Spilyay Tymoo
July 29,1983 Page 9
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Fair offers chance for show and teil
Any young person living in
Jefferson C ounty or the
W a rm S p r i n g s I n d i a n
Reservation who was enrolled
in a 4-H club during the past
year is eligible to exhibit in the
4-H division of the Jefferson
County Fair, August 11-14.
■Entries m ust be the work of
the 4-H member and must have
been done as a 4-H project.
(For example, school projects
or the vest made at Culture
Camp cannot be entered as a 4-
H project).
4-H members are separated
according to the grade they
were last in: Junior, 4th-6th;
Immediate 7th-9th; Senior
10th-12th.
Younger 4-H members are
classified as “associate 4-H
m em b ers” o r “ p re 4-H
members.” Entries by associate
4-H members will get a green
exhibitor ribbon and the judges
might make some helpful
suggestions or offer some
words of encouragment.
4-H Record books are to
accompany all 4-H entries.
Things to include are: 1. Cover,
either the tan folder entitled
“My 4-H Records” or any
suitable binder. 2. Table of
Contents is encouraged. 3. A
photo of 4-H member with or
without project if you have one.
4. Permanent Record, optional
for first year members. 5.
Project Record, the current
year’s record for the project (s)
S a fe ty urged w hen
canning tomato mixes
As tomatoes begin to ripen
on the vines, home canners
begin to think of ways to use
their abundant crop, says
T eresa H o g u e, Je ffe rso n
C ounty E xtension agent.
Tomatoes used for canning,
whether canned whole, made
into juice or used, for sauces,
should be firm and ripe when
harvested. Tomatos from dead
vines and those cracked or
moldy should not be used in
home canned products, warns
Hogue.
There are many tomatoe-
vegetable combinations which
can be canned using a boiling-
water bath. These include
many stewed tomato recipes,
tomato juice cocktail and some
to m a to -v e g e ta b le sauces.
W hen c a n n in g to m a to -
vegetable combinations it is
important to follow reliable-
tested recipes exactly in order
to m a in ta in th e c o rre c t
proportion of tomatoes to
other vegetables, says Carolyn
Raab, Foods and Nutrition
S p e c ia list fo r th e OSU
Extension Service. Firm, ripe
tom atoes alone are high
enough in acid to prevent the
growth of the spore-forming
bacteria, Clostridium botu-
linum. When other vegetables
are added this acidity level is
reduced warns Raab. Some
tomato-vegetable combination
recipes have been found
through testing to be acidic
enough to process in a boiling
water bath. If the recipe is not
followed exactly, then the
mixture should he frozen or
processed in a pressure canner
the length of time for the
vegetable with the longest
processing time.
Hogue warns that home food
preservers should not try
to d u p lic a te co m m ercial
tom ato products at home
without tested recipes if they
plan on canning the product.
Home economics have a place;
however, says Hogue, but they
should be frozen rather than
canned.
The OSU Extension Service
has available several tested
recipes for tomato-vegetable
combinations. They include
chili sauce, tomato sauce and
puree, tomato juice blends and
a number salsa sauce recipes.
Contact the Warm Springs
Extension office for further
information.
Extension
Notes
from Pennie Albrandt
and Clint Jacks
Check writing tips for teens
For many teenagers, the first
summer or after-school job
brings with it a first checking
account and regular banking
schedule. T eresa H ogue,
Jefferson County Extension
agent, offers some helpful
guidelines for check writers:
—Before writing a check,
review the balance in your
account. Is it adequate to cover
the check?
—Sign your check using the
same signature you filed with
the bank when opening the
account.
—Record the information on
the check stub or register at the
same time you write the check.
In addition to careful check
w riting and recording, a
routine for examining your
bank statement is important.
Alice Mills Morrow, Oregon
State University Extension
family economics specialist,
—Carefully fill in the name to recommends checking the bank
whom the check is payable statement against your stubs or
register. Then make a list of any
before signing the check.
checks that haven’t cleared the
—Accurately and legibly fill in bank. Add these together and
the amount of the check both in s u b tr a c t fro m the b a n k
figures and in writing. Start at balance.
the beginning of the provided
The next step is to compare
space so additional amounts
cannot be added after the check your deposit records with the
d e p o s its lis te d o n th e
leaves your hands.
—Always write in ink that
cannot be erased.
statement. Add any recent
deposits not shown on the
statement.
This amount should be the
balance as shown in your check
register. If is isn’t, look for the
unrecorded checks that may
have been overlooked in
recording.
“Match the amounts of
checks on your statement and
your records,” Morrow says.
“Slip-ups often occur by
overlooking service charges or
by m aking m a th e m a tic a l
errors.
“If there are checks you did
not write that were charged to
your account or deposits you
made that aren’t shown on the
statement, contact the bank,”
Morrow suggests. “These are
more serious problems that go
b e y o n d m a th e m a tic s o f
forgetfulness in keeping up
your check register.”
New protein sweetnerout now
A spartam e is a newly
available sweetener used in
dry mixes for beverages,
gelatins, puddings, dessert,
cold breakfast cereals and even
chewing gum, says Doris
B ra c k e tt, W arm S p rin g s
Extension agent.
“Aspartame is synthesized
by combining two amino acids,
phenylalanine and aspartic
acid,” she explains. “Amino
acids are the chemical building
b lo c k s o f p r o te in s , so
aspartame is digested and
m etabolized like proteins
naturally occurring in foods.”
solutions, aspartame separates
into its amino acid consti
tuents, losing all its sweet flavor
within 60 to 90 days, depending
on the refrigerated storage
temperature.
“Currently aspartame is not
approved by the Food and
Drug Administration for use in
soft drinks in the.U.S.,” Weiner
notes. “However, in Canada,
a sp a rta m e -sw ee te n e d so ft
drinks are available.
years.
“Because other non-nutritive
For non-mathematicians,
sweeteners in Canada can be
the easiest way to find out how
sold only as over-the-counter
much you car actually has
drugs, Canadians have been
depreciated is to look up its
eagerly purchasing aspartame
wholesale value in the National
Because aspartame is up to sweetened soft drinks and the
Automobile Dealers Associa
200 times as sweet as sucrose, short shelf life has not been a
tions Used Car Guide.
Insurance: These costs may common table sugar, the problem.”
A s p a r ta m e h a s b e e n
range from less than $150 a average daily sweetener intake
year for a good driver of an for a person using only subjected to years of careful
inexpensive car to $600 or more aspartame would probably not scientific testing to resolve all
a year for a young, high-risk exceed one gram of four questions regarding its safety,
the specialist says. Tests in
driver of an expensive car in a calories.
A ccording to Jo an B. adult humans have shown that
big city.
O ther f i x e d expenses: W e in e r , O r e g o n S t a t e in high does aspartame is safe,
R e g i s t r a t i o n , p u r c h a s e University Extension foods even when combined with
tenance; repairs, accessories and nutrition specialist, the high amounts of MSG, another
and parts; tires; tolls and new sweetener does have some p r o te in d e r iv e d f la v o r
limitations. Heating aspartame enhancer.
parking expenses.
“Of course, due to ethical
Your variable costs include: to boiling tem perature or
gas and oil, maintenance; above caused it to separate into considerations tests using very
repairs, accessories and parts; the two amino acids from high levels of aspartame cannot
hich it was m ade. It be done with childrern,” says
tire s; to lls an d p a rk in g w
then completely loses it sweet W einer. “ P a re n ts sh o u ld
expenses.
instruct children to follow
If you attach a dollar-and- taste.
Another drawback to the use directions on aspartam e-
cents figure to each of these
categories of car ownership of aspartame is that it has a sweetened products.”
Although no evidence of a
costs, the total will astound limited shelf life in water-
containing products such as problem exists, children should
you.
soft drinks. In acidic water be discouraged from using the
C a r c o s ts v a r y
A necessity for most families,
the car can be a very expensive
item in the family budget. Have
you ever stopped to think just
how m uch tran sp o rta tio n
costs? In a recent study, the
U.S. Department of Trans
portation found that it costs an
average of 17.9 cents per mile to
operate a standard-size car.
Depreciation'. This is your
biggest fixed expense. From
the day you buy it, your car
loses value the way a sieve loses
water. Wear and tear or
high mileage will raise the
depreciation rate, but age is the
main factor in determining a
car’s trade-in-value.
As a rough guide, a car
depreciates by 30 percent of its
value during the first year you
own it, 18 percent the second,
14 percent the third, 11 percent
the fourth, eight percent the
fifth, six percent the sixth, five
percent the seventh and about
tw o p e rc e n t e a c h y e a r
th e r e a f te r . S o m e sm a ll
imports, though, depreciate
only 25 percent in their first two
entered in the fair. Also include
any special forms if they apply
to your project. 6 .4-H notes to
be written in diary or story
form and cover all clubs
enrolled in during year. 7.
Newspaper clippings and/or
photos are optional. For help
with compiling 4-H Record
Book, members are encou
raged to get help from their
leader or 4-H agent.
Clubs that do not fit into the
“normal” project categories
may wish to deveop a club
display. Guidelines for 4-H
displays are on page 31 of the
J e f f e r s o n C o u n ty F a ir
Premuim list. Copies are
a v a i l a b l e t h r o u g h th e
Extension office.
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drink mixes as a dry powder
candy or lick, Weiner went on.
A s p a r ta m e h a s b e e n
approved for use by diabetics
desiring sweeteners that do not
affect their insulin levels.
On the other hand, persons
with PKU (Phenylketonuria), a
rare genetic disease, should
avoid apsartam e-sw eetened
products. This is because
phenylalanine, one of the
constituent amino acids, is not
well tolerated by persons with
PKU.
Aspartame has very little, if
any, aftertaste, which is an
advantage for those who wish
to non-nutritive sweeteners.
“Although no one has been
able to scientifically prove that
normal use of non-nutritive
sweeteners produces trimmer
people, dieters claim that they
enjoy such products,” says
W e in e r . A ls o , b e c a u s e
aspartame is a protein and not
a carbohydrate, it will not
contribute to tooth decay.
“Aspartame is marked by
G.D. Searl Company to food
processors under the name
“NutriSweet,” the specialist
reports. Searl also mixes it with
lactose and an anti-caking
agent and markets the produce
as Equal, a table-top sweetener,
she adds.
Jefferson County Fair
August 11-14