(Continued from Page Al) program. Through the slogan, ‘We Need Milk, Come Grow With Us,” supplemented with a videotape highlighting the cooperative’s activities, Sumser said Lehigh plans to reach over 2,000 prospective members. General manager William Stout said in his report that Lehigh is making progress in meeting milk needs. Also, the cooperative is paying more attention to milk quality, he said. Stout briefed the 650 members attending the meeting on the milk producers security act which states that “the marketing of milk by producers requires prompt payment by handlers and processors.” Henry Kohler, left, and Harold Fabian are among six Lehigh Valley producers receiving honor plaques for a standard plate count of 8,000 or less. OR FREE IKET* DER MUST... ler Building uilding ler about the Special PRIL 17 e KELLER BUILDING ™ M.W. HOOK S SYSTEMS INC. CONSTRUCTION CO. CONSTRUCTION p n ii Rn« mi Box 6269 d n i 2. Box 163 f 5 Lewisburg, PA 17837 H pM sTr 7597 2 Peach Bottom ’ PA 17563 4 PH. 717-524*0568 PH 717-545*7527 PH.717-548-2615 INE RIGGS ENTERPRISES Box 98 Boswell. PA 15531 PH 814-629-5621 Lehigh Valley holds session in Lancaster The bill, Stout said, provides that cooperatives be deemed a producer and not a dealer; tran sactions would be filed with Pa. Milk Marketing Board; and a bond providing 75 percent coverage for 40 days would be necessary. Lehigh Valley Farmers supports this bill, Stout said, stating, “We believe this is a good bill and should be supported by the House and Senate. We would like to see it effective June 1.” Lehigh president Alpheus Ruth remarked on another recent legislative bill, the milk diversion program. “The low sign-up on the milk diversion program is upsetting,” Ruth said. “I think the problem was a matter of timing - there was GRAINS BINS. GRAIN LEGS, KAN-SUN SPECIAL WINTER WAREHOUSE PRICES from BUTLER Price Includes Delivery And Start Up ■ BUTLER MFC. CO. | Attn. p.E Hess - P.O. Box 337, Oxford. PA 19363 BINTRIM BUILDERS * I'm interested in more information on Butler products. ' r * 4 Hoover Road ® D Buildings □ Bins □ Dryers □ Bulk-O-Matics PA 16101’ ■ j Name CONTRACTOR MAT^S N u fS!, E ?™ ISES 113 Walnut Lane West Newton. PA 15089 B pH iftn^ 6 PH.412-872-6804 PH.609 386-1603 Honor plaques for a somatic cc count of 300,000 or less are presented Lei Valley Farmers members, first row from left, J. Edgar Gish, Isaac Geissinger, Dick Hann, James Martin and Eugene Smucker; second row from left, Grant J. Krall, Frank Jurbala, Henry Kohler, J. Edwin Rohrer, Wilmer Rush, Alfred Wanner Jr., John Wheeler Jr. and David Smucker. not enough time to inform the farmers, and farmers would be locked into a 10-month contract.” What happens if milk production is not reduced? “I expect the price support to lower to $11.50 per hundredweight,” Ruth said, “and the 1985 Farm Bill won’t be written by farmers.” These thoughts, shared by Ruth and Lehigh dairymen as well, lead to the meeting’s theme, “Watch the Store in ’84.” Ruth said in a time of surplus problems, milk diversion programs, promotional concerns, world unrest and the -* ™__