__ MRS. JONES
Honor Given
Top Employee
Mrs. Carolyn Jones,
who is the fiscal cleric in
the Finance Depart
ment, has been select
ed as the HealthCo, Inc.
Employee of the Month
for July.
Mrs. Jones, an
employee of HealthCo
since January, 1979, is a
native of Norlina and a
1978 graduate of Vance
Granville Community
College where she took
an associated arts
degree in executive
secretarial science and
office technology.
Mrs. Jones graduated
from Norlina High
School in 1971 and is
married to James
Jones. They reside in
Norlina with their son,
Steven.
As Employee of the
Month, Mrs. Jones will
receive a day of paid
vacation, an engraved
plaque, a special
parking space, and her
picture will hang in the
main lobby of the
HealthCo clinic for one
month.
The previous month's
award went to Sidney P.
Fleming, Jr., of
Henderson.
Questions
Raised
When the food
conservation season
rolls around, homemak
ers have a lot of ques
tions about canning.
Dr. Nadine Tope, ex
tension food conserva
tion specialist at North
Carolina State
University says these
are some of the ques
tions she gets most
often:
Q. Open-kettle can
ning is not recommend
ed. Why?
A. In open-kettle can
ning, food is cooked,
then packed into hot jars
and sealed without pro
cessing. For vegetables,
the temperatures ob
tained in open-kettle
canning are not high
enough to destroy all the
spoilage organisms that
may be in the food.
Spoilage bacteria may
get in when the food is
transferred from kettle
to jar.
Q. Why is liquid some
times lost from glass
Jars during processing?
A. Loss of liquid may
be due to packing jars
too full, fluctuating
pressure in a pressure
canner or lowering
pressure too suddenly.
Q. Should liquid lost
during processing be re
placed?
A. No. Never open a
jar and refill with liquid
— this could let in
bacteria and you would
need to process
Loss of liquid does not
cause food to spoil,
though the food above
the liquid may darken.
Q. Why does canned
fruit sometimes float in
jars?
A. Fruits may float
because pack is too
loose or syrup too
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