VOL 25 No.ll^oi June Is Dairii JAonth Agriculture Secretary Penrose Hallowell read the proclamation declaring June Dairy Month while Smithdale Glenda Astronaut looked on approvingly. At her halter is owner Chester Galen Eastern members OK $625 assessment BY SHEILA MILLER SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Delegates to the Eastern Milk Producers Cooperative annual meeting in Syracuse, N.Y. approved/two separate assessments which will cost the average member about $625. On Wednesday members | also took action on several Berks farmer loses 30 cows during storm BY LAUREL SCHAEFFER Staff Correspondent FLEETWOOD - A freak accident during a thun derstorm last Sunday evening caused the death of 30 dairy cattle owned by Luke Kurtz, R 1 Fleetwood In an unrelated incident, eight cows, including the reserve grand champion at the Pennsylvania Holstein show, were killed on the Eastern farm of Donald Seipt. For details on that incident, see page Al 6. Elect new president, directors resolutions and elected past Co-op Treasurer Stanley Korona of Amsterdam, New York, as their new President. According to the Co-op, the members approved a $5OO per member flat assessment. In addition, an accounts receivable assessment of 2.5 The cattle, which mcluded 24 milking cows and six heifers, were apparently eletrocuted when a high voltage power line was brought down by a high gust of wind during the storm. The wooden pole sup porting the power line owned by Metropolitan Edison Company snapped off at the base, causing the catastrophy. “Everything” was said to light up that evening at (Turn to PageAl4) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 7,1980 Smith, Shippensburg. The affair marked the beginning of a month-long promotion of the Commonwealth's dairy industry. cents per hundredweight on all milk produced between April 1, 1978 and March 31, 1979 will be charged against Eastern members. Eastern said it figures the assessment will cost each member an additional $125 and should generate the $500,000 needed to clear up the Co-op’s accounts receivable. The assessment will be taken either as a lump sum or deducted over four month’s time. The only members not to be charged are those who joined the Co op after January 1,1980. The Board of Directors agreed to review hardship cases. Retiring President and Direct Arden Tewksbury pointed out that two-thirds of the delegate meeting was spent on the assessment and interest resolutions. He noted that along with the across-the-board $5OO levy resolution adopted by the Co-op delegates, -there were additional resolutions developed by a committee to assess the producers by milk production. These resolutions, he said, were turned down by the majority. A resolution to drop the interest payments was also voted down, Tewksbury said. Eliminating the in- terest charge, he pointed out, would have required a sum of $175,000 to $200,000 be (Turn to Page A3B) Seven women to vie for dairy princess title BY SALLY BAIR Staff Correspondent LANCASTER Seven young women are par ticipating in activities which will lead to the crowning of the 1980 Lancaster County Dairy Princess on June 21 in ceremonies at the Farm and Home Center. All contestants and the reigning Dairy Princess Lucinda Landis, 1805 Colebrook Road, Lancaster, promoted dairy products at the East Towne Mall from Wednesday through Saturday this week and participated m a milking contest at the home of the committee’s co-chairmen, Mr. and Mrs. Elvm Bren fteman, Mount Joy Rl, Friday afternoon. The final event of the Dairy Princess promotion will take place on Saturday, June 21 with a reception on HARRISBURG June Dairy Month was officially ushered in for Pennsylvanians Monday with the reading of a proclamation by Governor Dick Thornburgh. On hand to represent the dairy industry was Smithdale Glenda Astronaut who climbed the Capitol steps here in Harrisburg to take the bows for her milk-producing sisters across the Commonwealth. She gave no indication she hadn’t been walking steps all of her life. Glenda, who makes her home in the Shippensburg barn of Chester Galen Smith’s Smithdale Farms, conducted herself well on her first visit to the state capitol. The seven year old Holstein was a fine bovine representative. Classified VG 89, she has top records of 28,900 pounds milk and 1008 butterfat. Attention of news reporters’ clicking Nikons focused on Glenda and State Agriculture Secretary Penrose Hallowed. Hallowed substituted for Governor Thornburgh who was unable to make it down to the Capitol steps for the noon festivities. State Dairy Princess Edeen Shud was joined by prin cesses fropi Lancaster, Dauphin, and Lebanon Counties who distributed crackers and cheese to onlookers. In addition, The Big Cheese and Mdton the Milk Carton, two promotional characters, were on hand to support the state’s number one farm industry. Dairying is a billion dollar business in the state, placing Pennsylvania among the top five states in the nation in the number of diary farms; cows on farms; amount of milk produced, marketed and sold to processing plants; production of milk, milkfat, evaporated, and sweetened and condensed milk; and ice cream. In his proclamation, Thornburgh said he “urged everyone to observe the month with appropnate activities the patio at 6:30, followed by dinner and an evening of entertainment at 7 pm. Contestants mclude: Belle Balmer, Mount Joy R 2, daughter of Mrs. Jane In This Issue SECTION A: Editorials, 10; Berks dairy princess, 15; Champion cows killed, 16; Dairy Month kickoff, 20; Milk spiral continues, 22; Sheda’s shorts, 28; Annville dairyman, 29. SECTION B: Incorporate estates 2; Northampton DKIA, 4; Dairy management, 5; EUenberger honored, 9; Dairy steers, 10; Franklin DHIA, 11. SECTION C: Chester Dairy Princess, 2; Dairy recipes, 6; Joyce Bupp’s column, 13; Dairy promo critters, 16; Milk bottle collection, 22; Delta dairies, 27; Edgefield dairy, 31; Milk month music, 32; Belted cows, 36 SECTION D: Record soybean demand, 5; Lebanon Dairy Princess, 12; Cedar Crest Young Farmers, 15; Prevent silo failures, 28; Berks dairy farm, 29; The Milk Check, 38 SECTION E: New colesterol findings, 4; Past dairy treasures, 8, Ask VMD. 14; Farm Talk, 17, B:carb helps sour colostrum. 21 BY CURT HAULER (Turn to Page A 36) Balmer. Belle, 18, graduated from Donegal High School and is employed at Hamilton Bank. A member of the-Florin (Turn to Page A 24) $7.00 Per Year
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