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,
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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
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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.
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