Lancaster County’s Versatile 1970 Dairy Pageant Winner is:
Princess, Leader, Farmer, Artist
By Mis. Charles McSparran Besides her tiaia and bouquet
Farm Feature Writer ot red roses she received as
. . ~ County Dauy Puncess she also
The attractive sixteen year old iece i Ve( i a piC ce of blue luggage,
Maiilvn B Kiantz of S,mmill a chaim biacelet and about a
Road, New Piovidence RDI, was com pi c t e waidiobe fiom
chosen 1970 Lancaster County Doneckei’s stoic in Ephiata
Dany Puncess June 23 Maulyn is the daughte. of
She is a blue eyed, golden Elvm B Kiantz and the late
blonde with a lovely tanned com- \tcda C Dombach Ki antz, who
plexion and has a soft toned passed awa\ neailv thiee yeais
voice a leal beauty queen a go Since that time Maiilyn has
Maybe one icason foi hei peachy been keeping house foi hei
complexion is that she loves fathei
milk This should make a good gbe j, JS p een tan vin » on bei
Dauy Puncess mothei’s duties as well as hei
This chaiming, independent, own ’Tis said, “she is following
five foot five and a half inch lass m hei mothers footsteps,” hav
with ambition and leadeiship mg inheuted hei mothei’s tal
ability shows potential qualities ents as an aitist, a good cook
which should take hei light to and housckeepei and liking anti
the top for the State Dany ques
Pnncess title Septembei 24 at rs Kiantz’s pai ents both died
Hamsbuig when she was a small child and
They say beauty is only skin s he was laised by an aunt at
deep but Manlyn has that extra Milleisville She and Mr Kiantz
something of genuine character we i e veiy fond of antiques and
and pleasing personality that not acquned some fiom their fam
only enchants and captivates one anc j bought some and had
immediately but leaves a lasting them refinished Mis Krantz had
impiession a natural ability to sketch and
As County Dairy Princess, paint and furthei developed this
Marilyn will make seveial ap- talent by taking a correspon
pearances at dairy related meet- dence course at Famous Artist
ings during the year. Her first Schools, Westpoit, Conn She
appearance Will be next Tuesday did many beautiful paintings,
when she will be on “Noonday having - sold several, including
on 8” on Channel 8 TV. two which hang in the First
Marilyn’s five year old “Pixie” is a real pet and it’s
plain to see that the two are old pals.
Penn State Research Suggests Plastic Coated Containers
Light Creates Oxidized
Food shoppers would do well
to buy homogenized milk in
plastic coated paper caitons or
plastic bottles that do not trans
mit excessive light, dairy
scientists at Pennsylvania State
University suggest
These scientists, and re
searchers elsewheie, have car
ried out studies that found that
light creates an off-flavoi call
ed oxidized milk when the light
penetrates slightly opaque plas
tic or clear glass bottles
Of containers studied at Penn
State, plastic coated papei gave
the best protection against this
oxidation, according to S E que paper was oxidized, reports vitamins, especially riboflavin
Barnard and G H Watxous Jr, George A Van Hoin, Penn While milk is not consideied a
of the College of Agiicultuie State extension writer major source of ascorbic acid
The oxidized flavoi developes Experimental plastic bottles this vitamin disappears rapidlj
they say, when homogenized containing 4 pei cent titanium when milk is exposed to sun
milk is displayed in stoie cases dioxide peimitted less light light
under strong fluorescent light penetration than was found The milk under study was
01 sunlight with the usual plastic bottles stoied in two typical display
In the Penn State suivey of Bainaid and Watious point out cases one an open case a uu
1,057 samples of milk fiom le- Coopeiating on the study weie the other a two shelf case with
tail stores, 165 weie consideied R A Keppelei in agucultuial gl as s enclosed sliding doois
oxidized Of 104 samples in engineenng and W W Cole Light leadings in foot candles,
cleai plastic contameis. 79 pei man in dany science weie made on the outside anc
cent weie oxidized, compaied In addition to creating an inside oi each milk containei
to 49 per cent of the milk in oxidized off-flavoi light p,o A mi lk piocessoi and a plastic
glass bottles Only 7 pei cent of duces othei changes in milk supplier coopeiated in the
the milk in plastic coated opa- There are losses of essential study
Marilyn at her drawing board painting six horses she
has just sketched. In background may be seen one of her oil
paintings.
National Bank of Strasbmg She
did mostly realistic paintings and
portraits The family is fortunate
to have several of her paintings
which hang in their home. She
was an active person, having be
longed to the Lancaster County
Art Association and was a 4-H
Leader for a group that met at
Providence Elementary School
The Krantzes have been on this
89 acre faim since 1951 Until
this yeai Mr Krantz faimed it
alone but this yeai Mailm
Schnupp farms the giound on
the halves He faims crops which
are used mainly foi the dany
herd. He is growing five acies of
tobacco Theie aie 25 acres of
pasture land
Mr Kiantz has 50 head of
legisteied Holsteins, 35 being
milking cows and the lest young
stock He uses the piefix
“Almeda” foi his cows names
which was pait of his name and
part of his wife’s name He takes
caie of the held himself His
held aveiage foi the past tew
yeais has been aiound 15,000
pounds of milk and 510 to 520
pounds of butteifat He has
ownei-samplei testing He is a
membei of Intel-State Milk Pio
ducers Coop He foimeily be
longed to the Young Faimeis
organization
Mr Kiantz, the son of Ivan D
Krantz, now of Quanyville but
formeily of near Strasburg, took
a commercial course in high
Lancaster Farming. Saturday. July 4. 1970
school With the exception of
one year since gi aduation he has
farmed
For almost a year he has
worked for the Crawford Broad
casting Station at Radio Station
WDAC on advertising sales, go
ing out over a large territory as
far east as Narvon and Coates
ville, north to the mountains and
getting into Delaware and Mary
land The Percy Crawford
Estates operates seven AM sta
tions and three FM stations
across the nation.
He drove a school bus in
Providence Township for David
(Stony) Eschbach Jr, fot 15
years He is a membei of Provi
dence Township Ambulance Ser
vice where he gives legular and
special assignment seivice on the
ambulance He took ambulance
t’ ammg and completed advanced
ti dining, also took fiist aid and
tiaimng at the hospital foi an
SECOND SECTION
ambulance attendant This am
bulance sei vice corns a territory
from Camargo, Hessdale, Holt
wood Fishing Cicek and north
to the Pequea Cieck and does
recipiocal woik with the Quarry
viHe Community \mbulance Ser
vice
He taught a fomth and fifth
giade Sunday School class at the
Ne w Providence Mcnnonite
Chinch foi twent.v >eais He
township nuditoi He is secretary
ol the community cemetery
boaul at his chinch He enjoys
flying and has his student’s flying
license He takes lessons at the
Oxfoul Anpoit
Manlyn was 1966 Jumoi 4-H
Queen of Lancastci County and
is the 1969 Semoi 4-H Queen of
Lancastei County As such she
will mown the new queen the
evening of August 28 as a climax
to the County 4H Achievement
Day Tryouts foi the queen will
be August 6 Members of local
4-H clubs nominate the girls.
Ten aie selected —five for the
junior division and five for the
senior division
Marilyn has been in the Lan
caster County 4-H Holstein Club
since she was nine years old.
She had a first year cow for two
years and another cow “Pixie”
for three years She now has
Pixie’s daughter “Lisa” for the
second year, last year as a junior
calf and this year as a senior calf
project. She enjoys getting these
projects ready. She still has
Pixie. She is about five years old
and a real pet
She has been a member of
Lampeter-Strasburg Mernmaids
4-H Club for six years and has
served as president, secretary,
treasurer and game leader. She
was in their cooking club until
she was 13 and in the sewing
club six yeais She is in free
lance now
Marilyn loves horses She has
had a hoise since she was eight
yeais old Hei fust hoise died
two years ago and then she got
a new young one “Duchess”
Mai ilyn attended Providence
Elementaly School and some
times icde hei hoise to school.
She was in the school chorus
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Milk
The analysis showed thak
oxidized flavor develops rapidly
when package piotection is low
and light Intensity is high The
results suggest that an improv
ed molded plastic container is
possible foi protecting milk
from light
Complete details on this
study will be found in the Sum
mei issue of “Science m Agri
culture,” the reseai ch quarter
ly published bv the Agncul
tuial Expei iment Station at
Penn State “Science in Agri
culture” will be available in
early July Van Horn said.
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