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Holstein Assn, honors breeders, directors
BY SALLY BAIR
Staff Correspondent
CENTERVILLE Presentation
of production awards ari3 election
of three new directors highlighted
the 31st annual meeting of the
Lancaster County ' Holstein
Breeders held Thursday at the
Sherwood Knoll Restaurant.
Clyde W. Martin, East Earl,
captured two of the ten awards,
both for outstanding milk
production. In tire .three-year-old
class,. Marto’sElya,-was high with
29,296 pounds: of'milk. His Aged
cow Dusty won the award with
32,656' pounds of milk. All the
awards were based on 305-day
records on Registered Holstein
cows.
In the Junior two-year-old
■itegory, Robert H. Kauffman,
Elizabethtown, won with his cow
Babs who produced 848 pounds of
fat. Galen Crouse, Stevens? had the
high milk producer, Emily, with
20,963 {founds.
Chriitian Zook, Gap, placed high
in the senior tiVo-year-old group
with Wmdy*s.record 847 pounds in
275 days. John L.Landis,
Colebrook Road, Lancaster, was
the recipient of the high milk
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Week’s...
James Young follows in his father’s footsteps to milk the
J’'underdog”'bVeed - the Milking Shorthorn.. AlB.
For a year of hard work and shows, the cream of the Lan
caster County 4-H dairy club was recognized Monday night .
826.
The Maryland State Grange welcomes John O. Swadley as
their new state master during the 107th annual session D 2
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Editorials, A 10; Now is the tune,
AlO; Ida’s Notebook, B 4; Ladies,
have you heard? B 9; Joyce Bupp’s
column, Bll; Farming’s Futures,
CIO; Farm Talk, Dl4.
My
Stonylawn Dairy Farm, A2O;
Ketosis prevention, D 18; Blair
DHIA, DIB; Huntingdon DHIA,
Dl7; Franklin DHIA, 836; Juniata
DHIA, Dll; Perry DHIA, D 4;
Potter DHIA, 837, Somerset
DHIA, 836; Tioga DHIA, D 22;
Upper Susquehanna DHIA, Dii.
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Homestead Notes, B 2; Home on
the Range, B 6; FWS news, BIO;
Kid’s Komer, B 12; 4-H news, B1J;
FFA news, B 17; Franklin
Achievement mgbt, B 14; Lebanon
holiday program, BID; Rosemary
House,H22. .
award with cow #284 who had a
26,414 record.
Paul H. Martin’s Lois captured
the three-year-old fat record with
Production awards were the highlight of the
annual Holstein banquet held Thursday night
at the Sherwood Knoll Restaurant, Lancaster.
Pennsylvanians vote ‘yes’ for water
BY SHEILA MILLER
HARRISBURG - Voters in
Pennsylvania endorsed a state
plan to fund a 5300,000 program for
loans to water companies in the
Commonwealth by a favorable
balloting at the polls on Tuesday.
According to Dave Kirkpatrick
of the Vote Yes for Water com
mittee, the question carried
“handily”. l!e stated that, with 99
percent of the results reported in,
the vote was 1 million ‘yes’ votes to
560 thousand ‘no’ votes, just short
of a 2:1 victory.
-Now that Act 88 has received the
blessings of the state’s citizens,
enabling legislation for the loan
program must be drafted and
introduced on Capital Hill before
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 7,1951
1,012 pounds of fat. Martin is from
Ephrata.
Kenneth D. Myer,
Elizabethtown, won the fat award
Countians seek to strengthen
preservation act
BY DONNA TOMMELLEO
LANCASTER Three members
of the Lancaster County Con
servation District reported en
couragement on Wednesday
evening concerning the progress of
House Bill. 1499, a state bill which
calls for counties to be authorized
to “preserve, acquire or hold land
for open space uses.”
These three men, District
Chairman Aaron Stauffer, Vice
Chairman Amos Funk, and County
Commissioner James E. Huber,
any monies for repair or recon
struction become a reality
The legislation also must assign
the administrative responsibility
to one of its agencies probably
the Department of Environmental
Resources.
On October 1, Governor Dick
Thornburgh accepted the Vote Yes
for Water committee’s recom
mendations that call tor $220
million of the total $3OO million be
set aside for community water
projects, with $4O million each
available for dam and port facility
projects
Kirkpatrick expressed optimism
that the necessary legislation
would pass through the House and
Senate and be signed by the
in the four-year-old class with
Reda’s 1,058 pound record. For
milk in that class, Norman Her
shey’s Winnie was high with 28,318
Winners are, from left, John L. Landis, Nor
man Hershey, Galen Crouse, Ken Myer,
Robert H. Kauffman.
are part of an ad hoc committee
which is meeting to discuss the bill
as called for by the House
. Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Committee.
HB 1499 would strengthen the
already existing farmland
preservation law, the Agricultural
Area Security Act, Act 143 passed
earlier this year.
According to Amos Funk, HB
1499 is necessary to make changes
and alter county duties as they are
outlined in other legislation.
Governor soon after the New Year
holiday Even with that relatively
quick passage, he projected no
monies would become available
until the latter half of 1982 until
the necessary forms to apply for
the loans are drawn up, and bond
issues are floated to applying
companies
The Vote Yes for Water com
mittee spokesman said he-" at
tributes much of the success of
Tuesday’s vote to the
organization’s campaign efforts
He blames the ‘no’ votes on
misinformation or no information.
“The campaign made the dif
ference,” he concluded
$7.50 Per Year
pounds of fat. Hershey is from
Gap.
Ken and Joanne Hershey,
Kmzer, won the fat record in the
aged cow class with Jean’s 1,123
pound record.
Awards were ' presented by
Robert L. Kauffman, Jr., Peach
Bottom.
Gregory Lahdis, 166 A Short
Lane, Lancaster, was re-elected to
the Board of Directors. Also
elected to three year terms were
Roger Mills, 1343 Gypsy Hill Road,
Lancaster, and Harold Shell en
berger, Mount Joy.
Officers elected in the re
organization ipclude president, D.
Lamar Witmer, Manheim; vice
president, Gregory Landis;,
secretary, Joe Wivell, Columbia;
and treasurer, Dale Paffer,
Kirkwood.
The local Club recognized Joe
Rohrer, a student at Lampeter
Strasburg High School for placing
first m the county FFA dairy
judging contest held at Lampeter
Fair. Rohrer was given a $5O
savings bond.
Membership >in the Lancaster
County organization was 696 in
1961, the largest total ever. Lamar
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The three Lancaster countians
proposed to the ad hoc committee
that cprtam phrases should be
changed. They recommended
more flexibility by stating: “The
County may purchase the land at
market price,” rather than “The
County shall purchase the land at
market price.”
Lancaster’s ad hoc committee
members also recommended that
ag districts only call for hearings
on purchases of designated land
land resulting after a preservation
board recommends it to the county
commissioners and they adopt the
designation.
Under the proposed amendment,
the County will have permission to
offer money (approximately $250
per acre) as an incentive payment
The payment, said Funk, will
serve toward a deed restriction of
25 years. The current legislation
provides for deed restrictions of 7
years.
Commissioner Huber pointed out
under the present legislation there
is no guarantee of contiguous
agriculture areas, but such areas
will exist under the proposed
amendment.
The ad hoc committee also is
comprised of Rep. Noah Wenger,
HB 1499’s mam sponsor, along with
Rep. Roger A. Madigan; Rep.
Joseph R. Pitts; Rep. Samuel W.
Moms; and Rep. John R. Showers.