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Annual Meeting;
Reports Given
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By LP Staff Reporter
Between 400 and 500 members
and guests attended the annual
farm credit stockholders’ meet
ing at the old Mount Joy High
•chool Thursday night of last
week.
This was a combination meet
ing of the Lancaster Production
Credit Association and the Na
tional Farm Loan Association of
Lancaster. Events moved under
way with a cafeteria lunch serv
ed by Eli Hostetter.
Kahler Reelected
John H- Gibble, Maytown, was
general chairman of the meet
ing. G- G. Minnich, Lititz, presi
dent of the association, presided.
In the election of officers, John.
J. Kahler, Millersurg, was re
elected to the Board of Directors
for a three-year term, Ira Krall,
Myerstown, presided during the
business session of the NFLA
where members reelected B. G.
Buhong, Columbia, to another
three-year term on the Board of
Directors. ,
Jacob N. Smith, Annville, was
elected to replace Nathan J- Ba-
IshOre, who declined to run for
reflection.
“This Dutch is no language.
It has no grammar,” Prof J- Wil
liam Frey of Franklin & Mar
shall College, told the group in
frig entertaining talk on Penn
sylvania Dutch. Most amusing of
the appearance, which held the
Audience intrigued, was his reci
tation in Pennsylvania Dutch
of “ Twas the Night Before
Christmafi," and as an encore
'‘Woman’s Place Is in the Home ”
Musical selections, where he ac
companied himself on the guitar,
helped broaden his entertaining
appearance, and audience reac
tion was excellent,
Holstein Quartet Sings
The Four-H' Holstein Quartet
of the Lampeter-Strasburg High
School, recently named one of
the top five in the nation at the
Inernational Live' Stock Exposi
tion in Chicago, entertained with
several selections Wayne B.
RentscMer of the Farm Bureau,
who accompanied a group of six
boys to the meeting of the Am
erican Institute of Cooperation
at Purdue University, Lafayette,
Ind-, last summer, spoke on the
meeting- Expenses of the trip
were met by 12 cooperative as
sociations in Lancaster County.
Wilmer Esbenshade of Eliza
bethtown gave a description of
the trip, and Donald Hastings of
Kirkwood, showed colored movies
he made on the campus and mid
western farm scenes taken en
roulte to and from the meeting.
Appearing with these two were
Robert Book and Harold Bolling
er.
J. Thomas Vandenburg, presi
dent of the Federal Land Bank,
and the Production Credit Cor
poration of Baltimore, gave a
short talk
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Roger Strait, vo-ag teacher at
Halifax High School, brought 14
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Quality manufacturing is the by
word of every John Deere factory.
Beginning with incoming ship
ments of only the highest-trade
materials, each manufactured part
... every finished implement is in
spected thoroughly by skilled
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THE SIGN OF FARM
from his classes to the meeting.
Others present included Mr
and Mrs- C- E. Cassel, Hummels
town; Mark Shuman of the ASC
office at Harrisburg; Charles
Burkins, manager of the Lancas
ter County -Farm Bureau; Paul
Leaman, farm representative of
the Conestoga National Bank;
Naaman G. Hershey, implement
dealer and charter member of
(the BCA; Carson Mertz, head of
(the State Safety Division at Har
risburg; T- M. Malin, vocational
spervisor of Lancaster County;
W. Clayton Jester, director of the
Farm Credit Board at Baltimore,
A- G. Bucher, farm representa
tive of the Lancaster County Na
tional Bank, and others.
Mr. Kahler reported that dur
ing the past year the executive
committee met 57 times, the di
rectors held six meetings, in ad
dition to meetings in Baltimore
and Reading.
Emphasis On Youth Work
Emphasis has been placed on
youth work, and members of the
Lancaster County Cooperative
Youth Activity Committee gavo.
reports. Members are Lee Brobst,
assistant secretray; Charles Cow
an of and Mr. Rent
schler of the Farm Bureau.
There are four types of co
operatives, it was pointed out
during the meeting; purchasing,
marketing, servicing and proces
sing.
In closing the meeting, Mr.
Brobst emphasized the necessity
of adequate insurance coverage,
the importance of y'outih pro**
grams and the necessity that real
estate taxes be paid yearly to
avoid possible defaulting.
A total of 863 civilian employes
of Government agencies lost their
j«bs during October, the second
net monthly decrease since Jan
uary, 1855. The other was 18,974
in September* Total civilian em
ployment as of November Ist,
was 2,365,206*
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workmen to assure Its meeting e»-
act John Deere quality standards.
That’s why farmers everywhere
are loud in their praise for the de
pendability . . . the quality con
struction of John Deere Farm
Squipment. See as for information.
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Derangement By The Dozen
Judge—What possible exteu-o
■did you have for acquitting that
murderer’
Foreman of .the Jury—lnsanity
Judge—What, all 12 of you’
Tufts will succeed Grainger as
U .S G. A. 'president.
Right There
Huslband (calling to wife in
bed) —I can’t find the tea, dear
Wife—l don’t 'know why not
It’s right in front, on the cup
board, shelf, in a cocoa tin
marked “matches.”
Can’t Be!
Teacher- “Tommy, what is one
half of eight’”
Small Boy. “I don’ta know ex
actly. teacher, but it can’t be
ivery much’”
Seasoife!
Greeting
Let us harken in our hearts to the
voices of the carollers as they
sing out their message of peace
and good will. May your Yute-
tide season be o joyous one#
bright with the smiles of your
loved ones# warm with friend-
ship and rich in happiness, deep-
ly felt and widely shared.
Lancaster Farming
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Ford Liquidates
Wood Bros Inc.
Once Subsidiary
Ford Motor Company announc
ed the liquidation of its wholly
owned manufacturing subsidiary,
Wood Bros, Inc, Des Moines,
lowa and the establishment of
Ithe Des Moines Implement
Plant, Foid Motor Company, to
continue the Des Moines farm
machmeiy operations formerly
carried on by Wood Bros
The plant, occupying the form
er Wood Bros- facilities, will be
operated by Ford’s Tractor and
Implement Division with head
quarters in Birmingham, Mich
living A Duffy, Ford vice presi
dent, is divisional general man
ager.
In making the announcement,
Mr Duffy said the plant will con
tinue to produce major types of
harvesting equipment It is plan
ned that Wood Bros, employees
will be transferred to Ford Mo
tor Company, and will receive
full credit for length of service
as recognized by Wood Bros.
Activities Integrated
Change of the Des Moines op
erations from a Ford subsidiary
to a division-operated plant is a
further step in the complete in
tegration of farm machinery ac
tivities into the Tractor and Im
plement Division stiucture, Mr
Duffey said.
After being a tractor manu
facturer since 1917, Ford entered
the “full line” farm machinery
business in August, 1953, when
a separate division was establish
ed to handle the company’s farm
machinery activities-
Tractor and Implement Divi
sion’s expansion progiam is part
of a company-wide long-range
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Lancaster terming, Friday, December 23, 1955
facilities modernization and ex
pansion plan which since 1946
has cost more than $1,500,000,-
000 More than 71,000,000.000 is
expected to be spent over the
next three years oh plants and!
equipment by Ford Motor Com
pany
The Des Moines plant was
built in 1926 aftei the original
Wood Bros, facilities in that city
were outgrown Its production
now includes corn pickers, hay
baleis, combines, side delivery
rakes, forage harvesters, corn
planters and corn haivesters,
grain dnls, cotton harvesteis and
othre maior harvesting tools
Purchased by Dcarborp, 1947
The original Wood Bros was
founded in 1886 by F J and R-
L Wood, custom threshers
In 1947, the original Wood
Bros was purchased by Dear
born Motors Corpoiation, which
had been organized a year earlier
to market Ford tractors and im
plements. On Aug. 1, 1953, Ford
Motor Company established a
Tractor Division and, through a
subsidiary, acquired the assets of
Wood Bros
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