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MEDFORD MAIL TBUUflE. MEDFOHD. OREGOi processed Potatoes Replace Grcaimdinnio's Fremich Pries Br JAMES W. RYAN United Press International 1 -esque Isle, Maine, -IUPB-Mom's daily ritual of washing, peeling, slicing and frying po tatoes is being automated into obsolescence. There's a mild revolution under way in potato market ing and the "processed pota to" one day soon may reign as king of spuds. A processed potato has many forms French fried, potato puff (bite sized hash brown) and several others - but the main thing is that it is factory peeled, cut, cooked, frozen and packaged. All mom has to do is pop into the stove for a last-minute warming up. "Within four years, half the potatoes consumed in the United States will be in proc- KIMMY SAYS- Miter's nart: This column it written y a Mtdferd tetn agar wh hat hosn tha non da plum I "Kimmy." Ottiar taen atari in the arts and, who knows, ptr hapi avail paranri bafflad at thair fhprinf's kohaviar ara invitad to writa to "Kimmy," in cara of tha Mail Tribune, lor suggaitiom or advice on manners, droit, be havior and aimilar subjects. essed form," predicts Leo M. Daigle, manager of the Maine Potato Marketing committee. Five big processing plants are now operating in the heart of the Aroostook potato country, providing jobs in an economically depressed area and saving work for house wives. In the 1958-1961 period, 4,830 of 71,000 carlots of po tatoes shipped from this potato-growing district were in processed form, Daigle said. The market has expanded since and is expected to con tinue at a healthy clip. Edmund J. Rollins, presi dent of Taterstate Frozen Foods at Washburn, Maine, said there was "some ques tion" about local processing of potatoes when the idea was new a few years ago. can't afford hot to buy them. Potato processing has creat ed about 2,000 new jobs in Aroostook's five plants. In new plants and equipment, it has added a capital invest ment of several million dol- "That's pretty well answer- i lars in this northern Maine cd now: the quality of the frozen product is excellent, as attested by steadily increasing production and sales," Rollins said. "Maybe they're not quite as good as grandma used to make," Rollins admits, "but they're so much cheaper and more convenient. We say you area which for a century was economically dependent on ag riculture. Financial Success Typical of the new proces sors is Potato Services, Inc. of Presqtie Isle. Starting from scratch in 1961, Potato Serv ices has invested $4 million in a plant that covers nearly eight acres and is just now completing a 1,200 - carload storage facility. General Manager M. L. Kimmel said the firm supplies all major food chains and some other processors. Major markets are east of the Mis sissippi, he said. Potato Serv ices has one foreign market: Sweden. Potato Services employs all local labor. At first, the com plicated factory equipment was beyond their understand ing, Kimmel said, but they caught on rapidly. Right now, a crew of 100 is priming the Potato Services plant for the fall rush which will get under way at mid-September. At peak periods, the plant uses two and a half tank cars (20,000 gallons) of shortening a week to factory fry your potatoes. Supply 2S0 Cities At nearby Easton, Maine, Vahlsing Inc., operates one of the nation's biggest potato processing and shipping facili ties on a 51-acre site. The plant operates year - around supplying frozen processed po tatoes to 250 cities east of the Mississippi and in 15 Eu ropean, Asian, African and South American countries. A tour of the Vahlsing plant starts with the raw potato bins. The potatoes chug along a conveyor belt to a peeler. Then they are hand-sorted for defects. A vibrating screen is used for sizing. Next follows blanching, frying, pre-cooling, freezing and packaging - all on an assembly line basis. The finished product is cold stored to await shipment. Vahlsing employs 300 per sons on a three-shift day here and its operations include a plant in Elsa, Tex., to make polyethelene bags for packag ing. Freezing French fries was pioneered oy snow r lane can ning Co., a subsidiary of H. C. Baxter and Bros, of Bruns wick, Maine, in 1945. General Foods opened a plant for freezing peas at Caribou, Maine, in 1947 and went into potato processing in 1949. Nation'i Largest Aroostook potato growers of Presque Isle, now the Ta terstate Frozen Foods Co., went into the frozen French fry business in 1947 and now regards itself as the nation's largest packer of that prod uct. Customers are indeed the boss in this relatively new thriving industry. For exam ple, French fried potatoes must be golden brown to sell in the Boston area. New York customers prefer a whiter French fry. Processors are confident of unlimited expansion of their business because it's so much easier to open a package than fry your own and maybe grandma's home made French fries weren't that much better at that. ? Many MEPrOBP KAIk TBHUWE. MEPFORD. OREGOi THURSDAY. AUGUST 29, 1963 g J States Consider Birth Control to Reduce Welfare Costs Dear Kimmy: Whai should I do about my Job in MeMinnville? I need a job in Medford. I am lonely there without my girl. I need the money. Help! Lonesome Dear Lonesome: Either get a job in Medford or a girl in MeMinnville. I'm sure your girl will always be waiting for you. Dear Kimmy: How can I get an old girl friend back? I care so dearly for, but she is going with another. Mr. Inbetwaen Dear Mr. Inbetween: She'll come back to you, if she wants to. She had a reason to leave you the first time, so shr must have a reason to come back. Give her a good one. Dear Kimmy: I'm going into Junior High and I know I'm not going to have enough time to do ALL my heme work because after school I like to go outside and get some exercise and iresh air. How can 1 get my home work done and get good grades? Confused Dear Confused: You are going to have to learn to get your home work done. This is one of the many responsi bilities you'll be taking on as you enter junior High. Goofing off and good grades don't mix at all. Dear Kimmy; I'm 14 and my mother won't even lei me look at a boy or date. Do you think I'm old enough, if I were chaper' oned, to date? Unforbidden Dear Unforbidden: You are as old as your parents say you are. Someday, YOUR day will come! Dear Kimmy: Hil How would you as a boy (if you could) let a real cute girl know you really like her. Lonely Dear Lonely: Really flirt with her! Dear Kimmy: I am going with a girl who is always telling me that she loves me. Whet should I do about it? Hopeful Dear Hopeful: I take it you don't appreciate it. Just tell her you don't like her to say that she loves you. She's get ting a little too serious. Dear Kimmy: All the High School kids, trying to initiate us, catch us to shave our heads. What should we do: Fight? Heirless Dear Hairless: Sure!! It's YOUR hair. Dear Kimmy: I want to write to this certain boy. The only thing is I don't know how to start it. Should it be; Dear. Hi, or his name? Uncertain Dear Uncertain: Use "Hi". It sounds more friendly and bright! Deer Kimmy: How old do you think a boy and girl should bo before they start kissing A LOT? V.I. Dear V.I.: At least 18 and preferably married. Dear Kimmy: Someone said I was kook. D.D. Dear D.D.: Are you?? Archaeologists to Survey Reservoirs . San Krancisco-IUPIi-Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said Wed nesday that archaeologists are starting a survey at the Me Cloud and Iron Canyon reser voir areas of the company's McCloud Pit hydroelectric . plant. PG&E said it is sponsoring investigation by the central California archaeological foundation at the reservoir sites in Shasta county. A By DAVID SMOTHERS United Press International In Colorado, the state sen ate this year passed a bill al lowing the state to distribute birth control information, de vices and drugs to women on relief. In California, the legisla ture battled over a resolution to put the state on record as favoring the dispensing of contraceptives. In Wisconsin, a state assem blyman wanted to jail women who had two or more illegiti 'mate children. He said he was tired of helping pay for their support. In Illinois, briefly, a pro gram was in effect to pay for contraceptives for women on relief - married or unmarried - with state funds. In these and other states, the legislative sessions of 1963 debated hotly whether it is right' to deny aid to a woman who Insists on bearing babies out of wedlock - or whether it is right to help them pre vent having such babies. Action Stymied Few final decisions were reached. Federal laws, the ar guments of social workers and the objections of religious leaders generally stymied ac tion to deal with one of the most pressing problems facing the states - the rising number of illegitimate children whose mothers depend on the state to supply rent and grocery money. The problem will still be there when the legislatures re convene next year. In many states, legislators could only guess at the extent of the problem. Welfare agencies are often reluctant to break down their statistics on the basis of legitimacy or il legitimacy. Yet, in a cross section of states checked by United Press International, these were the estimates: -In California, 33 per cent of the children on relief were illegitimate. Yearly cost to the taxpayer: $57 million. -In Illinois, 36 per cent of children on relief were illegi timate. Cost: S40 million a year. -Massachusetts estimated 20 aJm 1 MX ,1 fa DM per cent of relief children were illegitimate 'at a cost of $7.4 million a year. In North Carolina the estimated annual cost was $5.2 million and in Georgia S2.5 million. Discuss Birth Control The legislation debate took Its most dramatic turn in Illi nois, where the stormiest issue before the legislature was whether the state should fi nance an all-out birth control program. Technically, such a program was in effect before it was crushed in a flurry of political infighting. Arnold Maremont, the millionaire industrialist turned public servant who fought for the program, ac cused foes in the legislature of racial prejudice and was forced from office. The agency which he headed - the Illinois Public Aid commission - was legislated out of existence. Maremont had estimated he could save the state $1.25 mil lion a year and prevent at least 4,000 births in Cook county (Chicago) alone with his birth control program. He argued it costs Illinois $100,- 000 a day to support its 200, 000 children on relief and that an average of 12 to 15 illegiti mate children, most of them candidates for relief, are born every day in Cook county hospital alone. "It is immoral to permit children to be born into homes where they're not wanted," he said. Reduce Program Illinois wound up wilh a watered -down birth control program similar to that in some other states. The state was authorized to pay for birth control devices for mar ried women living with their husbands, but that was all. And another bill stipulating that birth of a second illegiti mate child to a woman on re lief is prima facie evidence of immorality is awaiting the governor's signature. The relief controversy in some other large states fol lowed the same duel patterns of birth control vs. no aid for illicit mothers. The words of California State Sen. Alvin C. Weingard seemed to echo Maromont's: S(oT Pork 'n Beans 7 f Van Camp. Picnic avorite. 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Nevertheless, Wein gard's pro -birth control resolution was killed in committee. Also killed were bills to deny aid to families where there was evidence of immoral, adulter ous conduct or to families in eluding more than one illegiti mate child. Mississippi Acts Mississippi already had one of the nation's strongest "cut off" aid laws. It allowed the state to deny aid to a mother who continued to have illegi timate children. But the law had to be amended this year because of new laws governing the spending of federal welfare money in the states. The regu lations, known as "the Flem ing pol'.cy," deny federal funds to state welfare plans that would bar aid to a child while he is living in an un suitable home. Mississippi settled for a law, similar to ones proposed in other states, which gives the courts power to take children from the custody of unfit mothers on relief and place them in homes where they can continue to receive public aid. In populous New York state, the issue has been sim mering ever since Joseph Mit chell, then city manager of Newburgh, tried to push through his controversial crackdown on "relief chisel-ers." One of his points was de nial of aid to unwed mothers with extra illegitimate chil dren. A court threw this out. along with most of Mitchell's program. This year, the legis lature asked the State Board of Social Welfare to study the wnoie area of birth control. Many States Plan Other state legislatures which tangled with the issue this year included: Colorado The senate-approved birth control bill died in a house committee. Its ma jor opponent, senate Demo cratic leader Sam Taylor, charged that it was an at tempt to breed a "super race" through eugenics. Pennsylvania The senate aDDrOVed hilt the hnnn lt die, a bill to take illegitimate children away from unwed mothers after morn (h such births. Wisconsin The voted heavily aeainst an imended bill In women for repeated illegit imate births. Ohio The lpffislat nrp passed a bill permitting mar- riea women to file non-support suits against men other than their husbands. North Carolina Stato Son Lunsford Crew campaigned for sterilization of some mothers and to makp it a mis demeanor to father or give birth to two or more illegiti mate childrpn Tho win.. failed. Missouri fitnfo Cr. t Petterson tripri fn nlimin-,i .,' S4 million boost in the aid to dependent children appropria tion on grounds that some mothers were making a racket out of welfare. The increase was eventually whittled down to $1.6 million. Alabama A hill oini ;n legislative committpp vum.M cut off aid to an unwed mother if she won't name the man she thinks fathered her child. Maine The State Hrmsp got into an argument over wnemer aid should be denied unmarried mothers whrf i,D an "unrelated male" in the house. The proposal was do feated bv lpeislat firs Urhn argued that an unrelated male is be t than no male at all. Actor To Be Buried In Portland Friday Hollywood - 0IPII - Veteran actor Larry Keating, 64, will be buried Friday in Portland, Ore., his boyhood home town. following a rosary and re quiem mass. Keating, who gained his greatest fame playing the role of the grouchy neighbor, died Monday of leukemia. . Although he had been ill for several months, Keating continued working until last week In the "Mr. Ed" tele vision series in which he play. ed an acid-tongued neighbor. INTO EFFECT Salem-IUPD-A new law mak ing many Social Security re cipients ineligible for unem ployment Insurance beaefits will go Into effect newt Tues day, employment cenmri-Msion. r David H. Camerfti tamtnd cd Wednesday. ,
