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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1956
Page
2
U S District Judge R Dorsey Watkins states that based on statistics one in ten Americans will require some form of treatment for mental illness. The remark is noted in a Lancaster Farming excerpt dated July 20, 1956.
Harrisburg reports a 4 million bushel commercial apple crop for Pennsylvania, down 2.5 million from last year. Late May freezes and poor pollination blamed. the state average is nearly two million bushels below the 1945 54 ten year average. Peach and cherry crops also fall from last year.
Apple and cherry crops drop sharply due to April May cold and late May freezes damaging blooms. Prospects vary by area with Berks Lehigh showing more promise while June weather and spraying cut tiny apples in many orchards. Nehru urges Western response to Soviet amity bids and The American Magazine will be dropped after August.
Warwick High School in Lititz will offer vocational agriculture this fall with Robert Henny as instructor. Henny, a Penn State graduate from Luzerne County, taught students on iron farm projects and served in the U.S. Army from 1950 to 1954. Ralph Bitler Jr. is named to the voag faculty at Southern Lancaster County Joint School, joining Jackson H Owen and Luther D Peck. Bitler hails from Marshallton and will earn a BS from Penn State this August.
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