4—-Lancaster Farming, Friday, April 5, 1957
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Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper
Established November 4, 1955
Published every Friday by
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Quarryville, Pa. Phone STerling 6-2132
Lancaster Phone EXpress 4-3047
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Robert E. Best
Robert G. Campbell
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Quarryville, Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879
Wpmen Are Part of Business
The ladies of the family are receiving a little extra
attention from two farm organizations here in the County.
It seems that Poultry Assn, and the County unit of the
Pennsylvania Farmers Assn, both think that their work
could be assisted by organization of an auxiliary.
From a purly selfish standpoint, we’re for it.
in our experience of covering meetings, we’ve
found that when the ladies are present, there is a much
greater likelihood of some “goodies” being passed around
after the business is done.
We have a fatal attraction for Lancaster County
cooking.
In a more serious vein, we still believe that the
organization gf auxiliaries would be an asset to the asso
ciations.
Farms in this area are family farms, and as such,
the entire family is affected by the numerous changes in
marketing, legislation, and prices. The wife, who does most
of the buying for the family, is probably the first affected
in a price squeeze.
So you can bet that she is interested in what is going
on in the farming industry.
We believe that the organizations will be surprised
at what the women can and will do in assisting their men
in their various efforts.
Responsibility Law Needed
■ In the process of renewing our automobile insurance
last week, we asked the agfint what the financial responsi
bility requirements were in Pennsylvania.
We were quite taken aback when his answer \pas.
"None.”
Then u couple "of days later, word comes from Har
■risburg that the Governor is proposing a bill requiring
financial responsibility of all Pennsylvania drivers.
This will mean, of course, that most drivers in the
state will have to carry a given amount of auto liability
insurance. Most of us would rather invest $2O to $3O a
year in insurance than try to carry the load alone.
We believe that the Governor has proposed a good
and needed piece of legislation. We also believe that the
greatest fault to be found with it is that it is long overdue.
Not that we are selling insurance, or that we own
any insurance stock. It is just that we don’t particularly
relish the idea of people being allowed to operate a ma
chine that has the potential of doing great harm to both
ourselves and our property without being capable of being
held responsible.
An automobile today is probably the greatest single
investment of many families It is only fair that they be
given the same protection from irresponsible persons that
other property owners have.
Falls Cost Needless Expense
A slip of the foot can cost a farm family more than a slip
in the price of agricultural commodities, according to the
National Safety Council.
The Council points out that falls axe the leading source
of all injuries to residents of rural America, and that they
account for 25 per cent of all injuries to farm people.
Injuries from all mishaps, including falls, are expensive
A study in lowa shows that the medical costs associated
with 3,060 injuries amounted to $216,401, an average of
$lO5 per case. Furthermore, lost time averaged 10 days per
injury. Piled on top of the medical cost is the expense of
hired labor which is sometimes necessary if the accident
occurs at a critical work period on the farm.
Falls kill about 2,000 farm residents annually—and no
one can estimate the cost of a life.
Good housekeeping both indoors and outdoors can sub
stantially reduce tripping hazards, according to the Council.
STAFF
Advertising Director
Circulation Director
BY JACK REICHAKD
50 YEARS AGO (190?)
A perplexed farmer was Samuel
Brackbill residing in The Buck
area of lower Lancaster County,
when a pair of his mules fell into
a deep well on his farm, 50 years
ago this week.
Brackbill was engaged in haul
ing stones on a sled to fill an old
abandoned well, when one of the
mules stepped on a plank placed
across the opening and broke
through. In unhitching the animal
it moved, and both mules plunged
to the bottom, a distance of about
35 feet.
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Publisher
Editor
Ropes and pulleys were hur
riedly secured and with assistance
of neighbors both mules were
raised to the surface. One of the
animals was so severly injured it
had to be killed. The other was
pulled out none the-worse from
its experience.
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MAD DOG
ATTACKS FARMERS
When George Jones of Wrights
dale, southern Lancaster County,
left home that morning he head
ed towards the Howett farm,
where he intended to build a
fence. He was walking down How
ett’s lane when a dog foaming at
the mouth suddenly dashed up
at his side, sinking its teeth deep
into Jones’ wrist, resulting in an
ugly torn flesh wound. Harvey
Howdtt,' who the dig picked for
its next victim, managed to beat
off the animal with a tin bucket
he was carrying at- the time of
attack.
The raging animal then went
to the Owen Wright farm, where
it circled around the house sev
eral times without finding any?
thing to bite, making its way to
Harvey Jackson’s, near Kmsey
ville, where it bit two dogs. The
rampage was finally ended at
Bradley and Clements Mill, near
Wakefield, where the dog was
shot.
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EXPLOSION IN
MISSOURI P. 0.
Fifty years ago this week, a
mail package, apparently contain
ing dynamite, exploded while it
was being stamped in the St.
Louis post office, bringing police
of that city rushing to the scene
to investigate. After the room
was cleared of smoke, resulting
from the blast, it was found that
John G. Bayer, the clerk who was
stamping the parcel, had a finger
and thumb blown away. All trace
of the contents and all the ad
dress excepting the words “In
dependence Mo.” hac! disappear
ed in the explosion.
In Lancaster County, that week,
F. L. Heiser, Rothsville store
keeper, found things missing
from his storeroom one morning.
An investigation revealed that
thieves had entered the building
during the night and carried off
clothing, watches, pocket knives
and other mei chandise valued at
over $lOO. To satisfy" their hunger
the burglars- helped themselves
to generous quantities of cheese
and sardines.
Elsewhere in Lancaster County
mules made accident news.
Clarence Grosh, a young farm
er in the Landis Valley area, was
confined to his home suffering
from a fractured leg and head in
juries. He was driving a two-mule
team on the Neffsville Pike that
day, when the animals frightened
at something and ran away,
throwing the driver from the
wagon to the roadway. The
wheels of the wagon passed over
one of Grosh’s legs, breaking it.
On the Gregg farm, near Fair
field, Gregg’s son, John, was
helping his father clip a mule,
when the animal suddenly turn-
ed and let go a sneak kick, knock
ing the youth down and render
ing him unconscious. The boy
was treated by a physician and
was found suffering with a sever
ly bruised arm.
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JAPANESE NAMED TOP
V. S. POTATO GROWER
George Shima, a Japanese, re
siding in California, was named
the largest grower of potatoes in
the United States a half century
ago. Shima specialized in raising
the Burbank potato, and his prof
its in 1906 was estimated at a
half million dollars.
251 fears Ago
The National Child Labor Com
mittee made front page news, 25
years ago this week, when it re
ported that 700,000 children, be
tween the ages of 10 and 15 were
at work in American industries,
and another 300,000 between 16
and 17 years of age were employ
ed in “unsuitable occupations”.
The irony of the conditions of af
fairs in this country, in 1932, was
the fact that from- six to eight
million men were unable to find
work, while a million children
were working full time, all of
whom should have been attend
ing school.
Background Scriptures Matthew 88:1,
—27 10 v.
Devoftoxmf Beading* fsalah 53:1-8.
He Took the Gup
Lesson (or April 7 1 1937
THE dark shadows of Gethsem- j
ane have never fully lifted.
If even the closest friends of Jesus
did not watch with him through
that_ hour, we cannot at this great
distance hope to penetrate where
no light is. Some have found it
hard to believe that Jesus actual
ly knew distress. This is to deny*
Jesus' oyr n
words, “My soul
(s very sor
rowful, even to
death,” Mark’s
report that he
was “greatly dis
tressed and trou
bl e d ’ and
Luke’s story of
the sweat like
drops of blood. It Dr. Foreman
could hardly have been fear of
death that disturbed him. Lesser
men have met it without a tremor,
and he himself had faced it more j
than once without fear. It
something deeper that broke up
the fountains of his soul that night.
Cup of Suffering
There are gleams in the dark
ness. Jesus refers to his experi
ence as a “cup.” He had been
speaking of a cup not two hours
before, in the upper room, the
cup of his blood. Was it this cup
he prayed might pass from him?
We make a mistake when we
think of this In meaely physical
terms. In many a hospital there
are patients who have already
suffered longer and more severe
ly than Jesus could have, physical
ly speaking, all of Good Friday.
It was his seul that was troubled,
not his nerves, in Gethsemane.
The cup of suffering which he
dreaded was more than scourg
ing and nails. He was being re
jected* . . . rejected. Not ‘a fnendj
would stand by him. All his work
would come to an end. He had
fought for time, but time was |
| running out. He had come to hiSj
.own, and hi* own people had not
received him. He was God’s last
[word to men, and men had no re-j
inonse but thorns and 'crosfc
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LANCASTER CITY NEEDY
GETS TONS OF FOOD
That same week, in 1932, trucks
loaded with foodstuffs were trail
ing into Lancaster from rural dis
tricts outside the city, to help
those out of work and in dire
need. A total of nearly 65 tons
of food was the result of an ur
gent appeal from relief official
in charge.
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PREHISTORIC MEN
LIKED FAT WOMEN
J. Townsend Russell of the
Smithsonian institution, speaking
at the international anthropologi
cal congress'held in Pans in 1932,
declared prehistoric men prefer
red their women fat.
WI
He stated that primitive sculp
ture and scratchings found on
cave walls indicated that men of
the Neolithic and Paleolithic
periods held as their ideal of
feminine beauty women who were
almost as fat as they were tall.
U; S. SENATOR
LIKED ’EM YOUNG
Senator Capper' was great!)
amazed when told by a press re
porter that one of Washington’s
most dashing debutantes was go
ing to marry one of his oldest
constituents. Meeting the young
lady Igter in the day at a luncheon
club he ventured to take her to
task.
“Why, that tottering old mil
lionaire already has one foot in
the grave”, he expostulated.
“Yes”, retorted the debutante,
“but he can’t move the other one
on account of rhematism, so I’m
going to help him”.
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