Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Deniinger, right, presented a dation on Thursday night. The occasion was the program on world agriculture to members and group’s annual meeting. With the Denlingers are guests of the Lancaster Farm and Home Foun- Foundation president Jay Landis, center, and board member Clarence Keener, Jr. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Jan. 29,1977 Farm & Home [Continued from Page 1| explained that the Fields mission is not sponsored by any denomination, and in several countries they were escorted by people in the mission field. In a financial report, treasurer George M. Lewis said that a $105,000 second mortgage to Commonwealth National Bank was paid off last year. The other mor tgage is expected to be paid off in two years in spite of increasing lighting and heating costs, officers of the Foundation announced. “We started off with one mortgage and had to go back for a second m April of 1968 when the funds didn’t reach,” Lewis explained. A total of $23,600 remains to be paid on the original mor tgage, which is also owed to Commonwealth. Scheduled payments amount to $ll,OOO per year, which officers said they could meet. The original cost of the Farm and Home Center was $500,000. It was built between 1966 and 1968. Net income for the Farm and Home Center has dropped by $4OOO during the past two years, Lewis reported. Income in 1976 amounted to $72,045, while two years ago the Foun dation took in more than $76,000. On the other side of the ledger, expenses have crept Extension banquet set LANCASTER, Pa. - The annual meeting of the Lancaster County Agricultural and Home Economics Extension Association will be held Feb. 8, at 6:45 p.m. in the auditorium of the Farm and Home Center, 1383 Arcadia Road. The guest speaker will be professor Gilbert D. McKlveen of Kutztown State College who will give a presentation titled: “Growing Older Gracefully”. This talk has been very well received from many audiences in eastern Pennsylvania. Special entertainment will be a vocal trio titled: “Two Guys and a Gal”. This musical presentation re-lives the trials and tribulations of young love. A brief business meeting will include the election of several members to the board of directors and timely Extension Worker reports. Advance reservations are needed for this annual meeting dinner. Tickets are available from any member of the current board of directors, or from the Extension Office. The meal will feature tenderloin tips of beef and costs $5.00 per person. Deadline for reservations is noon on Friday, February 4th. ■“AIRSCREENER” American Screener other impurities from wheat. Corporation announces that barley, oats and other small they have marketed a new, grains. Dockage can be well-tested and highly ef- reduced for a higher market ficient, high capacity, grain value for the grain and the screener named the “Air screenings can be sold for Screener”. The Air Screener bird seed or used in feed combines a “suction-type” production. Screens are material handling fan, available in either stainless agitation and a thorough steel or cold rolled steel, are screening action to ef- interchangeable and fectively remove wheat, available for all grains. up, which has put the Farm and Home Foundation in the same sort of two-sided squeeze as what some far mers find themselves in. All expenses in 1976 amounted to $53,371, up from $52,000 in 1975 and just $49,000 in 1974. Electricity alone cost nearly $17,000 last year. Howard E. Campbell, Foundation business manager, noted that electric bills have gone up by 250 per cent since 1969. The Center is electrically heated. In his report on the scholarship committee, M.M. (Smith, county agricultural agent, ex plained that the auxiliary of St. Joseph’s Hospital has donated a $4OO scholarship to the Foundation. This scholarship is to be used for education in the field of medicine and will be used in addition to the ten scholarships the Foundation provides for nursing, home economics or agriculture. The Auxiliary donated the scholarship for the cooperation of the Foun dation in providing par titions for the Antiques Show that was held in the Fall. Musical entertainment was provided by John C. Hess, Mountville, a music graduate of Lebanon Valley College, now associated with the Herm Miller Dance Band of Harrisburg. straw, dirt, weed seeds, and 29
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