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
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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:
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where, upper and middle class
families have access to birth
control help and contracep
tives. However, persons of
lower economic and social
groups, whose only medical
and health care is with gov
ernmental agencies, are de
nied the same help. This, I
submit, is discrimination, pure
and simple."
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. ,