EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Sunday, NeTmbr 10, 18S5
Value of Jron in Diet Explained By
Nutrition Foundation; Needed Daily
Iron-rich foods each day help
to avoid fatigue, weakness, and
nervousness . . . early symptoms
of the anemia that results when
diets are deficient in iron, ac
cording to the Nutrition Founda
tion. Our thirty trillion red
blood cells need iron for their
hemoglobin, a key substance
which enables the red cells to
carry oxygen throughout the
body.
Since little iron is stored, it
is essential to have a steady sup
ply of iron-rich foods, thejFoun
dation warns. Also, the ability
of the body to absorb the iron
from foods depends to some ex
tent on the quality of the diet
as a whole. For example, in re
ports of the way the body uses
its iron supply, reviewed in the
October 1.955 issue of Nutrition
Reviews, it is shown that iron is
absorbed better when liver, vege
tables, yeast, or enriched bread
are included in the diet. Citrus
fruits or other sources of vitamin
C also enhance iron absorption.
Topping the list of iron-rich
foods are the various types of
liver. One serving will provide
more than 12 milligrams of iron
usually recommended per day.
Oysters, scallops, clams, lean
meats, sweetbreads, and liver
wurst are good sources of iron,
as are dried fruits, loganberries,
avocadoes, eggs, dried beans and
pea,s, whole grain and enriched
breads and cereals, potatoes,
green vegetaoies, sauerkraut
escarolle, mustard and other
leafy greens.
Combine these high irons foods
with other protective foods in
the following daily pattern for
a diet that will be high in quali
ty too, the Foundation says.
Serve the proteins of eggs, meat,
milk, cheese, fish, or poultry at
each me,al; two or three servings
of fruit each day with one a
citrus fruit or juice, tomatoes,
or melon; green and yellow vege
tables and legumes; potatoes
once a day; whole grain and en
riched breads and cereals two
to three times daily.
As iron dissolves from foods
easily, canned foods, cooked aft
er being put in the cans and
sealed, may be better sources of
minerals than fresh foods im
properly prepared. To avoid
loss of iron and other minerals,
nutritionists recommend quick
preparation (no presoaking) of
vegetables, and especially a short
cooking time. This conserves
vitamins and flavor, too! Serv
ing foods with the liquid in
which they are cooked is also
a good practice. To keep the
minerals and fresh flavors of
frozen foods, prepare them ac
cording to package directions.
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Mother Creates
Bedtime Pictures
For Two Children
By CLAIRE COX
United Press Correspondent
New "Vork (U.R) Joy Batch-
elor draws bedtime pictures for
her two children instead of read
ing to them.
The kids like it that way and
Miss Batchelor gets in return
inspiration for the animated car
toons she and her husband, John
Halas, turn out for a living.
"It's easier to draw picture
stories than to read them," Miss
Batchelor said. "And sometimes
the children draw pictures
themselves that turn out to be
better than our own. ,
"We get good ideas from them.
Of course, it won't last forever.
They'll grow up. Children are
much more imaginative than
adults. Everyone under seven
has an absolutely gorgeous imag
ination." Mitt Batchelor and Halas came
here from their London head
quarters for the premiere of
George Orwell's famous satire
on Communism. Their next ef
fort will be "Pilgrim's Progress,"
which will include both live act
ors and cartoons. ' ,
The couple has made more
than 100 government cartoons to
publicize various ventures such
as the Marshall Plan and NATO.
They specialize in turning out
cartoons for adults, but they test
their ideas first on nine-year-old
Vivien and five-year-old Paul.
The children's artistic efforts
frequently reflect the mood they
are in and a few minutes at the
drawing board often gives them
a chance to let off steam, more
or less as adults do, Miss Batch
elor said.
"When Vivien is in a bad
mood, she draws storms at sea,
full of shipwrecks, or railway
accidents with lots of bodies scat
tered about," the proud mother
related. "When she is in a good
mood, she does flowers and
fields. It's really quite tran
quil." "There are days when we are
littered with railway accidents
and storms at sea. It's only a
matter of handing out enough
paper to keep up with the child."
Doctor McCauley
To Speak for DAR
Members of Crater Lake chap
ter, Daughters of American Rev
olution, will hear Dr. John D.
McCauley of Southern Oregon
college speak on the subject,
"Education's Role in Protecting
America's Future," when they
meet Saturday, November 26.
The session will be held at the
home of Mrs. G. R. Carter at
2 p.m.
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Last week's snow wag unusual, beautiful, a nuisance, wonder
ful; good for business or bad for business, etc., depending upon
whether one was young, old, poetic, operated a drive-in theater or
a fuel business.
When we looked at the front garden, we wished for a color
camera. The big willow tree, which still hag most of its leaves
even though it's mid-November, looked strange against the blank
et of snow on the ground and the surrounding hills, and the
pyracantha branches hung low against the house with the scarlet
berries showing through the tufts of snow.
It was even fun to shovel a little snow a very little. But when
it came to backing the car out of the garage we wished the cold
white stuff was all on the trees instead of on the ground under
the car wheels.
Imagine the dismay of the hostesses who had invited friends
to tea at their home in the country. It seemed a shame to waste
the party food and the decorations, but what if someone ditched
a car? There was much phoning back and forth, and finally the
bravest of the guests set forth.
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The mild hazards of the trip were forgotten with the warmth
of the welcome, the beauty of the tea table, and the comfort of
the hot tea with sweets. The afternoon served to point up again
the widely varying talents of American women who are efficient
business women, charming hostesses and good cooks., Mrs. Kath-
eryn Heffernan, who helps to manage a farm and supervise a very
large garden, also is a member of the West Side School board,
makes wonderful cookies and arranges flowers with artistry.
Her guests Wednesday exclaimed over the tea table center
piece which boasted delphinium, little pink roses and small white
carnations. They came from the garden,' said Mrs. Heffernan,
who had the foresight to pick quantities of blooms before the ex
treme cold and snow beset the valley, and store them in just the
right temperature.
Somewhat unsure of what might happen on the road between
the family domicile and the Hanleylands, we had the chains put
on the car. It had been a long time since this driver, had been
at the wheel of a car with chains, and the resulting noise and
vibration practically unnerved us. And the interviews with service
station employees unnerved us too. We learned one cold fact:
men in service stations don't want to put on chains, even if they
get paid, for it. The. first brusquely said he wouid do it later
much later and since we didn't have time to wait, we tried a sec
ond. He plaintively said "lady, it lakes 20 minutes to put on a set
of chains."
Having lived for years and years where the snow was so com
mon that it didn't stop business except during and after bliz
zards we took this with a grain of salt. At the third station
which we should have tried in the first place, the young man said
sure, he'd already put on 15 or 20 sets. He whizzed them on in
less than five minutes, pocketed his buck and that was that. Let's
see, at $1 for every five minutes, in an hour we could earn
never mind, it was worth it.
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At the tea Mrs. Victor Birdseye questioned Potpourri, with
deep sympathy in her voice, as to . how we were coming with
daughter's wedding preparations, and asked "Are 1 you putting
everything down on -lists?" She should watch us for a time the
house is full of lists lists of what to buy down town on the
next trip, people to call, people to write letters to, lists of things
to borrow, lists of special little chores around the house, notes
to remind me to remind some one else to do something important,
lists of mending, cooking and cleaning. Yes sireeee we know
all about lists.
The question of which is more valuable to the housewife.
time or money, when it comes to the preparation of food, has been
the object of one of the endless pieces of research carried on in this
country. This particular bit of researching was done by the Bur
eau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics of the U.S. De
partment of Agriculture and the results will be particularly in-
teresting to housewives employed outside of the home, and to
those whose household tasks, in addition to cooking, are ex
tremely heavy.
The bureau found that a day's food for four persons costs
$6.70 in Washington D.C. at chain store prices using ready-to-
serve items; the same menus using partially-prepared foods cost
$5.80 for four persons for a day's food. These same menus cost
$4.90 when the cook did all the possible work .herself. That means
a saving of 90 cents a day for meals using partially-prepared foods
and $1.80 saving for the meals made practically from "scratch" by
the cook.
According to Miss Lila B. Dickerson, extension specialist from
Washington State college who released a statement on the survey,
the point a homemaker must decide for herself is what is more
important to save $1.80 or 31 hours of time.
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Mrs. W. H. Ziegler wrote Potpourri a note several days ago to
say that she and other members of Ruch PTA appreciated the
page on the school carnival, but that we had credited, her with
a job she doesn't have any more. Mrs. Ziegler, who wrote pub
licity for the group for a number of years, has been succeeded by
Mrs. Fred West.
Mrs. D. K. West probably won't bother to write her daughter,
Ellen, about how cold it has been in Jackson county, for Ellen is
attending St. Andrews university in Scotland and is having plenty
of troubles herself with the cold. Ellen has written her parents
that the ancient dormitory in which she Is living has no central
heating and that each day she is given a bucket of coal and a
little pile of shavings with which to build a fire in a tiny fireplace
to heat her room.
The girls sometimes pool their coal supplies and then two or
three huddle around the one fire, Ellen wrote. Because of the
penetrating cold, everyone wears old-fashioned "woolies." Ellen
was unprepared for the fact that all students wear academic
gowns and mortarboards to classes, and ride bicycles from build
ing to building, and she described how she pedals along in the
cold wind, with her student robes flowing behind.
It had to happen some time. Last Monday Potpourri and
Photgrahper Bob Dyer made an unscheduled run to the airport in
the hope of getting a picture. With only 20 minutes to drive out
and get the picture the two of us made a mad dash, whizzed into
the terminal, received kind but maybe a little reluctant permission
to do the picture, grouped our subjects, had the United Airlines
attendant set up a sign,- piled up some luggage for atmosphere
and aimed the camera. The shutter stuck.
One of the men helpfully "held the big camera while the red-
faced cameraman tried to unstick it, but it was no good. So, dear
readers, Mrs. I. E. Schuler left on the plane for Portland and
Europe with Mrs. W. H. Fluhrer, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Collins and
Robbie saying goodbye but with no picture of the farewell to
print in today's Tribune. O.S.
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