Aaron, Here is reply from Waya with more info for you.
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> From: "wayacoyote" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 03:54:48 -0000
> Subject: [Organicbeekeepers] Re: Have you Read what's
> happening to W.T.Kelly in Bee Culture?
> 
> --- In [log in to unmask], DeeALusby1@...
> wrote:
> > Well, if you have the latest issue of Bee Culture read
> what is 
> happening to 
> > W.T.Kelly in the issue...............
> > Comments as to where it will end up?
> > Regards,
> > Dee
> 
> I live the next county over, and I'm saddened by it. I
> toured the 
> facility a few years back and the lady told us that
> Walter had set 
> things up so that she and the others could work "safely"
> until they 
> retired. Then the changes would be made.
> 
> From what I've learned, Walt put a lot of emphasis on his
> county and 
> helped to build a new hospital which was named in his
> honor. If it's 
> the one I'm thinking of, it is a good-sized hospital. My 
> understanding is that he wanted the company to continue
> to in 
> operation in order to continue making revenue for the
> county. And he 
> gave it over to the hospital as a way of assuring that.
> Boy did 
> things backfire. From what I'm hearing now, the hospital
> isn't 
> interested in keeping it going. Beekeepers from that
> town, say that 
> the complaints from the hospital management that the
> company has 
> declined in income in recent years are misguided. I have
> seen the 
> improvements which have been made, walked past the new
> equipment and 
> the old, and seen the efforts to expand the
> productivity... Since the 
> company has invested in itself to benefit its future,
> sure that took 
> some cash from the coffers. But I think it was well
> spent. Almost no 
> one here buys from out of state if they can help it. I
> certainly 
> choose Kelley's before paying shipment from somewhere
> else.
> 
> I would hope that anyone in the position to manage a
> hospital would 
> be able to see that the decline in surplus revenue from
> Kelleys is 
> explained by its growth in capital facilities. Looking at
> the bottom 
> line doesn't always show what's going in in the
> fine-lines. 
> 
> Last I heard (last month at the association meeting) the
> hospital 
> intends to sell all that they can legally sell under
> Walter's 
> stipulations and rent-out the rest. Look out Small Town,
> Kentucky.... 
> here comes Dadant.... I don't know who'll take things
> over, but it 
> definately won't be anyone who's first priority is Allen
> County, 
> Kentucky. Walter truly does represent a rarity.
> 
> I have to add that seeing some of his relic machines
> still in 
> production was amazing. They said he was called in out of
> retirement 
> a number of times to repair machines that he had
> hand-built himself 
> as no one else could do it so easily. Simply amazing.
> Touching them 
> seemed no different to me than touching the artwork of
> the Masters.
> 
> Waya
> 
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