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Vol. 19 No. 49
These four panelists talked about
preserving Lancaster County far
mland at a meeting Wednesday
evening sponsored by the Conestoga
Valley Association. The panelists
were, left to right: John W. Aungst,
Jr., president of the Historic
Preservation Trust of Lancaster
Groff Wins FFA
Award at Convention
Friday marked the close of
the National FFA Con
vention which wan held this
past week in Kansas City.
One of the highlights of the
week happened when Lynn
Groff, from Garden Spot
FFA was named the
National Agricultural
Processing winner.
Lynn, is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Groff, 211 S.
State St., and is employed by
Victor F. Weaver, Co. in New
Holland.
Regional honors came first
for Lynn as he went against
competition from several
mid-atlantic states, winning
Lancaster
Co. Farmers
Assoc. Holds
Annual Meet
The Lancaster County
Fanners Association held
their annual meeting last
Friday night at the Harvest
Drive Motel, Intercourse.
During the meeting, the
assembled members voted
on policy recommendations
proposed by the policy
committee. Earl Newcomer,
Washington Boro, El, was
chairman of that committee.
Also during the meeting,
the members voted on six
directors for the coming
year. Elected to serve were:
H. Richard Hershey, 304
Newport, Lititz, Earl
Newcomer, Mt. Joy El;
Nathan Stoltzfus, Gap;
Mahlon Eberly, Denver E 2;
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County; Dr. Robert Herr, chairman of
the vo-ag department at Garden Spot
High School; John R. Ahifeld, director
of the Lancaster County Planning
Commission, and Amos H. Funk,
Millersville, a farmer and vice
chairman of the Lancaster County
Conservation District.
$2OO with an additional $5O
for the National award plus
expenses.
Lynn is presently in the
chicken frank, division of
Weaver’s and is responsible
for quality control.
Teams Place in
Competition
Several of the judging
teams from Pennsylvania
placed high in competition
that took place during the
week.
Pennsylvania’s Hor
ticulture Team placed fourth
with each member receiving
gold emblem awards.
Members of the team were:
Michael Lewis, Willow
Grove; Timothy Troxell,
Easton and Theresa Pettie,
Perkasie.
The Dairy cattle team also
placed fourth. David Shontz,
Compton received a gold
emblem medal with Jeff
Miller, Kutztown and Her
man Manbeck, Robesonia
each receiving silver em
blems.
Marlin Deitrich, Pott
In This Issue
FARM CALENDAR 10
Markets 2-4
Sale Register 51
Fanners Almanac 6
Classified Ads 27
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 38
Home on the Range 44
Organic Living 45
Farm Youth Calendar 10
Farm Women Calendar 41
Thoughts in Passing 20
Junior Cooking Edition 42
New Holland Sales
Stables Beef Show 21
Buck Pull Results 21
Incredible Edible Eggs 18
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October 19, 1974
stown, received a gold
emblem for meats judging
with" Wayne Bankert, Red
Lion; receiving a silver and
Randy Klahold, Wrighfsville
receiving a bronze award.
The team placed 17th.
In Poultry judging, Mike
Allen, Armagh and Arthur
Rice of Millersville both
received bronze awards.
The milk and dairy
products team placed 22nd
with Curtis Martin and Jay
Oberholtzer or Ephrhta
receiving silver medals and
Evert Newkirk, Johnstown
receiving a bronze award.
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Game-Racing Is His
Winning Interest
By: Melissa Piper
Randy Click, at the age of
17, is already an ac
complished game racer,
which doesn’t mean you’ll
find him out driving a fast
speed car, for his usual
means of racing is a
powerful palamino Quarter
horse.
Randy is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. John L. Click, Bareville
and has been working with
horses ever since he was a
youngster. The Click family
has kept horses for many
years and now own 11
Quarter horses most of
which are registered.
For the past eight years,
Randy was been in 4-H Horse
Clubs and is currently
serving as president of the
Silver Spurs Horse Club
Sponsored by Conservation Group . . .
Farmer Property Rights
Discussed at Meeting
“Fanners think of their
farms as their security, and
they don’t take kindly to
folks who talk about taking
that security away from
them. When we talk about
preserving farmland and
open space, we’ve got to
remember that farmers
have the most at stake. They
should be included in any
discussions about land use,”
Dr. Robert Herr told an
audience - composed largely
of non-farmers - on Wed
nesday evening at the
Lancaster Farm and Home
Center.
Herr was one of the
Cornelius W. Heine,
U.S. Department of the
Interior, was the featured
speaker at a farm
preservation meeting on
Wednesday night.
along with being a member
of the Conestoga Riding
Club and the Good
Fellowship Riding Club.
Game racing, which is
competition that involves
timed skill such as
polebending (running a
horse through a pattern of
poles) and keyhole racing is
Randy’s favorite interest.
His trophy room supports
that interest since it is filled
with hundreds of trophies,
ribbons and plaques that he
has won over the past few
years in competitions that
ranged from local events to
statewide contests. Local
shows that Randy has
competed in include the
Lancaster County Denver
Friendly Horseman’s Club
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panelists at a meeting
sponsored by the Conestoga
Valley Association, a group
interested m the preser
vation of the county’s
historical landmarks, and
the conservation of its
natural resources.
“Industry buys farmland
to build factories, people
come to the county to work in
Buck Track Head
Anxious For ’75
With a year of experience
under his belt, Elwood
“Woody” Funk, president of
Buck Tractor Pulls, is
looking forward to the 1975
pulling season. “I’d say the
interest in tractor pulling
has tripled in the past few
years. It could be the fastest
growing automotive sport in
the country. In this area,
especially, I think we’re
going to see better and better
tractor pullers, and a lot
more spectators.”
When it opened this spring,
the Buck Tractor Pull
stadium was billed as the
world’s first stadium built
specifically for pulling. Funk
Randy Click, Bareville, displays one of the ma
trophies he has won during game racing in hor
show competitions.
$2.00 Per Year
the factories, and those
people need houses to live in,
which means more farmland
has to be developed. But if
you offer a farmer a large
sum of money for his land,
he’s going to want to take it.”
Herr implied that farmers
feel they have a right to sell
their land to anybody, and
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and five other investors
backed their faith <in the
future of the sport with
enough capital to put up the
kind of facility they felt the
pullers and the fans were
ready for.
The track of hard-packec
clay is the regulation 300-feet
long, it is well-lighted foi
night-time events, and then
are bleacher seats for 400(
spectators.
Friday and Saturday nigh
pulls were scheduled for T
weekends this season, bu
rain knocked out tw<
weekends completely, am
hurt attendance figures a
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