agricultural library !^sl9( IVANIA STATE uN,v ® s, Ty VOL. 11 NO. 49 County Holstein Assn. Slates Nov. 8 For Annual Banquet Meet Next Tuesday throughout the nation will be Election Day. But next Tuesday eve ning will be noted in Lancas ter Oounty as the time for the 16th annual county Holstein association banquet meeting Sett to begin at 6:45 p.m at the Dutch Town and Country Inn, Vintage, the dinner will be followed by a brief busi ness meeting, and by a talk on tfte subject of wills by George J Morgan Morgan, a La nr faster County attorney, op erates offices in Eptorata and Lancaster, and resides in Lit itz In addition to other ac tivities, Morgan is a Republi can committeeman from War George J. Morgan Testimonial Dinner Nov. 25th To Honor Congressman Paul Dague A testimonial dinner honor- ing retiring Congressman Paul B Hague will be held Friday, November 25, at 6 45 p m at the Dutch Town and Country Inn, Vintage, it was announced this week Mrs Clyde E Wave!!, Columbia R 1 The dinner, sponsored by the Chester and Lancaster County Farmers’ Associations, will honor Representative Bagi e’s twenty years of serv- Farm Calendar Ncwmber 7 7-12, Fa Live stcck Exposition. - - —'lo a m., 4-H and FFA jun i&i steer show, Pa Live stock Exp at Farm Show Eitg., Harrisburg: November 8 spm, New 'Holland 4-H Capon roundup at New Holland Diner —6.45 p.m, Lancaster Coun ty Holstein Assn, annual 'bfcnquet meeting at Dutch powm & Country Inn, Vin te£e - 6.45 pm., 4-H’Honey Ex at Ralph Camber’s, 010 ciate -Street, - Lancaster. ;7:45 p.m., County Bee <Cohtinued:'on Page TO) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 5, 1966 wick Township, and is solicitor for the Borough of lititz Although ticket sales for the affair closed Wednesday, No vember 2, assooition president Clarence Stauffer of Ephrata R 1 suggested that anyone not having yet purchased a ticket could contact him on the chance a few extra tickets might become available Milk Hearings Set For 71 Fed. Market Orders The U S. Department of Ag riculture announced this week that it wall hold area-wide hearings to consider the ap propriate level of fluid milk (Class I) prices to be set be ginning December 1966 for all 71 federal milk marketing or ders The hearings will be held at four different locations during the-.week of Nov. 14 Times 'dflfE"pla'ces of the -heatings will be announced later, USDA said. Consumer and Marketing Service officials said the hear ings were requested by repre sentatives of dairy farmers who said anticipated reduc tions in prices under current provisions of the marketing orders threaten to reduce the supply of milk in their areas below the level needed to sup ply consumers. (Continued on Page 8) ice to the people of the 9th Congressional District, Mrs Wiv'd! said In announcing the recogni tion dinner, the associations stressed that the public is m vited, and urged all members of the farming community to support this effort to honor (Continued on Page 3) —— Achievement Awards Presented To 72 Outstanding County 4-ITers Seventy-two 4-H members received awards for outstand ing achievement Thursday at the third annual Lancaster County 4-H Achievement Night The affair was held at the Penn Manor High School, and was presided over by county 4-H Queen Judy Buckwalter of Lititz R 3. Heading the list’ uhder the national awards program were state winners Averril Royer, 2025 Oregon Pike, Lancaster, and Eric Stoner, 1051 Eden Rd., Lancaster. Tho award for outstanding junior leader, a silver tray, was presented to Nancy Rds ser, Leola Rl, in absentia. Also winning awards for derffiohstrations at the state lev- John W. Scott Scott Reelected Grange Head At State Convention At its recent 9tth annual convention the Pennsylvania State Grange elected John W. Scott to his third term as State Grange Master The convention, held at New Castle, Pa., was attended by 2200 Grangers, including 601 voting delegates Scott, a well-known Butler County farmer, has been ex tremely active in state agricul tural and legislative affaus since elected to his first term as Master in 1962 In National Grange activities he has served as secietary, as chairman of the agricultural committee, and as gatekeeper In the field of education, Scott serves on the advisoiy council of the State Board of Education, and on the advisoiy committee for vocational and technical schools A member of the education committee of the Pennsylvania State Cham ber of Commerce, he is also past president of the Slippery Rock Area and Butler County School Boards On the opening day of the Pennsylvania Farm Show ear- (Continued on Page 8) el were Audrey Yunginger and Kathy Ney, both of Mariet ta HI, for their livestock dem onstration, and Thomas Hous er, Lampeter, for livestock -conservation demonstration County winners in public speaking were William Hous er, Lampeter; and Carol Hess, Mount Joy R 2 Additional awards were pre sented to the six dozen out standing county 4-H’ers for wins in various classes and events including, junior and senior agriculture and home economics demonstrations, county dress revue; national 4-H week exhibit awards to four, 4-H dubs; flower and vegetable, entomology, rabbit, ((hntinued on Page 8) County Poultrymen Urged To Support State & Local Assns.; Elect 4 Directors In the past 30 yeais mem- beiship m the Pennsylvania Poultiy Federation has di opped from 8000 to 566 Waltei Wheelock, vice piesident of the state fedeiation, told neat ly 300 poultrymen, wives, and allied industrymen at the coun ty association’s annual banquel meeting Thursday night at the Plain & Fancy Faim Restau rant that this was a danger ous situation for the Pennsyl vania poultry industiy “Since poultrymen, in par ticular, and farmers, in gen eral, represent only about six percent of the popula tion today it is important that your state and local as sociations have large percent age memberships if they are to truly represent the poul try industry,” Wheelock said. He urged the county poul trymen to support the poul try federation so that the federation could speak for a majority of the state’s poul trymen. Wheelock noted that the chairman of the membership committee was a Lancastei Countian, Robert D. Hill, Jr 1918 Lltitz Pike. POULTRY BANQUET SPEAKER Orvei H. Cock erel of the Watt Publishing Company shown with 1966 Lancaster County Poultry Princess Lilli Ann Wivell. Miss Wivell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Wivell of Columbia Rl, was a guest of the county poultry asso ciation at its annual meeting Thursday night at the Plain & Fancy Farm Restaurant, Bird-in-Hand. L. F. Photo $2 Per Year Men And Ideas Henduck Wentink, Mailer & Bushong, Inc, serving as mas ter of ceremonies, introduced the featured speaker, Orvei H. Cockiel, desciibing him as one who had woiked his way out of Appal? chia long before the (Continued on Page 8) Textron Sells Beacon Feed Div. To Employees It was announced this week that, effective immediately, the Beacon Feed Unit of Textron, Inc had been purchased by a group of thirty present and former Beacon employees According to Wilbur L. Townsend, who will head the new company, the firm will be known as Beacon Milling Co., Inc., and will continue to oper ate all present Beacon feed manufacturing plants, includ ing the York facility. Alem B. Smith, who is vice president of the new, 30-stock holder company, is a former resident of York and former (Continued on Page 9)
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