Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, January 01, 1977, Image 12
12—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Jan. 1,1977 Rural fire companies receive aid HARRISBURG, Pa. - Rural fire companies across the Commonwealth, which serve areas with a population of 10,000 or less, are benefiting from a Federal Rural Community Fire Protection Program implemented by the Division of Forest Fire Protection within the Pennsylvania Department of En vironmental Resources. Benefits from this program are in the form of Federal excess trucks, fiberglass water tanks, hose reels and other equipment purchased with funds, on a 50-50 matching basis, from Title IV of the Rural Development Act of 1972. The Act authorized and directed the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial, technical and other assistance to State Foresters or other ap propriate officials to organize, train and equip fire departments in rural areas and communities under 10,000 population to prevent and suppress fires. It is aimed at improving fire prevention, control, and suppression in those rural CHECK THIS ... (The original Dion Forage Boxes are in our sales lot again. It will pay you to take a good look. Also Badger, New Idea G, T. Grain Dryers all at very good prices. | WE SERVICE WHAT WE SEU BUY NOW AND SAVE A deposit will hold your equipment till spring. Financing available. A. C. HEISEY FARM EQUIPMENT INC. RDI, Jonestown, Pa. 17031 Phone 717-865-4526 Located Vi mite South of Fredericksburg off Route 343 BUS. HOURS: SAT. TILL 2:30 P.M. 7 A.M. TO 5:30 P.M. EVENINGS BY APPT. IF SWL $ PROFITS $ IS YOUR GOAL LET • SURE-CROP LIQUID PLANT FOOD CO. HELP YOU BY GIVING * Complete Soil Test Analysis & Balancing Program * Crop Recommendations Based On Type Of Crop & Yield Goal Desired Distributors For Blumhardt serving the Liquid Application Equipment farmej^> N We Also Can Supply You With Liquid Nitrogen Solution, sgJSQf< Liquid Pot Ash & Sulfur rI&S Contact; SURE-CROP RDI Box 4210, Grantville, PA 17028 717-469-2864 areas where the volunteer fire companies normally do not have the necessary funds for the purchase of new equipment. Also as part of the Title IV program, the Com monwealth received for die 1976 fiscal year $102,100 and application forms were mailed to all known fire companies in Pennsylvania with the exception of those in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. After careful evaluation of the returned applications, 60 fire companies were selected to receive cost share grants for the purchase of sup pression equipment, com munications and protective clothing and gear. Federal excess trucks were not in volved in this portion of the program. For the Federal 1976 transition quarter (July through September) an additional $25,520 was received by the Com monwealth and was used to extend the program by awarding grants'to 15 ad ditional fire companies for the purchase of small equipment. Among the rural fire companies approved for grant money for the pur chase of protective gear, communications equipment or suppression gear are: South Mt., Franklin County; Monaghan, York County; Bendersville, Adams County; Delaware Twp., Juniata County; Newburg Hopewell, Cum berland County; Rockwood, Somerset County; Allison, Hiller, Dawson and Dunbar, Seed case settled HARRISBURG, Pa. - A settlement of $2,750 has ended a case under the Federal Seed Act against an Illinois seed firm, according to Raymond J. Kerstetter, Pa. Secretary of Agriculture. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and in volved in part a shipment of lawn seed to Pennsylvania. Kerstetter said that Courthouse Squares COMFORT COMES WITH SAYING, c “/ TOLO YOU SO." A.J. TRY A CLASSIFIED Fayette County; Morris Twp., Greene County; Whitney and Mr. Pleasant, Westmoreland County; Ottsville, Bucks County; Oaks, Montgomery County; Union Water W6rks and Speedwell Imagine Hose Co., Lebanon County; Friedens/ Lehigh County; Sacraniento, Good Intent and Kline Twp., Schuylkill County; and Grata, Dauphin County. Seaboard Seed Company, of Bristpl, Illinois, paid the settlement figure for alleged violations involved in nine shipments of lawn seed from March 1971 to February 1975. The alleged violations in cluded false labeling as to noxious-weed seeds, purity, origin and test date; ex cessive noxious-weed seeds; incomplete labeling as to purity and noxious-weed seeds; and failure to keep required records under the Federal Seed Act. The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture’s Plant Industry Bureau assisted in the investigation. The Botany and Seed Division sampled and tested the seed involved and provided - the necessary evidence for the successful completion of the case. Kerstetter said that the Federal Seed Act is a truth in-labeling law designed to protect farmers and other consumers when they purchase seed shipped in interstate commerce. The Act is administered by the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) of the United States Department of Agriculture. 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