El4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 5,1980 Crop-hail back new amendments WASHINGTON, D.C. - Leading representatives of the private crop-hail in surance industry are sup porting key amendments to the Federal Crop Insurance Act of 1979 that would protect their industry while benefiting fanners. The decision to support the amendments was made at the 1979 annual meeting of the National Crop Insurance Association held in December at Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The proposals were drafted by the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Ed Jones (D-Tenn.), chairman of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation and Credit and Rep. Edward Madigan (R-Dl.). They will be taken up when the bill goes to the House of Representatives for a vote in early spring. Private insurers had previously opposed the bill unanimously on the grounds that it gave the federal crop insurance program an unfair advantage in the crop in surance marketplace through widely expanded coverage and heavily sub sidized premiums. The proposed amend ments would: Provide farmers with the option of substituting private hail insurance for federal hail insurance within the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation all-risk policy package. The option includes a flat credit toward the premium equal to 25 percent of the FCIC policy premium. Provide federal rein surance benefits for all-risk Light Hauling For industry 11 FOOT AND 12 FOOT BODIES MOUNTED ON PICKUP TRUCKS MHULLUB SLIDE-BACK CARRIERS FARMERSVILLE EQUIPMENT RD4 Ephrata, Pa. Hours. Mon., Tues., Wed., Fn. - 7:30 - 5:30 Thursday till 9 00 P.M., Saturday till 3:00 P.M policies written by private insurers and require test programs to guarantee that the reinsurance program is implemented in at least ten states by crop year 1982. Require the FCIC con tracts with private insurers provide terms and con ditions compatible with existing industry standards for similar services in order to ensure that federal and private policies are com plementary. The changes would give the private crop-hail in surance companies an improved position in relation to the bill’s benefits, protect agent’s rights in selling, serving and owning the business they write, give farmers the option to choose the product and seller they prefer and put private in- Crafty Creators stitch pillow wreaths FLEMINGTON, N.J. - The last meeting of the Crafty Creators 4-H Club was used to finish work on clothing articles that were started earlier in the year. The meeting was also used to make Pillow Wreathes. These wreathes are made by making a pattern from a mason jar lid, stitching around the edges and pulling the thread halfway until or Recreation INC. msurers dustry and the federal government m a cooperative rather than competitive position. The National Crop In surance Association is an organization supported by the majority of private crop hail insurers and service organizations. At the annual meeting, the group also elected the following to serve as officers for the next two years; president - Donald E. Smith, executive vice president, American Hail Management lnc. Armahd, Fla., first vice president - J.W. (Bill) Greene, assistant vice president, American States Insurance Co., Indianapolis, lnd. and second vice president - Roy E. Jeffries, vice president. Old Republic Insurance Co., Chicago, 111 there is only a small opening. This opening is used to stuff the pillow. After it is stuffed, pull the string until the opening is closed. It takes twelve pillows to make a wreath. You then sew the pillows together forming a circle for the wreath Which makes a nice Christmas decoration. Reported by Ruth Tannahill, Club Reporter. 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