A24—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 28,1984
Lancaster Farm & Home Foundation elects directors
BY SALLY BAIR
Staff Correspondent
LANCASTER Seven countians
were elected to three-year terms
as directors of the Farm and Home
Foundation of Lancaster County at
its annual meeting Thursday at the
Farm and Home Center.
Re-elected were: Mrs. Orpah
Graybill, 391 Newport Road, Lititz,
secretary-treasurer for Graybill
Machine Company and a
homemaker; Robert E. Gregory,
721 E. 28th' Division Highway,
Lititz, manager of the Lancaster
Soil Conservation District; Mrs.
Evelyn Hess, 817 Waterfront
Drive, a homemaker and currently
vice-president of the Board of
Directors; and George M. Lewis,
606 Stoney Battery Road, Lan
disville, representative of Far
mers First Bank and currently
treasurer of the Board.
Newly elected were: Darvm E.
Boyd, 39 Knollwood Drive, Akron,
vice president and director of the
agricultural finance department of
Hamilton Bank; Robert C. Groff,
Camargo Road, Quarryville, dairy
and poultry farmer; and Kenneth
M. Rutt, Edgefield Road,
Quarryville, dairyman and newly
selected Master Farmer.
Speaker for the evening was
John Graham, chaplain for the
Lancaster County Prison. Born in
England, Graham is now a
naturalized citizen of the United
States and was ordained in the
Presbyterian Church.
Graham said that idleness is the
number one problem facing those
incarcerated. “With idleness
comes a discontented prison
population. How can we enforce
discipline when there is nothing to
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thanks John Graham, chaplain at Lancaster County Prison,
speaker at Foundation’s annual meeting.
the “wastefulness of time,’; and
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becoming repeat offenders.
Graham noted that of the 1500
persons incarcerated in the past
year, 660 were repeat offenders.
He pomted out that 30 percent of
the prison population cannot read
or write. He also noted that just
three percent of the population are
there for crimes of violence with the
remainder there for burglaries,
thefts, non-payment of support
probation violations and other non
violent crimes.
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acknowledged was not his own,
saying “There is nothing
corrective about the corrective
system.” The primary purpose of
prisons in this country, he said is to
keep individuals from committing
further crimes and to satisfy the
public’s need to punish.
He feels more emphasis needs to
be placed on restitution to victims
and positive reconcilation of those
who are breaking the law. Pointing
to examples of sentences in other
states which involve putting of
fenders in public service, Graham
said alternative sentences would
mean thousands of dollars of
services to the public while saving
millions of dollars for the cost of
incarceration.
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Graham sain of the 1300 people
who had been incarcerated in
Lancaster County prisons, “In
essence they’re our neighbors.” He
said there needs to be a massive
involvement of volunteers to
change the emphasis. “To simply
incarcerate is not the answer.”
With involvement he noted, “These
human lives could be encouraged
and renewed and given dignity as a
child of God.”
He cited positive work that is
being done at the prison with
volunteers groups, but feels there
is much more nee' l for volunteer
Wayne to hold meeting series
HONESDALE Attorney Lee
Krause will be the first speaker at
a series of three sessions for local
government officials on Wed
nesday, Feb. 1 at 8 p.m. conducted
by the Wayne County Cooperative
Extension Service in cooperation
with the Pennsylvania Department
of Community Affairs and the
Wayne County Association of
Township Officials.
Attorney Krause will describe
how the municipal codes provide
power to run local government as
well as providing limits to power.
Also to be discussed will be the
Sunshine Law, role of the public at
public meetings, keeping of public
records, and adoption of or
dinances.
These sessions, according to
John Creighton, County Extension
Director, are planned to be
especially useful to newly elected
officials. Experienced officials
should also find the sessions a
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involvement. “These lives are our
neighbors.”
In other business President
Larry Skromme thanked retiring
directors Robert Bucher, John
Henkel and Melvin Stoltzfus for
their years of service to the Board.
The group also observed a moment
of silence in remembrance of the
late Raymond Stoner, a former
member of the Board.
Musical entertainment was
provided by Dawn & Rich Wmey
Chairman of the annual meeting
committee was Jay E. Landis.
ditional sessions will be held
Wednesday, Feb. 8 and 15, all at
the Cooperative Extension Offices
in the Courthouse.
At the second session, William
Douglass, Wayne County Planning
Director, and Joseph Macialek,
Penn State Extension Community
Development Agent, will discuss
adoption of ordinances, and ad
ministration of some of the com
monly adopted ordinances. Of
special interest will be a discussion
of the use of a road encroachment
ordinance to help avoid improperly
designed intersections of public
road and new private driveways.
At the third session Walter Beck,
Wayne County Chief Assessor, will
discuss taxation. Beck will cover
such topics as taxation powers, tax
limits, role of the assessor,
assessment ratio, taxation
calendar, and the relationship of
assessed value to municipal
budget.