D6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 3,1982 t ***• //'s i A "£e ' ' ** t<*"4 }> •S$ *'* /ft 'r i ' v ' ■-/■•><. Farm Business kK * Helping to promote milk American Breeders Service gets behind the Real Seal campaign with its company sign seen by thousands of motorists just off Interstate 9Q-94 near OeForest, Wise. ■ Similar signs, such as those at equipment dealers, mills, other farm suppliers, grocery stores and supermarkets, provide numerous other possibilities for the promotion. The next time you visit your dealer or market, why not suggest it. Also, what about the many farm signs or silos seen by countless thousands of passersby. Perhaps an attachment with a promotional message could be devised for them. Mumford joins Farmstead EMPORIA, Va. Farmstead campaign. Industries of Virginia has ap- Mumford has 24 years ex pointed Thomas 0. “Tom” perience in swine and poultry Mumford to their staff as general housing and equipment. As Farm sales manager. stead sales manager he will be Mumford attended Evanston responsible for sales in the eight Community College, Evanston, Eastern states served by the Illinois and the University of manufacturer of swine con- Maryland. He is a veteran of World f inement systems and equipment War II serving in the Pacific located in Emporia, Virginia. Changes at Continental Grain ' NEW YORK, N.Y. - Continental ContiShipping, the Metals Division Grain Company has announced and ContiCoal. Elmer Jacobs will assume He will be responsible to Walter responsibility for directing the Goldschmidt, executive vice activities of a newly created president and the member of Transportation and Natural Continental’s Office of the Chief Resources Group. He currently is Executive. TeSStoc'asSSSS Jl>h “ “<*• cumnUs I ermmals, me., a subs mary. Germany for Continental Gram, a corporate setdor vice wUI become the new P resident of become a corporate senior to ContiCarriers and Terminals. It is president and group present- anticipate d Jacobs will assume his Transportation and Natural new £ ssigmient New Yorlt on Resources. His group will include q t ° ContiCarriers and Terminals, McConnell introduces potato harvester PRATTSBURG, N. Y. The with four other type eliminating Model 450 McConnell Utah potato systems in about two hours and Harvester was introduced to the can be retrofit to older model trade recently. The World Class harvesters. Optional equipment 450 features 35” conveyors features.include an infinite speed throughout, optional belt chain variation, hydrastatic drive. \ manufactured by McConnell since 1972), integrated new clod For more information contact eliminator table and many other McConnell Manufacturing Co., new features. Inc., Prattsburg, New York, 607- The clod table will interchange 522-3701. McConnell - Utah potato harvester ■v* V fX'J, %v <•"' S' v > '' < Donald W. Parke, executive vide president of PennAg industries, was honored Sunday during a retirement celebration held at the Hershey Country Club. Parke, whose last day of employment with the agribusiness association was Wednesday, received a Parke retires from PennAg HERSHEY Sunday was one day in the life of Eton Parke, executive vice president of Pen nAg Industries, that the 23-year veteran of the statewide agribusiness association will long remember. Parke was guest of honor at an invitation-only retirement celebration attended by more than 100 of his friends and peers. Having reached the magic age of 65 just the day before, Parke was coun ting down the days of fuU-time employment at the Ephrata-based organization. Parke, who hails from Binghamton, .New York, has been an employee of PennAg since 1959. Jokingly, he credits his first-hand knowledge of agricultural production from “raising a huge Representatives of Versatile Farm Equipment Company recently met with the combined sales, parts and service staffs of C. 6. Hoober & Son Inc., intercourse, and Hoober Equipment Inc., Sudlersviile, Md. at the Charlestown Yacht Club, Charlestown, Md. Versatile's product training manager, Dick Carrico, and regional service manager, Joe Orendorf, presented a program which introduced Versatile's products, policies, and programs to the Hoober people. Pictured are Daryl Peifer, general manager of Hoober Equipment; Dick Carrico, Versatile; Joe Orendorf, Versatile; and Charlie Hoober, president of C. B. Hoober & Son Inc. and Hoober Equipment Inc. Versatile Farm Equipment Company sells 4-wheel drive tractors. Hoobers to sell Versatile tractors framed certificate of appreciation and a $9OO gift certificate from Board, of Directors president Thomas Ziegler, left, and a $4,000 gift certificate from Bill Sprenkle, right, representing PennAgpastpresidenfs. white rabbit and an even larger, and more ill-mann?red rooster by the name of Charlie.” His intimate knowledge of plant food and in secticides, he said, was gleaned through “work on. turf plots more commonly known as lawn and furtive attempts in vegetable production.” In actuality, Parke came to PennAg with much better credentials than he.admits to, having graduated from Duke Universityin 1941. with a bachelor’s degree in economics. From 1941 until 1946, Parke was a soldier in the U.S. Army, attaining the rank of captain before being discharged. • Alter Ins''military service, Parke took on the task of field secretary for the Pennsylvania Retailers Association, a post he held for 13 years. As his reputation spread throughout the Lancaster area, Parke was finally recruited by what was then called the Penn sylvania Millers’ and Feed Dealers’, Association Penn Ag’s predecessor. Along with his executive duties at the Ephrata office, Parke also became active in the organization for grain and feed association . secretaries throughout the U.S. c and Canada. Eventually, he was jm elected as 'the- organization’s AJ president. ' Parke also served on the Board of Directors for the Pennsylvahia Livestock and Allied Industries Association and the Penn State Ag- (Turn to Page D 8) PennAg holds Open House EPHKATA PennAg industries Association, .120 Lake Street, of ficially opened their new headquarters Monday, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and tours of the offices. Ephrata, Mayor Clarence Spohn and newly appointed executive vice president of the organization, David Brubaker, together cut the ribbon at the front entrance, of ficially marking the first property ownership of the 104 year old state association of agribusiness. As part of the opening ceremony, Floyd High, of Christ High & Sons, Ephrata, presented the ceremonial keys to retiring PennAg,executive secretary Donald W. Parke. Ex tensive remodeling of the building had been done before its present occupancy. Several PennAg directors and members of the staff were joined at the opening by PennAg President Thomas Ziegler; Ephrata Councilman John Burke; Pa. Representative Noah Wenger; LuAnn Brenneman, Lancaster - County Dairy Princess; LaVon Fuhrman, Lancaster County Poultry Queen; and , Yvonne Eshelman, Pa. Poultry Queen; and others. Tours of the building were conducted throughout the af ternoon.
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