VOL. 15 NO. 6 PFA Office Settlement Date Postponed The senamenc aaie for the proposed new Pennsylvania Far mers’ Assoc. Office has been re set for January 15 according to Richard L Prether, Public Re lations Director for the State farm organization The settle ment had been set for Monday but Prether said the paper woik and a number of heanngs in the Camp Hill Boro on zoning chang es held up the final agreement PFA has enteied into a work ing agreement with Irwin’s Dairy Inc to purchase the five year old office building former ly used by them The building is located on the Camp Hill Bv- Pass at 31st Stieet in Camp Hill President John R Pitzer said “By purchasing this building, we will be able to put our en tire operation under one loof” Presently the home office is at 21st and Chestnut Streets in Camp Hill, and they rent addi tional office space The new office has 4,200 square feet of office space and is situated on two acres of land. There is ample parking space surrounding the building. Funds are being solicited from local members foi the project. Coming Next Week The special Lancaster Farm ing Annual Farm Show Issue will be coming your way next week. It will have story pre views of the 54th Annual Pennsylvania State Farm Show; a complete schedule of events; short resumes of the 16 Lancaster County Keystone Farmers plus regular features and local news happenings. Watch for it. - Farm Calendar Monday, Jan. 5 7:30 p.m.—Garden Spot Young Farmers meet, Vo Ag room 7 30 pjn.—Ephiata Young Fann ers meet, Vo-Ag loom Tuesday, Jan. 6 4 30 pm.—Lancaster County Vo- Ag teachers meet, Ephrata High School 730 pm. Manheim Young Farmers meet, Vo-Ag room Wednesday, Jan. 7 7 30 pm—Lancastei bounty Soil and Water Dueclois meet. Farm and Home Center Thursday, Jan. 8 130 pm. Lancastei County Open and Tobacco Show, Faim Cen ter. " . 1 30 pm Southeastem Penn sylvania Nursery "Meeting, Hobday Inn, King of Piussia. 8 00 pm.—Lancaster County Po ultry Directors meet, Farm and Home Center. 4-H TOBACCO SHOW WINNERS are Don Thomas, Mill ersville Rl, (left) and Arthur Reist, 1050 Eden Road, Lan caster. Thomas showed the best hand of fillers at the an nual show Tuesday in the Farm and Home Center and Reist had the best hand of wrappers. L. F. Photo Fatal Farm Accident Rate Rises With Machines The Top Killers Faim machines reaped a grim toll of 912 lives in 1967, thus earning the dubious distinction of being the No. 1 killer on American’s faims In all, some 2.183 people lost then lives in faim accidents that year The number was 18 more than in 1866, despite a 720,000-peison decline in the faim population As a lesult, the fatal accident i?te in 1967 lose to 20 1 per 100,- 000 people, compaied with 18 7 the yeai befoie Of every 10 people who died in on-farm accidents during 1967, four weie killed by machinery Many of these weie accidents in Miss Joyce Stoltzfus Miss Stoltzfus In Guernsey State Contest A local teenage Miss will rep resent Lancastei Countj at the' State Junioi Guernsey Queen Contest to be held in conjunction with the State Faim Show in Harrisburg later this month, ac (Contmued on Page 7) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 3, 1970 which tractors upset and crashed the operators Brownings and fireaim acci dents, second and Imrd in impor tance, claimed the lives of thi ee more Falls, blows, burns, poisons, and other types killed the rest The pi e-teen, teen and “gold en” years were paiticularly dan gerous times of life for farm peo ple Youngsteis between the ages of 10 and 20 accounted for neai ly 21 percent of all accidental deaths Fatalities fci those be tween 25 and 35 weie only 6 pei cent of the total, the fewest for any 10-year age grouping Acci dents rose significantly after age 50 and continued high for oldei people, despite their declining numbers