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Recognition
Given 4-H
Dairy Youth
The high record book scores
compiled by Lancaster County
4-H Youth with dauy pi ejects
v. ere scheduled to be recognized
last night, at the annual 4-H
Dairy Banquet in the Methodist
Church at Quarryville
Avernl Royer, 2025 Oregon
Pike, Lancaster, had the top
recoid book score of all bieeds
«ith 3S points Miss Ro\ei was
top in tne Holstein Bleed The
top of the Guernsej bleed,
Jojcc S'oltzfus, Ronks Rl, sco ed
97 0
Baibain Aaion Qua ivvillo
Rl, had the top scoie in the
Jeisej iweed wth 954 points,
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Inter-State Meet
Mondoy Night
The annual supper meeting for
Inter-State Milk Producers’ Co
operative members will be held
Monday evening, Octobei 27
starting at 7:00 pm at the Plain
and Fancy Faim and Dining
Room In Bird-in-Hand it was
announced this week
Dr. Paul E Hand, Secietary
and Economist for Inter-State
Milk Producers’ Cooperative, will
explain current milk marketing
conditions affecting the members
whose milk is marketed in the
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Ralph Layman
Layman to Head
Vo-Tech School
Ralph Layman, Head Vo-A”
Teacher at Solanco High School,
has been named the new punci
pal of the Brownstown vocational
technical school accoidmg to an
announcement by the Lancaster
County School Board Layman
who lives at 310 Hillcrest Ave
in Quanyville. has been the as
sistant principal at Solanco along
with h% VoiAg duties and is the
current president of the Lan
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CUTTING TURF. Robert Hummer, Manheim Rl, is cut
ting strips of turf Tuesday afternoon. Bob grows the grass
commercially for golf courses and other lawn sodding areas
n - L. Fr Photo
Eshleman Tells Farmers
Everyone Is Too Negative
“What’s good about the Unit
ed States’” asked Congressman
Edwin Eshleman, 16th District,
Washington, D C, and he ans
wered his own question for local
farmeis Tuesday night.
Speaking at the 17th Annual
Lancaster County Farmer’s As
sociation Banquet at Plain and
Fancy Restaurant, Eshleman
said, “We have all been talking
negative. Everywhere you look,
in newspapers and on TV, all
you see is a negative attitude
But in the 5,000 years of the his
tory of mankind our democracy
is the best one yet. Even our
enemies admit we have the best
system of government” he said.
Listing ways we are better,
Eshleman said, “We have a free
way of life If we would lose it,
we would appieciate it We even
have the freedom to fail This
implies you have the freedom to
Standard Time
Starts Sunday
Daylight Saving Time which
started the last Sunday in Ap
ril, will come to an end for this
year on Sunday, at 2 a.m.
To retxu n to Standard Time
mm e the hands of yor.r clock
back one hour, oi, as clock
makers lecommcnd, turn them
ahead 11 hours, it all amounts
to the same thing.
Farm Calendar
Satin day. Oct 25 (today)
100 p m Manheim Young
Farmer Gun Shoot
Monday, Oct. 27
27-30 —State" Grange meeting,
Lewistown
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 25. 1960
try in the fust place And fail
ure is not always failure,” he
said.
“And we have free enterprise
That is the only path to dignity
A man must have dignity,” he
said “You can put a man on
welfaxe and give him $l,OOO a
month and you still have not
given him dignity ”
Eshleman pictured the times
in which our nation lives a
pei lod ot crisis that we are “half
way thiough”. But he said, our
crisis is not as bad as our nation
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FARMER'S ASSOCIATION DIREC
TORS, elected Tuesday night are left to
right (standing) John C. Groif, Quarry
ville R 2; Ivan Yost, Christiana Rl; Don
ald Hershey, Manheim R 2 and William
Local Farmer Grows
Velvety Lawn Sod
For Golf Courses
You have heard of local farms
with large acieage ot corn, alfal
fa wheat 01 tomatoes, but have
jou heard of a tarm with green
velvety grass giown for golf
couises and building complexes’
That’s what Robert Hummer has
on his father Eai I’s 114 acre fai m
at Manheim R 1 Thirtj-five aer
es of carpet—feelinj blue gia°s
foi lawns
Bob ieany ijot stalled in this
pioject back when he majoied
in Agronomy and Tuif Manage
ment at Penn Stat p Since that
time he has worked toi many of
the local golt coiuses in this
aiea and recently helped a Phil
adelphia fum stait a tint opera-
Poultry Banquet
Reminder Given
A final leminder of the up
coming Lancaster County Poul
tr> Association Annual Meeting
and Banquet was made this week
by Hoy Erb, Committee Chair
man The Banquet is set for 6 30
a m on Thuisday, October 30, in
Hostetteis’ Banquet Hall, Mt
Joy
The piogiam includes Rev
Martin A Tiostle presenting a
colored slide travelogue of the
United States and a special re
cognition piesentation
Tickets for the event are avail
able from any director or from
Jay Irwin Associate County
Agent in the Farm and Home
Center Reservations must be
made today To do so, call Roy
Erb at 569 1580 The price is
S3JSO
Guhl, Oxford R 2 Seated are Donald Ney,
Marietta Rl; Jim Martin, 567 Delp Road
and Clyde Wivell, Columbia Rl.
$2 00 Per Year
lion \ovv he is growing turf
glass at home
Hummer is not satisfied! witSi
anything but the best grass for
his customers, that is sure.
mix mam different kinds of blue
giass seeds to obtain an excellent
mat ot grass,” he said ‘Some
vai leties ma> grow better tn
cool werthei and others like 'hot
tveathei Some may be resistant
to certam funguses and others
max grow thiough di x weather
bette’ We mix the \ai leties and
get good giowing mixes for
e\ei\ situation’
\nd of couise the energetic
taini'M* u=es Pa Cei lifted Seed,
Put he doesn t ston theie He has
his whole opeiation officially in
spected from beginning to end—>
befo,e and after planting and all
during the 18 month to two-yea*
growing season And b> fallow
ing the regulations he comes up
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Peifer Wins
At 4-H Dressed
Capon Show
A 14-year-old youth took the
grand champion trophy at the
County 4-H Capon Roundup,
Tuesday, for the second time in
four years The other two years
since starting to exhibit dressed
4-H capons at the annual show he
was named reserve champion.
Mike Peifer, son of Mr and
Mrs Mervin Peifer. Manheim
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L. F. Phofeo