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
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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)
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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
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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. In Butler County damage
totaled $lO,OOO and in Arm
strong the damage approximat
ed $60,000
Rehabilitation work which
started early Sunday, June 17,
was handicapped by heavy ram
storms during the week.
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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. As m
all similar cases, establishment
of the Pike County district was
accomplished through passage of
a suitable resolution by the
county commissioners
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Rabid Fox Attacks
Cattle in Maryland
Harford County, Md, and
Yoik County, Pa, laimcis have
been advised a fox that attacked
cattle in the Faim Grove, Pa,
community showed signs of
rabies
Dick Reynolds, sawmill op
ciator, killed the fox, and Dr.
Tjhomas W Brown, Fawn.
Grove vetermaiian, sent the
head to the Maiyland Health
Department at Bel An wheie
the tables diagnosis was made.
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