NEBA honors technicians for outstanding service
BY JANE BRESEE
A Staff Correspondent
©ROME - Walter Abell, of
Rome, Bradford County,
was feted last Wednesday,
for 30 years of service as a
technician for NEBA
(Northeastern Breeders
Association)
Nearly 200 people, the
largest crowd in the history
of the Eastern Bradford
Local Annual Dinner
meetings, were presented to
honor Abell at the North
Orwell Community Hall.
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semmator for NEBA from
Tunkhannock, having served
33 years, John Bonnick, also
a 33 year veteran m
seminator, and Bob Pond
from Sullivan County, first
technician in Pennsylvania
having bred over 100,000 first
services, attended with their
wives
Also present were Greg
Sander, Frank Herman,
Harry Havens, and Larry
Swenson, all msemmators
from western Bradford
County Many of these men
told good-natured stories
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ighi,
congratulations for his 30 years of serving to
NEBA from Chester Hale, a past director of Sire
Power, Inc.
about their relationship over
the years with Abell, and the
crowd responded with much
laughter
According to Bob Paar,
district manager for NEBA-
Sire Power, Abell has driven
51,000 miles in 30 years -
equivalent to eight round
trips to California, or two
rounds trips to the moon.
Inscribed to the plaque given
to Abell were the words. In
appreciation for 30 years of
Service - 71,492 first services
through September 30,1980
Abell responded with a
thank you for the plaque and
remarked that he had never
ridden on a snowmobile to
get to his customers, but had
ridden on bulldozers and in
manure spreaders. He had
heard that manure would
make anything grow, he
laughed, but he had not
gamed an inch in 30 years
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Gifts from the Eastern
Bradford Local were also
given to Mr. Abell and his
wife, Gladys
William Brown, chairman
of the Advisory Committee,
was moderator for the
evening He introduced Jake
Guffey, County Extension
Services Agent, and Miss
LuAnn Shedden, Bradford
County Dairy Princess Both
spoke briefly.
Also recognized were the
technicians from Eastern
Bradford: Everett Cook,
unit manager, Larry
Swenson, Carl Remington,
and Walter Abell.
According to Jim Howard,
Sire Power director from
Bradford County, the new
manager at Sire Power,
DeWayne Lutz, has assumed
his duties. The Board is
looking into a building
program to replace or repair
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Bob Paar announced that
in the past year there were
8768 tirst services in Eastern
Bradford making a total of
15,000 first services in
Bradford County
Steve Neely, Sire Prograir
Consultant from Sire Power
narrated a slide show con
ceming the operation at tin
Tunkhannock headquarters
John Culver, Bill Henmp
and Bill Davis reelected
to a two year term to the
advisory committee. Robert
Whjpple was selected as
FFA Awards
Daryl Beiler, 19, of Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania, is
congratulated by Mr. C. Jan Westmoreland,
Director of Public Affairs, Agricultural Division,
Pfizer, Inc., at the National FFA Convention in
Kansas City, Missouri (November 11-14). Daryl vyas
a National Finalist in the FFA Swine Production
Proficiency Award program sponsored by Pfizer,
Inc., New York, New York, as a special project of the
National FFA Foundation, Inc. Daryl is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Elam W. Beiler.
Voting Delegate, and
Richard Conover as Brown
Swiss representative
Eastern Bradford Local is
one of the many small
groups comprising NEBA, a
cooperative covering
several counties in nor
theastern Pennsylvania.
Together with the Maryland
Artificial Breeding
cooperative, and West
Viiginia Breeding
Cooperative, NEBA owns
Sire Power, Inc , a complete
breeding service with
headquarters in Tunkhan
nock, Pennsylvania