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proving your buildings And the Friendly First FARM LOAN
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There are advantages to financing your needs with us
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• You can get a loan for any size farm—whether you have
50 acres or even 500
• You discuss your needs with local people who have both
farming and banking know-how A talk with our Bob
Badger or Darwin Mowery can be helpful with current
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Public hearings on West
Fallowficld Township’s
proposed new zoning or
dinance will begin on
December 30th at 7:30 in the
Township Building,
Cochranville, Chester
County. The new com
prehensive plan and
proposed ordinance are
unique among Penn
sylvania’s planning
documents in that they
establish an agricultural
zone based on potential land
productivity and soil
classifications.
The agricultural zone of
"Rural Development Type
A” zone as it is referred to in
the comprehensive plan
includes Class I and Class II
type soils and if adopted
would restrict development
to lot sizes of ten acres or
more. Hopefully this type of
zoning will slow the trend of
removing the best land from
crop production by sub
dividing into small lot
housing developments.
In addition to the
agricultural zones, areas
near the village of
Cochranville and the Oc
torara School are suggested
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for development center
zoning which would include
public services, retail and
industrial facilities and high
residential densities. Other
areas of the township are
zoned for medium density
(30,000 square feet per lot),
and low density comprising
lots of one acre or larger.
All property owners in the
township are urged to attend
the hearings. Dates for
subsequent hearings will be
announced m the near
future.
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of light! May it glow
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Dec. 20,1975 —
Emergency
vehicles exempted
HARRISBURG Sen. Legislature can provide.”
Clarence F Manbeck, R- "If we had to replace these
48th, joined in a Senate vote units with paid workers and
that passed two bills buy and maintain the
exempting volunteer fire, vehicles and equipment they
ambulance and rescue need the cost would be
companies from paying the staggering and certainly
state tax on fuels consumed mean a sizeable tax boost for
by their emergency vehicles, every Pennsylvania,”
Manbeck said he is con- Manbeck said,
fident the governor will sign Most volunteer emergency
the bills. It will mean that all units in Pennsylvania
volunteer fire, ambulance support themselves through
and rescue companies in the a variety of fund raising
state will no longer have to programs. A few receive
pay the 9-cents a gallon state some municipal support, but
tax on gasoline. at best that’s minimal,
Manbeck said collectively, Manbeck said,
it means the 3,000 volunteer f
fire, ambulance and rescue I
companies in the state will f
save about $445,000 annually.
“It’s hard to say how much
each unit will save in
dividually, but in some cases
it will be significant,”
Manbeck said.
Earlier this year Manbeck
voted for a bill calling for a
constitutional amendment
allowing a $lO million bond
issue to be used for low
interest loans to these
volunteer emergency units.
The voters approved the
bond issue in November and
a Senate committee is
presently considering
legislation that will set up
the framework- for making
the loans.
“These two measures are
vitally important to these
volunteer emergency units,”
Manbeck said. “The cost of
buying and maintaining the
equipment these units need
has become astronomical
and it’s important they be
given every break the
I Season's Greetings [
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A season to sow, a season to reapf
Working the land held in our keep K
With these words, the men and women of farming per
form their varied activities throughout the changing sea
sons each year
While their methods have been revolutionized from previ
ous hard and tedious manual tasks to present modern
mechanized efficiency, their role as keepers of the land
remains largely unchanged They prepare, care for and
harvest the foundation of life itself
Now is their season to plan for yet another season of
rebirth of the land As one year ends and another begins,
let’s remember these keepers of the land and the life
giving meaning they impart to the seasons
A seasonal tribute to our
farmers and their families from
your Sperry New Holland dealer
C. E. WHEY & SON INC.
LQUARRYVILLE, PA PHONE: 786-2895
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