r OL. 7. NO. 2 ISWLY ELECTED OFFICERS OF THE Lancaster County chapter of Future Farmers of nerica after their election Monday night are as folliows Seated, left to right, David raybill, second vice president; Larry Weaver, first vice president; Paul Welk, president chard Geyer, secretary; John W. Eby, Jr, recording secretary. Standing, left to right, itry- Fritz, sentinal; Kenneth Myer, parliamentarian; Glenn Musser, reporter; Harold :rr, treasurer, and Jerry Snader, chaplain. L. F. Photo. County Future Farmers fleet Slate Of Officers |||Paul Welk, Strasburg Rl, Saps elected president of the Ipncaster County Chapter of aMe Future Farmers of Am-, irica Monday night at Peq- Ka Valley 'High School: ' IjtWelk, the 17 year old son gt Mr. and Mrs. H. Leroy flfelk, is a senior in the voca fflpnal agriculture curriculum S Lampeter-Strasburg High School. He has held the offic [Wo Countians Vin Scholarships Two Lancaster County udents at the Pennsylvan- State University were resented scholarship “awards uesday night at the ninth mual awards dinner at the ollege of Home Economics. Sara Ellen Steiner, a eshman from Lititz, won $3OO scholarship and Mary athryn Keene, a junior om Christiana received a :tKI grant. A-student must have grad i in the upper two-fifths of ie class and show leader dp ability to qualify for fi scholarships. Miss Keene, daughter of r. and Mrs. Roy Keene is graduate of Solanco High *ool. Miss Steiner, the da fhter of Mr. and Mrs. Hen r C. Streiner, is a grad de of "Warwick High School "arm Calendar 5—•7 pm. 4-H play tryouts at the Production Credit building on Rose ville Road. »c. tJ—-4:30 pm. - meeting the Lancaster County Packers of vocational ag rterrtture at Solanco High School, south- of Quarry vtUe. ;c. 9—2 to 6 p.m. - Chick en barbecue at the Poul try Center, 230 bypass and Road. Take outs °hly. Sponsored by Lanc- Q *ter County Poultry As sociation. *7, 10 to 14—Annual me of the American Bureau Federation at tte Hotel Sherman, in Chicago. es of assistant secretary, vict president and president in Iris local chapter of FFA. He was awarded the Red Rose Farmer degree in the FFA in 11)61', and he has applied for the Keystone Parmer Degree to be conferred in January. In addition to his activities in FFA, Welk is active in 4- H club work holding the of fice of vice president in the county Holstein club. During the past year he was a mem ber of the state champion 4- H dairy judging team which went on to win fourth place in the national judging con test in Waterloo, lowa. In winning the presidency, Paul is following in the foot steps of his older brothers. Robert Welk was state presi dent in 1956. Donald Welk was county president in ’5B. Larry Weaver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Weaver, of New Holland Rl, a student at Garden Spot High School was named first vice presi dent Other officers elected were as follows: second vice presi dent, David Graybill, son of (Turn to page 11) CVA Reelects John Kitch John Kitch, Reinholds R 1 was reelected president of the Conestoga Valley Association at the group’s annual reorg anizational meeting. Kitch, Lancaster County’s first resident service forester was recently promoted in grade by the Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters Kitch was elected last year to succeed Amos Funk who asked to be relieved af ter serving the association as president for five years from its beginning Reelected vice president was Henry Hackman. S Ger ald Darlington was elected second vice president replac ing Russell Shelley. Benjamin Landis was re elected recording secretary and Miss Irene Luphold was returned to the post of cor responding secretary. Lancaster/ Farming, Saturday, December 2. 1961 County Ram Is Champion 1 In International a a A Lancaster County entry n was named Grand Champion r Ram MbStciay • at''the 'lnterna -2 tional Livestock Exposition in Chicago. s Pace Setter, Jr. owned and bred by Norman, Arthur and s Edwin Hess, co-owners of g Green Meadows Farm, Bare , ville Rl, duplicated his show ing at the Pennsylvania ■y Livestock Exposition at Har g risburg in early November. . At that show Green Meadows entries also* won first places , in exhibitors flock, yearling ’ ram and premier breeder’s " banner. Pace Setter, Jr. was the c third Ram from the county flock to win the grand cham . pionship title at the Interna £ tional. In 1954 and again in t 1957 the Hess family brought I the banner home from Chica - go. At the Harrisburg show, ; Hampshire flocks from sev * eral states competed in the Eastern regional show of the American Hampshire Sheep Association. In Chicago this week, competition came from all parts of the country PSU Steer Reserve Champ At International P. S. Rodney 11, a summer yearling Shorthorn steer won the reserve grand champion ship at the International Livestock Exposition in Chi cago Monday. The Pennsylvania State University had four of the nine steers in the final and semi final judging of the big stock show. In addition to the reserve grand champion, it had re serve Hereford champion and the champion and reserve champion Shorthorn. The Grand championship of the show went to an Aber deen Angus senior calf shown by the lowa State U. 14 County FFA Members Win State Farmer Degrees Harrisburg, Dec. 2 Hon ors which cannot go to more that one farm boy in 50 will be awarded during the 1962 State Farm Show to 14 voca tional agriculture students of Lancaster County. All are members of the Fu ture Farmers of America and, because of unusual merit in their school and home pro jects, have qualified for the FFA degree of “Keystone Farmer” Under FFA rules, 4-H District Steer Show Won By Darlene Ebersole A stocky, well fed Angus with the unlikely name of Saspadahlia waddled away with the grand championship in the 18th annual Southeast District 4-H Baby Beef show this week. Miss Darlene Ebersole, t 14 year old sophomore at Co cahco High School, led the way for county showmen who took all the rosettes ex tept one reserve champion ship in breed judging. Steers representing six Pennsylvan ia counties were in the com petition. The blonde haired daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Ebersole of Stevens Rl, showed her 995 pound steer to the top of the show on her fourth try. Her first three steers were Herefords. Earlier in the year Miss Ebersole exhibited the Kin loch Farms-bred steer to fifth place at the Ephrata Fair The steer, on feed just two days short of a year grew to his sale weight from the 530 Machinery Men Elect Wiley State Director Rankin Wiley, Peach Bot tom, was elected to the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Retail Farm and Industrial Equipment Association at the 48th an nual meeting of the group Wednesday. Wiley, owner of the farm machinery firm of C. E. Wiley and Son of Quarryville and Wakefield was elected dur ing the two-day convention at Pocono Manor Inn on No vember 29 and 30. (Turn to page 9) Farm Show Space All Sold Out every available square foot of commercial exhibit space at the 1962 Pennsylvania Farm Show to be held here next January 8 through 12, was announced today by Dr. Wil- liam L. Henning, State Secre tary of Agriculture and chairman of the Farm Show Commission. Scores of applicants for display space at the gigantic Keystone Slate agricultural exposition had to be turned down due to lack of space in the four-acre main exhibition hall, Henning said. Approximately half of the main Farm Show building (Turn to page 10) $2 Per Yeax not more than two per cent of the State membership can receive this honor. Names of the youthful farm leaders who have earn ed the degree have been cer tified to the State Farm Show Commission by James C Pink, coordinator of agri cultural education in the De partment of Public Instruct ion and State FFA adviser. The degree will be conferred (Turn to page 9) ipounds when ho went on feed at the rate of 1.28 lbs. per day. Emma Mae Mast, Elverson R 2, repeated her placing of last year when she showed her 1085 pound Angus to the reserve spot in the competi tion. In the 1960 version, Wesley Mast, a brother of Emma Mae, showed the gr and champion. In the Hereford Judging, Frieda Landis, Strasburg Rl, had the champion while Jas. Gates of Dauphin county took the reserve spot for the only rosette to leave the Gar den Spot. Magda Frey, Quarryville R 2, showed the champion Shorthorn, and was followed in that breed competition by Robert Walton, Peach Bot tom R 2. Judges were Henry Gruber of A & B Packing Company in Allentown and Donald Kniffer, Extension Livestock specialist from New Jersey. At the Lancaster County (Turn to page 12) New Light Laws For Farmers Are Announced Stale Secretary of Reven ue, Charles M Daugherty has announced adoption of new lighting regulations for slow moving vehicles and farm machinery of all types moving on Pennsylvania’s highway’s after dark. The regulations were dr awn up in compliance with a 1961 State law authorizing the Secretary to “adopt lighting standards for all vehicles, tractors and all ty (Turn to page 5) FIVE - DAY WEATHER FORECAST Saturday - Wednesday Temperatures during the next live days are expected to average 5 to 10 degrees above the normal range of 29 at night to 47 in the af ternoon. Warmer over the week end and a little cool er after Tuesday. Scattered showers late Saturday and early Sunday and again a bout Tuesday.
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