30 YEARS AGO
Intercourse’s airport a strip
through pasture and corn contours
has closed, having served but
one plane, an Air Force C-46 cargo
plane, which made a forced land
ing on an Amish farm Oct. 26.
In landing, a wing-tip was
damaged. Meanwhile, Amish
friends around the neighborhood
convinced the airmen of the
meaning of the Garden Spot with
huge tray dinners, shoo-fly pie, and
hospitality the Garden Spot alone
can show.
Frozen turkey purchases
amounting to 4,818,000 lbs. were
made in the week of Oct. 29-'Nov. 5
by the U.S. Dept, of Agriculture
under the special buying program
to help producer prices during the
heavy marketing season for this
THIS WEEK
year’s record turkey crop.
Miss Verna Landis, whose light
heavyweight Angus stood high in
the Tuesday Lancaster County
Baby Beef Roundup, moved on to
championship over all breeds in
the Southeast District 4-H Club
Baby Beef Round-up at Lancaster
Union Stock Yards the next day.
The Rev. Frederick W. Lanan,
pastor of the Strasburg
Presbyterian Church, will be
speaker during the annual meeting
of the Lancaster County Holstein-
Freisian Association Tuesday,
Nov. 20 at 6:45 p.m. in the Leola
Memorial Building.
Can Lancaster County top this?
A St. Louis reader of LANCASTER
FARMING asks, enclosing a
newspaper clipping of a
cauliflower that sent a ripple of
interest along North Market Street
Commission Row in St. Louis an
8 lb. 2 ounce specimen.
Yes,
The Garden Spot has just
marketed huge heads weighing up
to 12 pounds, and many are being
broken up for sale in basket lots.
President Eisenhower Tuesday
swept to an overwhelming victory
in the national elections, but wound
up with a Congress that has
Democrats in the majority.
- The U.S. Dept, of Agriculture
reminds dealers and the public
that because of the gypsy moth,
Christmas trees and evergreen
boughs from Connecticut, Rhode
Island, Massachusetts, most of
New Hampshire and Vermont, and
numerous counties in Maine and
eastern New York require Federal
inspection and certification before
they are moved to areas not in
fested by this forest insect.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 8,1986-C7
Grange Praises USDA
Endorsement of Poultry Bill
WASHINGTON, DC. - The
recent endorsement by Secretary
of Agriculture Richard E. Lyng
regarding proposed legislation
amending the Packers and
Stockyards Act of 1921 to include
financial protection for poultry and
egg producers has received praise
from the National Grange.
Edward Andersen, Master of the
National Grange, said, “The
Secretary’s endorsement comes at
a critical time. Legislation will be
reintroduced in the 100th Congress
and needs to be considered im
mediately to protect poultry
growers and egg producers from
unreasonable delays in payment
tor their products and services.”
Andersen said the new legislation
will also provide the Packers and
Stockyards Administration with
authority to pursue violators of the
Act through an administrative
hearing process rather than
through the federal court system,
which will result in saving hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in
litigation costs.
“The poultry industry does not
receive the same treatment as the
red meat industry,” said An
dersen. He said the Secretary feels
both industries should be subject to
the same “rules of the game”.
Secretary Lyng said the Ad
ministration is aware of the
financial problems being faced by
poultry and egg producers as a
result of delayed payments and
financial failures of poultry and
egg processors. Lyng said the
unilateral relationship between
producers and processors places
producers in a weak negotiating
position which the new legislation
would change.
Convention
Concludes
Luncheon
WILLIAMSPORT - National
Farmers Union President Cy
Carpenter began the final day of
the 15th Annual Pennsylvania
Farmers Union Convention with a
breakfast address in which the
national farm leader encouraged
delegates to fight back against
farm policies and programs that
put family farmers out of business.
Carpenter told the group that
each person should contact his or
her representative so the new
Congress sees the importance of
improving farm income.
Following the breakfast, con
vention delegates completed
voting on the general farm
organization’s 1987 by-laws and
policy statement and made final
selections of delegates to the
National Farmers Union Con
vention, which will be held in
March, 1987 in Fort Worth, TX.
Ihe group’s Golden Triangle
Awards were handed out at a
special luncheon. The awards are
given each year to outstanding
members in the areas of
legislation, education, and
cooperation, which form the
foundation of the Farmers Union.
This year’s winners were Arden
Tewksbury of Meshoppen, Irk
McConnell of Cecil, and Louise
Rinker of Forksville, respectively.
Several special awards were
also given Congressman William
H. Gray, 111 was acknowledged as
legislator of the year. Shireley
Mitcheltree of New Castle was
given an award for hosting
Congressman Bob Edgar and
Senator Tom Harkm on her farm,
and Harold & Harriet Wolfe of
Centre Hall were given an award
for holding a dairy policy forum
with Congressman Tony Coelho
The speaker for the luncheon
was Orville Carver, Executive
Director of PA Green Thumb, who
was also recognized for his con
tributions to PA’s older rural
workforce
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