Speakers Announced For PA State Grange Convention
HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania
State Grange Master Charles E.
Wismer, Jr. has announced the
keynote speaker for the 114th
Annual State Grange Session
Banquet is Captain Edward Davis
of the U.S. Navy. Capt. Davis is
scheduled to speak at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 29 during the All
Granger Banquet. The banquet
begins at 6 p.m.
Approximately 1,500 members
from around the Keystone State
are expected to attend the con
vention with delegates
representing 550 local Granges.
The delegates will use the session
to decide legislative policy which
will direct the Grange in its
legislative lobbying efforts for the
upcoming year.
After seven and a half years as a
prisoner of war in North Vietnam,
Capt. Davis was released to return
to the states in 1973. While many
POWs were released that year,
Capt. Davis received particular
attention and made national
headlines. Upon his liberation
from captivity, Capt. Davis in turn
liberated a small, dust puppy
named Maco (Mah-co’) from the
Communist Vietnamese.
A native of Pennsylvania, he
attended St. Joseph’s College
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Preparatory High School in
Philadelphia, where he was a
varsity oarsman and was twice
national champion in quadruple
sculls.
After high school, he studied at
Villanova University for one year
before accepting an appointment
to the Naval Academy at An
napolis.
Following graduation from the
academy, Capt. Davis completed
Navy Flight Training and was
awarded his pilot’s wings. While
attached to a squadron based at
Alemeda, Calif., Capt. Davis flew
the A-l Skyraider. Then, in 1965,
two weeks after his wedding, Capt.
Davis’ squadron reported for duty
onboard the Aircraft Oriskany. It
was during that deployment to the
coast of Vietnam that Capt. Davis
was shot down, on his 57th combat
mission.
For the next ninety months, his
life, his career and his marriage
were put on hold.
After returning home in 1973,
Capt. Davis did graduate work in
international affairs at the
University of Virginia. He then
became senior instructor and
executive officer of the Navy
ROTC Unit at the university.
Currently, Capt. Davis resides in
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Millersville with his wife, Elaine,
and their two daughters, 13-year
old Jennifer, and 7-year-old
Amanda. He is retired from the
Navy as of October 1985.
Presently, he serves as flight
department manager for the In
ternational Signal and Control
Group, a Lancaster based cor
poration.
Capt. Davis’ awards include
three Silver Stars, The Legion of
Merit with Combat “V”, four
Bronze Stars, Meritorious Service
Medal, five Air Medals and two
Purple Hearts. He is a recipient of
the Daughters of the American
.Revolution Silver Medal, the Sons
of the American Revolution Gold
Medal and a life member of the
American Legion, Veterans of
Foreign Wars, Disabled American
Veterans and the United States
Rowing Association.
Wismer also announced four
other prominent featured guests,
who are scheduled to speak at
various times throughout the
convention. Senator Michael
O’Pake from Berks and Mont
gomery counties will address the
Grangers at 3:30 p.m. Monday,
Oct. 27 at the Wilson High School,
Reading. O’Pake, who is a
member of the Fleetwood Grange
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October It, 19M-C5
in Berks County, is the ranking
Democrat on the Senate Judiciary
Committee. He also serves on the
Senate committees on Aging and
Youth, Banking and Insurance,
and Agricultural and Rural Af
fairs.
Dr. Richard Grubb, secretary of
the Department of Agriculture will
address the Grange members at 11
a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28 at the Wilson
High School, Reading. Grubb was
appointed by Governor Thom-
Consumption Increases
BY SHERRIE BIERNACRI
USDA Information Spec.
“Americans are once again
eating more grain products,” says
Karen Bunch, an economist with
the Agriculture Department’s
Economic Research Service.
Grain product consumption hit a
low of 137 pounds per person in
1972, but by 1985 it had risen 9
percent to about 150 pounds
around the levels of the 1950’5.”
In an article recently published
in USDA’s National Food Review,
Bunch says that a couple of factors
have led to this increase. Health
concerns may be one. Con
sumption of the complex car-
burgh on May 8 and took his office
on June 10. Prior to his ap
pointment, he was the senior vice
president for administration at
Penn State University.
Gubernatorial candidates Lt.
Governor Scranton and Bob Casey
are scheduled to address the
Grange members. The times will
be announced at a later date.
Master Wismer will make his s
address at 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27
at the Wilson High School.
bohydrates found in grain products
has been linked with cancer
prevention. Another reason behind
grain’s new popularity is greater
consumer demand for variety.
Manufacturers have responded to
this demand by introducing grain
based foods that are new to the
American diet —like croissants. In
addition, some old favorites, such
as pasta and rice, have achieved
new popularity.
With 80 percent of total grain
consumption, wheat is the major
grain eaten in the United States,
and wheat flour is one of the major
gainers in recent years. In 1985,
almost 123 pounds of flour were
produced for every American, up
12 percent from the low point in
1972 and the highest in more than
30 years.
One of the main uses for all this
flour is bread.
“Nowhere are the issues of
health concerns and demand for
variety more clearly seen than in
the case of bread,” Bunch says.
“Total per capita bread con
sumption declined 22 percent after
1967, to about 46 pounds per person
by 1985. All of the decrease was in
white bread, which fell more than
39 percent. At the same time
consumption of whole wheat and
variety breads, such as pum
pernickel or Italian, increased 12
percent. Nutrition and the desire
for variety contributed in the
switch.”
One of the largest gainers among
flour products is pasta. Last year,
each American ate more than 12
pounds of pasta, up more than 30
percent from 1970.
“Pasta consumption has in
creased in part because these
products fit into changing
lifestyles, having shed their dull
image in the process,” Bunch says.
“More restaurants are serving
pasta, and new products like pasta
primavera pasta and vegetables
have helped consumers see an
exciting new image for this
product.”
Rice is another grain product
that is on the rise. Rice use has
increased about 39 percent since
its low point of about 7 pounds per
person in the 1970’5. The amount of
rice used directly as food now
stands at about 10 pounds, the
highest since the 1920’5. According
to Bunch, the increasing number of
Oriental and Mexican restaurants
and larger populations of these
ethnic groups in the U.S. are
behind the gains in rice con
sumption.
Another factor not included in
rice consumption figures is the
increased use of rice in beer.
Because alcohol is not considered a
food, use in beer isn’t counted in
the statistics. If it were, rice use
would more likely total around 13
pounds per person, instead of 10.
Use of nee in beer has increased
more than 70 percent on a per
capita basis since the 1970’5, partly
spurred by a 16-percent rise in beer
consumption.
While rice has benefited in the
ethnic food market, so has corn.
Consumption of corn meal has
increased 8 percent from its 1977
low, partly because of a rise in the
number of Mexican restaurants in
the United States. Big growth has
also occurred in com snack foods.
Sales of corn and tortilla chips
increased almost 70 percent bet
ween 1980 and 1985.