B34—Lancaster Farming, Friday, December 24,1982 American Angus Assn, to celebrate lOOth birthday ST. JOSEPH, Mo. A year-long celebration of the 100th an niversary of the founding of the American Angus Association begins in January 1983, reports Richard Spader, executive vice president of the national beef registry association in St. Joseph, Missouri. Four special events are planned to highlight the year, Spader said. The first will be the Centennial National Angus Show, and the Centennial Angus Sale Jan. 14 and 15 in Denver, Colorado in con junction with the National Western Stock Show. The celebration will end with the 100th Annual Meeting of the Association, Nov. 14, in Louisville, Kentucky. In between these opening and closing events will be the Cen tennial National Junior Angus Show and Showmanship Contest, July 20, 21 and 22 at the lowa State Fairgrounds in Ues Moines, and the Angus Association birthday celebration Sept. 15-17 in St. Joseph, Missouri. The birthday celebration will include a conference program, tours of the American Angus Association headquarters, an Angus art show, a meeting of the World Aberdeen Angus Secretariat with representatives from all over the world, a recognition of Cen tennial Angus herds that have been in continuous production of registered Angus cattle for 50 years or more, plus entertainment and an abundance of Angus beef. State Angus associations in 1983 will locate and honor the long time Angus herds within their borders. "Histone” certificates will be SMUCKER'S SALES SERVICE, INC. RD #2, BOX 21 NEW HOLLAND. PA 17557 FOR PROMPT SERVICE CALL 717-354-4158 OR IF NO ANSWER CALL 717-354-4374 ■ - - awarded to those herds that have been producing registered Angus cattle continuously for 25 through 49 years. "Centennial” herd awards will go to owners of registered herds that have been in continuous production for 50 years or more. In addition state and local Angus associations will sponsor a variety of other Centennial ac tivities, Spader said. The American Aberdeen-Angus Breeders’ Association was organized at a general meeting of Angus breeders and owners in Chicago, Illinois on Nov. 21, 1883. The first president was William T. Holt owner of Holt Live Stock Co., Denver, Colorado, and the first secretary was Charles Cudgel, a cattle breeder and importer from Pleasant Hill, Missouri. The first offices of the Association were in Cudgel’s home. Five years later business had grown to the point that Cudgel couldn’t handle it and Thomas McFarlane, lowa City, lowa was elected secretary. At first the offices were in McFarlane’s home but later were moved to Harvey, Illinois. In 1902 the headquarters moved to the Purebred Livestock Records Building in the Chicago Stock Yards where they remained until 1958. McFarlane, served until 1907 and was succeeded by Charles Cray who came from the Calloway Association to the Aberdeen-Angus Breeders’ Association. Gray served until 1925. W.H. Tomhave, a professor of animal husbandry at Purdue University served the longest tenure as secretary, he retired in 1946. Tomhave was replaced by Frank Richards who served until 1963. The Association headquarters were moved to their first permanent home at 3201 Frederick Blvd., in St. Joseph, Missouri, on June, 1956. Glen Bratcher, a native of Oklahoma and professor of animal husbandry succeeded Richards and served until his untimely death in October 1968. Lloyd Miller, the Association’s director of public relations since 1946 was elected the 7th secretary in 1968 and retired in 1978, He was followed by C.K. Allen, a native of Virginia. Allen was replaced in 1981 by the present executive officer, Richard Spader, a South Dakota native, who went to work in the Association’s public relations department in 1969 and later was director of performance programs. The one millionth registration was not added to U.S. Angus book until 1947, some 64 years after the Association’s founding. However at the beginning of 1983 the Association will have recorded almost 10.5 millin animals. Vir tually all the growth in the Angus business come after World War 11, when the demand for quality beef virtually exploded. The American Angus 1471 Mumma Road PHONE: Lingiestown 717-469-2806 Harrisburg, Pa. 17112 WALTER M. KUNTZ LATHING - PLASTERING - STUCCOING PLASTER PAYS QUALITY-PROTECTION BEAUTY - CRAFTSMANSHIP GoTheEasy 'May! You get the savings in labor... the conve nience of large volume handling ... and the economies of bulk. 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Tl*«,- first compute' »<> handle the NFO sees CCC stocks fall when MW LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Dairy farmers attending commodity meetings at the annual convention here of National Farmers Organization were shown ( how NFO raised the Minnesola- Wisconsin Series monthly-average price for milk and told how a continuation of that effort will reduce the flow of dairy products into government stocks. "By raising the MW senes prices, the dairy plant that is presently selling to the govern ment will have to play a higher price tor milk in order to obtain a supply,” said A 1 Scott, director of the NFO dairy department. “That will make it less profitable tor those producing strictly tor the government,” Scott said. The MW series price is deter- IBA GCh/T ever increasing workload of the Association was installed in 1962. 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