Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1962)
Reeding the Family By ZOLA Food Plcnic Saason Opant Wilh Mid-Weak Holiday There'll be no heading for the hills and comparatively little heading for recreation centers and far places because Memorial Day comes mid week this year - specifically next Wednesday. Perhaps your family is among the eager beavers who want to plunge right now into the sea son of outdoor living, but chances are thai the majority will be week ending the pic nic season opening ceremonies this week end or that follow ing May 30. In cither event, we suggest a holiday meal (or any day meal, for that matter) for fitting into any plan; indoors or outdoors; Golden glazed ham, rice and peas, basil to matoes and hot corn muffins. Obviously, long on good eat ing and really short on prepa ration since the entire meal can be whipped together in half an hour, using foods that are quick-cooking or just need to be heated. For now and for remem bering all summer long, we suggest aluminum foil for cooking utensils and serving dishes, thereby doing away with a great deal of pan and dish laundering; cleaning up after. Golden glazed ham, as pic tured. Figure on two generous slices of pre-cooked ham for I to 12 servings dependent upon thickness. In any event, "carve" the ham as you do sirloin steak when serving, rather than the usual pieces. To prepare sauce, combine syrup drained from a large (2Vfc size) can of apricots and one-half cup honey. Brown ham steaks on both sides over hot fire on grill or in oven broiler. Form an aluminum foil pan by turning up edges and mitcring corners of a piece of heavy duty aluminum foil; place it on the grill and transfer ham to it. Pour sauce over ham. Add the apricots, sprinkled wilh cin namon and studded with cloves. Heal for 15 to 25 min utes, depending on thickness of steaks, turning once. Rice and Peas. Prepare rice according to package direc tions. Place in center of large square of heavy duty alumi num wrap. Add a small can of green peas plus two table spoons liquid from the can. Season wilh salt and pepper; top with generous pat of but ter. Toss together lightly with fork. Fold edges of aluminum foil to form package. Heat on grill for 15 minutes. Basil Tomatoes. Cut firm ripe tomatoes in half. Brush with butter or margarine. sprinkle with salt and pepper and chopped fresh or dried basil. Place on grill for 10 minutes. Hot Corn Muliini. Loosely wrap home-baked or store bought corn muffins in alumi num wrap and heat on back of grill where fire is not too hot. Hearty Ranch Salad This hearty salad Is prac tically a meal in a bowl; will use up any leftover ham, chicken ur other cooked or canned meat. Six to eight servings. Tear two hends of iceberg lettuce or one each of lettuce and romainc into larRe salad bowl. Add one cup diced or thinly sliced celery, one cup slivered meat, six strips crisp bacon, crumbled, two hard cooked eggs, diced. Toss light ly with favorite French dress ing and generous dash fresh Iv ground black pepper. Might at Well Get Set for Picnicking Picnics can be a joyous getting together of food and children for an unplanned foray into the outdoors at practically any moment if Mother thinks it through. Here are three rules for Johnny-on lhe-spol picnics: 1-Keep a picnic basket on-the-ready with paper cups, plates, napkins, eating unten sils. salt and pepper shakers, cooking utensils and vacuum jug. It need not be an expen sive container. A heavy card btrd box covered with Bummed paper will serve well. 2 Keep frozen picnics in the freezer. With the addition of beverages, a picnic is ready to go at a moment's notice Most picnic type foods defr 9 mi VINCENT Editor rapidly and others are best eaten well chilled. 3-Kecp a stock of the fam ily's favorite bottled or in stant beverages ready to travel. A cooler will chill them or a vacuum jug keep them hot or cold and either one is an ideal item for picnic fanciers. What to Freeze. Almost any food thai tastes good cold. Freeze baked, boiled, roasted and fried meats and fowl . . . meat loaf . . . meat, fowi and fish salads . . . sandwiches made of any of these ingredi ents . . . fruit compotes and salads . . . cottage cheese sal ads . . . buttered rolls and bread . . . cake and cookies. Don't freeze: lettuce and salad greens . . . the whites of eggs . . . mayonnaise on bread . . . jelly sandwiches. Wraps leftover roasts and prepared sandwiches in alumi num foil or plastic so that foods are airtight . . . seal with freezer tape . . . label and note date of freezing. Store salads, fruits, sandwich fillings in paper containers. Warnings Timing is impor tant; highly seasoned foods can be kept for two or three weeks; not highly seasoned foods will keep for two or three months. Use frozen sand wiches within one month of the freezing date. Fresh or Frozen Picnic Menus -Fried chicken breast and leg, buttered rolls, a container of frozen fruit salad, cake and beverage. -Meat loaf slices, bread and butter sandwiches, collage cheese salad with hard-cooked egg yolks, pickle relish and green peppers, cookies and a beverage. -Chicken or luna salad in paper container, buttered bread slices, berries in a paper container, chocolate peanut candles. Carrying Hint. To simplify carrying picnic, food, pack it between two paper plates. Put sandwiches, potato slicks. hnrd-cooked egg, pickles on one plate. Reverse another plate on top; fasten edges in several places with cello phane tape. Use lop plate for dessert at eating time. If de sired, several plates can be stacked together and tied Willi a string for easy carry ing. Stuffed Zucchini A seasoned corn stuffing mixture adds flavor and color to a favorite family vegetable; zucchini squash. Family will enjoy this served wilh grilled chops or small steaks and a crisp salad. Six servings, fi medium-size zucchini 1 12-ou nee can whole kernel corn, drained 2 teaspoons seasoned salt 2 eggs, beaten ' cup chopped chives or green onion a cup grated sharp Cheddar cheese Scrub zucchini; cut off ends but do not peel. Halve length wise and cook in boiling salt ed water three minutes or so. With tip of spoon carefully remove squash from shells. Chop into small pieces; then combine wilh corn, seasoning salt, eggs and chopped chives or green onions. Pile mixture lightly into zucchini shells Place in two-quart oblong baking dish. Sprinkle with grated cheese. Hake uncover ed, in moderate, 1150 degree, oven for 110 minutes or until brown on top. RENTALINDUSTRY New York - il'PH - The ren tal industry chalked up gnws sales of more than $500 mil lion in llltil, up 13 per cent from I960 - the magazine Elect rical Merchandising Week reports. The most want ed housewares in the rental business are floor polishers and rug cleaners and in the hardware department, power tools and lawnmowers. CUTTER if REPELLENT Ntw cream formula is concentrated in (hat a little bit rocs a Ioiir, long wav. Non-greasy, non-sticky. Ncas-unt-smclling. easy lo use. Comes in pocket sue. unbrumjnlt flask. O Collective Bargaining May Be Used by Tea chert By WILLIAM J. EATON United Pint International Washington - OJPD - College professors often face the same kind of job problems as fac tory workers and may turn to collective bargaining to solve them, says an AFL-CIO publication. It said they are confronted by specdups, stretch-outs and unfair salary scales under their present system of indi- Farm Production Expenses Reach Record Figure Washington -OIPli- The Ag riculture Department has re ported farm production ex penses reached a record high of $26.9 billion in 1061 and may go higher in 1982. Farm costs last year were about a half billion dollars more than in 1960. The department said in creases in farm costs in recent years have been due partly to higher prices paid, and partly to larger quantities of produc tion inputs purchased. Offset by Income In a review of the farm cost situation, the department said last year's increase over the 1960 farm production ex penses was more than offset by the higher gross farm in come. This additional income came about equally from high er government payments, and from an increase in cash re ceipts from marketings of farm products. A larger volume of livestock and live stock product marketings, to gether with a slight Improve ment in prices received for crops, produced the increase in cash receipts. Farm wage rates In 1962 are moderately higher than in 1961, the department said, wilh some further rise ex pected. An offsetting factor is the indicated smaller amount of labor hired, so that the total farm wage bill may not be much different from last year. Building Material Stable Prices of farm machinery and equipment have edged up slightly over 1961. Building material prices have been relatively stable over the last few years, and little change is in prospect in the forsee able future. Fertilizer prices are aboul the same as last year, although the per-unit cost of plant nutrients is less because of the more general use of the more economical higher - analysis fertilizers. Sales of pesticides have been increasing steadily during the last decade, but 1962 prices generally average about the same as last year. Increases in farm borrow ings, with relatively stable in terest rates, are expected to push up total interest costs in 1962 by about 6 per cent above the 1961 total. Taxes payable in 1962 also are expected to be about fl per cent higher than last year. Women Pen Pals For Forty Years SI. Louis -WPP- Two women "pen pals" have been writing letters to each other for 40 years since they were 16-year-old girls. Mrs Clarence West, of St. Louis, the former Eva Marie Belangcr of New Bedford, Mass., and Mrs. Ralph Shep pard of Tulsa. Okla., the form er Marie lletrick of Nowata, Okla., are the perservering leller-writlers. The two were introduced lo each other in a "pen pan col umn which appeared In the St. Louis Post - Dispatch in May, 1922. "A pen pal can he a great comfort," said Mrs West. "It's Rood knowing someone will answer your letter " As young girls, their letters gave a chronological account of their lives. Mrs. Sheppsrd was married in 1926, and Mrs. West in 1 !:). Each Invited the other to her wedding, but nei ther was able to attend. Mrs. West recently moved lo St Louis, "the closest Marie and 1 have been." "I feel that we are getting old together." she said "My whole family knew Marie and felt she was one of the fami ly." The two women have never spoken a word to each other INSECT ji I 'ISICI ll'iUtnl MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON vidaal negotiations. An article in the Quarterly Digest of the AFL-CIO Indus trial Union Department, writ ten by David Hamilton, asso ciate professor of vonomics at the University of New Mexico, said the chances of campus unionization may In crease as the "war babies" born after World War II start to enter college and enroll ments zoom. College instructors have been "relatively untouched" by union organization so far despite the existence of con tract and job practices which began to disappear from the industrial world two decades ago. Hamilton said. "Today the actual job con ditions of the academic work er are not dissimilar to those faced by the industrial work er within the large corpora tion ... the gulf between the university president and the average faculty member yawns almost as large as that between the corporation presi dent and the average wage earner," Hamilton said. He said college professors have little, if any, control over their workload, work hours, working conditions or introduction of new ' tech niques which may affect their employment. Pressure on fac ulty members to produce orig inal research grows greater every year because of the re nown that comes to a univer sity with eminent scholars, he said. He compared this lo a speedup of a factory assembly line. The teaching load, which varies from six to 18 hours a week, is set by administra tors without effective faculty checks, Hamilton wrote. Salaries are settled by in dividual negotiation and re suit in a "crazy quilt pattern" that does not reflect the equal pay for equal work principle. Newcomers arc often paid con siderably more than veterans who are equally skilled but cannot apply "bluff and blus ter" lo get more money, Hamilton said. The advent of classroom television and teaching ma chines has even produced an academic version of automa tion without any professional check on its use, he said. As for fringe benefits, Hamilton argued that faculty members are concerned over sabbatical leave, retirement plans and medical care pro grams. "With the increasing size of universities and colleges the necessity for collective bargaining - if the college teacher is to achieve his job aims - becomes increasingly apparent," he said. Wore flavors exclusive at Ifcfitter' Stores of MM THE COMPLETELY NEW POPULAR MECHANICS HO ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA AND GUIDE 3 4 rvi Jul m'w .a-' , . 1 , - ENCYCLOPEDIA & CWM t fJ V POPS''' 1 lAJZMiUVIlL fe UN Med THURSDAY, MAY 24. MM! AM M HI M MM MM Mel EASY TO USE-MONEY SAVING BOOKS lacfi article In these superb book h written by a special! m hfi particular ftofaV who has actually built the project, or mad tht home repairs and improvement under discussion. Easy-to-follow drawings, photographs and diagrams pro vide clear understanding of the job ot hand. So vast is the range of subjects covered you will find an easier way, to taddt very homemalcing, garage, workshop or garden fob! An extra bonus is the Mores of interesting hobbies, new pastimes, and proecff for every member of the family. When you complete your set you'll agree with ut that this. Is fn matt sjnfefVt most complete reference for the home owner BUY-A-BOOK-A-WEEK NO HOME SHOULD Bf WITHOUT THIS COMPLETE REFERENCE LIBRARY FOR All YOUR HOME REPAIR FROHEMI AND IMPROVEMENTS. PRACTICAL EASY MONEY-SAVING ANSWERS TO ALL YOUR HOME REPAIR PROBLEMS 1001 WAYS tO SAVI MONEY A HAVf FUN, TOO HOBIV CRAFTS FAINTING CAR SIR? VICING PLUMBING REPAIRS WORK. SHOP HINTS AND PROJECTS LAWN AND GAROENING CARE ElfCTRICAt REPAIRS HOME RfPAIRS AND UPKEEP METAL WORKING KITCHEN HINTS 4 SHORT CUTS HOMEMAOTNG TIPS WOODWORKING DECORATING RADIO 1 TV RfPAIRS FURNITURE RIPAIRINO PURN1TURI MAINTENANCE lOAlf HOMl 1MPROVIMENT PROJECTS START YOUR SET TODAY! MAY 17-27 Wise buyers realize a manufacturer's prestige and reputation are based on his Brand Name ... A "Good Name" he has won against ail competition. Be sure to make a steady habit of Leadership Brands . . . You'll find it unbreakable, unbeatable! ford Mail Tribune o -V 1962 Grocers o 1 I
