—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. October 9,1971
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Wesley Gerber Shows Top Hog at Manheim
Wesley Gerber, Bainbridge,
showed the grand champion
market hog, a lightweight
Hampshire, at the Manheim Fair
Wednesday.
In the senior showmanship
contest, Franklin Ruoss, Ephrata
RD2, was first. In junior
showmanship, Scott Hershey,
Elizabethtown RDI, was the
winner.
Wesley Gerber shows his grand chanrpion hog, a Hamp
shire, at the Manheim Fair Wednesday.
Parke Discusses Trade Associations
The growing importance of
trade associations in American
lives was discussed by Donald W.
Parke, executive vice-president
of the Pennsylvania Millers’ and
Feed Dealers’ Association at the
opening session of that
organization’s 93rd Convention
held at the Marriott,
Philadelphia, September 22.
Parke, in his presentation “The
Third Force,” showed how trade
associations are frequently able
to bridge the gap between the.
public sector (government) and
the pnvate sector (business).
Parke reasoned that a trade
association membership is more
Placing behind Gerber in the
lightweight market hog category
were: Marlin Becker, Manheim
RD2, and Arlen Mumma, Mount
Joy RDI.
Mediumweight market hogs:
Eugene Bollinger, Myerstown
RD2, first; Russell Kline,
Reinholds, second, and Joe
Lefever, Manheim RD4, third.
Heavy weight market hogs:
Marlin JBecker, Manheim RD2,
valuable today than ever before
“To exert its proper role as a
responsible force, the trade
association of the future cannot
be forever reacting,” Parke said.
“It must stimulate and motivate
members and attempt ideas
never before dreamed possible.
Very few individual businesses
possess all the talent available in
the combined trade association
membership and if put to work
constructively, a formidable
force of thought can be assem
bled.”
Three hundred agribusiness
executives attended the state
wide meeting.
first and reserve grand cham
pion; Scott Hershey,
Elizabethtown RDI, second, and
Kerry Boyd, Ephrata RDI, third.
First place winners in the pens
of three were: Joe Lefever,
Manheim RD4, lightweight hogs;
David Gerlach, Columbia RD2,
middleweight hogs, and Doug
Shenenberger, Manheim RD2,
heavyweight hogs.
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