12 —Lancaster Farming, Saturday. April 16, 1977
Farmers 9 association membership highest ever
By DIETER KRIEG
CENTREVILLE, Pa. - The
Lancaster County Farmers
Association boasts its
highest membership of all
time -1430, and is gearing up
for programs which will
reflect that strength. Last
year’s public relations
displays at Park City stood
out as a major effort during
1976, and a similar project is
already shaping up.
Chairman of the women’s
committee, Ruth Shertzer,
says tentative dates for the
gigantic promotion at Park
City will be October 17-22.
The LCFA’s growth and
strength were revealed
during the annual Spring
banquet, held Tuesday night
at the Sherwood Knoll
Restaurant. On hand for the
occasion were nearly a dozen
agricultural leaders, in
cluding Eugene Thompson,
president of the Penn
sylvania Farmers
Association, and Noah
Wenger, legislator from the
99th District in Lancaster
County.
A voice in local, state, and
ederal government was
:ited as being one of the
>trong programs of the
X’B’A, which is directly
iffiliated with the PFA and
vmerican Farm Bureau
•’ederation, the nation’s
arg'est organization of
aimers.
Wenger, who operates a
arm in Lancaster County,
eported on impressions
luring his first year in state
,ovemment. He noted that
here are several “freshman
aimers” in the legislature
his year, and that thus far
e has been “treated fairly.”
le serves on the agriculture
md conservation com
aittees.
The Lancaster Countian
autioned his audience
(gainst expecting too much
rom their government,
uggesting that “there are a
ot of things in which people
vould be better off doing
hemselves, rather than
lepending on the govern
nent.” Too much depen
'ence on government would
ause people to become
nore frustrated with
ovemmental red tape and
iureaucracy, Wenger
/amed. It’s a matter of the
eople deciding for them
-elves how much of their
earned dollars .they want to
-teep, and what they want to
lo with it, the legislator
>tated.
The national legislative
icene was reviewed by Ivan
Yost, a farmer from the
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Noah Wenger
Lhnstiana area. He told the
gathering of farmers that an
extension of the now ending
farm bill is favored and that
a one year carryover of the
old act may be expected. The
Farmers Association favors
a free market economy,
rather than one influenced
by government holdings and
policies.
PFA president Thompson
emphasized that food is not
too cheap and stressed the
need for having that point
made clear to consumers.
Thompson owns and
operates a dairy farm in
Indiana County and was vice
president of PFA for eight
years before being elected
president.
The new PFA chief said
Americans have con
centrated too much power in
the hands of the federal
government and that a
determined effort should be
made to ask and demand less
from government. A con
stitutional limit on taxation
is favored.
In concluding his remarks,
the farm leader said people
need to regain their faith in
themselves, in their
government, and in their
future as a free people.
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brief comments before the
group were Richard Hershey
and John Barley.
Barley lauded the practice
of IX-’FA members making it
a point to attend township
supervisors meetings, thus
protecting their rights in
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Hershey’s comments cen
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marketing programs,
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danger of being dropped due
to a lack of support.
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