14—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Nov. 8,1975
Jeff Miller, Stale Star Farmer
Happiness
By Pat Bradley
Berks Co. Correspondent
VIRGINVILLE - Jeff
Miller, FFA State Star
Fanner of the year, really
enjoys farming. In fact, he
says, “I wouldn’t give it up
for anything else in the
world. I Just wouldn’t be
happy doing anything else.”
Jeff, who lives and works
with his parents on their
Kutztown R 3 dairy farm,
also finds time for winning
various ag-related and
scholastic awards.
He won the State Star
Farmer award by managing
42 dairy cattle and two 250
acre crop farms. The major
crops being: corn, barley,
alfalfa and oats.
In the past he has won
three gold medals for his
project books, a first place in
county public speaking
competition and first place
state and fourth national for
dairy judging.
This past summer he
showed the grand champion
Holstein in the Junior Dairy
competition at the Allentown
Fair.
While attending Kutztown
High School he was a
member of the National
Honor Society. During his
junior year he was chapter
president of the FFA. He
then went on to become
county president. In ad
dition, he also won first place
in the FFA tractor driving
contest while in high school.
His other activites include
membership in the Berks
Junior Holstein Association,
Kutztown Young Farmers,
American Institute of
Cooperatives, treasurer of
the Zion United Church of
Christ Youth Fellowship
Group, Virginville 4-H
president and membership
m the Virginville Grange.
Jeff accredits his success
to his father and several
FFA advisors. “I just
couldn’t have done it without
them. You just don’t go out
somewhere and start far
ming. You need a lot of help
and guidance,” he says.
Jeff enjoys the FFA and all
its related activities.
“Before I joined the club I
Cox addresses
Kiwanians
ELIZABETHTOWN
National Central Bank,
Director of Public Relations,
D>_rnis F Cox, addressed a
meeUnp of the
F' , -a , 'cihiev,' v oanis Pub
h "niu cve>ung
the group that
a/1 », the banking in
dustry is and will likely
remain involved in the
financing of pollution control
measures, the ultimate cost
of cleaning up our en
vironment will fall to the
average American taxpayer
He pointed out that
already established
ecological goals will cost the
nation staggering amounts
in the immediate future and
that while debate continues
over techniques and methods
there seems to be no question
that pollution control has
become national pohc>
According to the Lan
caster bank executive, it will
cost $4O billion a year for the
next 25 years if we are
serious about cleaning up the
environment and keeping it
clean
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Berks Countian, Jeff Miller, has won numerous
awards during his years as a member of the Kutz
town FFA chapter, the latest one being the State
Star Farmer Award for 1975. He says he wouldn’t
be happy doing anything else but farming.
was out of the state maybe
twice. Since I’ve joined I’ve
been travelling all the time,”
he remarked. “It’s a good
way to see a lot of places and
people and learn a lot of new
things,” he added.
Jeff says he was travelling
so much this summer, to
various competitions and
fairs, that his father had to
hire someone extra to help
around the farm.
His plans for the future
include a lot of hard work on
his parent’s farm. Farming
is his life and he wants to
make the most out of it.
Later this month he will be
going to Kansas City to
compete for the tiele of
National Star Farmer.
He reported to the group
that the banking industry is
already and will continue
playing a major role in
financing pollution control
measures “The industry is
accomplishing this through
support of municipal bonds
and through private sector
loan activity.” he said
‘‘However, regardless of
methods of financing or
techniques of pollution
control, the middle income
taxpaying-consumer will
ultimately pay for en
vironmental efforts through
taxes, price increases, and
other social tolls such as
unemployment and reduced
productivity growth.”
Cox, 1015 Kreps Road,
Lancaster, is a graduate of
Penn Manor High School and
earned degrees in jour
nalism and political science
at Pennsylvania State
University He came to
National Central from
Sperry New Holland,
Division of Sperry Rand
Corporation in 1974.
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