Vd.2l No. 13 Ephrata Young Farmers hold their awards banquet By DIETER KRIEG MOUNT AIRY The Ephrata Area Young and Adult Fanners Association held its seventh annual banquet here last Saturday night at the Mt. Airy- Durlacb Fire Hall with 230 persons present. The event was highlighted by the presentation of numerous awards, the installation of new officers, and a comedy FFA gal has exhibited many leadership roles By MELISSA PIPER COCHRANVILLE Growing upon a dairy farm isn’t always an easy task, in fact it often means a lot of hard work and deter mination. The oldest of three children, Sharon Henley, 17- year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kennard Henley Jr., Troop Rd., here, has In this issue Markets 2-8 Almanac 8 Calendar 10 Classifieds 26 Country Corner 50 Homestead Notes 50 Women’s Calendar 52 Home on the Range 54 Thoughts in Passing 74 Sales Register 83 Sale Reports 95 The Cloister FFA Chapter from Ephrata High School, captured first place honors in the county meats judging contest held recently. routine by a pair of clergymen which prompted a standing ovation at the conclusion of their program. Rev. J. Paul Kehm and his identical twin-brother, Harry, provided the en tertainment for the evening, enlightening the audience with more than an hour’s worth of jokes and amusing stories, capped off by a message which advised exhibited a great deal of both work and effort but “really enjoys” the responsibility. While many youths' see farm work as a chore, Sharon thinks quite the opposite. “I have spent a lot of time working with the cows and showing, but I have gotten much from the ex periences,” she explained. Sharon, along with the rest of the Henley family, spends about 7 months out of the year traveling to dairy shows across the country. The family is well noted for their champion Ayrshire cattle and have captured numerous championships on state and national levels. “Showing is one of the hardest parts of our work,” Sharon admitted, “it keeps me quite busy but I think it has helped me in growing up.” [Continued on Page IS] Receiving honors were (front row from left) Richard Strauss and Donna Bender. (Back row) Jim High, Rick Sweigart and John Cramer. Lancaster Farming. Saturday, Feb. 14.1976 them to keep three bones in mind in their daily lives. They are: The wishbone, for desire and initiative and goals; the funnybone for humor; and the backbone for honesty. The awards given out and their recipients were; Earl and Clarence Stauffer of Sunnycraft Farm for the highest increase in both milk [Continued on Pace 11] Sharon Henley gives her Ayrshire calf an af ' fectionate hug. Sharon is the president of the breed’s state junior society. Rohrer named Outstanding Young Farmer Charles Rohrer, left, recently voted Pennsylvania’s Outstanding Young Farmer by the Pennsylvania Jaycees, operates a 265 acre chicken - hog - dairy farm near Paradise in part* Cloister team captures meat judging contest EPHRATA In a traditionally male, oriented FFA judging content, Donna Bender, a high school student here, shifted the traditions and became the top winner in the county meats contest. Miss Bender, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bender, 133 E. Chestnut St., Ephrata, was the top individual judge at the event held last Saturday at Kunzler’s Meats. . Along with being the first place individual judge, Miss Bender also helped the Ephrata team to place first in the team competitions, other members were Steve Strauss, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Strauss, Ephrata R 1 and Rick Sweigart, son of nership with his brother, Allan. The pair share responsibilities and find the arrangement mutually beneficial. See stoiy on page 24 Natl FFA officers visit Garden Spot By DIETER KRIEG LANCASTER The national FFA organization, with approximately 500,000 members, has widened its scope and base in recent years thereby attracting more support from business and industry which has enabled it to spread the message of agriculture and agri-business to more people than ever before. That is one of several points which were made Thursday morning by three national FFA officers who were in Lancaster County on a goodwill tour this week. At a breakfast meeting sponsored by the Sperry- New Holland Company, the Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sweigart, Akron. Strauss was the fourth place judge with Sweigart receiving 6th place individual honors. John Cramer and ' Jim High were other Cloister FFA members who placed in the top ten. Cramer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cramer, Denver R 2, placed second in the individual pladngs with High, son of Mr. and Mrs. John High, Akron, placing eighth; Penn Manor High School FFA’ers placed Second in the team contest and consisted of Rich Falk (third place individual). Bob Bachman (fifth place individual), and Lewis Witmer (seventh place individual). 53.00 Per Year national officers made known their views on a variety of ag-related sub jects. The trio Mike Jackson, national FFA secretary; Ron Wilson, national central region vice president; and Doug Loudenslager, national eastern region vice president is half of the complete slate of national officers which spends approximately 200 days of the year travelling to various parts of the country to tell about FFA programs and pur poses, and seek support from agribusinesses. “The FFA organization is now preparing students for [Continued on Page 18] Third place went to Solanco FFA with team members being Charles Blevins, Steve Huber and Dave Ransey. Grassland FFA from Garden Spot High School placed fourth in the contest and included members Steve Sauder, Linford Weaver and Dean Weiler. The contest was staged at Kunzler’s Meat Company in Lancaster and consisted of the evaluating beef car casses for quality and yield grades and identifying and placing classes of beef, pork and lamb. James Hetb and Bot Stover, plant manager and beef superintendent, con ducted the competition.
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