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THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
VOL. 11 NO. 31
QUEEN FOR A YEAR! Miss Carol Ann Hess
(seated! is crowned the 1966 Lancaster County Dairy
Princess by the retiring Princess, Miss Linda Lou
Welk i right). First runner-up in the Dairy Pageant
held Thursday evening at the Host Motel was Miss
Nancy Risser. The event is held each year to promote
the sale ot dairy products. L. F. Photo
Carol Ann Hess Named
County Dairy Princess
bj Everett Newswanger,
Staff Reporter
“Miss Personality” was
crowned “Queen for a Year”
Thursday evening at the an
nual Lancaster County Daily
Princess Pageant held at the
Host Motel, Lancaster
After being selected Miss
Personality by the other five
contestants, Carol Ann Hess,
17, daughter of Mr and Mrs
Elvin Hess Jr, Strasburg Rl,
was picked to be the local
1966 Dairy Pnncess by three
judges who spent the entire
afternoon with the six con
testants The final appraisal
was made during the Pageant
program as Harry Kauffman,
Philadelphia Dairy Council,
masterfully interviewed the
young ladies
Farm Calendar
July 5-6-7 Southeastern
Penna District 4-H Leader
ship School at Cocoa Inn.
Hershey, Pa
July 5 Deadline foi entnes
in the 4-H National Awaids
Contest due in Extension Of
fice
July 8 Ipm 4-H county
demonstration day and pub
lic speaking contest at Penn
Manor High School.
July 9 10:15 am. Swine
Field Day at Penn State
University.
First runner-up in the con
test was Nancy L. Rissei, 17-
year-old daughter of Mr and
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ROY WEAVER, left, and Abner Houseknecht, SCS
technician, examine the flow of the spring which
feeds the concrete holding pool at Weaver’s bait-fish
farm and supplies water for five of his ponds. They
later measured the flow and found it to be 15 gallons
per minute. i i * L. F. Photo
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 2, 1966
Milk Price
Support Hiked
50 Cents to $4.
The Agriculture Department
this past Wednesday increased
the price support for manu
facturing milk fiom $3 50 to
$4 a bundled pounds
The move, the second m
ciease in the support price
since April 1, is designed to
halt a decline in milk produc
tion
The first price suppoit boost
was ordered by Secretary of
Agncultuie Orville L Free
man on April 1 and raised the
farm price suppoit from $3 26
to $3 50 a hundredweight
The new increase will also
have the side effect of boost
ing pioducei pnces of fluid
milk an aveiage of 20 cents a
hundiedweight during the pe
nod ot July through next
March
The increase will affect all
Lancaster County farmers who
ship to dairies regulated by
either the New York-New Jer-
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Six Local Youths
To Attend 4-H - School
Six local youths will attend
the Southeastein Penna Dis
trict 4-H Leadei'ship School on
July 5, 6 and 7 at the Cocoa
Inn, Hershey
They are Wayne Denlinger,
Gordonville Rl, Daniel Roh
rer, Manheim Rl; Paul Bru
baker, Lititz Rl, Linda Porter,
Washington Boro, Rl, Mary
Sue Hess, Manheim Rl, and
Daune Palmer, 152 Spruce St,
Lititz
The school consists mainly
of speakers and discussions on
teen leadership.
Glenn Weber Elected
State FFA President
UNIVERSITY PARK
Glenn Weber, 17, son of Mr
and Mrs Andrew Weber,
Mohnton R 2, was named State
FFA Piesident here yesterday
Glenn is a member of the
Glenn Weber
County Vo-Ag Boys Take
47 Medals At FFA Week
by Clair Zerby
Warwick Vo-Ag. Instructor
The hot, humid, dry weather
that Lancaster County has had
for the past ten days did not
seem to affect the judging abil
ity of 60 FFA contestants from
nine FFA chapters in the
county
A total of 47 awards in var
ious events were won by the
boys at the Annual FFA Ac
tivities Week at Penn State
this week Final count shows
22 gold. 16 silver, 5 bronze
and 4 honorable mention
awards
Richard Thomas, Milleis
ville Rl, Manoi Chaptei, will
icpiesent the Penna FFA
boys at the National Dany
Congiess in Wateiloo, lowa,
for his first place showing
Farm Ponds In The County
Increase In Use & Number
by Don Timmons
Whelhei it’s a cool dip lor
the family on a hot summei
day oi a thiiving fish business
you’ie interested in a pond
on youi faim may be the an
swei
It would be difficult to de
termine how many farm ponds
there are in Lancastei County,
but Abnei Houseknecht, Soil
Consei vation Service techm
cian, told us that SCS had sup
plied technical assistance on at
least 200. He estimated there
must be another 200 or more
$2 Per Year
Grassland FFA Chapter and is
a 1966 graduate of Garden Spot
High School He was named
1966 Region II Star Farmer
last December and State Star
Farmer at the FFA State Con
vention in January
Glenn has been very active
in FFA since the beginning of
his high school career, starting
off as Star Green Hand out
standing 9th giader—and pro
gressing to president of the
County FFA Chapter in 1965.
He was also president of his
school chapter and other local
chapter offices and activities.
His fanning program includes
broilers, corn and dairy He is
piesently operating his home
faim with his father They
have 27 cows and 15 heifers.
Glenn’s father operates Web
er’s Hateheiy, which has an
incubator capacity of 316,000.
Gene Daugheity, president of
the Lancaster County Vo-Ag
-Teacheis Association, was his
instructor at Gaiden Spot
Garland Gingench, his teach
er, will accompany him and
coach the Penna team
Linford Weaver, Ephrata
Rl, Cloister Chapter, will at
tend the National FFA con
test in Kansas City, Missouri,
for placing first in poultry
judging Charles Ackley, his
teacher, will accompany and
coach the state team
The land judging first place
winner, Clayton Harrington,
Quanyville. Solanco Chapter,
will receive a tup to a point
of intei est in the state
The Solanco Pioceduie Team
came awav ihe victor in this
contest and also won a similar
tup The team consists of
Richaid Smith Preston Le-
Fevie. Gaiy Ciaig, David De-
Long William Fiey, Earl
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in the county that were built
pnvaleh I visited a few pond
sites with Houseknecht last
week
Some of the county farm
ponds aie used foi a single
pin pose, although all could
double as a soiuce of water
foi file fighting Most ponds,
howevei. had one main pur
pose foi being built, but have
since developed into multi-use
ponds A pond built on the
farmstead itself, for example,
for fire piotection might very
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