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■First Public Defender Attorneys
Bn County To Give Free Legal Aid
K. Attorneys Wilson Bucher
Kolumbia, and Edgar R Barnes
Br.> Lancaster, have been select-.
Kd by a committee of the Lan
caster Bar Association to be the
■first Public Defender Attorn
eys for Lancaster County.
K' The institution of a Public
foefender service for Lancaster
■bounty was announced by W.
faensel Prown, president of the
■Lancaster Bar Association. Its
Ipurpose will be to serve worthy
•applicants, charged with cnm-
Bnal offenses, other than mur
feer, who because of their in
ability to pay an attorney’s fee,
iare unable te- secure needed
Regal advice, counsel and aid.
I Indigent persons charged
bwth the commission of crime
pnay request this service
Khrough William Wagner at the.
tOffice of the Clerk of Quarter
pessions or' the warden at the
County Prison.
I An affidavit regarding the in
ability of the person to pay will
ibe included on this request, j
[Applications will be screened'
tand then assigned to a member
[of the Lancaster Bar Associa
tion appointed to the Board of
[Public Defender Attorneys. •
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The first board will be com
posed of Bucher and Barnes,
kho were selected by the com
mittee from numerous appli
cants. After assignment, a
board member will take com
plete charge of the case.
The Public Defender Service
of the Lancaster Bar Associa
tion is the product of more than
a year’s work by a committee
of that organization.
In June of 1955, the Hon
orable H. Clay Burkholder ap
pointed a committee composed
of John Milton Ranck, Peter K.
Honaman, Lawrence E. Stengel
and W. Roger Simpson with
Sam Ferguson Musser as chair
man, to consider the needs for
such a service and the means
of obtaining one.
committee determined
that such a service was needed
m Lancaster County and re
ported their findings to the
Association as a body in Janu
ary, 1956. In June of 1956, the
committee was authorized to
proceed with the organization
of the service on a temporary
basis, with the entire cost to be
paid by the Lancaster Bar As
sociation.
The Public Defender Attorn
eys will receive a modest com
pensation from the Lancaster
Bar Association.
-In the .past, defendants in
crminal court who were unable
to pay the cost of legal services,
were repres.ented by court ap
pointed lawyers, who received
no compensation for such
Bucher was born m Marietta
and is a graduate of Marietta
High School, Class of 1938, and
Franklin and Marshall College,
Class of 19£2. He served m the
U.JS. Army from 1942 to 1946,
attaining the rank, of captain.
He is a graduate of Uni
versity of Pennsylvania Law
School, Class of 1948, and began
practice of law_in Columbia in
January of 1950, being admittedr
to practice in Lancaster
County Courts and the State
Supreme Court in that month.
He is a member of the Lan
caster, Pennsylvania and Ameri
can Bar Associations.
gill Inc. Great variance in test weights
was reported from the rain-soaked grain
(Lancaster Farming Staff Photo).
Homans Hosts to
Flying Farmers
At July Meeting ,
Since plans for the July meet
ing of Pennsylvania Flying
Farmers at Perth, Ontario had
to be canceled due to the air
port at Perth being shut down
for repairs, the group met at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Elwood
Homan, Pennsylvania Furnace
for a fly-in breakfast on Sunday
morning, July 15. After break
fast the group attended Fair
brook Methodist Chuch in a
body. After church a bountiful
picnic lunch was arranged on
the lawn, and_l7 planes landed
on the Homan strip beyond the
barn Over 50 persons were in
attendance.
' Flying weather was excellent
for most of the state. There was
the usual good time of fellow
ship encouraged by the hospital
ity of 1954-55 Pennsylvania
queen Aileen and her husband
Elwood.
The - Homans operate a 300-
acre farm with 33 Holstein dairy
cows with approximately 35
head of young heifers They til!
170 acres and have 30 acres ot
permanent pasture m the rich
Nittany Valley west of Penn
State University They own their
own J-3 Cub and their own
licensed landing strip.
Mi. Homan, a director of the
Pennsylvania Flying Farmers, is
active in the local grange be
sides being superintendent of
the Fairbrook Methodist Sunday
School.
Aileen, Pennsylvania queen
for 1954-1955, is active in P T.A.
being .chairman of the enter
tainment ( committee. She too is
active in grange, presently being
Home Economics chairman. In
spite of her busy farm life and
looking after their four daugh
ters, ages 4,6, 7 and 8, she had
lime to solo and expects to be
come a full fledged pilot soon.
Barnes was born in Lan
caster and is a graduate of Mc-
Caskey High School, Class of
1941; Franklin and Marshall
College, 1944; and Dickinson
Law School, 1948. He served
in the U. S. Air Force from
1944 to 1946.
He served as law clerk to
Tudge Albert L. Watson, United
States District Court, Scranton,
1948 to 1950, and began his
practice in Lancaster m 1950.
He is associated with the firm
of Arnold, Bricker and Beyer.
He is a member of the Lan
caster County, Pennsylvania and
American Bar Associations.
The words picked bv the
press secretary to describe the
President’s reaction, and some
times Mrs. Eisenhower’s reac
tion, to various developments,
are sometimes mighty creamy.
Judge Lewis New
Man-of-Year for
Potato Growers
COUDERSPORT, Pa. Judge
Robert R Lewis of Potter Coun
ty 'last week was named “Man-ol-
Cooperative Potato Growers As
sociation
The annual award, made tor
the first time by members of the
association, was for outstanding
service to the Pennsylvania pota
to industry over a period of
many years
Presentation was at a mass
meeting of approximately 1,000
association members and their
families at the close of the first
day of the annual field days of
the association at nearby Potato
City Hotel and Camp Potato
The association also honored
Samuel Gray, Kensington, Md,
retired after 31 years as north
eastern manager for the potash
industry. The field day issue ot
the association’s magazine was
dedicated to him for helpful
service in the fertilization of po
tatoes on the heavier soils of
Pennsylvania.
Originated Queen Ceremony
Dr E. L. Nixon, adviser and
research director for the potato
growers association, m present
ing the association’s award to
Judge Lewis said he originated
the Potato Blossom "Queen ceie
mony and crowned the first
queen at Camp Potato in 1936
Since that time he has taken an
active interest in the association
and provided the land now used
for experiments in potato breed
ing and selection under Dr
Nixon at Camp Potato, using a
greenhouse dedicated a year
ago.
The 12 candidates for the title
of 1956-57 Pennsylvania Potato
Blossom Queen were introduced
tonight. Judging takes place
Thursday and the new queen
will be crowned by State Secre
tary of Agriculture W L. Hen
ning.
The events here included an
air show and rescue demonstra
tion by helicopter,' the opening
of a fashion show, a potato re
cipe contest, teen-age fishing
contest, Red Cross farm pond
safety demonstration and potato
culture and grading demonstra
tions A display of machines
used in potato growing attracted
attention
• Mock Council Session
Climaxing the program was a
mock council session conducted
by Mayor Fred A. Schidmg of
York, “honorary mayor” of Po
tato City. Thursday’s program
included “the annual potato 'pick
ing contest, finals in the fashion
show, and tours of the experi
mental potato breeding plots.
The white collar class is us
ually the first to feel the pinch of
the high cost of living; this was
so m the twenties but the white
collar class hasn’t done much
about it. I
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Lancaster Farming—ll
Friday, Aug. 3, 1956
87.5 Per Cent of
Votes Favoring
1956 Wheat Reins
WASHINGTON (USDA)—
Pielimmaiy returns from rc
ierendum held Friday (July 20)
in the 36-State wheat producing
aiea show that 87 5 per cent of
faimers voting favor marketing
quotas for 1957 crop wheat, the
U S Department of Aguculture
announced today.
Piehminary returns show a
total of 261,495 votes counted
about 25 per cent less than last
year Of these 228,737 (87 5 per
cent) favored marketing quotas
on 1957-crop wheat and 32,758
(12 5 per cent) were opposed.
Although this is a preliminary
tabulation, the final total is not
expected to show any signifi
cant change.
Because wheat marketing quo
tas proclaimed by Secretary of
Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson,
last May 15 are effective on ap
proval by two-thirds or more of
farmers voting in the recent
referendum, marketing quotas
will be in effect for the 1957
crop
This referendum marked the
sixth time farmers have voted
on marketing quotas for wheat.
They approved quotas fo t the
1941 crop by an 81 per cent
favorable vote, for the 1942 crop
by 82.4 per cent, the 1954 crop
by 87 2, the 1955 crop by 73 3
per cent, and the 1956 crop by
77 3 pei cent
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