—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 5, 1977
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Natl pork queen
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Elwood Houser, (left) receives a
$3OO check from Hank Edwards
(right), representative of the Shell
Chemical Company, Animal Health
Division. Houser was named Penn
sylvania Pork All American at the
By JOANNE SPAHR
SCHAEFFERSTOWN, Pa.
- Terri Ward, the 1976
national pork queen, graced
the gathering of the Penn
sylvania Pork Producers
Council last week when they
met for their annual dinner
banquet at the Schaef
ferstown Fire Hall, here.
Miss Ward, the 19-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Ward of LaMoille,
HI., has been serving the
pork industry for two years
in a promotional capacity.
Two years ago she reigned
as the Illinois pork queen
which served as a
preparation for the national
title she now holds.
Since her crowning in
Indianapolis on March 10 at
the American Pork
Congress, she has traveled
across the country to
promote pork on behalf of
Donald Brown, Hanover Rl, received the 4-H
swine production award from the Pennsylvania
Pork Producers Council at their annual banquet
last week
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the nation’s producers. In
her after-dinner speech to
the Pennsylvania group, she
told of some of her ex
periences on the radio and in
personal appearances
around the country.
Miss Ward also showed a
film describing the ways in
which the National Pork
Producers Council is
spending the money they
receive from producers for
pork promotion. In that film
it was pointed out that the
NPPC is the largest com
modity organization in the
United States with a
membership of 80,000 in
dividuals. Eighty per cent of
the funding they receive
from the pork producers
goes toward making the
public aware of pork and its
values.
Following Miss Ward’s
Pennsylvania Pork Producers Council
annual banquet. The money he
received from Shell was to go toward
his trip to Des Moines, lowa, for
national recognition at the American
Pork Congress.
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speech, the organization
handed out youth awards to
its deserving younger
members. Donald Brown,
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those 10 sows got an average
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Jay Bomgardner, Ann
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from the Pork Council for his
showmanship honors at the
State Farm Show.
Elwood Houser, Lebanon
R 5, was also named Penn
sylvania Pork All American
at Saturday’s event for his
outstanding work in the
swine industry. Later in the
week, Houser went on to be
named national Pork All
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Pork Congress in Des
Moines, lowa. Further in
formation on Houser can be
found in a related page one
story in this week’s Lan
caster Farming. At the state
banquet, House received
$3OO from Hank Edwards, a
representative of Shell
Chemcial Company, Animal
Health division. This money
was to go towards Houser’s
trip the Pork Congress.
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of the meetmg, the board of
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