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UNIVERSITY PARK Mar- of the proposed Ag Science and
keting and promoting Pennsylva- Industry Center,
nia agricultural products was the “We need to gel the products
subject of a July 3 meeting with that your farms produce into the
Joan Specter and several farm city,” Mrs. Specter told the group,
women from central Pennsylvania. “We have to be more aggressive
Mrs. Specter is a member of the marketers, or else we’re going to
City Council of Philadelphia and a raise a generation that doesn’t
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Systems Inc., a nonprofit organiza-Among participants in the dis
tion associated with Penn State’s cussion was Lina Hood, wife of
urban gardening program. She was College of Agriculture Dean
on the Penn State University Park Lamartine F. Hood. “After travel-
Campus with her husband. Senator mg around the state and talking
Arlen Specter, who held an open with farm families, I think more
house to discuss issues facing the than ever that we have to get
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“We also have to work on
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