— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 20, 1972
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Farmers Union Members Meet with
Legislators on Red Meat Inspection
Custom farm butchers and
operators of small slaughter
houses have been given hope that
the inspection of red meat in
Pennsylvania will continue un
der state jurisdiction rather than
be turned over to federal
authorities on July 1.
A Pennsylvania Farmers
Union group visiting the state
capitol Wednesday was assured
by legislative leaders of the
House of Representatives that
efforts would be made to restore
funds to the state budget enabling
Benefit Auction
There will be an auction sale to
benefit children at the Mennonite
Children’s Home on the Home
premises, Millersville, at 10:30
a.m Saturday, May 27.
Among items to be sold will be
items from the Children’s Home,
including ice cream parlor
chairs, old school desks, and
antique items.
Saleable items will be accepted
up to the day of the sale. Larger
items may be brought after May
22 up to day of sale Abe Dif
fenbach will serve as auctioneer
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State Department of Agriculture
officials to continue their in
spection program.
Meeting with the group were
Representative Martin Mullen
(Philadelphia), chairman of the
House Appropriations Committee
and Bradv Ketrick (Mifflin
County) chairman of the House
Committee on Agriculture and
Dairy Industries. Also present
were Republican Kent
Shelhamer (Columbia County),
Republican Frank Kury (Nor
thumberland County) and
Republican Percy Foor (Bedford
County).
Farmes and butchers serving
local markets became alarmed
about the inspection program
when they learned that Governor
Milton J. Shapp had eliminated
funds for the service from his
budget request for the coming
year. The Governor’s office said
the decision to turn inspection
over to federal authorities was
made in an effort to save money.
The 20-man Farmers Union
delegation disagreed with the
Governor’s contention by poin
ting out that taxpayers would
pick up the cost of inspection at
the federal level also. In addition,
they expressed concern that
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federal inspectors would fail to
use reasonable judgment in
enforcing the stringent
regulations, and that it would
result in the shutdown of most
small slaughterhouses. Farmers
and consumers alike would be the
losers, they maintained.
Northumberland County beef
Loaded Guns
An amendment to the Penn
sylvania Game Law now
prohibits the possession of a
loaded firearm in a vehicle.
Previously, the Game Law
prohibited having a loaded rifle
or shotgun in a vehicle on or
along a public highway, but the
new amendment is much more
inclusive and, ineffect, bans
loaded firearms of any
description from all vehicles
anywhere in the commonwealth,
with few exceptions.
Under the amendment, a
“firearm” is defined as an in
strument used in the propulsion
of shot, shell, bullet or any other
object by the action of gun
powder exploded, explosive
powder or he expansion of gas
therein.
The term “firearm” will in
clude all rifles, shotguns,
revolvers, pistols, gas-powered
and pneumatic pellet guns, B-B
guns (except spring operated),
etc.
A firearm is defined as being
“loaded” if there is a cartridge or
shell or projectile of any
description in either the firing
chamber or the magazine of the
gun.
Some hunters remove the
cartridge or shell from the firing
chamber but leave one or more
cartridge (s) or shell (s) in the
magazine, thinking that the gun
is “unloaded.” This is not the
case All shells or cartridges
must be removed from the firing
chamber and the magazine
before the gun is legally
“unloaded ”
A loaded firearm may not be m
or on any vehicle or conveyance
(including a snowmobile) or its
attachments while standing, or
being driven, within the com
monwealth.
A sportsman who has a permit
issued by a county treasurer for
the purpose of carrying a han-
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farmer Allen Deiter, who led the
delegation, noted that local
auction bams would also be
forced out of business since they
are dependent up on the small
butcher. As a result, he said, the
disappearance of the local
auction would result in lower
farm prices since farmers would
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be at the mercy of a few lanp*.
meat packers. Consumers could
expect to pay more, he said,
because of the same lack of
competition.
Wednesday’s course of action
grew out of a series of local
Farmers Union meetings across
Pennsylvania in recent weeks in
which farmers were encouraged
to identify their problems and do
something about them. Guy Oak
man of McConnellsburg,
organization chairman of Penn
sylvania Farmers Union, and
Forney Longenecker of Lititz,
director of organization, have
been coordinating- the events.
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