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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1956
Page
11
A reader requests red candied apples similar to Farm Show offerings and shares a grandmother lemon pie recipe. The column includes clam cakes and a clam cake mix with bread crumbs clams potatoes eggs onions and seasonings, ending with Christmas wishes.
Ten dollars donated to the Charles Broich and Clarence Weider funds by the Farm Women Society. The Crispus Attucks Center will receive food from the group. Delegates named for the state convention January 14 Harrisburg. morning session January 15 delegates listed with alternates. Colored slides of Heart Haven shown. next meeting at 122 Hershey Ave.
Santa Claus visited the Farm Women Society 3 Christmas party on December 15. Gifts were given to each child and members donated items for a gift exchange. A polio fund contribution of twenty five dollars was made. A Pyrex casserole prize went to 19 members with perfect attendance. Ward's Pine Room hosted by Mrs. Harold Stuber. Canned foods for Crispus Attacks to be collected January 19.
More than 100 persons attended the annual family night Christmas party of Farm Women Society 14 at Strassburg Fire House on December 14. The Prim Singers of Harrisburg provided entertainment and Santa Claus handed out gifts to the children. The next meeting is set for January 9 at the home of Mrs Melvin Stolttus with co-hostesses Mrs Aaron Shirk and Mrs Arthur Groff. The White House named Bertram D Tallamy to head the New York Thruway Authority and serve as Federal Highway Administrator over a $33 billion highway program.
Elaine Anderson of Mercer and Paul Haitle of Bellefonte both 18 win state 4-H honors for Dress Revue poise and outfit in Chicago. Anderson earns an expense paid trip to the National 4-H Club Congress. Haitle receives a commemorative watch for leading lamb and pig breeding projects and showing proficiency in fitting. Both results reflect Cooperative Extension Service programs and extensive youth leadership.
The National Live Stock and Meat Board reports rising meat consumption and living standards. In 1955 the average American spent 5.1 percent of disposable income on meat and ate 161 pounds, up from 142 pounds in 1950 and 127 pounds in 1930, while 1956 figures reach 163.2 pounds per person.
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