A2B—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, April 25,1981 BY SHEILA MILLER HERSHEY More than 150 Grangers from across Penn sylvania converged at the Con vention Center here on Tuesday evening to celebrate the proclamation of Pennsylvania Grange Week, April 19-26. Secretary of Agriculture Penrose Hallowell presented Governor Dick Thornburgh’s of ficial proclamation to State Grange Master Charles Wismer. Hallowell remarked, “The Penn sylvania Department of Agriculture and the Thornburgh State Grange Master Charles Wismer accepts the official proclamation signed by Governor Thornburgh declaring Pennsylvania Grange Week. Making the presentation is Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Penrose Halloweli. Grangers celebrate Pa. Grange Week Administration are striving to help farmers work together more than ever before.” On hand for the evening banquet were 19 of the 29 state legislators who are members of the Grange, along with Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Luther Snyder. Malang the most of his attentive audience, State Master Wismer highlighted the Grange’s concerns. He commented the Pennsylvania Grange is: concerned about the agricultural budget which is not felt to be a fair share of the Governor’s budget; in favor of increased gas taxes to provide adequate funding to repair rural roads and bridges; in favor of turning Class 6 roads back, on a voluntary basis, to local municipalities; favor of the present State Store system; for a noxious weed bill to provide an easier process to declare certain weeds as noxious, especially multiflora rose; * for welfare reform so needy people are helped and people taking advantage of the system are cut; in favor of stray voltage research as the number one project for agricultural research funding; and opposed to the Scenic Rr er Act and its eminent domain provision which limits the development of hydroelectric plants. Wismer highlighted some of the new programs offered by the Grange this year, including the insurance program and the food program. The food program offers various commodities to members at a reduced price and is run m cooperation with Eastern Milk Producers’ Cooperative, Canton. Speaking to the group on liberty, UNIPELI3-34-10 fertilizer can get your com crop off to a super start: It has a high concentration of water-soluble Phosphorus that gets to young seedlings quickly Helps plants establish a good root system the starting point for top yields Its quick-acting and long-lasting Nitrogen team up to feed the young plants for full yield potential, continually from sprouting to harvest. This is the Starter Special that com growers know from good experience It’s highly effective as a banded starter And it’s SAFE no chance of ammonia damage to tender, young seedlings when used as a “pop up” and applied directly with the seed at 50 lbs /acre. jj"™ How can we fit UNIPEL 13-34-10 into your com Qp Am|||| fertility program 7 | FERTILIZERS r'elpmg the World Gmv Better SMOKETOWN, PA PH: 717-299-2571 generosity, and patriotism was Dieter Krieg, editor of Farmshine. Prior to the evening’s festivities, several afternoon sessions of the legislative and energy committees were held with 30 Grange mem bers in attendance. They heard from state and utility represen tatives on a number of ‘hot’ topics. Gary German of the Department of Environmental Resources spoke to them about the revised state regulations relating to food establishments. These regulations require all food sold to the public to be prepared in a licensed kitchen and not m the home, and ban homecanned foods. These are not new regulations, having been on the books since 1945 and updated in 1968. However, German, who is chief of the Division of Food Protection, said the current proposed revisions are designed to clarify the outdated and bureaucratic terminology in the regulations, according to Linda Boyer, the Grange public relations officer. “He opened up a can of worms,” she said, citing the Grange’s concerns on how these revisions could affect their kitchens, along with those of churches and fairs. Boyer noted the DER official TW s ORTHO Chevron and design UNIPEL Reg US Pal Off explained the regulations don’t apply to private functions of the Grange where meals can be cooked outside of licensed kitchen and served to members. However, if the Grange Hall is serving any outside group, a license is required. German assured the Grange members the new revisions would not affect their food establish ments any more than in the past, Boyer said. Other topics of discussion in cluded: the new food bill, which would put all food inspection under the Department of Agriculture; ag districts; fertilizer law; road and bridge bonding and the SWAP tax; annual versus semi-annual vehicle inspections; and nuclear power plants. After a century of exploration, the United States has more than half a million producing oil wells. Saudi Arabia has only about 725. Yet on the average, each Saudi well pumps 800 tunes as much oil as its American counterpart. Altogether, Saudi wells can out produce U.S. wells by more than a million barrels a day. CHV 677 22N
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