11 Pennfield Starts New Egg Processing Plant Pennfield Corporation’s Egg Division, the L. M. Sheaffer Company, has broken ground to construct a modern new 31,900 square foot processing plant and office building. The new plant will be located on the Schoeneck Road at the site of Pennfield Farms, present quarters of the processing complex. The construction is being handled by Buck- COMPLCTE FARM PAINTING SPRAY-ON AND BRUSH-IN METHODS For FREE Estimates Write DANIEL S. ESH (C. RALPH MILLER) BOX 351, ROl, RONKS.PA. 17572 waiter Construction, Inc. of Lancaster. Serving as both engineer and architect is St. Onge, Ruff & Associates of York. Tuesday, Ephrata Mayor Lloyd Gerhart; Borough Manager, Carl Fuehrer; and County Agent, Max M. Smith, joined Ernest Horn, Sr., Pennfield Chairman of the Board; Robert GraybiU, Pennfield President; and Don Horn, Egg Division general manager, to of ficially turn the first spadeful of dirt. Spring of 1975 is set for completion date of the complex which will include a processing and packaging building, a refrigerated egg storage area, office quar ters, employee facilities and a company store. The store will provide Pennfield eggs and poultry products for both employees and outside consumers. The present plant will become an annex of the complex and will be used as a dry storage The friendly people in historic Strasburg where personalized service is a tradition. “Friendly" is more than a slogan at the Friendly First It’s our people And our way of helping you with every banking need Whetheryou’re 19 or 90< Whether you're arranging a loan opening our famous no-service charge checking account saving a lot or a little or planning your estate Find out how friendly we are Everytimei And come in for a free cup of coffee Anytime l At any Friendly office - THE BANK WITH NO-SERVICE-CHARGE CHECKING ACCOUNTS STRASBURG EAST KING STREET WILLOW STREET BUCK 887-8611 LANCASTER 464-3421 284-4175 397-4732 warehouse for materials. The plant will be equipped with the latest and most efficient egg processing equipment available. It will be fully air conditioned and will include the latest in sanitation provisions. Upon completion, Penn field’s new plant will more than double the company’s egg processing and packaging capacity. When operating at maximum capacity, six million eggs per week will leave Ephrata for shipment to the com pany’s Delaware Valley market area. The processing plant will handle the output of 1.3 million Pennsylvania chickens. Eton Horn said the com pany hoped to achieve better quality control and more production efficiency by combining all egg processing activity in one location. Upon completion of the new facility, the processing plant now in operation on Chestnut Street in Ephrata will be sold. HKe First ( TlfltjLonci (Bkmk of StnaAbun^ Lancaster County Agricultural Agent Max Smith, left, Pennfield president Robert Graybiil, and Pennfield board chairman Ernest Horn, Sr, were among the dignitaries attending a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday for a new egg | BULK & BAG FERTILIZER, LiME| FARM SUPPLIES Irichard breokbill New scientific dairy herd record system! Continuous chart with plexiglass cover lets you see at a glance all the details and condition of each individual cow You can immediately check for heat pregnancy service and gestation Also gives you a permanent visible health record of treatment and other importanT d