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VOL. 32 No. 37
Egg Producers Vote ‘No’ On Marketing Order
BY JACK HUBLEY
The votes are tallied. The
nation’s egg producers demon
strated their opposition to a one
half-cent-per-dozen checkoff
program in a referendum that
ended June 19.
“The industry is obviously not
Farmland Sponsor Wins
Presidential Citation
RONKS—Skiadas Brothers
Enterprises has been chosen as one
of the 70 1987 Presidential Cita
tion winners of the President’s
Citation Program for Private Sec
tor Initiatives for sponsoring the
Farmland Preservation Benefit
Breakfast.
Under the auspices of Keith
McNally of the Pennsylvania
Dutch Visitors Bureau, Skiadas
Brothers Enterprises entered the
President’s Citation Program for
Private Sector Initiatives for both
tiie Statue of Liberty Quilt project
which raised $50,000 for the
Statue of Liberty and The Farm
land Preservation Benefit
Breakfast.
The Citation Program, deve
loped in 1984 by the While House
Office of Private Sector Initiatives
annually recognizes organizations
making extraordinary contribu
tions to their communities and
encourages other businesses and
associations to develop similar
volunteer programs.
The Awards Committee was
impressed with Skiadas Brothers
Enterprises effort of community
outreach and selected the Farm
land Preservation Benefit Brcak-
Whipple Honored For Service In Farming And Finance
BY
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
MARIETTA A gala party of
more than 200 farm and finance
leaders gathered last Friday even
ing under a colorful tent-on-the
lawn setting to honor a fellow lead
er who had announced his retire
ment. And the testimonials of this
man’s life clearly indicated that he
deserved the honor. But because
he is so active and already-retired
three years ago from another
20-year position, no one was quite
ready to believe he would really
stay retired.
Paul Whipple, the well-known
ag financier and farmer confidant
who formally farmed, worked for
Farm Credit, Miller and Bushong,
Pennfield and for the last three
years, AgriGeneral Corp., was
honored along with his wife, Elva,
at the Marietta home of AGC own
er Donald and Joyce Hershey.
“Paul was like a Dad to me,”
interested in a national advertising
program,” said Christine Bush
way, general manager of Northeast
United Egg Producers, headquar
tered in Durham, NH. United Egg
Producers was instrumental in
drawing up the marketing order, a
five-year project with an estimated
cost of $400,000.
Beginning May 25, owners of
fast out of 1,000 entries that were
received.
As a citation winner, Skiadas
Brothers Enterprises is invited to
the White House for events sche
duled for July 22 and 23, 1987.
Skiadas Brothers Enterprises
are owners and operators of
restaurants and gift shops in Lan
caster and Chester counties. They
include: The Amish Bam Restaur
ant and Gift Shop in Bird-in-Hand,
The Family Style Restaurant and
Shops in Lancaster, PA, The
Windmill Family Restaurant and
Gift Shop in Morgantown, and The
Longwood Inn Restaurant and
Motor Lodge in Kennet Square.
As members of the Lancaster
County Community the Skiadas
Brothers: Peter, Ted, George, Pete
and brother-in-law Harry fell a
need to help support the local
efforts in preserving Lancaster
County farmland. In December of
1985 and 1986 the brothers spon
sored a buffet breakfast at The
Family Style Restaurant. A loud of
$B,OOO was raised in the two years.
All proceeds were given to Friends
of Agricultural Land Preservation
Lancaster County Pennsylvania.
Hershey said. “He just seemed to
always be in touch and to be there
when I had a crisis ”
Speaker after speaker echoed
these thoughts and mentioned the
help Whipple had given. Often the
help involved financial advice or
business suggestions that turned
out to be very useful and accurate.
In an interview this week,
Whipple admitted that he likes
people, even loves them. “There is
something good even in the drunk
ard lying in the ditch,” Whipple
said. “And it takes a good man to
find the good in another person. I
tried to do that. Often people need
a little guidance to get them going.
Maybe they need enough money to
get them started. I guess I had the
attitude that a person’s reputation
was as good as his paper. But I also
like to itemize figures that some
people want to put in a lump sum.
If you break it down, you can see
the trouble spots better. That gives
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 18, 1987
10,000 or more laying hens had the
opportunity to vote on a checkoff
program that would have raised an
estimated $24 million annually for
advertising eggs and promoting
RCMA Sets Class 1 Price At $14.45
BATAVIA, N.Y. Board
members of the Regional Coopera
tive Marketing Agency unanim
ously voted to set the price of Class
1 milk at $14.45, 70 cents higher
than the estimated price of Sep
tember milk.
This price is for Class 1 milk
sold in Federal Order 2’s 201-210
mile zone out of New York City,
said Edward Anna, executive
director. “The Board established a
price which they felt was the real
market value for their milk,” he
said.
Dairymen who are members of
RCMA in the 201-210 mile zone
will receive the over-order price or
CCC Begins Writing Checks After Suspension
WASHINGTON The Com
modity Credit Corporation began
writing checks this week following
a 10-week suspension when the
agency depleted its original
appropriation.
President Reagan signed a sup
plemental appropriation bill July
11 which provides the CCC with
an additional $5.5 billion, said
David Hall, director of the Agri
cultural Stabilization and Conser
vation Service’s budget division.
Supplemental funds for the CCC
were requested in January, Hall
noted, when the CCC discovered
the initial appropriation did not
cover its actual needs for the cur
rent fiscal year.
’ Congress spent more time than
At the retirement party of Paul Whipple and his wife Elva (right), Donald and
Joyce Hershey presented a trip to Hawaii as a golng-away present. Carl Brown
is seated at the table.
consumption. According to Bush
way, Pennsylvania would have
received about $260,000 for state
promotion in addition to benefit
ting from national promotion
(he Market Administrator’s price,
which ever is higher, Anna
explained. RCMA members in
other milk market areas will
receive the difference between the
area’s price and the price estab
lished by the 75-member RCMA
board. If the announced price in
any milk marketing area of the
Northeast exceed the $14.45 level,
dairymen will receive the
announced price, Anna said.
The Board arrived at the $14.45
price after a combinadon of fac
tors: a series of economic formulas
calculated by economists, price
recommendadons from the execu
tive and operation committees, a
normal on the supplemental fund
ing request and passed the bill into
a government-wide supplemental
funding bill, Hall explained. “The
CCC is sometimes the engine that
drives other programs,” he said.
The CCC is not controversial;
however, other items for which
Congress sought funding were. By
tying these items with the CCC
funding request, there was a better
chance of passing the entire pack
age, Hall explained.
The catch-all bill provided fund
ing for such programs as drug test
ing, Nicaraguan efforts, defense
spending, and retirement benefits
for government employees. “This
was the last train out of the station
for this fiscal year and Congress
Five Sections
efforts.
But producers across the nation,
as well as in Pennsylvania, voted
thumbs-down on the strategy that
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projected look at the market’s
supply and demand situation and
the consumer’s ability to pay, as
well as other market parameters.
“This price is 1 cent less than
that announced by the Market
Administrator in January 1987,”
Anna said. Therefore, the Board
knows the market can stand this
price level without an adverse
effect The Board is attempting to
hold the price at what they consid
er a reasonable level. The price
will be effective for milk produced
September through December. In
November the Board will meet to
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wanted as much on there as possi
ble,” the budget director said.
The new appropriation will fund
the CCC for the remainder of the
fiscal year which ends Sept. 30,
Hall said.
When the CCC depleted us
funding May 1, it marked the fifth
time in 22 months the agency ran
out of money. The most recent dry
period for the CCC stands as the
longest period the agency could
not write checks, the budget direc
tor stated.
A funding request of $2l billion
for the upcoming fiscal year,
which begins Oct. 1, has been ten
dered, the budget director said.
Hall said, “We have to provide a
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$8.50 Per Year