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STEAM WHISTLE BLOW
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GARDEN TRACTOR PULLING CONTEST
At the Association grounds Rte. 30, (13 miles East of
Lancaster) Kinzer, Pa. Open to the General Public.
Tractor pull classes for 800, 1000, and 1200 pounds
including driver. Weigh in begins at 12 Noon. Trophies
will be awarded to winners.
Chicken Bar-B-Q by Kinzer Fire Co. at the same
location.
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The Strategic Arms Limitation
Treaty signed by the President in
Moscow has raised many
questions
Have we made unwise con
cessions to the Soviet Union?
Have we placed our national
defense in danger? Have we
frozen ourselves into a position of
nuclear inferiority? Will this
agreement with the Russians
work when so many others have
failed 9 What advantages are
there in the treaty for us?
The answers to such questions
rest in an examination of the
document that was signed and
the reasons both sides had for
signing it. It is that kind of
examination that is taking place
m Congress presently.
It seems clear that both the
United States and the Soviet
Union had good reasons for
trying to limit the arms race
through a SALT agreement. In
overall terms, there is some
common ground in wishing to
stop stockpiling nuclear weapons
since each side already has
enough such weaponry to destroy
the other many times over. But in
more specific terms there are
some notable advantages for both
sides to do the negotiating now.
The advantage for the Soviets
is that they presently have more
rocket launchers than we do, and
their warheads are more
powerful. Therefore, they can see
some positive reasons for
freezing the numbers of missiles
each side can possess at a time
when they are ahead. And this
fact alone has caused a good deal
of concern in our country.
But the United States is not
without advantages in the
present situation. We have a
greater number of warheads and
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have a tremendous advantage in
accuracy and in advanced
technology. For instance, our
MIRV system permits us to put
several warheads on one missile
and send each of those warheads
toward a different target.
The SALT agreement in
freezing numbers of weapons
puts no limitation on upgrading
the quality of weapons.
Therefore,' the future develop
ment permitted by the treaty is
right down our alley. The Soviet’s
headlong rush toward numerical
superiority is slowed, and the
technological skill of the United
States is given free reign. In
other words, quality is sub
stituted for quantity, and that’s to
our advantage.
But we will maintain that
advantage only if we recognize
our need to maintain a clearly
superior military force. We can
all hope that the future will bring
further agreements that will
further reduce the level of
nuclear terror in the world. But
those hopes must not become
foolish dreams of peace through
weakness. It was strength that
gave us an opportunity to
negotiate SALT, and only
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strength will bring new treaties
with new hopes.
Continued military strength
means taking the SALT
agreement at face value and
using the advantages it gives us.
We must build the new weapons
systems permitted under the
treaty for instance, the B-l
bomber, the TRIDENT long
range missile system, and the
additional ABM site. To do
otherwise could easily mislead
the Soviets into thinking that we
can be lulled into a false sense of
security by some high-sounding
words.
SALT is not an iron-clad
guarantee of an era of good will
among enemies. It is, at best, a
first small step toward slowing
the arms race. But it demands
above all else that we keep our
guard up to assure that the other
side keeps its end of the bargain.
THE BEST WAY for hog
producers to improve litter size is
by doing a good job of feeding and
managing their sow herd and by
adopting a cross-breeding
program, not by selecting gilts
simply because they are out of
big litters. Litter size heritability
is so low that if a producer kept
gilts out of litters that were one
pig larger than his herd’s
average, and used boars out of
litters one pig larger than
average, litter size wouldn’t
increase by one pig even after
six generations of selection.