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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1945
HOW TO STORE
PERISHABLE FOODS
By the
HOMEMAKING SPECIALISTS
of the \
General Electric Consumers Institute
Advice from the General Electric
Consumers Institute is not to overload
your refrigerator
fta f with products that
\ (C \ do not require
f p i cold temperatures
l| at the expense of
Jj having your es
'l Jj | L sentia! greens etc.,
/ ||| spoil. But if you
do find a little
extra refrigetation space there are
many foods which may be stored there
to be kept especially fresh and flavor
ful in the hot weather.
Passed on to you from v'ie Institute
is some sound advice about proper
care, preparation and storage of per
ishable foods for refrigeration which
will help prevent the loss of vitamins
and edible appeal.
Fresh Fruits
Tender-skinned fruit (peaches, pears,
plums, etc.) should be spread out on
lower shelf of refrigerator to prevent
bruising.
Store berries in a shallow dish on
lower shttf of refrigerator or in moist
cold fruit drawer. Do not wash or
cap berries until ready to use.
Do not store bananas in refriger
ator; they should stand at room tem
perature.
Fruit and vegetable juices should
be covered and stored in refrigerator
to conserve vitamins.
Do not chop or crush fruits until
ready to use. If chopped and allowed
to stand they lose too many vitamins.
Store quick-frozen fruits in freezing
unit only for short periods of time;
serve as s**on as possible.
By Charles F. Thomas.
,Ever try to guess the height of
some tree or building?
Heres an easy method you can
use that takes almost all the guess
out of it. Forest rangers use it some
times wnen they are in the field
without surveying instruments.
First select some object whose
height you wish to judge. This can
be a tree, a telephone post or any
thing similiar.
Then equip yourself with a small
ruler and stand facing the object
now hold your arm straight out
from your shoulder, parallel with
the groud. At the same time hold
the ruler upright in your hand
After this, sight to the top of*the
ruler in line with it . Then sight to
the bottom of the ob-ject and place
your thumb where this line crosses
the ruler,
Finnaly measure the distance be
tween the spot where you were—
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Fresh Vegetables
Remove spoiled leaves from lettuce, ,
cabbage, etc., and wash well under i I
cold running water. Store in refriger- j
ator vegetable pan, if available, or
wrap in waxed paper or a aairp cloth.
Reduce bulky vegetables to their
edible portion before storing, to save
space. Place in vegetable pan or in a
cellophane bag and use as soon as pos
sible to prevent vitamin loss.
Wash, drain and store cooking
greens in vegetable pan or cellophane
bag in refrigerator. Give them plenty
of room to prevent bruising.
Butter and Other Fats
Store all table fats in covered dish
in your refrigerator. Store on shelf
next to freezer compartment away from
foods with strong flavors and odors.
(Your post-war refrigerator may have
a Butter Conditioner which will keep
your butter at spreading consistency
and free from foreign flavor.)
Return all fats to refrigerator im
mediately after use. Keep cooking fats
in refrigerator, nol standing on range.
MISCELLANEOUS
EGGS Place eggs in moist-cold
compartment, if available, or in covered
dish. Improperly stored eggs vsll not
"stand up" when fried or beaten, and
will absorb flavors. Do not wash eggs
before storing.
CEREALS —Keep cereals crisp and
fresh by placing them in general stor
age compartment of refrigerator.
DRIED FRUITS —Store in general
storage compartment.
COFFEE —Coffee will stay fresh
longer if kept in a jar in the re
frigerator.
BREAD —Bread stays fresh longer,
especially in hot, damp weather, if
kept carefully wrapped in general
storage compartment of refrigerator.
OPENED CANNED GOODS
Opened canned goods may be stored
in the original cans without harm to
flavor, appearance, or nutritive con
tent. The opened can should be cov
ered to prevent absorption of other
flavors and odors, and retain vitamin
content.
standing- and the bottom of the ob
ject.
With this done get ou.t a pencil
and paper and write down the fol
lowing formula:
Height of object equals distance
from object times height on ruler
divided length of reach.
Now substitute your measure
ments for the term on the right
hand side of the equation. "Distance
from object" is the distance from
the spot where you are standing,
height on ruler is the number of
inches from the top of the ruler to
the place you marked with your
thumb. Length of reach, is the dis
tance from your eyes to the ruler
in your hand as your arm is held
straight out from your shoulder.
HERE’S HOW IT WORKS
For example, suppose you had the
following measurements:
Distance from object equals 100 ft.
Height on ruler equals 6 inches
EMPEROR:
His Background
Their authority re-established with
the overthrow of the military gov
ernors in 1868, the Japanese emper
ors, supposedly descended from the
sun goddess, have exercised their
mythical power for the unification
of the country to facilitate its im
perial development.
With the overthrow of the shogun
ate shortly after Admiral Perry
opened the door of Japan to the
outside world, the simple island peo
ple, previously owing strict alle
giance to the military clan, easily
transferred their blind obedience to
the mikado.
The present mikado, Hirohito, is
a puny, nearsighted man of 44. He
is called the 124th emperor of Ja
pan by the Japanese court authori
ties. When he ascended the throne
in 1926, he chose the word “Showa,”
meaning “enlightenment and
peace,” to describe his reign.
Many political experts believe
that personally Hirohito wanted
peace, but as the puppet of the mili
tary clique had to go along with
their designs. Actually he wields j
little real power. His actual “reign” i
began in 1921, then as prince re
gent he ruled in his father’s stead.
He was married in 1924 and is the
father of one Son and three daugh
ters.
RECONVERSION:
Next Job
With World War II finished, and
with the nation’s great armament
production due to be slashed, inter
est mounted in the government’s
program for switching industry
back to a peacetime basis and pro
viding continued high employment.
Shortly before the cessation of
hostilities, President Truman called
in War Production Board Chieftain
Krug to go over plans for speeding
up reconversion to prevent a large
scale rupture of the country’s econo
my after V-J day.
At the meeting, it was deter
mined that the WPB was to con
duct a vigorous drive for the expan
sion of production of materials in
short supply to meet all demands;
limit manufacture of articles re
quiring scarce materials; establish
effective control over material stock
piles to prevent speculative hoard
ing that would endanger the stabil
ization program; provide priority
assistance to break bottlenecks that
might impede the switch back to
civilian goods, and allocate scarce
materials for lower priced articles
P keep costs down.
Length of reach equals 22 inches
Then, substituting in the formula
you would get:
Height of object epuals 100 ft. x 6
inches divided by 22 inches.
Before you do anything else tho,
change all the measurements ex
pressed in feet into inches. This is
extremely important. You can do it
| easily by multiplying the number
of feet by 12, which is the number of
inches in one foot This means that
THE BLACK MOUNTAIN NEWS
ANY BONDS TODAY? By Kay Kyser
Illustrated by Ed Reed
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t knew I should have gotten more War Stamps.” .
in the make-believe case the dis
tance from object, which is 100 feet,
would become 1200 inches.
So you, would have:
Ht. of object would be 1200 inches
x 6 inches divided by 22 inches—
equals 7200 inches divided by 22 in.
equals 327 inches.
In other words, the height of the
object would he 327 inches. But you
dont want your answer in inches,
so divide by 12 and it comes out.
Height of object equals twenty
seven and one half feet.
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Old-Age and Survivors Insur
ance benefits are now being paid
every month to about 1049 boys
and girls, under age 18, who live
in the Asheville area. In the
whole state of North Carolina
there are some 13,500 youngsters
who receive these monthly pay
ments as provided by the Social
Security Act for children, under
age 18, of deceased wage earners.
In many cases, the mother also
gets benefits.
D. W. Lambert, manager of the
Asheville office of the Social Se
curity Board, said today that the
widow of an insured worker, re
gardless of age, is eligible for
benefits if she has, in her care,
his children, stepchildren. or
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Monthly benefits are payable,
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dren, or adopted ‘children, under
age 18, of a retired worker who
is receiving monthly payments of
Social Insurance. Applications
for the children’s benefits may
be made at the time that the
parent files his own claim.
The wage garner who has
reached age 65 or the survivor
of a deceased wage earner who
has any reason to believe that he
or she is eligible for payments of
Old-Age and Survivors Insurance
should call at the nearest office
of the Social Security Board and
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