Court hears Milk
Marketing testimony
HARRISBURG A hearing between the Pa. Milk Marketing
Board (PMMB) and state milk dealers was held May 2 to further
review a federal restraining order blocking the Milk Marketing
Board’s decision to temporarily suspend minimum prices for
lowfat and skim milk.
At the request of milk dealers throughout the state, U.S. Judge
Sylvia Rambo issued a 10-day restraining order to allow time to
schedule a hearing on the Board’s decision. PMMB approved April
16 the temporary deregulation of lowfat and skim milk prices,
stemming from a petition filed by the cities of Pittsburgh and Erie
and the Lawson Company, an Ohio dairy firm, to end minimum
price setting.
According to Gene Veno, PMMB executive secretary, both the
milk dealers and PMMB presented their testimony at Tuesday’s
meeting and are now awaiting the court’s decision. A decision,
which PMMB will abide, should be made by May 9, Veno said.
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BY JACK HUBLEY includes all birds with positive
LANCASTER Depopulation of serology, (those birds showing the
poultry flocks known to have presence of flu antibodies) but with
contracted the less virulent, or n 0 verified history of high or low
“low path”, avian influenza path infection,
continued this week, with 13 flocks McGlumphy stresses that no
containing 350,671 birds, being across-the-board decision will be
depopulated by Thursday, ac- made to depopulate flocks based
cording to USDA assistant in- so ieiy on the presence of an
formation officer, Katie tibodies. These birds will be
McGlumphey. Included in this subjected to further testing, and
count were 326,949 layers and on jy birds showing the presence
23,722 breeders. of the active flu virus will be
To date, 25 flocks have been considered eligible for
declared, meaning that farmers depopulation,
have granted permission to recent Pa. Poultry Federation
proceed with depopulation. Of this neW sletter reports that, with the
number, 16 flocks, containing a onse t of warmer weather, the
total of 511,386 birds, have been uSDA will replace its dead bird
appraised by Task Force officials, surveillance program with an egg
and approved for depopulation. pick-up program based on
In addition to those flocks collecting 30 eggs (equivalent to
classified as high patti or low path, one each week from each
a third group of birds must be f arm the quarantine zone,
considered in the effort to p re f era biy a t the processor level,
eradicate avian flu. This group This weekly program will be
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Egg pick-up begins Monday
Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, May 5,1954—A25
mandatory in order to ship eggs
across state lines.
While dead birds were actually
sampled for the virus, the testing
of eggs can only determine the
presence of antibodies. The USDA
contends that both bird and egg
testing programs were not, and
will not, be the determining factors
in a decision to depopulate. The
purpose of the pick-up programs is
to identify potential problem flocks
for further investigation.
According to McGlumphy,
permission forms giving consent to
proceed with the egg pick-up were
sent to farmers this past Monday.
The signed forms are then to be
returned to the Task Force which
forwards them to the appropriate
processors. Egg pick-up is slated
to begin on Monday.
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Rock, Butler County; Elder Vogel,
Rochester, Beaver County; Thad
Woodward, Canton, Bradford
County; David Stetler, Mif
flintown, Juniata; Byron E.
Sollenberger, Curryville, Blair
County; Ernest 0. Miller, Ham
burg, Berks County; R. LaVem
McCarty, Forksville, Sullivan
County; James L. Harteis,
Ebensburg, Cambria County;
Beverly Minor, Washington,
Washington County; Donald B.
Duncan, Robesonia, Berks
County; Carol Sanders, Millmont,
Union County; Carl Brown, Pine
Grove, Schuylkill County; Obie
Snyder, Imler, Bedford County;
and Richard Shellenberger,
Manheim, Lancaster County.