NO. 42 Barbecue Chefs At Work FRED LINTON TAKES A STEAMING HOT BARBECUED BEEF roast from the pit »here it had simmered for about 14 hours. Linton, Quarryville R 2, a leader in the 4-H Red Rose Baby Beef and Lamb Club offers the barbecue to Mylin Good of Manheim Rl, mother adult leader in the club. Good inhales the aroma of barbecue—Western Style as ether roasts continue to steam in the pit in the background. Nearly 250 persons shared lie beef at the Penryn picnic woods on Wednesday night. —L. F. PHOTO Corn Blight Noted In County Hot Serious Pest Says Smith Com is continuing to grow sell in the county with so me firing of the lower leav s reported in many fields. Die firing m most cases is Hie result of a type of leaf blight which causes brown- Inj of the edges of the low- Farm Calendar Sept 10—4 to 8 p.m. - Chic | ken Barbecue by Fulton Grange 66 at Orange hall, | Oakran. I 4 to 8 - Chicken Barbecue Master sonville fire hall. 2 5 p m.—Chicken Barbe cue at the Lancaster Poult ry Center, Roseville Road wd the 230 By-pass. 4-8 p m —Chicken Barbe cue by Tucquan Lions Club at the Martic Town ship Elementary School, Rawlmsville to Mount Nebo road. Sept ii—7.30 p, m. - Bell vllie Mennoiute Male chor -115 v ill present a program ,°f songs m, the Donegal H'gh School auditorium. % 12 —& p.m. - Ayrshire- Jer&oy 4-HT dairy club will F|eet at the home of David burnish, Quarryville R 2. 13—8 pm. - Elizabeth an Donegal 4-H commu ciub meets at the h°me of Christ Miller, Eli **bcthtown El. l4 thru 16 Southern Lancaster County Cornmu- Fair at Quarryville. 11 thru 17—Ehzabeth •?' v a Kiwanis Community J. an * Fair. 15— Junior Dairy Show *• tlle Farm Show Building , c Llarrisburg. 16— p. m. - Pennsyl j^ nla Farm Equipment regional meeting p Dutch Town and ° UI F-ry near Vintage. er leaves on the plant. Ac cording to County Agent,M. M. Smith, the blight is likely to reduce yield slightly in severe cases, but at present no treatment .Is recommend ed. Most com crops are well enough advanced to with stand most of the damage of the disease. With most of the rain dur ing the past month coming as scattered thundershowers ■ the soil moisture conditions in the county are spotty, but most areas appear to have i good supplies of moisture for fall seeding. In its week ly crop and weather report the Pennsylvania Crop Re porting Service said that soil moisture is becoming quite serious in some central coun ties and in scattered locali ties m other parts of the state Tobacco harvest continues to be one of the major farm chores m the county this we ek with reports of heavy cr ops coming hi from most par ts of the Garden Spot.' Farmers throughout the area were scanning their crops with an eye to select ing outstanding samples for exhibit in the local fairs withm the next few weeks Indications are that the fairs this fall will have some of the best exhibits in years While rainfall during Aug ust was somewhat below the normal fall in some sections it fell on many different days keeping vegetable and field crops in growing condition and producing some excel lent specimens. Picking of tomatoes con tinues with yield and qual : ity reported to be good and very little indication of dis ease. Forage continues to make rapid growth and alfalfa hay is still being made. Pastur (Tum to page ICD Lancaster. Pa.. Saturday, September 10. 1960 County Famers Select A.S.C. Committeemen Lancaster County farmers returned only three commit tee chairmen and elected 13 new chairmen to the county Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Committee in mail balloting this week. Those returned to office were Veryl Brown, of Peach Bottom; Herbert Wiggins, of Millersville HI, and John J. Herr, Mount Joy Rl. The chairmen will serve as delegates to the county con vention on September 22, the county office announced this week. At the convention the ’6l Co. Committee and its chairman will be selected. Landis G. Becker, Lititz, has held the chairmanship for 10 years. Each community commit tee consists of a chairman, vice chairman, regular mem ber, first alternate and sec ond alternate. Community officials are listed in the above order. The nominee receiving the largest number of votes is the chairman of the commit tee. COMMUNITY ONE Victor Dohner, Elizabeth town Rl; Elam Stauffer, Mt. Joy R 2; Willis Hackman, Eli zabethtown R 3; Oscar Forry, Elizabethtown Rl; Hiram Greiner, Manheim R 3. COMMUNITY TWO John J. Herr, Mount Joy Rl; Donald Drager, Marietta Rl; Robert G. Brubaker, of Marietta Rl; J. Harold Frey, Marietta Rl; Harold Ends low. Marietta Rl. COMMUNITY THREE Levi N. Brubaker, Man heim R 2; Carl Brubaker, of Manheim R 2; Clyde H. Wol (Turn to page 12) Beef Club Members Hold Western Barbecue By: Jack Owen The ultimate end of all beef club steers is beef. When that beef is served up Western Barbecue style to the club members and their families is in a fitting end indeed. Almost 250 members of the families of Red Rose Baby Beef and Lamb Club members attended the barbe- cue at the Penryn Picnic woods on Wednesday night. TT „ + . , Under the direction of ronnfv A p&nf ivr tvt th ’ three club members, Glenn - Foreman, club president; Mar- i in p,..., ot.iu,.- w the w P oodsSS "h g e ht fiJe for the Barbecue pit. After keeping the blaze roaring all night the boys had about 18 inches of live coals in the forty-inch-deep pit. In the meantime, some of the club leaders under the guidance of Mrs. Smith were preparing the succulent beef roasts for their burial. E'town, Solanco Plan First Of Local Fairs Two communities will kick off the 1960 fair season in Lancaster County next week. Exhibitions at' Quarryville and Elizabethtown will get underway on Wednesday with parades and judges of bands and other units. The Quarryville parade is sched uled to start its route at 6 30 p.m. while at Elizabethtown, the marchers will move at 6:45 p.m. Prior to the official open ing of the fairs some of the judging of exhibits will take place. At the Elizabethtown Kiwanis Community Fajrm Fair, judging of the capon exhibits is scheduled for 2:00 p m. Dairy cattle and most of the other exhibits except swine and beef will be judg ed during Wednesday after noon beginning at 1:00 pm. at the Solanco Community Fair. Solanco will wind up the evening with a concert by the high school band begin ning at 8:30. Beef cattle judging is scheduled for both fairs on Thursday afternoon. At Sol anco, the beef show will fol low the swine judging set to begin at 1:00 p.m. Thursday afternoon will also see the fruit and vegetable show at First Entrant In Stock Show Is Fred Frey Fred Frey of Twin Oaks Farm, Quarryville R 2, was the first entrant in the Qual ity Beef Carcass Contest sponsored by the Eastern National Livestock Exposit ion this year. Frey in entering one steer in the open competition and one m the carcass class, was the second entrant in the show behind George H. C. Arrowsmith, a Maryland cat tleman, officials of the show announced recently. Charles A. Morrow, nnn (Tum to page 5) 5>2 Per Year Earl y Wednesday morning the roasts . wrapped in two la y ers of butcher’s paper, were gentl y laid on the la y* er sand over the bed. of coals. Rods were placed over + , . ... the P lt and covered with sheet iron roofing. After the . i oo^' e « with a layer of soil, the meat simmered in its own Wednesd^ This reporte f was priviled . ged to taste one of the first sandwiches made from the beef retrieved from its un timely grave. For the beef lover who has never eaten Western Style Barbecue there is a treat in store whenever an opportunity comes along to attend one. Elizabethtown. A county wide tractor dri ving contest with classes for FFA and adult farmers Li planned for 10:30 Thursday, Sept. 15 at the Quarryville exposition. Solanco will close out the evening on Thursday with its annual Harvest Queen pa geant and music by the high school dance band. Friday’s program at Quar ryville includes a baby par ade at 10 am., pet parade at 2:30, and awardmg of the rural youth prizes at 9:00 p. m. Entertainment on the bandstand, on Friday will be by Roma Jackson and his Tennessee Pals. Elizabethtown plans a pet, doll and bicycle parade for Friday afternoon at 3:30. The Elizabethtown fair will continue through Satur day night with a tractor driv ing contest planned for 1:30 in the afternoon. The Ephrata fair is sched uled to be staged September 21. 22, and 23. The following week. West Lampeter com munity fair will stage its annual exposition on the 20, 29, and 30th New Holland’s fair dates are Sept. 28, 29, 30, and October 1. Closing out the county fair season will be Manheim Community Farm Show on October 5 6 and 7. FIVE - DAY WEATHER FORECAST Saturday ■ Wednesday Temperatures for the next live days will average about two to five degrees above normal range of 78 in afternoon to 58 in the evening. Warm Saturday, will be followed by cooler Sunday or Monday. Rain amounts will average 14 to "’4 inch occuring as scatter* ed showers or thundersho wers or thunderstorms ov er the week end and again by the middle of the week.
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