Debate on Red Meat Promotion and Farm Policy
A Washington convention of newspaper farm editors weighs the impact of a national red meat check off proposed by Congress. It contrasts cattle profits with cattle buying pains, questions government costs, and favors voluntary farmer driven promotion led by groups like the National Live Stock and Meat Board rather than federal programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
Congress
Barton
Barton, Durstin
Osborn & Uncle Sam
National
Live Stock and Meat Board
Chicago
Allied Meat Industries
Packer
American Meat Institute
Washington
Lancaster County Agent Max Smith Receives Distinguished Service Award
Max Smith of Lancaster County was honored this week with a Distinguished Service Award from the Department of Agriculture. The recognition cites his work in the 4-H ill program and the baby beef program in particular. Congratulations are extended as purple banners celebrate in Lancaster County.
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Lancaster County
Max Smith
Department of Agriculture
Collie bell saves Beattie family from midnight fire
A farm near Oxford Pennsylvania recounts a 1907 blaze where a collie rang the dinner bell after midnight to awaken William Beattie and his family. The house and furnishings burned, but neighbors escaped thanks to the dog’s alerting routine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Beattie
Oxford
Beattie
Gold Mountain in Colorado Springs Draws Local Interest
In 1932 Colorado Springs officials and residents eyed a four city block gold cache from the Golden Cycle Mill era. The untapped mountain of gold, 100 feet high in spots, formed over 25 years at an annual rate of 150000 dollars, yet sifting costs would exceed the metal’s value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado Springs
Golden Cycle Mill
Undertakers Stir News With Suspicious Box Raid
In Topeka Kansas a busybody reported a box being carried into a house prompting Special Liquor Investigator Joe Deimler to organize a police raid. The building housed an undertakers convention and the box held a sample casket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Topeka
Kas
Joe Deimler
Deimler
Undertakers
Man of Peace Lesson Reflects on War and Peace
The article discusses peacemaking as a divine vocation, citing Isaac as a model who surrendered rights for peace. It contrasts eras of conflict with efforts to rebuild, notes Germany’s postwar occupation and reconstruction, and urges actions that heal wounds rather than prolong war.
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Isaac
Abraham
Gerar
Wells of
God
Jesus
Philstines
Germany
America
Russia
East Berlin
Stalin
West Zone
United States
West Berlin
Division of Christian Education
Nas Ot Anceil
Hue
Christ Ie
Community Press Service
Dry Forces in Session at Lancaster
Thousands gathered at Lancaster Convention Hall twenty five years ago this week for a two day Allied Dry Forces meeting in Lancaster. Rev Dr Poling said enrollment surpassed 1.5 million, including 500 thousand youths, as John A. McSparran was named county Allied Dry Forces chair. A separate tragedy recalled Miss Helen Mutcher, sixteen, killed by a hit and run on the Harrisburg pike near Dillersville after the crowd discussed the movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
F C. Beckwith
Hamilton Watch Co
J H. Musselman
Ira Drumm
Daniely Poling
Hondra Laudrith
Poling
John A. McSparran
Lancaster County
Helen Mutcher
Dillersville
Harrisburg Pike
St.Joseph Hospital
Mutcher
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Octoraro
Quarryville
Phone Sterling
Lancaster Phone Express
Alfred C. Alspach
Robert E. Best
Robert G. Campbell
Robert J. Wiggins
BY Jack Reichard
Lancaster City
Federaion of
Erie
Clerk of Courts
Mary E. Starks
Lewis E. Starks
Muller
Starks
Indiana
Plymouth Rock
Federal
BNET
Intern
Taw
Kenneth
Asaiah
Man of
Dr. Foreman
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