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Holidays, and their special
personal meanings, change
over the years. Age, I can
attest, has a way of altering
the celebration with
material things into one of
appreciation for that most
precious of gifts, the love
and fellowship of friends and
family.
Once, Easter for me came
wrapped in the brilliant
shades of foil-covered
candies, yellow sugar-
marshmallow
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a farm wife
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ducklings and spicy rainbow
jellybeans. And always,
there were bunnies.
Chocolate bunnies
arriving nestled deep in
nests bedded with pink and
green shredded cellophane
were a must. Then, there
was the year when I was six,
and a stuffed bunny hugged
me close, sharing the scary,
strange darkness of the new
home we’d moved into on
that Easter eve.
Later, the bunnies came m
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a new form, fuzzy, with
wruiglmg pink noses and soft
silky coats. One arrived
home with me, to Mom and
Dad’s surprise, when a prize
egg turned up the bottom of
my basket of goodies at a
local egg-hunt.
Easter, a few years fur
ther down the road, brought
a baby white cottontail,
presented by a certain shy
farm boy, who juggled the
bunnies into a black and
white dairy herd.
So although elegant
chocolate goodies and multi
colored eggs are still a
memorable part of our
observance, personal
memories now look more
inward.
They linger on the over
whelming fragrance of
pristine white lilies,
crowding the altar rail
where we gather in the
renewal of the morning
communion. And of family
gathered around the
bountifully spread kitchen
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table to share the holiday
together.
And while we rejoice
within, the countryside
celebrates the miracle of the
resurrection, bursting forth
in a pageant of rebirth over
the dead, drab, dark tones of
winter into the yellows and
purples of spring flowers.
Out m the pasture, grasses
send new shoots pushing
through the dried remains
and the contoured field
strips shade into the muted
greens of young alfalfa,
barley and rye.
And if you look closely,
among the waving early wild
daffodils and emerald shoots
of Springtime, there might
even be a bunny
May Easter blessmgs fill
the hearts of you and yours.
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WASHINGTON, D.C -
The 50 largest US. food
manufacturing firms’ share
of food industry assets rose
from 42 percent in 1963 to
nearly 64 percent in 1978, and
could reach 100 percent by
the year 2000, according to
John Connor, an economist
with the U S Department of
Agriculture
Connor, who has just
completed a study of US.
food and tobacco
manufacturing industries,
found the number of firms in
these fields is declining by
about three percent per
year
He also found that the 200
largest firms account for
two-thirds of industry sales,
over four-fifths of industry
assets, four-fifths of all
media advertising of food
and over 96 percent of all
research and development
activities
Food manufacturers in
clude companies that
produce such products as
processed meats, fluid milk,
canned fruits and
vegetables, cookies, candy,
bread, breakfast cereals and
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Mastersonville 4-H
Club to organize
The Mastersonville
Community Club will hold its
organizational meeting
Tuesday, April 8 at 7 p.m at
the Mastersonville Fire Hall
Some of the projects being
planned for the Master
sonville 4-H Club are as
follows sewing, cooking, pet
care, indoor plants,
rocketry, swine, horses,
capons, macrame, crewel,
electricity, yeast breads,
cake decorating, and han
dyman.
Youth between the ages of
alcoholic and soft drinks,
among others
Connor also found that the
rate of merger, industry
concentration, and product
differentiation are in
creasing. Produce dif
ferentiation is the practice
by a manufacturer of trying
to make a product slightly
different or seem slightly
different from those of
competitors Generally, the
purpose of differentiation is
to try to build brand loyalty
and increase competition,
Connor said
Other findings of Connor’s
study include
Durmg the period of 1951-
55, food manufacturers’
after-tax profit rate was 8.4
percent, compared with 11 5
percent for other
manufacturers During 1971-
75, food manufacturers’
after-tax profit rose to 13 2
percent compared with a
Remember ,
April 25 is
Arbor Day
HARRISBURG - Clifford
L. Jones, secretary of En
vironmental Resources,
urged all Pennsylvanians to
remember that Friday,
April 25 is Arbor Day and to
mark the occasion by
planting trees or shrubs.
“By taking an active part
in this nation-wide ob
servance, you will not only
help preserve one of our
most important natural
resources but also show a
personal commitment to the
increasing value of trees and
forests,” Jones said.
He said while the first
Arbor Day was observed in
Nebraska on April 10,1872, it
is annually observed in
Pennsylvania during the
Joseph T. Rothrock
Memorial Conservation
Week which begins April 20
and continues through April
26.
Rothrock was the Com
monwealth’s first com
missioner of forestry and is
often referred to as the
“father of forestry” in
Pennsylvania
Jones said the depart
ment’s Bureau of Forestry is
ready and eager to take an
active role in promoting
Arbor Day programs,
especially in the schools.
8 and 19, who live in the
Mastersonville area are
invited to attend this
meeting. Parents are urged
to attend this meeting to help
their children choose
projects.
Community dues for the
year will be $1 payable at the
first meeting.
Adult leaders are needed.
If you have any questions
call Ruth Hoffer, 717/665-
6373 or Barbara Engle,
717/665-2372
rate of 11 9 percent for other
manufacturers
This was the first time that
after-tax profits for food and
tobacco industries, as a
percentage of stockholders’
equity, exceeded the
average for the rest of
manufacturing
TV accounts for over 50
percent of all media ad
vertising of foods and are
increasing
Foreign investment m U.S
food and tobacco
manufacturing firms totaled
about $1 8 billion in 1975 and
is rising rapidly, while in
vestment by U.S. firms
abroad is about $4 7 billion
but nsmg less rapidly.
For a single free copy of
Connor’s study, “U S. Food
and Tobacco Manufacturing
Industries,” write to ESCS
Publications, room 0054-S,
USDA, Washington, D.C,
20250 Ask for publication
AEIMSI and include your
zipcode
To do this the district
foresters of the 20 Forest
Districts have been in
structed to help carry out
Arbor Day programs and to
participate actively in such
programs wherever, and
whenever, possible,” Jones
said
“The management of our
natural resources is the
concern of every responsible
citizens’ group throughout
the state. Arbor Day offers
an excellent opportunity for
everyone to work to enhance
our natural beauty, improve
the environment and per
petuate our valuable forest
resources.”
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