14- THE CAROLINA TIMES SAT., APRIL 24, 1976
POGRADS
By Mary J. Whitmore
Home Economist
ENERGY SAVINGS ON
YOUR REFRIGERATOR
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GET YOUR FREEZER READY
The anival of spring weather and tempting seed catalogs fan
the home gardening fever. Quite naturally, gathering the food in
days to come will be followed by food conservation. Now is the
good time to get your freezer ready for your summer's bounty
while it is perhaps not full. Taking an inventory of what you have
will allow you to use up all of last year's vegetables and fruits
before you start putting in next year's supply.
Defrosting the freezer should be done quickly. Here arei
suggestions: - 1. Remove food from the freezer. Place it in
grocery cartons that you have placed in bigger cartons. (The space
between the two cartons acts as insultation.) Crumple newspapers
and pack around the food in the smaller inside carton. If cartons
are not available, wrap food in newspapers and blankets and put
in the coldest place available.
2. Unplug freezer. Place papers or shallow pans in the bottom
of the chest freezer to catch frost. An electric fan placed so that
the air hits the frosted surface helps speed defrosting. Do not put
pans of hot water in the freezer. Pans of slightly warm or tap
water will help. Keep the water in the pans as this should be a dry
process. You do not want excess water in the freezer.
3. As frost and ice looses, lift them out. Use no sharp-edged
tool that will damage the walls of the freezer.
4. Wipe out the freezer with a cloth or sponge wrung out in
soda water (2 tablespoons soda to a quart of water). Then use
clear water. Wipe freezer dry and close the lid. Plug in freezer and
let it run at least 1 5 minutes.
5. As food is returned to the freezer , wipe each package if it
has any frost or dampness on it.
Give your freezer a good check-up while you are in the
process. Check the freezer door to make sure the closure is good.
Moisture may be entering at the door. Check this by closing the
door on a piece of paper. If the paper moves or pulls out the
gasket does not fit. Have this corrected.
Your freezer should hold a temperature of 0 degrees or lower
for storage of foods. To be sure that it does this at all times, it
should be frequently checked with a thermometer. If you buy a
thermometer to keep in your freezer, be sure to get a good one
that will check a very low temperature. Read it while it is still in
the freezer, or if you take it out, read it quickly. Air temperature
can change the thermometer reading immediately.
If your freezer is not a manual defrost one, you might have an
automatic defrost, which allows hot refrigerant to flow through
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Hough say. In the North, a
when they rioted during World
Wars I and II and in the mid
to late 60s.
As a consequence,
McConahayand Hough say,
"northern whites never had to
confront their racial feelings,"
as southerners did.
As long as the civil rights
movement remained
principally in the South, the
nature of the conflict had
made Northern whites real - if
, somewhat reluctant - allies of
blacks for at least three
reasons, according to
McConahay and Hough:
- Viewed from a distance,
: the struggle was seen as a
moral one. The blacks were
clearly on the side of justice.
- Civil rights laws passed
- by Northern congressmen were
all aimed at imposing reform
on the South.
- The attack on de jure
segregation and individual
racism "not only did not
Inconvenience Northerners, it
did not threaten any of the
basic institutions, values,
systems or prerogatives of
Northern society."
But as the movement
gravitated northward, the
nature of the struggle changed
dramatically, McConahay and
diffuse de facto racism
flourished.
Blacks had possessed the
freedom to compete for years.
Now it was an equal
opportunity they wanted, and
their demands for reform were
not specific and limited.
"They threatened every
Northern institution," say
McConahay and
Hough. "Here the conflict
was between a differenct kind
of black and a different kind
of white."
Many northern whites
cannot, or will not, express
old-fashioned cism "while
they still harbor a great residue
of unacknowledged anti-black
feeling," or symbolic racism
directed against change, the
social scientists argue.
Northern suburbanites view
themselves as morally
outraged, not as bigoted, and
appeals to them "to repent of
their racism will seem
incomprehensible," say
McConahay and Hough. "They
will not understand what all
the fuss is about.
"This enables them to view
racism as 'somebody else's
problem' while they
concentrate upon their own
private lives."
BITS AND PIECES
By Jesse H. Walker
The Interracial Council for Business Opportunity is
honoring Judge Alsandor, a Lafayette, Louisiana businessman
at its 1976 Bicentennial Dinner at the New York Hilton on
April 28 with its "Business Achievement Award." Alsandor,
already a contractor with a $1 million annual business, went to
1CBO with a proposal for help to start catering and
housekeeping services on the off-shore oil drilling rigs in the
Gulf of Mexico. The business started in 1973 and with a
five-year contract from Amoco expects to gross $2.5 million
this year.
The Opportunity Funding Corporation, a non-profit
corporation formed to demonstrate how risk capital can be
moved most effectively in disadvantaged communities has
triggered over $40 million in minority investments in its first
five years while holding losses to slightly under $700,000.
Positive businesses include the Mana Hill Farmer Cooperative
In Palmetta, Fa., the Outdoor Venture Corporation in
Kentucky and the Fort Greene Co-op Supermarket in
Brooklyn, N.Y.
The Creative Black Group, a minority-owned advertising
agency headed by Kelvin Wall is behind the new A & P ad
drive in the minority media, "Making Our Bag Your Bag."
"This is a conscious effort to relate to the black community",
says John J. Miles, an A & P executive. The new ad now
appears in national black-oriented magazines, 56 newspapers
and in commercial spots on 61 radio stations.
Bert Mitchell, Managing Partner of the CPA firm of Mitchell
and Titus of NYC and first vice president of the National
Association of Minority CPA Firms will be one of the
luncheon keynote speakers on April 28 at Symposium
Workshop, "Minority Minds Make Minority Money",
sponsored by Solid Base Associates of Linden, N.J. and the
Urban Loan Authority. The Rev. S. Howard Woodson,
Speaker of the House of the N.J. State Assembly is the second
speaker. The luncheon will be held at the Holiday Inn Jetport
opposite the Newark Airport.
the cooling coils at present time intervals, which melts off
accumulated frost. Another style, the frost free food freezer,
collects frost on a plate between the walls. The frost free freezer
costs more initially and operating cost is greater than for the
manual or automatic defrost one.
If you are in the market for buying a freezer, you will find two
main styles are available. Chest freezers are generally lower in
initial cost and spread the weight of appliance and food over a
larger floor area. Little cold air is lost when the freezer is opened.
Items may be difficult to remove if they are near the bottom of
the freezer.
Uprights take less floor space, but concentrate the weight in a
smaller area. Food is easier to locate and remove but cold air has,
a tendency to spill out when the door is opened.
Freezing and storing food adds 10 cents to 25 cents per pound
to the cost of the food itself. The food freezer becomes a good
investment financially only if half or more of the family's food is
home produced or purchased at "bargain" prices, and when the
family uses the freezer continually and to capacity.
City Schocl
Lunch Menu
Monday, April 26
Pizza Burgers
Mixed Green Salad
Buttered Corn
Chocolate Cake w White
Frosting
Milk
Tuesday, April 27
Hot Dog w Chili
Cole Slaw
Great Northern Beans
Gelatin w Fruit
Milk
Wednesday, April 28
Chicken and Noodles
Green Beans
Carrot Sticks
Cheese Biscuit
April 29
Spaghetti w Meat Sauce
Green Peas
Applesauce
Yellow Cake w Chocolate
Frosting
Milk
Friday, April 30
Fish Sandwich w Tartar
Sauce
Cole Slaw
French Fries
Cornmeal Cookie
Milk
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