Soil Conservation District probes school water runoff issue
Lancaster County Soil Conservation District directors pledged to probe reports that water from a school ground paved area runs onto nearby farms. Martin Muth of the Soil Conservation Service will survey and inform the school board of runoff responsibilities. Two associate directors opposed Project 70, fearing loss of farm land to state parks.
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Soil Conservation District
Lancaster County Soil Conservation District
Roseville Road
Lancaster County
Martin Muth
The
Soul Conservation Service
State Department of Forests and Waters
Forests and Waters
Maurice God
Farm Calendar Events Across Lancaster County
Oct 22 includes a Sealtest Company meeting for dairy men about barn electricity at Guernsey Sales Pavilion Lincoln Highway east of Lancaster. 6:30 pm Fair tractor driving contest hosted by New Holland Lions at American Legion building. 7 pm Lieutenant Governor Shafer addresses Lancaster County Farmers Association at Blue Ball fire hall. 7:30 pm Lincoln Community 4-H Club meets at Mount Airy fire hall.
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Sealtest Company
Guernsey
Lincoln Highway
Lancaster
New Holland Lions
American Legion
Shafer
Lancaster County
Blue Ball Fire Hall
Lincoln Community
Mount Airy
Lancaster Business Farm Day invites 600 guests to tour local industry
About 600 people including their spouses are invited to attend the annual Business-Farm Day on November 5. Sponsored by the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce the schedule includes morning plant and store inspections lunch and a talk by E Clinton Stokes of the US Chamber of Commerce Agriculture Committee on the interdependence of business industry and agriculture.
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Lancaster County
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce
E Clinton Stokes
US Chamber of Commerce
Agriculture Committee
M. M Smith
Exchange Student Impressed By National FFA Officers
Mario Arroyo an 18 year old Costa Rican exchange student at Garden Spot High School New Holland visited the national Future Farmers of America convention in Kansas City as a guest of Grassland Chapter. He plans to return to Costa Rica next June to study medicine at City University San Jose and become the first in his family to enter the medical profession. He has four younger brothers and three sisters from Pavas near San Jose. Continued on Page 6.
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Future Farmers of America
Mario Arroyo
Costa Rica
FFA
Kansas City
Mario
Garden Spot High School
New Holland
Tthe
Grassland
Futi
Ture
City University
San Jose
Pavas
Stockyards Breaks Ground For Cattle Auction Pavilion
Plans call for a 60 000 dollar two story pavilion at the Lancaster Union Stockyards in the heart of the yards. The facility will be heated and air conditioned with a 16 by 8 feet scale and a 20 000 pound capacity. Ground breaking set for Monday with a target completion date of January 15 1964. Auction sales will be held Wednesdays with private treaty sales on other days and may expand if demand grows.
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Lancaster Union
Robert Helbron
Lancaster Livestock Exchange
Etlon
Rice and Weidman
Heilbron
Union Stock Yard Company
Lancaster Stock Yards
The
Lancaster
Poultrymen To Hear Rev Kehm At Banquet In Mount Joy
The Lancaster County Poultry Association banquet on Thursday October 24 at 630 pm in Hostetter's Banquet Hall Mount Joy features Reverend C Harry Kehm as speaker on Dont Miss Lavine. He will also deliver the invocation. The Village Folk Group Joan Stoner Bull Hendrix and Eddie Myers from Hempfield High School provide entertainment. Murray W Horton serves as toastmaster with remarks by John E B Wolge.
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C Harry Kehm
Lancaster County Poultry Association
Hostetter
Mount Joy
Kehm
Grace Reformed Church of the United Church of Christ
Allentown
Franklin & Marshall College
Lancaster Theological Seminary
Peter, Paul & Mary
Joan Stoner
Bull Hendrix
Eddie Myers
Landisville
Hempfield High School
Murray W. Horton
John EB. Wolge
Daniel Hershey Wins Third Honey Title
Sixteen year old Daniel Hershey of Lititz R3 won his third consecutive county 4-H beekeeping championship at Ralph Gamber’s business on State Street in Lancaster. He harvested 180 pounds of extracted honey and 50 pounds of comb honey from four colonies this year, having started the project three years ago with two colonies.
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Daniel Hershey
Lititz
Ralph Gamber
State Street
Lancaster
Daniel
Elwood D Hershey
Warwick High School
Five day outlook shows warm Pacific norms ahead
The forecast calls for five days with afternoon highs around 74 and night lows near 46. Temperatures stay above normal early then ease to seasonal by the second half with less than a half inch of rain, mainly light showers around Monday.
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Lancaster Stockyards
Fred Campbell
Stockyards
Ike Weidman
James Dunlap
Earl Smith
Robert Heilbron
Walter M. Dunlap
Livestock Commission
L. F
National Future Farmer Officers
C. Harry Kehm
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