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VOL 34 NO. 45
The supreme champions of the York Fair open breeding sheep show were Ken Lew
is’ Hampshire ewe, right, and Jason Blxler’s Oxford ram. Lending a hand is Ron Blxler,
left. See page 24 for pictures and the complete story.
Kuhn Inspire&BvknAg Banquet Group
BY
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
CHAMPION (Westmoreland
Co.) —An inspirational talk by
Bowie Kuhn, former baseball
commissioner, provided the sum
mary of the mountain top experi
ence here at Seven Springs Resort,
this week. The occasion was the
111th PennAg Convention that
featured talks by renowned exper
ts, a Bavarian festival, the annual
golf tournament and relaxation in
Youse Family Honored
In Berks County
BY VAL VANTASSEL
Berks Co. Correspondent
FLEETWOOD (Berks Co.)
“Farmers will always be important
in the state of Pennsylvania. It has
something to do with spirit. You
know that it is more valuable than
all the material goods in the world.
As members of the farming com
munity you know that better than
most,” Lt. Governor Mark Singel
told the audience at the 34th annual
Outstanding Farm Family Awards
Banquet held last Wednesday at
the Fleetwood Grange. Singel
assured the audience of over 200
that the state government appreci
ates its family farmers. “There is a
bipartisian committment to con
tinue the family farm in Pennsyl
vania,” he added.
Singel also congratulated the
agricultural community and Berks
County in general for their land
preservation efforts. “You have
taken a leading role in securing
local funds for land preservation.
The effectiveness of your efforts
has made Berks one of the leading
counties for land preservation in
Wie state. We hope to feel the effect
If these efforts in the near future,”
Four Sections
momiMPKtting.
Kuhn told the final night ban
quet gronpthat he could have had
no way of knowing his speech to
this large Pennsylvania agri
business group would be prefaced
by so great an event as the Pete
Rose case and the untimely rinath
of baseball commissioner Bart
Giamatti. Kuhn said leadership is
the moral courage to make a vision
practical.
“It’s imperative that we have a
vision that goes to the moral,"
Singel said.
The Lt. Governor lauded the
values displayed by family farmers
as part of the cure for the state’s
social ills. “We have a drug prob
lem in Pennsylvania. Will we beat
it? YES! But we can’t do it by
spending a lot of money, or slo
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Karen Fessler (left) and Kirk Sattazahn were honored as Berks County’s outstand
ing FFA girl and boy. Tammy Balthaser (center) and Brett Shorley were the top 4-H
girl and boy.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 16,1989
Kuhn said. “And it was right that
Qiairtattawas (he commissioner of
baseball and that he was the one to
make such a seismic decision for
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September 25-29
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published, we will have the
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Sept 2S at noon.
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Sept. 25 at noon.
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nesday, Sept. 27 at 9 a.m.
Late-Breaking News- Wed
nesday, Sept 27 at noon.
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1989 Fall Championship Show
Locke, McCauley Capture
Holstein Grand Titles
BY PAT PURCELL
STATE COLLEGE (Centre
Co.) Excitement and anticipa
tion filled the Penn State Universi
ty Ag Arena as class after class of
outstanding dairy cows challenged
the seasoned show judge, Loren
Elsass, at the 1989 Pennsylvania
Holstein Association’s Fall
Championship Show on Friday,
September 8.
Breeders, exhibitors, and stu
dents marvelled at the high quality
animals which made this one of the
Morrell Farms of Cochranton earned the premier exhibi
tor award of the 1989 Pennsylvania Holstein Fall Champion
ship Show. Farm owners are Robert and Candace Morrell.
Receiving the banner are their sons: (from left) Jason,
Butch and 80.
Salute American Hampshire
Association Centennial
BY LOU ANN GOOD
ROBESONIA (Berks Co.)
The American Hampshire Sheep
Association marks its 100 year
anniversary on November 10
$12.50 Per Year
best Fall Championship Shows in
the past several years.
Elsass, a Holstein breeder from
Wapakoneta, Ohio, shared the
crowd’s enthusiasm at the tre
mendous line-up. The PHA was
honored to have Elsass judge this
show. His herd, Quietcove Hol
steins carries a rolling herd aver
age of 21,600 pounds with a BAA
of 106.5 and his list of accomplish
ments is equally as impressive. He
has judged in 34 states as well as in
Japan, Mexico, Costa Rico and
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through 12 in Louisville, Ky. But
before that, 12 centennial and
futurity shows are being held from
the West to the East Coast
Keystone International is host
ing a special celebration for the
Hampshire breeders in Pennsylva
nia, Maryland, New Jersey and
Delaware.
Clyde Brubaker, the AHSA
director for the eastern states, said,
“Keystone International has added
premiums to make KILE a very
special show and to celebrate the
100 years of the Hampshire
breed.”
•There’s a special fi\turity show
where nominated sheep will be
shown and judged for the Futurity
$l,OOO Give-away. Both senior
and junior members must show
their nominated sheep in the reg
ional shows to be eligible for the
national futurity show.
•The Hampshire Ancestral Tree
drawing, which shows the origin
of Hampshires in England and the
changes that have occured since
then, will be displayed and sealed
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