Vol. 1, No. 26
Poultry Center
Building Funds
Drive Steps Up
June 15 will be the closing
date for contributions to the new
Lancaster Poultry Center, calling
for a more concerted effort to
raise the needed $30,000, mem
bers of the County Poultry Asso
nation disclosed, meeting Mon
day night. •
Construction- will be of con
crete block and brick, with large
plate glass doors opening into a
large lobby. Brick facing will be
used on the front and sides of
the-52-by-60 foot building offer
ing 5,595 square feet of floor
•space. v
Dual-Purpose Auditorium
An auditorium, 30 by 40 feet,
will serve a dual purpose, for
meetings and for the regularly
scheduled twice-weekly poultry
auctions. Future expansion will
be possible through plaTis incor
porated in the design A number
of offices will be located in the
building, a kitchen,, boiler room
and storage rooms in the base
ment.
Although a closing date for
contributions has been set, and
with $10,694 already pledged by
236 poultrymen, the Center will
turn to other means of financing
should the $30,000 goal not be
reached.
Permission is being sought from
the State Department of Labor
and Industry to construct the
new building on the 3.8-acre
tract between Roseville Road and
Route 230 Bypass north of Lan
caster. The site is across the road
from the proposed Community
Center, and will not interfere
with plans for that, project, in
fact the Poultry Center indirect
ly may augment the Community
Center.
Plan Barbecue June 9
At the same meeting, members
of the Poultry Exchange present
ed plans for the June 9 Sixth An
nual Chicken Barbecue at Lititz
Spring Park, where a new Lan
caster County Poultry Queen will
be elected to succeed Miss Ruth
Ann Weicksel, Kirkwood, plus a
poultry cooking contest will also
be featured, with emphasis on
outdoor cookery of poultry, and
a sale of chicken corn soup.
Around 8,000 persons are ex
pected to attend, 1000 above last
year’s record crowd.
Levi Brubaker, building com
mittee chairman, emphasized
that contributions of $lO from
each of the 3,000 poultrymen or
contributions of $lOO from 300
would be sufficient to meet 4;he
building fund goal. ,
Dr. E. I. Robertson, president,
pointed out the need for a per
manent home for poultry educa
tional meetings.
CORN PRICE SUPPORTS
WASHINGTON (USDA)
Approximately 341 million bus
hels of the 1955-crop corn had
been put under price support by
producers through March 15. As
of April 1, the CCC had uncom
mitted inventory stocks of corn
amounting to an estimated 722,-
897,000 bu.
Spanning sparkling „ Slackwater Canal'
in Conestoga Township is Lancaster Coun
ty’s oldest wooden covered bridge, now
standing condemned by the State as un
safe for vehicular traffic. According to J.
Richard Gaintner, Lancaster, whose hob
by is history of wooden covered bridges,
this structure was built in 1839 by con
tractors Ohmit & Witmer , at a cost of
$4,300. It is a’ two-span bridge, 269-feet
long, with a 14-foot roadway, 12-foofc,"io
- ceiling, crossing the* ruler for Legis
- j* -
Rev. Dr. Bucher,
Noted Minister,-
Dies at 72 Years
A national leader of the
Church of the Brethren, the
Rev. Dr. Rufus P. Bucher, 72,
Quarryville, died at 7 p. m.
Thursday April 19 at Lancaster
General Hospital, where he had
been admitted last week for a
rest and a
checkup. He had
been suffering
from , a heart
condition for
the past three
years.
He had been
pastor of the
Mechanic Grove
Church of the Rev. Bucher
Brethren for a period of nearly
55 years and was one of the
Country’s best known rural
pastors.
Funeral services were Mon
day at 2 p. m. from Me
chanic Grove Church of thej
Brethren, with interment in.the!
adjoining cemetery. More than
700 friends called at the Reyn
olds Funeral Home Quarryville.
Sunday.
Rev. Bucher waS the husband;
of the former Miss Naomi
White, Manheim. The couple
would have marked their 49th
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Quarryville, Pa., Friday, April 27, 1956
Historic Slackwater Bridge
Daylight Time
Starts Sunday
Daylight Savings Time will be
observed in Lancaster County
and other sections of the na
tion starting at 2 a. m. next
Sunday, April 29. Markets and
other places of business will op
erate through the — summer
months on daylight time.
Clocks will set ahead one
hour As usual, some communi
ties and transportation lines will
operate on standard time, adding
to the annual confusion, that
makes next Sunday only 23
hours long
Soil Bank OK
Forecast By
Senator Russell
Washington—Approval of the
soil bank program proposed by
Congress this season was forecast
by several members of Congress,
including (Senator Russell (D--
Ga.)
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Taft Benson had been requested
to appear before the Senate ap
propriations subcommittee for
questioning on the $1,200,000,000
for 3011 bank payments this year.
It is possible Secretary Benson
could put the soil bank program
into operation under provisions
of a soil conservation measure
passed two decades - ago, al
though many on Capital Hill
deny such is possible.
BULL BRINGS $B3OO
MILLWOOD, Va. Prince of
Red Gate 145th sold in the Red
Gate Farm Angus Sale here for
$8,300 Monday to H. B. Pyle,
Sunny Slope Stock Farm, Rich
mond^-Texas.
lative Route 36008. Once known as Shob
er’s Paper Mill Bridge, it was the site of
one of the locks on the old Slackwater
Canal on the Conestoga River. There a
dam was constructed to serve the canal
and the paper mill. No longer maintained
by the state, inadequate for today’s traffic,
its future is undetermined. This is one of
45 covered bridges still standing in Lan
caster County, one of about 325 in the
state-of Pennsylvania. (Lancaster Farming
Photo).
Snow April 24
Precedes Fog;
Chill Hangs On
Low temperature records dat
ing back 26 years tumbled this
week to provide the chilliest Ap
ril in Lancaster County since
April 28, 1928 when a snowstorm
six to 24 inches deep struck
Pennsylvania.
Frost and fog Tuesday night
added to the discomfort and
made Garden Spot farmers more
perturbed about getting crops
underway, to speed growth of
those already planted.
Tuesday night found the
mercury dipping to a low of
23 degrees, unusually cold
for this late in the spring
for Lancaster County, weath
er observers report. Two
years ago Tuesday the liigh
temperature was 72 de
grees.
Crop preparation is still behind
schedule, and more time was lost
in the past week until the work is
probably running two weeks late
at this time. Frost damage was
expected to be light, since most
fruit buds have been held back
by the cold weather.
Plowing in Lancaster County
is getting nearer schedule, and
most farms are now caught up
after experiencing earlier delays
from the cold, wet weather.
Planting, on the other hand, is
probably still two weeks behind.
Temperatures locally have
be£n averaging one and one-half
to two degrees below normal. An
early morning low of 33 was re
corded Tuesday at Ephrata. Dav
enportt, lowa, at the same time,
reported 22.
Conestoga firemen were called
to the Ira Duke farm near Cone
stoga late last week by a grass
fire which went out of control
when Mr. Duke was burning off
» field.
FARM GRASS FIRE*
$2 Per Year
Henning Seeks
Better Program
For Agriculture
HARRI SBURG Declaring
that many Pennsylvania farm
problems differ basically from
national farm problems, Dr. Wil
liam L. Henning, Pennsylvania
Secretary of Agriculture, has an
nounced a long-term “Proposed
Agricultural Program for Penn
sylvania.”
Covering 17 points, his pro
gram includes items ranging
from expansion of farm youth
activities and promotion of
Pennsylvania farm products to
atomic age services for farmers
and consumers. He stresses the
need for research and attention
to family size farms. He lists the
following points:
1. A real and effective
long-term program for the
distribution, sale, marketing
and consumption of all
Pennsylvania farm products.
2. An expanded educational
and research program and effec
tive distribution of whole milk
in the school lunch program plus
increased use of milk for all
Pennsylvania children.
3. An increased distribution
of surplus food products, through
a more widespread participation
in the present program especially
to those families where there are
undernourished needy children.
4. An effective control and
eradication program for all live
stock and poultry diseases and
an equally effective plant" insect
and disease control program.
5. Continue and step-up
our indemnity-program for
the certification and accredi
tation of the "entire State
with the eventual elimina
tion of tuberculosis and
Bang’s disease.
6. Con turned improvement
and expansion of our State toll,
secondary and rural highways to
make it possible for faster, more
efficient movement of farm pro
ducts to market and to insure
greater safety on our highways.
7. Encourage and extend the
rural electrification program in
the Commonwealth with the pos
sible development and use of
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Top $1450 in
Valley Creek
Angus Auction
Seventy-seven lots totaled
$25,935 and averaged $337 in the
dispersal of Valley Creek Angus
at West Chester Thursday. Seven
bulls averaged $572 and 70 fe
males $313.
Brooks Orchards^’Morristown,
N J , paid $1,450 for the top ani
mal, bull lot C, Bardolier 18 of
Shadow Isle. Top female, lot 90,
Valley Creek Edella 119 with
heifer calf at side, sold for $B5O
to S. L. Edwards, Crosswood
Farms, Ward, Pa.
This farm and herd was owned
by Ralph E. McConnell, promin
ent Angus breeder who died last
fall. It is located three miles
northwest of West Chester.
Another herd sire, Bardoher
mere H 40th, lot B, sold to Bel
fry Farms, Norristown, for $725.
The lot A bull, H & L Envious
Ben 9th went at $4OO to Sunny
Hill, Avondale, Pa.
Second high female, lot 35,
Valley Creek Georgina' V 153
with a heifer calf by the “40th,”
went to Fred Frey’s Twin Oaks
Farm, R 2 Quarryville, for $Bl5.