A26—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 24,1981
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These members received awards for 50 years of service to Inter-State,
Thursday. They are: sitting, Clayton and Sadie Kreider and Grace and Irvin
Inter-State meeting
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voltage to milking equip
ment personnel, power
company employees,
electricians and
veterinarians A dairy
meeting will be held that
afternoon
creases in costs of
production
Favorable reports on
Quality Control, Inc, and
Holly Milk were well
received. Akers also noted
an up-coming reorganization
in hauling routes to offset
rising transportation costs
Akers also explained the
coop’s recent service
agreement with Christiana
Dairies.
Further emphasizing the
need to be aware of all the
aspects of producing and
marketing dairy products,
county dairy agent, Glen
Shirk advised the gioup to
support marketing
programs, to continue
producing a good product,
and to put a lot of effort into
growing high quality forage
to make production less
costly Buying quality feeds
this year was extremely
costly he said
Tracking down stray
voltage in milking areas is a
sometimes tedious job, but
Shirk suggested it could be a
possible cause for cows not
responding to mastitis
control programs He an
nounced a meeting for the
morning of February 13 to
present some of the aspects
of the problem of stray
Receiving awards for 25 years of membership are Mr. and Mrs Albert H.
Mellinger (pictured) and Calvin Keen (absent)
Dave DeLong explained to
the group attending the
meeting the insights and
experiences he and his wife,
Pat, gained as last year's
Young Cooperator Couple
for the district He urged all
who met the age
qualifications to take the
lime to enter into this
progiam He said there is a
lot more to a cooperative
than a milk check
After musical en
tertainment for members
and guests by Glen Hough of
Peach Bottom, Richard
Norton, manager of Order 4
Advertising and Promotion
Agency, gave a slide
presentation outlining the
challenges, and programs
working at meeting those
goals, in marketing milk
Promotion campaigns
should make a good return
on capital invested, increase
a demand for milk and milk
products, and develop a
unified promotional ap
proach, he explained.
Norton said 60 per cent of
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These youths received awards for top record
books at the Inter-State local meeting Thursday. A
three-way tie in third place resulted in five win
the milk is bought through
chain stores The remaining
is sold through food
processing such as cheese
There is an ever in
creasing problem marketing
Delong. Standing, James and Eleanor Kreider, Kathie and Thomas Kreider,
Lewis and Lois Aliment, Joel Dubble and Pat and David Delong.
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milk to consumers who want
low fat milk when producers
are still being paid by fat
differentials, he added
To help offset the ten to
one ratio between monies
spent by other beverages
and that spent by the dairy
industry to promote their
products, dairy promotions
are presently focusing on the
strengths of the product The
“Soft, Soft Drink” and "Slice
of Life” promotions are a
part of this promotion
theme.
To combat the rising
numbers of imitation
products, the “Real Seal”
program hopes to be as
effective as the cotton and
East Towne
LANCASTER - Tired ot
these long cold winter days
of shoveling snow and
scraping ice' Well, so are
the Merchants of the East
Towne Mall In fact they
have decided to Hurry
Spring with some springtime
activities right in the middle
of winter
For openers there will be a
Student Arts and Crafts
Show with area high school
students displaying some of
ners. They are: Diane Hershberger, Doug Her-
shberger, Steve Hershey and Lonna Rohrer. Lela
Rohrer, also a winner, was absent.
wool and Good Rohrer Alternate
Housekeeping seals are in delegates. Benjamin Clark,
pointing consumers to <1 Ray Ranck and Charles L
quality purchases. Rohrer
Norton concluded his Quarryville President,
presentation by briefly Robert C. Groff, vice
covering the roles of president, Kenneth M. Rutt,
research and nutrition secretary-treasurer, Robert
education, especially among H Kreider. Delegates
school children, as they Robert A. Breneman, R.
relate to marketing dairy Edwin Harnish, A Dale
products Herr, Fred Linton, Jr, and
Election results for the two
locals follow
Christiana president,
Ivan Bowman, Jr.; vice
president, Donald L Ranck;
secretary-treasurer, C.
Nevin Hershey. Delegates
James W Bowman, C
Melvin Neff and Allan D
Mall Promoting ‘Spring’
the best in drawing, pain- on Friday evening and to
ting, string art, macrame counteract all the holiday
and block prints. food we’ve eaten there will
Shoppers will be able to
get in the act by making
crafts to take home with
them - woodburning, tinsel
art, counted cross stitches,
crocheting, basket weaving,
macrame, string art,
decoupage, needlepoint and
stained glass.
A micro-wave oven
demonstration will be held
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Vernon Umble Alternate
delegates: R Dale Groff,
William Heidelbaugh, Jr ,
Willis Krantz, David
Longenecker and David H.
Myer.
Donald Ranck and Willis
Krantz were elected by both
locals to serve on the hauling
committees
be some exercises to get us
in shape for spring. On
Thursday and Friday
evenings at 7 and 8 PM there
will be a special organ
concert of spi ingtime music.
East Towne Mall is
Hurnng Spring for three
days at least Thursday,
Friday and Saturday,
January 29, 30 and 31,