Ruth McEvoy Collection 19 - Genesee County

Gets a permit for land it owns in the town to be taken by the city - so the plant can
be served by city services. 5-24-1966
Visitor here from Nepal. 9-16-1967
Has a record year. 3-14-1968
Ends tenth year a record. 3-20-1969
Picture of the installation of storage tanks.
RUTH McEVOY COLLECTION
5-13-1970
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O-At-Ka Milk Products Inc. Gets a permit to build 6,700 sq.ft. to cost $15,000 - Manning, Squires & Henning. 1-12-1971
O-At-Ka Milk Processing Plant (cont) Spending 470,000 to expand. 3-22-1971
Installs an evaporator - can process 50,000 pounds of whole milk an hour. 3-31-1971
Profits are up. 3-16-1972
Plans a new building for the fall - 18,000 sq.ft., to cost $37,500. 12-19-1972
Bobb Hall of heads the Evaporated Milk Association meeting in Chicago.
Uses milk from farmers who are members of three area cooperatives. Bobb Hall,
1-24-1974
general manager. November 1977
A Japanese group is here studying milk processing.
Sponsored by: DairyLea, Buffalo and Rochester; Upstate, Buffalo and Rochester
11-21-1977
(a coop of 7 members); Niagara County Milk Producers Coop Corp.
Principal offices are in Batavia with branch manufacturing plants in Collins Center
March 1978
and Mayville.
Building an Equalization Basin - to treat plant wastes. To cost $100,000.
4-17-1978
Manning Squires & Henning - mostly underground (really a reservoir for wastes). 4-18-1978
Asks for a permit to build 14,004 sq.ft. on the milk drying building. 11-8-1978
Expands to produce a new product. 1-25-1979
Seven from Pakistan survey milk processing.
Belongs to: Upstate Milk Cooperative of LeRoy; DairyLea Milk Cooperative of
6-19-1979
Pearl River (sic); Niagara Milk Cooperative Inc. of Niagara Falls.
Milk Processors are on strike - want more than Presidents 7% - belong to
July 1979
Local 791 Teamsters Union. More on O-At-Ka's processing. 7-2-1979
Strike settled - within the President's guidelines. 7-6-1979
Hall takes an executive post at Dairylea. 4-1-1981
Michael F. Herron, new manager.
Takes its 8th gold medal for butter at the State Fair. Retail sized package stamped
1-11-1982
golden cow. Owned by Upstate Milk Coop; Dairylea Coop, and Niagara Milk Coop 9-3-1982
Interview with Michael F. Herron on - started as a means to use surplus milk stock. 6-7-1983
Workers are striking for better scheduling. 7-1, 2-1983
Strike settled. 7-8-1983
Ronald Van Allen of Wyoming the new head. 12-2-1983
Ammonia fumes overcome two. 6-19-1984
Herron, former head of, the new general manager of Dairylea Manufacturing Div.
Surcharge on sewer use may cause O-At-Ka Milk to provide its own sewer
12-7-1984
treatment. 3-8-1985
John Widger named the new president. 5-15-1985
Interested in getting steam from on energy recovery plant. 6-18-1985
Survives recent milk products plant upheavals - sees more trouble in the future. 3-13-1986
Expanding - renovating at a cost or $2 million - picture.
General Manager, Robert J. Przybylski, as signed to leller (sic). Herron Left and
4-7-1986
Przybylski came in August 1984. 7-9-1987
Closes its Collins plant due to a milk shortage.
Produces a 68 pound pat of butter for a pancake Pen Yan hopes will set a record -
8-12-1987
picture. 9-23-1987
Gets a grant to make frozen sour cream. 8-23-1988
Manager Robert J. Przybylski quits - the plant is managed by a management team. 2-9-1990
Herbert W. Bisnak the new head - also head Upstate Milk. 2-27-1990
Proposes a congenital energy plant to use steam and supply energy to NIMO. October 1990
Niagara Mohawk approves - to use Sithe Energetics Inc.
1990 an excellent year for - drop in milk prices may change the picture - president
10-31-1990