35 “Good Neighbors” Lend Hand To Stricken R 1 Holtwood Farmer By LF Staff Reporter x Thirty-five friends and neigh bors gathered Saturday to lend a' helping hand to Percy Mar tin, HI iHoltwood, and his two sons, Ira and Donald, who have taken over the task of working the farm since their father was stricken with a heaxt attack about two years ago. | He has been confined to his bed since the attack. By Saturday evening, the 1 group had dug ditches, hauled stones fiom a nearby farm, hauled manure to the fields and laid pipe in the ditches completing tho work m time to meet the deadline set by the milk company to which the Mar •i I Good Neighbor Policy Friends and neighbors of Percy Martin, Holtwood HI, lent a helping hand to the bedridden farmer on Saturday A group of them are shown above working on a drainage ditch on the farm. (Lancaster Farming Staff Photo) fe : •?•£< *{. ~+4 f ,-i i V.i Tractors and manpower, hydraulic scoops and manure spreaders did a Ring-sized job in clearing the 'farm fot Percy Martin, R 1 Holtwood, last weekend, as two sots, Ira and Donald, fulfilled instructions on correcting drain age problems. This series of three pictures shows part- ot the 35 friends and -neighbors who gave a, helping hand. (Lancaster Farming Staff Photo). tins had been shipping. Due to their father’s condi tion, the sons have been divid ing their time between their own woik and working on Mr Martin’s farm, located on the road connecting Cochran’s Com er and Liberty Square Because of all the work in volved, they had fallen behind schedule. The milk company to which they have baen shipping gave lia and Donald notice prob lems of drainage about the milk nolise and watei from the house must be cleared by July 1 oi their milk would not be accept ed • ~ f* Logans Celebrate 25th Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. L. L Logan, who operate the Logan Poultry Farm and Hatchery at R 1 Ken nett Square, Saturday celebrat ed their silver wedding anni versary at their home Members of the 1931 wdding party in Butler, Pa., were guests at a dinner m the home Later other guests were receiv ed on the lawn. Congratulations were received by the Logans from friends all over the world Martin Eshleman and Everett Kr-eider, together with Golden Davis, fieldman from the Inter- State Milk Producers Associa tion contacted friends and neighbors and ai ranged for Saturday’s project Included in the group work ing on the’ farm Satuiday were Jesse Cutler, Eveiett Kreid er, Roy Kauffman, Carl Herr, Oliver Shacifer, Luther Kauff man, Walter Mai tin, Robert Powell, G L Louthean, Richaid Louthean, Raymond Smoker, Larry Miley, lia Martin, Leon Kreider, Stanley Kreider, John Denlmger, Hemy Burns, Sam Sprout, Harry Wiggins, Clai ence Murray, James Humphrey, Golden Davis, Wilmer Bolton, Glenn Kreider, Earl Herr, Syl van Smoker, Robert Smith, Mar tin Eshleman, Donald Martin, Joseph Sinclair, Ted Beck, John Burkins, Paul Anknm, William Spiout and William Ambler 1270,000 Alloted for State Bridge Repair From Heavy Rains HARRISBURG Authoriza tions totaling $270,000 for the repair of roads and bridges in Lawrence, Butler and Armstrong Counties caused by heavy rams on June 16 and 17, have been approved by Secretary of High ways Joseph J Lawler The heaviest damage, about $200,000, was in Lawrence County where several small bridges were washed' out, and shoulders and surface on roads adjacent to streams were dam aged. 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D, Pa. wXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'^VXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX* 3511 riensel 19R3 viul. /dif'c'tt -I <i?', i Lancaster Farming, Friday, July 6, 1956—7 Pike County Now Brucellosis Free In State Drive HARRISBURG Progress on two impoitant agricultural fronts was icported today by State Agriculture Secietary Wil liam L Henning Mercer County became the 37th in Pennsylvania to win honor i oil status in the elimina tion of biucellosis oi Bang’s disease, and Pike County became the 38th among the State’s 67 counties to be set up as a county-wide soil conseivation district “Programs in these two fields of departmental activity affect the health and welfai e of all citizens of the Commonwealth, ’ Dr Henning declared Since he became secietary 18 months ago nine counties have been certified by the State and Federal Departments of Agri culture as brucellosis-free and eight counties have joined the expanding soil conservation dis tnct movement I When the fust county-wide brucellosis test was made in Meicer County in March 1954 the disease which causes abor tion m cattle was present m 6 5 per cent of the herds and 14 per cent of the cattle To at tain certification 95 per cent ot the herds and 99 per cent of cattle must be free of the bo vine disease When county-wide tests weie made this spimg only 11 per cent of the herd and two tenths of one per cent ot the cattle were found to be in fected, a highly satisfactory rec oi d, the Secretary declared Organization of the Pike County Soil Conservation Dis tnct is now underway As chan man of the State Soil Conseiva tion Commission, Di Henning ceitified those county-wide faim organizations that aie eligible to send delegates to a meeting called by the County Commis sioners to nominate farmers for membership on a five-man dis trict boaid of directors. 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