Lebanon Daily News from Lebanon, Pennsylvania • Page 11

Cold And Rain Slow Fieldwork HARRISBURG Rainfall over most of the commonwealth during the week ending May 2 slowed fieWwork progress by farmers, with only three days rated as suitable for fieldwork across the state, according to the Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service. Cool unsettled weather prevailed across the commonwealth through Thursday with fair and gradually milder conditions during the weekend. Frost and freezing temperatures oc- currred in many sections of the state Friday and Saturday mornings. The rain helped improve soil moisture supplies, which were rated as mostly adequate to surplus. The rain forced many farmers out of the fields, and plowing fell further behind last year's progress.

Plowing is rated at 68 per cent complete, amost 10 days behind last year's 81 per cent at this time. South- em and central counties are at about 76 per cent completed while only 54 per cent is reported complete in northern counties. The oats crop in the state is reported at 73 per cent sown, six days behind the 85 per cent sown 28 Holsteins Die In Erie Co. EDINBORO, Pa. (UPI) State agriculture officials Friday said an illness which killed 28 Holstein cows at an Erie County farm was identified as shipping fever, a respirator)' disease that does not affect humans.

Dr. David Ingraharn, chief of the Bureau of Animal Husbandry of the state Department of Agriculture, said the disease is communicable only from cow to cow within a herd and would have no affect on the milk sold in the Erie area or elsewhere. Ingraham said agriculture officials were familiar with the disease and expected it to run its course at the Royce Horn farm in rural Edinboro. "There is no danger of an epidemic in cows, no danger of contaminated milk and no danger to humans from the Horn incident," Ingraham said in his report. Milk shipments from Horn's through the National Farmers Organization were permitted to resume Thursday.

The report on the Horn case was prepared following disclosure that more than 20 cows, or half the dairy herd, died from a mysterious illness over a 10-day period. Shipping fever is the common name for Pasteurella Haemolyticun. The disease can be dormant in cows purchased at livestock markets and is sometimes triggered by the stress of shipment. Officials said the disease is not uncommon in the United States and there have been previous cases in Pennsylvania. The strain of the bacteria is highly resistant to antibiotics and usually takes its toll from the particular herd that it strikes.

Mrs. Horn said the disease apparently had stopped spreading among the herd. She said 28 cows died, out of a herd of about 50. State officials said they will keep the herd under surveillance. last year.

Southern counties stand at 81 per cent sown, central counties report 84 per cent sown and the north stands at about 58 per cent completed. Most reports say the crop is looking good. Potato planting, at 39 per cent statewide, is about a week behind the 44 per cent reported planted last year at this time. Southern counties stand at 69 per cent completed with some coming through, while central counties report 34 per cent and northern counties 12 per cent completed. Corn planting moved up to seven per cent complete statewide, about a week behind last year's 18 per cent.

Scattered fields are reported planted in the north, with six per cent in central and 12 per cent in southern counties now planted. Barley and wheat are beginning to enter the boot stage in southern counties. Conditions are reported good for most, with some scattered reports of poor looking crops. Pastures are rated as providing average to slightly below average amounts of feed. Condition is considered generally good, with more cows being put out to pasture.

The week's rain should speed up what had been somewhat slow growth of hay and pastures. There is evidence of weevil activity increasing. Asparagus is being harvested. Most strawberries have been planted with some frost damage reported. There is concern over the extent of damage to peach, cherry and apple crops due to the re- cnet frots.

Peaches are rated at 26 per cent in the pink stage and 69 per cent in full bloom or past. Cherries are 21 per cent in the pink and 75 per cent in, or past full bloom, while apples are rated at 21 per cent in the pink stage and 66 per cent in full bloom or past. All these fruites are about a week behind the development last year at the same time. Most growers report a good bloom with peaches looking better than expected. Communication Workshop Set HERSHEY-In-depth exploration of problems encountered in employee evaluations and techniques for improving communication and appraisal in medical organizations will be the focus for a day-long workshop May 19, in The Hershey Medical Center.

Entitled "Performance Evaluation in Medical Organizations," the workshop is open to all supervisors of health care personnel. The program will offer .6 continuing education units from Penn State and six hours of credit from the Pennsylvania State Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators. Topics for discussion include communication between supervisors and subordinates, performance objectives, evaluation forms and the appraisal interview. The instructor will be Bonnie Johnson, Ph.D., assistant professor of speech and communication at Penn State's University Park campus and the author of a recent book, "Communication: The Process of Organizing." Enrollment is limited to 30 persons. Interested individuals should contact Anne Tatum in the continuing education office at Hershey Medical Center.

IW (LMAN IUNGS THE DECISION IS YOURS EFFECT OF CANCER Mrs. Samuel Weiss, chairman of the youth division of the Public Education Committee of the American Cancer Society, Lebanon unit, points out the differences between healthy and unhealthy lungs in an exhibit at the Cornwall Elementary School. Observing are Chris Bergland, Lebanon RD Rose Mary Milgate, Mt. Gretna. The optiscopic lung exhibit has been seen by 10,000 students in Lebanon County as part of the Cancer Society's effort to prevent children from starting to smoke.

(Daily News Photo). Glass Exhibition Includes Lamp Owned By Hershey CORNING, N.Y. (UPI) Imagine a cut glass lamp 12 feet tall and weighing several hundred pounds. Or a cut glass punch bowl and pedestal four and a half feet tall. The lamp was made by a New York City firm, said Jane S.

Spillman, curator of American Glass. It was bought by chocolate magnate Milton Hershey at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, 1893. It now belongs to the school named for him in Hershey, Pa. The punch bowl set, including 12 punch glasses, is a display piece that won a grand medal of honor for its Corning maker at the Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland, Ore. in 1905.

They are the most spectacular objects in a cut and engraved glass exhibit that opened Monday, May 2, at the Corning Museum of Glass for a six-month run. It commemorates the days when this upstate New York town was home to many glassworks, independent cutters and subcontractors. After closing here, the exhibit will travel to the Toledo (Ohio) Art Museum for about a month, beginning Dec. 4. Other unusual objects on display include able lamps whose shades and pedestals are cut glass, and a cut glass radiator designed to cover early light bulbs to reduce glare.

The clear glass bulbs that predated frosted ones were "considerably brighter than kerosene or gas lamps." Mrs. Spillman said. But the heart of the show consists of more ordinary things such as vases, boxes, glasses, pitchers and other tableware. Most were lent by townspeople, often from collections that have been in their families for several generations. Lenders include Evelyn and Mildred'Durkin and Nicholas Williams.

The Durkin sisters, both retired, offered a square cut glass berry bowl from their extensive collection of cut glass inherited from their family. The bowl had been a wedding gift to a relative in 1909. Williams, the Glass Center's official photographer, lent an engraved picture frame made by his grandfather, Nicholas Undereiner, for the Hunt Glass Works about 1930-35. "Scratch any local person whose roots go back at least one generation, and you will find a glass cutter in the family," Mrs. Spillman said.

Whereupon she introduced a passing workman. Robert Share, a house painter, was helping finish the exhibit in time for a reception that evening for the lenders and museum trustees. Share's father and six great-uncles were glasscutters. The Durkins are unusual in that they had no forebears in the industry, "except maybe some cousins," said Mildred Durkin. And her sister worked in the accounting department at the Corning Glass Works until her recent retirement.

Mildred Durkin was a newspaper tele- typesetter. Like many other local families, they grew up with cut glass, and use some pieces regularly. They were happy to lend the bowl for the exhibit because: "We've got more than we need. It should be where someone else could enjoy it." Mrs. Spillman said Corning's fame as a glasscutting center dates from 1868 when labor troubles and a fire led a cutter in Brooklyn to move upstate to an already established glass factory.

By 1905, the town had 490 cutters and 33 engravers. "People kept leaving(estab- Lady bird Beetle: Boon In Orchard TOWNSHIP GETS of the N. Lebanon Twp. Board of Supervisors hold an award received by the township from the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors in recognition of its "Township Report to the a Bicentennial project. The supervisors are (from left) Roy Peiffer, Franklin Strack, and Alfred Brandt.

(Daily News Photo) The tiny ladybird beetle has reduced by 80 per cent the amount of spray chemical needed to control European red mites in orchards, entomologists at Pennsylvania State announced recently. "In many cases the ladybird beetle has eliminated miticide sprays formerly used to control potentially harmful mite populations," stated Larry A. Hull, graduate assistant in entomology at Penn State. Hull said the adult beetles have the ability to search out isolated pockets of mites averaging only one mite per leaf. Such small locations of mites are typical of those found in Pennsylvania orchards in May and June.

Entomologists call this ladybird beetle Stethorus punctum. N. Lebanon Gets Award From Assn. N. Lebanon Twp.

received first place recognition in its population group from the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors during a conference in Pittsburgh recently for its "Township Report to the a Bicentennial project. The report was a history of N. Lebanon Twp. complied by the Bicentennial Committee of the township and written by Alma Shuey Spencer, committee chairman, John L. Raber, and William J.

Hartman. The forward was written by Martin N. Shuey, and the cover was designed by Robert Fields. As far as the committee knows, "The Township Report to the Citizens" is the only history ever written of N. Lebanon Twp.

Copies of the publication are available in the N. Lebanon Twp. Municipal Building and the Lebanon Historical Society Museum. The book was sponsored jointly by the N. Lebanon Twp.

Lions Club, the Sunset Lions Club, and the N. Lebanon Jaycees. Using Stethorus punctum to control mites, while spraying for other pests, is known as integrated pest control. The system was developed by Dean Asquith, entomologist at the Fruit Research Laboratory at Biglerville, a facility of Penn State's Agricultural Experiment Station. Integrated pest control is used on about 85 per cent of the apple acreage in Pennsylvania, Hull said.

Success of the system, he noted, depends upon applying insecticides tolerated by the ladybird beetle. Some insecticides, therefore, must be used at lower than normal dosages. Mite populations do not build up evenly around a tree, Hull pointed out. For example, 20 leaves may have no mites but five other leaves may contain 5 mites per leaf giving an average of one mite per leaf among 25 leaves. As the mites increase, generally in June as warm weather increases, the female ladybird beetles lay eggs which hatch into larvae that also feed on the mites.

The studies of ladybird beetles have been carried out in association with Professor Asquith and Paul D. Mowery, research assistant, both with the Fruit Research Laboratory. Once established in an apple orchard, the ladybird beetle adults move around in response to the ighest mite populations. At this time, the adults move to those areas of trees where the largest numbers of mites are located. Th emost mites are usually found where the leaves are not hit heavily with chemical spray.

The ladybird beetle and integrated pest control will be featured in the Spring issue of "Science in Agriculture," the quarterly magazine of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Interested Pennsylvanians may have their names placed on the "Science in Agriculture" mailing list without charge. Write to the Agricultural Experiment Station, 229 Agricultural Administration Building, University Park, Pa. 16802. lished companies) and setting up their own businesses," she said.

Many worked at home and moonlighted for private customers, in the European tradition. "Steuben moved them into plants in the 1930s," Mrs. Spillman said. By then, cut glass had gone out of fashion, and most cutting shops and companies in Corning had closed. Today the Corning Glass Works has the Steuben division that makes fine crystal, including art objects and another division that makes table-and cookware.

Altogether, the show contains about 200 separate objects made by nearly 80 companies and home shops, mostly in Corning. A few were made in Ohio and Pennsylvania. A few were lent by individuals in other towns and states, by museums in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Wheeling, W.Va., New York City, Washington, D.C., St. Augustine, Fla. and Millville, N.J., the Rockwell-Corning Museum in Corning and the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh.

Vaccinate Horses For Encephalitis Horse owners are being urged to vaccinate their animals against equine encephalitis (horse sleeping sickness) which is often a serious problem as mosquito populations increase during warmer months, the U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said. Effective vaccines are available, according to veterinarians of USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). However, they advised that the vaccines are effective for only one year, so revaccination is necessary each spring.

Combined killed-virus vaccines are available for eastern and western equine encephalitis (EEE and WEE); and also for eastern, western and Venezuelan (VEE). EEE and WEE occur seasonally in many parts of the country. (VEE has not been diagnosed since 1971 when this foreign disease invaded south Texas. Research has shown that VEE has a complex natural history and many hosts. It isn't known which of these hosts may exist and harbor the virus in Mexico or the United States, or when the virus may reemerge to affect either country.

All three (EEE, WEE, VEE) affect humans as well as horses. But there are some significant differences between VEE and the other two. Birds usually function as a disease reservoir, carrying the viruses of eastern and western encephalitis. Mosquitoes transmit these diseases from the birds to horses or humans. VEE, however, multiplies so rapidly in horses that mosquitoes biting infected horses at certain disease stages can pass the virus to susceptible (non- vaccinated) horses or humans.

Utanon (tally Ntwa, Saturday, May 7,1977 Preschool Vision Tests Scheduled The Pennsylvania Association for the Blind will conduct preschool vision screenings in the Eastern Lebanon County School District. Parents of all preschoolers aged three and older are urged to bring their children for vision screening at the following scheduled locations and times: Schaefferstown Elementary, Schaefferstown, May 10, 8:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Fort Zeller Elementary, Richland RD 1, May 11, 8:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Debbie Waltz, supervisor, preschool vision screening programs, will direct the screening sessions and will be assisted by the Richland- Newmanstown Women's Club. Linda Beamesderfer of Newmanstown is chairman of the volunteers. The Association emphasizes that little children do not know how well they should be able to see and therefore cannot tell when they have a vision problem. A child may never complain about vision problems and often he may not communicate precisely if any particular problem bothers him. It is estimated that more than 588,000 children of school age in Pennsylvania are in need of some form of eye care.

For many of these children this need could have been prevented by the discovery and treatment of their vision problems during their preschool years. For these reasons, preschool vision screening programs are provided as a free service, to locate at an early age children who may have vision problems. These children are referred for a complete eye examination and recommended care and treatment so they may begin Class 1 June Milk Price Up Middle Atlantic Order Market Administrator Joseph D. Shine today announced a Class I milk price of $11.38 per hundredweight for June 1977. Shine said the price is up 29 cents from May and is 16 cents higher than the June 1976 fluid milk price.

Order No. 4 prices are announced for milk testing 3.5 per cent butterfat, f.o.b. plants located within 55 miles of Philadelphia, and also within 75 miles from the nearer of Washington, D.C. or Baltimore, Md. There is also a 6-cent direct-delivery differential applicable to producer milk received at plants located within 55 miles of Philadelphia.

Shine also announced a Class II milk price of $8.53 per hundredweight for April 1977, and a butterfat differential of 11.5 cents. These class prices are based on the April 1977 Minnesota- Winsconsin manufacturing milk price of $8.60 per hundredweight adjusted to 3.S per cent butterfat content. The USDA reported that the wholesale price of Grade A butter at Chicago for April was $1.0006 per pound and the nonfat dry milk price was $.6475 per pound f.o.b. plants in the Chicago area. their formal education with the best possible vision.

The preschool vision screening program sponsored by the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind has the approval of the Lebanon County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania Medical Society, the Pennsylvania Departments of Health and Public Welfare and the Pennsylvania Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology. Sheryl Timmins Club Names Student Of Month HERSHEY-Sheryl Timmins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Timmins, 252 Nye Road, has been selected as the Hershey Rotary Club student of the month for May. She is an honor roll student in college preparatory courses and plans to attend Penn State following graduation in June.

She has been a member of the National Honor Society for two years, has received a letter of commendation from the Miss Internationale Teen Scholarship Pageant and was listed in "Who's Who Among American High School Students, 1976-77." Her school activities include the Backgammon Club, stage crew, Bible Club, library aide, and speech team. She also served as a tutor for one of Hershey's international students. She recently has completed an assignment with Capital Classroom, an alternative education program that gives students the opportunity to intern with governmental agencies in Harrisburg. Her hobbies include reading, sewing, tennis, hiking, speech and church youth activities. S.

Lebanon Jaycees Meet The S. Lebanon Jaycees met in the Hebron Fire Hall Thursday with William Donmoyer presiding. The year's plan of action was discussed and approved. Upcoming activities discussed include setting up two booths at the Myerstown Carnival May 26-30; a hamboat sale, a chicken barbecue, and a car wash. A bike rodeo is planned for June.

Members discussed erecting a building at the skating post at the Walnut Street extension, but no decision was made. FIELDto FARMER TO CONSUMER REPORT BY SPERRY NEW HOLLAND More Green and Less Growing Who wouldn't like a nice Uiecn lawn that never needs mowing. Or, at. least, one that, doesn't need regular There's a possihility that homeowners may one day such a respite from this chore. Also, there may he significant implications for farming.

Already, here is research heini; conducted into certain chemicals winch don't, affect overall vegetative growth of plants hut inhihit height development. For a crop like wheat, yields woul straw This duced. K'tol tli at weather harvest. A hasic crop like alfalfa, a primary feed to improve milk production in dairy herds, mitfht have a higher tat 10 of more alu ahie leaves to the less nutritiona stems. Harvesting of such i crop would continue to import ant.

requiring I gentle liuiidlmu that is i'e lured in machines like th Spcrrv New Holland mow- er-c onditioner. It's another phase of pos- si hie scientific ad vance ments of importance to (itimlics, as well as in fields..