•lancMter Farming. Saturday. November 16.1968 B— j MR. AND MRS. WILLIS B. KRANTZ, held at Williamsport. State President Fred Quarryville Rl, (center) were honored this Reiser (left) made the presentation and week as Region II “Outstanding Young William Fredd, Vo-Ag Instructor at Solan- Farmers” at the Pennsylvania Young co High School is pictured at right. Farmers Association Annual Convention • Yost (Continued from Page 1) national young farmers institute at Dallas, Texas, next month as this state’s representative. Widely known in Lancaster County for his plowing achieve ments, Yost won the county con tour championship for the past two years. This year, he also placed third in the state plowing competition at Hershey. As Region II vice president, he represented the PYFA this year at the young farmers con vention at Virginia He was chairman of the farm show com mittee last year and served on the show’s awards committee. ?V Graduate A graduate of Pequea Valley High School, Yost is a member of the Bart Fire Co; the Lan caster County Holstein Assn and represents the Garden Spot Young Faimers Association in young farmer activities. Krantz, was named for his farming program and commun ity activities A native of Strasburg Town ship, he bought and moved to his East Drumore Township farm in 1962 In 1966 he bought a joining farm. His total acreage is now 240, approximate ly 200 tillable The Kiantzs’ have a grade Holstein dairy, • Pi tier Elected (Continued Horn Jrage 1) Springs, Berks County was elect ed first vice president, and Eugene Thompson Indiana m Indiana County was elected to the newly created office of sec ond vice president. The PFA concluded its four day conference with the election ol Pitzei as its new president The PFA is a geneial faim or ganization with more than 10,000 faim families The Adams County fruit grow er was a former school teacher prior to his present activities m i miming He taught in public! schools from 1937 to 1941 [ He is a member of BP 0 Eiks Lion= Intel national, Upper Ad?m« School Board South Mountain Fan Boaid, Bendem \ille Cemeteiy Board, Adams County Flint Growers’ Associa tion and the Pennsylvania Hor ticultuie Society. A graduate of Roanoke Col lege, Salem, Va, he and his wife Vnginia, aie the paients of a son Phillip, and a daugh- producing 510 lbs. of butterfat per cow last year. The milk is sold on the Philadelphia mar ket. The land is rolling and they have made extensive soil conservation improvements, working with the Lancaster County Soil Conservation Ser vice. Mrs Krantz, formerly Miriam Kreider of Solanco, daughter of Benjamm ana the late Alice Kreider, has contributed great ly'to their success. She dearly depicts that the farmers wife is “the better half of faming”. The Krantz family consists of four children, two boys and two girls, ranging in ages from 7 to 15 years. They all have farm chores to do. Krantz joined the Solanco Young Farmers in 1963, pre viously attending the Lampeter- Strasburg chapter. He is now serving as president of the So lanco group. The Krantzs’ are members of the Mechanics Grove Brethren Church, where Willis is Superintendent of Sun day School and a Deacon. He has served as secretary of the Local of the Inter-State Milk Producers Coop. They are ac tive in the local P.T.A., Atlantic Breeders’ Coop., and DHIA. In other activities, the Eph rata Young Farmers received their Charter with the state or ganization. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Bollinger, Lititz HI, represented the Ephrata group at the con vention. James Fink, State Supervisor of Ag. Education, presented the charter to Mr, Bollinger. The new chapter has 24 charter members. Other county PYFA chapters represented at the convention were Garden Spot, New Holland; Penn Manor, Millersville; Man heim, Ephrata and the Solanco chapter at Quarryville. Jay Forman, of the Manheim chapter, was named public re lations director of the state association. occur ■flaring .November >and December than daring any other year. Whiteteils are dis turbed by hunters -during the . small game season, which is vm- Deer are being killed at a derway in the Keystone State; near-record rate this year on and move about with increasing Pennsylvania highways, and the frequency during the two-month Game Commission this week period. “Sf Drivers, especially those tra £*«"*»« the next two veling at night, shtndd be v con- Hrif nin* stantly alert ior deer which may f,rrt n J"« suddenly bound onto the road months of 1968 there were 11,-- , n awin/uH Driver* Should Watch For Deer Commission Research Chief ‘ ' Harvey A. Roberts. This almost A® optimist is a fellow who matches last year’s record pace.' has yet to open hi's morning More deer-vehicle collisions newspaper. 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