Steel Shortage Delays Bridge Work
Piers and abutments or tfle Pequea
Creek Bridge on Highway 222 near Refton
poured last October still await steel
that has been on order some time.
Here is a scene,' taken by a Staff photo
grapher, just as a dynamite blast was set
off on the -east side of the roadway just
north of the bridge. At the left is the nar
row old bridge, scene of innumerable ac
cidents, on a sharp corner'that will be
eliminated by a sweeping curve alongside
Eugene Buckwalter
To Head 4-H Club
Eugene Buckwalter,- R 2 Lititz,
will head the Lititz-Manheim
community 4-H Club. He was
named meeting in the Fair
land School. ,
Others elected were Melvin
, Gray bill, R 2 Lititz, vice presi
dent; Glady Sangrey, R 2, Lititz,
the Raymond T Witmer farm.
According to Joe Dunkel, construction
superintendent for J. D. Eckman, paving
contractor, the small bridge at Weaver’s
corner has been completed, the steel in
place, the concrete set. Otherwise grade
work on the road project, which will eli
minate several treacherous corners, is pro
gressing satisfactorily, the paper was ad
vised. (Lancaster Farming Staff Photo)
secretary; Marion Graybill, R 3
Manheim, treasurer; James
Graybill, R 2 Lititz, news reporter;
Lois Shenk, R 2 Lititz, and Melvin
Martin, R 2 Lititz, game leaders;
and Nancy Newcomer, R 2 Lititz,
song leader
Egypt and the World Bank re
cently announced agreement oh
a $2OO million loan to start
building Aswan High Dam.
Farm Price Index
For Pennsylvania
(Continued from Page One)
December but dropped four
pbiats m January and another
six points in February, Depart
ment records show.
The Pennsylvania price index
in mid-February, at 233 per cent
of the 1910-1% base average, was
mne points below the same date
last year, a Federal-State survey
showed. The national index re
mained steady at 226.
Pennsylvania crop prices regis
tered a seven-point index advance
from January 15. Dr. Henning
said this was due to seasonal in
creases in prices received for
grams‘and an advance of 10 cents
a bushel received by farmers for
ootatoes These combined to more
than offset a slight declinevin the
p'nce of hay. Apples advanced
five cents a bushel
Livestock oft Nine Points
There was a decline of nine
points or four per cent in the in
dex of prices received for live
stock and 'livestock products, in
cluding milk and eggs, Dr Hen
ning said Poultry and eggs show
ed a drop of 25 points or 12 per
cent Although both, farm chic
kens and broilers registered price
gams, the average price received
for eggs declined nine cents a
dozen, the highest January-
February decline since 1952, he
declared.
The index for dairy products
dropped five points during the
month as the price received for
wholesale milk was down 10 cents
per hundred pounds, or about
the usual January-February" de
cline.
FABRIC SELECTED
BEFORE PATTERN
Choose patterns with material
in mind. Bernice J. Tharp, ex
tension clothing specialist of the
Pennsylvania State University,
cautions.
This is especially true with
acetate tricot. This material is
good in styles that call for drap
ing or gathers. Unpressed pleats
are usually more successful than
pressed pleats.
Don’t use acetate tricot in cir
cular skirts. It has a tendency
to stretch on the bias and cross
gram.
President Eisenhower has an
nounced that he had asked Prime
Minister St. Laurent of Canada
and President Ruiz Cortines- of
Mexico to a meeting in March.
Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 16, 1956
E-Town Kiwanis
Club Honors 22
Local Farmers
• Twenty-two Elizabethtown area
farmers were recent guests of
the Elizabethtown Kiwanis Club’s
annual Farmers Night recently.
Speaker was- Chris M. Nissley,
-sales and research supervisor for
the commonwealth, and assistant
superintendent of the western
and northeastern areas of the
state for Hoffman Seed Co.
A 35-minute film giving the
history of corn was shown
Mr. Nissley was born on a
farm-near Landisville For eight
years he was a Lancaster County
science teacher, and spent 33
months in the European theater
during the war, returning as a
captain He joined Hoffman Seed
Co shortly before World War II
50TH ANNIVERSARY
Femwood Grange is making
plans to celebrate its 50th anni
versary, 'and a committee has
been named for that purpose
Members are Musetta McCellen,
Margaret Webster, Lillian Reese,
Alice Webster, George Stroud,
Nora Coates and Milhcent James
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Platinum.” That’s the name of
this sheep dog. entered in the
recent Westminister Kennel
Club Show at New York City.
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