32—Lincitttr Firming. Saturday, Nov. 8, 1979 FFA chapters (Contlm*! h»» P»t« M Stevens; and Kon Zim merman, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Zimmerman, Lphrata. Fclpcl will be competing for national honors in the ag mechanics program after having won the North Atlantic Mechanics honor in the FFA program. The Cloister FFA will be receiving three national awards which will include a gold emblem award for chapter activities; a silver emblem for chapter safety activities and a bronze emblem for the Building Our vmencan Communities award. Also making the tnp will be Rick Pfautz who will be receiving the American Farmer Degree. Two of the FFA’ers from Ephrata High School will be attending the conference as a portion of the State poultry judging team. Steve Strauss and John Weller will be competing for honors in Kansas City when the national poultry judging contest is held. Ronald Martin, also a Cloister FFA’er will be competing on the milk quality and dairy foods judging team. Ernest Orr is the coach and advisor for the youths. Solanco area three years Of ~M I ~t __ § consecutively by preserving \lf l| C TT\m pheasants for wildlife, the i'C'lyl f/Of chapter will be receiving the national honor sponsored by the Lily Endowment Inc., Farmer’s Home Ad ministration and the National FFA Foundation. The award will be presented at a dinner meeting on Thursday, Nov. 13. Warren Schmuck, son oi Dr. and Mrs. Larry Sch muck, Peach Bottom, will be judging on the milk products team combining his efforts with the Ephrata youth in the same category. Grassland Represented by Officers for expansion DENVER, Colo. Directors attending the semi-annual meeting of the American Sheep Producers Council here unanimously endorsed the Blueprint for Expansion program as a 10- year master plan to rebuild the industry. The intensified effort to hait the decline in sheep numbers was spearheaded by Howard Derrick, Council president. “We’re about to stop the decline and start the serious job of rebuilding,” he told the 41 directors at the two day meeting, October 23-24, at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. One positive sign is that an increasing number of producers are witholding more ewe lambs and getting better prices for older ewes. “I foresee the time when our industry will have it all together,” Derrick said, nothing “WeTe well on our way with the help and un derstanding of the National Wool Growers Association, Jane Alexander helps honor Lebanon Area Fair group MT ZION - Mrs. Jane Alexander, deputy secretary of agriculture for Penn sylvania, was the guest speaker at a dinner on Nov. 3 to honor members of the Lebanon Area Fair com mittee. Held at the Zoar’s Lutheran Church banquet hall, the affair was organized by the Lebanon Valley Exposition Cor poration. Miss Alexander joined Expo Corporation Penn Manor to Travel West Several students from Penn Manor High School will be making the trip to Kansas City also. Doug Ricxinger. son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ricxinger, 1 .ancestor, will be competing on the livestock judging team along with Galen Long. Galen is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Long, Columbia. Robert Bachman, son of Mr, and Mrs. Frank Bach man, Washington Boro will make up the third member of the state poultry team and will be joining forces with the two members from Ephrata. This makes the state poultry team consist of members from Lancaster County exclusively. A senior at Penn Manor, Ron Hunt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hunt, Miller sville, will be competing in the national livestock showmanship contest during the event in Kansas City. Greg Landis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Landis, Millersville, will be receiving his national American Fanning Degree and will be vying for a national office. Greg graduated from Penn Manor in 1972. Solanco Receives BO AC Award The Solanco FFA Chapter the National Lamb Feeders Association, the Council, the Sheep Industry Development Program, and farm flock representatives. “Self-determination as an industry,” Derrick em phasized, “is the first step.” He said that we can no longer speak with many mouths, but rather we must speak in one loud voice. He singled out the Blueprint for Expansion as “one of the most important projects we can support. Unless we stop the decline in sheep numbers, all our ef forts otherwise are futile.” Details of those plans are being developed now and will be outlined at the National Wool Growers Association annual meeting in Wichita, Kans., Jan. 26-29. In 1960, some 768 million pounds of lamb and 150 million pounds of clean wool were available to con sumers. Now, those numbers are reduced to 400 million pounds of lamb and 60 million pounds of wool. president, Jerome Hutter, in ottering congratulatory remarks and praised the success of the fair in general. She especially noted the progress in growth and facilities. In her remarks the deputy secretary suggested that an arts and crafts division to the fair may unprove it even more by attracting greater participation and interest from people more than 30 years of age. Members of the Cloister FFA Chapter at Ephrata High School who will be traveling to the National FFA Convention this week