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WAY TO USE YOUR
SOCIAL SECURITY.
It’s called Direct Deposit. And here’s how
it works. Every month the Treasury
Department mails your check directly to
us where it is deposited in your savings
account. You can withdraw money at any
time! Savings left on deposit will earn the
highest interest allowed by law f*-om day
of deposit. And the interest is
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The possibility of theft is eliminated. Even
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We’ll take care of it for you.
Ephrata Office, 194 North Reading Road at Grandview Drive
Office hours; 9 a.m. to 4 p m. Mon. thru Wed., 9 a m. to 8 p m. Thurs. and Fn , 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sat
Plus ... four other offices to serve you . .
• Wyomissmg Office, 840 Penn Avenue at Park Road
• Berkshire Mall Office
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What’s even better is we’ll give you free
money orders with your Direct Deposit
program. We’ll even pay the postage and
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need foryou to travel all over town paying
bills anymore.
This program is completely voluntary. All
you need to do is stop in at one of our
convenient offices and ask any teller
about Direct Deposit. The Direct Deposit
plan will save you time and add interest to
your savings account. And it’s backed by
the oldest and largest home based
savings association in this area.
Lancaster Farmim
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From
the
Senate
Side
The rising price of food has
caused some Americans to
question our oversea’s sale
of farm products - par
ticularly our grain sales to
Russia. This is un
derstandable in light of the
bad experience we have had
with previous grain deals
with the Soviet Union.
The Ford Administration
is in the process of changing
the style of the ballgame,
however. We are now looking
toward telling the Russians
that we’ll sell you foodstuffs
in return for your fuel
supplies.
This is a responsible ap
proach to world trade as it
affects our own national
interests. Food is a com
modity we have in surplus to
sell. It should be used to buy
those things that we need
from the rest of the world.
Let’s not kid ourselves. We
cannot decide to withdraw
within our own borders and
ignore what the rest of the
world has been selling us: We
are a nation comprising 6
percent of the global
population and we consume
30 percent of the world’s raw
materials. Obviously, we
must continue to look beyond
our own borders to get the
things we need just to
maintain our present
standard of living.
That means we have to
have something to offer the
world in return. That
something used to be dollars,
but the dollar had dropped in
value and prestige in the
world’s market. What we
have today that the world
wants badly is food.
Therefore, a responsible
policy, both in terms of
domestic needs and foreign
trade, should encourage
farmers to grow and produce
as much food as possible. We
should be planting on every
available acre and trying to
increase the yield per acre.
The more we produce the
more we have to trade for
things like petroleum,
chromium, bauxite, etc.
This kind of policy is
precisely the reverse of the
tragic programs sold to us by
the liberals several years
ago. Those programs en
couraged fanners not to
grow by paying them for
fields left unplanted. Some
would have us believe that a
return to similar policies
would be in our best in
terests. To my way of
thinking, the only interests
that would be served by “no
grow” programs would be
those who wish to see the
American people denied
access to world markets.
Of course, all of this
depends on offering the
farmer a fair return on his
investment. He cannot be
expected to grow increasing
supplies of food only to take a
loss on his labors. Rather, he
must be assured that he will
be able to sell what he grows
at a price that compensates
him for his costs and his
labor.
With food products as our
main commodity for world
trade, we can remain
competitive with the nations
who are attempting to gain
power with products like oil.
To ignore our ability and
capacity to produce food will
bring us long-range tragedy.
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