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55 Coop To Hold
Regional Meetinjf
Approximately 80 members of Southern States Cooperative’s local board and committee members, agricultural workers and retail Agency managers from this area, will attend a regional board meeting in Culpeper on February 15. The session will be held at the Pelham House and will begin at 10 a.m.
Also attending the meeting will be a number of guest young farmers from the area. A total of 44 of these regional meetings—featuring some of the new services which the cooperative i§ making available to its members—will be held by Southern States over a five-state area. The cooperative serves over 231,000 farmer-members who live in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Kentucky. D. D. Ball of Barboursville, a member of the Southern States 15-man board of directors will preside at the meeting. Ball represents the cooperative’s members in a member of the board since 1954. Board members attending the session will hear a report on the cooperative’s operations during the first six months of the 1965-66 fiscal year presented by J. H. Buchholz, Director of Wholesale Services of the organization. One of the highlights of the morning session will be a movie entitled “The Road To The Camerons”, which stresses the importance of agriculture to the entire economy, the efficiency -of this agriculture and the big role that cooperatives have had in developing it and making it efficient. The film was produced by the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives. Following lunch, Buchholz
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