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Mr. and Mrs. Eugene S. Eberly are shown after Eberly was
named Outstanding Young Farmer by the Garden Spot
Young Farmers at their annual banquet, Friday night in the
Blue Ball Fire Hall.
Young Farmer
Groups Meet
Two Young Farmer
associations held their annual
banquets last week, and both
were well attended.
Garden Spot Young Farmers
met Friday night at the Blue Ball
Fire Hall. Officers for the coming
year were swom in during the
meeting. Walter C. Martin is the
new president. Other new officers
are: Earl S. Weaver, vice
president; J. Kenneth Hershey,
secretary; Norman Hershey,
treasurer, and Harold Wissler,
public relations director.
Reber Slated for
Extension Speech
Dr. Norman F. Reber, editor of
“Pennsylvania Farmer’’
Magazine, will be the guest
speaker for the annual meeting of
the Lancaster County
Agricultural and Home
Members-at-iarge are John E.
Campbell, Dale Herr and Larry
Weaver.
William Fisher was toast
master for the evening’s
festivities. A film depicting
Young Farmer activities across
the country was well received,
partly because one segment
starred the Ivan Yost family
from Christiana.
Eugene S. Eberly, New Holland
R 2, was presented a trophy for
being named the chapter’s
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Economics Extension
Association. The meeting will be
held Wednesday, February 14,
beginning at 6 30 p.m
Dr Reber will talk about public
relations for agriculture. Reber
is a York County farmer, a
graduate of Elizabethtown
College, and has been with
“Pennsylvania Farmer” since
1946 Over the years, he has been
honored time and again by many
of the farm organizations in the
Commonwealth.
Other speakers during the
meeting will be Miss Ellen
Garber and Mr. Marion R.
Deppen, extension ad
ministrators from Penn State, as
well as members of the local
extension staff.
Entertainment will come from
the recent 4-H Talent Show and a
brief business meeting including
the election of new directors will
be held.
Advance reservations will be
needed for the evening meal.
Tickets can be ordered from a
member of the Extension Board
of Directors or from the local
Extension Office. Ticket pur
chase deadline is noon on Mon
day, February 12.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 10, 1973
No Dealer Testimony
Milk dealers here and across
the state have accused the Shapp
administration of playing politics
with the Commonwealth’s milk
consumers and dairy farmers
The charge came about as a
result of a two-day “informal”
hearing in Harrisburg this week
into prices paid to farmers
William J Deisley, president of
the Lancaster County Milk
Dealers Association, said that
dealers aren’t opposed to higher
prices for farmers “But dealers
lust can’t absorb all the increase.
It has to be passed on to con
sumers,” Deisley said. “The
administration wants to be a hero
to consumers, and it wants to be a
hero to dairy farmers. The only
way it can be a hero is to make
dealers pay the increase.”
The Harrisburg hearing began
on Tuesday morning at the
Forum. Originally planned for a
small auditorium in the state
Farm Calendar
Saturday, February 10
10 a.m. - Pa. Yorkshire Club
Show, Farm Show Building
1 p.m. - Pa. Yorkshire Club Sale,
Farm Show Building
Monday, February 12
Fulton Grange meeting, Oakryn.
Manheim Young Farmers
Machinery Reconditioning
Workshop, afternoons Feb. 12-
16, Vo-Ag Shop, high school.
7:45 p.m. - Chester County Soils
meeting, “Developing and
Understanding Farm Field
Maps”, Vo-Ag room, Owen J
Roberts High School
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I here were very few smiles on the faces
of Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board
Members during the "limited" hearing this
week in Harrisburg. Chairman Harry
PMMB Holds
Price Heariim
agriculture building, the hearing
was moved to the Forum in an
ticipation of a large audience
Producers dealers, cooperative
representatives and lawyers
from around the state came to the
meeting
Tuesday’s morning’s
proceedings were marked by
legal arguments m which dealer
representatives charged that the
Pennsyvama Milk Marketing
Board had no right to summon a
hearing to accept testimony only
from one segment of the dairy
industry
Soon after the meeting started,
Properly Tax Bill
Expected to Obtain
Approval of Senate
The Pennsylvania Senate is
expected to pass on Monday a bill
that could open the way for
lowered taxes for Pennsylvania
farmers. The measure has
already been approved by the
State House The bill, HB 3, calls
for a voter referendum on a
constitutional amendment to
allow land taxation on the basis of
use rather tlian speculative
value. If passed by the Senate,
the issue will be placed on the
primary ballot in May
In 1971, both the House and
Senate passed a bill like the one
now before the Senate To be
Xi*nca«ter Fanning' Photo
u . . .
Kapleau. center is shown reading a
T» m” u ™ mb “ N, " a Cowell is
to the left, J.Lm Huber on the far right
$2.00 Per Year
board member J Lin Huber read
a statement in which he noted his
oppositon to the limited hearing
call issued by board chairman
Harrv Kapleau on February 1
In his statement Huber said
that the board should not hold
hearings to increase prices
w ithout listening to the testimony
of all parties and that reasonable
time must be given all parties to
prepare for such a hearing He
also said that he felt the board
should hold a statewide hearing
to consider price increases in the
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placed on the ballot, however,
constitutional amendments must
pass both houses twice.
Farmers are expected to be the
big winners in any property tax
readjustment, which means that
just about everybody else loses,
at least economically. Some
observers feel that suburban and
even urban residents and
businesses may be willing to
absorb slightly higher property
taxes if in doing so they preserve
some of the state’s rapidly
dwindling open space
If the voters approve the
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