5 NO n A <v ISS EMMA MAE MAST POSES “NIX” THE ANGUS STEER Breamed off Grand uonship honors at the Pennsy vania Livestock Exposition' on Tuesday, "Nix”, nam honor of yice President Nixon'Was pro cl&imed' champion of the junior show on jay and went on to break a show jinx. It was the first time in the show’s history a junior champion took away the grand championship banner. .—L. F. Photo own Future Farmers DavidDenlinger ablish 'Calf Ring' Has Best Exhibit irty interested business- in the chapter to initiate the ill Blit)' Club K*srssir.si ssr ,ss “sjsss »■»« m*..« » £ *«*«*•"* . « wS wh Each M r.hrS„y S G SS Report Six Cornpicker Mishaps furnished the financial on a six-part, 100 point was the £ °P winner in the Six farm accidents involv- farm near Oxford on Oct. 26. .ig for a calf ring plan- scheme is a student m vo- c °unty-wide 4-H entomology ing com pickers have been Rueben N. Martin, forty by the FFA chapter at cational agriculture at the club roundu P held in the reported in the county with- eight, Lititz R 4, underwent school. Elizabethtown Area High Earm Bureau Auditorium in three weeks. surgery to repair a mangled 'of the aspiring dairy- School. recently. The slxth of these acci . right arm when it was cau chose Purebred Hoi- Each of the winners will (Picture on Pace 71 dents occurred Tuesday when f»ht in a com picker on his is while the third select- take his calf to his home rienlinver a thrpa war a 36-year-old Mount Joy R 1 farm on Nov - 2 - a registered Guernsey. farm and raise and care for m pmbpr in’ fh#» rhih tennant farmer suffered the Jesse Cutler, Fishing Creek sry Kreiner, Elizabeth- it under the' supervision of pressed all the wav to his * oss o£ h* 3 teft thumb while long active in the county’s R 3, Irwin Engle, Mar- the calf ring committee and hv thA V>f a kx™ working on a corn picker farm safety program, said _RI, and Kenneth Myer the teacher of vocational p lnh c ( „_|, on on the farm of John Grosh the rash of accidents can Elizabethtown R3,' were agriculture, Marlin Hennin- Rannels con nf Mr and Mr« of the 33016 address. be laid, in most cases, to hu id by a committee of (Turn to page 11) Donald' Rannels 123 South Listed In satisfactory con- man error on .the part o£ peers to be the three Sp 7 strait Lititz dition after emergency sur- the cornpicker operator. The 14 vear old Denhneer gery at the Lancaster Gen- He explained that the ma /■> Rovrl C Confine q , nfJ . L, f. eal hospital was Walter jonty of the accidents in m Calendar Boya s 005 S^So£^sT^ts^- Shaab - ho*™ toivmg comply occur W.’rt Af Fftkirsfa said the accident occurred when the operators try to 12 to 17—Eastern Na. W lO A ' tPUfata In Hextol,* about 4:00 pm . whlte Slmub (Turn £ pag(! 5) mal Livestock Show at The plump capons exhibit- he has collected, mounted, rying 7° clea f lbe ionium, Maryland. ed by Darvln Boyd, Ephrata a nd identified. In amassing fu° gg f d . P lcker 3lld his 14— 7-00 p.m. - Meet- R 3, on Wednesday night, (Turn to page ?) thumb became caught in the lg °f the Lancaster Co- combined with the score in mechanism. lty Soil Conservation his 4-H project book, put . , On Oct. 24, Robert Mc lstrict directors m the him in first place in the scor- COUfltV MGR Sparran, forty, Peach Bot ,Urt house. Ing of the Lincoln Communi- _. ' tom R 2. underwent surgery 15— pm. - 4-H tv Canon club. Ciivnn Pnctc for the amputation of most ■ttey club roundup spon „ * + ha <nn . VJ,YeU of his right hand after it sored ,by the Strasburg ® on r ‘ and Q r_ _J ii Mlwas mangled by a cornpick h°>is Club in the Stras- rS ' Boyd,and a stu- By pGGCI MlllfifS er on his farm there. fire hall. VMIeTcbU Robert B Gray bill of MU- Earl D. Wenger, twenty, r armpr c n^f.^ a ?° r th rC> v. n fv. lege of Science and ler and Bushong, Rohrers- Manheim R 3, suffered multi- Jchr ? rs m - ee u ln Agriculture, received a cash town, was elected first vice P* e puncture wounds of his }v agncultuie room, award from Charles North- president by the Pennsylvan- right hand on Oct. 19 when T ar ™l up, Lititz R 3, program chair- la Millers and Feed Dealers he cau ght it in a corn pick structures man for the Ephrata Lions flt thelr recent meetmg . er on his father’s farm. f 16-9:00 am. - Red Club, sponsors of the event. Two other Lancaster coun- Gordonvdle Baby Beef and Lamb Second place in the judg- ty men were elected to serve emergency surgery to repair }j l, h roundup and'- sale. ing was David Zimmerman, as directors of the organiza- a man gied ng ht hand which “‘sluct show at the Stock Remho’ds R 1 white third tion. They are Wi.bur C. he caught in a cornpicker place went to Paul Schantz, Hiestand, S. H. Hiestand and otl Qct. 19 while working on 1 7—First day of Inter- Ephrata RJ. Co., Salunga and Paul M. the farm of a neighbor. Milk Producers an- All of the -following re- Grubb, Grubb Supply Com- Charles Pyle, thirty-three £ a l meeting in the Ben ceived a cash donation from pany, Elizabethtown. of near New Texas, suffered Hotel, Philadel- the club for their participat- New President of the the amputation of his left ™ la ion in the event: John Zim- group is L. D. Ritchey, Cur hand when it was caught in (Turn to page 14) (Turn to page 5) ry Supply Co., Curryville. a cornpicker on his father’s V < y. «* * ♦ v ** ** ~ * Saturday, November 12. 1960 3r~ - < / * i v. A < 0 * v J v i a * X V •»* \v V A A • kS S sV- ">. * " > JWI ~ —v~. County Girl Breaks Jinx, Shows Jr. Champ To Top A fifteen-year-old Lancaster county girl broke a four year jinx at the Pennsylvania Livestock exposition Tues day when her steer became the first junior champion in the history of the show to take the grand championship banner. Miss Emma Mae Mast, of Elverson R 2, halfheartedly bred-steer into the winners hoping she would be able c * rc l e of the open compcti to return to .school for ex- tion by beating out the two animations on Tuesday, led y ear winner, Penn State, her 970 pound angus, “Nix” The University showed ev into the show ring on Mon- ef y champion steer in the day to compete in the 4-H OP®** competition except the and FFA classes. big one. Judge Robert A Long of The banner represents the the University of Georgia, se cond grand championship in tapping Emma Mae’s en- tor the Mast family this try as junior champion, put y ear - Sister Rhoda showed the Lancaster Mennonite an an S us to the top spot in School student into a situat- the Garden Spot show and ion of wanting to be two pi- sale at the Lancaster Stock aces at once. However, the Yards in August, showing won out and Miss Other members of the Mast nudged her Glenmoore Mast family have come in (Turn to page 6) Two Purple Ribbons Won By County Swine Growers Harrisburg - Two Lancas- string of nine hogs to all but t er County Swine breeders one of the breed champion carried - away honors as they "ships to win the premier left the small arena at the breeder’s award for the sec- Farm Show building this ond consecutive year, week. On Monday a Hampshire Th® Leininger entries took barrow exhibited by John championship boar and both Stuber, Denver, took the champion and reserve mar championship banner in the ket barrow honors, but had on loot judging of the mar- to settle for reserve cham ket hog carcass show. pionship in the sow compe- On Tuesday C. Warren tition. The Leininger herd Leininger, well know breed- won the sow championship er of Spotted Poland Chinas in 1959. of Denver R 2, showed his (Continued on Page 13) 52 Per Year FIVE - DAY WEATHER FORECAST Saturday - Wednesday Temperatures for the next five days will average 2 to 8 degrees above the normal temperature of 36 at night to 54 in the after noon. - Warmer Saturday. Cooler on Sunday. Warm er Monday through Wed nesday. Precipitation may total less than 0.1 inch oc curring as snow flurries a bout Saturday or Sunday. Rain during last Wednes day night and Thursday morning totaled about inch bringing the Novem ber total to I'i in. Novem ber temperatures have av eraged just slightly below normal to date.
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