Truck Transportation Largest in
If, S., Third-Place Winner Writes
“Full Utilization of Our Land
Resources Through Truck
And Bus Transportation”
Webster defines transportation
as follows, “transporting, or con
dition off being transported; sys
tems and modes of conveyance of
persons or goods from place to
place.”
Transportation aceets our
lives every day of the year, if
it ceased mahy people would be
out of\ work, millions of people
would starve; and thousands of
dollars would be lost.
Of all our transportation sys
tems in the world, truck trans
portation is about the largest. .
Since the time that trucks were
first used for transporting our
crops, natural resources, and
finished products, trucks have
grown steadily. In evfery phase
of work they have increased our
ability to ship more products,
faster, at the right time, and
cheaper. There isn’t any 30b too
big or to 6 small for a truck.
Because trucks can go any
more today ipeople don’t have
to hve near a railroad or a river
like they did years ago. And
many people changed their pro
ducts to other forms' but today
can ship their products in their
natural state. -
Trucks’ Role Important
Here are the ways in which
rucks and buses, play their im
portant parts of hauling our pro
ducts off our land resources-
Agriculture is one of the most
important Many things are haul
ed by trucks connected with agri
culture. Dairying in some parts
of the country is the mam oc
cupation Milk is hauled to the
dairy and from the dairy to the
consumer Grains are hauled to
and from the farm Seeds, ’ freti
lizer, lime, and many other pro
duct's needed to build up this
great land of ours are hauled.
The amount of livestock hauled
by truck has increased from year
to year. The increase is as fol
lows:
1933: Cattle, 44; calves, 51;
bogs, 55; Sheep & Lambs,2l
1952: Cattle, 76; calves, 80;
Hogs, 81; Sheep & Lambs, 49.
This makes it possible for farm
ers to “top out” their livestock
and leads to more orderly and
effective marketing.
Refrigerator trucks are rela
tively recent 'Two types of re
frigeration are used mechanical
and ice or CO2. These trucks are
used almost exclusively Jto haul
perishables Trucks have been
very important in moving an
ever-expanding production of
frozen foods\ to market. As you
know, over half of the Florida
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William H- Gross, 16.' son of
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Gross,
of Kirkwood, won third prize of
$5O i in the essay contest for
Solanco students last month,
sponsored by the Pennsylvania
Motor Trucking Association. The
prize was donated by Mr. David
“Stoney"’ Eschbach, Jr.
A. Junior at Solatico, William
also, has attended' Butter Town
sh: -6r olidated' id West
WILLIAM H. GROSS
Hazleton High School He is a
member of the Future Farmers
of America, the high school bas
ketball team, Senior Patrol Lead
er in the Boy Scouts and trea
surer of the Youth Fellowship
He has carried out four sup
ervised projects, 200 broiler
chicks in his freshman year, oats
and corn in his sophomore year.
This year, as a junior, he has
oats and corn plus two improve
ment projects, and next year this
will be expanded to include one
purebred gilt, improvement pro
jects, tomatoes, corn, oats and
a steer
William would like to attend
Penn State University and plans
to work \yith some form of agri
culture
orange crop now moves as frozen
concentrate. Here again the truck
has helped expand the market
for agricultural products.
Because of the development of
th erefrigerator truck there is an
increase in the average length of
haul of fruits and vegetables.
Trucks are also used exten
resources. for oil, the
sively for mining our natural
ruck is also used, to carry bits,
pipes, gasolines, oils, parts, to
carry men back and forth, and
many other uses connected with
oil.
In .the mining of coal the truck
is used to carry parts needed in
the breaker, to carry away the
slate and excess, and to carry
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the coal and dump it into pits.
Front there it is carried into big
cities and is hauled to indivi
duals.
In lumbering the truck has
many uses. It hauls the many
machines needed to help make
the work easier They haul big
logs to the sawmill to be made
into boards. They haul the ex
cess off as fire wood to be used
in small cottages and cabins- And
then they take the cut_boards to
the planing house to be planed
down to proper size and quahty-
The finished lumber is then taken
to the lumber yard where it is
stored until wanted. As it is
wanted it is taken in trucks, to
farms and anywhere else it is
needed.
Truck tankers help by haul
ing' natural gas, crude oils, bot
tled gas, gasoline, refined oil.
milk and many other liquids.
Buses haul laborers to and
from farms where they pick pota
toes and tomatoes, beans, pull
weeds and many other jobs which
the farmer can’t'do by himself-
They carry men who work in
factories, which make products
rhade from raw materials Peo
ple who work in our industrial
plants and manufacturing plants
are earned by buses also
.
Trucks In Conservation
Our power and line men use
trucks for putting in poles which
were once trees and belonged to
our lesources Telephone com
names use the same things Wire
used to carry the current was
once copper and steel made from
our land resources
Conservation men use trucks
for often they ride through the
country to check on our land re
sources, and make sure that land
erosion 4s checked and used prop
erly Forest rangers use trucks
and check our forests for fires
and to see that they* are properly
used Game commissioners keep
an eye on our game and put up
signs to protect the game and
the people, and they also use
trucks.
Fire fighters use fire engines
which are trucks used to protect
everything in the country from
fire
Construction, Military
Construction companies lean
heavily upon, the truck-, for haul
ing materials for buildings, espe
cially our schools so that they
can better understand, and learn
what our land resources meam
to us-
Our Military department de
pends greatly on the truck, be
cause nearly every piece of
atomic-age artillery has been de
signed to move by truck, because
of their use we can have greater
freedom.-If proper care of our
land resources is taken they will
last-for jnany years to come, and
with trucks getting < bigger,, and
mdrjg powerful, roads getting bet
ter, we will be ■able to do things
in half the time it takes us now.
The truck not only serves the
public directly, but also serves
“all other forms of transporta
tion” The rails, the airlines, and
the waterways all depend up
on the truck for the assembly and
delivery of their own freight.
Yes, without trucks, American
business, industry, and agricul
ture simply could not be met-
ALERTNESS REWARDED
Sutton, N.C- Kenneth
Thorne, 10, whose alertness av
erted a possible train wreck, re
ceived a shiny new bike and a
$lOO savings bond at Christmas.
When the click-clack of the rails
didn’t ring true to Kenneth’s
ears when the eastbound mail
train roared through here re
cently, he investigated and found
a broken rail. With the west
bound tram due in minutes, the
boy ran a quarter mile to alert
a brakeman. The engineer was
ordered by radio to stop his tram.
The bicycle and the bond came
from Great Northern Railway
President John M. Rudd
Dressed Down
Smithson —“Hicks looks very
sad. He told me he is the victim
of a designing woman”
Joneswort —“Regular Don Juan,
hey’”
Smithson —“Not exactly He
has a great big dressmaking bill
of his wife’s to pay.”
Lancaster Farming, Friday, February 17, 1956
Solanco Vo-Ag Staff
Jack Owen
Instructors in the outstanding vocational agriculture de
partment of the Southern Lancaster County Joint Com
munity High School, Quarryvilie, are shown above, Mr.
Owen on the left, Mr. Peck on the right. The two have help
ed develop one of the outstanding vo-ag divisions in the
county, and their records have extended far and wide
through local, state and national competition.
Farm Boy Looks Ahead, Gets Quick
Results on Pennsylvania Tree Farm
This is the story of a Pennsyl
vania farm boy who is looking
ahead to the future, but is al
ready reaping rewards for his
advanced planning.
In a comparatively few short
years, Glenn Gilbert, 16, of New
ville, is going to harvest some
trees for cash income if all goes
well as it has up to now But
these won’t be ordinary trees
they will be ones Glenn has cared
for nght from the start.
A member of the Cumberland
County 4-H Forestry Club, Glenn
last spring planted 1,000 Scotch
pine seeds purchased from funds
in the club’s treasury He had an
almost perfect .survival rate, and
now has almost 1,000 thriving
seedlings in two seed beds.
Helps Manage Woodlot
Next spring, he will plant the
seedlings m his father’s 15-acre
woodlot Since Glenn eventually
expects to take over the 182 J acre
farm, he expects to harvest the
trees himself for a tidy profit. A
firm believer in practicing fores
try, Glenn has regularly helped
his father in managing the woo'd
lot
But Glenn hasn’t had to wait
for'his Scotch pine to mature for
a reward. Because of his seed
bed and other forestiy work, he
Was adjudged state winner in the
National 4-H Forestry competi
tion sponsored by American For
est Products Industries, Inc. For
this distinction, he received a
gold medial and became eligible
to iom more than 1,000 other top
4-H boys and girls at the recent
National 4-H Congress in Chica
go
A number of local forest in
dustries pitched in at this point
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to provide the tup to Chicago,
giving Glenn his first trip of
more than 100 miles to attend
the event of the year for all 4-H
youth.
Members of PFIC Listed
The national 4-H competition,
designed to stimulate a greater
awareness and appreciation of
our forest resouices among youth
of the nation, is paiticipated in
by more than 50,000 boys and
girls Grand prizes in the na
tional competition are four $3OO
college scholarships.
In addition, various state and
county awards are piovided This
year, county medals were award
ed by the Pennsylvania Forest
Industries Committee, affiliated
with AFPI, to Calvin Ernst of
Ciawford County and Homer
Kenyon of Huntingdon County-
Members of the PFIC include:
E O. Ehrhart, Johnsonburg,
Johnsonburg, chairman; George
F Patterson, Wollsboro, vice
chairman; W P Arnold, Pitts
burgh, Ray F Bower, Erie; F.
Marshall Case, Troy, A J. Die
bold, Jr, Pittsburgh; John E.
Dußois, Du'Bois; William B. Eis
enhardt, Easton; James L. El
liott, Coudersport, William L.
Faull, Jr, Bradford; R J Gustaf
son, Endeavor; Russell E. Head
lee, Garards Fort; J. John Herz,
Williamsport; D. E Hess, Gettys
burg; Charles Holtzapple, Lewis
burg; Louis Krumenacker, Car
rolltown, John C Lehman, Ever
ett, William H Lynn, Tyrone;
Edward A Pontzer, St Marys;
H E Sanford, Windber, and
James B Watson, Sr, Umontown.
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