—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 27,1978
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It’s my understanding that this weekend is a
favorite All-American holiday-pool season opening
day.
But, I really wouldn’t know. How would I know? I
wouldn't recognize a swimming pool if I fell head
first into one.
Now, approximately 95 per cent of the American
population wouldn’t understand my ignorance,
but, then 95 per cent of all Americans weren’t
raised on my family's farm where only "lazy”'
people went to swimming pools. (That’s why I
always contended that I should be the one to go
swimming -- everybody knew I was the laziest one
of the bunch.)
USDA nitrite decision
pleases pork council
DES MOINES, lowa -
“Pleased and relieved” is
the reaction of John
Soorholtz, president of the
National Pork Producers
Council, to USDA’s May 15
decision regarding the use of
nitrite in bacon processing.
Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture Carol Tucker
Foreman announced that
USDA is proposing
regulations that set limits on
the amount of nitrite that
can be used, on the amount
of blocking agent that must
be used, and the level of
mtrosamines that can be
present in the product.
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“The interesting thing,”
says Soorholtz, a pork
producer from Melbourne,
lowa, “is that the proposed
regulations are essentially
what the processing industry
has been doing for the past
three years. In fact, the
American Meat Institute
recommended these levels to
the industry in April, 1975.”
“This is certainly a
positive step and should
clear up some of the con
fusion so that we can all get
back to continuing to give
the U.S. consumer the
healthiest and safest pork
products in the world,” adds
Sorrholtz.
By JOANNE SPAHR
Assistant Editor
So, poor, deprived farm child that I was, I was
forced to find other "ways to cool off on those hot,
Summer work days. One of the better ways always
came during tobacco planting season. That one
was the old “fall into the tobacco bed by accident”
trick. Anyone who was raised on a farm where
tobacco is a cash crop knows that the lush green
seed beds make a marvelous soft, cooling cushion
when the sprinkling system is trained on them. Of
course, there’s always the muddy bed lying in wait
under the cool, plush plants, but a farm child finds
that inviting, es well
So, on a hot Summer day, it was not uncommon
to see me over-reaching for a tobacco plant, only to
topple head first "by accident” into the seed bed.
Of course, at the same time, it was not uncommon,
either, to hear my father, grandfather, and
brother send up a united chorus of hoops and
hollers as I broke the stems of the tender little
seedlings beneath me.
When I had worn out my welcome on that one
(which usually came after my second supposed
accident), there was always the “stick your arm in
the milk cooler” trick. Of course, there was always
the threat of losing an arm if the lid came crashing
down or withering a finger or two in the dry-ice like
temperatures of the water, so that novelty wore
off rather quickly.
But, the cooling trick that never wore off was
hiding under a favorite shade tree and avoiding
work all together. It didn’t beat swimming, but it
sure made working on hot Summer days a lot more
tolerable.
Hawaii
™ ONE WEEK
IN
WAIKIKI
SEPTEMBER 12-19,1978
(Tuesday arrival/
uesday departure)
79.00 *sssr
- supplement $125.00)
WHAT’S INCLUDED
★ Roundtrip coach transfers Lancaster/Philadelphia
airport.
★ Roundtrip jet coach air transportation via scheduled
United Airlines flights.
★ Seven (7) nights' hotel accommodations at the Sheraton
Waikiki.
★ Aloha lei greeting on arrival in Honolulu.
★ Roundtrip airport/hotel transportation.
★ Roundtrip airport/hotel porterage including baggage
handling.
★ Continental breakfast orientation briefing the day after
arrival.
★ Services of a Travel Time Travel Agency tour escort.
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Lancaster, PA 17602
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.State Zip.