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
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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
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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
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Balmer. Belle, 18, graduated
from Donegal High School
and is employed at Hamilton
Bank.
A member of the-Florin
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$7.00 Per Year