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NEW VO-AG TEACHER ASSOCIATION OFFICERS for 1967 elected Wed
nesday are, left seated: Robert Elmer, secretary; Lewis Ayers, presi-
vice president.' Standip g, Charles Ackley, Fair Fund treasurer;
Cbapter^dyisers. - .X, EJ Photo
y ©- Ayers
GQuhty Assn. President For 1967
The Lancaster County voca
tional teachers Wednesday
elected. Ephrata High School
r teacher Lewis Ayers , associa
tion president for the coming
year. Ayers, this year’s vice
president, had been acting
- president since- the resignation
of president. Eugene Daugherty
last summer
Other officers elected at the
La* nap e-t e r-Strasburg High
School meeting were: vice
president, Clair Zerby, War
wick; and secretary, Robert
Elmer, Garden Spot Two ad
visers’-to the FFA county chap
ter were also chosen. They’
were, J Richards Wood, So
-1 lancte, one-year term; Richard
.■ Haefeenhei’ger, Penn Manor,
three-year term Chlarles Aok :
ley, .Ephrata, was appointed
i :Ftoir Fund treasurer. -
Regarding the county’s Fair
Punslt expenditures for 1965,
* YortoLancaster area adviser T
Farm Calendar
' December 12 8 pin., Lan
, caster County SWCD direc
‘ itcto 'meet at County Court l
* Sueuse, Lancaster.
December 14—7 30 p.m., Gar
den. Spot Young-Adult Farm
• er Class, “Financing the
’ Farm Business—’Part. 'II”; at
Gtotfen Spot High School.
—7:80 p.m„ Agway dairy
meeting at Leola War Me
anl&rial Bldg Speaker, Ken
, netth Dolge,' nutritionist.'
v - ' —S p.m., Red Rose Baby
} ®ee£ & Lamb Club Christmas
1 at Landisville Elemen
f tery School.
‘ December ‘15—7:39 p.m., Eph
*ata Adult Fanner Class,
‘'lrrigation—Water Sources”.
(At Ephrata. High School.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 10, 1966
M Malin antujlurefed lhat a re
cent audit 'at Harrisburg 'had
found them in order The
amount spent by the county
last year was $1387 59, out of a
quota of $2OOO
Zerby, chairman of the FFA
dues committee, announced
that there were currently" 492
paid-up FFA members in the
county’s nine chapters. Zerby
was appointed representative
to the county Vocational-Tech
nical School Curriculum Plan
ning for ornamental horticul
ture
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IT WAS LANCASTER ALL THE WAY at tihe 4-H Southeastern District Baby
Beef Show Wednesday as Sharon Weaver, New Holland Rl, and William Houser,
Lampeter, led-the sweep by capturing-the grand and reserve champion titles,
respectively. -- - •" - - -- L. F. Photo
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-Meeting December 13
The annual meeting of the
’ Producers Cooperative Ex
[ change, Coatesvdlle, will be
| held next Tuesday evening, De
cember 13, at Hostetter Dining
Service, Mount Joy.
The meeting, which wall be
gan at 7:30 p.m, will be con
; ducted by president Harry P
| Metz, Belleville.
Headlining the evening’s bus
, iness will be the election of
three new directors for three
year terms Directors whose
terms expire are Lester M.
Gehman, Manheim R 2; John E
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Futures Trading b Price
Insurance, Cattlemen T old
More than 400 Lancaster
County cattlemen jammed the
sale barn at the Lancaster
Stock Yards Thursday night to
learn how cattle futures
trading could make their oc
cupations more profitable
Levi Brubaker, a well-known
cattle feeder in his own right,
served as master of ceremon
ies for the meeting which was
co-sponsored by Reynolds &
Company, the Lancaster Live
stock Exchange, and John W
Eshelman & Sons
In emphasizing the value of
making use of all phases of the
marketing system, Biubakei
said, “If we lose out on the
marketing end of our business,
we waste much of the effort
we put into production ”
Richaid Reed, of Reynolds
& Company, told the cattle
feeders that “Most people
think of futures trading as
speculation. Actually, all fu
tures trading is a form of price
i '
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Lancaster County 4-Frers Sweep
S.E. District Baby Beef Show
Despite constantly threaten
ing sides W&dndHday, and. tradi
tionally strong Chester County
Angus competition, Lancaster
County 4-H youths found a lot
of sunshine at ’this year’s
Southeastern Distract Baby
Beef Show They swept five of
the six breed titles* and re
tained’ possession of the show
manship honors.
Leading the 134-head field
of club steers at the four
county show, held at the Lan
caster Stock Yards, was a 890-
pound Angus named “Ikey”
This Eisenhower Farm-bred
$2 Per Ye«
■ insurance. It allows an indi
vidual, or a firm, to pass along
unwanted risks to those will
ing to take the risks in the
hope of making a profit.”
In defining several common
market terms, Reed said, “If
you are Tong’ in the market,
you have bought, and own, a
futures contract; if you are
‘short’, you have sold a con
tract and intend to buy it ’back
later, or take delivery of the
merchandise”
The futuies trading market
is not used for the cash deliv
ery of cattle, Reed said. It is
a “paper transaction” He
i added, “The chances are 1000
, to 1 you’ll never m'ake deliv
; ery of the cattle”.
The trading of live cattle fu
> tures began in 1964 on the
s Chicago Mercantile Exchange,
i It was felt from the beginning,
> Reed said, that success in the
- futures venture would depend
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l-.f.. f . ■“j.'Li. . s , «.
steer, shown by Sharon- WBaxt
er of New Holland Rl, cap*
hired the > grand champion
rosette, enabling Lancaster
County to break Chester Coun
ty’s - four-year strangle-hoW
over this annual event.
Earlier in the season’s show
circuit, Miss Weaver, the fif
teen-year-old daughter of Mr,
and- Mrs. ' Lester M. Weaver,
had shov/n Ikey to the grand
championship at the Ephrata
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Frey Cow, Herd
Top Oct. DHIA
The October Red Rose DeSiry
Herd Improvement Association
report released this week
showed J Mbwery Frey, Jr.,
401 Beaver Valley Pike, Lan
caster, on top with high cow
and tied for high herd honors
for the month
A registered Holstein in the
Frey herd completed the asso
ciation’s highest 395-day lacta
tion with a record of 21,285
pounds -of. milk and 982 pounds
of butterfat Second high cow
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Temperatures for the next
five’ days are expected to
average much above the noi>
mal range of 41 to 25 de
grees,, says the weatherman.
He predicts the mild tem
peratures will hold fairly
steady throughout the period.
Precipitation in the form
of showers at .the beginning
and the end of the period
may total more.than. li-inch.