—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 3,1968
6
PFA Takes
Strong Stand
At Hearings
Hanisburg Stiong opposi
tion against the Governor’s Milk
Mnketing Law pxoposal (HB
2034) was voiced here today by
fhe lepiesentatives of the Penn
sy.vama Faimeis’ Association
(PFA) at a heaung before the
House Committee on Agncul
tu>e and Daily Industues
The pi opo sed legislation,
which would replace the present
Milk Control Law, was termed
"a stab in the daik to make
change for change sake” by one
of the PFA spokesmen
Hearings weie being conduct
ed today on the controversial
proposal which if enacted would
eh inmate the piesent Milk Con
trol Commission, and would
give poweis of milk control to
tire Secretary of Agriculture
Under the current program, the
Commission has the total pow
er to establish prices at the dif
fe ent levels of the milk indus
try
PFA spokesmen were quick
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Elverson
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L. T. Geib Estate
Manheim
I. B. Graybill & Son
Refton Strasburg
E. M. Heisey
Mt. Joy
Heistand Bros.
Elizabethtown
A. L. Herr & Bro.
Quarryville
to point out that most of the
important changes proposed by
the Governor could be included
in the present law, either by
amendment, or change in ad
ministrative practices
The general farmer organiza
tion agreed with five provisions
of the Governor’s proposal, op
posed ten of them and took no
stand on two others.
It supports provisions raising
the bond required of a milk
dealer, adopting a uniform sys
tem of dealer accounting, re
ducing the number of milk mar
keting areas; urging more fac
tors be utilized in considering
producer puces, and establish
ing only minimum resale milk
prices
“All changes supported or
sought by PFA could be incor
porated in most of the present
law,” the farm organization as
serts “Foi that matter, most of
the proposed changes in H B
2064 could be done under the
present Milk Control Law ”
PFA, representing more than
12,600 farmer members, stated
that it could not support a new
law that would
(1) Require a test in court for
its constitutionality, because the
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Ammon E. Shelly
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present Milk Control Law has
already been declared legal by
court action,
(2) Place hearing examiners
over price hearings compared
to the present system of having
one or more of the Milk Com
mission members presiding,
(3) Place the powers of milk
pricing in an executive agency
of government instead of a leg
islative agency;
(4) Create a nine-member Ad
visory Board of wide diversity
with little or- no powers,
(5) Lack of provisions for ex
emption from licensing of fann
ers who sell milk produced on
their farms,
(6) Raise the license fee for
dealers to one cent per hundied
weight;
(7) Permit establishment of
maximum resale puces,
(8) Use the least cost figures
of most efficient dealers as be
mg representative of the nidus
try and dealer operabons;
(9) Permit competitive bid
ding, and
(10) Repeal the present Milk
Conti ol Law
“PFA does not condone the
method in which HB 2064 was
developed There has been a
need for some selective chang
es,” testified the PFA represen
tative. “But we are concerned
about the method in which H
B 2064 was developed and re
ferred to the attention of this
committee.”
“First, there were several de
lays in delivering the “Milk
Message”. Second, those active
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