, the referendum could be held in December. If approved, the . marketing program could be implemented in the early part of 1981. Any advertising under a proposed program would be limited to generic ad vertising, according to enabling legislation that permits marketing plans to promote state farm products. The Pennsylvania Agricultural Commodities Marketing Act of 1968 specifically states that any program “shall be directed toward increasing the sale of such commodities without reference to any particular firm’s or individual’s brand or trade name. This particular limitation (Turn to Page A 33) Lindenhof Flash Dividend Elite gets some loving attention from the new National Guernsey Queen. with the Zoning Board and around 40 other township residents and interested people. The farmers left the municipal building feeling frustrated. The local of ficials reached no decision on a case the farmers felt important so important, they left their tractors idle to sit in a stuffy meeting room. The meeting was called to once again review the pros and cons of a petition filed by Charles and Ada Reigle to revise the zoning regulations concerning their privately owned commercial airport. On April 2 of this year, the same issue came before the local board of supervisors who tabled their decision until they received the June is dairy month UTITZ Again this year Lancaster Fanning will celebrate June Dairy Month with the broadest and most complete dairy coverage in the East. We extend a special in vitation to dairy groups, DHIAs, and other producer organizations, to submit dairy news for our June issue. We’ll feature a month-long series of dairy recipes in Home on the Range in Section C. It’s certain to be the state’s largest and most fantastic collection of tasty dairy treats. $7.00 Per Year recommendations of their local planning commission on the case. Testimony at this past Wednesday’s meeting was in the same vein as the April testimony. The airport owners presented their reasons for wanting the zoning changed, and local farmers voiced their opr position. Standing before the group, Ada Reigle calmly presented a prepared statement, reviewing how the township neglected to zone their airport AP-1 in 1975, as the 1972 state law required. The airport is presently zoned R -1, low residential. She explained bow they had been advised by the (Turn to Page A 39) We’ll have a special dairy month gift as a token of our appreciation for those who submit recipes used. To be sure your group, firm, or dub activities are induded in our June 7 Dairy Month special, please submit all news by June 3. Paid advertising material is due Friday, May 30. 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