VOL 36 No. 47 Maryland Holstein Is All-American Supreme VERNON ACHENBACH JR. Lancaster Fanning Staff HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) A 6-year-old Holstein cow owned by Gay Ridge and Kingstead Farm of Ijamsville, MtL, was named supreme champ ion of the Pennsylvania All- American Dairy Show late last week at the state Farm Show complex. The All-American Dairy Show is the premier dairy cattle show in Pennsylvania. It is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Daily and Allied Industries Association in coopera tion with the state Department of Agriculture and the Farm Show commission. There were 2,000 entries repre senting breeders’ animals from 20 states, and four of the six breeds held their national shows in con junction with the All-American. “C Rossland Astro Kat” was named supreme champion over the top cows shown from the six breeds recognized in the annual show. She is owned by Donald and Mary Wilcom, sons Grey and Dan ny, and Mary Douglas, Jane, Irv ing and Harold King. According to records. Astro Kat had a 4-year-old record of 24,240 (Turn to Pag* A3B) Milk Hold On Hold A national milk withholding that waste take place Oct I hat been indefinctly postponed, but is not cancelled, according to organizers. Roger Hess, an organizer of the milk withholding effort in Pennsylvania, said that while a huge number of dairymen were ready to withhold their milk, there was not enough of a com mittment to go through with the action. The plan is not over, howev er. If prices, which have been slowly rising, once again plum met and additional producer support is mustered, a new withholding date will be announced. Hal Doran To Receive National Cooperative Education Award STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.) The director of Penn State’s Cooperative Business Edu cation Program for the past 25 years, Harold (Hal) F. Doran, was selected to receive the National Cooperative Education Award sponsored by the National Cooperative month planning committee. Doran received this distin guished honor at the 1991 Cooperative Month Planning “kickoff” breakfast held at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. this week. A visible figure in the northeast cooperative community for almost 50 years. Doran is credited for developing model programs and 01619? 1?99 PERIODICALS DIVISION PENNSYLVANIA SI ATE UNIVERSITY I<PO9 PATTFE LIBRARY UNIVERSITY PARK PA 1680c.-180.' Four Sections From the left, Obie Snider, president of the All-American Dairy Show, dairy princess Tanya Martin, Steven Kerr, Mary Louise Wilcum, and John Buckley, at halter, stand with the supreme champion of the whole show and first place champion in the first-ever genetic challenge competition. Second place is Lockway Holly Sexation, shown by owner- DHIA Decides To Offer Service To Members Only EVERETT NEWSWANGER STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.) —In a move to clarify its pos ition well ahead of the deadline, the board of directors of the Pennsyl vania DHIA voted to provide ser vices to members only after Octob er 1, 1992. Hazlett Named To Livestock Hall Of Fame EVERETT NEWSWANGER Managing Editor HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) At the opening ceremonies of KILE here in the small arena of the Farm Show Complex, Vemon E. Hazlett Penn State professor, was named to the Livestock Hall of Fame for his contributions to the industry in training and education of leaders and future leaders. Managing Editor Hal Doran Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, October 5,1961 Effective After Oct. 1 . 1992 The association is in the latter stages of a long effort to standar dize milk component testing and Held services by joining all the county associations under a state wide unbrella. Responsibility and liability for the hiring of supervisors and pro viding official records will then lie Hazlett is know for his work with students “at the barn” and for developing swine bloodlines that have kept Penn State in the lime light at die national shows and pro duction evaluation contests. In addition, he has been active with 4-H and FFA programs and for many years he was the instruc tor for a large part of each short course held in alternate years at educational materials about the cooperative way of doing busi ness. In his position as director of cooperative business education programs, Doran is responsible for guiding long-term programs such as the Summer Institute for Teens, Young Cooperative Lead ers conferences, Pennsylvania Cooperative Director’s Schools, cooperative employee training programs, and the recent Ag Hori zons programs for extension per sonnel and teachers of agriculture. He has been the Penn State liai son with the statewide cooperative trade association, formerly known as the Pennsylvania Association of Farmer Cooperatives (PAFC), (Turn to Pag* 02) breeder C. Richard Locke, while Wayne Sliker, who judged the Ayrshire show and showed the grand champion Brown Swiss, shows the third place genetic challenge Holstein. Also shown are Onalee Smith, dairy princess, Boyd Wolft, state agriculture secretary, and Tom Smith, representative Atlantic Bleeders Cooperative. with the state association. Under the plan, individual dairy farmers become direct members of the state association and the county boards become advisory councils and liai sons between the state and local districts. The motion that was passed here at their regular board meeting Penn state for swine producers. By a conservative estimate, he pro vided in excess of 800 people with a fundamental knowledge of good swine production. A member of the faculty at Penn State for more than 30 years, Haz lett has guided Penn State’s swine breeding and production program that included two national York shire boars at the Yorkshire Type (Turn to Page A 29) The Nlttany Lion Shrine is an attraction for all students and families who visit Penn State University. In a story this week, the Lion becomes the Introduction to a summary of the history and the offerings made to present day students In the college of agriculture, especially In the department of dairy and animal science. If you have an Interest In Penn State’s undergraduate program, turn to page 814. 60s Per Copy Thursday morning reads as follows: “As of October 1, 1992, Pen nsylvania DHIA will provide ser vices to direct members only. Indi vidual dairymen may apply for direct membership. Supervisor employees may apply to become (Turn to Pag* A 36) Sec. A... Market Reports & General News. Sec. 8... Women's News, Public Sales & Mailbox Market. Sec. C.. 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