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IM DUtrUMUmuylvanto BHU
The federal agncultuie pro
gram is wasteful and unproduc
tive. It is a piogiam which 1
have ciiticizcd extensively since
coming to Comp ess In my opin
ion, it adds up to bad agncullui
al polie.v, ineffective use of tax
funds, and haidship foi our lo
cil farmcis.
The basic philosophy behind
the fedeial approach »o agncul
tine would seem to be fanning
by government suppoi t The pi o
g.am is made up of things like
subsidy payments and price sup
poits It discomages competition
ot agnciltuial pioducts in an
open ma ket which Pennsylvania
farmers favoi On the othei hand
it encouiagcs bigtime faimeis in
the Mid-West and South to seek
more and more ways of receiving
payments out of tax dollars even
to the point of getting cash for
not growing crops. As a lesult,
we are getting more and more
government on the farm and less
and less productivity from the
fatm
Something must be done to re
verse the handout approach to
agricultural policy I have sup
ported and continue to favor a
means toward that goal which
would simply limit the amount
any one farmer could leceive
fiom the federal cashbox For
starters, that limit might be set
at either $15,000 or $20,000 The
savings to the federal govern
ment would amount to about
$250 million if the $20,000 figure
was used, and S3OO million if the
$15,000 figure was used.
WE REGRET ERROR
Lancaster Farming regrets and
retracts the implication in last
week’s story oit the new Triple
G farm'dairy bain that milk is
purchased for resale State law
which allows a farmer to market
his Own milk requires that the
farmer produce the milk he sells
We jegret our mistake and
apologize for any misunderstand
ings which might have resulted
Kirks Mills’ Flying Farmers
Tommorow is the Hist day of
National Music Week and we
salute Mrs (Jessie) Ruth Wil
son, wife of Henry R Wilson,
better known as Harry This
family owns and operates a 480
dairy farm in the Kuks Mills
aiea, near the Chester County
border, m the southern end of
the county
Mrs Wilson, the daughtei of
a retired Methodist minister, the
Rev Milton F Hill in Mineral
Wells, Texas, had a talented
mother who taught piano, organ
and voice so she taught Ruth
voice and piano Ruth also took
voice at the Conservatoiy of
Kansas City and attended Texas
College of Aits and Industues
Mrs. Ruth Wilson likes to pilot their Cherokee Piper
plane.
Theie was some giaplnc evl
dence presented lecenllv which
showed wh\ all Pennsylvanians
and not just Pennsylvania faim
eis should he inteiested in sei mg
the faim progiam changed .md
pavmenl limitations enacted Thi
Fedeial piogiam now almost
tot. lly ignoies the Commonweal
th Last year over SCOP million
was spent paying individual fai
meis $15,000 01 moie in subsid
u s Out of that amount, Penn
svlvama icceived less than $400,-
000 oi less than one-tenth of one
per cent of the total Moie than
20 000 farmeis thioughout the
county icceived $15,000 oi mote
but only 12 Pennsylvania fami
ers vveie m that gioup
The 16th Congiessional Dis
tuct had no one on the list
which is ample proof of our
local fanners’ belief in self-suf
ficiency and a tubute to them
Given this evidence, it would
seem to me that Pennsylvanians
would have leason to question
federal agncultuial policy even
if it was plausible in all othei ie
spects But facts show that the
failure of the farm program to
deal equitably with Pennsylvan
ia may be among the least of its
shortcomings For example, the
migration off the faims in ic
cent yeais has been unpreced
ented and must be laid at least
partially at the doorstep of a
poor approach to agncultuie
Congiess soon will have an op
portunity to reform the faim
program I am going to be fav
oiing changes which would
mean less federal involvement
in agricultural. That is the kind
of approach which our Pennsyl
vania Dutch farmers have mdi
cated to me that they want
Howevei, aftei looking at the
way the Commonwealth gets
short-changed under present
policies, I would think that all
taxpayers in Pennsylvania also
would be clamoring foi some
big changes in our agncultuial
policy
at Kingsville This is where she
met hei husband when he was
stationed there in the Navy
Even though she has had a
lot of experience as a singer and
choir duector she not only is
learning by doing but is also
still taking voice lessons from
Fiedenck Robinson of Lancas
ter He is director of Lancastei
Opeia Workshop and he and his
wife weie the foundeis of it
Ruth giew up in Maifa in
western Texas and Pecos, cential
Texas As a girl she went with
hei fathei to a little town in
Mexico and played the piano foi
him w'hen he conducted a chin ch
seivice there She made hei
debut singing “Shoit’nm’ Bred”
On Migrant Farm
The state Industual Boaid
has moved lo upgrade icgula
lions peitaming to housing faci
lities that will be used bv some
7,000 nugiaiit faun woikeis e\
peeled this ycai in Pcnnsylvan
la
Boaid Chan man Cliffoid L
Jones Societaly of Laboi and
Industiy, said the amended
mles will affect about 350
camps located in 33 counties in
the Commonwealth
The newly amended icgula
tions, unanimously adopted by
the Board, will lequire the fol
lowing facilities in all living
quaiteis occupied by migiant
woikeis dining their stay with
in the Comomnwealth
Each habitable room, ex
cept for paititioned areas, must
have at least one window 01
skylight opening directly to the
out-of-doors The minimum to
tal window or skylight area, in
cluding windows in doors, must
equal 10 per cent ot usable
floor space
Not less than 50 squaie
feet of flooi space per occupant
must be piovided for sleeping
pin poses only
For sleeping pm poses m
a dormitory using double bunk
SECOND SECTION
between acts for a high school
play.
Also while m high school she
put on an horn’s progiam sing
ing first foi the women then for
the men inmates of the fedeial
puson at Foit Leavenworth,
Kansas Again “Shoit’nm’ Bied”
was among hei selections This
went over big at the puson be
cause of the words
One rule theie was that no
visitois weie pel nutted to talk
to" the inmates But even though
accompanied by the lady guard
in charge of the women, one of
the women pusoners started to
talk to hei This guard did not
stop the conversation and Ruth
couldn’t understand why until
later she told her that this wo
man had been there two yeais
and they could not get hei to
say one woid So now she had
gotten thiough to hei in song
which they were unable to do bj
any other means
“I’ve done a lot of singing
heie and theie ovei the jeais, ’
Mis Wilson ielates While in
college she was sopiano soloist
in “The Messiah” at Corpus
Chiisti, Texas She was part of
a guls ti 10 that sang a cappella
foi meetings and she says “I en
joved it so much ”
Mis Wilson has been dnect
ing the Little Butain Piesbytei
lan Chinch senioi chon, which
has 24 on the 1011, foi one and
a half yeais and the chapel
(junior) choir of 20 voices foi
one jear. The chapel choir in
Lancaster Farming. Saturday. May 2.1970
beds, not less than 40 squ’i
feet pei occupant
Foi combined cool.ni'-'
eating, and sleeping puipos
not less than 60 sqn.n e feel oi
llooi space pei occupant
Housing used foi i.nnili,'-
with one oi moie childien oc 1
six yeais of age must have a
100 m oi paititioned slecmng
aica foi patents
Sepal ate sleeping actomo
dations must be piovided lo*
each sex oi each fannlv
Adequate and sepaiate ai
langements foi hanging cloth
mg and stoung peisonal effects
At least one-half of the
flooi aiea in each living unit
must have a minimum ceiling
height of 7 feet.
From eveiy floor of build
mgs used for housing migrant
laboreis, proper and sufficient
wa>s of egress and means of
escape from fire and panic in
compliance with the Fire and
Panic Act must be provided,
and confoim to regulations de
fined in the State “Fire and
Panic” Act, administered by the
Department of Labor and In
dustry
Eveiy dwelling unit must
be provided with propeily in
stalled heating equipment of
Mr and Mrs. Wilson ready to take flight to Oxford Air
port from their Lancaster Co. dairy farm.
dudes childien of grades 2 band but hei mstiument isn’t
through 8 They aie then gradu- suitable for band
ated into the senioi chon
Pi ioi to this she dnected the colo. Coik\ the taimpet, Judy
Nottingham Piesbytenan Chui- dannet and bass claunet and
ch chon toi five yeais At times Rox;> the flute
she has written some music foi Mis Wilson savs band is good
hei chons tiaining as it gives them good
The five Wilson childien aie time which they wouldn’t get
caujing on the music tiadition otheiwise
with each one having had some Judy is also taking voice lea
tiammg on the piano and each sons fiom Fiedeuck Robinson,
has anothei instiumein These children lo\e music and
Dana plajs the lecoidei fluti find it no choie to practice
This is a sott-toned mstiument One loom in the Wilson home
which is nice in a stung ensem- might well be called the music
ble oi with anothei flute oi as room with all the instruments,
a solo instrument She is the including a Baldwin oigan with
onl> one that has not been in (Continued on Page 20)
Workers
adequate cap.uitv to m.nntni*
;i tempo .ilin c of .it least 68 dc
gices elm mu the pcnod of oc
cupancv
Adequate i eli isolation
facilities in good vvoikmg 01-
dei must be made a\ridable lo
families doine then own cook
mg and loi those solved bv the
cential kitchen
Floois. walls, ceilings,
tables and shelves of all
kitchens, dining 100 ms, refn
geiatois and food storage rooms
must be constiucted so that
they can alwajs be maintained
in a clean and samtaiy condi
tion
Wall openings of all din
ing rooms, kitchen and food
storage 100 ms must be piovld
ed with fly-screening which
must be maintained in good re
pair at all times during the
period the camp is used
An adequate supply of
cool, pure and wholesome water
with supply outlets located not
more than 100 feet from any
dwelling unit must be furnished
foi domestic and drinking pur
poses in all camps
One showei bath, with hot
and cold water will be required
for each fifteen occupants or
fractional part thereof of each
sex.
Jones said qualified and au
thorized inspectors of the De
partment’s Bureau of Industrial
and Occupational safety will ba
responsible for enforcing tha
new regulations
Additional or detailed infor*
mation regarding migrant labor
camps may be obtained by
writing to Executive Secret*#
to the Governor’s Committee on
Migratory Laboi, Laboi and In
dusti y Building, Hai nsburg,
17120
Bevei ly plays flute and puc-
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