County Dancers Enter Farm Show Square Dance Contest
Three teams from Lancaster County join 60 teams from 28 counties competing for 750 in premiums at the Pennsylvania State Farm Show. The event on Tuesday January 9 features Senior Extension Club dancers and colorful acts in three divisions Division A for under 21 Division B for over 21 and Division C for mixed age. Judges include Erma Noll Rein er Columbia and William Endslow Marietta with leaders from the Lancaster Senior Extension Club and the Hall Dance Group.
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Lancaster City
Bister Twin Association
Erma Noll
Rein
Columbia Ri
Ilegal
William S Endslow
Marietta
Damande Hall
Lancaster ‘Coiy
Warren
Lancaster Ag Center Fund Names Co-Chairmen
Two Lancaster County businessmen begin leadership roles in the Ag Center Drive Major Gifts Division. Jesse Snavely Jr. and Lawrence Skromme will head twelve teams targeting about four hundred top farmers, with launch planned for early February 1962.
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Lancaster County
Lancaster County Agricultural Center Fund
Jesse Snavely, Jr
Lawrence H. Skromme
Levi Brubaker
Leslie S. Hubbard
Squirrels migrate long distances due to food shortage
Pennsylvan ia state reports indicate gray squirrels moved up to 70 miles seeking food as acorns and nuts were scarce. The Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit notes unusual road crossings from August 20 to September 10, with a tagged Blair County carcass traced to Cameron County.
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Pennsylvania
Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit
Pennsylvania State University
Blair County
Cameron County
Ward M Sharp
Squirrels migrate as nut crop failure eyed in 1961 notes
Lancaster Farming reports during early September 1961 gray and black squirrels migrate in Centre County and across several counties on the Allegheny Mountain Plateau. Dr. Sharp notes high highway counts of gray squirrels and a first gray squirrel swim at Black Moshannon Reservoir on Labor Day. He says no acute food shortage exists. Also mentions garden tool care for winter storage per A O Rasmussen.
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Centre County
Sharp
Allegheny Mountain Plateau
Clearfield
Elk
Cameron Counties
Black Moshannon
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Ag Center Drive
Snavely
Landisville
35. C. Snavely & Sons, Inc
Lancaster County United Fund
Lancaster General Hospital
Landisville Church of God
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce
Lancaster Rotary Club
Skromme
New Holland Machine Company
Sperry Rand Corporation
New Holland
Grandview Heights Methodist Church
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
Conestoga Valley Association
Landis Valley Road
Lancaster
O. Rasmussen
Penn State Extension Ornamental Horticulturist
Kenneth §E. Porter
Washington
Boro
Porter
Bruce E. Wright
Esso
College of Agriculture
Farm Bureau
Time Labor
Arm Bureau
Our
Borax
Bureau Store
Manheim
Coun
Quarryville
Sterling
Elgin
Purina Health Aids
Purina
Wormer
Purina Dealer
John J. Hess
Intercourse
New Providence
Wenger's Feed Mill Inc
Rheems
Warren Sickman
Kinzers
S. H. Hiestand & Co
Salunga
John B. Kurtz Ephrata
Ira B. Landis Valley Road
J. H. Reitz & Son, Inc
Lititz
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