VOL 24 Mo. |i L E. Rishel was a busy man at the Woodsmen Festival last weekend. His art is chain saw sculpture, and he could be seen perfecting his seven foot masterpiece throughout theTestival. Lancaster Farming photo by Kendace Borry Compete in Northeastern Loggers 9 Assn, championships Lumberjacks come to Lancaster Co. competition By KENDANCEBORRY ELIZABETHTOWN - For the third year running, the Elizabethtown Mount Joy Forest Fire Crew hosted the Northeastern Lumberjack Festival, at their headquarters near Milton Grove, Lancaster County. All around point champion for 1979 was Arden Cogar, Webster Springs, West Virginia, who through the various competitions, managed to score a total of 23 points. The top four spots in the competition were dominated by toe Cogar family. Jack Cogar was named second, Paul Cogar third, and Bill Cogjr fourth. As you might have guessed, toe Cqgars are real-life lumberjacks, who run a family logging business. Jack Cogar has been the world champion in some events in the wood smen carnivals 17 times, and members of the family travel to compete in many festivals and qpntests. What do you do at a woodsmen festival? Well there is ax throwing, log rolling, tobacco spitting, two-man cross saw, Jack and JilT cross cut saw, log jousting, chain saw, ax chopping, tug of war, tree climbing, and for the ladies, nail driving. The festival was a family event, with special features including square dancing under toe stars, a cake decorating contest, games, gospel music, a wild animal show, commercial displays, and fair rides. Members of the forest fire Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Stpttmber 15,1979 crew first conceived the idea of'of having a lumberjack competition over three years ago. That Fall they staged their first competition, one which a member termed, “small and modest” com pared to this year’s project n As the crew explained, the whole festival has just grown by leaps and bounds each year, when competitors appeared from West Virginia, Ohio, Virginia, - Indiana, and a lew other neighboring states as well as from Pennsylvania. This was the first year that the competition was divided between amateurs and professionals. And if the turnout for the amateurs was any indication, there are a lot of people in the audience that always wanted (TumtoPa«e2o) 300 protesters at sewer meet It was a circus Wednesday night at the LoganviUe* Springfield Elementary School in York County, complete with tightrope walking, juggling and a clown act or two. An audience of3oo people, mostly fanners, watched while representatives of the South Centrals Sewer Authority presented their case for a spray irrigation sewer treatment system proposed for the LoganviUe. Jacobus . and Springfield Township area. The system would utilize some 239 acres of privately owned farmland fot-lagoons, bolding ponds and spraying area. , None, of the six authority members _ spoEe' at 'the meeting. They were represented mainly by Robert J. Halbert, the engineer assigned to the project by the authority’s engineering consulting firm, Bucbart'Hom Associates. Halbert was the man on the tightrope. His job was to describe the operation of the proposed system, which he did with the help of diagrams projected onto a screen at the front of the room. Time and 1 again, voices from the darkness assailed the engineer. “Where are you putting this?” , “What’s it going to cost?” “How much are the engineers getting?” “Why isn’t it being put toa vote?” Halbert paused as each question came at him, then moved on with his ex planation of the system. When the lights were turned on, it became apparent that he bad been asked by the In this issue Editorial 10 Classifieds 46 Homestead Notes 86- Junior Cooking Edition 87 Joyceßupp 88 Ida’s Notebook 89 Farm Women Societies 90 Kendy’sKollumn 90 F.W.S. Calendar 91 Home nntbe Range 94 Heaver Community Fair 100 Lebanon Co. 4-H leader 101 Tammy Lefever • 102 Bergland elaborates 104 SolancoFair schedule 118 Montgomery Co. sheep show 130 Woodson Farm 132 Lebanon Co. DHIA 143 Sales Reports 148 Public Sales Register 161 authority’s attorney not to stray from the 'workings of the system. The attorney, Stephen linebaugh, fielded most of the questions from the largely hostile audience. Little was said Wednesday about the collection system that would be needed for a regional sewage treatment facility. The schoolbouse meeting dealt mainly with the proposed spray irrigation system. Halbert said that 12 spray rites bad been considered originally, but that four had been rejected as unfeasible. Robert Haibert...on a tightrope. Potato prices low; yields look good By DEBRA STRICKLER LrnTZ-As the potato har .vest is in full swing, area potato growers agree that their yields are comparing with pther' years but the price is considerably lower. Lower prices are resulting from an increased supply of potatoes in the area. According ■ to Noah Kreider, Jr. a Manheim area potato grower, the low prices have resulted from “too many potatoes being im ported into our area”. The majority have been im ported from the western areas, including Ohio and Michigan. Kreider raises 800 acres of potatoes and is half $7.00 Per Year Of the remaining eight sites, a number of configurations were possible, but one was considered most desirable according to Buchart-Hom’s engineering studies. That site would take in 239 acres, including 69 acres on the Dennis McWilliams farm, 106 acres on the neighboring Brenneman farm and 62 acres on the Springfield Sportsmen’s Club. All the properties adjoin each other. Halbert said that they could expect to spray some (Turn to Page 33) completed with this year’s harvest He believes, the .yield and quality compare favorably with last year. The George Wolfe’s of Stewartstown, York County, produces 150 acres of potatoes. They view the yield •as good this year, however are disappointed in the size of the potatoes. A smaller size predominatesas a result oftoo much wet weather. Although tiw Wolfe’s pads. 90 par cent of their own potatoes; a few weeks ago, they shipped* few potatoes to a local chip factory in an effort to obtain a better price. The packaaged Wolfe (Turn to Page 39)
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