1 No. 39
Jheat Quality
ipwer; Prices
pound $2.00
||| By ERNEST J. NEILL
Mffiteal tough, off color, test
wffight low.
||Kuch are typical comments
apTh ered today in a Lancaster
KpTnfng survey of grain receiv
jlp terminals throughout. Lan
gSter County, where continued
Shis have lowered quality and
Htoused fears of damage from
Brouting in wheat yet to be
Sinbined.
Ifcargill, InCf, at Marietta, ad
pes there is now more ipois
|jre and signs of sprout dam-
Se in wheat harvested early
|gs week. Scattered truckloads
srere being received at mid
mek from on-farm storage that
flowed this year's harvest be-
Hjeen rainshowers “Wheat that
afto be cut now-may'be showing
llpiage from sprouting,” Car
ad added.
|i “Prices are holding very
Steady, moving up a week
Iko last Monday on dry
wain, and we have been pay
ing $2.07 to $2.08 per bushel
pe past ten days,” this firm
Bald.
ERight now _the big question
Srk is, how will the balance of
Ke wheat fare after intermit
int rainy weather’
•Jumping from the western sec
»n of the Garden Spot to the
rarth and extreme south, other
Sports were similar. The ~Nel-
Rn Weaver firm in Lrtitz and
miarryville reported no .wheat
wd been received since the
Sin. Before that time it was real
■ee, but early this week it was
Sal tough, off color, as far as
|e southern end of the County
las concerned.
BAround Lititz way, wheat re
reived last week was pretty
Eugh when that originating out
E the southern end was OK
luc-es are ranging around $2
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■lie Laborer Shot in
rolanco Camp Dispute
E One laborer was stabbed an
other wounded by a bullet in a
labor dispute at the Gibbs Foods,
Ric cannery work camp near
Blew Texas in southern Lancaster
Bounty early Wednesday
• .Treated at Lancaster General
Hospital for a 22 caliber bullet
found was William E Pulley, 39
Styde, Md. Major Wilkerson, 24,’
f Tennessee was treated for a
unor slash wound in the back
Delmas J. Johnson, Charleston,
• C, work camp foreman, has
een charged with aggravated
ssault and battery. '
4H MEET POSTPONED
T , h ®s n ® etln g the New Rol
and 4R Baby Beef club has been
mstponed until 8 p m. Aug. 3
" Holland Park It was or
wenmg. scheduled for Friday
Combines are busy in Lancaster County,
harvesting the heavy 1956 small gram
crop. Although yields are reported from
County Farmers
Vote 5 to 1 No
On Wheat Quota
Although farmers throughout
the nation voted 94,861 to 21,649
for the continuation of federal
controls o’ n wheat next year,
Lancaster County farmers voted
5 to 1 no, 968 votes against, 579
for.
Eighty-three ballots iwere
challenged.
Neighboring counties also vot
ed no, with Lebanon 10 for, 44
against; York 92 for, 108 against;
Berks 47 for, 57 against.
Voting throughout Lancaster
County was light, despite the fact
Friday was rainy and field work
was impossible This is the
fourth consecutive year Lancas
ter County producers have voted
no on marketing quotas.
More Volunteers for
Poult Center Needed
More volunteers are needed at
the construction site of the new
Poultry Center being erected at
the intersection of Route 230 By
pass and Roseville Road, Lewis
Mortensen, East Petersburg,
secretary of the Lancaster Co
unty Poultry Poultry Assn., ad
vises.
Foundations have been poured,
and concrete blocks are being
laid for walls. Those wishing to
contribute labor are urged to
phone Mr. Mortensen.
DRAFT QUOTA 1,157 -
Pennsylvania’s September
draft quota has been fixed by
Selective Services headquarters
as 1,157 men all 22 yeajrs or old
er. In August, the call was 1,021.
“ Quarryville. Pa., Friday, July 27, 1956
Combines Busy in County
Poultry Sales in
Week Total 194,735
Poultry sales at the Lancaster
Poultry 'Exchange, Rohrerstown,
last week totaled 62 lots, or 194,-
735 birds Listed were 70 lots, a
total of 207,435.
For "the corresponding week a
year ago, there were 46 lots, 126,-
765 buds listed, and 45 lots, 126,-
190 birds sold.
Women’s Hobby
Show at Steam
Engineer Meet
When the annual meeting of
the Rough and Tumble Engineers
Historical Association convenes
Aug 16-18 at Kmzers, there will
be a hobby show for women
a welcome concession to what
was once a man’s world.
For three days the old steam
ers on hand in the lot of Arthur
S. Young & Son Implement Co.
east of town will huff and, puff,
along with steamers brought in
by other enthusiasts of the old
time farm implements.
Vice president of the associa
tion is Everett Young, who ad
vises the event will include saw
milling' exhibitions, dynameter
tests, demonstrations of old-time
threshing techniques, pulling
contests, and a men’s hobby ex
hibition of steam engine models.
New officers will be elected at
a business meeting opening night,
Thursday, Aug. 16.
Thousands are attracted to the
beehive of activity on Highway
30 each year when smoke rolls
to the sky, when steam whistles
blast back memories of old-time
threshing rigs, when good folks
get together.
INJURED IN FALL
John B. Miller. 67. HI Bird-in-
Hand, was injured Tuesday after
noon when he fell from a ladder
while working in a barn on his
farm.
good to excellent, considerable trouble
has been encountered by wet weather and
downed gram.
Financial Loss
In Crops High;
Rains Blamed
HARRISBURG Farmers of
Pennsylvania are faced with
heavy financial losses because
of wet weather preventing har
vesting of hay and small grains,
observers in the State Depart
ment of , Agriculture declared
today.
In addition, potato growers
were -warned by the Harrisburg
office of the Pennsylvania Co
operative Potato. Growers Asso
ciation that the build-up of heavy
rainfall during June and thus
far in July has created condi
tions favorable to epidemics ot
late blight
“Nothing but dry weather
from now on through July and
August and more and better
spraying will ward off a ma
jor disaster/’ said Dr. E. L.
Nixon, association director.
Blight spreads quickly under
wet and humid conditions, he
added. Spraying of potatoes
has been retarded by rain and
wet grounds.
Rainfall last week ranged from
one-third inch in Pittsburgh to
nearly three inches in the Wil
liamsport area. Northwestern
counties had light rains, mod
erate to heavy elsewhere.
Southeastern counties received
over two inches on Saturday.
The forecast for this week is
one inch in Western Pennsyl
vania, three-fourth inch in the
eastern part of the State from
showers and scattered thunder
storms.
Federal-State surveys for the
week ended Monday showed it
to be the second consecutive
week of cool and cloudy weath-
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?2 Per Year
Weather Wet;
Crops Suffer,
Spuds Delayed
By LF Staff Reporter
In direct contrast to last
year’s dry, hot July, tempera
assocaiLetetcafthiqeup
tures and moisture this month
have thrown grain and vegetable
schedules out of kilter in Lancas
ter County.
According to Bernard T.
White of the Weather Bureau
office in Lancaster, by mid
week, 484 inches of rain have
been received in Lancaster
County for the month to date,
compared to a norm of 4.37 for
the entire month
Rainy, cool, damp. “Tempera
tures have been averaging two
degrees below normal,” Mr.
White told Wheie July 1955
was' continued hot and dry, this
month has had but three days
with temperatures of 90 de
grees or more. “There has
been some ram on 14 of the
first 24 days of July, 1956,” Mr.
White reported from his rec
ords
In the five-day forecast,
which extends through next
Monday, temperatures in the
mid-Atlantic states are ex
pected to average near nor
mal, warm and less humid
through Friday, with showers
and thunderstorms likely Sat
urday and Sunday.
Considerable damage to crops
has been reported throughout
the County, where heavy rains
flattened corn and small grams.
Combining has been hampered
by downed grain, but corn has
perked up and a considerable
percentage has already tasseled.
Friday night showers dumped
1.36 inches of ram on the Coun
ty in a 24-hour period that
found flash floods striking parts
of western Pennsylvania and
Maryland. Temperatures a year
ago now here were in the high
90s, with 99 reached in a seven
day period of rising tempeia
tures.
Some Reports of Wildfire
Tobacco m Lancaster County
is starting to top, and there are
reports of wildfire in .some
fields where no spray control
was exercised m seed beds.
Otherwise there is none. “You
can do a good job of controlling
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Saturday Deadline
To Plow Up Wheat
In' line with other extensions
granted under the Soil Bank ag
ricultural act, the deadline for
farmers over planting wheat who
wish to plow under part of their
crop to meet acreage require
ments has been extended until
this Saturday
The deadline for plowing und
er corn remains July 31 to bring
acreage into qualifying levels.
Storm damage to wheat in the
past week may encourage some
farmers to plow under part of
their crop to receive federal pay
ments.
INJURED BY COMBINE
Robert G. Hambleton, 52, New
Providence, was treated at Lan
caster General Hospital early this
week for fractures and cuts on
three fingers of his left hand. He
reported he was injured while
working on a grain combine.