A24—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 24,1980
Capitol Hill
BY CURT HARLER
HARRISBURG - The
stage is set for number of
bills to move here on Capitol
Hill once the Commonwealth
Budget is passed.
Despite the slowdown,
several farm-related bills
continued to chum through
the halls of Harrisburg.
SB 10, which among other
things would raise the gross
truck weight limit to 80,000
pounds passed a Senate-
House conference com
mittee.
SB 985 and SB 986, com
monly known as the Knapp
bills, were reported out of
committee. They were
rewritten to include a 12 year
buyback period.
The bills, if passed, would
keep municipalities from
taking land by eminent
Pa. Shorthorn spring
MERCER The Penn
sylvania Shorthorn Spring
Sale on Saturday, May 3
featured quality cattle,
according to Judge Greg
McKean, Mercer County
Angus breeder.
The Grand Champion Bull,
a June, 1979 son of MSF
Tillerman 781, was MSF
Tillerman 9772, consigned by
David McElhaney, of
Hookstown, Pa., and pur
chased by Paden Young of
SharpsviUe, Pa. for $l,OOO.
The Reserve Grand
Champion Bull, consigned
by Windholme Farm,
Orange, Va., was a January,
1979 son of Acadia Cham
pagne 6. Windholme
Champagne 6 139 was
purchased by J.S. Campbell
& Sons of West Sunbury, Pa.
for $l,lOO.
Duncancroft of Saxon
burg, Pa. consigned the
Grand Champion Female,
Duncan Princess 78, a July
1978 Clark daughter bred to
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domain and then speculating
with it. The Knapp’s case
was the one where farmland
was condemned 11 years ago
and the school district now is
trying to sell the property for
a shopping center.
Hearings were held by the
Senate Labor and Industry
Committee on J. Doyle
Gorman’s package of
workmans’ compensation
reform measures, SB 712-719
inclusive.
In general, farm groups
called for speedy passage of
those measures
The House calendar for
next week features hearings
by the House Ag Committee
on several important
measures including HB 2360,
the noxious weed bill; HB
995, which ammends the dog
law; and HB 2339, the
Hart’s 550 Spider. Purchaser
was West Bend Stock Farm,
Ron and Carolyn Bemlich of
Monongahela, Pa. for $l,OOO.
Reserve Grand Champion
Female, MSF Duchess of
Gloster 9736, a June 1979
daughter of Packard
Thomas’ West was con
signed by Dick McElhaney
and purchased by Glenn
Aescheacher of Beaver, Pa.
for $490.
Other high selling lots
included Duncan Augusta
Mandy 2nd, a May 1978
daughter of Troubador Skol
bred to Hart’s 550 Spider,
consigned by Duncancroft
and sold to Philip Dunn of
Huntingdon, Pa. for $9lO.
Tuscarora Eliza Star 242, a
June 1978 daughter of
Tuscarora Super Flag bred
to Scotsdale Manix, a
Tuscarora Farms con
signment of Neelyton, Pa.
and sold to West Bend Stock
Farm for $770.
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Legislative roundui
prepares for rush of activity
Christmas tree grower
legislation.
The Milk Security Fund
legislation will sit until
JUne; the budget comes
first.
But if just two bills had to
be singled out they would be
SB 10 and Gorman’s
package.
“We are quite concerned
that we do get SB 10
through,” says Penn
sylvania Farmers’
Association Director of
Governmental Relations A 1
Myers.
Milk haulers and others
have screamed for higher
weight limits which SB 10
would provide. But the bill
also has some other sur
prises.
Existing classes of trucks
sale held
John Stover of Tyrone, Pa.
purchased Mapleview
Waneta 2D, a February 1978
daughter of Oler’s Model
King, with a March 20th
heifer calf by K Adam at
side, consigned by the
Richard Peoples Family of
Volant, Pa. for $675. Volume
buyer purchasing 7 females
was West Bend Stock Farm,
while Glenn Aescheacher
purchased 3 females. The 20
lots offered for sale
averaged $565, with 23
females averaging $537 and 6
bulls averaging $675.
The Pennsylvania Junior
Association auctioned a cane
of Thomwood Major Semen,
donated by Lazy D Ranch of
Excelsior Springs, Mo.
David McElhaney was high
bidder at $260. Proceeds will
be used to help defray the
expenses of the Penn
sylvania delegates, Sheila
and Jeanne Peoples, to the
National Shorthorn Youth
Conference in Rochester,
MN.
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over 5000 pounds would pay
$2 to $226 more in fees. The
80,000" pound ngs would pay
roughly $1125 annually.
The bill will raise the out
of-state marker fee from $2
to $25. There will be a title
transfer fee mcrease from $5
to $l5. Inspection stickers for
all vehicles, cars and trucks,
will jump from the present
25 cents to one dollar.
Temproary licenses would
cost $5 instead of the current
$l. Persons with licenses
suspended would have to pay
$25, above any fine, to have
their license reinstated.
The bill should raise about
$95.1 million in extra
revenue.
Of that amount, about $5.1
million will go to local
municipalities.
Now that the conference
committee has approved it,
the bill could go to a vote as
early as this coming
Tuesday. But insiders are
not optimistic that the
measure will move before
the budget impasse is
broken.
Workmens’ Compenstion,
m the words of State Grange
Master Charles Wismer, “is
a system gone wild.”
He asked the hearings
what kind of program made
dairying twice as dangerous
as professional football or
hockey.
Indeed, the pro players
contribute $5.99 per $lOO of
payroll to WC funds while
dairymen must pay $10,87.
Wismer came down hard
on the insurance companies
which write WC policies.
Chamber of Commerce
figures show that in 1978
employers paid $789.6
million for WC coverage. But
that same year, only $390
million was paid out.
That means the insurance
companies took more than
half of the premiums m
operating expenses or
profits.
The Grange asked that the
legislature reduce WC rates,
allow for employers and
municipalities to self-insure,
and to tighten up the filing
process to cut down on
payouts to undeserving
people.
Groups like PFA, too,
want the package to move
fast PFA especially likes
the provision which will
allow groups with a
minimum of $500,000 m
premiums to self-insure.
PFA falls within that group.
HB 2489 would allow such
groups, and local govern
ments, to run their own WC
programs. While not a part
of the German Senate
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At the same time, the
House Finance Committee’s
Energy Subcommittee heard
testimony on the possibility
of tax mcentives for energy
savmg devices.
David Weinstock, pubhc
relations director of the
Grange, pointed out that
Pennsylvania is one of only
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he said.
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