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 <and lessened farm ac
tivity.
Machinery most frequently
killed youngsters between 10 and
20 and people ovei 45 Di owning
took mostly young lives Seventj
percent of the drowning victims
were under 20, 17 peicent weie
under 5. Accidents with firearms
were heavily concentiated
among people between 10 and
20 years of age.
Falls, the fomth highest cause
of on-farm deaths, took only a
small toll among people under
50 But they weie the leading
cause of death among oldsters
Two-fifths of all fall deaths oc
curred in the 70 or-ovei gioup
The Coin Belt had more on
farm fatalities than any othei
region in 1967, the Mountain
States the fewest Howevei,
when compared with the number
of people living on faims, the
Mountain States had the highest
late of fatalities 28 9 pei 100,-
000 people The late was lowest
in the Delta States, 15.2 per
100,000.
' Top Corn And Tobacco
Shown By 4-H Boys
In Annual Round-Up
A pair of County 4-H boys
showed top hands of tobacco
Tuesday to win the annual 4-H
tobacco Round-Up in the Farm
and Home Center
Arthui Reist, 13-yeai-old sou
of Mr and Mis Arthui L Reist,
1050 Eden Road, Lancaster,
showed the best wrappers and
Don Thomas, 14 son of Mr and
Mis John Thomas. Millersville
Rl, showed the best fillers Reist,
a membei of the Lititz Manheim
Club showing for ' the second
time, was second in both fillers
and wiuppeis in the 1968 show
Don, a Penn Manor Commun
ity Club member showed Tobacco
at the annual event 4 years, but
nevei won before
Maik Hess and Ray Link, both
of Agvvay, Inc, called the win
ning entnes of good quality with
good standing
Arthur also had the best tobac
co record book and was followed
by his brother Alfied in second
place
In the 4-H corn show at the
same time and place, Steven Ney
15, son of Mr and Mrs Harold
Ney, Marietta Rl, showed the
best coin Harold, a member of
the Elizabethtown-Donegal Club
4-H CORN SHOW. Steven
Ney, Marietta R 1 showed the
best 10 ears in the show held
with the tobacco show.
L. F. Photo
52.00 Per Year
also had the best com in tho
show in 1967 Judge John Weid
raan, Pioneer Seed Com Com
pany at Mount Joy, said the win
ning entry was sowed with ex
cellent unifoimity
Eugene Bollmgei, Denver R 2,
had the top com lecoid book foi
lowed by Richaid Yumnge*,
Marietta Rl
Placmgs aie as rollows
Wiappei Division, Ist place,
Aithur Reist, 1050 Eden Road,
Lancaster, 2nd, Don Thomas,
Millersville Rl, 3id, Cail Thomas
Millersville Rl, 4th, Richard
Yunmger, Mauetta Rl sth, Al
lied Reist, 1050 Eden Road, Lan
caster, 6th, Audisy Yunmger,
Marietta Rl, 7th Steven Ney,
Mauetta Rl, Blh, Philip Bixler,
Marietta Rl, 9th Darwin Nissley,
Mount Joy, 10th, Keuy Boyd,
Ephrata, 11th, Eugene Clemens,
Conestoga R 2; 12th, Eugene Bol
linger, Denver R 2, and 13th,
Marlin Bollinger, Denver R 2.
, Filler Division, Ist, Don Thont
. as, 2nd, Carl Thomas, 3rd, Rich
[ ard Yumnger, 4th, Alfred Reist;
, sth, Arthur Reist, 6th, Audrey
Yuningei, 7th, Eugene Clemens;
Bth, Philip Bixlei, 9th, Steven
Ney, 10th, Keny Boyd; 11th,
Eugene Bolhngei, 12th Marlin
Bollinger, and 13th, Darwin Nis
sley
Recoid Book Scores for Tobac
co Ist Aithur Reist, 2nd Alfred
Reist, 3rd, Eugene Clemens; 4th
Dai win Nisslej, and sth Audrey
Yumnger
Com Division Ist, grand cham
pion, Steven Ney, 2nd, Eugene
Bollinger, 3rd, Mailm Bollinger;
4th, Donald Bolhngei, sth, Judy
Thomas, Milleisville Rl, 6th,
Richaid Yuningei, 7th, Philip
Bixler, Bth, Audrey Yumnger;
and 9 th, Keuy Boyd.
Recoid Book Seoies for Com:
Ist, Eugene Bollinger; 2nd,
Richaid Yuningei, and 3id, Judy
Thomas.
Open And FFA
Tobacco Show
Set Jan, 8
The Annual Lancaster County
Tobacco Show will be held on.
Thiucday afternoon January Bth,
at the Faim and Home Center in
the Extension basement meeting
looms To get to the Farm and
Home Centei, entei Seivice Rd.
f' om the Manheim Pike (Rt.
£72) just South of where the
pika goes undei the Route #3O
Bypass
The show will be conducted
accoidmg to the following sched
ule
10 00-11 30 am —F F A entries
due.
12 00- 1 30 p m.—Adult entries
due
1-30 p m —Judging be
gins
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