VOL 27 No. 41
At Lebanon Fair Holstein Show
Myerstown youth
notches dairy win
JBY DONNA McCONAUGUE Y
LEBANON - EUX) High School
junior Dale Weaver of Myerstown
captured Grand Champion honors
with semor 2-year-old Lime Rock
First Sharon during the Open
Dairy Show at the Lebanon Fair,
Thursday.
This Keystone First Jaycee
daughter, bred by Dale’s grand
father, the late Hubert S. Miller,
also earned him' the' title of
Reserve Champion in the FFA
Competition.
In the open Holstein competition.
Reserve Champion honors went to
Fansy EM Ivan-OC shown by
Daryl Balmer of Lebanon. This 3-
School lunch program rescue begins
BY DICKANGLESTEIN
WASHINGTON, O.C. - A dual
agricultural stake - both
humanitarian jand economic - is
emerging p current efforts in the
nation’s capital to rescue the
school lunch program from
h resident Reagan’s Federalism.
Lancaster Holstein triumphs
Donakf Hostetter. left, of Parfcesburg repeated his 1981
A performance and captured both the Premier Breeder and
if Exhibitor banners, Monday night at this year's Eastern
Pennsylvania Championship Holstein Show at Kutztown.
. Joining Hostetter are show judge Neil Bowen, center, of
’>■ Wellsboro and Harvey W. Stoltzfus, Morgantown, show
chairman and runner-up for the banners. Get complete
details of the show and its new grand champion, a Lancaster
. County black and white, on C2.
Four Sections
year-old, bred by Ellis Myer of
Annville, is one of seven head of
registered Holsteins owned by
Daryl.
A recent graduate of Annville-
Cleona High School, Daryl houses
his cattle at the Kenneth Sellers
farm where he has been employed
for the past six years. Dary’spnze
wmner placed second as a senior 2-
year-old at the 1982 Farm Show
and has just completed an 18,000
pound lactation with a 4 percent
test.
Junior Champion honors in open
Holstein competition went to Gary
and Barbara Lentz of Lebanon
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A resolution introduced in the
House of Representatives to keep
the school lunch program under
federal responsibility is gaining
momentum and support.
House Concurrent Resolution 384
is in answer to the Ad
ministration’s proposed
lancastar Farming, Saturday, August 14,1982
Grand Champion Holstein honors of the
Lebanon Fair's open show, Thursday, went to
Lime Rock First Sharon exhibited by Dale
Weaver of Myerstcwn. With the prize-winning
Federalism program in which
responsibility, including financial,
for school lunches would be turned
back to the individual states.
The resolution has been in*
troduced by Congressman William
F. Goodhng (R-ta.J, of the 18th
District of York, Adams and
Cumberland Counties, and Carl D.
lerkms (D-Ky.), chairman of the
House Committee on Education
and Labor.
Kep. Doodling is the ranking
GOl member of the Subcommittee
on Elementary, Secondary and
Vocational Education.
The bi-partisan resolution has
picked up some 26 co-sponsors in
the past couple of weeks since
introduction.
Hearings on the resolution have
been scheduled for Sept. 21. While
the resolution doesn’t carry the
weight of law, its outcome will
serve as a guide for further Ad
ministration efforts to include
school lunches in the Federalism
turnback to the states.
in introducing the resolution,
Congressman Goodhng said:
“A child’s nutritional needs do
not vary from state to state.
“However, the Administration’s
plan doesn’t recognize that a child
residing in a state with a low tax
base is less likely to receive a
nutritionally a 'quate diet than a
child whose parents reside in a
state with a higher or more
favorable tax base.”
Among agricultural
organizations with a vital interest
in supporting passage of the
resolution are the various com
modity groups, such as the
National Milk 1-roducers and the
United Egg f roducers.
For these commodity groups and
the segments of agriculture they
represent, the school lunch
program represents not only an
equal nutritional responsibility to
all of the nation’s youth, but an
important market, too.
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senior 2-year-old are left to right: Judge Obie
Snider; Chester E. Heim, deputy secretary of
agriculture: Roy Miller, breeder; Dale Weaver,
owner; and Carl Weaver, showman.
Ag Progress is little more than a week away, and Lancaster
Farming is preparing a special issue to honor the annual
event, coming Aug. 21. Inside this issue will be dates, places
and times of special events so you won’t miss what you want
to see, and an exhibitor’s list and a map so you can talk with
the experts on the latest trends in farming Also featured will
be stories on several demonstrations and daily events, as
well as scenes from last year’s record-breaking affair. But
take note, advertising deadline for this issue is this Monday,
Aug. 16!
NMPF plan enters
House-Senate talks
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The
National Milk Producers’
Federation Dairy Stabilization
plan met with approval, Tuesday,
during U.S. House budget talks and
has moved into the Senate-House
Conference Committee for further
deliberation, said NMPF
spokesperson Doni Dondero.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate
twice rejected a proposed
amendment, this week, which
would have lowered the $13.10
dairy support price by 50 cents.
The defeated amendment was
proposed by Florida Senator Paula
Hawkins.
Instead, the Senate Agriculture
Committee has agreed to the $13.10
price in their budget but is ex
pected To resume dairy legislation
talks in January, said Hawkin’s
aide Mary Kenkel.
Members of the House and
Senate met Thursday afternoon to
discuss each other’s budget ver
sion. At press time, the Conference
Committee was still in session.
In other legist., ucuoa, the
U.S. House ag committee has
voted to require the Reagan Ad
$7.50 per year
ministration to boost price sup
port loan rates for com by five
percent if the administration
continues to refuse to negotiate a
“long term” grain sales
agreement with the Soviet Union.
The action came in a 37-2 vote to
approve an emergency farm aid
package drafted by a bi-partisan
coalition of farm state legislators.
Tom Harkin (D-la.), who par
ticipated in the coalition noted that
the action "is a clear message
from the ag committee to the
Administration that farmers
should not be asked to pay the
price for this Administration’s
eagerness to use food as a foreign
policy weapon.”
Closer to home, the wheels have
begun turning for the corn
men wealth’s proposed higher
standards milk and voluntary
promotion program. The ideas
were introduced in a meeting of
dairy leaders, this summer, which
followed on the heels of the
defeated nulkerendum.
“We are now in the process of
establishing two committees,”
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