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year of 4-H, is the leader of the
rabbit club.
The pig club leader, Scott
Heisey, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
Warren Heisey, Elizabethtown
RDI, also received a plaque.
News reporter awards were
also presented to three 4-H’ers by
Dick Wanner, editor of Lancaster
Fa-ming. The awards are
presented jointly by Lancaster
Farming and the Intelligencer
Journal.
Receiving awards for the best
scrapbooks were Karen Mc-
Carty, 14, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John McCarty, New
Holland, and Ron Walton, 16-
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Walton Jr., Conestoga RDI.
Karen is a member of the
Garden Spot 4-H Club, while Ron
is a member of the Penn Willow 4-
H Club.
The assistant reporter of the
Garden Spot club, Laura Wun
derly, was also honored. She is
the 13-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Walter B. Wunderly,
Blue Ball.
Rounding out the annual
program were the two 4-H talent
winners, Sandy Arnold, who sang
a solo, and Phyllis Kreamer,
who played the cornet.
“Everyone’s a consumer,”
Says Jane Alexander
Jane Alexander, the York
County attorney who is Penn
sylvania’s deputy secretary of
agriculture, talked to the leaders
about her job and her department
at the conclusion of the awards
ceremonies. She started by
saying that the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture is the
largest state ag department in
the nation, and it serves the
country’s largest rural
population. The imposing title of
her often entertaining speech was
“Consumer Attitude and Con
sumer Responsibilities in
Today’s Fluctuating Conditions”.
“Candy and milk,” Mrs.
Alexander said, ’’are the two
most emotional food products on
the market. The milk industry
does a good job of getting a
wholesome product to the con
sumer, and most of the consumer
complaints we get are the result
of mishandling in the home. One
of our agents investigated a
complaint from a lady who called
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