Youth Grange program outlined
HARRISBURG - Young
Grangers, from five to 35
years old, will have their
“days” at the 104th annual
convention of the Penn
sylvania State Grange, to be
held in Sharon, Mercer
County, from October 25 to
28.
Something new has been
added to this year’s
program, the first “Junior
Day” to be held in con-
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State convention begi
nection with a State con
vention, according to J.
Luther Snyder, master of the
State Grange.
The Junior program, for
youngsters from five to
fourteen years old, will open
at 10 a.m. Monday in the
auditorium of the West
Middlesex High School. A
team from Mercer County
will exemplify the Junior
activities for the Penn
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sylvania State Grange, and
Mrs. Mary Ross, director of
junior activities for the Ohio
State Grange. '
A luncheon will be held for
the Junior Grangers at 11:30
at the Sheraton Motor Inn
followed by tour of a candy
factory and garden center.
During the evening
program, beginning at 6:20
p.m. Monday in the Sharon
High School auditorium, the
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Pennsylvania Junior Prince
-and Princess will be in
troduced. They are John H.
Shankweiler, of
Schnecksville R 2, and Susan
M. Young, Schnecksville Rl,
both Lehigh County.
The Junior Grange talent
winners of 1976 will be in
troduced and will present
their award winning per
formances. They are: Faith
and Ross Pifer, Reynold-
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Oct 23.1976 —
sville R 3, Jefferson County,
winners in the vocal com
petition; Susan McAdams,
Mill St., Fredonia, Mercer
County, instrumental; and
Sheila Merkel, Kutztown R 3,
Berks County, other acts.
The traditional Youth Day
will be on Wednesday, Oc
tober 27, when young people
from 19 counties will fill the
officers’ chairs for the
opening of the morning
session at 9 o’clock. Douglas
Bonsall, Millerstown Rl,
chairman of the State
Grange youth committee
will submit his report to the
delegates at 9:40 a.m.
A youth ritual and
demonstration contest will
be held at 2 p.m. in the West
Potato crop
record large
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
Although exports of U.S.
potatoes should increase
during the 1976-77 marketing
year, the U.S. Department of
Agriculture predicts that
this country’s potato sup
plies will .be more than
adequate due to a domestic
crop appreciable larger than
last year’s 326 million
hundredweight.
In 1975-76, the marketing
year that ended Sept. 30, the
United States exported 21
million hundredweight of
potatoes fresh equivalent - 6
per cent of its total crop.
USDA officials said U.S.
supplies will be adequate to
meet both domestic
requirements and overseas
demand. It appears that the
1976 Fall harvest will be
record large. This season’s
larger supply is reflected in
recent wholesale prices at
Eastern points of around
$3.00 per hundredweight,
compared with $6.82 last
season for the short 1975
crop.
Drought has reduced the
new potato crop in most
Middlesex High School
gymnasium, followed by the
annual youth banquet at 5
p.m. and youth party at the
Sharon High School
cafeteria. The speaker at the
banquet will be J. Collins
McSparran, of Camp Hill,
past State Grange master.
Another highlight will be
the arts and crafts display at
the convention headquarters
at the Sheraton Motor Inn. It
will include photography,
painting, needlework, baked
goods, embroidery and
bicentennial samplers.
Entries will be judged
Tuesday, and the displays
will be open to the public
after that, the State Grange
master said.
European countries. The
harvests are expected to be
smaller than last year’s poor
crops in a number of im
portant producing countries
including France, West
Germany, the Netherlands,
Belgium, and the United
Kingdom. This will likely
result in an increase in U.S.
exports to Europe, although
sanitary restrictions remain
a serious deterrent.
Sanitary restrictions have
been a serious deterrent to
U.S. exports of potatoes to
Europe in past years. This
problem has not appreciably
diminished.
It appears likely that the
increase in U.S. exports to
Europe in 1976-77 will be in
the form of both fresh and
processed products. In
addition to seeking potatoes
and potato products in the
United States, it is expected
that European countries will
purchase stocks from ad
ditional areas such as
Canada, some East
European countries, and
North Africa.
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