The York Awning Company went a long way - 320 feet, to be exact
- to erect this tent for the dairy exhibits this week at the Solanco
Fair. The company said it was the longest tent they’d ever put up.
Joe Glackin displays the pair of market hogs that
won him the grand champion trophy for pen of two in
the swine show Thursday at the Solanco Fair.
James McHale
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feel it was their right to
appoint the secretary of
agriculture - it was just
another chair in the College
of Agriculture. Well, they
learned differently.”
There have, in fact, been
some battles between the
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Maurice Welk, a perennial winner at the Solanco
Fair, added another prize to his bulging trophy case
also has his share of critics,
and this newspaper has been
among them, on his ap
proach to dealings with
Washington and the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
He’s been accused of
spending too much time
picking on Washington and
not enough time running his
department. Answering
that charge, McHale said,
“The reason I criticize
Washington is that that’s
where the prices are set. I’ve
been trying to educate the
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start in Washington.
“Take milk pices. Sure, we
could have the Pennsylvania
Milk Board raise the prices
to farmers, but the dealers
wouldn’t have to pay it. They
could just go across the state
line and buy milk cheaper
than Pennsylvania prices.
The federal government has
allowed dairy imports this
year to be 264 times what
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Fair officials reported they had a total of 158 dairy entries this year,
the largest number ever at the Solanco Fair.
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on Wednesday when he captured grand champion
honors in open Holstein competition.
they were last year, and
that has hurt prices
tremendously. You can’t
fight that battle on a state
level.”
In a rare word of praise for
Earl Butz, McHale said he
was glad to see that the U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture had
scheduled a nationwide milk
price hearing in Chicago on
October 8. “They’re going to
try to set the price for all 61
federal marketing orders,”
McHale said. “We plan to be
there urging them to put a
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nesota-Wisconsin series.
That would bring the class 1
price in Philadelphia up to
around $10.50, which is about
where it should be. A fanner
was in my office the other
day and showed me, in black
and white, how it was im
possible for him to produce
milk for less than $lO a
hundred. I hope something
can be done for dairy far
mers. But whatever’s done,
it has to start in
Washington.”
McHale has more than an
academic interest in farm
prices, having just recently
purchased a farm with 170
tillable acres in Mercer
County. He and Mrs. McHale
have been spending
weekends and vacatons this
summer working on the on
the farm. It is now idle land
investment, because McHale
has also bought a lot of
equipment with which to
work the farm.
“Secretary McHale," we
asked in our most devious
dare-you-to-answer-this
leading-question journalistic
manner, “wouldn’t you like
to just shuck all this political
stuff and go back to Mercer
County to work your farm?”
“Well,” he replied in the
manner of a truly seasoned
politician, “that’s entirely up
to the Govenor.”
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Dreamin’
The guy next door really did
fall in love with the girl of bis
dreams—only trouble was she
turned out to be a nightmare.
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