A24—Uncaster Farming, Saturday, January 22,1983
Fancy Flock Flyers dominate Farm Show’s sheep to shawl contest
FARM SHOW Crowds swelled
and spindles danced as weavers
loomed at the second annual
Pennsylvania Sheep to Shawl
Contest, last Wednesday evening
at the Pennsylvania Farm Show.
First Lady Ginny Thornburgh
started the shears humming to a
packed house, after being
presented an award by Penn
sylvania Sheep and Wool Growers
Association President Tom Calvert
for her outstanding support for the
contest and state wool industry.
The sheep to shawl contest is a
team event. Each team shears a
sheep, spins the wool into yam and
weaves the yam into a 100 percent
wool shawl.
Topping the contest were the
Fancy Flock Flyers with a dusty
rose and rasberry colored
triangular shaped poncho styled
“Quesquimet” shawl. The shawl
was purchased by Rich Brandt
Farm Real Estate of Reading,
Bucks County, for $220. Brandy, a
veteran supporter of the industry,
has purchased the top shawls in the
past four contests held at the Farm
Show.
The Fancy Flock Flyers also
received a special team nominated
award, sponsored by Penn
sylvania Farmer Magazine.
Presenting the award was Suzanne
Halas, Associate Editor of Penn
sylvania Fanner.
Team members, carol Buskirk
of Linglestown, Dauphin County;
Dianne Dilger of Lebanon,
Lebanon County: Jane Eggleston
of Harrisburg, Dauphin County;
Alice Winner of Grantville,
Dauphin County and Ken Staver of
Palmyra, Dauphin County; also
received $l5O in premiums, a
traveling trophy, sponsored by
Harrisville Designs of Harrisville,
New Hampshire, and a plaque
sponsored by Mannings Studio,
East Berlin, Adams County.
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Reserve grand champion honors
of the show went to the Niddy-
Noddies who designed a mixed
buck lace plain weave laced in
lychen and cochineal dyed yams.
The team completed their 96 inch
long shawl in 75 minutes keeping
their national record for speed.
The Niddy Noddies took home
$l5O in premiums and a plaque
sponsored by Lancaster Farming
Newspaper of Lititz, Lancaster
County. Deputy Agriculture
Secretary E. Chester Heim was
successful bidder at $lOO for the
reserve champion shawl.
Team members representing the
Lancaster County area included
Dotty Lewis of Lancaster, Barbara
Lynch of Pequea, Valerie Bechtold
of Lancaster, Tina Wolf of Denver
and Dave Echman of Pequea.
The Pennsylvania Wool
Workers, who met for the first time
in 1980, captured top honors in the
N.E. Regional Sheep to Shawl
Contest, used a Forrest Crook’s
Blanket Weave for their third
place shawl. Using a black and
white spotted sheep, the team
utilized the pure black and white
wool to create a uniquely colored
indigo blue, cream, white and
black shawl.
Purchasing the shawl was
Leonard Twaddell of Wilmington,
Delaware, at $l6O. The team also
won $lOO in premiums. Members of
the Pennsylvania Wool Workers
included Cumberland Countians
Ruth B. Clark and Ginny Leber of
Camp Hill, Sharon Workey of New
Cumberland, and Scott Murdoch of
Gettysburg, Adams County.
Good Hope Farm, first time
state contenders from Southern
Chester County, captured fourth
place honors and $75 in premiums
at the contest. Their black Pern
dale lamb’s wool fleece was
blended with yams dyed with
black walnuts. Dennis Grumbine
of Lebanon, chairman of the
Pennsylvania Ag Republicans,
purchased the shawl for the
association at $l6O. Grumbine said
the shawl would be given at a later
date by the Ag Republicans to
someone who has done a lot for
Pennsylvania agriculture.
Team members included Judith
Pfeiffer, Landenberg; Debbie
Orlando, New London; Toni
Ammons and Lynn Henderson of
Lewisville and Dave Hollway of
New Freedom.
State Agriculture Secretary
Penrose Hallowed was successful
bidder of the blue and white fifth
place shawl made by the Ridley
. Yemen
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Secretary of Agriculture John R.
Block announced blended credits
of $6O million have been approved
for the sale of U.S. wheat and rice
to the Yemen Arab Republic. At
the same time, he said, approval
was given for $3.3 million in
guarantees under the regular
export credit guarantee program
for the purchase of U.S. rice.
“The blended credit and the
export credit guarantee program
are expected to enable Yemen to
increase its imports over the
planned level and to give the
United States 100 percent of the
country’s wheat and rice markets
in 1983,” Block said.
Under the blended credit
program, announced Oct. 20, in
terest-free direct government
export credits are blended with
government-guaranteed bank
credits. A total of $lOO million of
direct credit and $4OO million in
credit guarantees has been
authorized for the first year of the
3-year, $1,5-billion program. With
the credits announced today, all
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Creek Craft Guild. The German
Birds Eye Weave shawl sold for
$75.
Team members Debbie Sax,
Media; Emily Nelson. Glenn
Mills; Ann Bates, Gradyvide;
Karen Tyler, Wayne and David
Lytle of New London won $5O in
premiums.
Judges Peggy Poff of Can
tonsville, Maryland; Jean
Woodward of Mt. Airy, Maryland
and Earl Weber of Millersville,
Lancaster County scored each
team on team identification,
speed, shearing, spinning and
weaving ability and design of the
shawl.
gets blended export credit
the blended credit funding an
nounced Oct. 20 has been
exhausted.
The Yemeni blended credit
package of $l2 million in direct
credit and $46 million in credit
guarantees allows for the sale of
$55 million in wheat (345,000 metric
tons) and $5 million in rice (15,000
metric tons). The $3.3 million in
export credit guarantees will allow
the sale of an additional 10,000 tons
of rice.
“These sales represent sub
stantial additions to both U.S.
exports to Yemen and total U.S.
exports,” Block said. Since
average U.S. wheat exports to
Yemen in the last two years were
only 1,500 tons, this credit program
represents an important gain in
wheat sales, he said. For rice, the
program will encourage larger
imports and maintain the United
States’ role as leading supplier.
Both the blended credit and
credit guarantees for sales to
Yemen provide for credits up to
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Auctioneering the contest was
Harry Bachman of Armville,
Lebanon County. Bachman has
been an outstanding supporter of
the contest and wool industry.
The Pennsylvania Sheep to
Shawl Contest is an annual event
sponsored by the. Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture and the
Pennsylvania Sheep and Wool
Growers Association. Applications
may be obtained by writing to the
Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture, Bureau of Markets,
LLPMP, 2301 North Cameron
Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
17110.
guarantees, U.S. exporters must
submit a guarantee fee along with
an application to CCC before ex
port is completed. The guarantee
rates include a fee to provide for
yearly interest rate coverage of up
to 8 percent on the guaranteed
value, not to exceed 98 percent of
the port value.
Based on semiannual
repayments of principal, plus the
accrued interest, the fee rate per
$lOO is 18.6 cents for six months;
23.4 cents for one year; 39.3 cents
for two years and 56.8 cents for
three years.
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