VOL. 10 NO. 22 WHILE ATTENDING THE 35TH NATIONAL 4-H CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON D.C. this week, Miss Virginia Wivell of Columbia R 1 met her Congress man, Paul Dague, R-Pa., shown above. Miss Wivell wricked .a delegate to the conference from Penn sylvania, anth“was one of 235 young people from the U.S. fend Puerto Rico. Virginia Wivell Pa e 4-H Delegate At Conference WASHINGTON Miss Vir ginia Wivell, Columbia HI, attended the 35th. National 4-H /Conference here thus iveelc as a delegate from the state of Pennsylvania. She was one of aibout 235 young peo/plle who came from every state in the U.'S, represent ing the 214 million club metai bei s. The aims of the confei enCe delegates are to learn more about national issues and im pel tant piolbleims facing the American people, increase their understanding of demo cratic values and citizenship lesponsilbihties, and gam gi eater 'appreciation of the Nation’s Capital by touimg some of its monuments, and calling at various govern ment, business and education offices based in Washington. On Tuesday the group was told by Secretary of Agricul ture Oiville Freeman that their effoits weie desperate ly needed to close the o,p- (Continued on Page 8) Farm Calendar May 3_B pan 4-H leaders of the southern legion will meet at the Chestnut Level Ghnudi House May 4 730 pm Solanco 4-H Holstein Club meets at Oi'as. Tindall faim. May 5 Lancaster County Homemaker’s Day at Mead ow Hails Dining Hall. 8 pm. Lancaster County tSenaor Extension Club at (Continued on Page 6) Costs Of Analyzing DHIA Records Cut In Half Since 1956 According to Ned D Ba>ley, assistant director of animal husbandry research at the U/SDA Research Center at Beltsville, .Md, through the use of automatic data pro cessing the 'costs of record keeping dropped from 61 cents to 25 cents a record between 1956 and 1964 The lecords also show that in 1956 DHIA cows produced 3,890 "pound's moie milk than cows of non-members In 1964, DHIA cows produced 4,- 258 pounds more milk than non-memlbei s Bayley also reported that considerable progi ess had been made in improving 'the efficiency of pioducmg milk. He said that the fiist step in this direction 'was pioving that bleeding based on per- (Continued on Page 8) “No ‘Zip’ In Congress On Farm Legislation At This Time,” Agr. Sec. Tells Newspaper Farm Editors WASHINGTON Speaking at a luncheon meeting of the Newspapei Faun Editois of Amenca this week, Secietary of Agncultuie Oiville Freeman suggested theie was “a kind of apathy in Congress for faim legislation no more opposi tion than befoie, but no zip on the issue ” This i esponse by the Secretary was in answei to the questioning of his re cently reported statement made in Kansas City to the eftect that if the Farm Bill were brought to a vote now, it would be defeated. He predicted it Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 1, 1965 County Conservationist Attends SCS Mg t. Sch. Wayne F Maresch, county conseivationnst for the U. S Soil Conservation Service, ic tmned heie today fiom Michi gan State University He had been attending the SOS Man agement Ti aiming School. The study courses weie con ducted by representatives from business and industry and ranged fiom planning and scheduling to creative think ing The SOS objective in offer ing this progiam is to pro vide its supeivisors with the best available training so they m'ay attain their maxi mum effectiveness, Maresch said Wayne F. Maresch Farm Bill: All In One Package, Or In Sections? WASHINGTON Opinions on 'how to pass, and how not to pass, the Piesrdent’s pro posed farm legislation weie definite and plentiful here this week, though differing Secietaiy of Agucultuie Or ville Fieeman answered an one woid “Yes”, when asked if the bill should be piesent ed to Cong'iess as an omnibus (Continued on Page 6) would be summei befoie any leal action could be expected on the bill When asked whethei he thought the Farm Bill could be passed without a section on cotton that would satisfy the South, he said it could not The Secietaiy suppoited the idea of an omnibus farm bill lathei than trying to get pass age on each section separately This agreed with the opinion expressed earlier that day by Senator McGovern, D-S D, when he and Rep. Findley, R (Continued on Page 6) Ken Hess Gathers College Scholarships To Pave Way To Penn State Next Fall by Everett Newswanger Staff Reporter “Stait our young and stick to it” is the lecommendation J Kenneth Hess gives to all who would like to obtain an agueultuie scholaiship to fui thei then education Ken, a National Honoi Society mem bei, has leceived two scholai ships this yeai a $5OO scho laiship from Kunzlei and Co, and one foi $lOO fiom the Laneastei County Bankers As sociation to help him in his plans to enter the College of Agueultuie at the Pennsylvan ia State Umveisity this fall The 17-year old semoi from Lampe t e r - Sti asburg High School explains that it is nec essaiy to have done a lot of things well to supply all the information called for in the applications “You need to take advantage of all the activities you can,” he said Gerald Kig er; Vo-ag teacher at Lampeter- Strasburg, desenbes him as “a good, busy student ” Ken takes little credit for his accomplishment “I give my parents a lot of credit,” he said. “If they hadn’t helped I wouldn’t have gotten started ” A Burrows scholar, Hess is al so treasurer of his senior class Ken is a former piesi dent of the Garden Spot FFA Chapter, and is currently fhst vice-president of the Red Rose FFA Association He was a Silver Medal winner in live EVEN THE HESS-VALE CALF IS SMILING. Kenneth Hess, Strasburg Rl, (right) has recently earned $6OO in scholarship funds. Ken gives most of the credit for his accomplishments to his parents Mr. and Mrs. Elvm Hess Jr. (center), and to Lampeter- Strasburg Vo-Ag teacher Gerald Kiger (left). $2 Per Year slock judging dining FFA week last yeai He showed the Gland Cham pion pen of lambs at Hairis bmg in 1963 and took leserve honois in 1962 and 1964 He has also taken top av irds with coin and tobacco exmbits A (Continued on Page 4) Hoke & Cloister FFA Top Meat Judging Contest The Cloistei FFA Chapter of Ephiata High School dom inated the annual FFA meat judging contest held this week at Kunzlei & Co, Lancaster. Top scorer in a field of 47 boys was Kenneth Hoke with 189 poirts out of a possible 250 Hoke is a 16-year old junioi at Bphiata High School If a “most improved” award were given he would undoubtedly have won it be cause an last year’s contest he failed to place in the first ten Of the six boys entered from Ephrata, four placed among the top ten with a fiist, second, third and tenth. According to their teacher, Lewis Ayers, the team trained hard in pieiparation for the contest with field trips to Roy (Continued on Page 4) L. F. Photo
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