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VOL 26 No. 45
Doeberiener, Park team up with top PA cow
BY DONNA TOMMELLEO
BLOOMSBURG Two Western
Pennsylvania Holsteins captured
Grand Champion and Reserve
Grand Champion honors, Wed
nesday evening, at the 1981 Penn
sylvania Holstein Championship
Show.
Described by show judge Mary
Briggs of Brigeen Farms, Maine,
as a “super cow,” Parkacres Sun
Ivy topped more than 200 of the
state’s finest Black and Whites at
the Bloomsburg Fairgrounds. The
7-year-old, also the Senior
Champion, was the aged cow entry
of Ed Doeberienef, Jamestown
and John Park, Brodktfille.
It wasn’t the first time the Ivy
cow carried the Grand Champion
banner this year. Last month she
was named Grand Champion at the
Western Championship Holstein
Show in Butler.
Sired by Penstate Ivanhoe Star,
the champ is out of Wintercrest
Sunbeam.
Judge Briggs opted for a
younger animal as Reserve Grand
and Senior Champion.
Ed-Em Princess Willow Maria,
the 4-year-old entry of Erie County
dairyman Howard Hammond was
2 ‘Chopmonions 9 top 4-H show
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
LANCASTER If there is such
a word as a “Chapmanion,” it was
coined at Thursday’s Lancaster
County 4-H Pig Roundup and Sale.
In fact, it was coined twice.
At the top of the champion list in
the Roundup with the first four
awards were the Chapman sisters,
Liz, 16, and Chris, 14, daughters of
Mr. and Mrs. John Chapman, R 5
Manheim.
Liz had the grand champion of
the show, a 225-pound heavyweight
that brought $4.25 a pound when
Jerry Clemens, of Hatfield
Packing, stopped nodding his head
to the auctioneer. She also had the
champion trio, which included the
grand champ.
Sister Chris had the reserve
grand champion, a 220-pound
medium weight, which brought
hapman sisters, Chris, .left, and Liz show winning smiles
alter capturing top four awards at Thursday’s Lancaster
chosen as Reserve Grand
Champion. Hammond’s animal is
sired by Willow-Farm Rockman
Ivanhoe and out-of Valley-Gate
Astronaut Princess.
Western Pennsylvania Holsteins
also comprised the top Regional
Championship Herd in the show.
The regional herd included eight
animals from Erie, Lawrence,
Crawford, Mercer and Butler
counties.
Parkesburg breeder Donald
Hostetter repeated his Eastern
Championship performance and
took home the Premier Breeder
and Exhibitor banners. Hostetter’s
Maplebound prefix topped four of
the six group classes in the show.
A Mansfield FFA member
exhibited the top junior animal in
the competition. Brenda Robson,
14, took home the Junior Champion
rosette with her intermediate
heifer calf, Gray-Valley Kit
Builder Aris. The calf was also
junior champ at two district FFA
shows this summer.
Judge Briggs chose ' Delmer
Comman’s senior yearling' -for
Reserve Junior Champion. The
Mechanicsburg dairyman’s bred
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$2.05 a pound. It was also bought by
Hatfield. And Chris had the
reserve champion trio.
In all, thirty-five 4-Hers showed
138 head - or more than 15 tons of
pork - at the roundup held at the
Lancaster Stockyards. The sale
totaled $18,680.52 for an average of
61.3 cents a pound.
The Chapman sisters garnered a
total of $2,113.20 for their grand
and reserve individuals and trios
that will now be credited to theic
future college bank accounts.
The Chapman sisters come from
one of the county’s leading swine
breeding operations. Their father,
John, lain partnership with-Mark
Nestleroth in Dutch Valley Farm.
The champion swine were
Duroc-sired out of sows that are
York-Landrace-Duroc crosses.
Liz and Chris work together on
their swine projects, helping each
Lancaster Faming, Saturday, Septembers, 1981
Brenda Hdlhtdn. the halter jof her
top intermediate calf, while her sister Sandy,
12, displays the winning banner. Gray-Vailey
Kit Builder Aris was named Junior Champion
other out in the feeding and pre
show exercising.
Chris had the reserve champion
at last year’s 4-H Roundup. Liz had
the champion at the Manheim Pair
two years ago and the champion
heavyweight at the State Farm
Show, also two years ago.
Other top results at the Roun
dup:
Champion Pen of 10 - Bobby
Brubaker.
Reserve Champion Pen of 10 -
Bruce Sipling.
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Rep. Walker stresses
long term plan
LANCASTER - Many U.S.
citizens have a lot of questions as a
result of the present ad
ministration’s economic package,
effective October 1, 1981, and U.S.
Representative Roberts. Walker
was m the county 'Tuesday to field
many inquiries from local far
mers.
On his tour of five Lancaster
County farms, the East Petersburg
native commented that the
majority of questions concerned
interest rates:
"By-the end of the year we
should see a fairly dramatic
downward shift in the-interest
rates moving toward 15percentin
the prune rate,” Walker ex
plained. ~ '
However, Walker’s main
•- message ■ urged farmers and
families the tune is now to “buckle
down for the long haul.” . , _
atthe State Holstein Championship Show in
Bloomsburg, Wednesday. The Mansfield
youngsters are the daughters of Harold and
Leona Robson..
Inside
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Week’s^.
Last week the Lancaster County 4-H'ers held their annual
Achievement Day Fair. For a taste of the fun, turn to
page...olB.
Cowpiex is a complex Missouri dairy operation run by a
family corporation. Read about their modern milking
business 0n...02.
Project in the works for preserving fertile Oley Valley
farmland...Dll.
“Both Republican and
Democratic administrations took
short term expedient approaches
to the economy rather than taking
a long term approach.”
When asked about the present
Social Security system. Walker
explained the-current system was
created as a supplementary
program. Due to the addition of
many social welfare and disability
programs, the system has~ in
creased an astounding 1,9000,000
percent.
funds will go , bankrupt, par
. ticularly the old age and
retirement funds but other funds
within, the program will com
pensate. .
“We should use the. short-term
crisis to make the long-term ad
justments.” ,
The future job market may
broaden he suggested. Advanced
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.Joyce Bupp’s column, Cll; Ida’s
Notebook, Cl 3.
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FFA, B 3 and 4; Homestead
Notes, C 2; Home on the Range, 06;
Farm Women Societies, C 8; Kid’s
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Holstein show, 026; Huntingdon 4-
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OHIA, DIS; Dauphin OHIA, 018;
Chester DHIA, Dl9; Adams OHIA,
D2p;~ Upper Susquehanna OHIA,
024; Susquehanna Dairy Show,
026.