Will You Live Thru Farm Safety Week?
The 16th annual National Farm Safety Week will be
observed July 19-25, the National Safety Council has an-
nounced.
The week, proclaimed by Coe says, “Facts surround-
President Eisenhower, is mg farm accidents ’must be
sponsored jointly by the brought to the attention of
Council and the U S De- every rural resident ”
partment of Agriculture. Educate Public
Theme of this year’s Farm He continued, “Safety is
Safety Week is. “Safety lafgely a matter of education
T lakes Sense.” And Farm Safety Week is a
The .purpose of the special golden opportunity to stress
observance, as despribed by a few important lessons
Maynard Coe, director of the lessons which can be put to
•farm division of the Nation- practice the year ’round,
al Safety Council,‘is to eni- “Safety is an every day
phasize accident "prevention job, we must remember,”
among farm families. Coe pointed out, “and not
FARM SAFETY WEEK JULY 19 THROUGH 25
WHEREAS, Many hundreds of farm folks meet accidental
deaths'or serious injuries on farms in our
Commonwealth each year; and
WHEREAS, In the past year more accidental deaths occur
hed among farm families in their homes, barns
and fields 'than occurred among the workers in
any other-major industry; and
WHEREAS, The effect of accident-prevention programs has
been that our farm residents, through attention
to safety education, can greatly reduce acci
dents and the resultant loss and suffering; and
WHEREAS, We must once again impress upon our rural
citizens an undertanding and awareness of the
/ dangers inherent in their vocations;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, David L. Lawrence, Governor of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do hereby
proclaim the week of July 19 to 25, 1959, to be
Farm Safety Week for Pennsylvania, and I
call upon my fellow citizens to participate in
this campaign to make every day a safe day
l on the farm.
Match a new Oliver —twine-tie or wire-tie—with
any other machine in your small, rough, patch
pattern fields. There’s where it gobbles up the wind
rows, bales up to ten tons per hour as easily as on
the straightaway.
You get Oliver’s exclusive "pivot-balanced” drive
<»-. land exceptionally short coupling. Just follow the
'windrow with the rear tractor wheel —even around
the sharpest comer. Your Oliver gets the hay...l
saves hours of time when time counts most.
Here are balers with everything: new, leaf-saving
pickup...swinging drawbar for safe transport...)
overrunning clutch (extra)...protective devices for,
all important units. You can adjust
bale length in seconds—from 12 to 50 JUIkaHM
inches. Twine- and wire-tying units are I j
easy to interchange, and an engine j I
(extra) is easy to mount when desired.
Chas. J. McComsey
& Sons -
Hickory Hill, Pa-
N. G. Hershey & Son
Manheim. -R. D. I
GIVEN under my hand and the Great
- Seal of the State, at the City of Har
risburg, this fourteenth day of July,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and fifty-nine, and of
the Commonwealth the one hundred
and eighty-fourth.
DAVID L. LAWRENCE, Governor
G. E. Busier
Horn, Pa.
Peach 80l
Farmersville
Equipment Co.
Ephrata. R.D. 2
J. B. Lapp
Atqflen, Pa.
something we can think a
bout for a week —then for-
get ”
Nationat Farm Safety
Week was first observed in
1944 when the National Con
ference for Farm Safety de
cided an extra effort should
be made to stamp out acci
dents on America’s farms.
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The group decided a spec- In 1950 the d e .
ial observance should be set 100,000 farm p er ,'
aside to stress accident pre- Last year the n ,
vention. Thus Farm Safety fallen to around 55
Week was born —and it has The number 0 t
been observed annually ever injuries on the j.
since. , . last nine yeais k
Accidents Declining by some 300,000
Just how successful the ef- “But thete’s , t ,
fort to cut down farm acci- way to go,” Coe s ?
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in the steady decline of cult to reach «.
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