4 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore Men., Aug. 29, 1949
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FREE ENTERPRISE AT WORK
"Look, They're Shaking Their Fists At Me!"
By CHARLES V. STANTON
The publication Norbest Turkey Nem, published at Salt
Lake City by Norbest Turkey Growers association, tells of
a new method lor marketing turkeys the Turkey hog.
Turkey Logr is a long;, cylindrical package of boned turkey
meat, tightly packtd and wrapped in special aluminum foil.
The Log may be roasted whole, cut into slices, or prepared
in many other ways all delicious. The new product, now
being marketed in San Francisco, is said to be making a big
hit with stewards and caterers of hotels and restaurants.
Among the benefits of the new project, Norbest Turkey
Newt quotes the following:
1 Low coat boning methods.
2 Tha eomplete utilization of all parta of tha turkey In
: ona aingla praduot, except tha neck, extrema wing tipa and
, poaaibly tha livr, heart and gizzard.
i 3 A compact turkey product which elimlnatee tha uaa
! of virtually all kitchen help required for dreeelng and earv
! Ing tha turkey.
4 Tha retalninq of full-bodied flavor of roaat turkey In
- Ita moat auoculent form.
5 Perfect portion control.
6 Reduction of atoraga and freezer apace to approxl.
j mately one-fourth that required for New York dreaeed or
aviacerated turkeya.
I 7 Reduotlon of ahrlnkaga In cooking.
8 Elimination of leftover probleme.
j 9 Conservation of food valuea which normally ara
j eookad out of tha turkey or loat In vapora and escaped
Juices.
The announcement contains information that there also
has been invented and patented a special roaster which
prevents the Turkey Log from expanding and breaking up
during the process.
One of the major problems in turkey marketing has been
disposal of big toms. Too large for average family use, toms
were marketed principally through hotels and restaurants.
But preparing and serving turkey by existing methods
requires considerable labor, while often involving loss, thus
creating an obstacle to fast movement of oversize toms.
;The Turkey Log will eliminate all labor of preparation,
will be conducive to attractive appearance on the plate,
and will eliminate wanfb fcnd loss. Logs may be purchased
in quantity and kept frozen until ready for use. Because
of reduced bulk, Logs will be more acceptable for storage
by individual purchasers. Furthermore, because Turkey
Logs may be handled exactly as boned ham is sliced and
sold in retail markets, the new product is expected to meet
widespread favor from housewives.
Here Is an example of private enterprise at work.
Turkey growers have had a good product but one which
had marketing obstacles. Through cooperative effort, grow
ers have been experimenting with methods of eliminating
these obstacles and extending market outlets. Finally, ex
periments have resulted in a new product expected to sell
more turkeys and also produce more profit.
Incidentally, it is interesting to note that J. C. Leedy,
former Douglas county agricultural agent, and Herbert
Beyers, former manager for the Northwest Turkey Growers
association at Roseburg, are among those who have been
connected with development of improved turkey marketing
methods.
Packaging is one of the most important factors in success
ful marketing of any product. One company manufacturing
a processed cereal, for instance, was saved from bankruptcy
merely by having its package redesigned to attract the at
tention of housewives searching grocery shelves.
Now it appears that turkey growers will have a wider
outlet for their birds and will be assured better prices be
cause tiiey have found a method of improving consumer
acceptability.
Lumber manufacturers are doing much experimentation
on packaging getting a higher price for their product be
cause they form it to meet customer needs.
Even a' newspaper must have attractive "packaging" if
it is to prosper, vhich is why newspapers are constantly
striving to improve appearance and display. The more at
tractive a newspaper is to the eye, the more convenient to
read, the better it sells.
That is the free enterprise system constantly striving
for a better product.
Is there anyone foolish enough to believe we would have
all this reasearch, experimentation, catering to consumer
tastes, etc., if we socialized all industry and business as so
many people are hdvixnting?
BV Viahnett S. Martin JjJ
Carl Jouhola, Reedsport
Fisherman, Death Told
Carl J. Jauhola of Reedsport
riled at the Keizer hospital in
North Bend Tuesday. Aug. .'3,
following a long Illness. Mr. Jau
hola was born In Karungl. Kin
land, on June 10. 1K85. He had
been In the United States 43
years, and In Oregon 36 years.
Me is survived by his widow, Hil
da. Well known as a fisherman,
both a Rlllnctter In the I'mpqua
River when the seasons permit
ted, and an outside (roller durine
the summer months, when small
boats can be used for this pur
pose, Carl was also known as a
musician, having been an ac
complished violinist.
Funeral services were held at
the Unger chapel In Reedsport
Friday at 2 p.m.. with interment
In the Reedsport Masonic cemetery.
DRIVERS EXAMS DATED
A driver's license examiner will
be on duty in the Row-burg cltv
hall Sept. 1-2 between 9 a. m. and
5 p. m., according to an announce
ment from Secretary of Stale
Newbry'a office.
I wonder what It will be like
to fish In Oregon coastal waters?
Supposing, of course, we get be
yond the bar. The skipper assured
me that he doesn't take passen
gers out beyond the bar If it's
rough out there, although he
might go, under some conditions,
without them. "Feel I can do as I
like with my own life, but other
people's well, that's another
matter."
Wonder If I shall see that
whale the News-Review reported
as having been disporting itself
off the mouth of the Umpqua?
Since we shall be trolling all the
time the sights will be different
of course. , . I remember watch
ing a seal gambol in the water,
doing every sort of trick, with
Just one appreciative watcher.
Everybody else wanted to catch
fish! I like to catch fish but Just
the "ride" gives me my money's
worth any fish make the Icing
on the cake!
Wonder If mackerel will grab
bait oh, we don't have bait. I
have never fished for salmon!
and have done little trolling. The
boats we used to go on would
drop anchor and up anchor
again and try another spot If no
luck. There was the day every
body was In a dither over a lucky
fisherman's "bite." Slowly he
hauled up the huge "fish" 300
feet off bottom a full sized bed
spring! There was the day some
body left his rod and line, and
a "bite" yanked It overboard
while he was gone. He had rent
ed tackle from the skipper. He
paid up, rented another outfit.
Within an hour he hauled in the
outfit he had lost! Things like
that make for merriment.
There was the day somebody
hauled up a "sea spider" hor
rible looking thing, a foot acvoss,
looking Just like you'd think It
would look. When the excite
ment subsided I went Into the
cabin tp rest a bit EJ had prom
ised to call me if I had a bite.
In due time I had "something on
the "line!" I rushed out and
reeled . . . and reeled ... no,
he wouldn't help me! I had to
land whatever was on my own
line. No one else offered any help,
although my efforts were given
full attention. You guessed it . . .
EJ had hung that beastly sea
spide on my line and dropped it
over the side!
Editorial Comment
From The Oregon Press
William the Conqueror, who le-1
feated the English in 1066 at the i
Battle of Hastings, brought with I
him smiths skilled as horseshoers :
and armorers. '
One hundred fourteen thousand
tons .if spinach were shipped
fresh to markets In the United
Slate. In 1948.
MANY EXPERIMENTS
ON MILL WASTE
(Medford Mail Tribune)
Mention was made here recent
ly of experiments now under way
to produce charcoal from wood
waiite and It was observed that
success of the effort might mean
much here where there is a large
amount of such waste and where
the burning of same creates a
bad smoke and cinder condition.
It has -.Ince been learned that
the Oregon Forest Products Lab
oratory, operated by Oregon
Slate college, with the support of
private lumber operators and
state funds, is also carrying on
or will soon have under way
more than 40 research projects
looking to new uses for waste
wood in manufacture of profit
able products.
Other such experiments are be
ing carried on by the Western
Pine Association laboratory In
Portland, by the U. S. Finest
Products Laboratory at Madison.
Wis., and by some of the larger
timber companies.
Making of molasses from wood
waste Is currently under way in
the laboratory at Madison. The
director of that laboratory,
speaking recently In Kosebuig.
sal that if every cow in the Unit
ed States was given the recom
mended feeding of three pounds
of molasses dally, there would
not be sufficient wood waste in
the entire country to supply the
market. Th molasses, he said, is
also good food for poultry of all
kinds as well as sheep and other
livestock. There Is also a large
field In industrial use. all of
which makes the market for mo
lasses almost unlimited.
There Is a fly In the molasses,
however. In the shape of a ques
llon as to whether molasses made
from wood waste can compote
profitably with the produce lm
(xirted from Cuba and Hawaii.
The nation's tannin and wax
supplies may some day come
from IHniglas fir trees, scientists
believe. Already their experi
ments In which shredded hark Is
mixed with benzene and the sol
vent run through extracting and
evaporating machines, have pro
duced both wax and tannin. The
residue is a mixture of cork and
wood fibres that can be sepa
rated, refined and used as soil
conditioners, In making plastics,
or ground into powders for mix
ins' wi'h insecticide!..
A process for extracting resin
from pine stumps has been com
pleted by the Western Pine As
sociation in Portland and if it
proves economically feasible,
should mean the Northwest's pa
per manufacturing Industry will
no longer be dependent on the
South for resins for siring.
The Portland laboratory has j
perfected a new pressed board i
called "Staypak," utilizing white
fir which is found in western pine
forests but which was ignored in
prewar lumbering. A piece of ,
Staypak is said to feel as hard
anu lu-avy as a smoom piece oi
slate and can be used for tool
and knife handles, shuttles, floors
for bowling alleys, furniture, pan
eling and signs.
Sawdust, blended with plastics
and resins and molded together
under heat and pressure, is the
main Ingredient of a colorful top
ping for tables, counters, panels
and diainboards being manufac
tured by a Sacramento concern.
The Weyerhaeuser Timber Co..
at Uingview. Wash., started its
research back In 1942 mainly as
a wartime effort seeking a "suo
stitute for imported cork. The
company Is now turning out five
product under the name of Sil
vacon, and soon a sixth, a wood
wool, will be announced.
Other commercial use of mill
and logging waste is a liquid
compound for removing boiler
rust, and in the making of lam
inated timbers for mines.
the flood line of the reservoir.
Consolidated Builders, the con
tractors, are providing housing
for their principal workers at
Mill City and will transport them
to and from .he site of the work.
As related In the news story In
Friday's Statesman, written by
Managing Editor Wendell Webb,
Mongold will be under water
when the reservoir is filled. It is
above the level necessitated by
the flood control feature of the
dam as first authorized, but be
low the level of the pool to lie
backed up to provide for the pow
er feature added later. What is
difficult to understand Is why this
contingency was not foreseen.
Power has for many years been
considered in connection with the
Detroit dam. In August of 1942
this writer accompanied the late
Senator Charles L. McNary and
Col. Cecil Moore, then division
engineer for the corps, to view
the dam site. Serious considera
tion was being given then to ad
vance the construction of the
dam In order to augment the
power supply. When the highway
was relocated It was hung at lev
els above the power dam. While
it is true that the first authoriza
tion was for a flocd control dam,
the army engineers came back
at the next session of congress
and got approval of the higher
dam for power-generating pur
poses. It would seem that a mini
mum of foresight would have in
dicated the wisdom of locating
Mongold above the "high water
mark."
It Is mistakes like this which
weaken public confidence in of
ficials charged with responsibil
ity for the spending of money.
The army in particular is under
suspicion because of its wartime
extravagances. We do not want
to see repeated In peacetime the
wastefulness which was excused
by the haste attendant on war
making. Mongold was the name picked
to honor an engineer in the corps.
It will live briefly as a .name
for a mistake of the corps of engineers.
In the Day's News
(Continued From r'age One)
head for Palm Beach and Miami
as Instinctively at the swallows
head for San Juan Caplstrano in
the spring.
There l( this difference:
The qulek-and-easy money East
erners head for Florida's Gold
Coast to show off their new
wealth. The swallows go to Capls
trano to mate, build home and
rear families.
e
THIS dispatch is from Washington:
'Some of President Truman'i
closest friends predicted today he
won't let it be known until after
the 1950 congressional elections
whether he will run again."
That's a sure sign that we have
passed one Presidential election
and are beginning to get ready
for another one.
a
MY personal opinion is that AT
THE PRESENT MOMENT
Harry Truman doesn't want to
run again. I'll add that I think
he WILL run again.
Why?
Well, the pressure on a Presi
dent to run and run and keep on
running is well-nigh Irresistible.
For one thing, the habit of power
grows on people. For another, the
Jobs of several million people de
pend on the Incumbent of the
White House.
The pressure they put on him
to run again, so tha. they won't
be thrown back into the cold,
clammy muck of private life, is
too great to be measured by any
existing instrument of precision,
aaa
THE situation has another element:
Men who hold positions of re
sponsibility and authority fall
inevitably Into the belief (sincere,
so far as they are concerned) that
NOBODY ELSE CAN DO THE
JOB AS WELL AS THEY.
SO far as I'm concerned, I hope
we add to our constitution an
amendment forbidding any Presi
dent to hold more than two terms.
It seems to me that one of his
tory's clearest lessons is that too
much power, held in too few
hands too long is the most danger
our of all threats to the liberties
of the people.
I REMEMBER clearly a certain
chamber of commerce in Ore
gon (which I shall not name
here) whose affairs were admin
istered for many, many years by
a little group of able, public
spirited men. They were so good
and held so completely the confi
dence of their townspeople that
they were returned to office year
after year.
EVENTUALLY they became
too old (or too busy with their
own affairs) to go on functioning.
Because no new blood had been
brought in, there was no one to
fall back on at the moment. The
organization disbanded and for
two years the town had no cham
ber of commerce.
Northwest Tree Seed Crop Above
MONCOLO AN ERROR
(The Oregon Statesman) I
The explanation given for the
abandonment of Mongold Is a bit '
hard to accept. Mongold is the
construction camp built by the;
armv engineers to house worker i
on the IVtroit dam. It is to be!
abandoned with verv little use. !
after an investment of about half I
a million dollars has been made I
there, because It Is located below I
CURBING DRUNKEN DRIVING
(Coos Bay Times I
Announcement from the office
of the secretary of state of a
campaign to curtail drunken
driving in Oregon should meet
with approval from all who have
concern for the public safety.
Given prominence in Salem ac
counts of the proposal is a plan
seeking the elimination of the
practice attributed to some
Judges of recommending rein
statement of drivers' licenses
which the same Judges have re
voked afler drivers have been
found guilty of drunken driving.
This curb would be exercised bv
a board of review which would
pass on all applications and rec
ommendations for the restoration
of suspended drivers' licenses. A
record of numerous convictions,
it is stated, would cause the
board to recommend against the
restoration of a license.
A program to control drunken
driving calls for stern measures
which will either influence the
guilty ones to abstain from op
erating a motor vehicle when
there is a chance that the drinK
ing of intoxicants might Influence-his
driving or bar him from
driving under any circumstance.
Stiff fines may do the trick wit r
some. Some might be deterred by
the publicity given convictions
for drunken driving. The suspen
sion of a driver's license for a
year is a serious punishment to
many, particularly in days of de
pendence upon motor transpor
tation to get to and from work.
Of late, it has been noticed that
more Judges have taken to han
ding Jail sentences to drunken
drivers without suspending the
jail term on payment of fines.
All of these forms of punishment
do have their effect upon the
amines of those convicted. In:
some rases seriously affecting
the family welfare both econo-1
mically and socially. It is too;
had that such should be the case 1
but it should not be allowed to
cause ua to lose sight of the
greater suffering that drunken
drivers all too frequently bring
to others in accidents that wipe
out lives or cause long weeks,
monlhs. even years of suffering
In hospital beds, perhaps life-long
disability. We cannot afford to
be sentimental about drunken
driving. It is to be hoped that
the program announced by the
secretary of state will be follow
ed out with the realism which
is demanded.
HOUSING DECONTROL
NECESSARY
(Salem Capital Journal)
President Truman blames the
lifting of rental controls In areas
still having them on congress'
failure to provide sufficient ap
propriations to enforce the rent
control law. Every compulsory
regulative law requires an armv
of enforcement olficers and the
expenditures of tax money re
quired by the bureaucracy in en
forcing regimentation frequently
exceeds the benefits resulting,
which has been demonstrated in
rental control, which has been
honey-combed by favoritism and
evasion, and has largely been a
lopsided farce.
Rental controls, like other ar
bitrary controls, are part and
parcel of the police state. Justi
fiable perhaps in war time and
emergency periods. It is time the
economic law of supply and de
mand be given a chance to solve
the rental problem, especially
since the building boom is still
mushrooming all over the coun
try and sufficient rental housing
exists or soon will.
In view of the lact that federal
costs n time of peace will exceed
revenues by $5 billion this fiscal
year, and that the government
is now on a deficit spending ba
sis, economy is essential, especi
ally with a world record debt of
$L'S2 billion already existing.
There is no better place to start
the economizing than in these
surplus unnecessary federal bu
reaus. As it is. congress has only
cut the housing budget from S26
million to $17.5 million so why
the presidential squawk?
PRUDENTIAL LIFI
Insurance
HORACE C. etRO
Spacial Agent
111 W-tt Oak
Offia 712 J Pes. 171 -J
FOREST SEED CROP
ABOVE AVERAGE
' Ttmberland owneri and forest
er! will be relieved to learn that
seed crops for the commercially
important tree species are better
than average this year, accord
ing to J. A. Hall, director of the
Pacific Northwest forest and
range experiment station, Port-
T.-.. .Hiapgl IfM la nflSt lit-
inuu. rw, o ' ' J - ---
tie or ni s-ed war produced in
me raciiic rsuruiweai
Hall stated that reports from the
IT C fnro.1 uinjifa rfltlPPr dis-
tricts indicate medium crops with
an occasional arjunaar.i crop mi
IVtiieriaa fir urMtrrn hemlock and
western red cedar all along the
west slope oi tne cascade moun
tains from Mt. Baker in Wash-
l.nt.n .nutVl tt thjl KickivOUK in
Oregon, with an occasional sim
ilar report or tnese species
where thev occur along the coast
and east of the Cascade Range.
PAnHomcB ninii la nrndlirinff nn
average or better croo over its
entire range except in the ex
treme northern part of the State
of Washington, but the prospects
lor a seeu crop iui mis Byn---a
for next year are poor. Noble
and silver fir that occur at the
hih.i. alat;flllnnc in th CaSCA-ie
an1 Cnaat Vf mint aina fllan silOW
consistently medium or abundant
crops. SlIKa snruce is Droaucing
medium and abundant crops
along the coast of Oregon and
Washington and medium and
abundant crops are also shown
for Port Orford white cedar in ita
natural range on the southern Or
egon coast.
The occurrence Tf tree seed
crops has been found to be rath
er irregular &nd unpredictable,
heavy and medium crops occur
ring only at 3-to-7-year Intervals.
However, It has been learned that
under correct storage conditions
these seeds can be held several
years without loss oi germination
ability. "It is probable that seed
collector will take advantage of
the current year's croo to pre
Dare for the lean years to come, '
Hall stated.
Black pearls are very valua
ble because they are rare.
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