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What’s more, an electric furnace is flamelessly clean What electric warm-air neat - and what it can do tor A 40 pci cent mcica.se in the sale of icgiilarly priced eggs was reported by Bill Rodgers, Assistant Dairy and Fiozcn Foods Merchandiser for Fern andes Supeimarkets, Inc, dur ing the week his awaid win ning display was maintained in Fernandes Biockton, Mass, store. Rodgers’ egg display was one of many submitted as a part of the Annual Display Awards Contest held by the New Eng land Supermarket Adveitising Club. Through its Eastern Repre sentative, Howard Helmer, and Harry Watling then Officer-in- Charge of the USDA Consumer Foods Programs in Boston, the Poultry and Egg National Board arranged last year to have a “Special Award” for egg \ ''n a x N you and virtually maintenance-free. There are 4 other types of electric heal to choose from, too . . . baseboard, hot water, ceiling cable or heat pump. One is sure to be the perfect solution for you. For more informa tion and a free estimate on operating costs, call PP&L or your PP&L Recommended Electric Home Heating Dealer, listed in the Yellow Pages under “Heating." Lack of Gimmicks displays as a pint of the Club’s annual contest It was the fust time any commodity 01 ‘‘out side agency" had been icp resented in the nine-year his toiy of the contest Before piesenling PENB's engraved Coppei Skillet Awaid to Rodgers and Fernandes Su permarkets, Helmer addressed the more than 100 pi eminent New England food suppliers, brokers, buyers, store managers and merchandisers attending the Award Banquet in Brain tree, Massachusetts on May 28 Helmer stated “Our eggs need all the help they can get, help such as this contest pio vides. That’s because our eggs are the real orphans of the dairy case; they really have no one who’ll take the time to father them No gimmick pack- 'sn4 * ~^ ’W r T <v v. v V _ VA . S N IS Lancoatcr Farming. Saturday. June 27.1970 23 aging either. and no ladio or television adveitising supiiort, no mind blowing display. and no eMia facings scl up 1)\ com pany repiesenlatues who \iml the stoic legulaily ‘‘Nevertheless.'’ continued Hclmer, “our oiphan eggs earn their keep by grinding out 17 to 22 per cent of the dairy case sales at a 25 per cent gross profit, or a 121 per cent return on their investment." Helmer concluded by point ing out that since the egg in dustry is so much more pro duction-oriented than it is pro motion minded, it needs the sales results that the Ad Club’s contest provides, like the 40 per cent increase Mr. Rodgers' display earned on eggs that weren’t even sale priced The in dustry needs this as proof of how Us product can leally per form, given a little in store pro motional attention Sixteen major New England Supermarket chains paiticipate in the Advei Using Club’s Dis play Contest each year Solicit ing the egg buyers and dairy merchandieis of these chains for participation in the contest was accomplished through the generous assistance and co operation of William D Suther lin of the USD A Poultry Divi sion Grading Branch in Boston, Garden Spot Sewing Fifty-thiee members of the Garden Spot 4-H Sewing Club attended the first project meet ing at Gaiden Spot High School Monday. Thiiteen adult leadeis and eight teen leaders aie directing* the following projects first year, stait stitching, second yeai, cotton sknt thud year, sleeveless diess, fomth year, school diess, fifth yeai, wool skut, sixth yeai and continu ing fiee lance Sandy Chalfont and Maigaret Fieeman aie attending the Pennsylvania 4-H Club Con giess as delegates fiom the Club The Congress is being held this week at the Pennsyl vania State University campus. Club Peisident, Diane Her shey, announced that 41 4-H members from. lowa will be coming to Lancastei County on an Exchange trip July 8 to 13. Families of club membeis are needed to serve as hosts Frozen Produce Offers Good Buys in Summer Thi oughout the coming months you’ll lind good buys on Dozen flints and vegetables, accoidmg to Mi s Rutn J Buck, extension foods and nuti ition specialist at Pennsylvania State Umveisity As gioweis begin to pack this yeai’s pioduce, the fiozen fiuits and vegetables already processed wll be otfeied at at tractive puces You’ll saie money if you take advantage of these good buys and if vou have space in the fieezer foi them. Choose packages that are fum and clean Tom, ciushed, packages may have bedn thaw ed and refrozen, says Mrs Buck, juice-stained, or ice covered After food is thawed, the rate of spoilage mci eases, and spoil age occuis more rapidly than it would in fresh food Mi s. Buck recommends thawing tood in the refrigerator instead of at room tempera tures and using the thawed -food
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