Al6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 24,1980
July to be first National
MARTINSBURG, WV -
July 1980 will be the first
National Peach Month.
A formal resolution to that
effect was passed by the
National Peach Council
Executive Committee
Monday, May 12 during the
committee’s Spring meeting
in Hagerstown, MD.
Though peaches are
harvested from April until
October in the United States,
peak supplies occur
nationally in July and the
committee decided there
would be no better month for
the special designation.
Letters have already been
sent by National Peach
Council President Douglas
Zee to President Jimmy
Carter and the Governors of
all peach producmg states
asking them to issue similar
proclamations.
Several other actions
which are expected to help
the industry and National
Peach Council were taken
during the one day meeting.
Zee announced the ap
pointment of a Grade and
Standards Committee which
will work with the Umted
States Department of
Agriculture on changes in
the present grades and
standards for peaches.
Changes are needed, the
committee agreed, because
there have been so many
changes in peach varieties
smce the present grades
were established.
Arhe A. Powell, Extension
Horticulturist at Auburn
University, Auburn, AL, will
be chairman of the com
mittee, with Anthony J.
“Tony” Rubmo of Hager
stown, MD, who is president
of Blue Goose Growers, Inc.,
as vice chairman.
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Peach Month
Other members of the
committee will be Albert
Petersen of Clovis, CA; Ed
Gregory of Quitman, GA;
Robert F. McCume of Holly
Hill, SC; and all members of
the National Peach Council
Executive Committee.
These are: Zee, of
Glassboro, NJ, president;
Robert G. Kemp, of Princess
Anne, MD, first vice
president; Ernest F. Fischer
of Porter, OK, second vice
president; Henry Chiles of
Batesville, VA, third vice
president; Dale R. Ferguson
of Palisade, CO, immediate
past president; and Mrs.
Maxine Clark of Palisade,
CO, president of National
Peach Partners.
Promotion of peaches and
of NPC within the peach
industry were both given
special attention by the
Executive Committee.
Among those attending the
Executive Committee
meeting were Allen Brock,
chairman of the board of
Umted Fresh Fruit and
Vegetable Association;
Bernard F. Imming,
president of UFFVA; and
John Nelson, vice president
for membership for the
same organization.
After learning about the
peach promotion work which
UFFVA is doing as part of
the Fresh Approach, the
Executive Committee
decided to have UFFVA
send a special folder about
peaches to a large number of
supermarkets.
The folder is made up as
camera-ready copy so the
individual chains or
cooperative groups can have
the material reprinted and
placed as free material near
displays in produce
departments.
A motion also was ap
proved to have work done on
updating of the NPC slide
series, “The Peach Story”,
which is circulated to a large
number of schools each year
on requests from teachers.
The senes was prepared by
Rutgers University for NPC
in 1972. It is widely
publicized, and has been
shown hundreds of times
since it first became
available.
Purchase of a banner for
use in major National Peach
Council meetings was also
given tentative approval by
the committee.
The banner will be used as
a backdrop to the speaker’s
platform at annual con
ventions, or at other
locations where it will
publicize the fact that
National Peach Council is
meeting at a facility.
Plans to have National
Peach Councd’s concerns
about control of harmful
nematodes presented at a
meeting of the Society of
Nematologists were also
discussed.
NPC has been invited to
have someone give a 20-
mmute presentation on the
peach industry’s concerns
about nematodes at a
symposium during the
society’s annual meeting,
and the Executive Com
mittee agreed that someone
should be asked to present
the peach industry’s views
on the matter.
Plans for the beginning of
a new membership cam
paign which would try to get
more special memberships
from among peach
producers and other persons
were presented by Lois Ann
Letters To
The Editor
Dear Editor:
We read with interest and
amusement Pat Kauffman’s
article on this year’s Dairy
Princess Pageant and the
exclusion of goat owners.
The more I read the more
Mr. Robert Moms, director
of Special Programs for the
Pa. Holstein Assn.,
displayed his lack of
knowledge of genus capra.
While he may be
knowledgeable about
Holstems, and is undoubted
ly an expert in Special Pro-
Barbour, NPC membership
coordinator.
All her proposals were
accepted and she was given
authorization to proceed.
Plans for upcoming
conventions of the council
were reviewed by the three
vice president and NPC
Convention Coordinator
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LilheE. Hoover.
Special emphasis was
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which will be held February
16-19 at Del Webb’s
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NPC First Vice President
Robert G. Kemp has
primary responsibility for
that convention.
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Oear Editor:
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Lancaster Farming.
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