I (T’S NOT CRICKET —To have a nose like bowler in background, that is But the picture _IS
( strictly cricket. Good luck and a fast shutter caught ball whipped by batsman, foreground,
'Savannah Cricket Club match with the Bntish Consulate team at Atlanta, Ga.
Dr, Dickerson Is
Ranking Man In
National Four-H
Dr. Russell B Dickerson, asso
ciate dean and director of resi
dent instruction, of the College
of Agriculture, Pennsylvania
State University, was named one
of eight winners of National 4-H
Alumni Recognition Awards in
Chicago, November 30. The pres
entation of a 10-K gold key, in
recognition of his selection, was
made at the 34th annual Na
tional 4-H Club Congress-'
The award is .given “to provide
youth with living examples of
dependable, purposeful citizen
ship.'”
iDr. Dickerson, a native of
Sussex. N. J, received llr.s'B. S
degree at Penn State in 1927, and
following graduation v?as a tea
cher of vocational agriculture at
East Greenville, Pa., and Sussex,
N J., until 1938- He earned a
master’s degree at Rutgers, and
his doctor’s degree at Penn State
.He joined the Penn State fa
culty in 1938 and continued until
1947 when he resigned to operate
a fruit farm in N- J. He was ap
pointed to his present position in
1949.
Since returning to the Univer
sity as associate dean Dickerson
has worked for the inauguration
of three new cumculums in
general agriculture, agricultural
journalism and agricultural con
servation. ,In 19.51, under his
tenure, the College of Agricul
ture had the highest enrollment
in agriculture of all the Land
Grant colleges.
Presently living on his 225 acre
crop and livestock farm near
Spring Mills, which his eldest
son operates, Dickerson is active
in the Grange, is a member of
the Dairy Herd Improvement As
sociation, the American York
shire Club, and has a herd of 60
grade and purebred Holstem and
Ayrshire cattle.
FALSE HUMOR COSTLY.
Columbia, S C— In some way,
the rumor got around that H- H-
Brazzell was planning to plow his
seven-acre watermelon patch and
anyone wanting the melons could
take them. Before Brazzell could
scotch the rumor more than 1,000
, xs .
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Twice a year your car gets a thorough
safety check-up . . required by
Pennsylvania law.
But how about you ?
Could you pass a safe-driver’s
spection? You ask the questions. . *
you answer them... you’re the judge.
Do you always obey signs a j goals?
Are you patient and couilcous in
traffic,respecting the rights of others?
Do you adjust your speed to condi
tions of the moment?
Or do you take chances when the
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Drive to stay alive in *55!
This message in the interest of highway safety is one of a series
prepared and disseminated by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers*
Association and the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue.
COMMONWEALTH OF
George Jd. Leader, Governor
, i Lancaster 'Farming)* Friday, December 16, 1955—1
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SMUGGLES STEAMROLLER.
London. John McKenna be
lieves in doing things in a big
way. He was recently fined
$8,820 for smuggling steamrollers
out ot Britain British law pio
hibits the expoit of scrap metal,
of which there is a'scarcity So
McKenna shipped out his old
steamrollers as working machines,
which would be put to service on
loads in Belgium. The jig was
up, however, when some British
visitors in Belgium spotted one
of the relics in a Ghent junk
yard and reported it to Parlia
mcnt
“What is the tactful way for a
girl’s father to let her boy friend
know it’s time to leave’”
“He may casually pass through
the room with a box of breakfast
food ”
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INSPECTION ?
in-
Tact.
coast seems clear?...forget the rules
of the road when you’re in a hurry?
. . . change into an inconsiderate
human being when you’re behind
the wheel of your car?
Ask yourself these things when you
have your car inspected this time. See
if you’d get the stamp of approval.
Mandatory inspection last year
helped keep mechanical failures
causing traffic accidents down to 2.4%
of all vehicles involved. Human
failure was largely responsible for
the-other 97.6%.
PENNSYLVANIA
Gerald A. Gleeson, Secretary of Revenue
ICE lAM£
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"Here Romes another one to blame the
weather (or his lousy driving!"
NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL
More picniic areas on nation’:
highways are urged
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