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E.E. Denlinger, V.M.D., from Lancaster County, receives the Cattleman of the
Year Award from Pa. Cattlemen’s Association director Harry Stambaugh.
Farmers flock to Washington
BY DICK WANNER
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
farmers from Pennsylvania
pearly wore grooves m the
road to Washington .this
In this issue
SECTION A: Editorials, 10; Bnckervdle barn fire,
13; Ask VMD, 19; Making TMR work, 21; Manure tour,
24; Gingerbread bams, 36.
SECTION B: York potato meeting, 4; New Holland
horse sale, 5; Md. beef trials, &.
SECTION C: Lancaster Apple Queen, 2; Home on
Range, 6; York farm women anniversary, 10;
Legislative scorecard, 18; County beef tour, 22:
Garden Spot FFA, 28; Grassland FFA.-32; Milk Check,
36; Bradford Dairy Princess, 37.
SECTION D: Waxy corn, 7; Blair DHIA, 10; Farm
Talk, 15; Bean beetle outlook, 20; How to beat mastitis,
27.
SECTION E: Montgomery DHIA, 2; Berks DHIA, 6;
Schuylkill DHIA, 9; N.J. youth conference. 10.
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
MIDDLETOWN - Mrs.
Clair Nissley, of Dauphin
County, has kept a family
scrapbook for the past 25
years.
Last year’s scrapbook
began much like many of the
other years that traced the
personal activities of the
farm family living just
across the Conewago Creek
from Lancaster County.
January, 1979: “The
beginning of another New
V ear and I spent a lot of time
'his winter getting our
scrapbook up to date.
We finally got the
grandfather clock finished
after setting around since
1976 ”
February: “Daddy gave
me a valentine. We are
really going through
something now with the
bridge away. We have to
drive out of the way several
Legislative roundup
,week, as both - the Penn
- sylvania Farmers
Association and the Penn
sylvania Grange sent
-members to the nation’s
Farm family scrapbook recalls TMI
miles every time we go to
town, church, Grandpa
Nissley and other places
toward Elizabethtown.”
(This entry refers to the
Nissley Mill covered bridge
which was burned by van
dals in August, 1978.)
February 17: “Sharon
made me a beautiful cake
for my birthday.”
March 13: “We started the
horrible job of tearing up the
old kitchen linoleum, which
was in since 1960.”
March 27: “Daddy’s 48th
birthday. I gave him a card
and a blue shirt.”
The very next day the
Nissley family scrapbook
takes a dramatic turn and
recounts events that reached
around the world.
On the pages following
those containing the cards
that Clair received for his
birthday were pasted these
few words clipped from a
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March IS, 1980
capitol for meetings with
their senators and
representatives. - ,
The' Pennsylvania Far
mers Association .spent two
days at the . Quality Inn,
within sight ofthe- Capitol
Building. Some 260 PFA
members drove in from
every part of the state,to
spend Wednesday and
Thursday with their
Congressmen and
Congressional staff mem
bers.
Nearly every one of
Pennsylvania’s 25
Representatives - or a staff
member - received a call
from' a PFA - delegation.
Senator Richard Schwelker
paid a brief visit to Wed
nesday evening’s banquet,
Memories of a year ago
large, bold headline that
appeared in the Middletown
newspaper:
“7 Days March 28 - April
4.”
The Nissleys, who live and
farm in the shadow of Three
Mile Island, recorded those
first few unforgetable days
following the nuclear ac
cident.
Wednesday, March 28:
“The nightmare began,”
Mrs. Nissley labeled her
overall impression of the
week or so that followed.
“I was in the kitchen
working and suddenly
decided to turn the radio on,
which is unusual since I like
it quiet. We fust heard about
the accident at Three Mile
Island. As the day
progressed and the news
kept coming, we were
wondering what was hap
pening.”
Her husband recalled he
Denlinger chosen
Cattleman of Year
BY SHEILA MILLER
STATE COLLEGE - At
their annual meeting on
Thursday evening, the
Pennsylvania Cattlemen’s
Association selected E.E.
Denlinger, V.M.D., as
Cattleman of the Year.
Denlinger accepted his
award in front of the 144
cattlemen gathered in State
College for this annual
event.
Making the presentation,
and Representative Allen
Ertel, from Dauphin County,
spoke at length during
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Local farmer nominated
to Condemnation board
BY CURT HAULER
CONESTOGA - John E.
Barley, Conestoga, was
nominated this week by
Governor Dick Thornburgh
to serve on the state
Agricultural Lands Con
demnation Approval Board.
Also nominated for a four
year term on the board is
was packing eggs in the
nearby 50,000-layer house at
the time. He didn’t know
anything about what was
happening a mile away at
the plant until he came home
for lunch. Then, he r began to
follow the news, too.
Thursday, March 29: “The
helicopters are flying over
our place and around the
area at regular intervals.”
Nissley snapped a photo of
his 80-foot silo as a
remembrance of that day
and entered it in the
scrapbook.
“Two photographers from
Time and Newsweek came
to the farm and wanted to
take some pictures from the
top of the silo,” he said.
“I went along up and it
took quite a time for them to
climb the silo. They were
huffing and puffing already
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Weinberger crowned queen
Harry Stambaugh, director,
stated the cattlemen were
grateful for Denlinger’s
service to the cattle in
dustry.
After studying pre
veterinary courses at
Franklin and Marshall
College in Lancaster and
receiving his veterinary
degree from the University
of Pennsylvania, Denlinger
practiced in the Lancaster
area for 22 years. His
practice, physically located
in Paradise, was con
dentrated in the large
animal area.
In 1969, he accepted a
position with the Penn
sylvania Department of
Agriculture as the
superintendent of meat
inspection. Denlinger ex
plained when the federal
- government took over those .
Charles Benner, Mid
dleburg, Snyder County.
If approved, the pair will
be the two required fanner
members to sit on the board.
By law, other board mem
bers will include State
Agriculture Secretary
Penrose Hallowell, En
vironmental Resources
From elevated field Clair Nissley has panoramic
view of neighboring Three Mile Island Nuclear
Power Plant.
$7.00 Per Ye«r
responsibilities in 1972, he
then became the head of the
Bureau of Animal Industries
for PDA.
Denlinger has served as a
director for the Pa. Cat
tlemen’s Association for
over four years. He also
serves on the Pa. Beef
Council as a director.
Since his retirement from
PDA in 1977, Denlinger has
remained active in the
programs affecting the
livestock industry.
He resides in R 2 Ronks,
Lancaster County.
•Other ceremonies at the
cattlemen’s annual meeting
included the coronation of
the 1960 queen.
Laura Weinberger, a
junior a lt Penn State, was
selected to represent the
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Secretary Clifford Jones,
and Transportation
Secretary Thomas Larson.
The Ag Lands Con
demnation Approval Board
was created in December
1979 to determine the
feasibility of condemning
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