B2—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, April 5,1980 BY SUSAN KAUFFMAN Staff Correspondent LIONVILLE Chester- Delaware County Farmers Association held the annual Spring banquet here at the Holiday Inn recently to hear progress reports from working committees and to hear guest speaker Clifford Jones, Secretary of the Department of En vironmental Resources for the State of Pennsylvania. Harold Kulp, president of the local Pennsylvania Farmers Association, acted as master of ceremonies. Arthur Hershey, PPA State Director, brought greetings from the state association and encouraged the local group to “Keep up the good work.” He cautioned that the next few years will challenge farmers across the nation as a whole, and those in rapidly growing population areas in particular. “It is a challenge we can meet if we are ready,” he added. Edward Taczanowsky introduced himself to the group assembled for the evening meal as the Regional Organizational Director for Region 1 of PFA. Having recently taken this position he explained that he is responsible for the programs in a nine-county area, is the adjuster for the Safemark program and is presently initiating advisory meetings throughout the counties to develop recommendations and policy proposals from the mem bership at large. Tom Wilkinson, mem bership chairman, an nounced the group had surpassed their membership drive goal for the year with 866 members, 22 over the goal of 844. He was given the King Pin award for registering the most members during the membership drive. Leon Wilkinson, legislative committee chairman, commended the legislature in general and the commissioners for the active interest they have Thats why they re called BIG BONUS beans Stop by and let us help you select the AGRIPRO variety or blend that s )ust right for you A THINK AGRIPRO P. L ROHRER & BRO., INC. SMOKETOWN, PA PH: 717-299-2571 DER’s Jones talks conservation trends with Chester-Delaware farmers The greatest thrusts at present in the PFA legislative policies at present, according to Wilkinson, are mushroom imports, .deregulation of trucking laws, limiting national spending and balancing the national budget and revising farm credit laws. Recognized as the state’s highest salesman in the insurance program was the Chester-Delaware County agent, Mitch Edwards. It was announced that the legislative tour to Harrisburg will be con ducted April 29,1980. Dairy Princess Nadine Prange and Apple Princess Nancy Kupitz were guests at the dinner and brought greetings and expressions of gratitude to the group for supporting them in their promotional programs. Before he began the major portion of his presentation,' Secretary of the Department of Environmental Resources, -Clifford Jones, commented on two items particularly of interest to the Chester-Delaware area. First, he said Chester County was instrumental in sensitizing the department to the landfill problems. Second, he reported that a proposal is working through channels to remove the right of condemnation from the French Creek Scenic River Project thereby giving landowners security that them land will not be taken out for municipal or federal projects such as highways or landfills. Jones gave, as he said, an overview of the past decade. He stated that the early seventies were a prosperous time, everybody spent and bought-the individual as well as the government agencies. Budgets were raised and so were taxes. As the decade wore on an anti government sentiment arose, possibly from many things happening all at once - Watergate, the Vietnam War, political corruption. A lack of trust and reliability in the government resulted in the populous. “It was also the age of. 13 percent will undoubtedly environment,” he continued mean not only trimming in his overview of the programs but more than seventies. “More laws on likely many programs being land, water and air were eliminated entirely, he enacted,” he added. warned. There has been much “This is a decade of improvement since then in changing energy sources,” the quality of the resources, he continued as he described he said, but he'added that. the eighties as he sees it. some say there was too “Three Mile _ Island much regulation. brought to a halt nuclear Jones explained that the power building)” Jones “heritage” of the seventies stated. Oil prices continue to is carried over into the rise when an alternative present decade. Citing energy source, nuclear changes in lifestyle, rising poweri has reached a divorce rates, live-in national standstill. Both arrangements, changing factors have pointed to the moral standards have all critical need for alternative added to a trend which sources of energy, creates people with in- “We must move toward dependent attitudes dependence, upon other responsible to very few other energy sources such as people. coal,” he explained. “it was also the decade of no babies,” he stated. The real challenge in institutions of higher learning in the near future will be educating fewer students at higher costs, he continued. “This is an aging population. The ones in their fifties and sixties and seventies and on up will have greater demands and get more attention of those in public office than ever before,” he said. “This will be a decade of no public spending,” Jones predicted. Proposition 13 points to that theory, he said. 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