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Ida’s
Notebook
Ida Kisser
Having just spent a long day at
our local polling place, I feel dis
appointed and disillusioned with
the public’s view of the importance
of a primary election. The purpose
of the primary election is to choose
candidates to represent their party
in the general election.
It seems that a presidential
election is the one time that most
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people remember to vote. Maybe
they think it is more important.
Maybe they vote because more
publicity is given to this election.
It is an expensive outlay of
taxpayers money to have several
people at each polling place and
then only have 20 to 30% of the
registered voters turn out to show
their preference. In my township
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alone there are 19 different
districts with people waiting to
help you to record your vote.
It is a long day and just because
the polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8
p.m. doesn’t mean that we can go
home then. Even with the voting
machines, the votes must be
tallied, write-ins noted and then
everything is checked and checked
again before we can go home.
When I left home early on
election day, I had to scrape a lot of
ice off of the car windows. Then
during the day, when we weren’t
busy, my mind drifted back to my
garden and 1 wondered if the frost
and cold had hurt the big bean
plants and my tomato plants. The
next morning I hurried out across
the wet grass and past the starling
nest in the hollow trunk of the pear
tree and found them standing there
proudly and apparently unharmed.
The tiny peas hanging on the vines
made me feel happy to be home
again in my own garden.
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Polled Hereford Assn . plans field day
Les Burdette of Penn State
University on “Forage Production
and Nutrition.”
Meat and beverage will be in*
eluded for a noon meal and all
participants are asked to bring a
covered dish.
MARIANNA - The Pa. Polled
Hereford Assn, plans a fun-filled
field day on Saturday, June 4, at
Flat Stone Lick Farm, here.
The theme of the program will be
“The Importance of Fertile
Females,” with sessions centering
around the APHA Benchmark
Dam Program.
Registration will begin at 9 a.m.,
and speakers will include Dr.
Charles Wood on “Home
Veteran Practices,” and Dr,
Franklin 4-H Shepherds
CHAMBERSBURG The The June meeting is to be a
Franklin 4-H Shepherds met family night at the Kenner home in
recently at the Extension Office for Nyesville, and will include a film
workshops by members David on 4-H Congress and State Capital
Keener and Marty Clemmer. Days.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 28,1983-817
The field day is being jointly
sponsored by the Mason-Dixon
PHA, the Pa. PHA and the Pa.
Junior PHA. For additional in
formation, call (412) 267-3325.
hear workshops