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KPPC Kansas Pork Producers Council Newsletter
Affiliated with the National Pork Producers Council
May 17, 1971
As you will note by the minutes of the last directors meeting, things are busy on the state level. The directors and committee chairmen are carrying on many projects, old and new. The date and the town for the annual meeting have been set, February 3, 1972 at Newton, Ks.
' Terry Nagel, promotion committee chairman, sent the secretary the fpllowing instructiqns Cor obtaining promotion material. Each Director should obtain for himself and his District Officers the 1971 Catalog of Educational Publications and Audio-Visual Aids. Plus Promotional Material available. Send your request to: Mr. John D. Lane, Secretary, Pork Industry Committee, National Livestock and Meat Board, 36 S. Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60603. Each District shall pay for material obtained from National Livestock and Meat Board. Each Porkette Director
has' the film strip "Getting Acquainted With Pork" and can be obtained, from her.
Information on
Hogs Are Beautiful buttons, stationery, posters and cookbooks and pig grills can be gotten -from Mrs. Harry (Mary) Eshelman, Sedgwick, Kansas 67135.
The follpwing. are the minutes of the April 30 directors meeting held at Salina. President Gene Reinhardt called the meeting to order at 11:00 a.m.
Those present were
Merrltt Atwell, Utica (2); Don Flipse, Oakley (1); Frank Alexander, Corning (6); A. B. Cain, Benton (5); Don Gronau, Newton (5); Jim Henry, Longford (3); Terry Nagel, Bushton (4); Floyd Meyer, Palmer (3); Gene Reinhardt, Chanute (8); Eddie Hull, Ottawa (7); Harry Eshelman, Sedgwick
(5); Terry Schrick, Nebraska Pork Producers Association Field Secretary; Vernon Lohmann, Saline County Extension Agent; Robert Hines, Fred Moorman, Wendell Moyer, and Willard Olson, Manhattan. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.
The treasurers report was given
by 'Jendell Moyer, Treasurer, showing the following balance. Test Station $1,471.20 (Field-man Fund)
Sonoray
317.60
General Account
4,498.90
$3,225.23
Checks not yet deposited
1,143.40
Check-off for March
Don Gronau moved (Hull) that we accept the treasurers report as read.
712.56
Motion carried.
Wendell Moyer read correspondence from Kathy Eilert, 1970 Pork Queen, Livestock Conservation Incorporated, and the Ritemix Milling Company of McCoolc, Nebraska. Merritt Atwell moved (Gronau) that the president send a letter of thanks to the Ritemix Milling Company for their check-off contribution to the ICPPC.
Motion passed.
Committee Reports
Promotion Committee — Terry Nagel reported the committee had met in Wichita on April 6. They discussed relocating the booth at the State. Fair and recommended to the directors that it
remain in the same place near the swine barn for this year.
worth of promotion material.
The committee has purchased $160
This material can be obtained from Mrs. John Musick, Lawrence.
They
also recommend that if large orders of material are needed to order them direct from the National
to save double postage; it x^rill also speed up delivery to you. They also ask that districts help pay for the material they would use.
On-Farra Testing Committee — Merritt Atwell reported on the meeting held in Manhattan on
April 21.
A new type information report to breeders will be used that will include a sire and
litter average by sexes. He also reported that if breeders with less than ten head wanted to test that they pool their hogs at one central point. The monthly report of swine tested will be Included in the Pig Tales newsletter. This will be a herd average by sexes of herds tested in
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