Firming, Safrday, February 27,1W2
BALTIMORE, Md. - In a
special election, last month, the
Dairymen Corporate Board of
Directors elected Roy L. Strange
of Moultrie, Ga. as president of the
large southeastern milk coop.
In a local D.I. appointment,
Lancaster dairyman Eugene R.
Frey was named field represen
tative for the Middle Atlantic
Division. Frey’s territory includes
Lancaster and Chester Counties.
Strange succeeded former D.I.
president P.L. Robinson, who died
in December of last year.
“We were deeply saddened by
Mr. Robinson’s death, but share
the confidence of other Dairymen
officials that Roy Strange will
provide the kind of leadership
needed for the cooperative to
continue quality service to its
members,” said R.L. Strock,
manager of the Middle Atlantic
Division.
New chief Strange, 53, operates a
1,400-acre farm in Moultrie, where
he milks 500 cows and raises hogs.
He has been a member of the co
op’s Georgia Division Board of
Directors since its formation in
1970, and is currently serving as its
first vice president. He was
elected to the corporate board of
directors in 1974. The 37-member
board represents 8,000 dairy
farmers, located in 17 eastern and
southeastern states.
Other changes in officers as a
result of the election are: Robert
Read, Cross Plains, Tenn., from
second vice president to first vice
president; and Ray Moss Tucker,
FmchviUe, Ky., from third vice
president to second vice president.
Edgar Garnett, Charlottesville,
Va., was elected third vice
president.
Secretary John C. Simon,
Youngsville, La., and Treasurer
Pa. native is
MARTINSBURG,-WV-With the
election of £mest F. Fischer of
Porter, Oklahoma, at the Board of
Directors meeting in Hawaii,
National Peach Council now has its
first president from the state of
Oklahoma.
Fischer was elected an officer
and member of the NPC Executive
Committee in 1979. Since that tune,
he has moved up through the of
fices of the Council to his current
position as president.
He is also president of B.F.
Blackledge and Fischer Orchards,
Inc. in Porter, OK. The operation
was started m 1916 by Ben and
Harold Blackledge, father and
uncle of Ernie’s wife, Dorothy.
Today, the orchard covers about
300 acres with 250 of those acres
devoted to peaches.
The orchard was incorporated in
1968. Erne’s son Joel is now vice
president of the corporation.
Dorothy and their daughter-in-law
Anne are also officers of the cor
poration. Normally about 50
percent of the peaches are sold
wholesale, 25 percent are sold
through pick-your-own operations,
and 25 percent are sold at their
roadside market.
A native ot Kingston, Pa. Ernie
graduated from Oklahoma State
University in 1940 where he met his
wife. After working for Wright
Aero Crop in New Jersey for
several years, he and Dorothy
returned to Oklahoma since it was
“easier to move back to Oklahoma
than to move the orchard to New
Jersey.”
Ernie Fischer has been an NPC
Board member and ofticer tor
several years. He attended his first
NPC convention in 1947 and has
attended a total of 18 NPC con
ventions since that tune.
Dairymen, Inc. elects Georgia
producer as new Chief
Richard Riggs, Evansville, Ind.,
were re-elected to those offices.
John A. Moser, Louisville, Ky.,
continues to serve as president
emeritus.
Locally, D.i. members in
Chester and Lancaster Counties
will have the service of new field
representative Eugene Frey.
Frey, a Franklin County native
was born and raised on a dairy
farm and in 1978 received a
Bachelor of Science degree in
History from Eastern Mennomte
College in Harrisonburg, Va. He
then returned to the farm for a
year to work in the processing
facility of his -family’s dairy
operation.
In 1979, he and his family moved
to Tanzania, Africa to complete a
two-and-a-half year teaching
assignment at the Mennomte
Theological College in Musoma.
Frey and his wife, Hazel, also a
Franklin County native, have a
daughter Robin, 13, and a son
Oerek, 11.
Division of Dairymen, Inc. discusses the role of a field
representative with Eugene R. Frey, Lancaster. Frey recently
joined the Dairymen staff.
Nat’l Peach Council president
Fischer also helped to organize
the Oklahoma Fruit Growers
Association about 12 years ago.
Other members of the NPC
Executive Committee elected at
the February Board Meeluig are:
Henry Chiles, Batesville, VA, fust
vice president; Jerrold A. Watson,
Monetta. SC, second vice
USDA changes horse import rules
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S.
Department of Agriculture of
ficials are making slight changes
in import regulations for certain
breeding-age horses from coun
tries affected with contagious
equine metritis, a venereal disease
of horses.
John K. Atwell, deputy ad
ministrator of USDA’s Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service,
said import regulations for
breeding-age horses from coun
tries affected with the disease need
to be clarified because of certain
misunderstandings about the
veterinary certification required
for acceptance by USDA officials.
He said under current
regulations, breeding-age horses
those over 731 days old can be
unported from countries affected
with the disease if the nation’s
veterinary officials can certify
from records acceptable to USDA
that the imported horses never
had been bred and never had.been
kept at an establishment where
horses are bred.
The amendment to the
regulations states specifically that
this certification applies only to
Thoroughbreds from West Ger
many, the Umted Kingdom,
Ireland and France, and to
Roy L. Strange
president; Anthony J. “Tony”
Rubmo, Blue Goose Growers,
Hagerstown, MD, third vice
president; Robert G. Kemp,
Bountiful Ridge Nurseries,
Princess Anne, MD, immediate
past president; and Mary Ayers,
president of National Peach
Partners, Reynolds, GA.
Standardbred horses from
Australia. It further specifies the
exact certification procedure and
the breed association records that
will be accepted by USDA officials
for certification purposes.
The regulation change became
effective Jan. 28. Public comments
on this interim rule change may be
submitted through March 29 to the
deputy administrator for
veterinary services, APHIS,
USDA, Federal Building, 6505
Belcrest Ed., Hyattsville, Md.
20782.
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R R 2
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Carlisle, PA 17013
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Myerstown, PA 17067
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537 Palling Spring Rd.,
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R. R. 1 Box 619
Stone boro. PA 16153
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194 Greenhilt Drive
Washington, PA 15301
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R. R. 3 Old Route 22.
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Greensburg, PA 15601
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