AS AN AID TO DAIRYMEN, Aaron
Greif (right). Area Farm Sales Manager
for Agway, explains operation of the new
Breeding Control Center during sessions of
the 1969 Agway Dairy Enterprise School at
Carlisle last week. From the left are
ion
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Ephrata Fair
The 51st. Annual Street Fair
will officially open on Wednes
day September 24 at 7 p.m. with
one of the largest and most
colorful parades in Eastern Pen
nsylvania. (Rain date - Septem
ber 25.) The fair continues
through Saturday, September
27. Participating in the paiade
will be bands; drum and bugle
corps; marching units; floats;
Miss Lancaster County and Miss
Lancaster County Fire Chief
contestants, which two hour
parade annually attracts more
than 65,000 spectators
A carnival spirit will prevail
throughout the four-day event
as an estimated 200,000 persons
throng the giant foui block Mid
way . . . the oldest and largest
street fair of its kind in Penn
(Contmued on Page 19)
New Holland
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. September 6.1969
SECOND SECTION
PENB Responds To Boycott
A well-organized group of pick-up in their newspapers, the
housewives have launched a combined circulation of which
carefully engineered consume) totals nearly one million.
boycott of meat departments in in addition to the recipe re
the Long Island N Y area last leases, a supply of material
pointing up the terrific nutri-
Calling themselves “FLP” tional and economical value of
(For Lower Prices), the group, eggs, turkey and fowl, is being
who pronounce their name furnished.
“FLIP” got together last month Fiesh or frozen turkey is in
to combat ever-growing food ample supply either as whole
prices, particularly in the meat birds, parts, rolls or roasts,
department. These are available at 1968 valu-
The sharp sting of the boy- es
cott, felt by the targeted super- Fowl —or hens fresh,
market meat departments, was frozen or canned are terrific
reported in the August 18 issue for budgetwise homemakers
of Supermarket News and at- determined to combat rising
tests to the initial success red meat prices,
achieved by the organized boy- ~
cotting and picketing of Long
Island residents. NeW CoiUltV
Responding to the current m m « « ,
FLP popularity, the three Long IVICniDCrS JOUI
Island daily newspapers . . . w * i ■ • a
the Long Island Press, News- IiOIStCITI ASSII.
day, and the Suffolk Sun, have
begun featuring meatless menus Dairymen from Pennsylvania
in their woman's sections. made up the second largest
In phone conversations with Sroup of new members recently
each of the paper’s food editors, approved for Holstein-Friesian
Howard Helmer, PENB’s east- Association of America Of the
ern representative, has arrang- individuals and firms ad
ed to furnish all of the papers fitted during the recent Board
with a generous supply of of Directors meeting, 197 were
PENB photo-recipe releases of from Pennsylvania,
hearty egg main dishes for use Forty-four states were repre
on the papers’ food pages. sented on the roster of new
All three food editors assured memberships Other state groups
Helmer that the egg recipes the front ranks include Was
would be receiving excellent (Continued on Page 23)
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