A —Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 15, 1965
From Where We Stand...
Whose Problem is Air Pollution?
Since air moves freely from place
to place all across the country, it auto
matically becomes everyone's concern.
Perhaps Lancaster County adds veiy
Little to the total contamination of the
air, but so long as we’re interested in
breathing good "flesh" air here we have
to be concerned with the problem cvcry
wheic.
Air pollution is not a brand new
problem, but the rate at which pollu
tion is accelerating is of major concern.
The technology ol identifying and mea
suring specific sources of pollution has
been senou>iv lacking until recently.
‘The lounulation ot effective regula
tions and enforcement has been hap
haiaid. s r me communities have been
\igilant and strict, others ha\e no pro
gram c.i all " So savs an interesting new
leport ca'led "Clean air and water in
a complex society” published by Du-
Pont Chemical Company The report dis
cusses the general problem of pollution
and describes what some industries are
doing to combat it It is well worth
reading’
But what are we doing about pollu
tion of the air we breathe 9 According
to a Department of Health engineer,
James Hambright, Pennsylvania made a
comprehensive survey of the area in
1960-61 which outlined the problem lo
cally. On the strength of the survey re-
• Cliff Bollinger
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contest which involved skill
m hancCing a tractor and
implements manure spread
er and wagon and in
tractor maintenance He has
been working around tractors
since he wtes about 11 years
old, and apparently has ac
cpuired a pretty good knowl
edge of them judging from
his success in competition
By winning the tractor
contest, he won the right to
reirnesent the area in the
state contest which will he
held during FFA Week at
Penn State University. But
he isn’t going to do so' He’s
entering the dany judging
competition instead and wall
lepiesent Cloister Chaptei in
that event m the state con
test
Cliff is cunentlv president
of the Clo’efer Chapter and
is coi iesnonding secretary of
the county Red Rose FFA
Ctuptei He has seived as
senhnel of his school chm
tei ard ?s a delegate to the
coun f y FFA siorp lie is
pip-'pert of his chrr’ei’s
Pailiamen'aiy team which
placed thid m lecent coun
ty competition
This ]unioi class meirlbei
of Ephiata Hirh School is
not only capable in FF4.
leadership activities he Was
also been on the high school
honor 101 l since the 10th
gi ade
•His supervised farm pi ej
ects include dany a cow
and two heifeis. all regis-
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commendations, Hambright said his de
par tmeut suggested establishment ’of
pollution control and enforcement au
thorities at the local levels. He said
this has not been done.
“We’ll never succeed in complete
ly rolling back air pollution as condi
tions gat worse we’ll do well to hold
the line at reasonable levels,” Ham
bright said.
And conditions are going to get
a lot worse before they get better, ac
cording to the way it looks from here!
We have such sterling examples before
os in Los Angelos, and the New Jersey-
New York industrial complex Granted
it mav be a long time before our pro
blem reaches such pioportions hops
iuilv. never But when the experts talk
of the not-100-dislant day when the area
liom Boston to Washington will be one
g'ant citv megalopolis, thev call it
we belter isalize that we’re going to be
just upwind of that mess
The Line to start keeping pollution
under control is before it gets to be a
senous 'problem And that means right
now Let’s not make the mistake we
have seen made so many times before
neglecting responsibilities at the local
level, and then having a bunch of gener
al and often unneeded regulations
crammed down our throats from the
state and federal levels.
What Do YOU Think?
• Jay Greider
(Continued from Page I)
cemiber 1965, according to H
K Soudeis, manager
Souders told Lancaster
Farming that the committee
composed of Harry Metz,
John Melhorn, and Mark S.
Hess, which is studying the
possibilities of consolidating
the egg marketing programs
of various cooperatives, has
not as yet presented a plan
to the board of directois He
had no official comment on
when such a plan might be
foi'thlcomang. He did ieport,
however that the Exchange
was having its best year
teied Holrtems, two beef in June, Cliff will paiticipate
steers 11 Hairlpsten e sheep in the county workshop
including a ram and sev- vtuch \wLI be held in the
eral eves, and lamfbs which Fphiata aiea about June 9th
he giows for market and foi urdei the tutelage of Lewis
iep'lacememts, foui maiket Ayeis Ephrata vocational ag
hog's, bought as Bweek old ncultuie instructor. Boy's
feeders thiee acies of com, fiom all the county schools
one acie of tobacco which will get a chance to judge
was planted 2-3 weeks -ago loui c asses ol dauy and re
ard will he Iran.jp"anted new the masoning behind
r K out m rl Jure the placing's befoie they meet
In picoai.’lion lei dany (he tou r h con petition in the
<’g at the state contest mb in event at Penn State
To Reduce The Fly Problem
Waim, humid weather means that many omtth
insects including house and barn, flies will SMI
be hatching and causing their usual pioblems Around the
laim we suggest that a fly conti ol piogram stait with a
thorough clean-up It tly bleeding places are eliminated, the
population will be less Manure piles, box-stalls, and any place
with tilth and moistiue should be eliminated m order to pie
vent more lly icproduction Spray materials may be used to
supplement a good sanitation program
To Regard Stage of Maturity
Many forage ciops will (be
cut foi hay and silage in the
coming weeks For top qual
ity forage the correct stage
of maturity when cut is very
important Many mops are
permitted to get too mature
and too ripe before being
harvested Alfalfa is best in
the bud to early blossom
THIS BEEFY HEREFORD IS IN GOOD COM- fflloinm X
PANY with his owner Cliff Bollinger at the halter, jf ead S and small
and vo-ag teacher Charles Ackley of Ephrata High ains 3 eithei ’at flowering
School looking on This 1000-pound steer is one-half of time or in the dough stage.
Cliff’s beef project; the other is a steer calf that he Feed value is the highest °at
will use in the show ring later this year. L. F. Photo these times of maturity.
since 1959. He attributed this
to the addition of larger lay
ing-flock patrons, to market
ing success With the Ex
change’s exclusive chicken
roll, and to a general in
crease in efficiency of the
cooperative’s management
With the addition of Greid
er to the board of directors,
it is now up to its normal
complement of nine men.
Other dn e'ctors are. Harry P.
Metz (president); Mark S
Hess (vice president); H
Raymond Stoner (secretary);
Melvin R Stoltzifus (treasnr
ei), Lester Gehroan, John
Melhoni Lester Hershey, and
Joseph Kreider
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ON BALANCE, GOOD
Lesson for May 16, 1965
BarUground Scripture: I Sa~mol 16 1-13
21 a ad 5 i 12
Davoiional Reading: I Sanucl 16 7, 11-13
0 MAN on earth is absolutely
x ’ good, so good he can’t be bet
ter No man on earth is absolutely
bad, so bad he can’t be woise In
preelection campaign speeches, to
be sure, you might get the impres
sion that one candidate has all
the mi hies, the
'■'l'tj-A; other all the
£ 'ices Winch one
j>? depends which
gy’ 5 one >ou aie lis
ts! tcn,n ° to at *' le
fift moment 1 It is so
with men now,
Jpg no doubt it was
Sslsliais? stS alwavs so. It was
Dr. Foreman ceitamly hue of
David, second King of Isiael.
Many good things could be
truthfully said about him and
many bad things too. Going
rather beyond the “Background
Scripture” for the day, as the
reader is always welcome to do,
consider the remarkable recom
mendation David had (unasked)
from an anonymous young friend
of nis, some time before the
fight with Goliath. I Samuel
16.18) It is the kind of recom
mendation any young man would
be glad to have.
The good in the man
First of all, he is identified as
a son of Jesse of Bethlehem, only
a few miles away. This is not a
long-distance recommendation, it
is testimony about a neighbor.
Further it was true of David, no
doubt, as it usually is, that much
of the credit for his good traits
is owed to his ancestry. If Jesse
had been a shiftless character,
his name would hardly have been
mentioned as it was. David is
also a man of valor, a brave man.
We don’t need to be told this,
because we remember Goliath,
the hon and the bear; but the
young friend of David had not
heard about all this because it
hadn’t happened yet. But the
man was sure that David was
brave enough for all emergen
cies, and so it turned out. Fur
Now Is The Time . . .
To Step Using licptachlor and Dieldrin &
These tvm mateuals die not to be used ' s C:y'
on ary ciop toi anv leason m which food JT 'C }
oi feed is being pioduced at this time ol the l£- I ,
yeai when ten and tomatoes aie being *£, .
planted the saoject oi cutwoim and wne
woim comiol is presented, even though *
both hoptaehloi and dieldnn may have been
used in the past, and the label permits tncu jL," Jmi
use on soil insects, we stiongly lecommend
that local iaimeis lefrain from using eithei jSpp ffaPli
oi them this yeai Chloadane is a good sub-
ther, David Is said to 1)0 a well*
trained soldier at a time when
|soldiers were needed; and not
a silent strong man either, but
.“prudent in speech,” knowing
when to talk and when to keep
still (the young are not always
(thus!); and good looking besides,
!Two other facts; he Is “skillful in
playing the lyre;” music was his
hobby, and evidently ho worked
at it, otherwise it wouldn’t have
been said that he was skillful.
David was not the last man in
history to get slai ted on a career
through the gateway of a hobby.
Best of all was the last: “The
Lord is with him.” That speaks
volumes .... but how did the
young man know this?
Evil in the man
Not so often mentioned in Sun
day school arc some facts on the
other side of the scales. That
these facts wcie remcmboicd and
set down in the histoiical docu
ments of the Hebiew people
speaks well of their fiankncss
and honesty. It is a fact that
David had a number of wives
and concubines. By the time’ he
became king he was alieady the
husband of sik wives, and how
many concubines (wives from
a lower social level) he had,
the story does not say. Probably
no official figures were ever is
sued. He was a “man of blood,”
to use his own phrase. He be
came head of a gang of raiders
who would fall upon defenseless
villages and slaughter every liv
ing human being.
On balance
And yet David’s evil and good
have to he weighed against each
other. We have to judge him as
we should judge all men, on bal
ance. Now only God can finally
say what the balance is. And we
do have the testimony that he
was a man after God’s own heart.
This does not mean that God pre
tends that wicked deeds are not
wicked. It does not mean that
some people are God’s pets and
have any kind of special license
to sin. But it means, at least,
that God judges a man by the
general aim of his life, by his
underlying and foundation-traits.
A lifeboat in a high sea may point
this way and that as the storm
goes on; but if the man at the
helm keeps the boat headed into
the wind, he is steering well. So
David on balance steered
by the star of the grace of the
holy God,’
(Based on outlines copyrighted by the
Division of Christian Education. National
Council of the Churches of Christ in the
U. S. A. Released by Comr-unity Press
Service.)
To! Use Wl|th
Weed Sprays
TKs is an old thought .but
still geils many sipray opera
tors into tiouible From mow
until the end of the glow
ing season it is risky to use
any form of 2,40 weed tsipray
except the amine form;, am
'of the ester foam's will giu'
off ivapois that may drift to
another pioperty and do con
sidei able damage. We ms c
caution in using these ma
terials and in 'protecting the
lights and property of oth
ers. v- ,