iy Visitor from Guatemala
Visiting Lancaster County, recently was Hector Oliva,
son of the Secretary of State'in Guatemala, shown here
with his Charlotte Hall Military Academy roommate,
Henry Bushong. He is the ’son of Lt. Col. and Senora
Enrique Olivia. A native of Guatemala City, he reports the
country is very civilized, slightly smaller in area than
Pennsylvania, with a population of about four million.
The capital itself is slightly larger than Lancaster. Lan
caster County’s fertile soil and primary agriculture re
mind Hector much of his native land, where coffee makes
up about 70 per cent of the exports, with bananas, sugar,
tobacco, beans, corn and wheat also important in the agri
cultural picture. (Staff Photo).
Bergstrasse Four-H
Club Is Organized
Meeting again May 5 at 1-33
in the Bergstrasse Church, the
newly organized Bergstrasse 4-H
Sewing Club will continue to ac
cept memberships, according to
Mrs George Rutt, adviser
Thirty-five members attended
the organizational meeting
where the following officers
were elected: Sandra Rutt, .pres
ident; Sally Miller, vice presi
dent; Julia Hecker, secretary;
Joyce-Bixler, assistant secretary'
Phyllis Rutt, treasurer' Elaine
Gockley, news reporter; Karen
Buckwalter and Peggy Brendle,
game leaders, and Phoebe Grif
fith, song leader.
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Flood Waters End
Conowingo Fishing
Flood waters pouring down
the Lower Susquehanna River
recently made it necesasry for
power company operators to
open a number of gates at the
Conowingo dam, curtailing sal
mon fishing below the dam
The Maryland season oru sal
mon or wall-eye species opened
on April 1, with anglei’s report
ing catches up to five pounds at
the mouth of the Octoraro Creek
prior to swollen waters on the
Susquehanna.
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Foreign tylinister Pineau has
announced that France would
recograze Tunisia as an inde
pendent nation.
Cocalico FFA
Win Countv
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Sports Event
In the third and final round of
playoffs for the 1956 Lancaster
County, Future Farmers of
America championships in
basketball, volleyball and 'ping
pong, Cocalico scored almost a
clean sweep of all events.
In basketball Friday night at
Donegal High School, the Cocah
co five handily beat the runners
up, Witness Oak Chapter of
Donegal, by 53 to 36, leading the
whole way The score by quarters
was
12 3 4
22-9 30-28 40-32 53-36
The playoff in volleyball
found Cocalico and the Ground
Hog FFA Chapter of Solanco,
Quarryvile, pitted against each
other, with Solanco winning the
first game 10 to 15, Cocalico win
ning the second 15 to 7 and the
third 15 to 6 to take the champ
ionship
Last event of the evening was
ping pong playoffs, with Cocah
eo’s Bobby Snader winning the
first 21 to 16 ,and, losing the
next two to Chris Bleacher of
Solanco 20 to 22 and 18 to 21
Coaches form Donegal refere
ed the basketball games
Sectional Schoolmen
Meet at New Bolton
Friday, April 33, has been set
as the As sectional schoolmen’s
meet at the New Bolton Patho
logical Laboratories near Ken
nett Square. Among,those plan
ning to attend from Lancaster
County are Earl Allgood and
Jackson H. Owen from the So
lanco faculty, Henry Givler of
Pequea High School; George
Myer and Dio Yost or Joe Very
of Lampeter-Strasburg
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Two groups from the Lampet
er-Strasburg High School Wed
nesday toured the New Holland
Machine Co. plant as part of
their spring educational trips.
Making the tour, to see assemb
ly line procedures, production
and a film on functioning and
adjustment of the New Holland
baler, were the Garden Spot
Chapter, FFA, and the Lampeter
Young Farmers Association.
Advisor for the group is
George W. Myers. Mr. Myers al-
announced a countywide
Young Farmers meeting was
held last night at Lampeter-
Strasburg in place of the regular
local meeting- Monroe Arms,
farm management specialist,
discussed labor saving practices
and devices.
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Home-made baked goods and
candies brought out a goodly
crowd Friday afternoon for the
Solanco Groundhog FFA Chap
ter in their sale in front of the
Quarryville Bus Depot.
Advisors report the sale gros
sed about $6l for the chapter.
Trout Fishing
Opens Sunday
(Continued from page one)
streams were increased in direct
proportion to the increased pro
duction of the hatcheries.
Completed April 13
According to Voight, the pre
season releases represent ap
proximately 65% of trout that
will be stocked this season. The
remainder will be distributed as
the season advances.
The entire program of dis
tribution is under the direction
of Dewey Sorenson, Superinten
dent of Hatcheries At his dis
pdsal for the job is a fleet of
forty aerated tank trucks that
will have traveled in excess of
1-3 million miles for just the
pre-season phase of the annual
undertaking, scheduled for com
pletion on April 13, The first
consignment rolled out of the
Huntsdale Hatchery on Feb 3.
Between those two dates, 4,058
miles of streams and an aggre
gate. 2,063 acres of ponds and
lakes in the state will have been
stocked with trout.
Lancaster Fanning, Friday, April 13, 1956
New Four-H
Group Starts
Near Oxford
The first meeting of the Ox
ford Agricultural 4-H Club was
held April 3 at the home of
Owen Groff, and the following
officers were elected. Everett
Ross, Jr., president; John Kipp,
vice president; Ruth Wrigley,
secretary-treasurer; Billy Kipp,
song leader; Norma Jean Groff,
game leader, and, as pianists,
Jean King and Alice Root.
Chester county leader, Dennis
F. Able, was present and an
nounced that an officers’ train
ing meeting would be held April
21 at the West Whiteland
School. He also said that there
were a few seats left for the
trip to Washington, D C. spon
sored by the Chester County
Tractor 4H Club.
Following are projects chosen
by various members of the club
flowers, vegetables, sweet corn,
tomatoes, calves, pigs, and ca
pons
Next meeting will be May 3
at 8 p. m.
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