—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 28,1969
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Alcoholocaust
Almost 100,000 pedestrians were killed or injured at
intersections in 1968.
State Grange
Denounces Bill
The Pennsylvania State
Grange recently denounced
House bill 469, now on third
reading in that body, and called
for its defeat. The bill would
give the State Department of
Highways power to condemn
land in fee simple absolute up
to six years in advance of actual
need.
A. Wayne Readinger, state
master of the Grange, charged
this “could cause unwarranted
harm to hundred of land owners
throughout the commonwealth,
especially farmers and others in
rural areas.”
Many farmers, he said,
“would be forced out of busi
ness, They would have to re
locate perhaps in strange com
munities or seek other employ
ment, and possibly at great so
cial and economic sacrifice. To
them that could amount to ma
jor distress.”
Readinger added that “if this
bill should pass and become law
it would destroy one of the fun
damental rights of an American
citizen the right to hold his
piopeity against seizure by the
state until public need for that
property has been proven.
“The bill would set up the
Secretary of Highways in the
real estate business on an un
limited scale Property owners
would be at his mercy Agricul
ture would suffer as would
whole communities along with
uprooted farm families.”
Although admitting a need
for additional land for new high
ways, Readinger piotested paiti
culaily against provisions in the
bill for “giving unlimited au
thoiity to the Secretaiy of High
ways for wholesale acquisition
of land in fee simple, and befoie
need for the land had been
demonstrated, if ever.”
In case land so seized but not
used for highways were to be
re-sold by the Highway Depart
ment pnor owners would have
first chance to buy it back at
the price they were paid for it.
This provision, Readinger said,
“could be attractive in some in
stances, but, generally, disrupt
ed farm families who had re
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located, meanwhile, would ex
perience only added distress in
making a second relocation.”
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r\t R»nwn C„. n |„e Placements Up 11%
Uf Drown tgg Surplus Placements of broiler chicks In
“New England is rapidly be
coming a surplus producing
area," warned Frank Reed, Poul
try Economist, University of
Maine. “This is complicated still
further by the fact that New
England produces brown eggs
that are not readily accepted in
other areas," Reed added.
A recent issue of the New Eng
land Marketing Association news
letter further reported careful
long range planning to avoid ex
tended periods of over-produc
tion, possibly coupled with flock
size control with an early slaught
er option, similar to that em
ployed by Western Egg Company
in Northern California.
Ray Delano, manager of NEE
MA, devoted a portion of his
newsletter to a summary pub
lished in the Boston Herald by
“Red" Curtin, the Boston Mar
ket Reporter.
“While local supply and de
mand factors were still some
what out of balance, the over
supply was not as seiious as
several weeks ago. The industiy’s
intelligent approach in divesting
sizable lots of eggs into breaking
channels (after Easter) to avoid
jeapordizmg the whole price
structure, was of considerable
influence In the less cooperative
days the attitude was generally
“let the other guy make the sac
rifice.” The awareness of pro
ducers that they have a collective
responsibility to control supplies
in the bounds of a healthy de
mand, and are actually doing
something about it, is an innova
tion that the industry has never
experienced and bodes well in
the Commonwealth during the
week ending June 21 was 1,028,-
000. The placements were 11%
the overall picture. The princi
ples of rugged individualism
have been costly."
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formation of the United Egg
Producers. They not only preach
industry responsibility and re
straint but, according to the ob
servations of the Boston report
er, practice it as well.
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above the same week a year
earlier and 11% above the prev
ious week. Average placements
during the past 10 weeks were
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867,000—9% above the previous
week and 19% above the com
parable period a year earlier.
The current 3-week total of eggs
set is 11% above the same per
iod a year ago. Inshipments of
broiler-type chicks during the
past 10 weens averaged 42,000 —
twice the comparable period a
year ago. Outshipments averaged
328,000 during the past 10 weeks,
21% higher than a year earlier.
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