—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 7. 1977 * 18 Carter suggests WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Jimmy Carter reportedly favors giving food stamps to eligible persons free of charge, an idea which is being backed by Agriculture Secretary Robert Bergland. Supporters of the idea, including Carter and Bergland, Hnim that the proposed measure would tighten eligibility standards and reduce fraud. Bergland claims the Carter program would cost no more than the existing one, at first, but skeptics note that government spending Steppingstone Museum opens STREET, Md. - Step pingstone Museum in Harford County, Maryland, located at the comer of Rt. 136 and Macton Road, midway between Dublin and Whiteford, opens today for its eighth season. Stepping stone Museum is a unique Harford County institution, the largest and most active museum in the county devoted to our country’s past. It was founded by the late J. Ed mund Bull “that we shall remember where we came from and that we shall be able to look intelligently into the future”. It is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of rural arts and crafts of the nineteeneth and early twentieth century and is operated and staffed by volunteers, members of the Steppingstone Museum Association. Five buildings house a collection of over 14,000 artifacts and depict how our forefathers lived and worked a hundred and more years ago. There are rooms arranged as a turn of the century rural home and shops which contain the tools of the old-time broomaker, joiner and wood turner, leathermaker, plumber, tinsmith, cooper, slater, spinner, weaver, and other crafts. The architect’s office and today carpenter’s tools are from the original collection of the founder, Mr. Bull. A scale model of a nineteenth century bam shows methods of construction? and materials used. One building has a doll collection and toys of years ago as well as displays of quilting, lace and other fancy-work of the housewife. There is a traditional blacksmith shop where periodic demonstrations are given. Steppingstone Museum is open Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m., May to mid- October, with members of the Association on band to guide visitors through the various buildings and exhibits. Visitors to “Steppingstone” make a small donation to help defray operational costs of the museum. READ LANCASTER FARMING FOR FULL MARKET REPORTS on food stamps was ten times greater in fiscal year 1976 than it was in fiscal 1970. Opponents of the free food stamps argue that the so called “poorest of the poor” already are included in the food stamp program because persons with net incomes below $3O per month don’t have to pay. They state flatly that the Carter proposal would turn the program into another giveaway project. 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