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ling new, many
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Governor Thornburgh was among many state and national
<Jf) j 0 officials on hand to welcome the President.
slebrity while
, looks on.
More than 300 farmers anxiously await the folks were turned away from the Leon
president’s arrival. Several hundred more Wilkinson farm for security reasons.
“I’m so tired from hearing from
our opponents that say the
program passed last summer has
failed,” said Reagan. “It hasn’t
started yet.
“It isn’t just the fact that July
first we’re now paying a lower tax,
there has to be tune for that money
to come into your pocket for it to
have an effect,” he defended.
“I’m not going to tell you that
now we recover,” he said but
added that with a recession of this
kind, there is a slight dip first
followed by a rise in the economy.
“And there’s every indication
that rise is going to come in the
latter half of this year,” he said.
Although the president’s visit
had the flavor of a whistle-stop
campaign some farmers thought
the chief executive expressed
sincerity over the farmer’s
economic woes and not just
campaign rhetoric.
“I think he was sincerely m-
(Continued from Pare A2O)
terested,” said Landenberg
dairyman Dave Hocking.
Hocking’s 140 milking herd
provides a livelihood for four
families and the fanner admitted
he’d like to see the price support
level remain high. Despite the
present dairy situation, the
Chester County producer said he
has definite plans to expand.
“You don’t get anywhere sitting
still,” he said.
Lebanon County dairymen
Frederick Bohn and Don Landis
said they were encouraged by the
president’s reassurance that
changes in the support program
were “not going to pull the bottom
out.”
The two men admitted they are
fortunate that dairying is still
better off than most segments of
agriculture. However, Bohn noted
that expansion is not in the future.
“We’ve got to get better, not
bigger," he said.
lowing Reagan’s question and answer Secretary Penrose Hallowed, left, listens as
period, the Secretaries of Agriculture take the u.S. Agriculture Secretary explains his plans
floor for additional grilling. Pa. Agriculture for dairy.
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them, Reagan and Block settle back on straw bales as they
listen to the questions and comments from farmers.
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