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4— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 8, 1966
From Where We Stand,..
Not For Sole
It would seem from some of the
‘ campaign expenditures one hears of in
Pennsylvania these days that the gover
! norship of the state is up for sale to
the highest bidder. And the highest
bidder has to be Milton Shapp, Phila
• delphia industrialist. He doesn’t care
• what it costs he’ll buy it.
When it comes to money, Shapp
thinks Texas-style. Remember the story
about the Texan who met up with an
enthusiastic young Kentuckian who
bragged there was enough gold in Fort
■ Knox, Kentucky, to build a wall three
fbot-high all around the state of Texas?
The Texan just sat back and drawled,
“Well, son, you go right ahead and build
that wall. When you’re finished I’ll
come out and look it over. If I like
it, I’ll buy it.”
Shapp has been looking over the
Governor's cha)ir at Harrisburg for
some time. He likes it, and if money will
buy it, he’ll pay the price.
We passed within one block of the
State Capitol building one day this
week, and being a bit concerned about
- a future as a citizen of a “store
boughten” state, we drove by to look
over the property. We are happy to
assure you, friends, that there is no
“Fbr Sale” sign on the Capitol lawn.
,7 But Milton Shapp may be a hard
man to convince. He wants the Gover
■ -job so badly that, reportedly, he
■and his wife sold 500,000 shares of
Shapp’s Jerrold Corp. market value
$9 million to finance the campaign.
<He proved he meant business when he
dropped $1 4 million in all the right
-places;'to buy the Democratic nomina- -
i&dn? 1/ - .
7 -7 TThe Democrats didn’t take him
' seffiously before the primary election.
The Republicans had better take him
seriously before the main event in Nov-
Tjagaber!
In our opinion, Shapp is one of the
most dangerous figures to emerge on
the political scene in many a year. If he
cahrhuy Pennsylvania, what next? Why ,
foetid, he be content with building just
- dnd^hionument to Milton Shapp? - Why
monuments? Why not buy the
whole 'package the White House?
- And let’s not kid ourselves; if
he’ll spend millions of dollars of his
own 'money to become “Emperor” of
Pennsylvania, can’t you imagine what
-he’ll do with our money if he gets the
jpb ? He’s already given considerable
indication of his plans in that direction.
We’re not happy with Ray Shafer's
Champion Hog
Brings 62V2C At
Lampeter Sale
What's a champion hog
worth’ John Welk, Stiasbuig
3Rl,'wJio has shown and con
signed the top individual hog
at the Lampetei Fan foi the
past two yeais, found that this
year’s champ was woith about
$ll more than last year’s
The 235-pound Yoikshue bar
row was bought by the Fust
National Bank of Stiasbuig for
$62 50 per hundredweight, or,
$146,57 Last yeai’s champion
sold for $135
l9th annual Gaiden Spot
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Hess Bros. Win 5 Blue
Ribbons At- Egg Show
The Ephrata egg marketing
film of Hess Bios, Inc, won
five blue nbbons in what is
billed as the nation’s hugest
FFA Chaptei fat hog sale, held
last Fnday night in coniunc
tion with the West Lampeter
Community Fan, yielded an
aveiage puce (including the
champion) of 30 7 cents pei
pound on the 14 lots consigned
lots
Ezia Mdiun, Lancaster,
bought the champion pen of
two consigned by Harold Welk,
Snasbmg Rl, for $3B a hun
diedweight, 01 $165 30 The
champion pen ol tout, shown
by chapter peisident Robeit
Weavei, Stiasbuig Rl, went to
Kunzlei and Co Inc, foi $29 -
75 a hundiedweight
Onlv one lot of the 14 con
signed was sold at $27 50 the
lest weie $2B and up
Othei buycis and suppoiteis
ol the sale were New Holland
Sales Stables, Thomas Butcher
Shop, Willow Street, Vintage
Sales Stables, and Martin
Breneman, 633 Beaver Valley
Pike.
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wooing of labor leaders with his promise
to oppose a “Right to work” law for
Pennsylvania. However, we think Shaf
er is honest, capable, and well-prepared
to continue Scranton’s sound fiscal and
social policies designed to keep the
Commonwealth moving in its present
positive direction.
We think Milton Shapp is about as
opposite from that ideal gs any one man
could possibly be. But make no mistake
about it Shapp coyild win.
If he succeeds in* buying the gover
norship, the price he pays will be pea
nuts compared to the price Pennsylvania
will pay during the next four years.
A vote for Ray Shafer is a vote
against Milton Shapp. A vole for Shafer
can be your way of telling all would
be public office buyers that the gover
norship of Pennsylvania is not for sale.
Not this year, nor any other.
Where There's Fire
There's Carelessness
You’d think no one really had to
be reminded of the potential danger
which lurks, always ready to strike, in
the flickering flame of FIRE.
But the grim statistics tell other
wise a fire a minute every hour of
the day somewhere in America; and one
person, somewhere, dies from fire
every 80 minutes.
So, once each year Fire Prevention
Week is “celebrated”. This year it is
October 9-15, and you’ll get reminders
from every quarter. “What to do in
case of fire”; “What to do before fire
strikes”; “Have a plan for your family
to escape in case of fire” and so on.
But the - best insurance in the
world against fire is YOU. Most
fires,’ as auto accidents, are caused
by carelessness on someone’s part.
During Fire Prevention Week take a
few moments to take stock of your
“fireproofness”.
Is your heating system in tip-top
safe shop? How about that electrical
wiring you’ve been meaning to fix for
.so long? Are .your attic and 'cellar stairs
free of debns that could feed a fire,
and- possibly trap you or some member
of your.-family? When you trust your
children to a~baby sitter’s care do you
instruct her what to do in case of fire?
Do you know how to reach your local
fire department without delay? There
are any number of things you can do
to improve your chances of survival
when fire strikes better yet, to keep
the foul breath of fire from your
threshold. Look around your property
now; you’re sure to see what we mean.
egg show at the. NEPPCO
(Northeastern Poulitiy Produc
ers Council) Show Tuesday,
but lost the -title to a Vir
ginia fii m
Hess won ribbons in Class 1,
eggs piepaied for distubution
to consumeis
Other Class 1 nbbon win
ners fiom Lancaster County
were Plain & Fancy Egg
Ranch Inc , Elizabethtown R 3,
L M Sheaffei, Ephiata and
Clay Reese Co. Lancastei
Plain & Fancy placed sec
ond in Class 2, eggs piepaied
foi wholesalers, m the large
white egg class I R Mussei,
Mount Joy, also placed in that
categoiy
A total of -62 faims and
egg packing films competed in
the 14-state show at the Faim
Show Building, Harnsbuig
Muslnooms, toadstools, or
puffballs in your lawn aie
iuiits of vanous fungi and
may be difficult to eiadicate
until all wood or oigamc mat
ter on which they are feeding
is decomposed, say extension
plant pathologists at Penn
State University.
MUSHROOMS
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given gift for seeing things clearly
and when he spoke to his con
temporaries about what he saw,
they could scarcely contain their
wrath. They much rather would
have had him speculate on the
future then to see so cleaily and
openly the mess of the present.
As Though Dead Or Away
What was it he «avv so clearly
that upset them? You are living
like people who believe that God
is either dead or nvvav! Their
enemies claimed that their God
was dead, unable to help them.
But you people, he said, are
living that way. Their amcsm of
deeds is just as blasphemous as
some people’s atheism of words
and ideas.
If we could overcome our fas
cination with the piophetsofother
times and listen to the prophets of
our own day, we might fi.-d that
they are sav mg much the same
thing to us. Perhaps it is hue that
we too, like the people to whom
Prophets aie Isaiah was sent, speak likecom
usually ••reatlv netted Christians and live like
admired .*! .after convinced atheists,
thev are dead! Many of us today find our-
The dead pioph- se^ves u P set because a small
ets are revered group of theologians is saving
while the live that "God is dead. -5 We find it
prophets are ig- shocking that some should
nored or con - brazenly proclaim that tl ere no
demncd. .Today longer is a God. Yet maybe all
it costs us noth- of us ought to ask ourselves
Rev. Alfhouse ln g to whether our lives don’t make the
men like Isaiah, Jeremiah, and proclamation to those aro-nd us.
Amos. Yet few’ of us could have One non-Christian obseiver re
tolerated them if we lived dining marked that the ' Death of God 1 *
their periods of ministry. theologians are only sa; mg what
John Kuskm has said, "To see many Christians have been in
cleailv is poetry, prophecy, and dicatmg for a long time,
religion, all in one.” The Hebrew’ w ® don’t like to hear that kind
prophet was all three of these: „ ai . l sis 1 our . P r - sfllt > do
poet, prophet, and religionist His lhe thundering prophet
task was to "see clearly,” partic- looks attractive in retiobject, but
ularly at those times when the ur the present. It is one thing
vision of others was clouded and * or Isaiah to tell his people that
limited. they are insincere and superficial,
that they have traded their mono-
To Interpret Present theism for moneytheism, but foe
W’e too often think of the proph-a contemporary prophet to tell
et as a man who sees grand vis- us that about our society, ....
ions and hears heavenly voices, well, we feel as threatened as the
Prophets often have experiences prophets contemporaries,
such as this, to ,be.sure, But their I*}® Christian atheist does not
eyes were. Jikedsnob 6nfo§ipon sa 7 God is dead!"; he just acts
the future,"but also upon the pre- that way. W hat about you?
Atheism Of Deeds
Lesson For October 9, 19<>6
l«chgr«und Scnplurt Iso ult 5 28 1 22,
Devotional Rooming Gulcitianj 5 16 25.
Jesus said it and history
proves it: ' A prophet is not with
out honor except in his own
country and in his own house
(Matthew 13.57 KSV) He mif>ht
well have added: * . , . and in
li ■!”
sent. God gives them the gift to on oullmis copyrishfod fcy th» DTvTsf«n
rightly see and understand the •( chnstion EJuc«i.*n, N.ii.n.i Council of <)i«
meaning of present conditions Church,! »f chnst m Hi* u. s, A. Ktltosnl ly
and diagnose their implications c » mmun, V Tnss s«rvw».)
for the future. -- - - v
This explains, of course, the /
unpopularity of the living proph
et It is possible to tolerate.dire
predictions for the'dlgfant future, ATTEND THE CHURCH
but when the? propheP-begins to
analyze oilr preseht'cEmfSliMs he OF YOUR CHOICE
finds that Tie has struck a vital
nerve!
Isaiah discovered-this in his
own ministry, lie had a God-
Now Is The Time ...
By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent
To Carefully Raise Calves
Danymen are urged to give special at
tention to the raising of their best heifer
calves for herd replacements With the exist
ing trend in the dairy production industry
and in view of the stiong demand for herd
leplacements, it is advisable to raise youi
own lather than try to buy them. With the
many good breeding heids in operation
tlnoughout the county, we should not only
pioduce enough animals foi the local herds,
but supply top animals to dairymen from
othei areas Special caie foi these young
calves the, fust year ol their lives will en
able them to grow into laige cows that are
always in stiong demand Sunny, clean, diy
diaft-liee stalls or pens are
stiongly leeommended.
To Prepare Sheep For Winter
Sheep pioducers should be
prepai mg then flocks ioi win
ter quaiteis This means pio
tection fiom the weather and
an outside exeicise lot for daily
exercise Liberal amounts of
high quality legume hay should
be the foundation for the win
ter feeding program, limited
grain may be fed closer' to
lambing time Dienchmg the
animals for stomach woims
both in the fall and in the
spring is strongly lecommend
ed, the piovidmg of the salt
phenothiazine mixture before
them at all times is not suffi
cient because some ewes may
not consume enough' of this
SUNDAY
mixture to conhol worms.
Good quality grass 01 com
silage may be fed to the ewe
flock in place of some of the
hay, extra caie should be exer
cised to be sure the silage
is not moldy or fed when froz
en
To Plan For Livestock Tours
Livestock pioduceis are m
foi med of the annual Livestock
Tour to be held on Tuesday,
October 25 Tins one-day tour
vWI be into the Baltimore,
Maiyland area, to obseive live
stock fauns a tool manufactur
ing plant, and an automobile
assembly plant Cattle and hog
producers aie urged to mark
this date on their schedule and
be alert for further announce
ment and reservation proce
dures.
SMITH