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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1963)
MLDIOHD MAIL TKIBUNli, MliDKOHU. OUKGON Small Worlds Around Us Lynn W. Witkint EFFECTIVE AT ASHLAND SAFEWAY AND MEDFORD WEST MAIN SAFEWAY ONLY! Uiliter it Tribune tyndlcte, till 11IUHSUAV, UliUvMUKIt IU, 1903 Now U'c Can Celebrate 100 Years of Chewing "They" whoever "they" are missed Uic hoat when they over looked dedicating a week or even a single day to the centen nial observance of the 1 1 r s American manufacture of that now-popular masticatory article, "chewing gum. It was in Hie year 1800 that an enterprising individual had the bright idea of mixing chicle with paraffin, sugar and flavor ing extract, and started a big business. Thomas Adams, who started It, certainly wouldn't recognize his brainchild if he were to come back and sec what has happened in just a hundred years, Many years before Adams' lime, down in Central America Die Maya Indians somehow dis covered the clastic and long- lasting properties of a sap that exuded from the sapodilla tree It was a tree that grew every where in Mexico and in the tropical Americas, so it was an easy step, even for those primi live people, lo discover the chewing qualities of the sapo dilla s chicle. They were found of the rusty brown nun, so sweet and juicy; so sweet, in fact, that sapodillas have been called a pear with brown sugar. Wad of On in Whenever the tree was wounded or the bark was split, a white, sticky, milk-like sap exuded. A tablespoon of it, fla vored with some of the sweet pulp of the ripe fruit, was a de- 1 1 c i o u s, long-lasting wad of chewing gum. So it was only natural that Maya children, as well as adults, spending as much lime around and near the sapodilla tree as they probably did, found that chicle was chewablc. It was natural that a Ircc yielding such delicious fruit should he introduced into the United Slates, where, in the ex treme south of Florida, the tree flourishes. Today, Uic fruit with the rusty brown skin and yellow, fragrant. very sweet flesh should become a useful ornamental in southern Florida. An analysis of the (mil of Ihe sapodilla tree reveals the fact that the ripe fruit is 14 per cent sugar, and is rich in vitamins A and C. The ripe sapodilla taste a great deal like melted brown sugar. Some say it has a flavor like maple sugar. Today, in its native land where once the an cient Maya Indians lived alone, (he gathering of chicle for the later inclusion in chewing gum is big business, A V-shaped cut is made in Ihe hark of Ihe tree. From Ibis In jury issues the thick, while sap in a steady drip Hint may have Riven somebody the idea of drawing a silly TV commercial about what occurs in a human stomach when "acid drip, drip, drips" from a tiny faucet. The latex, gathered in pails, is boiled down much the same as (lie sap from the maple tree. Crude chicle is hard, brittle and rosin-like, but softens e a s i I v when wanned even in a per son's mouth. It mixes readily Willi sugar or various flavoring extracts, and is a commodity of tremendous economic impor tance. Mavbc the old Mava Indians. like many people in our own time, found that gum-clicwing had a tendency to relieve nerv ous tension, or that the chewer could concentrate his attention better or for longer periods vvliilc working Ins jaws on a wad of elastic, pleasant tasting cnicie. Anyway, the chicle of the sup- omiia iree, irom uic sap or juice from the unripe fruit, has become pretty important, either as an exercise for Ihe jaws, tin good of Ihe teeth, or as some thing lo -talk through." Those old Maya Indians rcallv started something we could get our teem into. Note To Santa Brings Donations CHICAGO IUPI) - "Dear aanta, the note began. "I am a little bov 12 vears I would like a little present as we are very poor and our Santa hasn t enough money for pres ents this year." It was signed. "Norman Mo hell, Uoaktown, New Bruns wick, Canada." The note was written on a weather beaten scrap of note book paper and lied with black thread to a Christinas Iree de- mured in Chicago. The Iree was purchased by a trucking firm. Central Motor Lines, (or its offices. The firm, working through Il linois Bell Telephone Co., learned Norman's fattier was still hospitalized from wounds received in World War II. 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