Al4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 2,1980
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Award winners at the Northern Lebanon Young Farmers Banquet are, from
left - Arthur Kunkie, corn silage; Ed Funck, haylage and alfalfa; Galen Bollinger,
corn quality; and G. Lamar Bollinger, highest corn yield in bushels per acre.
Awards were presented by J. Ray Rickel, chapter advisor.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Norman M. Clapp, ad
ministrator of the Rural
Electrification Ad
ministration under
Presidents Kennedy and
Johnson, has been named to
direct legislative activities
of the Cooperative League of
the USA by Glenn M. An
derson, CLUSA president.
“We are pleased to find a
man of Norman Clapp’s
broad governmental ex
perience for this important
legislative rcle in support of
the nation’s cooperatives,”
Com, oats intentions
up for 1980
HARRISBURG - Based
on January 1 intentions,
Pennsylvania farmers in
tend to plant increased
acreages of com and oats,
but less barley, sorghum and
soybeans according to the
Pennsylvania Crop
Reporting Service.
Acreage planting in
tentions and percent
changes from 1979 for those
items surveyed are. corn to
be planted, 1,700,000 acres,
up four percent, oats to be
planted, 390,000 acres, up
eight percent; barley to be
planted, 120,000 acres, down
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legislative
Anderson said. “His first
efforts in our behalf will call
directly on his rich personal
background in tran
sportation, utility
regulation and cooperative
financing.”
It is expected that Clapp’s
early legislative in
volvement will be in support
of CLUSA-mspired
legislation to establish an
REA-type federal lending
agency to serve tran
sportation cooperatives,
principally those formed to
four percent; soybeans to be
planted, 80,000 acres, down
six percent; and sorghum to
be planted, 14,000 acres,
down 22 percent.
For those 34 states sur
veyed, acreage planting
intentions and changes from
1979 are: com, 81 6 million
acres, up four percent; oats,
13.3 million acres, down five
percent; barley, 8.43 million
acres, up 11 percent;
sorghum, 15 9 million acres,
up five percent, soybeans,
70 7 million acres, virtually
unchanged.
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take over and operate
abandoned branch rail lines
in rural area.
This proposed user
ownership and control of an
essential transport service is
seen as a close parallel to the
electrification of much of
rural America 40 years ago
by user-owned electric
cooperatives.
In recent years, Clapp
served at various tunes as
head of Wiconsin’s Depart
ment of Transportation and
Public Service Commission,
both cabmet-level posts in
that state. IN 1977-78, he
served as New York Gov.
Hugh L. Carey’s appointee to
head a state investigation of
the New York City power
failure July 13,1977.
Barber, he had served as
administrative assistant to
the late Wisconsin U.S. Sen.
Robert M. LaFollette, Jr.,
1935-42 and as minority
expert for the Senate
Finance Committee, 1942-44.
Letters To
The Editor
Contrary to a front page
article in your January 26
issue, the program that a
positive vote in the up
coming beef referendum will
implement is most em
phatically not a government
program.
This is a producer self-help
effort that was conceived,
born, nurtured and
developed by some of the
best minds in all the many
varied phases of the cattle
_ industry, nationwide. At one
tune or another the program
actually faced opposition
from USDA, the Congress
and even the State Depart
ment. The program is' to be
financed and managed
entirely by cattle producers.
Commenting on your
editorial, the Beeferendum
is backed by every beef and
dairy cattle breed
association and by every
state beef cattlemen’s
organization including the
Texas and Southwestern
Cattle Raisers Association,
the largest.
The American Farm
Bureau Federation endorses
it along with just about every
state Farm Bureau
organization in the country
except those of Tennessee
and Texas, whose opposition
is based on the rather
ridiculous fear that they will
lose some power.
The biggest opponent of
this referendum is producer
apathy, but that is not the
fault of the program. After
all, wide-spread apathy is
also very evident in the
political elections in this
country, unfortunately.
This program gives cattle
producers a chance to get
ahold of their own industry
and affairs and run them for
their better benefit.
If we don’t speak out for
our products and our in
dustry, who will 9
Register in your county
ASCS office from now thru
February 6, and vote “YES”
February 19 thru 22.
John W. Stump
Chairman,
Md. Beeferendum
Committee
Editor’s note: While not a
government program in the
usual sense, the program Is
administered by USDA.
Also, AFBF is neutral on the
20 cents per $lOO checkoff
program and has requested
each individual state to set
their own policy.
1 would like to thank you
for a fine editorial on Jan. 19
concerning the milk security
fund. This is a fine editorial
the treats the farmer as
equally as others.
I urge other farmers to
read this editorial again and
to contact their
organizations and legislators
for a proposal like this.
Thanks again for a fine
paper that serves the far
mer.
Sincerely yours,
Harold Van Draff
R 2, Box 172
Waynesburg