AEB outlines
CHICAGO, n At its meeting on
July 19, the American Egg Board
approved a number of projects for
their newly formed Cholesterol
Action Program. For 1984, the
AEB’s projects will include:
• A question and answer mailing
to more than 2,000 newspapers
which will combat misinformation
andpromote balanced reporting.
• A video news release to 150 TV
stations featuring Dr. Donald
McNamara of Rockefeller
University promoting a sensible
approach to diet and heart disease.
A special version will be prepared
for state association use.
• The appointment of a scientific
panel to influence opinion leaders
and establish credibility for the
egg industry.
• Compilation of a list of
scientific experts on diet and heart
disease who can be called upon to
respond to media misinformation.
In other action, the Board ap
proved a recommendation to fund
Chester Co. 4-H
WEST CHESTER - A new at
traction at the 1984 Goshen Fair
will be the Chester County Market
4-H Show and Sale. 4-H
members from across Chester
County will be exhibiting their
project lambs which they have
been raising all summer.
4-H teaches youth the basics of
agriculture and gives all youth in
the county the opportunity to raise
a farm animal. The project is self
supporting in that money made
from the sale of their project
animals is used to pay feed and
health costs along with the pur
chase cost of a project animal for
the following year.
The show will be held on Mon
day, July 30 at 7:30 p.m., in bet
ween the open sheep shows held
that evening. The auction of these
Cholesterol Action
a major egg nutrition center in
Washington, DC. Because of the
United Egg Producers’ experience
in operating a Nutrition Center and
their presence in Washington, the
Nutrition Center can be im
plemented immediately. The
AEBAJEP Nutrition Center will be
administered by UEP and will
monitor nutrition information, be a
source of credible egg nutrition
data, provide support and
assistance for AEB’s Cholesterol
Action Program and other com
munications projects, and develop
and implement other positive
Allentown Fair accepting entries
ALLENTOWN The Allentown
Fair will accept entries of
agricultural and craft exhibits
through Aug. 11. Entries of
livestock are currently being
accepted and will be taken up until
Aug. 10.
It is preferred that entries are
lamb sale slated
top quality lambs will be held on
Wednesday, August 1, 1984
beginning at 7:30 p.m. Auctioneer
for the sale will be Mr. Ken
Brubaker of Brubaker Livestock
Marketing. Twenty top quality
lambs will be offered for sale.
Trophies, ribbons, and banners
wilb be given to the buyer of
champions. Ribbons will be given
to all buyers of sale lambs. The
show and sale is open to all in
terested in attending.
For information on purchasing
one of these 4-H lambs, contact Mr.
Ken Brubaker 215-696-5483. 4-H is
open to all youth ages 8-19
regardless of race, religion, sex or
creed. For further information on
4-H contact the Chester County
Extension Office, 215-696-3500.
Program
nutrition activities.
After reviewing several
television and radio options for
1985, the Board decided to invest in
the equity already established with
Rich little as a spokesman
because these commercials have
tested well with consumers. Rich
Little celebrity impression com
mercials will continue to be the
mainstay of AEB advertising ir
1985, pending the results of nev
tests to insure that consumers an
positively receiving the proper egj
message through the Rich Littl
commercials.
made in person at the Entry Office
in Agricultural Hall at the
fairgrounds. Registration hours
are:
10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, July
28; 9 a.m.-4 p.m. from Monday,
July 30 through Thursday, August
9 (except Sundays and Tuesday,
July 31 when the office will be
closed); 9 a.m.-8 p.m. on Friday,
August 10; 9 a.m.-l p.m. on
Saturday, August 11.
Mail entries are accepted but
must be received no later than
Wednesday, Aug. 1. They should be
marked “ENTRY” and addressed
to the Allentown Fair, 17th and
Chew Sts., Allentown, PA 18104. To
receive the exhibitors cards, an
entrant must enclose a self
addressed stamped envelope.
The entry fee is $6 which also
provides admission to the grounds.
The fee must accompany mail
order entries.
Exhibits to be judged and on
display fair week range from farm
and garden products to domestics
and fine arts. Animals that are
judged and sheltered are in the
departments of cattle, swine,
sheep, rabbits and cavies. There
will be no poultry and pigeon show
this year due to Avian Flu.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 28,1984—D5
Nottingham Park Fair
posts activities
NOTTINGHAM - The weekend
of August 4 and 5 marks the fourth
annual Nottingham Park Country
Fair, located four miles south of
Oxford. Activities run from 11:00
a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on both days, with
master of ceremonies, Bob
Montgomery, directing the
festivities.
Saturday’s line-up of en
tertainment begins on stage at 1:00
p.m. with “Bob Paisley and the
Southern Grass”. At 2:00 p.m., the
Southern Chester County YMCA
will sponsor pie eating contests,
turtle races, and frog jumping
contests. Contestants can enter
their turtles and frogs im
mediately before the competition.
The country western group
“Rawhide” from Rising Sun, MD
will take the stage at 3:00 p.m.
Oxford’s rock group, “Profile”,
will perform at 4:00 p.m., and
“Stone Mountain Bluegrass” from
New Holland will entertain the
crowd at 5:00 p.m. At 6:00 p.m.,
Wilmington’s “Pleasant Street”
folk singers will perform. The
Nottingham bluegrass group
“Wings of Bluegrass” will round
out the day’s music at 7:00 p.m.
Sunday’s entertainment
schedule includes country singers
“Kitty Merkel and Family” from
Wernersville at 1:00 p.m. West
Chester’s “Linsey Woolsey”
bluegrass group will perform at
2:00 p.m. The popular country
western group “Rawhide” will
appear again at 3:00 p.m. At 4:00
p.m., the gospel singing “Deßusk-
Weaver Family” will take the
stage. Downingtown’s “Mild West
Show” and feature original music
at 5:00 p.m. At 6:00 p.m., “Cecil
Miller and the Oxford Rhythm
Boys” will perform and hold a
square dance to end the weekend’s
entertainment.
The Country Fair will feature
many children’s activities as well,
including Bobo the Clown,
magician William Foust,
Philadelphia’s “Give and Take
Jugglers”, a petting zoo and
children’s theater presentation.
Forty craftspeople will display
and sell homemade items, in
cluding jewelry, woodcrafts, dolls,
baskets, pottery, plastercraft,
ceramics, stencils, tote paintings,
barrel art, and more.
The Pennsylvania Department
of Agriculture will sponsor an
educational exhibit, and antique
and new farm equipment will be on
display.
The Oxford Jaycees will sponsor
a special parade to kick off the
festivities on Saturday at 12 noon.
Admission to the two day
Country Fair is $l.OO per car. The
park is located in southern Chester
County, four miles south of Oxford
off the Route 272 exit of the U.S.
Route 1 bypass. For more details
on the Country Fair, call the park
office; (215)932-9195.
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