VOL. 10 NO. 9 STATE STAR FARMER, JOHN J FREY, Quarryville many trophies he has won in FFA and 4-H Club competition as a student in Vocational Agriculture. After graduation in college at Penn State University. Co. F & H Campaign “Kicks-Off”; 520 Vokmteers Canvass County Solicitation of contributions and pledges of support for the Farm and Home Founda tion Campaign is now under way, throughout Lancaster County, according to Levi H Brubaker and Lawrence H Skromme, Geneial Co-Chau men of the drive Following a “Kick-Off” Rally of volun teer workers, held in Stras burg, Wednesday night, can vassing got undei way in the southern and eastern areas of the county. With several hundred men having started making con tacts with every farm family in the noithem end of the county, following Monday night’s rally of volunteers in Lititz, a total of 520 volun teers, practically all men, is now at work in behalf of the 8375,000 campaign The Farm Gifts Division caines respon sibility for raising at least two-thirds of the total amount needed, drive leaders an nounced. •In launching the campaign, officials point out that attain ment of the goal will provide a solution to several majoi Farm Calendar Feb I—7 30 pm Faim Weld ing Class, Ephiata High School. Feb 2—7 29 pm, Gaiden Spot Young Faimers Class meet at Elmer Sensenig’s Grocery Store (north of Blue Ball on Rt 322) Meat cutting and .piocessmg dem onstrations Feb. 3—l 30 pm 4-H Tailor ing Class. —715 p m Community Soil Consv. meeting at Lincoln ’lndependent School near Martindale. Discussion lead- tContinued on Page 10i pioblems of long-standing con cern to agricultural leaders of the county M Maxwell Smith, County Agent, in speaking be fore both rallies of volunteer canvasseis, indicated that the establishment of a Faim and Home Center will be of dis tinct advantage to both farm ers and residents living in the subuibs Smith said that the growing interest in develop ing attiactive lawns and gul dens, in lecent years, has le (Continued on Page 1C) Consv. Leader Blasts Cut In Resource Funds The Presidents budget pio posal to cut back federal sup poit for conservation on pri vately-owned lands of the coantiy was attacked by the president of the National As sociation of Soil and Water Conservation Districts as a shocking and dangeious re veisal of national policy on lesouice development “A 20 pei cent cut-back m technical assistance and a 40 pei cent i eduction in cost shanng aid along with le duced fedeial suppoit for con sei ration leseaich programs, would revei se a national pol- icy stalled 30 yeais ago and foice a seveie set-back in America’s soil conservation and water development ef forts ” declared Marion S Monk Ji . President of the Association and a farmer at Batchelor, La “More than 70 per cent of crop allotment the nation’s land is in private The allotment figures for ownership This is wheie the county breakdown weie not lion’s share of the resource available at press time, but work for Amenca’s futuie it was estimated by the local must be done,” Monk added A'SCS office to be in the neigh (Contmued on Page 5) (Continued on Page 9) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 30, 1965 The honors, awards, assort- R 2, shows one of the o£ . pl^ u f T \ nd * he , ’ „ , * achievements that John has during his four years accumulated in the past few June, John plans on years aie too numerous to r Photo, heie, but to mention a few recent ones he led the county 4-H livestock judging team, first to the state cham pionship, then to eighth place in national competition, he showed the grand champion steer at the Eastern National Livestock Show for two con secutive years, he had the champion 4-H, FFA steer at AFBF Leader Supports Govt's Tighter Stand On Farm Spending Charles B Shuman, 'presi dent of the American Farm Bureau Federation, recently is sued the following comment on the budget message tians mitted to Congress by Presi dent Lyndon B Johnson “Piesident Johnson’s budget message to Congress indicates a realization that the cost and scope of present goveinment farm programs are indefensi ble It is increasingly appar ent that these programs must be substantially revised in the interests of farmeis, consum ers, and all taxpayers “While we believe Piesi dent Johnson has underestimat ed the number of faims that will be needed m the future, the American Farm Bureau Fedeiation stands ready to work with Congiess and the President in constructive ef (Contmued on Page 9) Tobacco Quota and Referendum Info Released It was announced Thuisday by the office of the Secietaiv of Agiicultme that the na tional maiketing quota foi the 1965 ci op of Pennsylvania 'Seedleaf tobacco would be set at 44 2 million pounds 4t was also announced that Thuisday Febiuaiy 18 was set as the date for a grow ei s’ lefeiendum on quotas foi the next three cioii years In terms of acies, this quota fig ure -would amount to about 24,000 acres available foi 1963 John Frey Climaxes Great FFA Career In Becoming State Star Farmer For ‘65 Being named winner of the highest honoi that the Penn sylvama Futuie Farmeis of America can confer, State Star Farmer, seemed a veiy fitting climax to the outstand ing FFA caieei of John J Frey, 17-year-old senior at So lanco High School Although John can continue in FFA work until he becomes 21 years old, he recently received his notice of acceptance to the College of Agriculture at Penn State Univeisity, and a full-time college schedule does not allow time foi much else Dean Larson To Speak At Annual Extension Meet. Dr. Russell E. Laisou The annual meeting of the Lancastei County Agucultural and Home Economics Exten sion Association will be held on Thuisday evening, Febiu aiy 11 1965, at 630 p m at Hostettei’s Banquet Hall, Mount Joy Pa The guest speaker will be Di Russell E Larson, Dean of the College of Agncultuie, The Pennsylvania State Uni versity Special music will be furnished by the “Kreider Foui” from Quairyville In addition, theie will be a brief business meeting of the as sociation with the president, (Continued on Page 4) $2 Per Yeai the Pennsylvania Livestock Exposition in 1964 and went on to take the reserve grand championship at that show; he is president of the county FFA association, academically, he is a member of the Na tional Honor Society—which means that he maintained at least a “B” average during his first two and one-half years of high school; and he is president of the Senior Class at Solanco The story behind this en viable iecord perhaps began when John was about two years old !t was at that time that his father, a cattle deal er, was killed in an accident. Mis Anna Frey had a farm and eight children to raise. (Continued on Page 4) PFBCA-Agwoy Merger Gets Local Approval The stockholder representa tives of Pennsylvania Farm Bureau Cooperative Associa tion recently voted to merge their organization with Ag way, Inc. of Syracuse, NY. The merger takes effect July 1, 1965 The decision by the PFBCA stockholder representatives fol lowed a series of votes on the merger proposal by mem bers of local Farm Bureau as sociations across the state. Of the 34 local associations vot ing to date, 25 have approved affiliating with Agway. Lan caster County Farm Bureau Cooperative Association voted last week foa the merger. The Agway Board of Direc tors approved merger with Pennsylvania Farm Bureau at a meeting in November. In joining Agway, the Penn sylvania cooperatives become pait of a farmer-owned pur chasing and marketing organ ization seiving 12 northeast ern states The stockholder representa tives’ action is the culmina tion of discussions which were stalled by GLF, Eastern States and PFBCA in 1960, about possible joint opeiation of some production and ware housing facilities V/eather Forecast 1 WE \TKER Temperatures foi the five day period Saturday through Wednesday are expected to average below noimal. There will be some moderating temperatures about mid week. Normal for the period is a high of 39 degrees and a low of 23. Precipitation is expected to amount to much less than */4 inch melted. This will occur as snow late Satur day or early Sunday.
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