VOL. 11 NO. 18
4-H COUNTY COUNCIL PRESIDENTS Ken Rutt, agriculture, and Gloria
Hers'iey, home economics, chat with Daryl Heasley (right) who was the featured
speaker at the Leaders’ Council annual banquet Monday night. L. F. Photo
Government By Presidential Rule
Is Contrary To America’s Best
Interests, Empie Tells Farmers
Spe. king at the Lancaster
Comr Farmers Association’s
annu?i Spung meeting, a Ches
tei Cuantjf dairy farmer warn
ed 'Jh.'isdaj' night that, in the
voids of Senator Everett Dirk
sen 4 hey are changing Ameri
ca art you won’t like it”
J Call Empie, vice-president
ot the Pennsylvania Farmers’
\ssoc.ation, discussed this
staten*ent fiom three govern
mental points of departure
legislative, judicial, and. exe
cutive with the main emphasis
on the lattei
We are getting into govern
ment by president, and away
liom constitutional govern
ment Empie said He cited
the iact that in the last session
ol Congiess nearly every ma
loi bill originated in the White
House A fact that somewhat
moie than one generation ago
would never have been tolerat
ed bv Congress He went on to
point out that Senator Wil
liams of Delaware, upon in
vestigation, learned that only
a Inaction of these major bills
Had been priced out in ad-
Farm Calendar
Apnl 4 7 30 pm, Elm-
J’ennn 4-iH Community
( luh meets at J'ohn Neff
Neftsville, tor re
-01 saniziation.
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l,J ’Sales land Service
Sfhool Penn State mam
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A rnl 7 4.30 >p_ TO ;
<il ''tei County vo-ag teach
'rs meet at Elizabethtown
lliah Sthool. *’
’P-'tn., Red. Bose Baby
' ee l t Lamfb Club at
t*iecht 'iS'eh’odl, Biffitz Plk'e,
-'antsstar. Pt-bgram to lea-'
•are quiz ‘contest. • ‘ .
vance by the administration to
see what they would cost the
U S taxpayer
Empie particularly attacked
the minimum wage bill which
is presently on the floor of
the House of Representatives
“This bill, if passed, is going
to take it out of the fanners’
hide,” Empie said He stated
that for every dollar the farm
er spends, he will have to earn
between five and ten. “Al
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New Leukosis
Research Study
Approved for Pa.
HARRISBURG Research
on leukosis, a poultry disease
that causes $BO million in
losses annually to the nation’s
chicken farmers, was authonz
ed this week by the Pennsyl
vania Department of Agricul
ture
Secretary Leland H Bull
said the study will be made
by Penn State University un
der contract with his depart
ment He estimated that, if it
is successful, it could save
Pennsylvania poultrymen at
least $4 million a year
Two additional poultry re
search projects were also in
itiated, one, on disinfectants
for hatchery sanitation, and
another on the utilization and
disposal of poultry and other
agricultural wastes. Both to be
done by Penn State.
‘ Poultry,' Secretary Bull point-
ed out, stands second only to
dairying among the Common-
wealth’s leading agricultural
industries. Including eggs, it
accounted in 1965 for $144 mil-
lion, or nearly 18 percent, of
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 2, 1966
Farm & Home Launches
Scholarship Program
The Lancaster County Farm
and Home Foundation recent
ly announced that one of its
prime objectives, encoiuaging
the higher -education of youth
in the county, is being met by
the introduction of two scho
laiship awards for 1966
The F & H scholarships, one
each in the fields of agncul
tuie and home economics, have
been made possible by the
special contributions of two
members of the Board of Direc
tors who prefer to remain
anonymous These special
donations were made so the
scholarship phase of the Foun
dation project could get start
ed this Spnng
Each scholarship award will
be for $250, and may be used
to detray tuition, fees, or room
and board expenses at any
accredited college or university
which offers a course of study
in agriculture and/or home
economics.
All interested youths are
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Leaders’ Council
Elects Officers
Following the annual ban
quet of the Lancaster County
4-H Leaders’ Council at the
Plain & Fancy Faun on Mon
day night, the 10-member
board of directors met to
choose officers for 1966.
Elected to one-year terms
were: Maurice Hen-, Refton,
president; Fred Linton, Quarry
ville R 2, vice-president; and
Mrs Ivan Eberly, Ephrata Rl,
secretary- treasurer
Herr succeeds Mrs. Herbert
Royer, 2025 Oregon Pike, Lan
caster.
The board of directors is
composed of five members
each from agriculture and
home economics clubs. Its pur
pose is to set 4-H leader policy,
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Awards* Scholarships* And A Talk
On Leadership Qualities Featured
At Annual 4-H Leaders’ Banquet
The annual Lancaster Coun
ty 4-H Leaders’ Banquet Mon
day night at the Plain &
Fancy Farm, was the scene of
considerable “award and recog
nition” activity, with close to
200 persons attending
Among the 26 leaders cited
for their milestones of ser
vice to 4-H youth —5, 10, 15
and 20 years were C War
ren Leminger, Denver R 2, and
Mrs Willis Shoemaker, Bam
bndge Victor Longenecker was
recognized for his 32 years of
leadership activities
Winner of the top 4-H News
Reporter award was Carol
Murry, of Lititz R 2 Her blue
nbbon was presented by Don
Timmons in behalf of Lan
caster Farming. Assistant coun
ty agent Harvey Gipe, repre
senting the county extension
service, piesented the second
News Reporter ribbon to Paul
Scheuing, of the New Pi evi
dence Club. Both reporters
will be awarded silver trays at
a later date
Scholarships were presented
by associate county agent
Arnold G Lueck to Pat Yun
DISPLAYING HER AWARD WINNING 4-H
scrapbook, is Carol Murry, news reporter for the
“What’s Cookin’ ” home economics club. Carol, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Murry of Lititz R 2,
is a sophomore at Manheim Central High School. In
addition to the blue ribbon, Carol will receive a silver
tray awarded by Lancaster Farming. L. F. Photo
Governor Sets
Date For Second
Agr. Conference
Governor William W. Scran
ton has announced a second
Governor’s Conference on Ag
riculture for April 19th, in
Scottish Rite Cathedral, Har
risburg.
The conference, his office
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$2 Per Yets
ginger, who will enter nurses
training. Linda Young, who
will major in home economics
at Indiana State University,
Indiana, Pa, Nancy Eisser,
who will enter nurses training
and a degiee program at Al
fred University, Alfred, N.Y.;
Eric Stoner, who will study
agionomy at Penn State Uni
versity, and Evelyn Groff, who
is a student at Elizabethtown
College
The $450 presented in the
form of scholarships was part
of a $6OO contribution made
by the Lancaster County Bank
ers’ Association The balance
of the grant is used for other
4-H activities
Lueck announced that two,
$lOO schnlai ships from the Ki
wams Club will be available
in June to any 4-H’er in agri
culture or home economics.
He also baid that May 20 will
be the deadline foi application
for the two, $250 scholarships
being offered by the Farm and
Home Foundation for prospec
tive college freshmen in agri
culture and home economics.
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Weather Forecast
Temperatures for the next
few days will average much
below the normal range of
58 to 36 degrees. It will be
relatively cold through the
first half of the five-day pe
riod with some moderation
about Tuesday or WedneS'
day.
Showers over the weekend,
and again about Wednesday,
are expected to yield \W-Vt
inch of precipitation.