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William Simon
John Pitzer, PFA
president also talked to the
group of some 240 farm men
and women attending the
group’s annual two-day
Congressional meeting.
Attending from Lancaster
County were Mr. and Mrs.
Carlton Groff, Kirkwood
RDI, Donald Hershey,
Manheim RD2, James Hess,
Quarryville RD2, Mr. and
Mrs. John Myer, Quarryville
RD2, Robert Wagner, Little
Britain. Mrs. Helen Wiwel,
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In his remarks, Pitzer
talked about the fuel
situation and said,
“Today in Pennsylvania
we have farmers who are
seeking fuel for plowing,”
Pitzer reported. “I don’t
know if there is a shortage of
fuel, or just poor
distribution. Regardless, the
farmer needs the assurance
that if he plants the
necessary crops to feed the
nation, he will be able to
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cultivate and harvest that
crop. “Quite frankly, we are
skeptical of the situation
right now.”
The Pennsylvania farm
leader said that if “the
fanners are unable to plant,
cultivate and harvest their
crops, the consumer will
face unheard of high food
prices.”
Pitzer said that any
national allocation program
is going to have major
problems. But, right now,
the system “leaves too much
room for ‘buck passing’.”
The farm organization
spokesman also called for
cutting government spen
ding to bring inflation under
control. Speaking directly to
the congressmen in the
audience he said: “You can
help bring the farmers’ costs
into line by taking decisive
steps in eliminating govern
ment-fed inflation. Let’s
forget the symptoms and
attack the real disease -
government spending.”
He said that control of food
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prices, rollbacks on gasoline
prices and other moves by
government to control the
economy have done nothing
but to treat the symptoms of
the real problem. “Don’t
attempt to tell we farmers
that high food prices cause
inflation. We don’t believe it
and soon the voting con
sumer is going to explain the
facts of life to all elected
officials.
“The consumer and the
farmer, who by the way is a
large consumer, is sick and
tired of inflation eating into
our incomes like a malignant
cancer. We can’t afford this
luxury anymore, and neither
can you!"
Thursday morning
William Erwin, assistant
secretary of agriculture for
rural development, spoke
to the group .at a
breakfast meeting, after
which the group returned
home.
“Pennsylvania, already a
leader in creating non-farm
jobs in rural areas, is on the
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threshold of a significant
expansion of such
development,” Erwin said.
Speaking before a break
fast meeting of Penn
sylvania Farmer
Association leaders in
Washington, Secretary
Erwin said, “Pennsylvania
is attached to the giant me
galopolis that runs from
Washington, D. C., to Boston..
It is close to the huge
markets provided by the
millions of people who live
nearby. This gives the State
an important comparative
advantage in terms of
energy conservation and
transportation efficiency.
“Now, is the time for
farmers and their rural
nonfarm and village neigh
bors to organize to use this
expected economic growth to
curb escalating local taxes
and to build the kind of a
community that will serve
the needs of their families
more fully.
City people are in
creasingly interested in
preserving good, nearby
farm land. ’Open space and
the enviromment are im
portant to them; but, when
they look at energy costs per
ton mile for food tran
sportation, they get even
more interested.
“The recent opening of
East-West Interstate High
way 80 triggered the
beginning of a major
developmental process in
northern Pennsylvania. You
have easy access to world
markets through the modem
port facilities in
Philadelphia. You have a
network of railroads, you
have raw materials and a
good work force. Business
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leaders know this. Already
anxious to move plants,
offices, and laboratories to
rural areas, many
businesses are already
taking advantage of these
conditions. Your challenge,
as responsible farmers, in a
system of self-determina
tion, is to organize to
guide this development so
as to best serve the interests
of the community and its
people,” Erwin continued.
Fanners, the official said,
may strengthen their hand
by joining nonfarm rural
neighbors in creating the
kind of a community they
want. That’s because non
farm rural residents, in the
Keystone State, out number
farmers nearly ten to one.
Farmers now make up
slightly over 2 percent of the
State’s population, while
nonfarm rural people make
up nearly 25 percent.
“Next to the family,”
Erwin said, “the community
wields more influence over
the kind of kids raised and
the sort of life rural families
enjoy than any other force.
And for that reason alone,
more and more farmers are
taking leadership roles in
community development
matters.
“Rural development is the
best way to bring needed
nonfarm job opportunities to
young people who deisre to
remain close to home and to
small farmers and to
members of farm families
who are able to take part
time or full-time, off-the
farm employment.
“And if farm youngsters
who select nonfarm
vocations eventually inherit,
as they generally do, then
share of the home-farm as
sets, it is better that that
wealth be inherited in the
local community than by
heirs in distant cities.”
Help is available to local
leaders who want to have a
bigger voice over growth of
their area, Erwin told the
farm leaders. Federal loans
are available to finance
needed water, sewer and
other developmental
facilities. Loans are also
available for local housing
and to stimulate business
development.
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