6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 31, 1965 • Campsites (Continued from Page 3) door?* than ever before,” Sec retary Goddard said. Departmental attendance figures for June, 1964, God dard said, showed a total o! 5,100,000 persons had used park facilities across the state. Reports for June of this year showed 6,650,000 or more than a million and a half in creases flocked to the parks located throughout the Com monwealth. One of the increases, God dard noted, was in camping, where the jump was more than 40,000 for the period. “'Camping is one of the fast est growing areas of lecrea tional activity, and we find it impossible to keep up with the demand,” the secretary said In 1960. the secretary said, there were 704,339 camper nights spent at the camping sites in the state parks where such sites are available The figures swelled to 830,628 camper nights in 1964, and this figure, he said, is as near capacity as possible for the 3600 existing camping sites that are utilized “Presently, we have 200 more sites under construction at Laurel Hill, Somerset Coun ty, and Caledonia in Adams and Franklin Counties Theie are 870 sites under design with funds available for con struction at Caledonia, Cowans Gap, Fulton County, Punce Gallitzin, Cambria County; Promised Land. Pike County and Ryerson Station in Greene County In the budget cur rently requested, we have asked for an additional 1430 camping sites at Elk State Park, Elk County; French Creek, Berks County, Gifford Pmchot, York County, Hickory ;Run, Carbon County; Hills Creek, Tioga County, Kettle Creek, Clinton County; Laurel Hill; Ole Bull, Potter County; Parker Dam, Clearfield Coun ty and Promised Land. ‘lHowever, the sites are not, in themselves, the whole an swer We also have to provide modem facilities such as flush toilets, central shower houses and trailer sanitary disposal facilities as health 3rd Annual Pork Day Planned For August 7 By East. Pa. Producers The Eastern Pennsylvania Pork Producers Association will hold its 3rd annual Pork Promotion Day at the Kutz town Pair 'Grounds on Satur day, August 7, from 5-7 p.m Bain or shine, that’s the date. This annual event has be come a popular festivity in the eastern Pennsylvania area, with a reported 1,500 persons attending last year Dooi prizes, contests and demonstrations make Pork Day a real family affair The man agement promises the cus tomers all they can eat and drink, and features charcoal ibarlbecued pork chops with trimmings Tickets sell for $3 for adults and SI for children under 10 years old In the Kutztown area, interested persons may contact 'Henbert Schick or Earl Rabenold In (Lancaster area, F W Fisher, Leacock 'Honey comes in many flav ors, depending on the flowers from which the bees collect ed nectar Much of the honey on the market is a blend of different floral types Hf honey is labeled a single pure flav or, it must contain at least 51 percent of that flavor Light colored honeys are usu ally the mildest in flavor regulations require. Thus, these costs come in addition to the funds used to construct the camping sites,” he said. Goddard pointed out that in the five-year period (from June, 1960 until the end of June of I^l ■ i HORNCO FEEDS The Crowing Choice Of Business Farmers THE END RESULTS ARE WHAT COUNT MORE Milk - Better Herd Health - Less Breeding Problems*, The reasons more Lancaster County Dairymen are feeding HORNCO UNI-PEL FEED than ever before! D. E. Horn & Co., Inc. York, Pa. Pin 854-7867 this year, total attendance had gone from 4400,000 persons to the. present, figure of over 6 million people. ‘‘When we pushed for Proj ect 70, we said that 'if the parks were located where the people are, they would use them,” Goddard said. “I think FEEDS these figures prove that con- Goddard said reports show tention. Of course, at this ed that increases in. park art time, It -I* ’ impossible to say - tendance over the past five what additional economic ben- years averaged over one-halt eflts were accrued by the million each year, parks, but If such figures were “We- expect the increases available there is no question will continue and will even in-my mind that they would grow proportionately/’ God he most substantial” ' dard said. >"' *» 9 who changed to Uni-Pel. what Uni-Pel did for him. Why not check with your neighbor He'll tell you
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