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Last week Gail Bukowski,
11, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Bukowski,R.D.1,
« Mount Joy, won the County
+" 4-H cooking championship
Dave Becker
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Dave Becker relaxes
on a red hot tractor
After a hard day's work
on his Mount Joy area farm,
Dave Becker likes to relax
by driving his tractor.
The tractor Dave drives
for fun is powered by two
big Ford V-8 engines. It can
drag a 25 ton load flat across
the ground and its oversized
tires are designed to spin at
50 miles per hour.
Last week, Dave hauled
his modified tractor to Flem-
ington , New Jersey to
compete in the tractor-pull
there. He placed second and
third at Flemington.
Last week, he placed first
in his class at the Buck
tractor-pull.
The drive train on Dave’s
tractor comes from an old
Cockshutt. He welded to-
gether a new frame for the
machine, and added the two
Ford engines and an auto-
matic transmission.
““I like doing it myself,”
says Dave, who is Secretary
of thc Southeastern Penn-
sylvania Tractor Pulling
Association. ‘‘It’'s not like
buying a car where you have
someone else build it for
you."
Tractor pulling is an
expensive sport. A new set
of 30 inch. wide tires costs
$1,900.
““That’s why I've got 24
inch tires,’ said Dave.
Winners make enough
money to cover the cost of
hauling their tractors to the
track. Losers get nothing.
So why is tractor-pulling
one of the fastest growing
sports in the country?
“It's a sport,’’ says Dave.
“When you go water skiing
or golfing you don’t win
much either.”
““The main thing is
building it yourself. Then
when those wheels get
flying, that’s pretty nice
too.”
Winning a tractor-pull
involves a lot of strategy,
Dave pointed out.
“Weight distribution is
very important,”” he said.
“You've got to study the
track and get your weights
right.”
‘‘Some people really get
hooked on this,”” Dave
observed. He pointed to an
old Cockshutt tractor that
was sitting behind the
tobacco barn.
“I'm going to start
working on that one this
winter,”’ he said.
Multiple Sclerosis Soc. plans
‘A Walk for
Sue Steinmetz, the
Steering Committee Chair-
person for the ‘Ride for
Independence’ being spon-
sored by the Lancaster
County Multiple Sclerosis
Society, has named the
following committee chair-
persons: Route, Samuel
Harnish, Safety, Gene
Miller, Prizes and Key
Independence’
People, Taylor Lowry, Re-
freshment, Bette Keen and
Publicity, Wandla Buhay.
The ‘Ride for Indepen-
dence’ will be held on
Sunday, September 21, with
each bicycle rider securing
his or her own sponsors.
Independence from Multi-
ple Sclerosis is hopefully
anticipated through more
funds for research.
with her bar cookies. When
* the Bukowskis came to the
exhibit after the judging,
they found that the judges
the cookies of the other
contestants, but had eaten
all of Gail’s delicious cook-
| ies. No wonder, they award-
ed her the championship.
All the Bukowski’s are
t 4-H winners. Michael, 12,
won a tractor maintenance
| award earlier this year, and
last year won a number of
had taken little bites out of
prizes. Patrick, 8, just won
an award for raising rabbits.
And Margie, 2, will
undoubtedly win her share
of 4-H awards in the years to
come.
The 4-H Club is responsi-
ble for the Bukowski’s
moving to the country
outside Mount Joy. They
were living in Brownstown
when Michael, then 9, took
a chance on a 4-H heifer
calf—and won the calf. The
Bukowskis decided that
winning that calf was a sign
that they should move to the
country; they began to look
for some land.
Patrick, Gail, Margie, & Michael Bukowski
September 3, 1975
ln a ow The Bukowskis, de fin ite ly a 4-H family
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Darvin and Glena clean up Holstein awards
Darvin Rodgers and Glena
Darvin J.” Rodgers, Jr.,
13, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Darvin J. Rodgers, Sr., R.
D. 1, Marietta, won the
award of ‘‘Master Show-
man’’ last week at the 4-H
South Central Champion-
ships in Harrisburg.
Darvin won the master
award by showing his prize
two-year-old Holstein heif-
er, ‘‘Valley Pond Arban
Glenda,”’ ‘‘Glena’’ for
short.
He was evaluated on how
well he handled Glena and
kept her lined up according
to the judge’s directions.
This was the third award
for Darvin and Glena this
year.
Next month they will be
off to compete in the
All-American Dairy Show.
New flea market opens in Mount Joy; teacher exhibits art
(for more about new flea market turn to page J)
Tom Hermansader, of
Donegal Heights, Mount
Joy, displayed some of his
paintings at Mount Joy's
new flea market last
weekend.
All Tom’s work is in
watercolors or oils. His
landscapes and portraits are #
carefully and realistically
drawn.
The artist is also a teacher
at Columbia High School.
He has attended the
Pennsylvania Academy of |
Fine Arts in Philadelphia, |
Baum Art School in Allen-
town, and Kutztown State
College.
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