Heilman Moving . (Continued from Pan 1| throughout the county although his words have not always been heeded in matters dealing with county parklaiids, farmlands, and on a more local level, ex pansion of Lititz' sewer treatment plant and Fully mounted MF345 plow enters fast, plows deep... with clearance to spare. • Roll troublesome trash under fast with 30" vertical clearance, 28" fore-and-aft clearance • Long-life, heavy duty high carbon steel frame • Quick, positive penetration —up to 14" depth • Get clean, uniform furrows with 3, 4 or 5 bottoms—l 6" width • Choose hydraulic reset, spring-trip or shear-bolt safety beams • Cat II 3-pomt hitch with or w/o Rapid Coupler • Hydraulic or crank width adjuster ¥T# I" J I Hitch up to Massey. WE LL TAILOR MF FINANCING TO YOUR SPECIFIC NEEDS uH ci ipircp HEITZMAN o’ c%c S' EQUIPMENT, INC. & ouno inu. Rts 100&401 Glenmoore Pa Phone 458 5777 or 458 8525 Maxatawny Phone |2ls| 683 7252 S. G. LEWIS AND SON West Grove, Pa (215) 869 9440 869 2214 development of what is believed to be Lititz’ watershed area. Heilman and his wife have already started building plans for a Joint studio in Buena Vista, which is about 80 miles west of Colorado Springs, and for a new LEBANON VALLEY M. IMPLEMENT CO. 700 E Linden St Richland Pa Phone. 866 2544 mountain home about five miles west of the town. “Our back yard will be a 14,000 foot mountain,” he said. In Colorado, he will be within a day's drive of the major farmlands of the nation, where he has been doing most of his photography work for a number of years now. He will be “on location" most of the time, but instead of spending days and weeks getting there, driving over congested highways he has come to hate, it will be more like a day’s drive through the mountains and prairies that he loves. “Just one small example,” he smiled on a recent drive he made from Buena Vista to Colorado Springs, “which is like going from Lancaster to Philadelphia,” he passed only 10 cars in 50 minutes. What Heilman calls the creeping metropolism of Lancaster County is the fact that, bit by bit, the county’s farmland is being eaten up by industrial and residential development. It is the A. L. HERR & BRO. 312 Park Ave Quarryville Pa Phone 786 3521 M. WEAVER & SONS North Groffdale Roau Leola Pa 17540 Phone 17171656-2321 -I - *** . ' # ** <r Heilman photographs activities of keeps in the woods area behind his bees around one of the hives he plant. demise of the farmland, he said. He sees two problems that he doesn’t think Lancaster County will be able to solve. “I don’t feel we will be able to save farmland because farmers understandably want to be able to sell their land where they can get the most money for it. I’m not degrading them it’s their right,” he added. “Developers are more ready to put money into farmland than anyone else. And in spite of some actions, hke the Clean and Green Law, we won’t be able to solve this,” he said. The only feasible solution, he went on, will be for communities to buy up farmland themselves, or buy up the development rights to these. This is being done now in New Jersey, but it’s in credibly expensive, he said. “How many towns are ready Lancaster Farming. Saturday. Sept, 27,1975 „ •* s '<i.< -±y . ' «•*"«l**' * - * j. ~ ' t to put up this kind of money?” The other area where the county is simply going to fail is being able to control the interest of industry coming in, “because I don’t think we want to control it,” he said. Some think the more in dustry that comes in, the better, he continued. We’re attracting more people now because of the low unem ployment rate in Lancaster County. And we’re perfectly situated from a marketing viewpoint. “But I think the public is scared to shut off industrial growth,” he went on. “We’re making loans to businesses to come here and spending money to attract industry, when I think we should be making it tougher.” But, he said, unless you’re involved in planning it’s easy to straddle the fence and say we need new industry, but Jf 11 u : ''* • 'V / V 4 * * let’s keep the farmland. Obviously, you can’t do both. If the people want this and many do, for the tax revenue it brings in then there isn’t much that can be done to prevent it, he said. Township supervisors are supposed to reflect the desires of the people, and if people want more development, then the supervisors actually are doing their job in this area, he said. But again he warned that controls are necessary. “The demise of farmland is eating into our ability to produce food,” he said. “We could live without our cities, but not without our far mlands,” he said. In a more philosophical vein, he added, “I feel that people who are forced to live without greenery around them are living a very | Continued on Page 74] 51 - 1
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