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Get A Shine In Your Life Page 17 Sheriff’s Special Unit On A Roll Page 13 Volume 1, Number 2 • 24 Pages April 2 h. 1998 Statesville, NC 28677 • 50# PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE CROSSROADS OF THE CAROLINAS f o Going Bananas!! ■_L_ Yes, We Have No Bananas shown bunched up. ? Marian (Bunny) Morgan, a banana auditor for (Thiquita company, is Stcijjf Photo - Bab Plyler By BOB PLYLER Editor Now that everyone is into the tax season, the term auditor striked fear in even the most hardy soul.. But take heart, not all auditors are out to'putyOu in jail. We found one that -doesn’t work for bananas but works with bananas . . . she’s a banana auditor. By the title you would think Marian (Bunny) Morgan would spend hours sitting around counting, “one banana, two bananas, three bananas, four” but you would be wrong. She is actually employed by the Chiquita com pany as a green-quality control person. All those luscious yellow bug^tes in your grocery cart are there because dispeople like her. Her job, actually a part-time position, starts at Food Lion corporate headquarters in Salisbury. There she opens the shipping car tons carefully looking at each banana for proper color, smooth, unbroken or damaged skin. ■ From the tropics to the grocer, shipping temperature is important. Picking a fruit at random, she checks the temperature, much the same way mothers have become accus tomed to doing with small children. With an acceptable visual inspection and with the temperature within range, Bunny Morgan’s approval helps the shipment move to its final destination, your grocer's display. Bananas probably came from southeast Asia and date back to the year 327 B.C. During the boom years of the ivory and slave trade, travelers carried the roots to Africa, -'from there to the Canary Islands. When the Spanish came to the new world, so did the banana. If you could have been a visitor to the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition you could have bought a banana, wrapped in toil for ten cents, which in today’s money would be at least two dollars. (See Bananas, Page 2 )
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