Pa. Ag. Dept. Develops
Rural Housing Program
Unemployment and the Hotel, Lcwiitown. who can perform some task,
decline in housing con- “For many years the lack and youth from low-income
struction will be the targets of Job opportunities and the families,
of a Rural Housing consequent outmigration "We want to employ older
Rehabilitation program to be from Pennsylvania’s far- people who have-skills in
launched by the Penn- ming communities have left carpentry, masonry and so
syivania Department of rural housing in a state of forth and have them work
Agriculture, it was an- decay. The current recession with and train younger
nounced last week by is nothing new to many rural people,” said McHale.
Secretary Jim McHale. communities, ’’said McHale. “Hopefully, these young
The department, with an “There’s a larger per- people will develop skills to
award of $375,000 in federal centage of substandard enter the private con
funds, will begin to recruit houses in rural areas than in struction job market.”
workers to renovate and the cities and, at least, we McHale said farm houses
rebuild rural houses in have now received some and homes in isolated rural
certain target areas in seed money to start turning communities will receive top
Mifflin, Juniata and Snyder the situation around." priority in the reconstruction
Counties Feb. 15. The project, McHale ex- program. A second priority
McHale said he has con- plained, will begin with will be delapidated homes in
tacted county com- surveys, interviews and cost communities of 5,000 to
missioners and other local estimates in various rural 10,000 people,
officials in the three counties target areas in the three McHale noted that as the
to attend a meeting on the counties. The project is pilot project moves ahead,
pilot project Jan. 14 at 3:30 designed to employ the an effort would be made to
p.m. at the Green Gables elderly, the handicapped secure additional funding
from HUD, the Farmers
Home Administration and
other agencies.
The one-year $375,000
grant for the pilot project
derives from an allocation
by the U.S. Department of
Labor Manpower Ad
ministration under the
Comprehensive Em
ployment and Training Act
of 1973.
Desides funding, the
secretary said the depart
ment would seek donations
of building materials from
local communities and
private businesses who
might be able to claim the
donations as tax writeoffs.
The meeting at Lewistown
is to inform local officials of
the scope of the program and
to enlist their aid in pin
pointing rural homes in
greatest need of
rehabilitation.
Cagway) farmers (Tagway)
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Phillips
Joins
John Phillips has joined
The First National Bank of
Strasburg as a Trust Officer
His responsibilities will in
clude personal trust ac
counts and corporate ac
counts.
Prior to joining the
Strasburg Bank, Phillips
was employed by New
Holland Farmers National
Bank as head of their Trust
Department. A graduate of
Lebanon Valley College, he
has over ten years ex
perience in the Trust area.
Phillips is a member of the
American Institute of
Banking and the Lancaster
County Estate Planning
Council. Active in civic af
fairs he is the 1974-75
President of the New
Holland Lions Club and
served as a commissioner of
the Boy Scouts of America.
Phillips and his wife Mary
reside in Leola.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Jan. 18,1975 —
Preservative Treated Hay
As Good As Heat Dried
Alfalfa and orchardgrass
hay and timothy low
moisturc silage were treated
with organic preservatives
in a 1973 Penn State study.
Hay made at 27 percent ■ 39
percent moisture was
treated and barn stored for
approximately 7 months.
Temperatures monitored
during the first 54 days of the
storage did not show ex
cessive heating of treated
hays. Following storage, hay
was sampled, and animal
acceptability was measured
using 56 mature, pregnant
ewes as test animals.
Similarly, animal ac
ceptability of treated, low
moisture timothy silage,
stored in small metal ex
perimental silos, was
measured using 42 mature
ewes. Results indicate that
applications of organic
preservatives (1 percent to
1.5 percent of wet forage
weight) to hay compares
favorably with heat drying,
both chemically and in terms
of animal performance.
FISHER SPRAY PAINTERS
(Henry K. Fisher)
SANDBLASTING and
SPRAY PAINTING
INTERIOR and EXTERIOR
Aerial Ladder Equipment
Office & Shop - 667 Hartman Station Rd.
Residence - 2322 Old Philadelphia Pike
Lancaster, Penna.
For FREE Estimates Call 717-393-6530
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REG. 5 11.49
$9- 19 to
354-4271
Results from the low
moisture silage test indicate
that an organic preservative
may have some feeding
advantage over non-treated
silage in that animals fed
treated silage ate more,
refused less, and gained
more weight than ewes fed
non-treated silage.
Grange News
Nearly thirty Grangers
went Christmas caroling
with the Fulton Grange 66 on
December 23rd. In a brief
business meeting, Master
Donald Trimble appointed a
committee to send a
telegram to President Ford
asking him to sign a bill
raising the support price of
milk.
A meeting was held on
January 13th with State
Tropper Edward Rowland
speaking on safety. The
Junior Grange met on
January 11th.
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