10—Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 30, 1956
John Stoner Elected
4-H Club President
Lancaster County 4-H Holstein
Club elected John Stoner, Lan
caster R 7, president at last
week’s meeting at the Farm
Bureau Building, Lancaster.
- m ,ptjier new officers include:
vice-president, Donald Moore,
Quarryville R 2; secretary, Phyl
lis Rutt, Stevens Rl; and treas
urer, Aaron Landis, Strasburg
Rl.
Also'named were; song leader,
Stanley Longenecker, Strasburg
Rl; game leaders, Barbara Ke
ener, Manheim R 2 and Donald
Welk, Strasburg Rl; and news
reporter, James Hess, Strasburg
Rl.
Club leaders elected include
Clarence A. Keener Jr., John
Shelly, George Rutt, H. Leßoy
Welk and Daniel Trimble.
Raymond Denlmger, Lancaster
R 5, who has concluded his 4-H
Club work, was named a junior
club leader.
Elvin Hess Jr, president of
the Lancaster County Holstein
Breeders Association and Wayne
B. Rentschler, Farm Bureau
Cooperative, spoke during the
meeting. -
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Grange Reports
Progress On Hall
At Birthday Fete
Foundations have been laid
for the new addition to the
Grange Hall and the .building
will be completed as soon as
possible, it was announced at
the monthly meeting of Fulton
Grange No. 66-
In other business, the legisla
tive committee was instructed
to write State Legislators, re
questing support of the bill
providing for 100% refund of
the tax paid on gas purchased
for off-highway use.
Future events include; Pre
sentation of the play, “Aaron
Slick From Purikin Crick,” at
Oakryn on April 12 and 14f
Talent Night will be held on
April 13 in charge of Mrs.
Esther * Graybeal, Mrs. Ruth
Akers and Mrs Anita Hernan
dez, at the March 26 meeting,
Salisbury Grange will render the
program as part of the Pomona
Visitation plan.
On April 2, Fulton will visit
Ephrata Grange and * give the
program. The committee in
charge includes; Mrs. Thomas
Bradley, Charles G- McSparran,
Mrs. Walter Wood and John
Galbreath.
Youth Night is scheduled for
April '9. at which tune the
young folks will fill the officers’
chairs and have charge of the
program.
During the literary hour, a
birthday party was held with a
decorated table for each month,
including birthday cakes. Mrs.
Betty Ford, fiom Salisbury
Grange, judged the tables,
naming as winner “May,” in
charge of Mrs Thomas Bradley.
The program opened with the
singing of “Happy Birthday.”
Master Charles McSparran was
crowned “Birthday King,” his
birthday occurring on Sunday.
January’s contribution to the
program was a vocal solo by
Miss Evelyn Matson; February,
reading on Washington, Mrs
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Whenever Farm youth activities are
mentioned, the name Welk crops up often,
for here, is a long history in Four-H and
Future Farmers of America work. Here,
photographed at the ’ recent Lampeter-
Strasburg High School Garden Spot FFA
chapter banquet,, are from, left to right,
H. Leßoy Welk and his sons Bob, Don and
Maurice Gregg, and reading on
Lincoln, Mrs Charles Grinisey;
March, jokes, Charles G Mc-
Sparran, April, talk on Easter,
Miss Jennette MCCummings;
jokes, Thomas Galbreath; his
torical events in April and “This
Is Your Life,” Edward James
May, reading, jokes and quiz,
Miss Mabel Brabson, June, vocal
solo, Nancy Housekeeper, July,
jokes, Mrs Robert Reed, his
torical events, Charles Coates,
and vocal solo, Peggy House
keeper, August, violin solo, Mrs
Charles Ambler, accompanied
by Mrs Richard Jackson,
pianist.
September, reading, Miss
Evelyn Richardson, October, re
marks by Walter Wood and
jokes by Robeit Armstrong,
November, story, Harold Gray
beal, and December, reading on
Christmas, Robert Housekeeper,
and vocal solo by Debbie House
keeper.
34 of 67 State’s
Counties Free of
Bang’s Disease
HARRISBURG Leland H.
Bull, State Deputy Secretary of
Agriculture, assured Pennsyl
vania dairy farmers that a 20-
year campaign to clean up their
most (troublesome disease of cat
tle may be “virtually complet
ed” within two years
The State’s brucellosis or
Bang’s disease eradication pro
gram has been stepped up re
cently and is moving much fast
er than expected, he told the
opening session of the annual
two-day meeting of the State
Brucellosis Committee.
“We now have 34 of the 67
counties officially certified as
brucellosis-free, seven of them
attaining the honor roll within
the past year,” Bull declared.
“Centre, Cambria and Mercer
Counties are nearly ready for
certification and all Western
Pennsylvania should be cleaned
up by the end of this year.”
Educational Program
He told delegates of county
brucellosis committees from
every part of the State that
much of the progress jpan-be at
tributed to the continuing educa
tional program of agricul
ture extension servicap of the
Pennsylvania State university
and the cooperation Sf practic
ing veterinarians antSP'county
committees.
Dr H. A- Milo, director of the
State Bureau of Animal Indus-
try, told the state committee
that 87 per cent of all cattle in
Pennsylvania are now, under
some official plan of testing for
control and eradication of bru
cellosis He said 87,750 herds
have been tested since 1937 and
nearly 1,200,000 head of cattle
'are in the current program. A
county is certified when _less
than 1 per cent of cattle an?
Meet . The Welks
Ira,
Residing just south of Strasburg, the
Welks are_ active dairy farmers, and son
Bob is currently Pennsylvania FFA state
president. Don is' still a student, Ira mar
ried and farming on his own. (Lancaster
Farming Photo).
HYDRANT MISSING
DALLAS, JTexas —'Police are
not looking for the motorist who,
failing to make a turn at a high
rate of speed, smashed into a
hydrant, shearing it. off at the
ground, but they are also look
ing for the hydrant It seems
that the driver, after hitting the
hydrant, got out of the car, in
spected the damage, drove
around the block, stopped and
then loaded the hydrant into
his car and drove off.
under 5 per cent of herds show
presence of the disease which
causes abortion in cattle
14 Counties Complete
In addition to the 34 certified
counties, Pennsylvania now has
14 where testing has been com
pleted and 17 partially tested,
Dr Milo said.
Three mobile laboratories are
now operating in 36 counties,
using the “milk ring” test, ac
cording to Dr C M. Stevens, in
charge of the brucellosis divi
sion, State Bureau of Animal
Industry. From January 1,195 p
to this March 15 these traveling
laboratories have tested milk
samples from 53,150 herds com
prising more’ than 640,000 cat
tle Tests revealed an average of
2.5 suspected herds but only 30
per cent of these showed aptual
presence of the disease through
blood tests
CALF TRIPLETS
DURATB, Cal. Clara, a
Brown Swiss cow owned by Hans
Sulzer, recently gave birth to
triplet calves all bulls. While
triplet heifer births are not too
infrequent it is said, triplet
bulls are a great rarity. The
calves weighed about 60 lbs
apiece.
HORSE, PONY SHOWS
OXFORD Our whole family
enjoys your newspaper. Our two
daughters in particular hope that
you will keep them informed as
to when and where horse and
pony shows will be in this area.
They each awn their
and' horse. We wish Lancaster
Farming every success. Neil
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