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Godshall shows top capon
MOUNT JOY A capon auction
was held at the Mount Joy Rotary
Club’s meeting last week. Mem
bers of the 4-H Capon Club, which
is part of the Elizahethtown-
Donegal 4-H Community Club,
presented the dressed birds for
judging and auctioning.
Steve Godshall, son of Dr. and
Mrs. Stanley Godshall, 120 Heisey
Ave., Rheems, received the grand
champion ribbon. He scored 19
points out of a possible 20 in the
judging.
Doug Musser, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Musser, R 3
Elizabethtown, was the reserve
champion. He scored 18 3/4 points
out of a possible 20. Herb Jordan of
Penn State University judged the
capons.
Godshall’s capon, which weighed
10 1/8 pounds, was purchased by
Dan Gobi, president of the Rotary
Club, for $6 a pound.
Musser’s capon, which weighed
10 3/4 pounds, was purchased by
.Tim R'ltt, vice-oresident of the
COLUMBIA, Mo. - Farmers
have twice the high frequency
hearing test failures of non
farmers.
That’s because they’ve had
years of exposure to noisy farm
equipment, said Dr. James Thelm,
chief of audiology at the University
of. Missouri-Columbia School of
Medicine.
Dr. Thelm recently compared
hearing losses of 250 Missouri
fanners to a similar group of non
farmers found to have average
hearing.
"Farmers with high-frequency
hearing loss have good hearing at
low frequencies and can detect
speech, but they may not un
derstand it,” he said. "They
always miss high frequency
sounds, the same sounds normal
hearing people would miss if
someone spoke to them through a
hand held over the mouth. ”
At moderate and high
frequencies, 17 percent of farmers
compared to eight percent of non
farmers failed the hearing test m
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both ears.
High-frequency hearing loss first
appeared in 20-29 year-old farmers
and was ten years advanced over
non-farmers in each decade
thereafter. Accumulated hearing
loss was greatest for 60 to 69 year
olds. By then, the decade by
decade loss touched 68 percent of
the farmers compared with 44
percent of non-farmers.
People who lose high frequency
hearing first notice they no longer
hear women’s and children’s
voices well. So they suffer
"communication dilemmas” in
business and social gatherings, Dr.
Thelin said. It is unpossible for
them to pull a particular voice out
of background noise and listen to it
and it alone.
Information on agricultural
noise levels and prevention of high
frequency hearing loss is available
in “Noise—The Invisible Hazard,”
a University of Missouri-Columbia
Extension publication available
from Extension centers throughout
the state.
club, for |3.50 a pound.
Another of Godshall’s capons
was sold to Lloyd Heisey for $3.25 a
pound and another of Musser’s was
sold to Jim Rutt for $2.75 a pound.
Other members of the club are
Jane and Billy Endslow, children
of Mr. and Mrs. William Endslow;
Randy and Rick Hollinger, sons of
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Hollinger, R 3
Elizabethtown; Tony Spickler, son
of Mr. and Mrs. James Spickler,
R 1 Mount Joy; Greg Musser, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Musser, R 3
Elizabethtown. Harold Musser is
the leader of the Capon Club.
Jane Endslow’s capon was sold
to Abe Groff for $3.25 a pound;
Billy Endslow’s to. Vince O’Conner
for $2.25 a pound; Greg Musser’s to
Jim Heilig for $2.80 a pound;
Randy Bollinger's to Elvin
Yeagley for $2.50 a pound, and
Rick Bollinger’s to Bill Reuter for
$2.50 a pound.
Mount Joy Rotarian Harold
Keller was the auctioneer for the
sale.