Friday, May 1, 1959
THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Page Seven
It is not too early to be thonking
about what you will need this sum
mer to fill the family freezer with
high quality fruits and vegetables.
While most housewives are famil
iar with quick freezing methods,
we are not always well informed
on good quality in the processed
product,
It is well to remember that
harvested fruits and vegetables
are highly perishable. While
attached to the mother plant, they
are supplied with food and water
and build up reserve energy. When
removed from the plant, they are
still very much alive and dependent
entirely upon the energy stored
within to keep alive. This means
that their useful life as food for
the family is rather short unless
some method of preservation is
immediately employed.
Of all the methods used, quick
freezing probably preserves the
fresh flavor, and nutritive value
better than any other method, if
suitable varieties are used and
harvested at the proper stage of
maturity. Apples, peaches, straw-
berries, raspberries and dewberries
should be on tree or vine ripe and
suitable for eating out-of-hand.
Vegetables should not be allowed
Children May Not Work on
Farms During Scfioo/ Hours
With the spring strawberry pick
ing season at hand, farmers are
rerfiinded that while the Federal
Wage and Hour Law permits chil
dren of any age to work on farms
after school and during vacation,
it prohibits farm work by children
under 16 during school hours.
This reminder comes from State
Labor Commissioner Frank Crane,
who administers the Wage-Hour
Law in North Carolina.
Crane said that the child-labor
provisions apply to local youngsters
and children of migratory workers
alike. The only exception to the
law is in the case of children work
ing exclusively for their parents or
legal guardian, he added.
To make sure of the age of any
young worker he hires, the farmer
should require an age certificate
These certificates, which serve as
proof of age for purposes of law,
can be obtained from local county
welfare superintendents." ’ ‘ '
, The child-labor provisions apply
to farmers whose crops go either
directly or indirectly into inter
state or foreign commerce. Com
missioner Crane pointed out that a
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has reason to believe that his crops,
either in their original form or
processed, will eventually cross
State lines.
Additional information about the
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to become over-ripe. Snap beans
will become tough; okra, fiberous;
broccoli, coarse.
At 85 degree F. sweet corn will
lose approximately 50 per cent of
its sugar content within twenty-
four hours. Lima beans and gard
en peas also lose sugar rapidly
after harvesting.
Quick freezing is important. The
lower the temperature (minus 20
degrees or lower), the smaller the
ice crystals formed during the
process. This brings up the ques
tion of over-loading your freezer
with unfrozen material. Limit to
about 10 per cent of freezer
capacity the introduction of un
frozen packages.
Here are some fruit varieties
you will find satisfactory; Apples—
Golden Delicious, Grimes Golden,
York and Stayman; Peaches—
Dixigem, Red Haven, Golden
Jubilee, Georgia Belle and Elberta;
Strawberries— Dixieland, Albritton
and Tennessee Beauty. For veget
able varieties, write the Agricul
tural Extension Service for Leaf
let No. 35, or see your county
agent.
cial stock. If you wish to try this
method, I suggest that you order
varieties grafted on East Mailing
IX, as this is the most dwarfing
root-stock of any of the East Mail
ing selections.
These stocks have been known
in France for many years but no
attempt had been made to classify
them until research was begun at
the East Mailing Research Sta
tion in England. As a result of
this work, stocks are now available
for apples and pears which range
from very dwarfing (E. M. IX) to
very vigorous (E. M. I).
While on the subject of dwarf
trees, I might suggest that they
are excellent for small properties
because they require so little
space. They come into bearing ear
ly, sometimes the second year aft
er planting, if they grow well the
first year.
It is desirable to plant more
than one variety to insure pollina
tion and fruit setting. For apples,
I would suggest Ciolden Delicious
and Gallia Beauty (similar to Rome
Beauty but more color).
If you would like to substitute
another variety for Gallia Beauty,
they are available and you will
still have a fruitful combination
because Golden Delicious is both
self-fruitful and cross-fruitful.
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A student came by recently and
told me that his mother was in
terested in buying two or three ap
ple trees suitable for Espalier
training. This is an interesting
type of training as well as unusual.
It consists of doing the necessary
pruning so that the tree will grow
flat against a wall or on a trellis.
The trellis may be constructed of
either wire or wood. •
For this type of training you
will need a dwarf tree. The trees
are dwarfed by grafting on a spe-
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To P»is«n-Fluofine in Yoor Drinking Water
IN YOUR CITY ELECTION—TUESDAY, MAYS
THE FOLLOWING FLUORIDATION FACTS ARE PRESENTED FOR YOUR PROTECTION:
(These excerpts are from statement by National Citizens Committee Against Fluoridation, Inc.. In Washington, D. C.)
1. What is fluoridation?
Fluoridation is the adding of
a deadly, cumulative poison to
drinking water for the scientific-
ally-unproved purpose of helping
children’s teeth resist cavities.
When sodium fluride is added to
municipal water supplies, this pro
cedure becomes mass medication
of the populace without regard to
health, age, sensitivity, or individ
ual need of the citizen drinking
this doctored water.
2. Will this poison store up in
your body even when taken in
the 1 - ppm dosage recommended
by the U. S. Public Health Serv
ice?
Absolutely! Dr. P. Wallace Dur
bin, of the Crocker Laboratory,
University of California, conduct
ed radioactive tracer studies of
minute quantities of fluoride
many, many times less than 1
ppm, and Tound that this poison
would store up in the body.
Further, Dr. Paul.H. Philips, bi
ochemist at the University of Wis
consin, states; “We have worked
with all sorts of levels of fluorine
.in very low levels of less than
1 part per million . . and Dr.
Phillips says, as noted above, that
it is an accumulative poison which
stores up in the body. He further
states; “I long ago came to the
conclusion that the smaller
amount of fluorine we’re exposed
to, the better off we’d be.”
While the Public Health Serv
ice tells the public consistently
that the recommended and accept
ed dosage is 1 ppm, they are actu
ally allowing up to 1.5 ppm in
less published statements,^ and
the American Dental Association
has openly told all its member
ship that the Association favors
“up to 2 ppm.” This makes a tre
mendous difference, as it means
;ust 100% more of the poison
than the public is given to believe
it is getting.
3. What effect does artificially-
fluoridated water have upon the
digestive processes?
The University of New Mexico
Bulletin of August 1, 1938, on the
“Menace of Fluorine to Health,”
states on page 20-21; “Solutions
of sodium fluoride with a fluo
rine content as low as one part in
15,000,000 may inhibit the action
of the lipase (pancreatic juice)-as
much as 50 percent.”
4. What effect does fluorine have
uopn the dentine of the teeth?
University of New Mexico Bul
letin referred to above states on
page 19; “Although it is true that
the enamel of adult teeth is un
affected by flourine, the dentine,
which receives nutrients from the
blood stream continually and
whose composition is subject to
change, will suffer.”
5. Has anything beneficial been
proved to be due to fluoridation?
Nothing in scientific literature
can be found which shows fluo
rine, the “wild cat” or “villain” of
the chemical world, to be a bene
ficial agent to human biology. Ev
en the delay in dental cavities
which is attributed to the inges
tion of fluorine has been said by
Dr. Paul Manning, D.M.D., to be
a “pathological or diseased ef
fect” of fluorine. And Mr. K. K.
Paluev, an experienced analyst-of
experimental data. Fellow of the
American Institute of Electrical
Engineers, states that any appar
ent benefits, as claimed by the
promoters of fluoridation, are due
to delays in detection of dental
defects, and to errors in methods
of statistical calculation. He says;
“A short delay in the appearance
of tooth decay was mistaken for
a radical and permanent reduc
tion in the number of afflicted
teeth.”
6. Why are so many doctors and
dentists favoring fluoridation?
It seems to be a matter of as
sociation control. Medical and
dental colleges, as well as state
health departments, receive large
grants of money from the U. S.
Public Health Service, which is
promoting fluoridation. These
money grants are given on the
condition that the programs of
the USPHS are fostered. Further
more, it is considered unethical
for an individual doctor or dentist
to publicly oppose a program
which his association has endors
ed. However 123 of the 151 den
tists of Worchester, Mass., in
1953 petitioned and demanded
that the approval of fluoridation
by the Worchester District Dental
Society be rescinded. Also, 83 doc
tors and dentists in Michigan join
ed in a protest to the Governor
of that State on March 31, 1955,
against what they termed “the
relentless promotional activities
of the Michigan State Health De
partment” for fluoridation. It
should be noted, also, that medi
cal associations are slowly wak
ing up and refusing to endorse
fluoridation, notably, the Texas
Medical Association, and the As
sociation of American Physicians
and Surgeons. Others are recon
sidering their previous approval
such as the Meltnomah County
(Oreg.) Medical Association.
7, Has either the American Den
tal or American Medical Associ
ation done any original scientific
research in regard to the effects
ef.. artificially-fluoridated., water
upon teeth or the organs of the
human body?
There is no record of scientific
literature of their having done
so. ’They seem to be merely echo
ing the opinions of a group of
public health officials from the
U. S. Public Health Service, who,
likewise, have done no conclusive
research.
8. Who is behind fluoridation, and
who stands to profit?
Oscar Ewing, attorney for the
Aluminum Company of Ameri
ca, which has sodium fluoride as
a waste product, gave the fluori
dation movement its big push
when he became Federal Sgeurity
Administrator. He left $750,000 a
year with the Aluminum ([Compa
ny to take $17,500 a year as F,
S. A. head. In 1951 his agency
asked for two million dollars for
fluorine propaganda alone. He
also had millions of dollai’s to
give out to dental and medical
colleges, state departments of
health, as money grants. Of
‘course, these money grants are
given only to those dental anil
medical colleges and state health
departments which foster and pro
mote the programs of the U. S.
Public Health Service. It all fits
together like a glove! Thus the
price of sodium fluorine jumped
from V-k cents a pound when
sold as a rat poison up to as much
as 15 cents a poumi when sold
for human consumption in drink
ing water, and chemical firms,
therefore, have a very real finan
cial interest in the promotion of
the sale. Equipment firms also,
which suply feeding machinery,
are profiting hugely.
9. Are not naturally-fluoridated
waters the same?
Absolutely not! The fluorides
found naturally are usually organ
ic calcium fluorides which are in
combination with other natural
elements serving to inhibit and
neutralize the toxic effects of fluo
rine and which can be assimilat
ed by the body; the artificially
fluoridated water is obtained with
sodium fluoride, which is an in
organic, cumulative poison 85
times more toxic than calcium
fluoride, and cannot be assimilat
ed by the body, and which, when
added to water, makes hydrofluo
ric acid, an extremely active and
dangerous poison, used chiefly
for etching glass.
This advertisement Is paid for by a committee of citizens and taxpayers who believe the drinking water—ell wafer supplied by the City of New
Bern should be kept clean, pure and wholesome for the convenience and safety of EVERYONE whg usis if; that It should not be polluted
by the addition of any medicating chemicals. Every customer of the Water Department has the right to demand that. We urge every voter to go
to the polls Tuesday, May 5, and vote against poison-fluorino in our water.
This Advertisement Sponsored and Paid for by New Bern Citizens Committee Aganist Fluoridation