Al6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 7,1981 Lancaster 4-H (Continued (rom Page AX) pion light-heavyweight at the Farm Show Tun Hess, Lancaster, received a trophy for county reserve champion and an award for being part of the reserve champion beef trio along with Fritz Frey, Quarryville, and Bonnie Frey, Quarryville Also receiving an electric clock was Ernie Frey, Quarryville, for reserve grand champion at the Farm Show Receiving pen sets and trophies were Tony Eberly, Denver, Kent Henry, Strasburg, and Ernie Frey, Quarryville for being grand champion beef trio at the Farm Show Not to be outdone by beef, the 4-H Woohes honored their winners too Gerald Rohrer, Quarryville, received an electric clock for state champion southdown ewe For county champion iunior sheep showman, Monica Esh, Kmzers received a muffin tray. Sarah Brubaker, Lancaster Nancy Myers presents an electric clock to Gerald Rohrer for state champion southdown ewe. Max Smith, retiring county agent, was honored for 44 years of service to the county and to the 4-H beef and sheep club, Thursday at their annual banquet. The club presented him with this jacket made of sheep skin received a pen set for countv champion market lamb and champion hampshire ewe The final award, a muffin tray, went to Margaret Kerr, Narvon, for champion intermediate showman The evening was not all tears, tributes and awards, however Members proved that 4-H can be a lot of fun by presenting skits, songs and dances “If I Were Not A 4-H’er” was the humorous skit presented by Jim Stauffer, Deb Martin, Barry Martin, Rick Hollinger and Wayne Hess The skit described the “questionable occupations” a 4- H’er would be forced to follow if there was no 4-H A singing trio, named “The Clucks” had to get in on the act too by presenting their latest hit song Singers were Scott Augsburger, Ed Nissley and Tony Eberly The beef for the banquet was fed by Jere Brubaker, purchased and donated to the beef club by The Hamilton Bank These shady-looking characters made up a trio called “The Clucks" at the 4-H banquet. ' i' r*i V -I, 3 *-*"*! lu f \ Receiving awards for their sheep projects showman; Momca Esh, county champion jr were- Gerald Rohrer, champion southdown showman: and Sarah Brubaker, champion ewe: Margaret Herr, champion intermediate hampshire ewe. Farmers Union members attend leadership training MORRIS - Farmers representing six Pennsylvania counties attended a leadership training conference sponsored by the Pennsylvania Fanners Union Thursday and Friday The two day conference was held at the Oregon Hill Ski Resort in southern Tioga County. Linda Sidenus, field service coordinator for the Denver, Colorado-based National Farmers Union, told farmers attending the conference that 1981 is a good example of why farmers should be better organized and more ef fective. “This year, the basic federal farm law expires The talk is now that the dairy price support program may be altered and that loan programs for farmers could be significantly cut back. “The only was farmers will come out of this successfully without suffering severe cutbacks in vital programs is to be organized and effective,” Sidenus said Sidenus pointed out that Congress is dominated by people elected from urban areas. “Farmers are a minority of the population in the nation and in most states That doesn’t mean agriculture is not extremely im portant, but it does mean that we have to work doubly hard to make our voices heard when we don’t have the political clout of the metropolitan areas,” Sidenus said. Sidenus said the purpose of the Farmers Union’s leadership training programs is to help build effective grassroots action in rural areas A similar conference was held for Farmers Union members in the western portion of Penn sylvania on Monday and Tuesday Attending the conference at Oregon Hill was Mary Boyer of 'i ‘ ? t'i * *' I ft *?V Is 1 < *£cm.* ■* .* I-, ’» iS- >♦ miy i J 1' 4 f » *)< < < (i !•* ii *t '• ? * '