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York Countians join
fight chemical dump
by JOYCE BUPP
pHstaff Corrcsjwndent
EHvgn valleys -
300 embittered far
rH and other residents of
ftHlh Codorus Township
the firehall here
jfHrsday evening to help
a toxic chemical waste
planned on hillside
dump would be
about three miles
of the small York
farm town of Seven
j^Heys.
tHunny Farms, Ltd., a
of Stabitrol, Inc.,
has been
an operating permit
the Pennsylvania
of En
jHonmental Resources to
H-y industrial waste,
Visibly including sub-
Hcces like chramioMead,
Hrcury, cadmium, and
Heme.
Heveral years ago Sunny
Hmis operated a landfill on
H property but was shut
Hum m 1975 by DER after
■ investigation turned up
Bposal violations.
■A. court injunction handed
Hwn last week in York
Hunty Court has tem-
Branly halted any dumping
B Stabitrol because a
Hbdmsion plan had not
Ben properly filed for
Bwnship action.
LLast year’s State champ
oves closer to Holstein title
BY RUTH ANN BENEDICT
■ Staff Correspondent
■ HARRISBURG - The
■rand Champion Holstein at
■uesday’s Southcentral
4-H Dairy Show,
■eld here at the Farm Show
■omplex was right at home
■ the champion limelight.
■ Actually, the aged cow,
■avm Apollo Etta, is just one
■ e P closer to retaining her
■tie as the champion
■cistern in the state a title
■he captured last year.
BThe grand champion, a
■dltop Apollo Ivanhoe
Baughter, took the Senior
■piampion honors with her
Bwner Tamra R. Yost of R 1
■ershey, Dauphin County at
B er halter. Tammy is the
Bhematc Dairy Princess for
Bauphin County
P The Reserve Grand
piiaitioion Holstein was
exhibited by Adams
■county’s Christine Gitt,
B-attlestoWn. Penn-Gate
■•elstar Queen is a three
lyear-old daughter of Beech-
The piece of land repor
tedly includes over 500
acres, but'only a portion of
that is to be used for the
chemical dump.
Two other firms,
Liqwacon of the York City’s
new industrial park, and
Allied Chemical, have also
purchased part of the Sunny
Farms acreage for dumping
of their firm’s waste.
A subdivision plan now has
been submitted and under
the injunction issued by the
court, dumping will be
permitted as soon as the plan
is approved by township
officials.
Waste would be burned in
contanerized types of un
derground storage ac
cording to the DEE permit.
The* waste - could not be
dumped within 500 yards of
private homes.
The dump area is com
pletely surrounded by prime
bum land and com is being
farmed on the land at
present
Fanners are concerned
that drainage frdmthe dump
could get into their water
supply and' nobody can
guarantee it will not
although they offer
assurances that it won’t.
The York County Far
mers’ Association attended
the Thursday meeting to
monitor the situation. But
Hill Elevation Jetstar. She
followed the grand champion
all the way to the top, being
tagged as Reserve Senior
Champion by Judge
Raymond Seidel, Kutztown.
Lancaster County’s Steve
Kauffman, R 1
Elizabethtown, brought
home the Junior Champion
honors with his junior
yearling Penn Spring
Milestone Ada.
Judge Seidel tagged the
second place junior yearling
In this Issue
SECTION A: Editorials, 10; Montgomery, Md. fair,
' 16; Montgomery Holstems, 17; Sheila’s shorts, 24;
York baby beef, 26; Central Susquehanna youth show,
33; Dauphin hogs, 36; 4-H achievement dayS, 38
SECTION B; Kutztown dairy show, 2; N-J Polled
Herefords, 4; Md horse show, 5, Central FFA show, 6
SECTION C: Dedicated to agriculture, 2, Joyce
Bupp, 4; Home on range, 6; Buggy business, 20-
Cumberland swine roundup, 25 Franklin dairy show
30; Kutztown 4-H, FFA winners, 32, Ask VMD, 34
SECTION D: Milk check, 3, Cumberland DHIA, 4
Carlisle Fair, 6; York DHIA, 9, Blair DHIA, 11 Berks
DHIA, 15. Central District show ’6
Uncaiff ftnmat, Saturday, August 30,19A0
other residents have taken
the fight one step further.
Citizens from the area
have organized into OUCH,
Inc., calling themselves
Opposing Unnecessary
Chemical Hazards.
OUCH has hired
Harrisburg attorney
Michael Davis whom they
say has spent considerable
time fighting DER direc
tives.
According to Steve Marsh,
R 1 Seven Valleys, president
of OUCH, the citizens’ group
also has lined up an engineer
and a hydrologist for help in
factfinding.
Only DER can revoke
Stabitrol’s dumping license
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Girls topple 4-H pig records
BY DICKANGLESTEIN
LANCASTER - What do
the grand champion gilt and
her champion fitter and
showperson do after the
trot from the ring to the
echoing applause of
audience and bidders?
If you're the Grand
Champion 215-pound
crossbred Duroc of the
Lancaster County 4-H Pig
Club Roundup on Thursday,
you trot stiff-legged out into
as the Reserve Junior
Champion. Aldina Book
maker Debbie was shown by
Beverly A. Meyers,
Chambersburg, Franklin
County.
In the Ayrshire com
petition, Diane' Maulfair’s
Lebanon Area Fair cham
pion was once again wearing
a purple ribbon on her
halter. The two-year-old
Maulfair Acres S.S. Milkdud
' is owned and shown by the
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Judy Zimmerman, R 1 Ephrata, gives her Grand Champion crossbred Du roc
gilt a final oiling before entering auction ring at Lancaster County 4-H Pig
.Roundup.
the Hatfield pen, .. not
knowing that if a slice of
your ham would be sold in a
restaurant on the basis of the
selling price, it would be
right up there with filet
raignon.
Then you start acting the
way you should act - just
like a pig. As other Hatfield
purchases begin to fill the
pen, you root, bump and
shove to get at some scat
tered feed and finally just
flop down and stretch out in
a patch of cool weater.
If you’re a champion fitter
and showperson, like Judy
Zimmerman, R 1 Ephrata,
you rush back out to the
holding pens, grab the spray
bottle of show oil or talcum
and get five more head
ready for the ring.
And when it’s all over,
you’ve herded six head
through the ring, including
three champs, collected
some $1639 and led nearly a
clean sweep for your fellow
female participants.
Yes, Miss Piggy would
have been proud at the
Lancaster Roundup, at the
Stockyards on Thursday.
After the boys captured
the two lightest weight
classes, it was the girls all
the way until the Pens of Ten
when the boys slipped back
in.
Right behind JB-year-old
Judy Zimmerman, com- -
peting in her final show,
came Chns Chapman, who
at 13, appears to be heir
apparent m county 4-H pig
circles.
While Judy’s 215-pounder
took the grand champion
honors, Chris’ 210-pound
entry was named reserve
grand champion, both
.coming out of the
mediumweight classes.
hi all, "nearly 20 tons of
hams on the hoof-178 head-,
- were shown. When the final
gavel fell, the 4rHers were
richer to the tune of
$23,233.01 for a show-wide
average of 59.43 per pound.
The bidding on Judy’s
grand champion got started
at $3 and quickly moved
upward. It stopped with a
final blink of an eye by the
Hatfield bidder at what
appears to be a Lancaster
record of $4.30. Last year’s
top price was $3.01.
Actually Judy led off the
show with her grand
champion, had lightweight
and 225-pound champs in
between and wound up the
bidding with a lot of three.
Actually, she did right well
Hi Kick Jingle tops
Keystone Ayrshire Sale
BY CURT HARDER
LANCASTER - Hi Kick
Jingle, consigned by
Delaware Valley College,
was the top selling animal at
the Keystone Classic Ayr
shire Sale held Thursday at
the Guernsey Sales Bam,
Lancaster.
She was due September 1
to Oak Ridge Commanders
Star, one of the breed’s
better known sires. Jingle
sold to J. Garrett Hunter,
West Alenander for the
bargain price of 11740.
Indeed, there were a
number of animals,
especially bred heifers,
which sold below some
observers’ expectations. The
saie average was just $1035.
$7.50 Per Year
with all. Her lightweight
champ brought 90 cents, the
225-pounder 09 cents and the
final lot of three62.2s. - ■
Chris’ 210-pound reserve
champion brought $1.85.
Other top placers in the
Roundup and prices:
Champion Trio - Liz
Chapman, 76 cents.
Reserve Champion Trio -
Michelle Dean, 70 cents.
Champion Pen of Ten -
Stanley Heisey, 60 cents.
Reserve Champion Pen of
Ten - Bruce Sipling, 53
cents.
Heavyweight Champion -
Sarah Brubaker, 83 cents.
Reserve Heavyweight
Champion - Chris Chapman,
65 cents.
Class 1,175 pounds, Robbie
Rohrer, 51 cents.
(TurntaPase A 27)
“Bred heifers went way
cheap,” confirmed Show
Manager Milt Brubaker,
Litltr.
“Ayrshires at the present
time are cheap. For the
money dairymen can’t get a
better buy on a cow,” he
maintained.
Several dealers at the
show who purchased a
number of animals seemed
to agree with that analysis.
The top selling Hi Kick
Jmgle was sired by Mar-Ral
Hi Kick and out of Crystal
Spring Don’s Jan.
Rated “very good,” Hi
Kick Jmgle has records of
just under 12,000 pounds
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