VOL. 8 NO. 46
TURNING THE FIRST SPADEFUL OF soil at groundbreaking ceremonies
for auction facilities at the Lancaster Stockyards is Fred Campbell, stockyards
president, far right. Looking on, left to right, are Ike Weidman, the contractor;
James Dunlap, Committee chairman; Earl Smith, Stockyards foreman; Robert
Heilbron, president of the Lancaster Livestock Exchange, and Walter M. Dunlap,
Sr, livestock commission merchant. L. F. Photo.
SoU Conservation District Pledged Business-Farm
Probe Or School Water Diversion j) a y J nv ites 600
.Directors of the Lancaster
County Soil Conservation Dis
tnet Tuesday night 'pledged to
investigate reports of "water
fiom a school ground paved
aiea running over farm land.
The decision to approach the
school hoard came at a meet
ing of directors and associate
direotors at the Production Cre
dit building, Roseville Road.
Reports from farmers in the
aiea near an eastern Lancaster
County high school say that the
water which collects on the pa
led area around the school is
not channeled away from, farm
p m in Hostetter’s Banquet
Ball, Mount Joy.
The Rev. Kehm has been
Pastor for 25 years at the
Grace Reformed Church of the
United Church of Christ in Al
_ lentown, Pa. He is a giaduate
ct Ipm Scaliest i n of Franklin & Marshall College
Company meeting for dairy- JbjECIISLIQgS btiKSeilt impreSSSU JdV and the Lancaster Theological
men conceining electricity « r-i , a-t Seminary Rev Kehm also will
m barns At the Guernsey ruture rarmer Ufncers give the Invocation.
Sales Pavilion, Lincoln Hagh- t • r ~
way east of Lancaster. 1 didn’t know the Future ture Farmers last week. me vii age hoik uroup^
6:30 pm New Hoi- Farmers of America Was such The IS-year-old student
land Lions will host Fair a big organization, was itfhe' to return to Costa Rico ™ n o emeats m tw e stjae o* re
tractor driving contestants way Mario Arroyo, an exchange! next June after a year in New ter, mui & . mry in i 1
at the American Legion student from Costa Rico, des- Holland. There he will enter fol J*,f ! * n « d
building cnbed the most impressive the City University at San ner ’ 8111 Hendrix, and L e
7pm. Lieutenant Gov- sight on a recent trip to the Jose where he will study med- ,^® rS Guitar °A™
ernor Shafer to address the national convention of the FFA mine. Mario, the son of a car- tnem “
Lancaster County Farmers m Kansas City. penter, will be the first of his are residents of Landisville
Association at Blue Ball fire „ . + family to enter the medical and attend Hempfield High
hall. Mano > exchange student pl ote9Bi on. He has four youn- School.
7:30 pm. Lincoln Com- at the Garden Spot High Sch- ger brothers and three sisters. Murray W. Horton will act
munity 4-H Club meets in °® l in New Holland, went to Marioi who ct > m es from the as Toastmaster. Remarks will
the -Mount - Airy- fire hall. - convention as a guest of PaTag near San joae. be given by John B. Wolge
(>‘ ’’ ' oh Page’ '! 'itho, Grassland, er o, Uj on Pag e 6) . op Page 41.
Farm Calendar
land is causing an erosion pro
blem on several farms. Direc
tors, and Martin Muth, of the
Soil Conservation Service -will
survey the problem and inform
the school board of its respon
sibility for channeling runoff
water properly.
In a discussion of Project 70,
t)he state Department of For
ests and Waters’ project of ac
quiring land for recreational
purposes, two associate direc
t'cis voiced objection to tlfej
program on the gorunds that
they feared the state would
condemn and purchase good
farm land for state parks They
were informed that Forests and
Waters Secretary Maurice God-
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 19, 1963
'Lancaster County farmers
and their wives, about 600 in
all, are being invited to tour
and inspect local businesses
and industries during the an
nual Business-Farm Day, Nov
ember 5.
Sponsored by the Lancaster
Chamber of Commerce, the
day’s activities will include
morning plant and store in
spections followed by lunch
and a talk by E Clinton Stokes.
The guest speaker is from
the US. Chamber of Com
merce’s Agriculture Committee.
His topic will be “the Interde
pendence of Business, Industry
and Agriculture.”
M. M Smith chairman of
(Continued on Page 6i
Stockyards Breaks Ground
For Cattle Auction Pavilion
'Plans lor a $60,000 auction tractor for the project is Rice
sale pavilion to be erected in and weidman. Inc
tlis li&cirt of the XJn~ st "prior to
ion Stockyards were unveiled grohnd - breaking ceremonies
Wednesday Wednesday, Heilbron said, -
According to Robert Heil- “Throughout all the years,
bron, president of the Lancas- business at the Terminal Mar
ter Livestock Exchange, the kets was transacted by private
decision to construct auction treaty. However, in the past
facilities at the Yards came at 15 years the auction sale has
the end of 10 months of sur-- become an increasingly popular
vey deliberation and planning. me fhod of selling cattle, both
(Construction of the two f or buyers as well as sellers,
story ‘’one’ block structure «. T hus lt i&| iaft er alO month
is j begin Monday study by the Union Stock Yard
Wl th etion target date company and the Lancaster
of Jau 15, 1964. The 36 Livestock Exchange, that we
b y 63 pavilion will be proud jy announce this new aer
heated, conditioned and v lce to the farmer.
equipped , hal6 by 8 feet “The auction will supple
scale with a capacity of 20,000 ment our private treaty method
pounds, so that catt'e can be business and it will afford
sold singly or in load lots Con- those patrons of the Lancaster
Stock Yards a choice in the
PniiUxirman T_ method by which their cattle
* OUitrymen 1 O ma y be sold. This sale will take
*• I?Air P la ' ce 011 a Wednesday of each
a - IT five V • rvenm week with other days being
Af Rann» confined to the private treaty
***■ method. However, if the de-
, TT mand for tihe use-of-the iiuc-
The .Reverend C Harry tlon warrants additional sale
Kehm will speak on the topic d w 6 shall take the aOTro
‘Dont Miss W’ at the an- te actlon
nual banquet of the Lancaster .. This new pavilion will he
County Poultry Association on bullt m the center o , f the sbock
Thursday. October 24, at 6 30 Yards AU cattle arriving for
sale will be consigned te a
member firm of the Lancaster
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Rtev. c. harry kbhm
$2 Per Year
Daniel Hershey
Wins Third
Honey Title
Sixteen year old Daniel Her
shey, Lititz R 3, won his third
consecutive championship in
county 4-H beekeeping round
up Thursday night at the busi
ness place of Ralph Camber,
912 State Street, Lancaster.
Daniel, the son of Mr. and
Mrs Elwood D Hershey, a
junior at Warwick High
School, removed 180 pounds
of extracted honey and 50
pounds of comb honey from
his four colonies this year,
he began his bee project three
years ago with two purchased
colonies and has captured and
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FIVE-DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Temperatures during the
nc\t five days are expected
to average about 7 or more
degrees aboxe the normal
range ot 67 in the afternoon
to 46 at night. The weather
will remain on the warm
side during the first half
of the period and turn to
more seasonal levels in the
latter half. Precipitation is
expected to be less than a
half inch, falling as local
showers about Monday. No
appreciable rainfall is ex
pected in the period.
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