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Letters To
The Editor
Dear Editor, provide money for us to get
There have probably been on the offensive and meet
more false statements made our critics head-on.
about the Beeferendum in
the press and by producers Who's supposed to do this -
than ever made about any - not the retailer who will sell
other program. It is not a anything as long as there's a
government program, not a mark-up.
tax, it is workable as far as
collections are concerned, j»j o t government, P* an 80 that anyone who
and it is needed in this age of especially smce many of the owns 1116 animal will pay his
increasing criticism of all governmental agencies are fair share on the value he
animal products, milk and expressing concern that adds,
butter, as well as beef and Americans are eatm& too Breeding cattle and dairy
pork. md cows will be exempted from
No one else is going to beef especially
promote our products for us -
r 311(1 consumer education Xhls wIU pro bably be the may get a refmd upon
programs on the Rotary i as f chance for such a re Q3est
value of beef are needed- It program your vote on the e , P r ®S ra^ n k®
is beconung more and more Beeferendum is too im- !^ s ] ered by the Beef
difficult to answer the large portant to be base d on Boa F d comprised of 60
numbers of falsely written miS interpretation and cattlemen nominated by
and distorted criticisms of misstatements. Think about state °[ re B loaal cattl ®
beef as a food and as an f be facts then vote your organizations and approved
industry. conscience. by the Secretary of
We have a great industry- ' L.L. Wilson Agriculture,
the Beeferendum can State College, PA fellow cattlemen,
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Dear Editor,
I am a cattle feeder who is
concerned about the future
of the cattle industry The
passage of the Beeferendum
is essential for the survival
of this industry.
The Beeferendum is a self
help program that would
provide the funds to fight
anti-beef propoganda,
promote the nutritional
value of beef, combat beef
substitutes, counter ex
tremes of the cattle cycle,
expand foreign markets, and
increase demand for beef.
The assessment rate will
be 2/10 of 1 percent (20 cents
per $100) of the value of
cattle.
It will be a value-added
assessment until they are
slaughtered. A producer
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 16,1980—A15
please vote “YES” for the
Beeferendum,
state action were agreed to
J. Paul Espy by the Department of En-
Tyrone vironmental Resources and
an express provision to this
end was inserted in the draft
Dear Editor,
It appears that many legislation,
people have been under a During my eight years in
misapprehension concerning the Pennsylvania State
the proposed designation of Legislature, I was a member
French Creek in Chester of the House Agriculture
County as a State Scenic Committee which took an
River in believing that the active part in fighting
French Creek legislation condemnation of farm lands,
would include a state power for example the Barley
of eminent domain and other Farm in Lancaster County. I
state regulatory powers, personally sponsored many
However, the true facts are bills to protect farmers
quite to the contrary. From against eminent domain. As
the start, the draft owner and operator of a
legislation for French-Creek dairy farm myself, I am
expressly rescinded such naturally concerned with
powers. this issue.
Those of us m the French Both the Trust and I
and Pickering Creeks welcomed the stand of the
Conservation Trust who Grange in opposition to
worked on the original eminent domain, and the
studies to see if French recent Grange sponsored
Creek qualified as a Scenic meeting regarding French
River, were opposed to using Creek which was the subject
eminent domain as the basic of Lancaster Farming ar
pohcy of the Trust since it tides. This meeting was
was incorporated in 1967 has helpful in dispelling the
been against condemnation concerns of some lan
for scenic purposes. Thus the downers which apparently
Trust insisted from the very had arisen from unfounded
beginning that Scenic River rumors. For example, it had champions career
Designation should not in- been suggested to them that education in agriculture,
volve state condemnation or if French Creek became a a&nbusmess and natural
any other state regulatory Scenic River, the public
powers These restriction on would be permitted to come
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on private property, or that
farmers would lose the right
to irrigate or to put up
buildings less than two
hundred yards from the
creek. As was brought out at
the meeting, these rumors
were untrue.
Smce the recision of state
paramount power regarding
French Creek had been
agreed to previously, further
action on behalf of the
French Creek landowners
was really unnecessary, and
the positive result of the
meeting was primarily to
reassure the public. In ad
dition, however, the State
Grange is also joining with
DER to sponsor further
legislation removing the
threat of eminent domain m
connection with all future
scenic river designations.
This certainly is a
praiseworthy development.
Samuel W. Morris
French and Pickering
Creeks
Conservation Trust
Former State Legislator