¥ Lp oF 513 by the Rev. Charles H. Gilbert What a week that was! As we planned, we drove to Maine, N.Y. last Sunday for the specific purpose of hearing our friend Gale Tymeson preach in his home church, a former parish of mine. We left home at 8 Sunday morning and took a drive familiar to us through north by way of Lawton and Vestal and on Rt. 26 into Maine, N.Y «(It isn’t necessary to add “N.Y.” any more than it is re- quired for us to add Pa. to Wyo- ming, an adjoining town to us. But whenever we have said we lived in Maine, or were going to Maine, it has caused some gasps of wonder that we should drive so far as that.) The only Maine we ever went to is only seven miles north of Endicott! It is in the IBM neighborhood and has grown rapidly since we left there. We arrived ahead of time, long enough to get freshened up, and located in a pew where we were sure we could see and hear the preacher. The church filled rapidly and the people who had invited us to dinner, joined us. Friends swarmed around us after the benediction, among them Gale’s mother, who used to be our organist in those other days. As we hoped, his wife and two young daughters were soon at our side. They are all musical as is this minister. L-L Teachers (continued from PAGE ONE) step to the salary schedule to insure a minimum increase of $400. for every teacher. Most instructors will receive an addi- tional $300 to $400 increment because of state mandated raises. Additionally, the new con- tract includes an increase from $5,000 to $7,500 in insurance coverage for each teacher, with Blue Cross-Blue Shield and major medical insurance provided for the professional employees and their families. The hourly rate for home- bound and summer school in- structors was raised to $6, and a day off with pay was included for the president of the Lake- Lehman Education Association to enable him to attend the state education association’s annual conference. Line-Drying Clothes—If you prefer line drying to machine drying, use rustproof hangers for dresses and blouses to help them keep their shape. And hang drip-dry garments directly from the rinse water without wringing or squeezing. In addition. Ruth Ann Wilson, Extension clothing specialist at The Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, says to try and hang other garments in such a way that they're not pulled out of shape. Avoid drying colored and syn- thetics in direct sunlight. I think I shall not try to give an outline of his well-organized sermon, for my eyes were in no condition to take notes. But al- though we were not what would be called ‘‘down front’, I never missed a word. He did not shout, but his words came unhurried, in a dignity that needs no em- bellishments of emphasis, or pounding on the desk. His voice maintained an even level of tone, and the logic and truth of his sentences were self-authen- ticating. I have no hesitancy in admitting 1 was proud of him, for I could claim no merit as a cause of his brilliance and pre- sentation. He had it in him and Spirit of God. It is certain that God himself had something to do with my own strong desire to hear this preacher, for I think God wanted to take this way of doing me good, for I needed it. The family, who had recently visited us and brought their charming youngest daughter, soloist here that Sunday, were our hosts at dinner after the ser- vice. It was wonderful to be in their home again, for I used to go there when their children were little. Like others they did not stay little! The two older girls were in school when Cath- erine taught there. A teacher has a great pleasure seeing how her pupils ‘‘turn out’. These were bound to do well. for they had it in them, and their parents had what it took to rear such children. After dinner I had the gra- cious privilege granted me to stretch full length on a long- enough couch while some. re- cordings of the chorus this Janette sang in, led me to the land of rest and sleep. Hostesses are wonderfully kind and thoughtful in providing a var- iety of food for any diet. I tell them not to fuss over a diet for me, if any food on the table is a “no-no’’ to me, I always ask that Cathy take a helping for me and eat it with all pleasure, and I enjoy her willingness to eat two of the things I like best. Another event of our wonder- one of my favorite parishoners from Lisle, N.Y., a town just north of Maine. Lisle was my second parish to which 1 was appointed back in the spring of 1919. Right from the farm where I had been working in Kirk- wood, N.Y., Ruth and I drove off to this town near Ithaca for a breaking-in period of my minis- try. It should not happen to any church to have to be aflicted by so clumsy an inexperienced, 80- called minister as I was. But they didn’t have to keep me long. The Methodist system is often able to save both the minister and the people of such conditions. So I was moved in the spring to Lisle. We drove over the hills and arrived after Conference night at Lisle. The people took care of us in our in- experience, and we survived, and so did they. In the course of time we knew the Lamb family. Roy Lamb and wife had a baby while we AEESUEBECUUAPEGUEERANS 71 CHEVROLET PICKUP TRUCK (32-Ton) 32495 GOODWIN VOLKSWAGEN-PORSCHE-AUDI Rt. 11, Narrows Road, Larksville 288-7411 BnssasyageesduaavIngy | Besuunsucuninnnuvannrnn Fras ERNE SYNE NER REEE RuRNEEuEESRRGES TMARRNT = B| = 72 EL CAMIXO = 2 Vinyl Roof, Very Sharp, = Ee £ : $2755 5 I E : : = GOODWIN E n VOURSWAGEN-PORSCHE-ATDY |] i 3 Rt. 11, Narrows Road, Larksvills 8 8 H| 2 288-7411 Ho 5 ES FEENENEENENENR EN AE AREY 489 MARKET STREET (8704 !5 KINGSTON, PA. l PHONE: 287-291€ Hours: Monday Thi 8am. 04 30 p.m; were there and her name was Ruth Jane. We also had our first baby while we were there and her name was Dorothy Ruth. In the year 1924, I was trying to improve the parsonage pro- perty by laying a concrete walk along the front and down the side street. What did I know about laying concrete? Nothing to speak of, but I wanted a walk with blocks thick enough not to break easily. A slab of wet con- crete is a fascinating thing. My first baby was then four years old and her little sister was soon to arrive that August. On the block at the corner of the walk 1 fingered in the year 1924. Dottie was looking on, so I coaxed her little hands to press themselves into the ‘mud’ near the date 1924. You ‘can guess how the years passed along... we were no longer there, and a flood came that washed foundations out from. building and 'side- walks, and the whole place look- ed pretty sad. We frequently visited Lisle and often I went to the corner to look at the tipped block of con- crete and noted the date and the hand-print were never damag- ed! Time marched on, and last Friday, Roy Lamb, now gray and lame, came to visit us. Ruth Jane Lamb is a nurse in the Vet- erans’ hospital in Syracuse, but on an off-duty day she brought her father to see me. In her car trunk was this block with the handprints in it. It was about eight inches thick! I thought a sidewalk ought to hold up any- thing that could ever try travel- ling on it! Catherine would not let me try ‘‘heffting it”! She phoned our wonderful neighbor, Walter Placek, and he came over and with some other assis- tance, got the block out of the trunk and on to our hand truck, and wheeled it the few feet to the spot in the corner of my walk where I shall eventually excavate a place to let that block down in flush with our walk. And there will be a mark of distinction on our property which I think will never get flooded out! What neighbors to have in time of need—Walter and Barbara Placek! Another family from Lisle came still later in the week, some of the Freelove family whose gathering I have written about here. When they got out of their car and saw that block, they said, ‘‘Roy Lamb has been here!” For they had known that Roy had it in his mind to do just such a kind thing of remem- brance. And there it was. And Did you ever see such won- derful creatures that God placed on this earth as PEOPLE! NN EARANEEERNOEAENRAE| "72 GREMLIN Automatic Transmission Very Clean Car 2195 GOODWIN TOLESWAGEN-PORSCHE-AUDL Rt, 11, Narrows Road, Larksville 288-7411 EEE EEENEC EEE ANE EER SR sundadesussassannsnasy special sale price $2995. '67 CADILLAG each. Just loaded with extras, by James A. McHale Secretary of Agriculture Last week a ‘Food Action Campaign was launched in Washington, D.C. by a few consumer organizations to focus public attention on the concentration of corporate power in’ the food industry and the enormous profits cornered by a handful of giant firms. I was there. I have joined the campaign as one of its principal advocates. And for the next few weeks 1 will speak out for family farmers and how they are victimized at both ends -—- buying and selling — by these huge conglomerate powers. The Food Action Campaign, organized by the Agribusiness Accountability Project, a non- profit research organization in Washington headed by Jim Hightower, is catching the national eye because of the current furor over food prices. Also, notable advocates such as former Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris. now head of New Populist Action, obviously help to attract attention to the campaign. I hope my presence in the campaign | will lend some balance. 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The Food Action Campaign wants to isolate the few middleman giants and show how they reap excessive profits on the retail sale of food, while a feeble living is actually passed back to the small farmer. The Food Action Campaign represents, I believe, a unique national effort to forge a power- ful link between consumers and small farmers in the face of middleman giantism. And I hope that by gaining a national forum, afforded me by the Washington in calling for federal legislation to preserve small farmers from dwindling out of existence forever. The point is that neither consumers nor farmers are doing well in today’s food economy. The family farmer especially finds himself surrounded by corporate America. © / - On one side are the agricul- tural input suppliers selling capital, land, seed, fertilizer, machinery, feed, pesticides, drugs and fuel. Since 1952, farmers have been over- whelmed with production cost increases of 122 percent while the price they receive for their products has increased only six percent. On the other side of the far- mer are the output industries that process, market and retail food products. The single far- mer is powerless when he deals with a large corporate pro- cessor and as a result the middleman--even at today’s high prices—takes two thirds out of every dollar the consumer spends for food. Caught in this power squeeze, the family farmer has had to put forth a superhuman effort to survive: Since 1952, farms have increased their efficiency by 330 percent, a level unmatched by any other industry. But one small farmer cannot run a race against. vast con- centrations of capital pouring in from non-farm. business: profits and expect to win. The result: We have lost three . million farms in 30 years, with much of the acreage taken up by conglomerates anxious to control agriculture from seedling to supermarket. Middleman food profits have increased 43 percent in the past 20 years and the jump in prices this month would put that percentage higher. If farmers have received only a six percent the middlemen are sopping up. Conglomerate power has been building for years, taking over farmlands directly or by con- tract--whereby a farmer signs away his harvest at a price fixed by the processor, and usually at an unfair price becanse of the farmer’s weak bargaining position. How concentrated is the food manufacturing industry? Ac- cording to the 1967 Census of Manufacturing, 50 companies made 61 percent of all the pro- fits. No single Administration can be blamed for the lack of anti- trust action that permitted these congomerates fo grow. But it took the Nixon Adminis- tration to really set ‘these monsters in motion. Six giant grain companies were handed the Russian wheat deal on a silver platter, whereby they could make 13 times their normal profit. Farmers never -saw those profits, and food prices went spiralling up 20 percent in one year. 2 Here in Pennsylvania, 3,000 of our dairy farmers have gone out of business in one year and it has become unprofitable to raise beef. Why? Because 95 percent of last year’s soybean crop was hoarded by three grain com- panies, who then resold it at a 300 percent markup to our live- stock and dairy farmers. That’s an incredible increase for a farmer to swallow. Most of our vegetable and fruit farmers sell on contract to processors. Potato farmers last, year unloaded their crops at $2 to $4 a hundredweight. You can now go to a supermarket and pay at the rate of $25 a hundred- weight. Again, farmers and consumers take a gouging. 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