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10—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Jan. 11, 1957
It’s The Law
“It’» the Law” with simple an
swers is offered by LANCASTER
FARMING in cooperation with
the Pennsylvania Bar Associa
tion. General interest questions
are welcomed, and will be an
swered as soon as possible. Let
ters must be signed. Answer
will not be published on a speci
fied, requested day. Questions
cannot be answered by mail, and
LANCASTER FARMING will
reject any inquiry which is not
o? general public interest- Ad
dress all inquiries to "It's the
Law,” LANCASTER FARMING
Quarryville, Pa. (Fictitious ini
tials will be used to protect the
identity of the questions).
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”*Q. In Pennsylvania, what is the
law regarding a private citizen’s
action in taking the law into his
own hands against and
crime? I traffic violations such as
gding through stop signs, can he
stop the car and get the driver’s
and car’s license numbers and
turn them over to the proper of
ficials’ If not, what is the course
of tcion a citizen might take
against consistent violators where
the violations create a safety
hazard?
A. Generally a civilian has the
same privilege an ar
rest under the authority of a
as a peace officer. Where
the crime perpetrated constitutes
a misdemeanor and a breach of
peace, or a felony, and occurred
io the presence of the citizen, he
may make, a civil arrest. How
ever,. in instances where the
crime was not committed in the
citizen’s presence he should act
with care to avoid being charged
wjth false arrest.
■A ditizen has no authority to
make an arrest for traffic viola
tions, but he may take the license
number from the car and secure
information as to the owner of
tjie vehicle from the proper au
thority and then proceed to make
an information charging viola*
tibn of the proper section of
the Vehicle Code before a jus
tice of the peace or magistrate.
I Q. After living with a rrfa'n as
his common-law wife for 2p
years, I’m beSng pushed out for
someone else How much or what
legal right do I have as, to secur
ity and support from this man’
He is a well-to-do business man.
J G.
A. If you- are in fact a com
mon-law wife you, are entitled to
support by your husband, and
action for non-support should-be
instituted and the cornmon-Saw
majrnage established
GIVE
Your House
{and yourself)
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405 S. Broad St., LITITZ
Phone Lititz MA 6-9456
or Lancaster LO 9-1485
See Our Stand At Root’s Community Market
Every Tuesday Evening
Representative;
CHARLES H, ESHLEMAN
LANDISVILLE Ph. Twinoaks 8-8005
Easy terms Free Estimates.
4-H Exhibitors
List atFarm Show
UNIVERSITY PARK Boys
and girls of 4-H Clubs from 22
counties will exhibit 114 steers
at the State Farm Show at Har
risburg, Jan. 14 to 18, according
to an announcement made by
Allen L. Baker, State 4-H Club
leader. Aberdeen Angus cattle
•lead the list with 61 Entries;
Herefords are second with 43,
and the remaining ten are Short
horns.
Forty-one pens of lambs will
be shown by 4-H’ers from eight
•counties. Included in the exhi
bits will be 10 pens of Hamp
shire, 4 Shropshire; 10 South
down; 13 Cheviot; 3 Dorset, and
one pen of Suffolk lambs.
Included among the 4-H ex
hibitors will be:
Aberdeen-Angus: James W
Bowman, R 1 Ronks; Glen Fore
man, 'R3 Manheim; Herbert Frey,
R 1 Lancaster; Robert Gibble, R 3
Elizabethtown; Manao Graybill,
R 3 Manheim; Henry Greiner, R 4
Manheim; Lorraine Hackman, R 3
Elizabethtown; John A Harsh,
R 1 Kmzer: Samuel F Long, R 4,
Manheim, Donald Rutt, R 2 Peach
Bottom, Kenneth Rutt, R 2 Peach
Bottom; Dorothy Stehmap, R 3
Lancaster, and John D Zimmer
man, R 1 Reinholds
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I Hereford: Leona Augshurger,
R 1 Reinholds; Joanne Foreman,
R 3 Manheim, Janet Frey, R 1 Lan
caster; James Gibble and Christ
| Muller, Jr, R 1 Elizabethtown;
Peggy Hackman, R 3 Ehzabeth
‘ town, Joyce Noll, R 1 Reinholds,
Pons Shenk and Joanne Shenk,
-R3 Manheim, and Dennis San
grey R 2 Conestoga.
Shorthorti: Shirley Longeneck
er, R 2 Lititz
Poison Gas Forms
From New Silage
Farmers have always been in
stinctively leery about entering
a newly-filled silo Few of them,
however, realized the senousness
of the danger.
A newly-filled silo can be a
gas death chamber because the
fermenting silage produces oxides
of nitrogen, gases which are
lethal if inhaled
This was reported in a recent
issue of the “Journal of the Am
erican Medical Society” which
warns that no one should be al
lowed to enter a silo fiom the
time filling begins until least
seven to 10 days after it is
completed
OBSOLETE?
Modern man is obsolete note-
Senator Hickenlooper attacking
the custodians of the atomic
bomb with a bean-blower. St
Louis Post-Dispatch.
Remodeling
Repairs
Concrete Work
New Homes
General Construction
KLINE
COOKING is a large part of the training of the Future
Homemakers of America.-Trevena Stehman is shown here
in the practice kitchen of Hampfieid high school, Landis
ville (Staff Photo)
Trevena Stehman
To Re Honored
For FHA Work
The higest award made to
members ot the Pennsylvania
Assn, Future Homemakers of
America, the “Future Home
makers Degree,” will be present
ed to Miss Trevena Stehman,
2817 Marietta Ave, Lancaster, at
the Farm Show Wednesday.
Selections were made by mem
bers of the State FHA executive
council of which Miss Nancy
Jean Ruth, Fountain Hill High
School, Bethlehem, is president.
State adviser for the organiza
tion is Mrs. Clio S Reinwald,
chief of homemaking education,
State Department of Public Ed
ucation.
Miss Stehman, 17, is president
of her FHA chapter at Hempfield
High School, Landisville This is
her second year of FHA work
She is also fourth vice presi
dent of the state FHA organiza
tion and advisor for the county
organization In addition she is
on .the home and community
safety and constitution commit
tees of the state FHA and is a
member of the state chorus
. She has been a member of the
county 4-H club for the past
seven years.
A senior this year at Hemp
field, she plans to attend Cottey
Jr, College at Nevada, Mo, maj
oring in medical technology.
Sevnty-seven girls in Pennsyl
vania w.ere selected to receive
the “Future Homemakers De
gree.”
Miss Stehman is the daughter
of Mr and Mrs Ivan J Stehman.
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Research by the U S Depart
ment of Agriculture shows that
meat tenderness is inherited in
animals and can be passed to
succeeding generations through
selective breeding.
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Tree Planting
Hits New High
Forest tree planting hit a new
high in 1956 with trees set out
on 915,428 acres, the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture announc
ed in summarizing forestry high
lights for 1956.
State forestry and other co
operating agencies were' mainly
responsible for this outstanding
reforestation accomplishment*.
Even more tree planting is ex
pected during the next 10 to 15
years because of the Agriculture
Act of 1956 with its conservation
reserve program and other tree
planting provisions.
National forest lesources re
ceived increased use. Some 7
billion board feet of timber,
valued at $lOO million, were har
vested. Recreation visits hit a
new high of 50 million. Private,
municipal, and federal water de
velopments on national forests,
licensed by the Federal Power
Commission, have doubled dur
ing the past 10 years.
Thirty national forest water
sheds were treated to cheek soil
erosion, stop surface runoff of
water, and establish vegetative
cover. The Forest Service also'
helped m treating 114 water
sheds on state and private lands
liriprovement of food and
cover for wildlife on national
forests received new emphasis
with a study of game habitat
in the South in relation to the
management of forests for
timber, forage, water, and re
creation. The first national
meeting of State fish and game
men with Forest Service spe
cialists in December brought
about better mutual under
standing of the wildlife habitat
problem in the national for
ests.
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DRINKS IN THE AIR
The nation’s domestic airlines,
apparently anticipating Con
gressional action, have agreed
to limit the serving of alcoholic
beverages on domestic flights.
They agreed that no airline will
promote the availability of alco
holic beverages; no more than
twb dftnks will be served to a
passenger, and no drink will
contain more than 1.6 ounces of
any alcoholic beverage. The
agreement does not include
serving of beer or wine.
The outstanding development
in protection of forest resources
against fire was the use of air
plane water-and-chemical-drop
ping techniques developed in co
operation with State Foresters
and other agencies an Coloiado
and California. This technique
showed great -promise as a sup
plement to ground forces in
fighting forest fires. Fqre3ters
.expect more developments in
forest fire fighting since the Re
search Council of the National
Academy of Sciences enlisted the
help of top scientists of the
country for basic research on
fire behavior at a conference in
November.
Foresters working with the
Agricultural Research discov
ered, cultured, and used a vi
rus disease on Virginia pine
sawfly which was infesting na
tive pines in Maryland and
stopped the epidenlic. They
also discovered some American
chestnut naturally resistant to
blight and some shortleaf pine
naturally resistant to the little
leaf disease. Seedlings from
these will be planted to bring
back the species in diseased
areas.
Among the successful experi
ments of the Forest Products
Laboratory at Madison, Wis , -for
the better utilization of forest
products, was the production of
glycerine by fermentation of
wood sugar. The Laboratory’s
Wood Frame House Construc
tion was its most popular publi
cation of 'the year.
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