32—Lincitttr Firming. Saturday, Nov. 8, 1979
FFA chapters
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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 <fre (from left) Clifford
will be receiving a bronze
emblem for their community
projects under the Building
Our American Community
program. Serving the
Grassland FFA from
Garden Snot High School,
will be represented at the
National Convention by-two
state officers. Lloyd Hoover,
Leola, the state vice
president, will be attending
the event with Don Weaver,
New Holland, the regional
fice president for the state.
Gary Stauffer, New
Holland, will be receiving his
American Farming Degree
at the convention. Gary
graduated from Garden Spot
in 1972 and is employed by
M. M. Weaver’s.
The Grassland Chapter
will be receiving a gold
emblem for their out
standing FFA activities
throughout last year.
A special distinguished
service award will be
presented to the principal of
Garden Spot High School,
Donald Schaffer. Schaffer’s
outstanding work will be
noted at a dinner meeting.
Martin, Calvin Sauder and Ron Zimmerman.
(Standing) Gerald Good, Harry Leininger, Jay
Gerhart and James Felpel.
Along with their trip to - order to participate in the
Kansas City for the FFA judging events. Those
event, the youths and their receiving higher degrees
advisors will be sightseeing have put in long hours of
along the way. Side trips work and participated in
have been scheduled to the numerous events to be
Indianapolis Motor awarded national honors.
Speedway and Museum and And team work has been the
agricultural centers and by-word of the chapters who
farms along the way. will be receiving honors for
Each chapter and students their community service and
has worked for 12 months in chapter activities.
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