—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 14, 1977
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Congressman Robert Walker, center, meets
with Polish ag students and program organizers on
the steps of the U.S. Capitol. With him are, left to
right: Carol Eby, staff, Agricultural Training
Program; Dr. Jerzy Rasinski, agricultural attache,
Embassy of Poland; Danuta Gala, trainee from
New Alexandria, Pa.; Andrzej Lachut, trainee from
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WASHINGTON, D.C.-
Eighty-five young Polish
agriculturalists who have
lived for the past 13 months
with American farm
families were greeted here
recently on the steps of the
U.S. Capitol by senators and
representatives from the
Poles’ host families’ states.
The Poles are part of a group
of 91 who are the first to
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Agricultural Training
Program, an exchange
designed to promote in
ternational understanding
and the sharing of modem
agricultural technology. A
total of 124 Polish trainees
are still on American host
farms in 13 states in this on
going agricultural exchange.
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Bloomsburg, Pa.; Regina Minetti, trainee from
East Berlin, Pa.; Jan Olak, trainee from Easton,
Pa.; and John Pederson, coordinator, Agricultural
Training Program.
visited on Polish farms for
six-twelve months. About 15
delegates will go to Poland
this year. The Polish
Agricultural Training
Program is coordinated in
the U.S. by National 4-H
Council in behalf of the
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PARK RIDGE Dl. - Allan “Instead,” he added
Grant, president of the “Farm Bureau urges the
American Farm Bureau President and Congress to
Federation, recently ex- begin an immediate study of
pressed the firm opposition an overhaul of the social
of the nation’s fanxi and security system with the
ranch families to major objective of achieving an
provisions of the Ad- actuarially sound system at
ministration’s recom- the end of a five-to-ten-year
mendations for revisions in period.”
the social security tax Grant noted that self
structure. ' employed farmers pay
“The proposals announced
by President Carter on May
9 fail to face up to the basic
problem which is the high
cost and actuarial un
soundness of the present
program,” Grant said.
“The'proposal to increase
taxes on employers and to
use general revenues to
supplement social security
tax revenues is an admission
by the Administration that
the program is in difficulty.
“We recognize that a
serious problem exists, but
further increases in benefits,
taxes, and the wage base will
not provide a solution,” the
farm leader declared.
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than employed workers do.
“For hundreds of thousands
of farm and Ranch families
the social security tax is a
greater burden than the
federal income tax,” be said.
“Rather than proposing
increases in both the social
security tax and the federal
deficit, the Administration
should move promptly to
develop an affordable
program,” he concluded.
Farm Bureau is a
voluntary, nongovernmental
organization representing
over 2.6 million member
families in 49 states and
Puerto Rico.
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