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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
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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.
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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
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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-
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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,
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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
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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
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