122—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, April 8, 1978 College to sponsor farm labor series GETTYSBURG - Get tysburg College will sponsor a series of six weekly presentation and discussions in April and May which will consider the role of migrant farmlabor in Adams County. The discussions, which are open to the public, will be held on successive Wed nesday evenings from April 19 through May 24, and will be divided between Upper Adams and Gettysburg locations to be announced later. Representatives of the migrant work force, county fruit growers, service organizations, the com munity, businesses and Gettysburg College will participate. The program is being designed to respond to the human need of farmlabor Plant pest caught early WASHINGTON, D.C, - An early warning system against plant pests invading the United States has worked effectively during its first year, according to Frank J. Mulhern, administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. USDA consequently will extend it to eight new port areas: Baltimore, Md., Boston, Mass.; Ell Paso, Tex.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Laredo, Tex. Nogales, Ariz.; Philadelphia, Pa.; and Savannah, Ga. In the 1977 crop year, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) set up 100-mile detection belts around 16 Stormor EZEE-DRY Dries up to keep drying costs doom sB • Dry up to 56 8 bu./hr. • Storage Capacities to 16,000 bu. No othei , h- drying system can match Stormor’s patented overhead drying floor for efficiency It uses all available heat to dry your grain And that keeps drying costs down It’s easy to save time, energy, and money with Stormor See us today and we’ll give you all the facts' aCoJUckA, GRAIN EQUIPMENT. INC Box 216. RDI2. York. PA 17406 Ph (717) 755-2690 and the general community as evidenced in Adams County. The program’s originator and director is Dr. John C. Miller, chairman of the Romance Languages Department at Gettysburg College. The series will attempt to provide a setting for proper assessment of the farm workers’ role in Adams County, and will also at tempt to examine the effect which cultural differences play in community attitudes toward farmlabor, Dr. Miller said that he hoped that, through this program, Gettysburg College would be “brought more directly into the community as a par ticipant in its issues.” major ports of entry. Inside these belts, surveyors in “Project Pest Alert” worked out a systematic plan to detect foreign plant pests that may have eluded the rigid federal inspection system at U.S. ports of en try. Three specimens of exotic pests were detected. Two scentless plant bugs were found in New Jersey and a cucurbit weevil in South Carolina. Followup surveys failed to turn up additional invaders in both cases. Pending further checks, in 1978, APHIS officials believed the findings do not indicate successful establishment of the pests. 'ft to Last Longer Since the sessions will fall within the context of public policy issue discussions, Dr. Miller said that emphasis would be given to a sharing of views. “Thus we feel that we will be reinforcing a basic ingredient of govern ment - the importance of discussing alternatives and choosing those -which best meet the needs of all society.” He said that a major objective of the program will be to “discuss basic concerns of both farmlaborers and growers with the support of service organizations and govern ment.” Opportunities will also be given for the local com munity to “direct its own destiny without having solutions imposed from the outside,” said the program director. “In this way, we hope to encourage new local initiatives which would have the community more fully understand this very NEED A LARGER CAPACITY TANK? NOW IS YOUR CHANCE TO SAVE MONEY - FROM *3OO TO *l2OO PER TANK. ACT NOW! DARI-KOOL 450-5,000 GAL. 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