Farm woes include energy, government programs
DANVILLE - State
Senator Patrick J. Stapleton
has warned delegates to the
105th annual convention of
the Pennsylvania State
Grange that the “energy
crisis is still not a thing of the
past.”
Speaking at the opening
session of the convention
Monday at Danville High
School, Senator Stapleton
said that fuel and fertilizer
shortages are a continuing
threat to farmers. “There
are reports from Washington
of fuel allocations for
agriculture,” he declared,
“despite earlier assurances
of fuel priorities.
“I need not tell you that
such a shortage is a threat to
the economy of our country
and that a one hundred per
cent allotment of the fuel
needs for every farmer is the
only way to keep this nation
fed - and fed with produce
which every citizen of this
nation can afford.
In his address, Stapleton -
chairman of the Senate
Agriculture Committee -
complimented the Grange
for its interest in promoting
legislative action benefiting
farmers and rural resident*:.
“You can talk all you 1 e
in your barn, your liv.jig
room, your grocery store, or
across your neighbor’s
fence,” Senator Stapleton
said, “but you still have to
get that word down to
Harrisburg.”
J. Luther Snyder, State
Grange master, called at
tention particularly of the
need for cooperation and
consideration among civic
planners to establish
“sensible priorities to
promote the general well
being of all people”
He told the group that the
“glaring weakness in
planning by groups with self
centered interests is that
they see only part of a
problem without concern for
any other aspect of it.
The result, too often,” he
declared, “is the creation of
new problems without really
solving anything.”
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Turning to the national
economy, Snyder cited the
growing cost of govern
mental programs. He
pointed out that a welfare
reform program to put
recipients to work seems
commendable, but will cost
several billion dollars more
a year than the one it
replaced.
He also noted that revision
of the food stamp program
eliminated payment of any
portion by recipients. Now,
he added, we are told stamps
are acceptable in
restaurants as well as m
grocery stores.
In the face of these and
other increases m federal
spending, Snyder added, the
administration has under
study a plan to cut federal
taxes.
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State Grange convention
■He also reminded the
group that Congress has
passed, and President
Carter had signed a bill to
raise the national debt
ceiling to 752 billion dollars,
an increase of $52 billion.
“How much longer,” he
asked, “can we go on
spending our way deeper
into debt?
“And how can we face the
eventual day of reckoning? ”
Pennsylvania State
Grange delegates Monday
called for a U.S. Agriculture
Department study to
determine the feasibility of
using animal waste as a
source of energy.
The delegates voted to
support U.S. Senate Bill 569 -
the family farm energy
To get
conversion bill - which would
authorize the study. The
resolution noted that ex
tensive but imcomplete
research has been done in
the field of energy con
version and recommended
that the work be expanded.
The possiblity of in
creasing energy sources by
at least 10 per cent was
suggested in the resolution.
Delegates also approved a
resolution opposing “any
legislation that proposes to
legalize new forms of
gambling in Pennsylvania,
or to expand existing legal
gambling activities in
Pennsylvania.”
In a third resolution ap
proved by the delegates, the
State Grange expressed its
to see the resi
2. We actually weighed the com harvest
ed by combine off field length rows
3 We published the results of the trials
for you to study
4 We didn’t start selling until after we
had the results for you to see
Study the results in the chart It shows
one of our 1977 Field Trials Then call
your Jacques dealer for the results of the
trial nearest you Or wnte us for a copy.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 29,1977
support of legislation that
would permit publication of
names and addresses of all
offenders - including
juveniles - involved in
serious crimes such as
murder, rape, arson and
burglary.
They were among the first
of more than 20 policy
making resolutions that will
be considered at the 105th
annual State Grange Con
vention.
Almost 150 Junior
Grangers, from 5 to 14 years
old, participated in the
second annual Junior Day at
the state session. A team of
32 members from Mercer
County exemplified the
junior degree at a meeting of
delegates Monday morning.
In her report to delegates,
nearest you
1977 - Field Shelling Yield Trial
Christ Habacker t Ron Carpar -
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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Mrs. Alan Merkel, state
director of Junior Grange
activities, announced the
tollowing winners of
National Junior
achievement awards; First,
Virgmviile Junior Grange
No. 426, second, Pioneer
Junior Grange No. 452, and
third, Bernville Junior
Grange No. 152, all of Berks
County; fourth, Mill Run
Junior Grange No. 496, of
Fayette County; honorable
mention, Goshen Junior
Grange No. 358 of Chester
County and Harmony Junior
Grange No. 289 of Lehigh-
Northarnpton County.
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