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B—Lancaster Farmings Friday, February 3, 1956
Truck Economical, Fast, Flexible,
Essay Contest Winner Asserts
First place winner in the Essay
Contest at Southern Lancaster
County Joint Community High
School was Robert Paul Bucher,
-JU Peach Bottom, who here has
devteloped the theme, “Full Util
ization of Our Land Resources
Through Truck and Bus Trans
portation-”
Robert, 16. son of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul E. Bucher, was award-
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ROBERT PAUL BUCHER
ed his choice of a steer or heifer,
value not to exceed $150,_ by
Herr’s Motor Expitess, Quarry
ville. He has two sisters, Joyce
and Linda. Before entering Soi
anco, he was a student at Fulton
DIRECT ESSVS
CSiAID SfiW
e cotsfaster
9 lighter In weight
• costs less to
maintain
© lasts longer
minuts demonstration
will convince you that the
Silver King is amazingly
supe'ior. See it today!
LESTER A. SINGER
R. D. 1, Ronks, Pa.
T. J. MATTHEWS A. H. BURKHOLDER
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QOARRYVILLE CONCRETE PRODUCTS CO.
THOMAS J. MATTHEWS, Gen. Mgr.
Concrete or Cinder Block.
Phone Chimney Block and Lintel.
109R2 Jteel Sash, Cement Paint. .
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Township Elementary' School
At Solanco he is active in the
Groundhog Chapter, Future Far
mers of America, football, he’s
president of the Junior class, on
the FFA Sentinel and the County
FFA Sentinel. Robert is active in
4-H and the Church of Brethren
Youth Fellowship.
His supervised farming pro
ject as 'a Freshman was one
Jersey calf. His projects increas
ed year by year, and as a sopho
more it developed to a Jersey
calf, >a Jersey heifer, two acres of
corn'and II fattening hogs. As a
Jumor, the Jersey heifer and the
Jersey calf were included, aug
mented by 'an increase to three
acres of corn/ 10 fattening hogs,
two steers, two improvement pro
jects, and one gilt.
In his senior year he proposes
a Jersey heifer, Jersey cow, five
acres of corn, 15 fattening hogs,
one sow and litter, one gilt, one
steer and one improvement pro
ject
His future plans? Robert would
like to attend Pennsylvania
State, and eventually work in
some phase of agriculture.
“FULL UTILIZATION
OF OUR LAND RESOURCES
THROUGH TRUCK AND BUS
TRANSPORTATION
The history of this great truck
and bus industry is as amazing
as the part it plays in our every
day lives. We hope to show how
fast this fleet has grown and that
every one in the United States
os affected by it, especially the
folks who depend on the land
and its resources for a liveli
hood.
The bus story starts with the
early 1900’s and has steadily
grown until an 1953 there were
245j,000 buses of ail kinds in this
country. Although the bus and
its' work are less spectacular than
the truck, we must not forget the
children brought to and
school each day, many of which
would not have gone on to high
school if they had to find their
own transportation, as did their
parents twenty -or twenty-five
years ago. So think what valu
able information and field trips
pertaining to their future life’s
work many of these FFA boys
and FHA girls would be missing
if it were not for the school
buses.
Then, too- the farmers and
heir wives have more opportunity
to go in groups, by bus, to (edu
cational meetings, farming de
monstrations, or visit their State'
Colleges, learning new and better
farming methods to use when
they get home.
20 Billion Miles by Bus
Mother or the children need
not wait nutil it suits dlad to take
them to town the bus is handy,
and they dan go and come as
they please, feeling more like
workjing alfter an occasional day
off for surely some of the 7 bil
lion rides on local bus systems
(annually, or more than 20 billion
miles of intercity travel* each
ydar is done by farmers and their
families.
Fifty years ago (in 19Q5) there
were only 700 trucks in the
United States but today that
number has increased to nearly
10 million trucks one third of
which are on the farms- This
great fleet of trucks transports
more than three-fourths of the
yearly freight tonnage in the
United States, and in the follow
ing (paragraphs iwe shall prove
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that trucks_Jiaul nearly 90 per
cent 'o£ all (farm products to
market.
Motor trucks have given the
farmer a chance to make more
money on practically everything
his Hand will produce. Since therle
are several different kinds of
farming in the United States, and
since more than one-half the
farmers have their own truck,
wte will try to show how each one
uses his own and commercial
vehicles to the hest advantage.
Livestock Feeders
The livestock feeder uses
trucks in many differtent -ways-
Probably the feed for the. large
beef Cattle ranches in Texas or
the hog farms in Ipwa is brought
to the farm in a bulk feed truck
all mixed and ready to bag or
stort in a bin or maybe a truck
comes to the farm land grinds
the corn, grains, etc. as the
farmer wants them. As a means
otf getting the fed animals to
markjet at the best weight and
for the best prides, trucks are
ever increasing in popularity as
shown on this chart, which tells
the per cent of livestock taken
to terminal markets in 1952 as
compared with the year 1933 -
and these figures have increased
60 per cent since 1951. _
1938; cattle 44 ‘per cent, caivels
51 per cent, hogs 55 per cent,
heep and lambs 21 per cent.
1 1952; cattle 76 per cent, calves
80 per cent, hogs 81 per cent,
sheep and lambs 49 per cent.
The dairy farmer has pro
gressed from the time when he
had to live near a railroad to get
his milk to market, until he be
gan taking his own milk by small
truck or trailer to the creamery.
Now trucks Wave advanced to the
place where a covered truck
picks up the cans or a refriger
ated tank truck pumps the milk,
from a milk-house tank on the
farm, thus further reducing the
costs of handling and marketing
the 97 per cent of milk produced
that travels to market by this
method.
The truck has been an im
portant factor in the growth of
poultry farming. It dan be used
Ito bring the baby chicks to the
farm, to move them from brooder
houses to range shelters, and to
take them to market after they
have reached the proper size.
The quality of [poultry and eggs
depends on speed so it is un
derstandable why 95 per cent of
the eggs, 99 per cent of the
live poultry, and 85 per cent of
the dressed poultry moves by
truck. Of course the feed, in
setetiddes, and supplies are de
livered to the farm by trucks.
Trucks Haul Crops
The farmer who raises his
crops to sell to an outside mar
ket, rather than “feed his farm
■animals is a great user of truck
ing facilities. The man who raises
corn in lowa, and other north
central states will use this means
of getting his product to market
The Kansas man who raises
wheat, or the North Carolinian
with tobacco, aS Well as the
Southern rice and cotton farmers
lean heavily on the tractor
trailers to get their crops to mar
ket in the shortest, safest time
possible, and also to get their
fertilizers and weed killers to
them when they are needed.
The development of the re
frigerated trucks both mechani
cal and ice or CO2, has been a
great boom to the fruit and
vegetable farmers. Now over one
half the orange crop of Florida
moves to market ia!s frozen con
centrate, and more vegetables
are being quick frozen arid
trucked to 'their destination than
ever before.' Folks in the north
ern climates can enjoy out-of
season vegetables and fruits be
cause of the spteed of trucks in
preventing spoilage and making
deliveries to grocers in good con
dition - ready to sell. This is
'proved when we know that per
ishables can be shipped from
Florida to. Boston 18 hours
quicker, to Chicago 22 hours
quicker, and to Philadelphia 30
hours quicker by truck than by
rail.
Another land resource we
must look into is coal mining,
which has been given new hope
since the mother truck, with its
fast, flexible, and ’ cheaper ser
vice, is being used extensively.
Coal is mined in over half the
Washington Notes
'Secretary of Defense Charles
E. Wilson has ruled out the pos
sibility of enough cuts in mili
tary spending to balance the bud
get in the next fiscal year. He
declared that s34' billion would
be a rock bottom figure on mili
tary spending. Both he and Sec
retary of'the Treasury Humphrey
agreed that higher Federal tax
receipts still mights bring the
budget into balance.
SLUM CLEARANCE
The Federal Housing Adminis
tration made, its first mortgage
commitment in a program de
signed to enable private enter
prise to replace slums with mod
ern housing. The commitment
covered the billion dollar urban
redevelopment project in Har
lem. N
GERMAN REUNIFICATION
. The reunification of Germany
•“within the framework of a plan
for European' Security” has been
assigned top priority at the forth
coming Big Four meeting in Gen
eva, by the foreign ministers of
the United States, Great Britain
and -Prance.
ARMY MANPOWER
The Army has requested a
3,000 increase in monthly draft
calls and a 16,000-man rise in
states, but Pennsylvania is the
leader, and the miners of our.
state are looking-to the truck to
help them hold their own in- the
competitive fuel market field.
This explains fact that coal
shipments by rail have sharply
decreased while truck shipments
have more than doubled in the
last few years-
Oil Also Goes By Truck
Oil is one of America’s great;
est natural resources, found
chiefly in Texas and other South
ern states, but also in Pennsyl
vania where some of the finest
grades of oil in the world* arte
produced. The tank trucks are
playing an important part in this
industry, since they bring the
gas and oil to the service sta
tions where the public may buy
it. Better still, they deliver these
items, plus kerosene, greases,
fuel oil, and others right to the
farmer, saving him the time and
trouble of going after them.
There are 23 million homes in
the United States heated by oil
and coal that depend on trucks
to get these fuels to them in any
kind of weather and over any
kind of roads. /
The last natural resource we
shall discuss, although we know
there are others, is lumbering.
For a time the lumber -men
thought their work was doomed
because riew materials were
taking the place of wood in the
building industry and 'the ex
pense and time involved in get
ting their products to - market
was a great detriment. But, as in
manly other occujpations, the
truck came to the rescue, haul
ing the huge logs to the sawmill,
then the sawed lumber to "the
lumber yards, and later the sea
soned bords to the place where
buildings were being constructed,
sometimes on farms or many I
other places.
In summary, we have tried to
show that rural families all over
this great land of ours depend
on bus .transportation to get to
school, to go on field trips and
educational demonstrations, i and
as a means of leaving and ret
urning to isolated places for
pleasure and business. These
same people use' the truck be
cause it is economical, fast, flex
ible, mobile, and convenient
ready to provide service easily
adapted to the land and its re
sources.
I List of References
A- Pennsylvania Motor Truck As
sociation - Harrisburg. 1. The
Farmer's Stake "in Motor Truck
Transportation 2. Trucking in
Pennsylvania 3. Bus Facts, 23rd
Edition B, American Trucking
Association. Inc. - Wash., D. C
-1. What Do You Know About
Trucks? 2. Paper on Truck Sta
tistics. C. Compton’s Pictured
■Encyclopedia - copyright !?«.;
lover-all strength to help tram
youthful volunteers under the
new six-months Reserve plan.
The proposed increase in man
power would give the Army 1,-
043.000 men on June 30, 1956,
compared with the present goal
of 1,027,000 set under the cut
back manpower program.
AIR STRENGTH EXPANSION
The 137-wing goal of the Air
Force might have to be expand
ed to match the growing air pow
er of the Soviet Union in the
opinion of General Thomas D,
White Vice-Chief of Staff of the
Am Force. The officer explain
ed the Russians had 20,000 com
bat planes while this country had
“thousands less ” U. S. planes
are, however, of higher quality,
he said.
LIFE EXPECTANCY.
The average length of life a
m'ong American’s wage earners
land their families has reached
&n all-time high of 69 8 years, ac
cording to statistic compiled by
the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company, Thus is-”a gam of al
most a full year over 1953- The
average length of Me in the
wage-earner group will iprobahly
pass the 72-year mark within a
year, or two. _
SMALL PLANE TOLL.
Fifty-two persons died in small
"plane -accidents throughout the
country during August according
to the Civil Aeronautics -Admin
istration. Of 312, reported ac
bidents, involving $lOO or more
damage, 77 were caused by col
lisions with trees, fences and
other objects oh the ground; 61
by stalls land spins in the air, and
37 to groundioops.
LESS PRINTED MONEY.
One why the -Treasury expects
to save money for the taxpayers
dis to print less of it- The treasury
esfcimlates it will save albout
$1,350,000 a year, beginning Nov.
d, hy turning out only about 86,
million sheets of new money, com
pared with 98 millions sheets in
the fiscal year. Each Sheet con
tain 18 bills, about 63 per cent of
which are $1 bills.
BUSINESS IN 1956
While the best business year in.
history was forecast for 1955, the
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, expects a more
moderate rise doming the 1956
year.
TO SAVE CRANES.
The U. S. Fish and Wildlife
Service has joined forces with
Canada in protesting an Air
Force plan to operate a bomb
ing range near the Texas wanter
inp grounds of th'e ‘ almost ex
tinct whooping cranes. They are
asking that some other site
should be found for the range or
'“a crippling blow” would be
dealt to the birds, now only 28 in
mitaier.” The birds nest in sum
mer in the wilds of Canada and
migrate to the Matagordo Island
area of Texas for the winter
months.
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