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Dallas Juniors
Have Xmas Tea
Demonstrations
Of Decorations
Dallas Junior Womans Club en-
joyed a demonstration of Christmas
centerpieces and decorations Tues-
day night in the Library Annex.
Mrs. Neil Chrisman and Mrs. Ches-
ter Neshit, of Wyoming Valley
tive innovations in addition to the
classic arrangements of greens and
cones.
Mrs. Kenneth Bayliss reported on
the Betty Crocker Sale, proceeds
from which will finance underwear
for needy children in the area. Mrs.
Francis Ambrose made a final re-
port on the recent Minstrel Show.
The club voted $27 to the Back
Mountain YMCA.
Carol singing was followed by a
tea served from a festively decora-
ted Christmas table, with a sleigh
and Santa Claus as centerpiece.
Mrs. Edwin Roth, president, and
Mrs. Francis Ambrose, Senior Club
advisor, poured for sixty-seven
guests:
Mesdames R. W. Brown, Robert
T. Moore, Harry Lefko, Lewis Reese,
Roger Owens, Russell Parsons, John
Ridall, Harry Powell, Richard
Thompson, Donald Himlin, Edward
Morgan, Patrick Reithoffer, Jr,
Clarence Remington, Evan Powell,
Richard Griffith, P. William Hanna,
Edward Thompson, Edward Rich-
ards, John Richards, J. Williams,
Carl Herman, Thomas E. Reese,
Loren Fiske, Doris Mallin. >
Harold Brobst, Kenneth Bayliss,
Daniel Rowan, Harry Sweptson, Jr.,
Robert A. Williams, Wilson Garing-
er, Joseph Schneider, Sherry Nul-
ton, Warner Cook, Royal Culp, Jack
Hastings, Jr., Edwin Johnson, Wil-
liam Stewart, Ralph Garris, Donald
Bulford, Bud Nelson, Allen Mon-
tross, Donald Naylor, Robert Mor-
gan, George Nichols, Jr., Donald
.Besecker, James Besecker, Jr.,
Richard Brady, Sam Margellinia,
Thomas Templin, Lewis Spaciano,
Robert Sulger, Elwood Swingle,
Robert Casterlin, E. C. Ide, C. Rob-
ert Appel, Darrel Crispell, H. R.
Edwards, Raymond Daring, William
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The College of Agriculture at the
Pennsylvania State University has
taken a big part in the development
of the Pennsylvania Farm Show
since its start in 1917 when it cov-
ered less than one-fourth acre of
floor space.
The 1955 show will use more than
13 acres of floor space.
In connection with its decision
to dedicate the exposition next Jan-
uary 10-14 to the State University
for its century of service to Penn-
Lee, Harold Elston.
Misses Norma Shaver, Shirlee
Allen, Nancy Brader, Janis Graves,
Peggy Malkemes, Peggy Maza, and
Betty Sullivan.
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sylvania agriculture, the Farm Show
Commission announced today that
growth of the show over a period
of 30 years owes much to the Uni-
versity.
According to W. S. Hagar, State
Secretary of Agriculture and chair-
man of the Farm Show Commission,
farmers of Pennsylvania have bene-
fited through Farm Show participa-
tion by all three major branches of
the Penn State College of Agricul-
ture—instruction, research and ex-
tension. ’
The Farm Show has had its great-
est assistance from the division of
agricultural and home economics ex-
of all county agricultural agents and
home economics representatives
now located in each of the 67 coun-
ties of the Commonwealth, Secre-
tary Hagar declared.
“The agricultural extension serv-
ice has been a most valuable aid
to the Farm Show from its very in-
ception,” he said. ‘Plans for a
Farm Products Show in connection
with annual meetings of farm or-
ganizations in Harrisburg each Jan-
uary were first discussed at a con-
ference in Lancaster in August 1916.
Of the six men attending that con-
ference only one is still living, E. K.
Hibshman, then assistant director
of the extension divisin of the Col-
lege of Agrculture. He served as
first secretary of the original Farm
Show Committee.
“There were few county agents
and extension specialists in the
early days of the Farm Show but
they pitched in and built up the
competitive exhibits which have in-
creased each year. Many of the in-
structors serve as judges and ap-
pear on educational meeting pro-
grams of farm organizations dur-
ing the Farm Shows. The efforts of
all these people have aided greatly
in development of the Pennsyl-
vania Farm Show to the largest
mid-winter agricultural exposition in
the United States. The Commission
pays tribute to this type of service
rendered by the State University.”
Information gathered by the
Farm Show Commission on the agri-
cultural extension service disclosed
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that the work of carrying education
comparatively young, compared with
the 100 years that the institution
has served the public.
The University was founded in
1855 but organized extension work
did not begin until 1907. Prior to
that time faculty members and re-
search men participated in Farm-
ers’ Institutes held in different parts
of the State. The extension idea be-
gan when college representatives
conducted agricultural tours by
train, taking exhibits to fairs, par-
ticipating in regional farmers’ week
n such places as Philadelpha, Pitts-
burgh and Greenville, and other
meetings around the State.
As many as 1,200 persons at one
time went to the campus on organ-
ized tours and were shown over the
farms.
Prior to 1912 the extension work
was conducted solely from the
campus. In that year the work was
organized on a county basis and
five county agricultural agents were
appointed. The University had only
$300 to put into extension work in
1912, yet the proposition that the
institution point and supervise the
county agents was observed in every
instance, a custom that still prevails.
Emphasis on increased agricul-
tura! production during World War
I led to rapid expansion in the
ranks of county agents. It was in
this period that the first Farm
Show was held in Harrisburg.
Other counties added agents after
the war and by 1948 there was a
county agent and home economics
representative in each county.
From meager beginnings the ex-
tension program has grown to in-
clude a host of projects in agricul-
tural economics, farm management,
rural socioloy, agricultural engi-
neering, dairy science, forestry,
animal husbandry, agronomy, cloth-
ing, nutrition and health, home
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management, child development and
family life, 4-H Club work, ento-
mology, plant pathology, ornamen-
tal horticulture, pomology, -vege-
table gardening, poultry husbandry,
and wildlife management.
Demonstrations form the basis for
extension work. ‘Another principle is
“learning by doing.” Instruction is
carried on through demonstrations,
meetings, tours, exhibits, roundups,
judging, farm and home visits, 4-H
Clubs, bulletins, articles, radio and
television, and many other activi-
ties. Chief objectives are more ef-
ficient production, improved mar-
keting practices, and more adequate
living.
Eleanor Galka In Hospital
At Fort Houston, Texas
Eleanor Galka called her mother,
Mrs. Walter Galka, in Noxen Tues-
day night, to say that every care
was being taken of her in the
Brooks Base Hospital at Fort Sam
Houston, Texas.
Eleanor was slated for a heart-
valve operation at Walter Reed al-
most a month ago, but plans were
changed and the operation post-
pened.
She contracted Rheumatic Fever
at Fort Knox in mid-July, after en-
listing in the WAC service in April.
Flown to Albuquerque, New Mexico,
after eighteen days in the hospital
at Fort Knox, she was transferred
seven weeks ago to the Texas hos-
pital. She is able to be up. and
around the ward, but not permitted
outside.
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