51 Enter Rough and Tumble Tractor Pull
Some - 51 farmers entered
'< their tractors in the third trac
' tor pulling contest of the Rough
and Tumble Museum, Kinzer,
last Saturday.
Dan Brubaker, Museum presi
dent, said the weather and
ground' conditions were ideal
and that the number of contes
tants increased from previous
contests. He also reported about
800 paid admissions to the
Museum’s fund raising event.
The competition was divided
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into five classes, according to
tractor weight.
Ivan Yost won both the 9,000
and 15,000 pound classes, al
though it took a tie pull-off to
beat Ed Greenleaf in the 15,000
pound class.
Yost was also second in the
12,000 pound class to Lester
Hauck.
John Stauffer won the 5,000
pound class and Nelson Sangry
the 7,000 pound class.
Top four winners in each
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category and the make of trac
tor they used is as follows:
5.000 pound class John
Stauffer, Deutz, first; Harold
Stauffer, Deutz, second; Paul
Campbell, Allis Chalmers,
third; Steve Luthecker, Case,
fourth.
7.000 pound class Nelson
Sangry, International Harvest
er, first; Jim Brubaker, Allis
•Chalmers, second; Clement
Stauffer, Deutz, third; Ed
Weaver, Massey Ferguson,
fourth.
9.000 pound class Ivan
Yost, International Harvest
er, first; Vernon Yoder, John
Deere, second; Martin Green
leaf, Case, third; Mark Stauffer,
Deutz, fourth.
12.000 pound class Lester
Hauck, Harvest
er 1456, first; Ivan Yost, Inter
national Harvester 856, second;
Paul Campbell, Allis Chalm
ers 210, third; Carl Hurst, John
Deere 4020, fourth.
15.000 pound class Ivan
Yost, International Harvester
856, first;*“Ed Greenleaf, Case
1170, second; Lester Hauck, In
ternational Harvester 1456,
• third; Harold Frey, John Deere
4320, fourth.
Poultry Federation Says 'No' to
The executive committee of
the Pennsylvania Poultry Fed
eration has unanimously rec
ommended against adoption of
the Sisk Bill 7597.
The committee explained
that, despite the present plight
of many poultrymen, it Was felt
that the Sisk Bill in its present
form does not offer the proper
solutions to the problems. The
committee agreed to notify
the trade press, representatives
in Congress and in the House
Parties Help Health Center
Fulton Orange sponsored pro
gressive parties bo aid the South
ern Lancaster County Family
Health Center equipment fund
are in full 'swing.
This center is to open Octobei
1 at Quarryville.
The following have held par
ties which have netted $2OB to
date; Mr. and Mrs. C G. McSpar
ran, Mr and Mrs. Howard Stein
berg, Mr. and Mrs. William
Douts, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Krei-
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 31,1971
State Grange Plans Annual Event
Proposals that, if enacted,
could influence social, economic
and governmental affairs
throughout the state are now
being prepared by the 60,000-
member Pennsylvania State
Grange for consideration at its
99th annual meeting October
25-28 at Somerset, A. Wayne
Readinger, master, said recent
ly-
These proposals, now in the
drafting stage, will be submit
ted by many of the 623 subor
dinate and 56 pomona units in
65 counties.
Readinger said they may
number over 100 and that topics
to be covered will embrace the
whole range of traditional
Grange concerns in alert citi
zenship, wholesome family life,
improved farm income, preser
vation of prime agricultural
land, pollution control, taxation.
and the efficient administration
of government at all levels.
The convention program,
Readinger indicated, will be
patterned after the 98th meet
ing last fall at Meadville, and
those of other recent success-
ful sessions in Lewistown, But-
Agricultural Committee of -its
decision.
Homer Bicksler, Federation
executive secretary, said the
Sisk hill sets up a collective
bargaining board to take over
marketing and price establish
ing of farm commodities. While
the farmer would vote his ap
proval before it would become
effective, the farmer would
have to comply once it was set
up.
In other business, Hendrick
der, Mr. and Mrs. Gyles Brown,
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Maule, Mr
and Mrs Stanley Stauffer Jr.,
Kenneth Alexander and Arlene
Wiggins, Mr and Mrs J Everett
Kreider, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Eag
er, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Trimble,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kauffman,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reath, Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Jackson, Mr.
and Mrs. Lewis Fryberger.
There were also donations
amounting to $22.
ler and Gettysburg. First ever
held in Somerset, the conven
tion will have the backing of
state and pomona officials of
that area, Somerset county’s
seven local granges with nearly
600 members, the Somerset
Pomona grange, county offici
als, and business and civic lead
ers.
Glenn Handwork, Somerset,
RDS, pomona master who is
chairman of local arrange
ments, said ample housing will
be available to accommodate
some 2,500 or more delegates
and guests. Working closely
with him will be Mr. and Mrs.
William H. Ringler, Berlin RDI,
state deputy and state junior
deputy; Miss Mildred M. Shultz,
Somerset, state lecturer, and
others.
Misnamed Months
The last four months are
misnamed. September, Oc
tober, November and De
cember, meaning 7th, Bth,
9th and 10th, got those
names because the old Ro
man year started March 1,
and the months were named
after the Latin numerals.
Sisk Bill 7597
Wentink, Federation secretary,
and past chairman of the fund
raising banquet committee, was
authorized to find a speaker for
the January 12 banquet in the
Penn Harris Motor Inn at Camp-
Hill. Robert Shelly, Federation
president, indicated he will an
nounce the banquet commit
tee in the near future
Bicksler gave a brief report
on food booth plans for the
Poultry Festival at Hershey
which is held in conjunction
with Dutch Days, August 24-29
and the Ag Progress Days
which will be held on the Col
lege Farms, August 31 through
September 2.
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