Modern Noah's Ark
Nuclear Fall-out
Shelter For Cows
In the Chicago Sun-Times “In Omaha, home of America’s
(Oct. 21) Philip Clarke writes Strategic Air Command, they
about “an amazing farm build- take both world defense and the
ing stands outside Omaha, Neb., milk supply very seriously Rob
just off Highway 31 a nuclear erts conceived the idea for a cow
fall-out shelter for cows. You shelter after attending a civil
have to look hard f or it because defense course in Omaha with a
all you can see are a couple of dozen of his dairy executives
PI !^ S seeking ° U t °f the ground „ As Ed Andersen, general
Built at a cost of $25,000 the
cow shelter is the brainchild of safety supervisor at the Roberts
60-year-old J Gordon Roberts, Dairy Farm, puts it ‘What’s the
president and chairman of the use of having a lot of live people
board of the Robeits Dairy Com- left after a nuclear attack if we
mission. can’t feed them’ By keeping
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“The underground cow bunk
er has enough room to house
two bulls in two 7-by-12 foot
pens and 200 cows The animals
enter the shelter through a 14-
foot wide door where a huge sign
proclaims- ‘War Sacrifice foi the
U S.A., suicide for the USSR,
nonsense for everybody ’ The
opening is shielded from gam
ma ray exposure by a solid con
ciete waffle
“A 10,000-gallon tank five feet
underground stores water pump
ed from a nearby well Food is
stored in the form of high-pio
lein feed pellets Also included
in the cow shelter complex is a
power house, accommodation foi
the farm personnel caung for
the cattle and food and water
supplies for 15 people
e SAVES WORK AND TIME
• BIRDS EAT BETTER—PRODUCE BETTER
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“In one expeument, 30 of the
Roberts heifeis spent two weeks
in the shelter Only two of them
had to have tranquillizers (also
specially stored) In fact, nothing
has been foi gotten for the com
fort of the cows Manui e is wash
ed away through and under-flooi
diainage system The subtle
thing about that in cold war
teims is that it slopes fiom west
to east ”
The Emancipation Proclama
tion as written bv President Lin
coln is still in existence In 1864
the document was sold at a ba
zaar to benefit wounded solrlieis
Later, the New Yoik legislatuie
Emmett Littleton Ashford is
the only Negro umpire in the
major leagues
Phone 354-5168
Lancaster Farming. Saturday. November 15.1969—17
SECOND SECTION
Still In Existence
D. M. Wolgemuth
Celebrates 50th
Anniversary
Daniel M Wolgemuth of Wol
gemuth Bros, Inc feed manu
facture! s at Floun, is celebrat
ing his 50th anmveisary in busi
ness
It was November 1, 1919 that
he and his father. Hiram opened
the Wolgemuth feed mill at its
n csent location
Recently, he was honored with
a paity attended by neaily 100
including guests and employees
and then families
Mai tin Millei sales manager of
Wolgemuth Biothers, was mas
tei of ceremonies
Following the banquet. Don
P ikes of Ephrata, executive
secietaiy of the Pennsylvania
Millei and Feed Dealers Asso
ciation, gave the puncipal ad
diess on a “This is Yoiu Life’
theme
One of the highlights of the
evening was the piesentation to
Wolgemuth by his two sons Jay
and Donald ol a huge oil paint
ing, which now hangs in the com
pany office
A smpiise to the employees
was the presentation of hand
some v'all plaques given for
loyal seivice Each carried the
numbei of yeais which the em
ployee has been with Wolge
muth Biotheis
Plaques given and numbei of
years seivice included
Daniel M Wolgemuth, 50
yeais
Mai tin K Millei. 39 years
Ralphs Obeiholtzei, 35years.
livm H Ginder, 29 yeais
Elmei S Foi wood. 23 years,
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