22—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, February 7.1970
Grange Opposes
Increased Motor
Vehicle Fees
The Pennsylvania State Giange
today lenewed its opposition to
Senate bill 1198 for incieasing
motoi vehicle registiation fees,
branding the pioposal ‘ unfair to
motoiists and many small truck
owneis ” The bill has passed the
Senate and is expected to see
House action next week in the
State Legislature
A Wayne Readinger, state
master, said the bill conflicts
V/ith established Grange policy
He called for its rejection unless
it is substantially amended
The Grange, Readinger stated,
takes the position that if added
taxes aie necessaiy for replen
ishing the Motor License Fund
■they should derive largely fiom
a basis of load use through m
cieased fuel (gasoline and diesel
oil) levies
“Some inciease in auto regis
tration fees may be justified,”
he said, “but sui ely a more equit
able solution than piovided in
Sll9B can be devised ”
This bill, he chaiged, “puts the
majoi buiden of costs on the
passenger car owners whose re
gistiation fees would be doubled.
Tiuck fees would be increased,
but a share of
the inciease would be assessed
against the small tiuck owneis,
including mei chants, tiadesmen,
fai meis and others ”
These aie the people, he add
ed who can least affoid to pay
highei fees foi their auto and
ti uck tags
“By conti ast,” Readingei point
ed out, “the bill would ieduce
legistiation fees for laige semi
tiaileis fiom $125 00 to $25 00
The laigest tiactoi tiailei would
pay only 15 peicent moie Some
of the othei monster vehicles
that contiibute impoitantly to
the cost of building and maintain
ing highways would get off with
an even lowei peicentage of m
ci ease
‘This is not to minimize the
ihe Old ivm&t
n wit
“Anjbody who thinks a
word to the wi-e is sufficient
isn't doing the talking.”
icle of the commeicial truck in
cur present economy, but rather
to suggest that a more icalistic
and fairer spiead be found in
the responsibility for raising add
ed highway revenue ”
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Fall Spraying
Gives Better
Chickweed Control
Dr. Parochetti will continue
Pall apiJUcat.on of herbicide h experiments to discover the
controlled chickweed m alfalfa * ,
fields better than spring apphea- effects of repeated herbicide
tions in three University of Mary- applications on the same plots
land experiments during 1969. for several years.
Dr. James Parochetti reported
the findings of the three-year
experiments at the Northeast
Weed Control Confeience in the
Commodoie Hotel here this
week.
Dr. Parochetti used a total of
10 herbicides at the three loca
tions. He found that some of the
chemicals injured the alfalfa
plants, but none of the treat
ments affected the total alfalfa
grass yields, only one chemical,
terbacil (Sinbai), completely
eliminated the orchard grass in
the forage mixture, but did not
i educe the total forage yield
The chemicals were applied
both as sprays and impregnated
on fertilizer The herbicides test
ed include simazme (Pnncep),
dun on (Karmex), chloroproph
?m (Chlor-IPC), dmoseb (Pre
merge), dichlobeml (Casoran),
atrazine (AAtrex), RH3IS
(Kreb) and G 514254
In general, Dr Parochetti says,
fall application of most herbicid
es tested gave excellent chick
weed control with the excep
tion of dmoseb and dichlobeml
In 1969 late winter applications
of the lower late of sprayed and
f ertilizer-impi egnated simazme
and G 514254 weie superior to
the same rate of diuron Diuron
and chlorlpropham applied m
Shotzberger's
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the fall in impregnated fertilizer
gave excellent chickweed con
trol.