<*l imnr^^K^SlßßPßßDß^Cyv^x^* V0L.2CN9.32 Hi! Pm Dick. Who are you? After signing proclamation designating June as Pennsylvania Dairy Month, Gov. Dick Thornburgh introduces himself to Milky the Robot Just behind him. State Ag Secretary Penny Hallowed toasts their meeting with a mug of milk. Representatives of the dairy Dairylea agrees to $1 million settlement PEARL RIVER, N.Y. - Dairylea Cooperative announced last Sunday tint it has entered into a settlement agreement with New York Attorney Robert Abrams to resolve certain legal actions. According to Attorney Abrams, Dairylea is one of eight major milk companies recently indicted for alleged price-fixing in the New York milk industry. The Cooperative has agreed to a $1 million settlement which will provide consumers a 10 cents per carton discount on milk. Under the terms of the agreement, which the Attorney General announced last Sunday during an appearance on WCB&- TV’s “Newsmakers,” Dairylea will circulate approximately 25 million coupons over the next four years which consumers may redeem for 10 cents off the pnce of Inside This Week’s... Lancaster County introduces dairy princess contestants A 33 Nat'l champ Jersey finds home at Walebe Farms A 24 Pmey Lane Guernsey uses DHIA to get to top 62 State dairy princess shares experiences of reign. C2O Milk haulers drive in truck rodeo Dl9 - Relax with our Dairy Crossword puzzle Dl4 Shirley, a sweet-tooth Holstein makes a complete ration out of junk food D 8 1981 Fair Schedule can be found on E2l Take our foldout of the 1981 Fly Control and Drug Withdrawal guides out to the barn.. El 5-18 industry present for the proclamation signing on Monday at the state capitol look on. Plans for the coming year of the Middle Atlantic Advertising and Promotion Agency are found onPageA2o. quart and half gallon containers of Dairylea milk. The coupons will be printed directly on a side panel of Dairylea milk containers, and the program will be in effect until the total cost to Dairylea reaches $750,000. Dairylea will also pay $250,00 to the Attorney General which will be placed in a fund for eventual distribution to governmental in stitutions and other larger pur chasers of milk, as well as con sumers. These cash payments will be made over the next five years.. . $25,000 at the end of the first four years and $15,000 at the end of the fifth and final year. In addition, in signing the agreement, Dairylea committed its employees to full cooperation with the Attorney General’s prosecution and ongoing in vestigation of price-fixing m the Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 6,19tl State’s milk industry. Abram’s office also will have access to all relevant documents and records in Dairylea’s possession. Finally, Dairylea has agreed to an injunction barring it from Maryland soon to welcome National Holstein Assn, delegates BY DEBBIE KOONTZ LANCASTER—The 96th Annual Convention of the Holstein Association of America, in preparation for nearly two years according to Maryland Holstein Association Convention Chairman Marlin Hoff, is slated for June 28 • July 2 in Baltimore. And, adds John Moms, secretary for the Association, “Things are coming along real good. We have a lot of activities planned.” The National Holstein Sale and the annual business meeting will be held in Balitmore’s award winning Convention Center. The five-day convention will include proposed details of the 1981 farm hill. Association policy revisions, new cow indexes, future Association activities, the con- COLUMNS Editorials, A 10; Now is the tune, A 10; Joyce Bupp’s column, CIO; Ladies have you heard? Cll; Ida’s Notebook, Cl 2; Farm talk, E 4. HOME AND YOUTH Homestead Notes, C 2; Home on the range, C 6; Farm Women Societies, 04; Kid’s Korner, Cl 4; 4- Hnews, Cl 4; FFA, C 26. Eastern proposes dues rate change SYRACUSE, N. Y. - A change in the rate of membership dues, replacing the present 10 cents per hundredweight with a flat monthly rate plus a cents per hun dredweight increment, will be considered- at the annual meeting of Eastern Milk Producers Cooperative next week. The proposed change in by-laws, which will be considered at the delegate meeting on Tuesday, is designed to help stabilize mem bership in the cooperative and hold on to the larger producers as members. The possible new schedule of dues may include a flat monthly rate of $25, plus an increment of about 7 to 7.4 cents per hun dredweight The current 10 cents per hun dredweight dues rate has been in effect for approximately the past four years. It was explained that the flat rate is being proposed because there are fixed basic charges and services that apply to all producers violating federal and state an titrust laws, and the Attorney General will have broad authority to closely monitor Dairylea’s system of milk distribution over • (Turn to Page A 34) vention sale and activities for junior members. Since the hosting state traditionally plans the event, the Maryland Association is looking forward to presenting its visitors Everyone entering dairy photo contest LANCASTER Everyone, including “Bossie,” is submitting a favorite photo in ljm^«p r Far ming’s Dairy Month Photo Con test. $7.50 Per Year regardless of the volume of milk they ship. These include receipt of the Eastern magazine, a guaranteed market, hospitalization if it is elected and quality control work. Total revenue to be gamed from the new schedule of dues is ex pected to be about the same as is currently received, but individual pioducers, depending on their volume of milk, will be affected. The expected break-even point for a shipper, where the proposed schedule is about equal to the present dues rate, is said to be about 40,000 pounds of milk per month. The average producer in Eastern is reported to be shipping about a ton a milk a day, or 60,000 pounds a month. Thus, the proposed dues rate would amount to a savings for these producers who are shipping more than 40,000 pounds a month. It is expected that most producers in the Lancaster, Lebanon and Dauphin counties area would have a lower dues rate. But small producers, such as a contingent of Amish dairy farmers in the Dover, Del. area who still ship in cans, would be the most affected by a higher dues rate. Also expected to be discussed and receive possible action are a number of resolutions to be in troduced and the Leprmo cheese plant situation. (Turn to Page A 34) with crab feasts at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, a trip to Washington D.C. and Annapolis and other social activities scheduled for (Turn to Page A 34) Well, actually that’s stretching it a bit, but the photos are arriving daily in the mail. Thus far, we’ve received entries from four states - Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland and Ohio. And, believe it or not, one of the photos was taken as far away as Connemara County, Galway, Ireland. The submitted photos range from those just recently snapped to some as much as a half-century old. Quite a few of the entries are those once-in-a-lifetime photos, which could only be taken by someone living on a dairy farm, who just happens to be at the right place at the right time. And, that’s the kind of photos we want. It just shows that our (Turn to Page A 34)