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Farmers’ Assn.
Blasts Tobacco
Tax Proposal
At a special meeting of its
board ot directois eailv this
week, the Lancaster County
Farmers' Association passed a
resolution opposing House Bill
1151, which would impose a 35
percent tax on tobacco pro
ducts.
(In the latter part of the
week It was reported that
Governor Raymond Shafer
had backed off on the tobacco
. tax idea, and would seek his
revenue increase firm other
_ sources).
In registeung its protest the
association noted that more
than 75 percent of the cigar
tobacco raised in the U.S. is
, grown in Pennsylvania, with
Lancastei County accounting
for nearly all of this production.
County association president
Noah W, Wenger of Stevens, Rl
stated that. "Considering, the
. fact that the basic raw material'
- for so many cigars is produced"
, ip “quantities in pijr
the,
and • manufacturing'
fmisjx-i
eo moducts jmcurs in -
it is apparent that this .lav ‘
. wquld be detrimental.” - -
.Wenger further pointed out
that Two' of the' ten states wMch
bad‘instituted cigar tares, re-
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.County Pork Producers Slate
July Ist For Annual Field Day
The Lancaster County Swine
Producers Association, Inc., will
hold its annual field day activi
ties on Saturday, July 1, at 10
am, at the Masonic Homes
Farm in Elisabethtown.
PORK QUEEN
According to an announce :
merit this week by association
secretary fames Z. Martin of .
Christiana Rl, selection of a
Lancaster Counuty Pork Queen
will be one of the field day.
features. The young lady named
will represent the pork industry
in Lancaster County, and will ■
compete with other county ;
queens tot the state pork queen ->
title. The iatlei contest will foe
Local Farmer To Visit Poland
On July sth, Mr and Mrs
Henry H Hackman of Man.-
heim R 2 will begin a seven
week tup to Poland, with stop
overs planned m Germany, \u
goslavia, and Austria.
Although Hackman wears
many hats conservationist,
farmer, and school teacher
this visit will be an unofficial,
person-to-peison contact with a
friend he met on a previous
official"visit to Poland.
The mam puipose of the trip,
Hackman ~said,-io to visit Ed
mund Apolinarski who is su
pervisor of a 100,0-acre govern-,
merit farm in west Poland, near
the city of Po/nan. Hackman
LANCASTER COUNTY Dairy Princess for 1967,
Anna Mae Donough, as she jjs being crowned by retiring
Dairy Pniicass Carol Arm Hess. Miss Donough wall rep
resent ’the <&«nffcy s s dairy industry an the coming year
held as part of the State Swine
Field Day activities at Penn
State on July L3th
Martin notes that Jim Horton,
swine herdsman -at Masonic
Homes Farm, wall serve a? host ‘
tor the county event. In Jhg ,
youth judging class, the winner
will be awarded a choice of a
purebred Berkshire cr Duroc
gilt pig trom the Masonic herd
Age restriction Cm 'this class is
.16 years old, or'younger
Lunch wilt- he held in 'the ;
Masonic picnic area, with ham ;
sandw. iches and cold drinks pro- ’
v ided by the county swine asso 1
.ciation, Martin said. While thej
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OFF TO EUROPE
first met Apolmarski in 1960
as a member of a cultural ex
change group which, went to
Poland under the sponsorship
of tire Church of the .Brethren
Hackman lived -four weeks in
the Apolinarsla home, and the
farm supervisor returned the
visit m 1962, staying eight
weeks with Hackmans at then
Manheim area farm. '
Hackman, who is vice chair
man of the Lancaster County
Soil & Water Conservation Dis
trict, as interested an. seeing
the changes that have been
made in Polish; agriculture
since his 1960 trip." He notes
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 17,1967
Small Grains Field
Day Here Jiuine 2<Df!h
The 1967, Pennsylvania Small
Grains Field Day will be held
at the field research station
near Landisville on June 20lh,
it was announced, this week
Farmei s, seedgrowers. seed
dealeis and others interested
in improved varieties of small
giams will be among those at
tending the half-day program
at the stale experimental iarm,
beginning at 1.30 pm
The program will ‘feature
.talks by specialists from the
State Department of Agricul
ture and from. Penn State Uni
versity and will fee concJuded
with a tom of the small gram
reseau'h plots conducted by
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Henry H. fliclEwan
Anna Mae Donough Wins
’67 Dairy Princess Title
A petite. 17-year-old brunette
from Manheim Rl was chosen
Tuesday night to represent
Lancaster County’s vast dairy
industry during the coming
year.
Judges for the Lancaster
County Dairy Princess Pageant,
held at the Host Town Motel,
selected Anna Mae Donough as
the 1967 County DairyPnnceso
Named first runnerup was Lois
Ann Clymer ot 1853 Hemp
stead Road, Lancaster, she will
assume the dairy princess’ du
ties providing Miss Donough
Fay Stoner Tops 4-H Strawberry
Exhibit; Keeps Title In Family
By winning “Best in Show",
and taking first place in total
score. Fay Stoner enabled the
Stoner family of 1051 Eden
Road to retain the 4-H Straw-
berry title it won m four o£
the last five years. ‘
Fay is- the 13-year-old-dsugh-
ter of ~Mr. and Mrs H. Ray-
mond Stoner Her brother,
Eric, showed the best berries
EVEN HER SHADOW seems anxious to shore in
this picture 'as Pay Stoner shows her prL2e-winn!m!g, 4-H
strawberry exhibit. The sparkling red beauties thlart won
the title for this young lady in her second year of com -
petition were a Catsfcdl variety L F Photo
$2 Per Year
were unable to serve Second
runnerup was Fannie Louise
Kibier of Washington Boro Rl.
Miss Donouch is the daugh
ter of Mi and Mrs Paul R.
Donough Her parents operate
a 50-head Hobtem dairy farm.
The oldest ot six children, Miss
Donough nas been active in
4-H sewing and cooking clubs,
and m the Red Rose Baby
Beef & Lamb Club. At the
1965 State Farm Show she had
the champion pea of three with
her Shropshire market lambs.
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in the annual event in 1963,
’64, and ’66 Last year Fay
finished right behind Eric, in
second place
Miss Stoner’s two-quart, Cat
skill entry was placed over the
show’s seven other exhibits by
judge I'aui Rowe. S'trasburg
area fruit and vegetable grow
er la total score, based .on ex
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