Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 23, 1969 Page: 3 of 8
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Thursday., October 23, 1969
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MOTOROLA TVs and RADIOS
'Spoon-Bowl' Meals
May Hit The Markets
COLLEGE STATION- “Spoon-
bawl” and “wet pack” meals like
those used by Apollo astronauts
may someday appear on the super-
market shelf.
Spoon-bowls, explains Gwendo-
lyn Clyatt, Extension consumer
marketing specialist, are bowl-like
zipper topped plastic bags from
which freeze-dried foods are eaten
with a qpoon.
Wet-pack meals consists of reg-
ular undehydrated food wrapped in
aluminum foil.
Soups, prepared foods and other
away-from-home specialities may
soon be packaged in the “Eat-Fast-
Tube, a flexible plastic tube with
a closed seal across the top,” Mrs.
Clyatt reports. The consumer places
the top in his mouth and squeezes
out the contend.
A variety of foods including can-
dies and dried fruits was developed
in the new packaging for space
crews. For Apollo 1®, chicken salad,
and tuna salad on white and rye
bread were developed.
For Apollo am salad and
Cheddar cheese addd
Wet-pack *or Apollo ,,
included frankfurters, beef and po-
talons. These cannot I,heated.
Spoon-bowl foods included sau-
sage patties, with rice,
spaghetti and meat sauce, pork and
scalloped potatoes, chicken stew
and beef stew.^_
EDIBLE I’ACEAGLS
COLLEGE STATION - Food
packages that may become part 0f
the meal may be available.
Manufacturers may even offer a
choice of flavored boxes, wrappers
or bottles to complement or spice
up meals, reports Intension Con-
sumer Marketing specialist Gwen-
dolyn* Clyatt.
The containers are dissolvable
proteins that bec°rne part of the
gravy under cooking temperatures.
Did yon know that four Ameri-
c,in=, who do not expert it die cverv
hour on our highways?
Any boy or Sirl between 9 and
19 years of age caf> participate in
4-II Club work.
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Extension Home Economists' Notes
NELL PRICE — MABLE FERGUSON — PEGGY GREBE
County Home Demonstration Agents
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Does your life insurance policy
pay an annual dividend? What is
a dividend? What can be done with
it?
Dividends are refunds, in a way.
They represent the difference be-
tween what is paid in a year and
what the insurance company has
found to be the actual cost of in-
suring a life.
There are several ways dividends
can be used.
Use them to increase insurance
coverage. . . by using them as the
premium for additional amount of
permanent coverage on which a
physical examination need not be
taken.
Ask the insurance company to
apply dividends to present prem-
iums, thus reducing the policy’s
annual cost.
Leave dividend with the insur-
They’re here!
The new gas
, ovens that
clean themselves!
The lasagne is done,
but the memory lingers on. The spatters
and drips still lurk in your oven. Time for
your gas range to do its own housecleaning.
Here’s all you do.
Close the door. Turn the dial to “clean”
and relax.
For less than a nickel,
your self-cleaning gas oven will bake off •
all the spills and spatters.
Smile
all the way to the football game. When you
get home, your oven will be beautifully
clean, even if your team didn’t win. In
today’s gas ovens, you’ll find amazing
conveniences like self-cleaning or
continuous-cleaning ovens, ranges with
programmed cooking, the Burner-with-a-Brain,
infrared broiler, eye-level oven and
many more.
Get up to $2#.50 cash now.
Buy a new A.G. A.-approved gas range
now from a participating gas appliance cjealer,
and you’ll receive a bonus of up to $25.50 in
cash. Actual value based on 6 percent of net
sales price of the range. Offer good only to ,, ■..
customers of HNG. •' L
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See The New Gas Ranges Now At:
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natural
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Montgomery Ward & Co.
414 Main
824-2501 •
Signature
ance company where it gathers in-
terest.
Use the dividend to pay back a
loan which may have been taken
out against the policy.
Use it to buy a one-year term
insurance policy. Or take the divi-
dend in cash.
The choice should depend on
family needs.
* * *
Picture information phones, cus-
tomer lounges, store hostesses, pro-
fessional food consultants, roofed
parking lots and no-wait check-out
lines.
These are a few requests food
consumers asked for in a recent
series of panel discussions con-
ducted across the country. The
panels tried to discover what Mrs.
Shopper wants in the supermarket
of 1975.
She wants aisles free of Stock-
ers during rush hours, better price
marking and a larger merchandise
selection.
In store interiors, she wants wid-
er aisles, help finding products
through store directories, rest
rooms and snack areas.
But she doesn’t want t,o shop for
groceries via television. She would-
n’t trust the long-distance appraisal
of meat and vegetables and she
fears losing contact with store per-
sonnel.
Consumers also reacted negative-
ly to credit cards for food pur-
chases. The consumer doesn’t trust
herself to control spending.
Other wants of Mrs. Shopper in-
clude more personnel to serve shop-
pers better, less confusion about
prices by checkers, trained bag-
gers who know proper handling of
products, improved methods of
bagging, easy-to-read and conven-
iently placed cash register window
showing price of item checked, bet-
ter way to get purchase from store
to car and larger car spaces with
angled parking.
The A. C. Nielson Company con-
ducted the panels.
Curb Spending
To Lower Taxes,
Economist Urges
It's Time To Re-Pot
Those House Plants
COLLEGE STATION—It’s time
to re-pot house plants says Ever-
ett Janne, Extension landscape hor-
ticulturist, and here is his recipe
for soil mixture for potting:
Mix two parts good garden loam,
“Fiscal problems throughout all
levels of government in this coun-
try are growing alarmingly,” says.
Dr. Arthur A. Smith, senior vice*
president and economist of tho First
National Bank in Dallas, Tex. “Tax-
payers, already burdened with a
heavy tax load are reacting strong-
ly—in some instances angrily,” he
adds.
Noting that there are more than
80,000 governmental units in Uva
United States, he said total govern-
ment spending more than doubled
from 1958 to 1968—from $100 bil-
lion to $213 billion.
Dr. Smith said that the interest
cost alone on the Federal govern-
ment’s debt will exceed $17.3 billion
this fiscal year. That is more than
double what Ltncle Sam spent in
1938 for everything ($8.4 bilh'on>
and only slightly less than all gov-
ernments—Federal, state, local—
spent that year ($17.7 billion.)
Per Capita Spending
“It is true that our country has
grown in population and in eco-
nomic strength,” said Dr. Smith,
“but total government costs have
grown even faster. Per capita
spending in 1968 amounted to
$1,444 compared with $781 in 195?,
with $380 in 1948 and with $137
in 1938. Total government spending
was 30.5 per cent of Gross Na-
tional Product in 1968 compared
with 28.4 per cent in 1958, with
19.5 per cent in 1948, and with 19.S
per cent in 1938—all in current dol-
lars, thus taking inflation into ac-
count."
Government is spending too much
for things we don’t need with
money we don’t have, according
to Dr. Smith. “Many state and local
governments are in fiscal trouble
today,” he said. “Ofbcials are begin-
ning to realize that it is a lot easier
to spend than to tax. Where to get
more revenue is the question now
consuming most of the time and at-
tention of legislators and local au-
thorities—and too little time and
attention are being devoted to curb-
ing expenditures,” Dr. Smith con-
cluded.
BARTLETT PEARS
COLLEGE STATION—Bartlett
pear trees produced an abundant
crop thi3 year so prices should be
attractive, predicts Gwendolyn*
Clyatt, Extension consumer mar-
two parts of peat moss and one i keting specialist,
part sand. Well rotted manure orl Select pears that have already
shredded leaf mold may substitute 1 begun to soften. They will ripen
for peat moss. \ satisfactorily at room temperature-
Garden soil usually is not suit ! Hard pears probably will ripen in
able for potting plants, explains jsimilar conditions.
the Texas A&M University special-
ist. It is usually too low in organic
matter. The home-made mixture
provides the three things most
needed by potted plants; support,
good soil aeration, and ability to
hold adequate moisture and nu-
trients.
To kill disease organisms, insects
and weed seeds, pasturize the soil
mixture by placing it in a shallow
pan for 20 minutes in an oven
preheated to 200 °F. The soil should
be moistened before placing in the
oven.
Always use clean tools and new
pots or soil may be reinfected with
harmful organism. Used clay oots
should be given the same pasturiza-
tion treatment as the soil. Plastic
pots should be washed thoroughly
in hot soapy water, Janne advises.
A simpler and much easier way
to handle pot plants in the home is
to purchase the prepared mixes
available in your nursery or garder
supply center.
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Dismukes, Jesse V. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 23, 1969, newspaper, October 23, 1969; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth725865/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.