Garden Spot FFA Chapter Holds Banquet
The Garden Spot FFA Chapter describing FFA as ‘Wh
of Lampeter-Strasburg High purpose’’ * S * outh witha
School held its annual Parent-Son He urepri . .
banquet at the school’s cafeteria there are three kfrli/”** S f d
Hiursday night. £SS°£i
Among top awards presented less; second the nerson
were the star awards as follows: ’ person who
John Harnish, Star Greenhand;
Richard Hess, Star Chapter
Farmer; and Jerry diller, Star
Red Rosa Farmer
Diller is also county reporter
and a member of the state FFA
band. He presented a trumpet
solo.
Donald Breneman, chapter
president, received one of the
most sought after awards, the
Outstanding Senior award.
Breneman is planning to go into
diary farming with his father, is
treasurer of the National Honor
Society and vice president of the
county FFA.
Breneman also received the
foundation award for dairy and
the Keystone Farmer degree.
Gary Dean received the
livestock award and Robert Hess,
who was toastmaster, the crop
production award.
Recognized for top placings in
the annual FFA judging contest
at Ephrata were: Robert Hess,
Rick Hess, Wilmer Breckbill,
Charles Witmer, Dennis Mc-
Cullough and Gary Dean. Robert Shoff
Jacob W. Musser, state FFA Former Local Principal
chaplain, spoke briefly,
Richard Hess, left, accepts the Star Chapter Farmer award
at the Garden Spot FFA banquet Thursday night from
Charles Klinger, Lampeter-Strasburg High School principal.
Farm Prices Up
Much of the recent criticism
about rising farm prices has
distorted the situation by omit
ting relevant facts.
That was the theme sounded in
an open letter to members of
Congress recently by Kenneth D.
Naden, executive vice president,
National Council of Farmers
Cooperatives.
“Facts show,” said Naden,
“that although live cattle prices
are now back up to 1951 levels,
farm food prices increased only
seven percent totally during that
20-year period.”
Yet, said the farm co-op leader,
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Only 7% in 20 Years, Naden Says
during the same peirod; money
paid to wage earners increased
340 per- cent, money paid to
government employees in
creased 430 per cent, business
and professional income in
creased 200 per cent and
dividends increased 300 per cent.
“This criticism seems to im
ply,” Naden asserted, “that
farmers don’t have the same
right to earn a fair income as do
their urban counterparts.”
Naden stated that severe price
competition subjects farm prices
to a form of control that’s far
more rigid, pervasive and effect
Donald Breneman, left, receives the at the Lampeter-Strasburg High School. In
Keystone Farmer degree, the highest FFA the foreground is Robert Hess, banquet
award at the state level, from Jerry Shaffer, toastmaster.
PP&L farm representative, Thursday night
watches things happen but
participates a little, and third,
the person who makes things
happen, is willing to go ahead and
lead others.
He urged his audience to set a
goal and, if it’s reached, set a
higher one.
Robert Shoff, who noted he
taught in local schools and was
high school principal in the 1940’s
and once received the Honorary
Chapter Farmer degree, showed
slides of South America. He
showed both the spectacular
beauty of some of the un
developed areas, as well as the
great poverty of the developed
areas.
than that imposed by present
government controls. Farm
prices, he said, are sharply
limited by (1) competition among
many producers; (2) competition
from unplanned and unrestricted
output; and (3) competition from
many close substitutes of each
product.
“The practical result of such
competition,” Naden pointed out,
“is that many farm products are
sold for long period at prices
below cost of production.”
As long as farm prices are
formed under such severe
competitive conditions, said
Naden, neither consumers nor
their spokesmen need fear a
modest increase in farm prices
caused by: (1) a short supply
situation, and (2) strong con
sumer insistence on high-quality
food. “These increases cannot be
considered abnormal or harmful
or inflationary,” he declared.
The cooperative leader con
cluded by urging congressmen to
keep these and otter relevant
facts in mind as they analyze
current food price changes.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 11,1972 —
Jerry Diller, a member of the state FFA band, plays a
trumpet solo at the annual Garden Spot FFA banquet
Thursday night Diller also received the Star Red Rose
Farmer award.
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