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OBSERVED precipitation
(APPROXIMATE)
MID-FEB. TO MID-MAR. 1956
This chart shows the general nature of
the total precipitation. which fell during
the preceding 30 days. Precipitation is ex
pressed in three classes; light, moderate,
and heavy, and the precipitation amounts
Which determine these classes are obtain
Farm Calendar
(If yon wish your Coming
Events listed, in these cpl
urns, write a card or letter
ta LANCASTER FARMING,
Quarryville, Pa. Be sure to
include name of sender.—
Editor).
MARCH
March 31—Society of Earn
Women 4 hostesses to Society
21, Mountville Civic Center.
March 31—Bake, m front of
Oxford Theater by Oxford Gran
ge
March 31—Farm Women 23,
Easter banquet, Hostetter’s Ban
quet Hall, Mount Joy.
APRIL
April I—Sacred Concert, Mem
orial Methodist Choir. Quarry
ville, 7:45 p. ra.
April 2—New Holland Com
munity 4-H Club meeting.
-April 2—Fulton Grange vis
its Ephrata Grange.
April 3—County Farm Wo
men’s Society Executive Board,
2 p. m„ home of Mrs. Henry
Heist. R 1 (Mount Joy.
April s—Aillis Charmers Field
day, opposite Guernsey Sales
Pavilion on Route 30 east of
Lancaster.
~ April s—Farm5 —Farm Women 9,
Sewing Day with. Mrs .Helen
Zuercher, Marticville, 7 - 30 p.m.
April s—Eastern States local
meeting, Penryn
Fire Hall, 7 45 p.m.
April 7—Farm Women No. 6,
home of Mrs. Jra Heisey, R 3
Elizabethtown, 2 p.m.
April 9—Youth - night. Fulton
Grange, Oakryn Hall.
April 12 and 14—“ Aaron
Slick from Punkin Creek,” Ful
ton Grange, Oakryn Hall.
April 13—Talent Night, Ful
ton Grange, Oakryn Hall.
April 14—Society of Farm
Women 18,-bus trip to Washing
ton, D.C., Mrs Raymond Stoner,
reservations Chairman.
April 14—Farm Women 7,
home of Mrs. Harold Keneagy,
Paradise, 1:30 p.m.
April 14—Farm Women 13
to be entertained by Pam Wo
men 2, Penryn Fire Hall.
April 17—Farm Women 6,
home of Mrs. Ira Heisey, R 3
Elizabethtown. 2 pan.
April 19—Farm Women 23
visit Lancaster County Home.
April 19—'Farm Women 15
entertain Farm Women 17 and
20, Union Presbyterian Cburch,
Kirkwood.
April 21—Society of Farm
Women 8 EUB' Churcb Society
Rooms, Mount Joy, Society '2
guests.
April 24—Farm. Vfpmtiy 23,
home of Mrs. Roy Funk.
April , 2R—SocUjty of Farm
Women .9 Mrs. Margaret-Hagen,
•RawJinsville, -fcoeteas,- ' ' -
Precipitation Preceding 30 Days
April 28—Farm Women 12
entertain Farm Women 3-
April 29, 30, May 1 - American
. " _ , .. ’ , gelical United Brethren Church,
Angus Conference, University cf
Tennessee, Knoxville.
r
ed, from an, analysis of many years of rec
ord at mapy .stations. Like, temperature
classes, the numerical ranges, varying
from placet to place and month to month,
are given, on page 4 of the Outlook issued
one month ago.
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CONSUMER DEBT.
In 1955, consumer credit rose
$6,100,000,000 to a total of $36,-
225,000,000. The largest con
tributing factor was installment
financing of automobiles. It
soared nearly $4 billion. How
ever, in January, consumer
credit declined $671,000,000 and
was expected to continue to de
cline during February and
March, because heavy repay
ments are paring away at the
big debt built up last year
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION.
Industrial production in this
country remained at near record
levels in 'February, according to
Federal Reserve Board reports
February’s industrial output in
dex was pegged at 143, on a sea
sonally-adjusted basis. This was
the same level as in January,
and only one point below the
December peak.
HEAVY mil
BRATt [ |
LIGHT
PLANT EXPANSION.
> Plant expansion in 1956 will
take an investment of $35 bil
lion, or 22 per cent more than
was spent in 1953, according to
a joint report by the Department
of Commerce and the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
The U- S. surplus-disposal plan
gains m_ Europe.
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R. O. T. c. CALLS,
The Army has announced that
two-thirds of the 15,000
Officer Training Corps gradu
ates, scheduled for active duty
in the year starting r J\dy 1,
would be called up for two
years’ service. The other one
third will take six months active
training and then would be as
signed to active participation
with Army Reserve units.
WEST POINT.
The United States Military
Academy observed the 154th an
niversary of the establishment
oi£ the academy on March 16.
Robert T. Stevens, former sec
retary of the Army, was the
guest of honor pn that occasion.
NEW HOUSING.
Applications to/ the Federal
Housing Administration for in
surance commitments on new
housing were reported at 18,500
in February, compared pith 15,-
800 in January and 13.4Q0 in
December. Appraisal requests
to the Veterans Administration
rose even more sharply, from
23.000 in January to 37,100 in
February.- Total new houses
started in February rose to a
seasonably adjusted rat* of
1.200.000 from the January rate
of 1,180,000.
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