C36—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 15,1981 CAMP HILL There is a new person ‘sitting’ in the Penn sylvania Farmers’ Association president’s chair. Keith Eckel, 34, of Clarks Summit, Lackawanna County, was elected to the position by PFA’s 16-member board during a special meeting held last Thursday. Eckel succeeds Eugene Thompson who resigned the previous week in order to assume the position of Acting State Executive Director of the USDA’s Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Eckel, who had been serving as a Chester Co. 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