Lancaster conservation banquet on April 5 LANCASTER The 33rd annual banquet of the Lancaster County Conservation District will be held on Thursday, April 5, 1984 at the Harvest Drive Restaurant, In tercourse. Tickets are now available from any District Director or at the District Office. Featured speaker is R. Neil Sampson, a noted author and conservationist who is a native of Idaho, where he was raised on a wheat farm in the northern panhandle of that state. He graduated in agronomy from the University of Idaho in 1960 and received a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University in 1974. As a writer and photographer, he has been active for many years with articles and pictures ap- mi to - CHAMBERSBURG Cumberland Farm ft JERSEY SHORE Tom L. Dunlap UrryHuthes 717-398-1391 *>*ry Walton, Sales Mgr. 717 263-0826 COLUMBIA. MONTOUR & & NORTHUMBERLAND CO S Equipment Williams Farm Systems Robert L. 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