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30 YEARS AGO
Addition of another county
agricultural agent to the staff in
Lancaster County is a request to be
given Lancaster County Com
missioners in their 1957 budget by
the Lancaster County Extension
Araociation.
Meeting in executive committee
Monday night, the group pointed
out the only cost to the county
would be an estimated $l2OO travel
expenses and $4OO stenographic
services, with salary to be paid by
the Pennsylvania State University
extension service.
Lancaster County corn
producers Tuesday voted 191 to 86
in favor of the proposed new
control program for corn, but
nation-wide the measure lost by
about five and one-half percent.
The Lancaster County Chapter
of the American Red Cross has
been given a quota of $8,738 in the
current national drive for relief of
Hungarian citizens according to an
announcement made today by
Francis L. Cassel, chapter
chairman.
The Lancaster County quota
represents this area’s share of a
five million dollar national Red
Cross Fund which has been ap
proved by President Eisenhower.
All contributions will be channeled
through the International Red
Cross which has been designated
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by the Austrian government for
Hungarian relief.
The index of prices received by
Pennsylvania farmers for their
principal products in mid-
November was unchanged from a
month earlier, and two points
above the same period a year ago,
the State Department of
Agriculture said today.
For all farm products the price
mdex stands at 246 percent of the
1910-14 base level, Federal State
surveys showed.
Due to lack of competitive in
terest, the long-standing Penn
sylvania Farm Show horseshoe
pitching contest for state cham
pionship honors will be discon
tinued at the 1957 Farm Show
scheduled here Jan. 14-18, the
Farm Show Commissioners an
nounced today.
For the same reason the annual
log sawing championship contest
will be eliminated for the coming
show, the commission said.
Out of the estimated three
million evergreen trees now being
cut on Pennsylvania Christmas
tree farms and nurseries, those
from parts of three Northeastern
Pennsylvania counties must pass
gypsy moth quarantine inspection
the State Department of
Agriculture said today.
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