6 -Lancaster Farming.
March 30.1968
A View From The
Governor's Office
BY GOVERNOR
RAYMOND P. SHAFER
“On a Clear Day. you can
500 forever" or so Madison
Av cnue's advertising geniuses
would have you believe.
But not. editorializes one of
Pennsylvania’s leading daily
newspapers (Philadelphia Bul
letin) when you're trying to
“(jeer into the state’s fiscal fu
ture from the Governor's murky
window in Harrisburg ’’
And that is precisely why. in
nv State of the Commonwealth
message to the General Assem
ble on January 2, 1968. I pro
posed something never under
taken in any other state m the
U.uon:
—An action program leading
to establishment of a five-year
State budgetary system which
could result in an end to gov
ernment from fiscal crisis to
fiscal crisis, year in and year
our
Today, with organization of
our new Priorities Commission,
Pennsylvania has taken the first
long step towards ending the
piactice of handing out your
money on a crash basis without
a clear, long-range plan to bal
ance our aspirations with reali
ties
For the first time anywhere,
we have begun to face up to the
SPECIAL HORSE SALE
MON. EVE., APRIL Ist AT 6 P.M.
At MARTIN’S SALE STABLES
Blue Ball, Pa., Lancaster County
Load of lowa horses consisting of Palomino, Appaloosa
and good solid color horses. This is a good mixed load.
Also 2 loads of standard-bred horses. Several ponies.
Tack at 6 p.m. Horses at 7 p.m. Horses hitched at 2:00
p.m.
PAUL Z. MARTIN
PH. (717) 354-6671
Gfimp Commission Releases 20,970
spring liberations.
Britt said that the 20,970
birds released this month in
clude 12,200 hens and 8,770
cockbirds. This is about the
same number of pheasants re
leased last spring.
Large-scale spring liberations
in areas with adequate winter
carryover of breeding stock or
in marginal range have been
de-emphasized in favor of large
releases of cockbirds prior to
and during the open season.
Birds released this month have
been liberated mainly in secon
need to determine, rationally
and realistically, what it is we
want to accomplish and what
it is we can reasonably accom
plish.
Simply stated, the problem is
this: Demands for State services
from citizens in teachers’ sal
aries, other educational pro
grams, health, welfare, conser
vation, transportation, economic
development and the like are
far outstripping our financial
ability to meet them.
The time has come when the
financial structure of our Com
monwealth has reached its elas
tic limits. We must now dis
tinguish between that which may
be desirable and that which is
essential, and strike a balance
that can be achieved only if we
clearly rank the needs and pro-
dary pheasant range.
Nearly 21,000 rlngneck-phea
sants have been released in.the
state this month under the
Pennsylvania Game Commis
sion’s spring stocking program,
according to Ralph E. Britt,
Chief of the Division of Pro
pagation.
The pheasant stocking pro
gram has undergone changes in
the past several years In an ef
fort to provide greater recrea
tional opportunities and returns
for sportsmen during the hunt
ing season. Pre-hunting season
grams to support them in order
of importance to all our citizens.
To that end. an outstanding
group of Pennsylvania citizens
already has begun a task no
other similar group has ever
been asked to do anywhere in
the Nation: to provide both this
Administration and the General
Assembly with a meaningful list
of program priorities based on
an understanding of all the
needs of our people
All are outstanding and con
cerned citizens who represent al
most every field of human en
deavor business, labor, gov
ernment, law, medicine, science,
human services, education, our
cities and farms. All represent
expertise in their own fields, as
well as understanding of the
problems and needs in other
fields.
It is our great hope that, by
working together, they will soon
become a single voice speaking
for the well-being of Pennsyl
vania If they do, they will have
brought about a basic and clear
program of putting first things
first something never before
accomplished in government
Only then will we be able to
plan intelligently for the fiscal
future. Only then will we be
able to set up a program of pri
orities, put a price tag on each
and yank government from
its annual state offiscal crisis.
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and in-season stocking with
higher returns to the hunter
arc being emphasized to avoid
low yield and poor return from
The current slocking pro
gram came about as the result
of studies conducted under the
direction of Game Commission
Research Division Chief Harvey
A. Roberts. The studies showed
that widely-distributed, large
scale spring releases put little
in the game bags of hunters who
finance the program. On the
other hand, hunter recovery of
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Pheasants
cockbirds released in October
and November exceeds fifty
percent in many areas.
Experience has shown that it
is futile to release game farm
breeding stock in areas that do
not normally support pheasants,
according to Roberts. It would
be equally unsound to release
breeding stock in primary
range which has an adequate
winter carryover of birds.
Hence, the emphasis on secon
dary range for liberation of
pheasants this month.
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