PFA women’s tour. (Continued from Page Dl4) remove most of the heat from the water, lowering temperatures to where it can be returned to the river flow at near normal coolness. Inevitably, audience questioning turned to the accident at Metropolitan Edison’s Three Mile Island nuclear plant, located about 40 miles north along York County’s Susquehanna’s shore. Calling the TMI accident the “Murphy’s Law of nuclear,” (anything that can possibly go Penn State Extension engineers win awards UNIVERSITY PARK Three Cooperative Extension Service agricultural engineering specialists at Penn State have been named recipients of blue ribbon awards presented by the American Society of Agricultural Engmeers "for the development of noteworthy educational aids.” The 1981 awards were announced during the society’s recent annual meeting held in Orlando, Florida. The competition is designed to encourage specialists to strive for excellence in Extension activities through the interchange of ideas on Farwcraft ■ NURSERY DECKS AGRI- CATTLE - HOG - POULTRY EQUIPMENT 2754 Creek Hill Rd., Leola, PA 17540 PHONE: 717-656-4151 wrong, will), Tucker added the plant’s operators had received numerous indications of problems, but didn’t really know what they were seeing, and couldn’t believe what the monitoring instruments were telling them. While a myriad of potential problems that could happen to nuclear plants had long ago been postulated by nuclear energy engineers, the string of unlikely occurrences, mishaps and failing back-up systems that culminated m the TMI accident had simply successful educational methods and teaching techniques. N. Henry Wooding won a blue ribbon for his publication, “Wastewater Mangement and Disposal for Milking Centers and Handling Facilities.” Dennis J. Murphy won awards for three fire safety education publications: “A Basic Guide Book,” “Fire Protection in Your Community,” and “Preventing Fires.” James W. Garthe received a blue ribbon for a slide set, “Alcohol Fuel Production: There’s More to it Than You Think.” AGRI-EQUIPMENT INC. IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THEIR DISTRIBUTORSHIP OF AGRI SYStEMS ■ FENCING ■ GESTATION STALLS ■ WATERERS ■ WOVEN WIRE FLOORING ■ EQUIPMENT, IN c. SEE THESE ITEMS ON DISPLAY FARROWING CRATES ■ FEEDERS ■ FEED CARTS ■ never been dreamed possible, he added. “The atomic energy industry was not ready for TMI,” Tucker concluded, calling nuclear elec tricity generation the secondr safest industry in the country. “We like to think that we are prepared / Delphi WE STOCK COMPLETE: * SALES * INSTALLATION ★ SERVICE STORE HOURS: Mon.-Fri. 7:30 to 5:00; Sat. 7:30 to 11:30 SERVING PA, NJ & NY Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 25,1M1—D15, for that now.” Participants in the annual regional Ladies Day Out included PFA members from Berks, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Juniata and York Counties. Kay V* ; Y -* \ -.•mg jr nuclear reactors at Philadelphia T ic’s Peach Bottom Atomic Plant can each generate a cap« of 1,055,000 kilowatts of electricity. In 1979, Unit 2 sei >e world record for a single power unit, generating over FEED SCOOPS ■ Taylor, chairperson of the York- Women’s committee, beaded up program arrangements, with assistance from members of ad visory councils in the southeast part of the county. * » Yt‘ ’Y ~t*W r '•'- S&, , ; ' ' J. km s*** '*<i v "Cii I 4 '' Si .~& * LIGHTNING RODS Sales & Service BUCKELL WOODWORKING Lititz. PA 717-627-2410 717-665-4856 *
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