IS—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 13. 1973
McHale Blasts
REAP Cutoff
Pennsylvania Agriculture
Secretary Jim McHale has called
for support from the State’s
Congressional delegation and
from every one of its fanners in
opposing the termination by the
Nixon administration of the
Rural Environmental Assistance
program.
REAP and another con
servation program, the $lO
million Water Bank Program
(WPB), were declared ter
minated as of Dec. 22.
McHale said in the past five
years 50 percent of the farmers in
Pennsylvania benefited from
REAP, under which the costs of
liming fields, digging drainage
ditches, and more recently,
building animal waste pollution
facilities were shared.
When REAP was launched in
1936, noted McHale, the guiding
philosophy was that it was for the
public good to invest in land
owned by the farmer. For every
dollar the public invested, it was
felt the farmer would invest more
in conservation with his labor.
“Now,” said McHale, “USDA
in announcing the death of these
programs has assumed that cost
sharing benefits are not an in
vestment for the public but mere
supplementary income for far
mers This is wrong.”
McHale said he had contacted
every Pennsylvania
Congressional delegate by
telegram urging support for
continuance of REAP and WPB.
He urged every Pennsylvania
farmer and farm organization to
join in the effort to save the
conservation programs.
In a letter of explanation to
USDA employees (Dec. 27), Butz
indicated that REAP and WPB
had been ended as part of the
administration’s fight against
inflation and that record income
would allow the nation’s farmers
to protect soil and water without
government help. REAP offers
landowners annual payments for
part of the cost of conservation
and pollution control; WPB
provides contracts for protection
of wetlands for migratory fowl.
Termination of the programs
said McHale was an insult to the
Congress, a contemptuous slap at
farmers who supported Butz and
Nixon and a stab in the back of
the conservation effort.
“Butz’s picture of an $lB billion
total farm income has been
challenged by his own economist
- Donald Paarlberg, USDA’s
director of agricultural
economics who now says farm
income has been overestimated
by $1 billion,” McHale recounted.
Manor Chapter Initiates Greenhands
Recently accepted in the Manor FFA Chapter as
Greenhands were: Kneeling, left to right, Tim Miller, Bob
Burkholder, Bill Walton, Bob Rohrer, Dave Harnish, Ron
Hunt, Greg Delp, Joe Metzler, Steven Funk, Ralph Huber,
Scott Reed; standing, Bill Hess, Jeff Funk, Chris McCarty,
Jeff McMullen, Frank Nadu, Doug Reixinger, Jerre Phillips,
Carroll Herr, John Sabatine, Harold Nace, Larry Lawrence,
Bob Frey, and Carl Thomas. Absent is Lewis Gonzalas.
Silver Spurs Meet
The Silver Spurs 4-H Horse and
Pony Club held its January
meeting at the home of Randy
and Jim Click. The meeting was
called to order by the president,
Randy Click.
Dues and roll were taken by the
junior treasurer, Jim Click.
Secretary Richard Rehm read
the minutes They were approved
as read. Fifteen members, 13
visitors and seven leaders and
adults were present.
Discusses under new business
was a sledding and ice skating
party to be held at Circle T
Ranch. It was decided to go to a
roller skating party at Overlook
Skating Rink on January 25,
“Further, parity percentage - the
ratio of what a farmer pays to
what he receives - stands in the
low 70’s, a level unmatched since
the depression,” McHale con
cluded.
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The Buck
sponsored by the 4-H County
Council. A film was shown.
The next meeting will be held
at Beth Robbins’ at 7:30 p.m.
February 2.
Cherri Gochnauer,
Patti Nauman,
Club Reporters
4-H Honey Winners
Four 4-H members shared first
places in honey judging com
petition at the 57th Farm Show.
Rankin Montgomery, Franklin,
RD2, Venango County, was
winner in the white extracted
class. Donna Hefferman,
Franklin, RD3, won first place
with her exhibit of extra light
'extracted honey.
Mark Bucks, Robesonia,
Lebanon County, showed the top
exhibit of light amber extracted
honey, and Matthew L. Miller,
Dover, RD3, York Countv, was
winner in the extracted class.
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Twenty-five ninth grade boys
were recently initiated as
Greenhands in the Manor FFA
Chapter.
The Greenhands had to wear a
green hand during the school day,
had to have all the signatures of
the FFA officers on their hand,
had to wear their shirts back
wards until noon, then had to roll
their pants legs between the
ankles and knees for the rest of
the day.
Greg Landis, Chapter
president, called the evening
meeting to order. Each
Greenhand was brought to
president Landis, who asked each
Greenhand some questions on the
material that the Greenhands
were required to know, including
the colors of the FFA, the FFA
motto, the five symbols on the
FFA emblem, and the FFA
creed.
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