D2o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 5,1980
4-H Council elects officers
HARRISBURG - At the
annual 4-H Leader’s
Banquet, leaders and friends
looked on as the 1980
Dauphin County Council
officers were inducted. The
candle-lighting ceremonies
took place last Friday
evening, at St. Mark’s
Evangelical Lutheran
Church.
This year’s county
president is Rick Baker, R 2
Elizabethtown He takes
office from last year’s
president, Tina Taylor, R 2
Elizabethtown. 1979 was
Tina’s last year as a
member of 4-H, and she said
she is looking forward to
being a leader
Assisting Baker will be
Brenda Hensley, R 1
Harrisburg. She is stepping
into the vice-president’s
office after serving as last
year’s secretary
Brenda Fisher, R 1
Hummelstown, will be
assuming the 1980
secretarial duties for the
county 4-H club council She
too gained experience on the
1979 council, serving as
social chairman *
Todd Kohr, R 1 Palmyra,
will be the 1980 treasurer
Kurt Hess, R 4
Elizabethtown, as social
chairman, will help to find
ways to spend the funds
Kohr follows Shelly Fet
terhoff, R 3 Harrisburg, in
the office of treasurer
The 1980 historian, news
reporter and photographer
duties will be the respon
sibility of Molly Landon, R 1
Harrisburg, Barb Baker, R 2
Elizabethtown, and Greg
Taylor, R 2 Elizabethtown
Last year’s reporter was
Lisa Yohn, li2 Grantville,
and Kan Schengrund,
Hummelstown, was the
photographer
Along with the officer
inductions, leader awards
were presented to Bill
Sweigard, R 3 Halifax, 35
years service in the Upper
Dauphin Beef & Swine Club,
Harvey Gipe, R 2
Elizabethtown, 5 years
USD A seeks
WASHINGTON, D C -
The U S Department of
Agriculture Friday proposed
a new grading procedure for
canned fruits that will offer
packers better control over
the finished product’s quali
ty
USDA also proposed an of
ficial grade standard for
canned fruit mix, a product
similar to fruit cocktail
The proposal would
change the grading pro
cedure for sweet cherries,
fruit cocktail, pears,
apricots and grapes The
new grading procedure, call
ed attributes sampling,
would replace variable
sampling, a system which
has been used in the process
ed fruit and vegetable grade
standards since 1928, ac
cording to Assistant
Sc Cretan, of Agriculture
•r Foreman
1 ’he new pro
i a system
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The 1980 Dauphin Cuonty 4-H Council officers inducted at last Friday’s
banquet are, from left, front row: Rick Baker, Brenda Hensley, Brenda Fisher,
Todd Kohr, Kurt Hess, Molly Landon, Barb Baker, and Greg Taylor. 1979 of
ficers leaving the council are, from left, back row: Tina Taylor, Shelly Fetterhoff,
and Lisa Yohn.
4-H leaders, attending the bahquet, who received awards were, from left,
Harvey Gipe, Harvey Fisher, and Shelly Kaylor.
service in the Lower
Dauphin Baby Beef Club;
Harvey Fisher, Ri Hum
melstown, 10 years service
in the Lower Dauphin Baby
Beef Club; Shelly Kaylor, R 3
Elizabethtown, 5 years
fruit grade
which uses four defect
categories minor, major,
severe and critical. For each
grade, limits are set on the
number of permissible
defects in each category
This system offers packers
better control over the
finished product’s quality by
enabling official graders to
give reports on the quality of
a lot at various stages of pro
duction, without having to
wait until the end of a shift to
determine whether a lot
meets a specified grade
Under the older system,
the finished product is
numerically scored on a
number of quality factors
The grade is an average of
these scores
Attributes sampling is
already in use as the official
grading method for canned
clingstone peaches It was
adopted in 1978, after a
USDA study of the method in
10 California packing plants
service in the Upper
Dauphin Beef & Swine Club;
Mrs Byron Timmins,
Hummelstown, 15 years
service m South Hanover So
& Sew, Mrs Elinor Schall,
Hershey, 5 years service in
to change
standards
Foreman said USDA is
also proposing a new grade
standard for canned fruit
mix, a recent addition to the
consumer market commonly
found under generic labels in
the supermarket
Under the proposed stan
dards, both U S. Grades A
and B fruit mix would have a
reasonably bright ap
pearances, and be practical
ly free from seeds and pits
Other quality factors such as
defective pieces would be
graded under the new at
tributes sampbng system
The canned fruit mix
usually costs less than fruit
cocktail because the expen
sive, artificially colored fruit
ingredients are omitted,
more surplus fruit is used,
and various forms of fruit in
gredients, such as slices,
dices and quarters, are in
cluded in the product Cann
ed fruit mix offers con
sumers a savings while
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Hershey Sewing Club; Mrs
Linda Rhoades, Hershey, 5
years service in Hershey
Sewing Club; and Mrs Tom
Gearhart, Hershey, 5 years
service in Hershey Sewing
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maintaining the same nutri
tional value as the more ex
pensive fruit cocktail.
The proposed changes
were published in the March
21 Federal Register Copies
are also available from the
Fruit and Vegetable Quality
Division, Food Safety and
Quality Service, USDA,
Washington, D.C 20250.
Comments on the proposal
will be accepted until
December 12, and should be
sent in duplicate to Ex
ecutive Secretariat, Attn
Annie Johnson, room 3807-S,
USDA, Washington, D.C,
20250
USDA’s Food Safety and
Quality Service established
grade standards and pro
vides official grading for
many food products, under
authority of the Agricultural
Marketing Act of 1946 Use of
the standards and grading
service is voluntary and paid
foi by the user
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