Six girls vie for poultry queen title Marcia Rohrer LANCASTER - Six Lan caster County girls have been chosen as candidates for the Lancaster County (Poultry Queen Contest to be held on Friday, August 20 at 8 p.m. in the Farm and Home Center, Lancaster. Judged partly on knowledge of the poultry industry and in part on poise and self-confidence, the queen will represent the county at the state pageant and at the Lancaster County Poultry Association’s annual banquet. She will also have varied duties such as ap pearing in parades and just generally promoting the industry. The candidates and their activities are as follows: Jane Marie Gregory is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. COMPLETE FARM PAINTING I ’ \ I V We Use Quality PAINT AND IT DOES STAY ON" AERIAL LADDER EQUIPMENT * Modern and Efficient Method * Reasonable Prices * Spray On and Brush In Method * Sandblasting if Necessary FOR FREE ESTIMATES WRITE ESH SPRAY PAINTING (DamelS Esh) (C Ralph Miller) SPRAY ON AND BRUSH-IN PAINTER BOX 350 A RONKS PA Nancy Wenger Robert E Gregory, Litilz Rl. She is presently at tending the Pennsylvania State University and is a sophomore in animal science. Active in 4-H for 10 years, she has belonged to the Broken Bit 4-H Horse and Pony Club, the Lancaster Co. 4-H Holstein Dairy Club, and the Brickerville Community 4-H Club, the Lancaster Co. 4-H County Council, and the PSU Campus 4-H Club. Jane is a graduate of Warwick High School where she was active in the marching band and student government. Her future plans include working in livestock management or a related field. Seventeen-year-old Rose Leininger is a recent graduate of Cocalico High School who now resides with her parents, Vernon and AUegra Leininger, Denver R 2. Active in music and acting while attending school, Rose participated in County Chorus for two years and District Chorus for one year. During her four years of high school, she par ticipated in five musicals and seven plays. Her goal for the future is to become a professional actress or singer. She has been ac cepted at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City and will be starting classes there this September. Jane Overholser, 37 Church St. Reamstown, is a 1971 graduate of Cocalico High School. Currently employed by Hess Brothers Farms, Inc., Ephrata Rl, she holds a secretarial position. Jane’s outside interests include being a member of Salem United Church of Christ, Ream stown, and the Reamstown First Company Ladies Auxiliary. She also enjoys 17572 w£V Jane Overholscr knitting, sewing, cooking, reading, collecting antiques, and sports as hobbies Marcia Rohrer, 17, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs Jay H Rohrer The family lives on a 140 acre farm at Manheim R 7. A senior at Manheim Central High School, Marcia is employed by the Elm Tree Acres dairy store as a cashier. Her hobbies include sewing, decorating cakes, and First SPRINGFIELD, Mass. ■ The largest regional con centration of poultrymen and allied industrymen in New England since the days of the famous old Boston Poultry Show will be con verging in this city for the first-ever Northeastern Poultry Exposition. A half-dozen regional and state associations are cooperating heavily to give increased importance to the traditional 14-state Nor theastern Poultry Producers Council (NEPPCO) ex position, the program and the activities here in the new $lO million Civic Center August 24 through 26. Speakers and commercial exhibitors from throughout the nation will share the attention of poultry leaders and farmers with a full program of educational, social and visual attractions. Northeast Egg Marketing Association (NEMA) of ficials are sharing spon sorship of the exposition this Vicki Sue Shenck cooking She is a member of the Hcmpficld Church of the Brethren youth group Vicki Sue Shcnck, a junior majonng in nursing at Penn State, is the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Fred Shenck, Willow St Rl. She is a member of the Student Nurse Association and the University Concert choir. Her hobbies include singing, water-skiing, Northeastern poultry exposition planned year with NEPPCO and the combined show has at tracted special cooperation from the American Farm Bureau Federation and a number of state poultry associations. AFBF president Allan Grant, of Visalia, Calif, a dynamic and out-spoken farm leader, will keynote the convention and is being feted by area Farm Bureau of ficials during his stay. Beginning with Grant’s call for action at the opening of the convention at noon on Tuesday, August 24, the series of seminars and talks are expected to attract widespread attention. How-to-do-it better sessions will feature such speakers as Joe W. Claybaugh, DeKalb Agßesearch consultant, and Herbert B. Gabriel, longtime head of the Great A&P Stores egg department. Merchandising and promotion programs will also be conducted by such experts as Louis B. Raffel, executive vice president of the American Egg Board, and by Linda Fitzhugh, executive secretary of the North Carolina Egg Marketing Association. Economic and feedgrain outlooks will be given by such speakers as Dr. Ed ward G. Boehne, chief economist of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and by John H. Frazier, Jr., a partner in Hennessy & Associates, Chicago. Grassroots tips on profit making will be voiced by other experts like Roland H. Coles, president of Coles Egg Farm, Inc., in Virginia and by Maurice J. Pickier, executive director of Eggmar, Raleigh, N.C. Complete programs for women and young adults are Idncatler farming Saturday August 14 19/6 i Rose Leimnger horseback riding, and sewing Nancy Wenger is a graduate of Cocalico High School who now resides on a 107 acre farm at Stevens Rl with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Noah Wenger. She participates m almost any outdoor activity including tennis, swimming, and bike riding. Nancy has also been active in the Lancaster planned. Social activities for everyone are scheduled throughout the exposition and include a “Spirit of ‘76’ breakfast complete with cooking demonstrations and a film on Wednesday mor ning and leading up to a Thursday evening “Picnic on the Patio”, an authentic New England clambake in a States first Simmental sale planned BIRD-IN-HAND - On Saturday, August 28, Beech dale Farms will host the Pennsylvania’s first Sim mental cattle sale. Ap proximately 50 females and two full-blood bulls will be offered at absolute auction to the highest bidders at the on the-farm sale scheduled for 12:30 p.m. at Bird-In-Hand, (Lancaster County), Pa. Guest consignors include Simmental Breeders Card ston Ltd., (SBL) of Alberta, Canada; Kingfield H. 6. Simmentals of King City, Ontario, Canada; KBJ Ranches, Xenia, Ohio; Hidden Lane Farm, Stockton, New Jersey; Gene Folck of Springfield, Ohio. Sale offering will include half-bloods through purebreds. One of America’s pioneers in purebred Simmental, Beechdale Farms’ Sim mental herd was assembled from the best of what 53 different breeders had to offer in 33 different auction sales and 16 private treaty transactions m 27 different Jane Mane Gregory County 4-H baby beef club for seven years Throughout these years, she had several prize winning steers, three of which were chosen to attend the Harrisburg State Farm Show. In school, she par ticipated in many in tramural sports In Sep tember Nancy plans to at tend Delaware Valley College of Science and Agriculture to major in animal husbandry park-like atmosphere high up on the Marriott Motor Inn overlooking downtown Springfield. Show registrations and full details are available at the NEPPCO office, 322 Oxford Valley Road, Pairless Hills, Pa. 19030, or by calling 215- 547-0190. states and Canadian provinces. Visitors are urged to bring families and arrive several days early in order to tour the Amis countryside or visit nearby Valley Forge, Get tysburg, Philadelphia, and Hershey. Pre-sale festivities include group tours to the above places and a Friday evening dinner party at a Penn sylvania Dutch restaurant. Sale catalogs, tour itineraries, and motel reservations may be ob tained by writing Beechdale Simmental Farms, Bird-In- Hand, Pa. 17505, or by calling toll-free 800-233-0252 outside Pennsylvania or 717- 656-7700 within Penn sylvania. Poultry producers not only marketed fewer chickens in 1975, but saved fewer for their own tables. Some 14 million chickens were consumed on farms where grown, down a millnn from 1974. 59
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