At Grassland FFA Banquet
Ressler Gets Graybill Award
Lee Ressler of East Earl the highest chapter award He
RDI received the Leon M is chaptei president
Gra\ bill Memoiial awaid at the Lany Horst captured the Red
annual Giassland Chapter FFA Rose Star Faimei award, the
banquet last week at Garden highest at the county level
Spot High School cafeteria. The Star Gieenhand awaid to
A senior and FFA member at the top first year FFA membei
the high school. Resslei was went to Delmai Weaver, biothei
selected by Gaiden Spot faculty of Nelson
for his leadeiship, scholaiship All thiee stai awaids weie
and chaiactei based on the young men’s agu
The awaid was established in
1960 in memoiy of Leon M
Giajbill, a chapter FFA mem
ber who tvas killed in a tractoi
accident
Ressler was one of many
chapter FFA members and
friends of FFA honored at the
banquet, which was attended by
about 250 persons from the New
Holland area faim community
Nelson E Weavei received
the chapter star faimer awaid,
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For entertainment at th,e Grassland Chapter banquet,
three FFA members ‘“operated” on a fourth member with
shop tools. Left to right are Barry Martin, Art Brenneman
and Mike Martin. The unfortunate patient is Ken Fox.
Easter, Eggs, Spring—All Go Together
By Mrs. Richard C. Spence
Lancaster Farming Staff Writer
Easter, eggs and spring have
been associated foi longei than
man can lemembei So long, in
fact, that the true ougin of tbe
association has been lost and
theie aie now as manv tales and
legends about the thiee as any
one has time to heai But many
aie imeiesting and woith the le
telling
The egg was associated with
Spring even befoie Eastei be
came a holy day in much of the
woild the egg was a symbol of
feitilitv and new life, which weie
veiy much a pait ol pagan
Spnng festivals
Anothei development of the
Spring festival customs was the
Eastei rabbit, newly out of .his
cultural piogiam leadership
and paiticipation in activities
FFA creed contest awaid
winner was Ken Fox
Foundation awaids went to
the following FFA membei s
Agri-business Off Farm Em
ployment, Ken Fox, who made
about $2,000 woiking for Mess
ner Rendering Co
Agri-Business on Farm, Alvin
Schlouch, who earned about $l,-
800 on his uncle’s farm
vvmtei lodging into the waimth
ol Spnng, the Eastei paiade, and
the egg
The name Easter is said to
have derived fiom the Anglo
Saxon Eostie, Goddess of Spnng,
and it was in hei season that an
egg, buiied in the field befoie
planting, could assuie a good
yield ol giain
And foi the ploughshaie to
p a ss ovei the egg at the fiist
ploughing was a lucky omen in
deed
Red seems to have been the
fiist coloi used to stain Eastei
eggs Red was used in memoiy
of Chnst’s blood accoidmg to
an eaily account, which goes on
to tell of a peasant gul who was
cailying a basket of eggs on hei
head when she heaid Mary Mag
dalene crying, “He is nsen, He
PllllltCl
Ciop Farming, Lairy Hoist
who had 11 acres of coin and
three acres of tobacco
Dairy Farming, Nelson Mai
tin, who had three cows and
thiee heifers
Faim Mechanics. Alvin Sch
louch, winner of the tractoi
driving contest and a membei
of the winning team in the
small engine contest
Livestock Fai ming, Jake Mus
sei, who had 400 capons, 500
guineas, a steer and 30 veal
calves
Poultiy Fanning, Sam Trupe,
who raised, diessed and sold
100 turkeys
Public Speaking, Lee Ressler,
who placed first in the county,
second in the region and foui th
m tha state in the SCS public
speaking contest
Soil and Watei Management,
Dale Weiler, who was first in
the county and ninth in the
state land judging contest
In lecogmtion of individuals
and fums which have assisted
the Giassland chaptei during
the past yeai, eight Honorary
Chapter Faimer degrees weie
given and seven Ceitificates of
Appreciation were awaided
Honoraiy Farmers were
James L Cebular Jr., agricul
tural chairman, New Holland
Jaycees, Stanley Deen, English
teacher at Gaiden Spot High
School, John Hess, co-managei
of New Holland Supply, Inc,
Mose Hochstetlei, peisonnel of
fice of Victor Weaver, Inc
Miss Evelyn Leaman. secre
taiy of Agway, Inc John M
Weavei, New Holland RDI
dany faimei Lauv R Weavei,
New Holland RDI livestock
laimei and Zane Wilson, Lan
eastei Fanning managing edi
tor
Ceitificates of Appiecution
went to Edwin Huist, ownei of
Huist Tne Seivice, East Eail
Roy H Buch, piesident of Buch
Implements, Akion, John C
Campbell, dany faimei of Box
56, New Holland, Jane Reilly
English Teacher at Gaiden Spot
High School, Robeit Schioll, of
New Holland Supply, Inc , Al
len Tate, peisonnel office of
Victoi Weaver, Inc, and Chai-
is risen The stone is x oiled
away ’’
Scornfully, the gul said. “I’d
as soon believe my eggs aie red
as believe xom stoi.v ” When she
looked, the eggs weie led' And
still today, Eastei eggs aie pie
dommanth led
It was in this same aiea, then
known as Mesopotamia, that eggs
weie used in the games which
began Eastei Day and continued
ioi 40 days theieaitei
At least one of those games is
fauly common in oui count! \
today One ol the two 01 moie
contestants stakes at the othci’s
egg which as held so that only
the pointed end is exposed, and
il he ciacks the shell he gets to
keep it
Waxing an egg to protect the
shell is, not consideied ethical.
Lancaster Farming. Saturday. March 14,1970—17
SECOND SECTION
Lee Ressler (right), who received the Leon M. Graybill
Memorial award at the annual Grassland Chapter FFA ban
quet last week, is shown receiving congratulations front
Charles Postles Jr., of Delaware. Postles, who is region II
national FFA vice president, was banquet speaker.
les Zimmeiman. managei of ficers agreed the New Holland
Zimmeiman’s Haidwaie, Blue area was “one of the nicest”
Ball visited and “the national offi-
Charles Postles Jr, of Mil ceis weie paiticulaily impress
fold RD3, Del. Noith Atlantic ed by the well kept fauns” in
Regional FFA vice-pi esident the New Holland aiea
lemmded the audience, which Baibaia Simmers the chap
mcluded many paients of FFA tei’s 1970 sweetheait was pre
membeis, that “theie aie a lot sented with an FFA jacket,
of people who believe in Futuie Both she and Sheiyl Weaver,
Faimeis ”He uiged FFA mem 1969 chapter sweetheart, made
beis to “keep up the good brief statements of appiecia
woik” tion
Postles refeired to a lecent Linford Mai tin, Region II
five-week goodwill tour by na- FFA vice pi esident of East Earl
tional FFA officeis that includ RDI, greeted the guests Philip
ed the New Holland Division of Oghne, FFA advisor, received
Speu y Rand an award and standing ovation
He said the national FFA of foi his service to the chapter.
but theie is no objection, and
pi obably no eftect, to “toughen
mg” the shell bv boiling the egg
with skins fiom biown onions
Ouginating in medieval Eng
land, the custom of i oiling col
-01 ed eggs on glassy slopes came
officially to Washington in 1810,
when Dolly Madison auanged
an egg i oil foi Eastei Monday
on the Capitol giounds
Piesident Maxes in 1878 tians
fened the paity to the While
House grounds wheie it lemains
a tiaditional celebiation
Don’t Overcook Eggs
Eggs loi Eastei decoiation
and all those othei uses that
housewives know about, need to
be haid-cooked but not haid
boiled Eggs should nevei be
o\ei cooked, regaidless of the
cooking method
Heat coagulates and sets the
piotem and the egg becomes
film A piopeily cooked egg has
a tendei white and a smooth yolk.
If cooking tempeiature is too
high 01 the egg is cooked too
long the protem shunks and
makes the white tough and the
yolk mealy
Eggs, to be haid cooked, should
be completely coveied in the
pan with cold watei, and the wa
tu then bi ought to simmer and
kept theie loi 20 to 25 minutes.
The watei should not be allowed
to boil
When done the eggs should be
plunged at once into cold run
ning watei and kept there until
they aie cold
Haid-cooked eggs may be stor
ed in the refugeiator, either in
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