VOL. 27 No. 4
Century Farms, Max Smith honored
» BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
I SMOKETOWN - Four Lan
caster County Century Farm
families and retired County Agent
Max Smith, who served nearly half
that long, were honored Wed
nesday night at the fifth annual
Agricultural-Industry Banquet.
The honor was no surprise to the
attending current generations of
the four farm families. After all,
it’s taken at least 100 years of
family tradition, hard work and
progress to achieve the century
laurels.
But the- added recognition for
Smith came as something ol a
surprise to the "Dean of County
Extension Agents.” . *
As Smith quipped in coming to
the podium to accept the handsome
jpMjhefrom State Ag Sec. Penrose
-Haiiowell and Gov. Dick'Thom
-1 burgh.
. “Lthought we were all iuushed
with-, these kinds of things -last
Spring.”
[< And it was Smith, who acted as
emcee for the honoring of the farm
families, including John H. and
Mabel C. Hershey, Rl, Marietta;
Frey’s Dairy Farms , R 2,
? Conest4ga; J. Robert and < R.
tflaonu Spahr, Neffsville; and-
Mark and Hazel Nestleroth, R 5,
Manheim. '(For more information
and photos of the Century Farms,
turn to Pages A£B and 29).
In addressing the capacity
crowd of more than 400 at the
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State cancels Expo;
but animal sales on
HARRISBURG - There -will be
no Farm Equipment Exposition at
the Farm Show Complex in March,
1982.
The Equipment Expo, which has
been steadily withering on the vine
since first held in 1979, has fallen
victim to its proximity to the mid-
January Farm Show and the
current agricultural economy
which has cut into the display
dollars being spent by exhibitors.
“There will be no Expo this
coming March,” Horace Mann, of
the Farm Show Commission, said
this week.
“Its future status is entirely in
Umbo.”
Mann added that a look may be
banquet at the Good 'n Plenty
Restaurant, Governor Thornburgh
praised the dignity, hard work and
individual enterprise of the Lan
Flanking Max Smith, retired Lancaster
County agent who was, honored Wednesday
night at Ag-lndustry Century Farms Banquet.
taken at another tune of the year,,
but there is nothing definite at this
time
While the Expo will not be held,
plans are moving ahead on a
number of the livestock events
which had been held in conjunction
with the Expo m the past.
Both the Pennsylvania Angus
Association and the Pennsylvania
Cooperative Swine Breeders
Association are reportedly close to
final decisions on holding sales.
The Angus people returned to the
Farm Show Complex last year at
the Expo and the Swine Breeders
have held their Keystone Classic
(Turn to Page A3l)
Lancaster Fannin*, Saturday, November 21,1951
caster County farm community
while calling for action on his state
reform proposals in three mam
areas - welfare, spending cuts
Dep. Ag. Sec. forecasts veto
BY DONNA TOMMELLEO
LANCASTER - Within days
after the U.S. Seriate and U.S.
House of Representatives ag
committee conferees agreed on
dairy support levels, Deputy
Secretary of Agriculture Richard
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Richard Lyng delivers his
somber message Thursday night that President Reagan will
probably veto current dairy price support levels. Lyng was a
keynote speaker during Inter-State Milk Producers’
Cooperative 64th Annual Meeting.
combined with business tax in
centives; and an all-out attack on
cnme.
His triple call fpr action brought
are Penrose Hallowed, left, State Sec. of
Agriculture, and Governor Dick Thornburgh. '
Lyng announced Thursday that the
dairy provisions will probably
encounter a presidential veto.
“The conference committee has
adopted a position on dairy that we
find unacceptable,” Lyng said
before the Annual Meeting of Inter-
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ample applause of approval from
the audience at the banquet
sponsored by the Agriculture
Ooranuttee. of the Lancaster
Chamber of Commerce and In
dustry.
“Pennsylvania has become a
welfare haven for able-bodied
people who should be taking care
of themselves,” Thornburgh said.
His welfare reforms call for
single, able-bodied, employable
adults with no dependents to be
phased out of the state’s general
a‘ssistance*program and into job
placement and training programs.
Savings would then be used to
increase aid to the legitimately
needy.
Turning to the economy,
Thornburgh asked that
“Reaganomics be given a
chance.”
T can’t guarantee that it's going
to work,” he said.
“But 1 can guarantee that it will
fail if not given a chance.”
“And let’s tighten the state’s belt
yet another notch and get approval
for state business tax incentives.'’
His proposals in this area
.kpedßccUy
across-the-board 'cut in state
spending and adding state tax
incentives for business investment
to complement similar incentives
at the federal level.
In his third call for action,
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State Milk Producers’
Cooperative.
Lyng explained that the dairy
title was just one of 18 titles the
conference committee has to settle
in the turbulent Farm Bill. The
wheat title remains unresolved as
does feed grams, meat imports and
an emergency loan title.
The agreed on dairy support
calls for a support price of $13.10
per hundredweight of milk testing
3.67 percent butterfat and $12.80
for milk adjusted to 3.5 percent
butterfat for the current
marketing year. The parity level of
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