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invade Pa. dairy farm bounty farmer dent that he was room capital of amber note, the d that ths U.S stry is being i imports id he is aware of oblem and ex etary Block is mg on the n f>) y U.S. farmers 5 in the world splied that while t trying to run he ‘feds’ are a stimulate and market. ic few countries tie to feed more r than anybody but we have a i sold to help out sagan lutions to the ition, a producer t what can dairy rmnent leaders icr to solve the :ed the fact the oduced by the h is now spen lon dollars this t. The chief y noted two ock’s proposed lan. mg legislation the Secretary of his discretion to ’ he explained. okmg at import e noted. plained that the present support e government is ze the problem, system that has that people have to and then pull ice. s') hing is going to niary first. But, it the Secretary to have the of this rigid ' legislation.” lent did not tell ling new, many »ed and sup- er told Reagan, in office in 1976, be in the fix I’m . with applause s and welcome udent ge A2l) m 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. % gL pa >p .. shed reflected the no-nonsense attitude men Lancaster Fanainf, Saturday, May 22,1982—*21 them, Reagan and Block settle back on straw bales as they listen to the questions and comments from farmers. f I •$- ■ by the several dozen secret service v V