->i >i’ U nif f'nh "<V »; lit cull. ijfasrior.J 1 1' 10—Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 11, 1956 Difficulty In getting up statistics on literacy and illiteracy, a diffic ulty ds the in-between cases, as represented by the small son’s (first letter home from camp.— !(-<> ' PLUMBING HEATING QUIET MAY OIL BURNER Complete line of plumbing, water pumps and sheet metal work. RALPH J. FISHER CochranviUe, Pa. Phone West Grove 5637 FOR HEALTH USE DAIRY PRODUCTS FOR MORE PROFITABLE DAIRYING TAKE THE BRIDGE TO PROGRESS Use the Best ftroYen Sires AT THE LOWEST BREEDING COSTS Southeastern Penna. Artificial Breeding Cooperative Box 254 LANCASTER, PA. NEW OLIVER „5T\ *. All-Purpose Wheeled Disc HARROWS I • , */• ♦ ” ' •« «•* Built with adequate rigidity to penetrate the tough est soils, yet with sufficient flexibility to do a fine job in stony fields without damage to blades and frame. Gangs are spring cushioned, permitting-the new Oliver No. 240 to ride over obstructions without being completely lifted out of the ground. Available in four sizes, from 9% to 13 feet. Get an all-purpose Oliver and you’ll get to and from fields faster. You’ll have full angle cutting at any deptfif accurate control of discing depth, tra weight for better pulverization trash. Roller-bearing wheels take low cost ifi-inoh automobile tires. I I G. N. Farmersville Equipment Co; * Ephrata, R.D. 2 Raub Executive, R. F. Zalim, Dies Robert F. Zahm, chairman of the board of directors of the Raub Supply Co., and past pres ident of that company, died Sunday morning at his home in Lancaster. He joined the firm in 1898, and was active in many commun ity projects as well as with the Supply firm He was 74 years old. Company officers and direc tors were pallbearers. The consumption of newsprim set a record in January. - *•* Vf» • *• * • «» • * E. L. Herr Peach Bottom Hershey Sl Son Manheim. RD, 1 Phone 2-2191 . .. • • Pequea Valley School Plans Dedication Day The Pequea Valley. Joint School board and the’ Joint Sc hool Authority will hold open house and dedication services at the new Pequea Valley High Sc hool this weekend. Open house will be from 7 to 9 p. m. Thursday through Satur day, with the dedication services takmg place from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Saturday. The announcement was made by Arthur W. Eshleman, princi pal. The building is a brick veneer structure shaped like the capital letter H and located on a 20-acre plot. The building is planned so that any 6f the three separate units or areas, namely—(A) gymnasium, auditorium, music, industrial arts, vocational agri culture; (B) administration, health, cafeteria, home making, art; and (C) classroom section; can be used independently of the others. Metal gates can be lower ed between each section closing the various area not in tise. The oiT heating system is automati cally controlled to heat any area Independently of the others. The corridors and lavatories have six and seven foot high structural tile walls. The ceilings in the- classrooms, cafeteria-, health suite, administration suite and corridors have acousti cal fiber glass insulation. All southern exposure classrooms have a % glass block and % clear glass window lights, northern classrooms have all clear glass window lights. The classrooms have painted concrete block walls, slate chalk boards and an abundance of tack board. The classrooms, administration and health suites, literary; shops, auditorium, music suite, etc, have flourescent lighting. The njain lobby, 24 feet wide, has a terazzo floor, all classrooms and classroom corridors -have asphalt tile floors. Other corridor floors have a Keramik finish. The classroom wing includes 20 regular classrooms. With the other areas B and C included* there is a total of 32 teacher pupil stations. The auditorium seats 786 and features a decorative redwood trim in the front or stage area as well as in the rear area. The cafeteria seats 260. - The gymnasium is divided into two units by folding doors for physical education classes. It seats 800 and has an asphalt tile floor. The suite includes a band room for 100, practice, rooms, storage rooms, and an office. The shop, industrial arts and agriculture, have a planning, room, finishing room, woodwork ing and metal shop and storage' room. The home economics suite in cludes two large homemaking rooms. The planned use of color eli minates the usual institutional effect that was so common" in years past. Warm color tints are used in rooms facing the north while cool colors are used on southern exposures. Little Britain 4H Sewing Club Starts Frances Preston will~be presi dent of the Little Britain 4H Sewing club which was organized at a Friday Others elected were Loretta ■ Bowers, vice president; Mary Wood, sec retary-treasurer; MaryjjjTane De- Long, song leader; Norma Sue Gamhill, game leader, and Betty DeLong, news reporter. Leaders are ’ Mrs. Charles Woods, Mrs. William Adams, and Mrs- Henry DeLong. tavv Several members atended the Rural Life Sunday services - at Chestnut Level Presbyterian Church Sunday. The girls are planning to' at tend the 4H County Council Council Meeting at he Guernsey Sales pavilion in Lancaster Saturday, May 12. --.l:* w r«i wifc;w PRR Wreck at Fishing Creek Scattered like matchboxes, cars of the Port Deposit freight line of the Pennsylvania Railroad stand along the river right-of-way at Fishing Creek, where they were dump ed in a spectacular wreck Tuesday afternoon, May 1. Standing on end:, these four crushed boxcars missed a dunking in the Susquehanna, in the Tuesday last week wreck at Fishing Creek. Twenty-one cars were derailed. Seven rolled to the river’s edge.' Here a crane pulls some of the smashed cars back on the tracks at Fishing Creek, where Sunday evening the Quarryville Fire Co. was Called. Several of the cottages were threatened when wreckage being burned along the low grade. Workmen were able to check the flames. Serv ice has been restored on the line. (Lancaster Farming Staff Photos.) County Dairy Men Delegates To Milwaukee Eighteen members of The Hol stem-Friesian Association - of America have been elected by their fellow members in Pennsyl vania to represent them at the 71st Annual Convention of the organization at Milwaukee, Wis consin, June 6 and 7. They are W. D Fairchild of Berwick; Earl L Groff of Strasburg; Harvey Rettew of Manheim; Paul R. An thony of Strausstown; Clarence E Lyons - of Mount Joy; H. M Gans of Cans; Ralph M Sands of Wyoming; Norman E Risel of York; Roy S. Bowen of Wells boro; Irvin M Macafee of Milan. Hubert S. Miller of Myerstown, Clark Bowen of Wellsboro, Jonas Gruver of Thomasville, Albert W Smith of Sprmgville; Paul G Longenecker of Strasburg. Leon Ballard of Troy, J H Silvis of Greensburg, and Timothy H. Farm Bureau Federation state ment: “We do not maintain, strong and autonomous state governments by constantly di minishing the scope of state re sponsibility.” Gehman of Macungie. * These Pennsylvania delegates will join delegates from all 48 states in discussing the buisness, formulating* the policies and el ecting the officers of the national association - the world’s largest dairy cattle breeders’ registry or ganization with a total member ship of more than 46,000. Last year, the Holstem-Frie sian Association registered an all-time high of 197,608 new animals in its Herd Bood and officially recorded the transfer of ownership of 1-19,200. These totals represented more than 51 per cent of all purebred dairy cattle registered and more than 50 per cent of all registered dairy cattle sold during the year.
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