30—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 1,1977 Sandy Miller crowned (Continued from Pagel) position as a veterinary assistant. Grange, 4-H, and junior Holstein activities are included in the list of her activities. Her love for the home farm and -devotion to animals were still in Sandy’s thoughts even while she was seated on the red velvet throne of the reigning princess. “How are my calves? ” she inquired of her family. After being selected one of the seven semi-finalists during the ceremonies, Sandy was called first to answer in the random question portion of the competition. Asked what she would do if, while seated at the head table of a banquet, she saw the town mayor pour his glass of milk into a nearby potted plant, she paused only momentarily. “I’d point out to him that the milk would not be doing the flowers much good, but that it would do him a great deal of good if he’d drink it instead,” she replied. During her upcoming year’s reign, Sandy hopes to be able to reach people of all age groups, from kin dergarteners to senior citizens, because she believes that they all need milk. “Being chosen was really a surprise, and ‘l’d like to thank everyone a lot! I’ll do the very best job I can,” Sandy told the audience of 700 dairy industry representatives. First runner-up in the pageant was Tammy Sue Meabon, North East, representing Erie County. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Meabon, 17- year-old Tammy is a senior at Seneca High School. She’s an honor roll student and a cheerleader, and was named to Who’s Who among American high school students. The random question Tammy pulled concerned how she would handle the problem of having a flat tire on a dark country road while dressed in a gown and headed for a dairy industry appearance. Her answer was that, while she might wait a few minutes to see if someone would stop to help ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ♦ * * * ? N { t SE i t £ ? t | WAYLO ACRES | £ OCTOBER 7th, Bth & 9th * £ * 5 * FOR SALE Appaloosa and AQHA horses, all ages. Longhorn cattle. Trailers, tack, flea market. DISCOUNTS Hawthorn. Pa. 814-365-3452 her, she’d probably just try to change it herself. Lancaster County’s Twila Brubaker captured a double award. In addition to being named the second runner-up in the pageant, Twila won the coveted Miss Congeniality award, voted upon by the contestants themselves. Eighteen-year-old Twila is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold S. Brubaker, Manheim R 2. A 1977 graduate of Manheim Central High School, she is currently in the student registered nursing program. Her activities include membership on both the homecoming court and the farm show queen court, and the yearbook staff. Twila selected a question dealing with her response to a banquet waitress spilling chocolate milk on her dress just before she was to stand up to speak. In her answer, Twila indicated that, since everyone makes mistakes, she would simply explain to the audience that an ac cident had happened and not worry about it any further. The four other county winners selected as semi finalists were Deann Hillegass, Berlin R 2, representing Somerset County; Cynthia Waltemyer, Collegeville, Montgomery County; Karen Sue Smith, Shippensburg Rl, Cum berland County; and Kathleen Martin, Enon Valley Rl, Beaver-Lawrence Counties. Special awards for out standing presentations were given to four of the con testants, who then per formed the three-minute demonstrations during the program. Scrapbook winners were Lydia Pifer, Reynoldsville R 3, representing Jefferson County, and Kathy Hartle, Centre County’s princess from Bellefonte R 4. Linda Emigh, Shippensburg, and Renee McQuaide, Harrisburg, judged the scrapbook entries. Grover Gouker, Jr., Lancaster, handled the emcee duties of the pageant, while Obie Snider, Imler, hosted the All-American portions of the program. The Honorable Neal Buss, recently appointed deputy i i < * < ». . .at . a Lancaster County tractor puller, doing with a regular tire on his hot-rod tractor? The answer is that the regular pulling tires are way too big to leave on the tractor if you're planning on shipping the machine to Europe. Houck’s tractor, and another owned by Stauffer Diesel of New Holland, were sent to Holland recently to entertain European tractor pulling enthusiasts during the World Plowing Contests, to be held there this coming week. Dauphin County’s Frank Kocevar, 73, will represent the United States in the plowing contests. secretary of agriculture, brought greetings from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. Fighting back tears, outgoing princess Peggy Staub said her farewells and thanks to the state dairy industry. She summed up her experiences, and recalled how she’ll probably be remembered as the princess who entered many milking contests and lost all of them. The dairy princess pageant is coordinated by state committee chairman J. Robert Moms, and dairy promotion supervisor Joyce Groff. District coordinators are Barbara Gross, Emlenton R 2; Rita Ken nedy, Butler R 6; Beverly Minor, Washington R 2; Pat Miller, Linglestown R 4; Judy Diebold, Altoona R 3; Joanne Peifer, Canton Rl, and Mim Kauffman, Elizabethtown Rl. Milk class featured at fair LAMPETER - An unusual class featured at the W. Lampeter Community Fair is the milk division, where each contestant enters two glass pint bottles of milk, one to be judged, the other for display. The class is open to any milk producer in Lancaster County, and the milk is judged on its flavor, odor, visible dirt, fat, and acidity. The milk to be judged is taken to the Queen Dairy and this year was judged by Robert Rinier, the Queen V~F~T~ DISTRIBUTORS FOR \\y SCHLESSM AIM'S SEED CORIM —--— - - —* (80,000 Kernel Units) SX 700 New, top yielder Compare with your top yielder *40.00 MF *35.00 PP 3 WAY CROSSES SINGLE CROSSES *28.50 MF *34.50 MF CERTIFIED WHEAT • Abe • Arthur 71 • Ruler (new excellent yielder CERTIFIED BARLEY • Redcoat • Logan • Hart • Penrad WINTER RYE $ 5 25 Bu. Dairy director of quality control. This year there were two division of entrees, Holstein milk and Guernsey milk, with a total of 15 samples entered. In the Holstein class, blue ribbon winner was Mike Shertzer, Lan caster, Pa., and in the Guernsey division, the top winner was Ken Garber, Willow Street R 2, Pa. Complete residts of the class follow: Holstein: 1. Mike Shertzer, Lancaster; 2. Darrell Martin, Lampeter; 3. Furrey Frey and Sons, Lancaster; 4. Robert Kindig, Conestoga, Rl; 5. Randy Houser, Lampeter; 6. Nelson Sangrey, Lancaster; 7. Gordon Sangrey, Lancaster; 8. John H. Groff, Lancaster; 9. Glenn Book, Lancaser; 10. Elvin Hess, Conestoga Rl. Guernsey: 1. Ken Garber, Willow Street R 2; Tamara Breneman, Strasburg Rl. IE CROSSE! IN • Rapidian • Barsoy
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