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I miss the flag.
When our service men and
women began shipping out for
Desert Storm, Old Glory waved
numerous home around our
neighborhood.
“Wish we had flag up on top of
the silo,” I said to our son one day,
after he commented on the out
pouring of community flag
support.
“I’ll put one up,” he promptly
volunteered. And soon after, a flag
waved from a sturdy pole he had
fastened at the top of the 80-fect
high haylage silo. We all felt good
about the flag waving there, our
own little way of honoring our
military serving around the world.
Desert Storm became part of
history. A series of rain and high
wind storms eventually bent the
pole and shredded our flag. Our
son climbed the silo to retrieve the
tattered Stars and Stripes for prop
er disposal.
I miss that flag. I miss its con
stant reminder, as it flapped and
snapped in the breeze, of the free
doms our brave men and women
have gone to war over the centu
ries to uphold. Freedoms we take
for granted, freedoms we abuse,
freedoms we have to fight for
someday right in our own back
yards or back forty.
With each annual Memorial
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Day, it seems our freedoms are
increasingly threatened not by
totalitarian societies intent on
revising the world order but by
ourselves. Our freedom is in dan
ger from over-taxing, over
regulation, over-whelming growth
of the bureaucracy and over
burdening the productive segment
of society with support of the non
productive.
Freedom, sadly, generates
apathy. Far too few voters made
the effort to cast their ballot in the
recent primary election. But those
responsible folks who did seemed
to loudly shout “Enough!” to end
less government spending.
Among them are farmers whose
food-producing fields do not con
tinually add to population growth
(’ccpt for groundhogs!), do not
demand addidohnal police, educa
tion complexes, transportation
facilities, recreational areas,
water, sewer or more landfills.
Yet, farmland taxes, like all prop
erty taxes, continue to rise to pay
for services demanded by growing
communities.
Farmland preservation is “polit
ically correct" at the moment. It’s
also a common-sense move to
assure land for growing food and
not shopping malls for our grand
children’s grandchildren.
Well, maybe.' Taxes and regula-
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The Antique Engine, Tractor
and Toy Club. Inc. will hold its
Bth annual Show on June 4, S, and
6. This show will be at the Kemp-
tions, while certainly necessary,
pose significant threats to agricul
ture if they continue in unabated
proliferation. What value preser
vation if a property can’t be pro
ductive with practicality or afford
able to cultivate?
Nutrient management legisla
tion recently passed in Fannsylva
nia will ultimately regulate how
many animals can be maintained
on a certain size farm. Now, prop
osals are being presented that
would regulate the use of water for
agriculture in the Susquehanna
Basin. (“Sorry, Bossy old girl. I
know it’s 95-degrees out there but
you drank your allotment this
morning.”)
Wetlands, endangered species,
pollution, energy, conservation
are all controversial issues with
long-term impact to agriculture’s
ability to keep producing cheap
and abundant food, a key reason
America has remained so prosper
ous over the centuries.
Certainly, we need guiding
legislation in all these areas, admi
nistered with common sense. But
legislation produces regulations,
which produce administering
bureaucrats, which produce more
legislation which produce more
regulations and on and on.
which taxes rise endlessly to pay.
Enough is enough, already.
For Memorial Day, I’d like to
put a flag back up to proclaim my
beliefs in the freedoms for which
this country has always stood.
Sometimes. I’m not quite sure I
know exactly what they are
anymore.
But, thank God still for the free
dom to publicly say that, (end)
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Anti
que Tractor Show
ton Community Center located on
PA Route 143 North of the Kemp
ton exit of Interstate 78. Friday,
setup will begin at 8 a.m. and con
tinue throughout the day. An
added attraction this year will be
organized tractor pulling by the
Pennsylvania Tractor Pullers
Association.
Tractor pulling will begin at
6:30 Friday evening with the
5,500, 7,500 and 9,500 pound
stock tractors followed by the
8,000 and 10,000 turbo modified
stock classes. Exhibitors of the
engine club will be running anti
que engines and farm equipment
during all days and evenings.
On Saturday morning the slow
engine contest will begin at 11
a.m. followed by the antique trac
tor parade at noon. At 1 p.m. there
will be a slow tractor race, 2 p.m. a
teeter totter competition and 3
p.m. antique tractor pulling. To
qualify as an antique tractor for
the competition the manufacturing
date of the tractor must be before
1959 and the tractor may not be
modified. Following the antique
pull the 11,500, 13,500, 15,500
pound stocks and any 10,000 and
12,000 turbo modified stocks that
have not competed will be run.
Choose Work Clothes
That Make Sense
'Farmers, like others who work
outdoors, are at increased risk for
skin cancer and other conditions
related to overexposure to the
sun’s harmful rays.
While unnoticeable from one
year to the next, over a lifetime,
skin damage can become chronic.
With the longer work days and
more outdoor work spring and
summer bring, farm workers need
to don appropriate protective
clothing.
It’s particularly important to
keep children’s protected from the
sun’s ultraviolet rays. Since most
of an individuals’ lifetime expo
sure occurs before the age of 18,
taking small precautions now can
help to prevent serious health
problems in the future.
Many agricultural workers
wear a baseball-style cap to shield
their eyes, leaving the back of the
neck and ears exposed. A better
cap design for sun protection has a
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 29,1993-B3
Sunday morning at 11 a.m.
there will be a slow engine contest
(winners of the previous day may
not compete) and at noon an anti
que tractor parade. At 1 p.m. there
will be a kiddie pedal pull, 2 p.m.
a barrel rolling contest and 3 p.m.
a blindfold driving contest At 1
p.m. tractor pulling will be con
tinued with the class to be
announced followed by two clas
ses of 4 wheel drive stock truck,
pulling.
There will be flea market, crafts
and vendors spaces available for
the duration of the show. Antique
car and truck owners or clubs are
invited to exhibit. Over night, self
contained camping will be permit
ted. Refreshments and bake sale
items will be available.
A parking donation of $2 per
car will be requested at the gate.
No alcoholic beverages will be
allowed upon the show grounds.
For more information about the
show or flea market space contact
David Semmel, Show Secretary at
5731 Paradise Road, Slatington,
PA 18080 or call him at (215)
767-4768. Tractor pullers can
contact Gerald F. Miller, PA Trac
tor Pullers Assoc., 6432 Abbey
Road, Wind Gap, PA 18091 or
call (215) 863-8060.
panel around the back to protect
the neck and ears from sun dam
age. A wide-brimmed straw hat
also offers good protection. Many
styles are available to suit your
personal taste and work needs.
It may be tempting, particularly
for young men, to go shirtless
while working in the sun and heat.
But keep your shirt on. It will pro
tect your skin from sunburn, fly
ing debris, scratches and insect
stings. Choose clothing that is
loose fitting but without extra
material which may get caught in
machinery or snagged on tree
limbs.
' Wear sunscreen on exposed
areas such as the face and fore
arms. To be effective, the sunsc
reen should be applied about 30
minutes before you go out. Even
on hazy days, enough ultraviolet
radiation can reach you to cause
skin damage if you’re not
protected.