24—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, November 10. 1973
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Miss Kathy Earl
This Chick is PA's Newest Poultry Ambassador
By Sally Bair
Feature
Because of the urging and
interest of her aunt and uncle,
pretty 18-year-old Kathy Early,
Lebanon RD4, is Pennsylvania’s
new Poultry Queen.
Kathy said her uncle and aunt,
Mr. and Mrs. John Starner,
Lebanon RDS, told her when she
was eight years old that she
should enter the poultry queen
contest after high school
graduation. She did just that and
because she waited and matured
she earned for herself the op
portunity to speak up for the
poultry industry around the state.
Kathy is the daughter of a dairy
farmer, Lloyd R. Early, who
milks 40 head of Holsteins and
farms about 225 acres. She has
one sister, Judy, who is nine.
Kathy said one of her chief jobs
during the year will be to
promote the use of eggs and
poultry in the diet. She points out,
“Chicken is cheaper per pound
than beef and is a better buy for
your money.” Her favorite way
of eating chicken is that old
American standby - fried
chicken.
Starner, a director of the
Lebanon County Poultry
Association, says he’s quite
proud of Kathy. He said she will
promote goodwill for the industry
and urge consumers to use more
eggs and poultry. “They’re the
cheapest things you can buy,” he
adds. The Stamer’s sell eggs
from their grocery store and he
hauls eggs for Producers Pride
Co-op, including trips to
Philadelphia and New York.
Starner said the Lebanon County
Poultry Queen contest is about 25
years old, having been the first in
the state.
Kathy is currently studying to
be a legal secretary at the
Mrs. Early and Kathy talk about the state Kathy knows, it’s never too early to plan to
contest as nine-year-old Judy listens. As enter the contest
Notes
Pat Envay, Editor
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As State Poultry Queen, Kathy received a check, a digital
clock radio and, of course, the right to wear the coveted
crown and banner.
National Legal Secretarial
School in Hagerstown, Maryland.
She said she would like to be a
legal secretary in the Harrisburg
or Lebanon areas when she
graduates next August, perhaps
working in a district attorney’s
office. Although she took the
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academic course in school, she
said, “I didn’t want to spend four
years in college. I wanted to be a
secretary, and I enjoyed political
science and history in school, so I
decided to be a legal secretary.”
She said shorthand is hardest for
her. Other courses' include law,
legal terminology and typing. She
added, “I really like it.”
A 1973 graduate of Annville-
Cleona High School, Kathy
stayed busy with many school
activities. Her “most enjoyable”
position was being editor of the
yearbook. She was also engaged
in sports as a member of the
hockey and tennis teams. She
was a member of the Varsity
Club, the chorus and Glee Club
and the National Honor Society.
She was selected “Girl of the
Year” by the Lebanon County
Federation of Women’s Clubs
based on scholastic achievement
and activities.
A member of Cornwall United
Methodist Church, Kathy is
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Pennsylvania’s Poultry Queen, Kathy Early, says one of her
hobbies is cooking. Here she mixes pie dough for her favorite
pie, cherry with crumb topping.
assistant organist and substitutes
when necessary. She’s been
playing the organ “about eight
years.” Before going to college in
June Kathy sang with the choir
and was vice president of the
youth fellowship.
Kathy beat out six contestants
in the local contest before par
ticipating in the state contest at
the Hershey Motor Lodge. She
said, “I wasn’t as nervous as I
thought I’d be.” In addition to
being interviewed privately by
the panel of judges, the six
contestants had to answer
several questions before the
audience. Kathy’s one
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philosophical question was about
how to keep a good friend. She
remembered answering simply,
“By being a good friend.
Kathy says she is “very happy
to have been raised on a farm.”
She said, “I used to help feed
calves.” As a good farm girl, she
was a member of the South
Mountain Community Club for
six years.
One project she carried all six
years was raising veal calves.
She talked enthusiastically as she
explained how you raise a good
veal calf to have the pinkish meat
consumers desire. “An all-milk
milk replacer must be fed, which
can’t contain any vegetable by
products. They also can’t be fed
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any water, hay or grain. They are
judged at three months by their
‘finish’ that is, the amount of fat
over the shoulders,” Kathy ex
~ plained. She said she never
minded selling her projects,
“except the one that won second
place at the fair.”
She explained further that veal
calves must have their own
elevated pens and can’t be in
close proximity to other calves.
The reason she talked so easily
about the process she said, is that
she gave a demonstration at the
fair on “The care and raising of 4-
H veal calves,”
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