Vql. 1, No. 21
County Digs Out ,
From Snows as
Spring Arrives
Moisture that will benefit Lan
caster County crops came with
one of the worst snowstorms in
years, that closed many rural
roads on the eve of Spring
Some snow arrived Friday.
More came Sunday morning, and
by Monday Holtwood measured
15 inches of snow on the ground.
Snowplows were on the job
early and constantly where they
could travel, but drifts as high
as 12 feet cut off sections of
Martic Townhip from the rest
of the world.
Not For The Birds
This weather was strictly not
for the birds- Robins sought
shelter from the storm wherever
they could. Many persons placed
food in protected spots for the
harbingers of Spring that arriv
ed on the correct date blit iced
VP ,
Out on Route 7, Lancaster,
Raymond H. Rohrer advised
Lancaster Farming a tame hand
ed pigeon arrived at 2 p. m.'m
the. storm and took up residence
with the Rohrers until he is
“found” again. “I know he's
lost,” Mr. Rohrer told, “for he’s
tame and is carrying a numbered
band on his leg.” Purple shaded,
the bird will be returned to its
rightful owners if they can
identify the" pigeon and give its
numbers, Mr- Rohrer asked-
Many Roads Blocked
Two roads in Martic Township,
one leading from Rawlmsville to
Bethesda,-"the other from Rawl
inville ito Mt Nebo caused a
fury between the State Highways
Department and supervisors and
residents. Complaint was made
that roads remained blocked aft
er the State Highways Depart
ment refused to give a satisfac
tory explanation as to why they
were not opened.
Peach Bottom, in the southern
ehd of the County, also had heavy
snows and mountainous snow
drifts.' Schools closed generally,
in the County Monday, many
except those in the southern end
re opened Tuesday.
Sales of tire chains were brisk,
and one operator spent nine
hours straight Sunday afternoon
and evening putting chains on
cars Innumerable accidents were
reported on slick highways, and
lacknifed trailer trucks were
noted an many plates
In other parts of the country,
west to Ohio, the story was much
the same Traffic on the Pennsyl
vania Turnpike was jumbled,
and one report told of 500 to 600
bucks being stalled, ditched,
jacknifed, upset m a short area.
One crew of workmen scent seven
hours driving from Wilkes Barre
to southern Lancaster County.
Excellent Cover for Crops
However, there were benefits
in the snow It provided excellent
cover for crops and snow melt
ing Tuesday and Wednesday al
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Many Lancaster County farms* were
caught this week-on the eve of Spring with
their snow, fences down. Scenes as the one
above were common' throughout the' Gar
den Spot Monday, but often snow fencing
Antarctic Vet Snowbound on Visit
In Southern Lancaster County
By LF Staff Reporter
County snows stalled
a recent Antarctic visitor.
South Pole conversation seemed
too appropriate when snows last
Monday peppered down outside
the window, when evergreens
were capped with white and
icicles hung from branches.
But tn Hal Phipps, Peach Bot
tom, who just came back from
the land where it can get 175
degrees below zero, there is .little
basis for comparison.
-In Operation Deep-Freeze
Hal, 22, the son of Mr- and
Mrs. Vernon P Phipps, down on
the Pennsylvama-Maryland bor
der, participated in the Navy’s
Operation Deep-Freeze with Ad
miral Richard E Byrd, and lived
aboard ship during the Dec. 24
to Feb 15 stay
Winter here is summer in the
Antarctic. “The sun was shining
24 hours a day, it wgs fairly
warm, and you could go around
m your shirt sleeves if the wind
didn’t hit you,''’ Hal told “The
worst trouble was, the weather
was too warm,” he continued.
“Ice was melting and breaking
up, and temperatures went as
high as 38 degrees, as low as
i’zero,”*he told Octoraro News
-1 papers
Quarryville, Pa., Friday, March 23, 1956
Springtime, Wintertime
Panama, New Zealand
Winter m Lancaster County,
arriving on the eve of Spring,
snowbound" the Patuxent River
Naval Air Station Yeoman Third
Class. He came to visit his par
ents and friends over the week
end, and, like many others, found
transportation tied up when it
was time' to report back He re
quested and was granted leave
until transportation cleared up
HAL PHIPPS
Sailing Nov. 10, 1955, Hal was
aboard the USS Wyandotte. Stops
were made in Panama and Port
Littleton, New Zealand, where
the expedition moved into the
ice fields of the South Pole
regions Christmas Eve in Mc-
Murdo Bay found no evergreens
on the landscape, no vegetation
of any kind. Preceding the line
of ships was the USS Glacier,
an ice breaker opening a path for
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had been rolled and stored, causing many
.rural roads to drift shut. This unusual
storm of fine, powdery, blowing snow help
ed much to supply adequate subsoil mois
ture to start this Spring’s crops.
Senate Passes
Farm Measure,
Now to House
WASHINGTON The Senate
this week passed the multi-billion
dollar farm bill with forecasts a
presidential veto may follow.
Senator Allen J-. < Ellender
(Democrat - Louisiana) warned
high price supports on milk with
out production controls could
drag the whole farm program
down.
Supporters of the administra
tion hoped to knock out a" sec
tion-of the measure that raised
minimum price supports on milk
used m manufactured foods from
75 to 80 per cent and changing
the base period for figuring
parity At present it is supported
between 75 and 90 per cent, now
at 82 per cent or about $3.15 cwt:
Unde£ the Soil-Bank proposal,
farmers could receive up to $l,-
200,000,000 this year by with
drawing land from crop use and
shifting work to conservation
Price supports would be denied
farmers not complying with the
soil-bank plan
The bill now moves to the
House for action
Tomato Contracts
Sharply Higher
Sharply increased prices are
being offered by Campbell Soup
Co. and H J. Heinz, hoping to
increase total acreages in Lan
caster County this year. The two
were reported offering $36 and
$24 a. ton on a grade basis, com
pared to $34 and $2l in contracts
last year.
Some smaller operators were
reported changing to dairy or
poultry to increase incomes, fal
lowing losses suffered last year
due to weather in the tomato
line.
$3 Per Year
Millarden Angus
Sale Top $6500
To Coloradoans
By ERNEST J. NEILL
Annville, Pa.—“ This sale pro
ves what International Livestock
Exposition grand champions can
do m boosting average prices,"
one midwestern fieldman re
marked following the Saturday
sale of Millarden Farms Angus
here.
SUMMARY <
Total Average
4 Bulls $6,675 $1,668
46 Females $78,525 $1,707
50 Lots $85,200 $1,704
Topping the sale was lot 45, the
July 9, 1954 cow Millarden
Blackbird 80, going at $6,500 to
Haystack Angus Ranch, Long
mont, Colo, 'rtiis summer year
ling show heifer was sired by
Prince Eric 2d of Angus Valley
out of Evader’s Grenadier Black
bird FP, from the famed Fair
Promise herd. She sold bred to
Ankoman OB 13th, the 1955 In
ternational Grand Champion bull.
Approximately 800 There 1
This was Millarden Farms sec
ond annual prodrction sale, mark
ing 20 or more years of Angus
breeding. The stands in the sale
barn were crowded, with ap
proximately 800 persons from
all parts of the nation, represent
ing some of the finest herds in
Angusdom.
Two bulls sold at $2,500 each,
lot 2, MUlardenmere 15th, selling
to Fra-Mar Farm, Thomaston, Ga. t
and an extra lot, Millarden Eile
enmere, selling to Velda Farms,
Tallahassee, Fla.
Second high in the sale was
another cow, lot 5, Millarden
Gammer Erona, a smooth, sweet
headed daughter of Eileenmere
of Woodbar, selling bred to An
onian OB 13th to Highland Farm,
Doylestown, Pa., for $6OOO. On
the side of her sire, Eileenmere
of Woodbarr, she traced back to
.the outstanding International
star, Eileenmere 85th, and on
her dam’s side to Black Prince
of Sunbeam.
Two Cows at $5,000 Each
Two cows sold at $5,000 each.
Lot 10, Millarden Blackcap 45,
going to Heckmere’s Highlands,
Valencia, Pa., and -lot 11, Millar
den Juana, to Bray’s Island
Plantation, Yemassee, S. C. Both
were bred to Ankoman OB 13,
The lot 10 cow will be a senior
yearling for this year’s show
circuit, a great granddaughter o£
Envious Blackcap B 15th, from
well-known Reverie Knoll Farm.
The cow, purchased by Bray’s
The Pennsylvania State Univ
ersity paid $4,000 for the lot 46
cow, Millarden Blackbird 70, to
join their University Park herd.
This junior yearling was from
the 1955 show string, a typical
daughter of Eileenmere of Wood
barr She sold heavy in calf since
June 29, 1955 to Millardenmere
999 35.
Prove Worth at Harrisburg
White Gates Farm, Flanders,
N J, took the lot 33 cow, Mil
larden Blackbird 75, a powerful
upheaded, beefy broody cow bred
to Ankonian OB 13. This May 17,
1954 cow traced ancestry .back
to Eileenmere 487th, the famed
Penney & James bull, and Band
olier of Anoka 6th.
Hosts were E. D Williams,
president of Millarden Farms, a
division of H. E. Millard Lime
& Stone Co.,"Tfenry Z. Gingrich,
general manager of the Annville
farm, and James A. Christian,
manager of the Woodbury, Ga.,
division of Millarden Farms.
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