14—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 11,1971 Talk Games Liven Family Travel An automobile trip can be fun for the entire family, if—and it’s a big “if”—the children are occupied. Adults are accustomed to sitting for long periods of time. Anyone who tends to forget how irritable and “squirmy” active children can become during a trip will be quickly reminded of it on the first long family excursion by car. completing the entire al- Here are several verbal phabet first wins. travel games compiled by the c „„ editors of the Mobil Travel 1 Jee e ?~,£ h °° ! se Guide. These games have object ins.de the car and been handed down for a announce to the others the couple of generations and ? oor . tt..y P appeal & youpga.ee,. ■“ *Tall Tales Have one others have to guess the person begin a story, but object you have selected, stop before he is finished. The one who guesses right The next story teller must gets to choose the next then continue, changing it ' object to be guessed. ihk a rLTinL h^.n{n h fh S ; w Anytime you travel with • , t • j children, set and enforce rules FhJZt nf £ fin for them. Make it a kind of the end of the tall tale. game-challenge them to sec who can follow the rules best. For safety, all children should wear seat belts while car is in motion. Hands, arms, feet or heads should not be put out the window. Nothing should be thrown in or out of the car. Rough-housing in the car must not be permitted, and, the driver must be left strictly alone to drive. *Car Cards —License plate numbers and letters are used as poker hands. As in poker the best hand wins. No flushes though! The letters J, Q and K stand for Jack, Queen and King. Each player in turn uses the license of a pass ing car as his hand. *Animal, Vegetable or Mineral —A player thinks of something which he identifies to the others only as being animal, veg etable or mineral. The other players may ask a total of 20 questions which could be answered either “yes” or “no” in an attempt to guess the ob ject. *Name Chain Each per son, in turn, must name a state, city or country using the last letter of the place named by the previous participant as the first letter in the name he selects. Example: John names Illinois, you must select a name starting with “S” * Alpha Hunt Divide players into two teams with each getting one side of the road for this excit ing match. Using High way Advertising signs only, find each letter of the alphabet, progressive ly, selecting only one letter from each sign. The team ihe Oldim&t ■ T rvorTro?'i j-^rv * MANIC’ 1 FFOC I r “When a politician repairs his fences, he sometimes finds a hedge more useful. 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Hurst Bownunsville Ask your Red Rose dealer about The Doubt Remover Lititz Atglen Elverson Manheim Strasburg Family of Year (Continued from Page 13) most successful dairy farms in North Carolina HARD WORK PAYS OFF There are no barren fields: he harvests two and sometimes three crops each year His dairy herd numbers 125 cows, plus nearly as many replace ment heifers which are sought by regional dairymen. His yearly herd average has top ped 16,000 pounds of milk per cow. In managing his productive and profitable family farm, Gerrit Boerema has taken a rational view of a 'risky busi ness, doing all he could to reduce the odds in his favor. He cleared, ditched, limed and fertilized the land to make it productive Self-feeders, mod ern farm machinery, artificial breeding and computerized record-keeping all boost the 47-year-old farmer’s _ net in come and reduce his risk Each member of the family —all six of them now—has had a part in the advancement of their well-respected dairy operation, which has grown to 228 acres with a spacious, modern brick home. The Boeremas competed with thousands of other Amer ican farm families for the honor of being chosen “The DAIRY FEEDS G. R. Mitchell, Inc. Refton, Pa. Mountville Feed Service Mountville Musser Forms, Inc. Columbia Martin's Feed Mill Ephrata, Pa. Chas. E. Sauder & Sons Terre Hill Shelly Brothers R, D. 2, Manheim, Pa. E. P. Spoils, Inc. Honey Brook H. M. Stauffer & Sons, Inc. Witmer National Farm Family of the Year” Eligible families were selected from those who have turned to the FHA for farm loan assistance 3,600 new farmers each year. HONORED BY PRESIDENT NIXON As a fitting tribute to being selected “The National Farm Family of the Year”—the first ever presented—the Boeremas were awarded a trip to the na tion’s capital The trip to Washington was provided by a farm equipment manufac turer, the New Holland Divi sion of Sperry Rand, which also awarded plaques to all of the state winners. The Boe remas were received by Presi dent Richard Nixon: Secre tary of Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin; James V. Smith, na tional FHA administrator and originator of the award, and all members of North Caro lina’s congressional delegation. Back home, in North Caro lina, the state legislature adopted a joint resolution rec ognizing the Boerema family, noting that their “dedication to the soil and their love of their adopted country stamped them indelibly as the farm family of North Carolina and America.”
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