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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1956
Page
8
Harrisburg reports intensive preparations for the 1957 Pennsylvania Farm Show January 14 to 18. The 41st show carries the theme Pennsylvania Agriculture Builds for Tomorrow with a record 58556 in premium offerings and 27 exhibit departments.
Youthful Angus exhibitors excel at the Atlantic Rural Exposition in Richmond Virginia on September 26 with Tomy Ashby Churchville leading the grand champion steer a summer yearling Aberdeen Angus bred by Bailey Brothers Fort Defiance Virginia Bob Long of the University of Kentucky judged the show The junior show champion was Jean H Rucker Eastham Virginia for Canter bury Eline 31st Thirty heifers competed judged by Joe Keefauver Kinloch Farm Supply Virginia and Mainbrace Farms Queens town Maryland were top exhibitors in the Angus purebred show Beauty of Main brace 4th senior champion and grand champion female Kinloch showed the junior champion and grand champion bull Kinlochian 9851st Bandolier Kelton reserve grand champion bull Kinlochian 2304th Sir Grasemere 4 C79th Miss Blackcap CLC Kingdom Blackbird E 2nd and other named winners in the Angus classes scattered through Kinloch and Kelton Farm entries.
A car with four occupants skidded more than 900 feet along a dry highway at Fort Walton Beach Florida before overturning. One occupant was slightly injured as highway officials say slick tires on dry pavement allowed the long skid.
The Weather Bureau 30 day outlook for October 1956 forecasts temperatures averaging below normal east of the Mississippi and above normal across the rest of the country with the warmest conditions in the Southwest. Precipitation is expected above normal in the North Atlantic States and Gulf Coast, near normal in the Great Lakes and Middle Atlantic, and subnormal elsewhere.
Sakachewan Murray district farmer Joe Richard walked 45 miles to Paducah in 9 hours 50 minutes. He accepted a $100 challenge to repeat the feat and completed the same distance in 8 hours 35 minutes.
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