Clfr—lwostw Farthing, Saturday, September 27, mo York dump (Continued from Pace CIS) mine shafts and seep into streams and wells. Eight dairy operations, as well as some poultry facilities and orchard acreage, lay in the im mediate and downstream vicinity of the dumpsite. The women’s concern over the problem of milk quality touched home with one of the few men in the midday session, dairyman Nelson Brenneman, of Spring Grove Rl. Bren neman initially discovered the well-drilling rig that led to officials investigation of Protest signs against the proposed industrial waste dump have sprung up along the meandering roads through the Green Valley farmland. The Favorite Facto YOUR COMPLETE SMALL ANIMAL EQUIPMENT CENTER! Whatever you need for successful small animal raising, you'll find in the 1100 square-foot Favonte Factory Showroom From 100 ft rolls of welded wire for the do-it-yourselfer to prefabricated all metal Lifestyle enclosures Clips Pliers Feeders Even complete modular rabbit raising systems All at low {dans for the old Sunny Farms acreage. His land adjoins the portion of land that is ear marked for disposal use by liqwacon. Liqwacon has applied for a disposal per mit, by that licensing has not yet been granted by DER. Brenneman, who ships to Green’s Dairy in York, says that his market officials are concerned because of their memory of the public boycott against milk during the Three Mile Island nuclear plant crisis in March of 1979. Although no radiation was ever found in milk from farms nearby, the publicity surrounding the possibility caused a drop in Showroom Favonte Manufaclunng, Inc , 114-116 Earland Industnal Park, Building # 1 lust East of New Holland of Route 23 Or phone (717) 354-4586 Open weekdays; 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM Fridays: 7:30 AM to 6:30 PM Saturdays: 7:30 AM to 11:30 AM retail sales of fluid milk. So, even though no chemicals may ever turn up in the water for the valleys’ dairy cattle, Brenneman says Green's has expressed fear that the dump publicity alone could cause them retail sales problems. “And that’s all it would take for them to cut off pickups to our farm and others nearby in the same situation,” he worries. “And, who else is going to come in here and pick it up?” Similar fears hang over the beads of-farm woman Donna Lecrone, a member of the MAD group, and her husband Michael. The Lecrones raise poultry and fruit on their Seven Valleys R 1 farm, just across the valley and a small stream from where Stabatrol plans its disposal vaulting. Lecrone says that bis poultry contractor, Longenecker’s Hatchery, is supporting his opposition to the dump, and has already written letters to both elected officials and DER heads. Many of the women of MAD, disgusted that meeting upon meeting seemed to be g« Hesston waivers of Finance help you get the equipmei you need, no Hesston makes it a lot easier for you to buy the Best of the Breed m hay and forage harvesting equipment, now at today’s prices while you delay your finance payments until later. Hesston is offering Waivers of Finance on a wide range of machinery, to June 1, 1981! Includes: wind rowers, mower-conditioners, round balers, square balers, pull-type and self-propelled forage harvesters and StakHand® hay stackers. Check with your Hesston dealer for full details on the financing and payment qualifications for these programs. Get the Hesston machine you need now, pay no finance charges until later. See this dealer soon: £RDLEY’S FARM SUPPLY RD 1, Lewisburg, PA Shop 717-524-2410. Nights 717-524-2408 or 524-0713 nowhere, recently painted signs and set up picket lines at several spots in York City. Their fight for greeted press publicity and increased urban support in the fight against the dump has earned them public declarations against the disposal plans from a variety of sportsmen and outdoor groups, school boards and numerous neighboring municipalities. V * —= They’ve also dotted tht quiet valleys with terse, handlettered signs, ear' in its own ii dividualized way: *‘We Art Opposed To The Dump.” One deeply involved and vocal member of MAD is Stacy Marsh, Seven Valleys Rl. She’s the wife of beef and grain farmer Steve Marsh, (Turn to Page Cl 7) reftsiered trademark of Heaston Corp /S'" ~ Sw&r te ■f ich
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