Beth Hottzinger, the 1980-81 Pennsylvania Berkshire
Queen, has come home to York County from the national
competition held last week in North Carolina wearing the
crown that represents Berkshire swine breeders across the
U.S.
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Beth Holtzlnger wears nat'l Berkshire crown
KINGSTON, N.C. - For the first
tune in state history, Penn
sylvania’s Berkshire queen has
been crowned as the swine
association’s national -queen.
Wearing the sparkling tiara for all
Berkshire breeders in the country
is York County’s 17-year-old Beth
Holtzmger.
Beth has been the state’s
Berkshire queen for the past two
years, however this is the first
tune she competed for the national
title. The lOft-year-old contest was
held here last week during the
Berkshire National 'Type Con
ference.
According to Beth, she couldn’t
believe she had been chosen to
Lebanon Co. first in Goodyear contest
LEBANON The Lebanon
County Conservation District has
taken first place honors for Penn
sylvania m the 34th Annual
Goodyear Conservation Program.
The Lebanon District was
selected by a state judging com
mittee tor its accomplishments m
resource management, according
to Ray Oviatt, awards program
director.
Representing the first place
district on the grand prize tour in
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wear the national crown even
when she woke up in her motel
room Thursday morning and saw
the dozen roses and the national
banner draped across a chair. “1
thought 1 woke up in someone
else’s room by mistake,” she
laughed.
But the excitement and honors
were hers and Beth will be
taking her enthusiasm for the
breed to many national shows and
type conferences throughout the
coming year. She received a $250
scholarship from the swine
breeders to be used toward her
education.
Also competing in the national
contest were Berkshire queens
December an expense-paid,
vacation-study trip to the Wigwam
resort and Goodyear Farms,
Litchfield Park, Arizona will be
Boyd Hitz of Lebanon. There he
will be joining 52 representatives
from other first place districts
throughout the U.S. and Puerto
Rico.
Hitz was selected as the county’s
outstanding cooperator for the
year and serves as a district board
member.
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Beth is not only a Berkshire
enthusiast because she wears the
breed’s crown, she also raises the
swine at her family’s farm near
Red Lion.
Presently her purebred herd
consists of 20 head, stemming from
an FFA chapter chain gilt she was
awarded in 10th grade plus a bred
gilt she purchased that year from
Clayton Wmebark, Rochester
Mills.
Beth, the daughter of Lester and
Edna Holtzmger, is a senior at Red
Lion High School.
Summing up her feelings about
her coming year as National
Berkshire Queen, Beth bubbled,
“I’m excited and ready to fly.”
Also receiving a plaque will be
the Dauphin County Conservation
District, the nmnerup contestants.
Dauphin’s outstanding cooperator
' is Jean Zell, Elizabethtown.
Clinton Conservation District, a
first place winner within the past
five years and hence ineligible to
repeat, was named Honor District
in recognition of its continuing
achievements.
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