VOL. 38 NO. 9
From the begining, Paul Newcomer, Sr., age 93, visited the Pennsylvania
Farm Show. He shows a 1917 license plate from the car he owned when he
was 17 years old. With Paul are his family from left, Rachelle, Chad, Paul Jr.,
93-Year-Old Attends Farm Show Since 1917
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
MOUNT JOY (Lancaster Co.)
Paul Revere Newcomer hasn’t
missed a Pennsylvania Farm Show
since 1917. That was the first year
of the largest free indoor agricul
tural exposition in the country.
While many 93-year-olds may
not feel up to mingling with the
crowds that pack the Farm Show
Complex, age doesn’t deter Paul,
who usually attends every day the
Farm Show Offers More
Changes, Improvements
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) It may have seemed like a
long time coming, but the new lay
out and facilities at the state Farm
Show Complex in Harrisburg
USDA-DHIA
Cow Evaluations
To Be Delayed
BELTS Md—The Ani
mal Improvement Programs
Laboratory (AIPL) is considerably
behind schedule in calculation of
the January 1993 USDA-DHIA
genetic evaluations and will not be
able to provide all the information
originally scheduled for distribu
tion on Jan. 12.
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Farm Show is open, not just one
day.
Of his ability to still attend the
Farm Show at 93 years of age,
Newcomer claims that he has no
secret. “I just keep on,” he said.
Since its inception 77 years ago,
the Pennsylvania Farm Show has
changed. In those first years, the
Farm Show Complex did not exist
Meetings and exhibitions were
scattered around the city in hotel
rooms, garages, and the Capitol.
promise to offer one of the best
yet environments for the 77th
showing and promotion of Pen
nsylvania’s agriculture and rural
living skills.
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The Pennsylvania Farm Show opens from Saturday,
January 9, to Thursday, January 14. In this special issue,
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 9, 1993
Later, the main exhibition building
became the first permanent build
ing and since then the complex has
expanded.
“There’s a lot more people and
improved farm implements,” New
comer said.
Beatrice Cheese Strike Affects ADC
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Fanning Staff
* NORTHAMPTON (Bucks
Co.) A strike by workers at
Beatrice Cheese Inc. in Lehigh
caused a temporary milk shipping
problem for Atlantic Dairy
Cooperative late last week.
The problem was with getting
additional long-range -tanker
trucks to divert the milk which nor
mally would have gone to the
southeastern Pennsylvania cheese
processing plant, according to Dr.
Special Farm Show Issue
Eileen, and Laura. Paul plans to visit his 77th Farm Show this week in Har
risburg. Photo by Everett Newswanger, managing editor.
His memory is hazy concerning
his involvement in Farm Show
competition. “I took some cows up
some years and some other things,”
he said.
He clearly recalls that he drove
his new 1917 Overland Roadster
Paul Hand, general manager and
secretary of the cooperative.
Though the milk hauling logisti
cal problems are now satisfied, the
strike continued as of presstime
and the cooperative had plans to
continue shipping an estimated 11
million pounds of milk per week to
other marketing areas, at a higher
cost to the cooperative.
Hand said the strike will not
affect the milk checks of its 3,500
member dairy farm families in
Pennsylvania, New York, New
you will find Farm Show stories, advertising messages,
meeting and judging schedules, and exhibitor locations.
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two-seater to the first show.
“My father had bought a car the
year before and I wanted to drive it
too much so he told me to get my
own car,” Newcomer said.
He still has the 1917 license
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Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Vir
ginia and West Virginia.
Furthermore, producers should
not experience any milk hauling
difficulties, Hand said.
According to published reports
in an Allentown daily newspaper,
members of Teamsters Local 463
went on strike at the cheese plant
after its I'A -year contract expired
last Thursday.
What caused the strike was an
offer by Beatrice officials of a new
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$19.00 Per Year