■VOL. 12 NO. 1 Lancaster-Chesler County Farmer? Honor Paul Dague At Testimonial Nearly 400 Mentis of retir ing Congressman Paul B.’ Dague gathered last Friday nigM at a - testimonial dinner given for Dague 'by ithe Farm ers’ Associations of Lancaster and Chester County. The affair, held at the Dutch Town. & Country Inn, Vintage, was in honor of the Congressman’s “2ft Years of Outstanding Serv ice to Agriculture.” ■Master of Ceremonies Boyd Gantley, of Interstate Milk Producers Cooperative, read messages praising Dague from former President Dwight D. „ Eisenhower, Governor William Scranton, Senator Hugh Scott, and (Pennsylvania Farmers As sociation president Gerald A Biggs Gai'tley also introduced distinguished guests, including (■Continued on Page 9) Temporary Fluid Milk Prices To j Dairysuen Set For Next S Months :| - > 'Tb* - _ Departmentof; Agnjsulturg amended; -federal milk marketing orders where necessary to set fluid milfe (Class I) prices to dairy farmers during the next eight months at levels USDA says .will moderate any declines un der the 70 federal milk mar keting orders ! ’ The Consumer and Market ing Service 'said the amend ments,, identical to provisions ‘of a final decision issued Nov 23, will be effective Dec. 1 1 Approval of dairy farmers in all markets was determined 'through polling their dairy cooperative associations. USDA officials said the tem THE IDEA FOR A FARM AND HOME CENTER was born under a tree cn'Elmer Esbchshade’s lawn On May 18, 1960; so said Leyi Brubaker, .co-chairman of the Lancaster County .Farm & Home Foundation Fund, this week. One of the final steps, in achieving- that Center occurred on Monday witß the forma! signing of the building contract. Mrs. Landis Myer, secretary of the FfleH Foundation, is shown adding hfcr signature^to the contract. She is ilanked'by B. Snavely-Garber, presideht,'Jeft, and Raymond ,R. Buckwglter, right.-who* represented contractor. Ray Klump* Inc-Standing, left, is Lawrence Skromm'e, r Vitfe "president, and'"Jacob - Kurtz,', Jr.,. btdlding-committee-chairman. r ■' •-* 'V . *“--7 - -'/L. F. Photo 93# Vs-* Paul B. Dague - .!■' ' - V !j7pdh&ry? .a farmers ’ » price 3 levels * generally 'higher: L than otherwise expected over; *■ tiie next eight months _‘ t “The overall Impact,” ' offi * cials said, “will be to limit any • sharp price declines at- the ■ farm level related to changing^ production conditions through' - the winter and spring months, - thus enabling dairy producers' j to make their production plans' with greater certainty ” The amended. orders are i based on evidence received by I USDA at emergency public r hearings, held during .Novem ber at Cleveland, St Louis, (Continued on Page 6) A "Spring Day’s Idea” Approaches Fruition Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 3; 1966- H. Seiverling ’67FFAPres. Howeit Seiverlins was elect ed president of the Lancaster County Red Rose Chapter Fu ture Farmers of America Mon day night. In installation cere monies planned for January 23 at Elizabethtown High School, Seiverling will succeed Robert Weaver of Lampeter- Strasburg High School Seiverling, a junior at War wick High School, is the 16- year-old son of Mr and Mrs Harold Seiverling, Lititz Rl. He is currently president of , the Warwick PFA Chapter, and was this year’s Ayrshire calf .recipient at the Lampeter Fair in September. Other officers elected at the County PFA meeting held at (Continued on Page 9) Howett Sciverling CHIEF BENEFACTOR OP THE BUDDING FARM & HOME CENTER Elmer L. Esbenshade Wednesday afternoon plunged a gilded spade into a sec tion of the 10.5-acres of.land he donated to the F & H Foundation for "the new Center. Official ground-breaking represented the final preliminary step In the six-year campaign to.give Lancaster County its own Farm & Home Center. Farm & Home friends 'and officials looking on are: (from left) Mrs. Robert Nolt; Mrs. Landis Myer; Mrs. Paul Witman; John H. Herr; Victor Longenecker; B. Snavely Garber; Jacob. Kurtz,'Jr.; Levi Brubaker; Elmer L.' Esbenshade; E. L 'Robertson; Noah W. Kreider, Sr.; M. M. Smith; Samuel A". Dum; Raymond R. Buckwalter; and Mayor Thomas Monaghan. _ L. ,F. Photo 23 Lancaster County Future Farmers Earn Keystone Degrees Twenty-three Future Farm ers of America, - members of eight Lancaster County Chap ters, wilt be among 207 Penn sylvania -FFA boys receiving the coveted Keystone Farmer Degree in' January, according to James C Pink, FFA State Advisor and supervisor of ag ricultural education in the De partment- of Public Instruction. This honor, the highest de gree available at the state lev el, is limited to two percent of the state’s membership It will be .conferred during the FFA mid-winter convention, January 11, in the Forum of the Education, Building at Harrisburg. Conferring the de grees will be the FFA State Officers headed by Glenn Web er, .Mohnton, R 2, state -presi-- dent. ~ rv -■wvrS'- ■ ■ ■Repr6sen ; tiatives.' ! .of thefgEtoi-,; casters Cmihfe,. Farm , iFplndatioruan'd, contractor Ray Klump, Inc. signed- a contract in 'the, amount of $460,665 Mop- 1 diay for building the" Lancas ter County Farm & Home Cen ter. . _ Launching this long-awaited and momentous’ event with .their, contract signatures were B. Snavely Garber, Willow Street > R 2, and Mrs. Landis -Myer, New Holland HI,-pres ident land secretary, respective ly, of the Lancaster County Farm & -Home - Foundation Representing the contractor $2 Per Year The outstanding Future Farmers in Lancaster County who will be receiving .the Key stone Degree are: Elizabethtown H. S.: Leon (Continued on Page 7) USDA Amends Egg Products Inspection Plan In an effort to further assure a Salmonella-free egg-product, the United States Department of Agriculture this week amended the -regulations of, and added some teeth to, the voluntary egg products in spection -program. The amend ments become effective Janu ary 1, 1967. (Continued on Page 7) ■S wis^Raymond' _ Contracts yere signed at the r law of William' Maim, 53 N S<t., Lancaster. ■ A further - step, toward , the building" completion date, which has been set for early next - fall, was (taken Wednes day when Mends and officials of the iFarm & Home Center gathered at the 10.5-acre, Route 30 Bypass site for a ground breaking ceremony. The original bid price <*£ $457,911 was adjusted to the present figure when it was learned that certain state and (Continued on Page 12)
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