Vol. 20 No. 50
Photo by Dieter Knot
The pasturing season has come to an end; hunting dogs now frequent the cow paths and distant corn fields as chilled air flows through the countryside.
LANCASTER - The
Pennsylvania State Grange
has called for welfare
reform legislation at both
state and federal levels and
for strict law enforcement as
a means of eradicating the
marijuana menace.
The action was taken in
resolutions adopted at the
closing session of the 103rd
annual convention of the
state Grange at the Fulton
Opera House.
In its welfare reform
resolution, the Grange
pointed out that the original
intent of the welfare
program in the nation was
to assist needy persons, but
that the service has been
broadened and expanded far
beyond that purpose.
In citing the heavy cost to
taxpayers and fraud and
abuse in the program, the
Grange urged that:
“The General Assembly of
Pennsylvania and the
Congress of the United
States take immediate steps
to enact welfare reform
legislation that would
restore state and federal
programs and services for
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Sjale Register 73
Fanners Almanac 8
Classified Ads 37
Life on the Farm 10
Facts for Dairymen 58
Lancaster DHT A 57
Welfare reform called for
the benefit of those persons
who are in need of
assistance.”
The Grange also urged
that employable welfare
recipients be required to -
accept gainful employment
when it is available and
Swine producer wins
By Melissa Piper
STEVENS - When Rick
Pfautz brought home his
first pig as an FFA project,
be never dreamed that four
years later he’d be receiving
his American Farming
Degree primarily for his
work in hog production. But
then neither did his parents.
"Although the Pfautz’s had
been active in farming
raising crops and produce
for their popular road-side
market (along Et. 222 near
Stevens,) the thought of
having pigs near the market
did not settle wfll with
Rick’s father Elmer Pfautz.
“I saw that the other FFA
members were getting
money from their swine
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Sales Register 84
N.H. Dairy Show 65
What’s New 79
Candy Museum 70
York Beef Show 54
Country Corner 42
Homestead Notes 42
Grange Convention 20
The Grange passes resolutions
offered to them. It also
recommended that
“voluntary termination or
interruption of employment
shall not be acceptable
grounds for welfare
assistance.”
In the resolution relating
projects,” Rick explained,
“and I wanted to get into
some profit myself."
“My parents really didn’t
take to the idea because they
thought the smell might
bother the people who
stopped at the market.”
“But with a little per-
Berks Co. writer hired
Miss Patrice Bradley, 1626
Garfield Ave., Wyomissing,
has joined the staff of
Lancaster Farming as the
Berks-Lebigh Area news
correspondent. Miss Bradley
graduated from Penn State
in June of 1975 with a B.A.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Nov. 1,1975
to marijuana, the Grange
opposed “any change in
existing Pennsylvania drug
laws” and requested an “all
out effort” to eradicate the
use of marijuana by strict
enforcement and existing
suasion they let me bring
home a bred gilt., only under
the condition that she would
be sold after having a litter.”
But as nature sometimes
rules, Rick’s sow didn’t
produce a good litter and a
problem arose as to what to
'do with the animal.
degree in Journalism from
the College of Libral Arts.
A Berks County native.
Miss Bradley graduated
from Wyommissing Area
High School and also at
tended the Keystone Junior
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penalties for possession of
the drug.
In another resolution
adopted at the convention’s
closing session was one
urging “all communities to
comply with , federal
regulations for flood in-
award
“I asked, if we could keep
her for just one more litter
and my parents gave in,” the
youth related. “Since that
time I’ve had pigs mid have
realized the profit.”
Following his freshman
year at Ephrata High School,
Rick took swine breeding
and hog fattening as his
project work, combining the
enterprise with veal calves,
field and sweet com and
sugar peas.
And while bis projects
required a great deal of
time, the young man also
served the Cloister Chapter
as vice president in his
junior year and as president
in his senior year.
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$3.00 Per Year
surance.” The resolution
was critical of proposed
state flood plain legislation
that was drafted by a con
ference committee trying to
iron out differences between
Senate and House versions of
Senate Bill 1.
The Grange resolution
contended that the definition
of watershed is too broad and
could allow the Department
of Environmental Resources
to regulate all land in the
Commonwealth. “Water
shed,” it was pointed out, is
described in die conference
report as “the entire region
or area drained by a river or
other body of water, whether
natural or artificial.”
Another portion of the
conference committee
report that was criticized
involved an open end clause
in the appointment of an
area management advisory
committee. It would allow
for appointment of “suck
additional organizations or
individuals as the secretary
(of DER), in consultation
with the committee, may
find are necessary and
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