—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 7. 1977 *
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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.
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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.
The Carter proposal on food stamps is just one segment
of policies which are designed to overhaul the nation’s
welfare system. Last Monday Carter proposed a total
overhaul of the U.S. welfare system. •
Calling the system “worse than we thought,” and that
the present welfare programs should be scrapped entirely
and a totally new system implemented, Carter promises
to have legislative proposals to implement the new system
by the first week in August. He will be consulting first with
legislative leaders in each of the 50 states.
As with the food stamp program, the White House
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maintains that the proposed new system won’t cost any
more than the present one, which is now budgeted at $23.6
billion for fiscal 1978.
“If the new legislation can be adopted in early 1978, an
additional three years will be required to implement the
program” Carter said. His plan is to replace the present
system with programs which will provide jobs lor those
who can work, cash for those who can’t and income tax
credits for the working poor..
The President also favors reducing local and state
expenditures for welfare programs, but is stopping short
of a complete federal take-over. The programs should be
simpler and easier to administer,” the President said at a
news conference, “and there should be incentives to be
honest and to eliminate fraud.”
Under presentprograms, it actually pays some families
to go on welfare, or for the husband to leave his family. In
some cases, the differences in income can amount to more
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