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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
Cali us at 717/394-3047 or
717/626-1164. Or, write
Lancaster Farming, Box
366, Lititz PA 17543 and join
in a milk toast to the state’s
largest and most dynamic
industry: dairying.