16—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 22, 1973 Anyone trying to buy or trying to sell a home today is finding the market very difficult The dif ficulties stem from the lack of mortgage money available. Over the recent congressional recess, I had an opportunity to talk to a number of constituents with an interest in this problem. These discussions left me with the impression there are two solutions that must be pushed along - one short-term and one long-range The short-term solution depends on the willingness of local lending institutions to cooperate with realtors m making money available to people who want to buy homes. This would mean some sacrifice on the part of these banks and savings and loans, and ultimately sacrifices for their investors, be cause there is more money to be made these days in lending markets other than the home mortgage market But home mortgages are the economic life-blood of a com munity. Short-term sacrifices now - and that means lending money at a very substantial interest rate of 8 percent and up - means more good customers and investors for the banks and savings and loans in the future. No one puts more of a premium on the financial stability that comes from property ownership than those of us in the Penn sylvania Dutch country. 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The other thing that can be done at the Federal level is to cease unfair government com petition for investment dollars. Interest paid on various govern ment certificates has gotten so high that investors are putting their money into government hands rather than into private firms. Without the investment dollars, private institutions are left with less money to put out in home mortgages. Therefore, if we in the Federal Government are really concerned about making it possible once again for the average wage-earner to buy a home - and the situation is serious enough that everybody _ _ - 1 ry -| The standards and procedures rVI O « AT fl orl are being adopted substantially 11CW kjCCtl as proposed, and are scheduled to appear in the Federal Register Procedures Adopted fromtheD°re C torG^inDivision JL AMS, U. S. Department of The U S. Department of r Agriculture, 6525 Belcrest Road, Agriculture (USDA) announced Hyattsville, Md. 20782. the adoption of standards and procedures to be followed by certifying agencies to help assure the genetic purity and identity of certified seed under the Federal Seed Act. They become effective November 1. USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) said the new standards and procedures establish a uniform system to be followed by state seed certifying agencies in the production, handling, and labeling of all classes of certified seed so that it may be represented as certified seed when shipped in interstate commerce. The amendments define cer tain terms relating to certified seed; set eligibillity requirements and procedures for the production, handling and labeling of certified seed; prescribe minimum standards for land, for isolation to prevent cross-pollination, and for genetic purity; provide for interagency certification; and require that certain records be kept to establish the history and identity of each lot of seed certified. The proposed standards and , had better be concerned - we can at least see to it that the places who lend money for homes are able to get the investments they need to make those loans. 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