SYRACUSE, N.Y. - William A. Hiller, 53, assistant general manager, will become president and chiet executive officer of Agway Inc when Ronald N. Goddard retires July 1,1981. Hiller, a 30-year employee of Agway, a 123,000 member farm supply and food marketing cooperative, was named to the top management post by the Board of Directors at its March meeting in Syracuse, N Y. Goddard, who has been CEO since 1969, will be 65 in the fiscal year starting July 1, his announced retirement date. Hiller will head an organization with combmed sale of $2.7 billion in its most recent fiscal year, ranking it 171st on Fortune magazine’s list of the 500 largest industrial companies in the United States. The Agway system includes 800 retail outlets, 24 hvestock/feed manufacturing plants, 50 fertilizer production units, an insurance company, and a petroleum com pany with more than 450,000 customers and 130 bulk plants. Although it principally serves the Northeast, Agway has facilities and operations in Indiana, North Dakota, Texas, Idaho, and Washington State. Agway owns controlling interest m Curtice-Burns Inc., a Rochester based food processing and marketmg company; Texas City Refining, Inc., and in 1980, pur chased control of H. P. Hood Inc., a Boston-based dairy and food marketmg company. Hiller, bom and reared on a farm in Stroudsburg, was graduated cum laude from Upper lowa University with a bachelor of science degree in biology. 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Hiller and his wife, Joan, live in Fayetteville, N Y., and have three sons. Goddard, who was elected to his present post m November 1969, is a 44-year Agway employee. Born and reared on a farm near iiUAwii, N i , ul joined L.Ll' Farm Reagan economic plan WASHINGTON, D.C. - American Farm Bureau Federation Thursday endorsed President Reagan’s four point program for economic recovery. The program includes a budget reform plan to cut the rate of growth in Federal spending; a series of proposals to reduce personal income tax rates by 10 percent a year over three years and to create jobs by accelerating depreciation for business in vestment m plant and equipment, a far reaching program of regulatory relief; and in cooperation with the Federal Reserve Board, a new com mitment to a monetary pohcy that will restore a stable currency and healthy f mancial market During its regular March meeting in Washington. 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He was elected assistant general Bureau endorses AFBF board of directors released a statement saying. “We are pleased that these policies are to be pursued as a package and not piecemeal as has been the case in past administrations. “We believe that the bold program recommended to the Congress by President Reagan is a good start for reversing the 15 year trend of government spending increasing faster than the gross national product. “Farmers will take their fair share of federal spending cuts, but farmers must be assured that the cuts are targeted throughout all federal spending programs with special emphasis given to en titlement programs which are the central force driving federal nondefense spending. “In the spirit of fan- play, annual Slav* H«avy Duty 3x5 StMl Tonfu* Will Outperform Any Double Offset! Let Us Prove It. manager in 1968. Goddard is immediate past chairman of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives; a director of New York Telephone Company, Lincoln First Banks, Inc., Lincoln First Bank, N.A., and Crous e-Irvmg Memorial Foun dation; a trustee of Syracuse Umversity, and a past chairman of the Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce He is a member of the Syracuse University School of Management Advisor Council Goddard and his wife, Mary, live in Fayetteville, N.Y. They are the parents of a son and daughter cost-of-livmg adjustments in all entitlement programs should be held to 75 percent rather than 100 percent of the consumer price index.” The farm group said they were “disapppomted that the president does not plan to achieve a balanced budget until 1984 and believe the Congress should insist that a balance be achieved in fiscal year 1981.” In the statement, Farm Bureau said the Soviet gram embargo should be ended. “We urge the president to carry out his promise to end the embargo to the Soviet Union and refrain from such embargoes in the future. Economic sanctions are no sub stitute for military strength,” they said. Inf Hing* Located 16 life Cutting Width Last Disc en Center Section ' I (• GA or 6 GA Cutout or Al»(n) Rigid 3x5 Gang Framm /ft ’ *
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