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BIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, June 17, 1958 Is That So? Noticed the change! lately In your carrots, string beans, broc coli and beets? Perhaps not, because the re styling has been so gradual. But when you think back, say to 20 years ago, you'll recall how dif ferent some of these vegetables were. Mostly, these changes were brought about by the. frozen-food industry and the way those boys look at it, apparently there is no vegetable so good but what it can be made even better. In this remodeling process so many of our basic vegetables have bene redone that it is al most impossible to sit down to a dinner without enjoying at least -16-56 one of these restyled foods. Here are some of the changes: The carrot which tended to be top-heavy and often forked has been given an H look, slendered down from above and filled out from below to make it more cyl indrical. Means much less waste when shot through a dicing ma chine for soup. Remember the curved snap beans? All very good, but that curve slowed down the French itring bean cut. So what did they do? They took the curve out and now it is straight as a string. Speeds slicing by 25 per cent. The inside of beets, you'll re call, used to be of a palish color now and then. But no more; they are a beautiful deep red through out. As for carrots, they often had a pale core with a bright or- COME IN...Jff m 4 NIW WAYS TO & HEAR MAICO Medford, Oregon 242 So. Central Ave. PHONE 2-7418 Call for Appointment Br EUGENE BURNS Ranger.Narurslilt ange outside. Now, after soma 30 years, carrots are solid orange. Gives the cubed carrots more eye-appeal in the soup pot. Habits Changed You'd think this had gone far enough, perhaps. Not so. Because most f r e s h-frozen processing plants were located in the val leys like the northwest where other vegetables were in season these restylers went about changing the very habits of ve getables so they would grow in that area. Take corn. Corn nor mally needs long hot summer nights which they dont' get in the northwest. So a hybrid was developed which flourished in areas where nights became cool but yet the kernel was kept soft and tender. How has this horticultural magic been brought about, and so quickly? Let's take a look at the carrot which had been growing the same way for a thousand years. Back in the '20 s, the canned soup industry asked for a carrot which was orange all the way through none of this sickly looking core. So Frank Cuthbert- son of the Ferry-Morse Seed Co., went to work to breed a strain with an orange core. First he had to find one with orange "blood" as he termed it. To find that one, he grew thousands. To Eet a peek at their cores, he took samplings of each root with a small glass tube. Whenever he found a darker- than-average core, he put a marker beside it and waited pa tiently for the seed. Then they were replanted and after repeat ing the tedious procedure 15 years he finally got ten carrots with no trace of pale yellow cores. Furthermore, he selected them because of their size and shape, which was just what the soup makers ordered. Success, after painstaking effort. And so wtih broccoli. At one time it grew as many buds on a rather long stalk. Cuthbertson's job was to bring the buds to gether to make something of a cauliflower head. Plant Restyled Presto, within nine years he restyled it into an umbrella- head plant which the pickers could harvest with one swoop or the knife and the packers could put it up with a minimum of effort. Some lima beans had an oc casional one perhaps one in a SIGN OF SAFETY 6r COURTESY Wt art dedicated to ouist the independent truckers In overcoming their financial plight and stabliring the industry by endeavoring to establish effective, fair and just controls os well os operating regulations. NOTICE TO MEMBERS Eoch of us has on obligation, not only to ourselves and our families, but to feilow truck operators. Their wel fare, future and investment, as well os yours, is being ser iously threatened by conditions now existing in our- in dustry. Several of these conditions con be corrected only by legislative changes. Voice your support of the organ ization to every trucker with whom you come in contact. Our local representative will contact them personally as quickly os possible and explain our program and benefits. We must all jO'n honds and act now! Display your decal proudly ... It is your personal bodge of active participation to protect your industry. United Log Truckers Association, Inc. For Information ss Clyde Wyant 235 South Oakdaltt Upholstery Academic Classes Start Monday M Courses in upholstery, ac ademic classes, and arts and crafts will get under way Mon day as part of the Medford pub lic schools summer program. The upholstery class will be held for two weeks, beginning Monday and concluding June 29. Classes will be held at the McLoughlin Junior High school gymnasium. The course will include up holstering small projects and fabrication of slip-covers or draperies. The class, to be held from 9 a.m. to noon daily, will be instructed by Mrs. May Frye of Eugene. Registrations m,ay be made Monday at the junior high school. Academic Classes Summer academic classes for students of Medford schools having recommendations from their teachers and principals, will be held from June 18 to July 20 at McLoughlin Junior High school. - The program, school officials reported, is directed at students who have missed considerable time from school or who have barely met minimum requirements for pro motion. Registration will start at 8:30 a.m. Monday and classes will meet daily between 8:30 a.m. and noon. No tuition fee will be required for res idents of school district 49. Arts and crafts workshop for students in grades four through 12 will start at 8:30 a.m. Mon day at the woodshop building directly north of the main build ing at McLoughlin Junior High school. Classes will be held Mon day through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to noon and will con clude July 20. Classes will begin June 25 in band and baseball. Already in session are adult driver train ing classes, which started June 13, and orchestra, which started June 12. AWARD CONTRACT Salem (U.R) The Oregon State Highway Commission Sat urday awarded a $107,240 con tract toTom Lillebo of Reeds port for grading, and oiling on the Independence-Albany high way approximately five miles south of Independence. There were five higher bids for the federal 'aid project. Washington (U.R) The Navy's second super aircraft car rier, the Saratoga, went to sea Saturday for final builders' trials. It will run at full power for the first time. On The Side By E. V. Durlinq (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) Where is the world's greatest hospital for the treatment of rheumatic diseases? Many rheu matalogists claim it is the Royal National hospital for rheumatic diseases in Bath, England. In any event, this great institution was the first hospital in the world to devote itself entirely to rheumatic diseases. Protection The great ballet dancer, Pav lova had each of her toes insured for $17,000. Paderewski, the pi anist had his fingers insured for $280,000. But wait, you haven't heard anything yet. Jimmy "Schnozzle" Durante has his nose insured for $50,000. hundred with a bluish-colored seed. 'Twouldn't do! So he began the difficult process of getting rid of this one-in-a-hundred black sheep. Starting with a lone plant or two, Cuthbertson developed a pure strain. And from this has developed a crop of more than 100,000,000 pounds a year. Without a blue one among 'em. Has this remodeling of vege tables paid off? The fresh-frozen food packers respond with a thundering affirmative! Because the vegetables look fresher and more perfect with lots of eye appeal t h e housewife buys them: and so, today, we have solid orange carrots; red-fleshed beets, uniform green lima beans, easy-to-process broccoli, and straight-as-a-string string beans. (Released by the McClura Newspaper Syndicate) (Copyright. 1958, by Eugene Burns) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia, Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wild-life, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome , Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, I Calif. Asides Seventy per cent of transat lantic travel is now said to be by air . . . Grace Kelly and Mar- lene Dietrich have the same leg measurements . . . am asked what is the record for least weight of infant at birth. Smal lest I know of is one recorded by British Medical association which weighed 10 ounces at birth and survived to be a healthy adult. Pleas Note Donna Waskaban, said to be the strongest woman in the world, includes among her feats of strength the tearing of a full pack of playing cards into halves, then quarters and then eighths. If you know a fellow "who fancies himself as a strong man, ask him to try that. Sidelights The patron saint of pawnbrok ers is St. Nicholas . . . discussing George Sanders, one of her for mer husbands, Zsa Zsa Gabor said, "I love him like a brother But George only loves George" . . . as to the country's oldest active registered nurse, how about Margaret Connelly . of Bellevue hospital, New York? Margaret is 80. Has been a reg istered nurse for 58 years. Briefly Hpw would you do on a quiz program with Irish music as your category? Did you know Beethoven wrote an Irish song titled "Kitty of Coleraine? Maybe we can get Morton Downey to sing it the next time he appears on a television pro gram . . . We indicate June 15 1956, by use of "6-15-56." The British write it "15-6-56." That is date of day first, followed by number of month and year. Which is better? Asking Queries from Clients. Q. Is Dorothy Dandridge married? A. She was married to Harold Nich ols, a dancer, but they were di vorced in 1950. Dorothy has an 1 1 - year - old daughter named Carolyn. Q. Am making a col lection of records and sheet mu sic of popular songs with curi ous titles. Any suggestions? A. How about that ditty titled "I've Got that Loving Bug Itch?" Death in Ring In New Zealand a boxer who is knocked out is not permitted Chicago Youths Kidnap Four Alter Escape From Jail Indianapolis,-Ind. U.R) Three Chicago youths, one a 14-year-old, escaped from an Illin ois jail early Saturday and id napped four persons in an in terstate flight in three stolen automobiles. Two were captured here. The third, identified as the ringlead er, eluded capture. The four persons seized in the flight all were released unharmed. The three youths first over powered turnkey P. N. Bandy and fled from the Montgomery county jail at Hillsboro, 111. They took with them what fire arms they could find. Warner Yates, 14, and Ray mond Schneider, 20, were nab bed by sheriff's deputies man ning a blockade west of here. Norman P. Kelly, 20, the ring leader, ran to freedom again. Authorities said two frighten ed hostages were in the car when it was stopped, Miss Sel ma Richter, 27, and William R. Horton, 28, both of Pana, 111. They were the second couple kidnaped by the trio as they fled Hillsboro. Earlier, the fugitives com andeered the auto of Mr. and Mrs. Don Fogler, also of Pana, at Irving after the first auto they stole ran out of gas at that point. Sheriff Clem Neely said at Hillsboro that the trio overpow ered Bandy as he took a prison er to the cell block. Bandy, 65, said the cell door struck the htel of the new prisoner and flew open, allowing Kelly the opportunity to jump out and overpower him. Bandy later said the escapees threatened to kill him if he call ed out, and choked and tried to gag him until he couldn't speak. Then they threw him into the cell block and locked the door. A machinegun, a shotgun and two rifles were taken from the jail by the three youths. Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent Hollywood U.PJ The United States has run out of beautiful chorus girls, so the gambling tsmwt capital of Las Vegas, N e v., h a s b e e n f o r c ed to go next door to Europe and borrow a doz en. Jack Entrat ter, boss man of the beauties Aline Mosby at the Sands Hotel, takes off for Europe in two weeks on the town's first international chorus girl search. Entratter and Frank Sinatra, one of the hotel's owners who's in Spain for a movie, will have the job of looking over Europe's lovelies. The winners get to parade on a stage during Sinatra's show at the Sands beginning Sept. 12 It's television, sighs Entratter, that has used up all the pretty girls. Advertisement Placed "On my last audition in Holly wood I looked over 1,000 girls and only found two I could use," he explained. "I've run ads in every big city in the country. "TV is eating them up. The real pretty ones quit to do com mercials on television. Those who can dance would rather dance on TV only one night a week to work. And many be come actresses or models." This dreadful state of affairs have Entratter and Sinatra down to their last 12 chorus girls, and their contracts end in a few months. Most leave to get married or work in other jobs. Qualifications Listed But by then Entratter and Sinatra will have run ads in the newspapers, in Paris, Madrid Rome, Brussels and London. The ads will read: "All you have to do is look beautiful. You don't have to dance or have any experience to work at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas." Entratter got the idea of raid ing Europe when he worked for showman Cliff Fisher, who im ported French girls for his show at the Chicago World's Fair in 1939. Other hotels in Las Vegas are scrambling for chorus girls, too. A Sahara spokesman says one chorine has been graduated to a singer so auditions are being held for a replacement. And a man at the Flamingo says, "The pretty ones don't last more than a few months they quit for better jobs." Suggests Breaking Red Relations Berne, Switzerland U.R) A former U. S. congressman has suggested diplomatic relations with Iron Curtain countries to cripple their espionage activit ies. According to Charles J. Ker sten, former representative from Wisconsin, the Communist coun tries are using diplomatic im munity to conceal their assault on the free world. Kersten is here attending the trial of four Romanian refugees who seized the Communist Ro manian delegation headquarters last year. The Communists "are using the diplomatic immunity of their diplomatic missions as a cloak ... to assault the free world in accordance with their long Neuroses, the place ef dreams, emotional maturity, the relation of mind and body, and numerous other phychological problem! are discussed in the new book. "Why You Do What You Do," which has been added to the Medford Public Library. The 22 authors who have contributed articles are experts in varioui fields of medicine and psychology. range plans," Kersten said. "I came to Bern from my home in Wisconsin as an indi vidual U. S. citizen. I have some experience in investigating what happens to nations and people when Communists take over." He said he considered the trial of world wide importance on the issue between freedom and slavery. US? BEWARE OF . IMITATIONS LOOK FOR THE HAPPY UTTU COG TOPS IN QUALITY! LOW IN PRICE Above Normal Rain Seen for Northwest Washington (U.R) The Weather Bureau's 30-day out look for mid-June-mid July calls for cooler than seasonal weather west of the Continental Divide, in the North Atlantic states, and in the Gulf Coast region. But elsewhere, the Weather Bureau said, f'above normal temperatures are predicted with greatest departures in the Mid west." The outlook calls for greater than normal rainfall in the Northwest fourth of the nation and in the southern half of the Mississippi Valley. to fight again for two months. Boxers with cuts that heal slow ly are not permitted to compete. A boxed who has a jaw broken ! in a bout is suspended for life. This is an part of an intensive campaign to cut down the num ber of deaths in the ring. There should be similar legislation in this country. 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