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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT. JULY 16, 1953 f TABLE TALIS Jcmc Ancbews A frozen-food locker is undoubtedly a wonderful thing -- one of the greatest additions to the comfort of countless families ever made. But, like lots of other novelties, these lockers can be abused, as well as used. Recently the Editors of The Farm Journal (Philadelphia) had a survey made--a survey which produced some interesting results. So. instead of recipes this week, here is some food for thought for all present--or intending -- users of frozen-food lockers. Every once in a while we hear a woman say: "I'll never waste locker space on green beans again." Or "That chicken we froze has a peculiar taste." And you wonder why -- for frozen foods usually are pretty wonderful. We asked a couple of locker plant, operators: "How come-- why do locker users get unsatisfactory results in their frozen foods?" Each man came up with a list of reasons--four of them exactly the same, although the operators are 1,000 miles apart. All told, there were seven "sins" of locker users--things that may help you get better frozen foods from your locker or freezer. Improper packaging heads the trouble lists of Simon Olson, who was 11 years in the locker business, and Bob Madeira. (Mr. Madeira is executive secretary of the National Frozen Food liocker Institute.) "Too many old, leaky cartons are pressed into service long after the wax has worn off. Some customers used wax paper, old bread wrappers, cereal boxes, paper bags--and yes, even newspapers--to wrap foods. None of these will keep the package airtight to protect the food from drying out during storage; so the remit is^ off - flavor and poor Improper processing of foods for freezing was next on both lists. Olson says: "Vegetables must be blanched, or they'll have poor color and a strawlike taste. When people aren't happy about frozen green beans, those beans probably weren't blanched and adequately chilled before packaging. Or, maybe the beans were over-blanched." Madeira observes: "Too many people have vegetables standing around a day or two before they process them. Then they're disappointed that the beans, already tough by freezing time, don't come out beatifully tender. Freezing doesn't improve food quality." Choosing wrong varieties of fruits and vegetables for freez- >*;:•. ' &auih ing was the third sin listed. Some freeze better than others. Locker managers have lists of recommended varieties, and are eager to help customers select right Overloading the locker, which keeps foods from freezing fast, was sin number four. Mr. Olson explains the importance of fast freezing this way: "When ice crystals form quickly, there's less breaking up of the food tissues, so less color, flavor, and food value are irawn out of the food and into the crystals,. Fast freezing gives better textured, better flavored food." And don't overload your freezer when you freeze foods at home to be transferred to the locker. Put in only one-tenth of the freezer's total capacity. For instance, a freezer that holds 350 pounds will fast-freeze 35 pounds of food in a 24-hour period. Remember, too, that the icecube section of a refrigerator is not a fast-freeze section. It's designed for storing foods. Only a few of the new, two temperature refrigerators maintain the zero temperature necessary for freezing. Tossing packages helter skelter into the locker is poor housekeeping, says Madeira. Put the unfrozen foods against sides of the locker -- the coldest spot. Throwing them in among the already frozen foods warms up these stored foods, keeps the new packages from freezing quickly --impairs quality. Madeira continues: "We realize that it's cold in locker rooms, so people want to get out fast. But they don't save any time by throwing things in. When they want a certain food later, they have to root through to find it." Poor handling of meat by the customer was on Mr. Olson's list. When a locker user complains of poor-quality meat, the reason is likely to be unsanitary butchering, such as a punctured intestine which taints the meat; or freezing before the animal has been chilled long enough, which leaves an "animal" taste in the meat; or wrapping chickens too soon after killing, so that they sour. Expecting too much from the meat they ask the locker man to cut up, is Madeira's patron-problem. "They don't understand that 50 pounds of beef won't give 50 pounds of edible meat. For instance, one fourth of a hind-quarter of beef is bone and fat." (The old locker-plant joke about the woman who asked to have a quarter of beef cut into T-bone steaks isn't funny to locker men!) It might pay you to check your own freezing practices against these 'seven sins": improper packaging; improper processing; choosing wrong varieties for freezing; overloading the locker; poor housekeeping in the locker; poor handling of meat; and failure to understand meat shrinkage. Everyone is very friendly in the "no-bars" gaol at Fairmont, West Virginia. One prisoner amused himself by applying for everything in the magazines that was advertised on "money back if not satisfied" terms. But the governor finally had to draw the line. He sent up for ten day's free trial of a gun. Strikers Struck--Raymond A. Geiger, right, is going to get in on any picketing that's going on around his place of business. The owner of a printing and advertising firm, Geiger pickets the pickets during the first shut-down due to a strike in the history of the 75-year-old Newark firm. tsSozing With Paint--Blazing trees with paint instead of an axe is simplifying controlled tree cutting operations in Canadian forests. The paint is a highly visible brilliant yellow developed specifically for tree marking. It may be applied with an Ale-mite gun cr a packsack-type pressure sprayer. Trees for felling tire marked at about eye level and ot the bose of the trunk. ..Plain Horse Sense-by BOB ELLIS At one time Winston Churchill was attacked in the House of Commons as unreliable, because he had switched from one party to another and back again. His answer w^as: "To change is to improve; to change often is to become perfect." Human nature being what it is none of us will over "become perfect," but it is with rising hopes that we read the daily morning revelations in our good old friend, the Globe and Mail. We remember that not so long ago the tears were running down its editorial page, because the British did not have the dollars to buy our farm products. At that time,, of course we could not dream of accepting payment in any other form. We had to have dollars to be able to buy in the United States. At least, so thought the Globe. Change or Hearts or Spots? Whenever Mr. Coldwell or Percy Wright tried to draw the attention of the House of the dangers inherent in the light hearted manner in which the British markets for our farm surpluses were being abandoned, they were derided, ridiculed, and the hue and cry was: Dollars. Dollars, Dollars! Lately the attitude of the Globe seems to have changed and there is talk of regaining the British markets and even of accepting sterling payments Time only will tell whether the leopard is changing his heart or only his spots. Probably Spots Whatever the change, it does not go so far as to accept the idea of stabilizing farm prices by government measures. In a recent editorial "The Way Back is the Way Out" the Globe discusses the "farm price support program" in the United States and draws certain analogies for Canada. Speaking of "alleged surpluses" and "stable farm prices" the editor comes to the conclusion that "the only remedy is to abandon the system that created them, thereby letting legitimate production find legitimate markets at economic prices.' Double Nelson Farmers who are in the Double Nelson of high prices for what they buy and low prices for what they sell, realize by now that the "depression" which the Globe fears "with vicious consequences to world trade in manufactured goods," will be caused by their reduced purchasing power, if it The reduced purchasing power of the farmer in turn is s consequence of the price ana profit policy of the manufacturers and processors. "The only remedy" is all-out production, planned distribution in co-operation with all countries willing to co-operate, based on stabilized prices. To achieve this stability it will be necessary to call a halt to the exploitation to which the farmer is subjected at present. This could be done by controlling the profits of the corpora-lions with whom he has to deal, guying and selling. > We offer this suggestion to farmers for discussion with their *randidates in the coming federal election. If we cannot hope to become This column welcomes suggestions, wise or foolish, and all criticism, whether constructive or destructive and will try to answer any question. Address your letters to Bob Ellis, Box 1, 123 - 18th Street, New Toronto, Ont. Once A 'Ghost Town' Now Waking Up For more than 100 years the little north Cornish cove of Port Quin, close by the fishing harbour of Port Isaac, has been deserted. Every man, woman and child, it is said, disappeared within twenty-four hours, because: Official reasons: A terrible storm broke off the coast at a moment when the entire male population of the village were out fishing. One after the other^ every ship of that small but proud fleet was battered to pieces. Not a man was saved. Upon hearing* the news, the story runs, the women folk believed there was a curse on the place, and took to their heels. True reason: In fact, there was no story at all. But trouble was brewing. Every man in that fleet was a smuggler on a large scale. All had gone well for a time, with many kegs landed and stored away in secret hide-outs. Then one day news was received that the Preventive Men were on their trail. Whereupon the Port Quin folk decided to leave without more ado, scattering in little family groups all over Cornwall. So Port Quin became a ghost. With every house and cottage empty, roofs fell in and walls collapsed, and weeds grew through the floors. Now, 100 years later, the cottages which were not beyond repair have been restored. With its homes freshly painted and gardens created out of the wilderness of weeds, the "ghost" «f Port Quin is gradually coming to life again. The Man Who Guarded Churchill "Constable, if I have done wrong, you have your remedy, but you have obsolutely .10 right to talk to me like that. Please take his number, Thompson." Those words were spoken by Sir Winston Churchill in the days when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was driving his own car from London to his house in Kent in company with ex"-De-tective-Inspector W. H Thompson, who was detailed to guard Sir Winston from 1921 until 1929 during his visit to the U.S.A. in 1931-32, and from August, 1939, until the end of the war in Europe. Apparently a policeman on duty that day, when Sir Winston was driving his car, signalled him to stop, but instead of pulling up Sir Winston pulled over to his near side and partly mounted the kerb in order to let a bus pass him. But "he had reckoned without the constable, who darted behind the bus and stopped us, as he was peifectly entitled to do." And !hen the fireworks began. The policeman gave Sir Winston a piece of his mind. More than that, according to Mr. Thompson, for he tells us that "as a police officer myself I was more than startled by the violence of the expressions of this policeman. "He abused Mr. Churchill roundly and employed some very Objectionable language." But the Prime Minister listened until the policeman ran out of breath," and then "he stuck out his jaw and replied savagely" --■ I have quoted. One can't help feeling sorry for that arm of th elaw. Of course, he'd been rude, and had probably lost his temper, but when he realised who hed been "ticking off" he appeared hor- When they reached the outskirts of Westerham. Mr. Thompson heard his distinguished driver muttering to himself. "He was right. Yes, he was right. I should have been more careful." And Sir Winston went on to say: "I deserved all he said, you know, although there was no need for him to be so violent about it." And the policeman was not reported for saying rude things to Sir Winston Churchill. Mr. Thompson tells us that sometimes during a blitz on London, Sir Winston would watch the bombing and take reckless chances. Once he remarked: "When my time is due, it will come." And he once refused to get into an armoured car. "I must take my chances with the rest," he remarked firmly. On another occasion he was standing with Sir John Anderson watching the searchlights when his C.I.D. guard heard a whistling noise and went into action. He must be the only man alive who can say that he has thrown his arms round a Prime Minister and "flung him with all my strength behind the door." The PM was furious. "Don't do that!" he roared. He probably said more than that, but Mr. Thompson is very discreet, and we are left guessing! Once, at Palm Beach, Sir Winston wanted to go bathing without a costume, thinking the beach he was using was private. Thompson suggested that he could be seen through glasses. "If they are so much interested, it is their own fault what they see," growled the P.M. And when he heard that sharks had been seen within a few yards of the shore, he wisecracked: "My bulk must have frightened them away!" This book is a treasure house of good stories about the P.M. You should read it.--"Sixty Minutes With Winston Churchill," by W. H. Thompson Pants to Motch-A fulls pants are modelled by I . Th« outfit petticoat and a cl ss bodice. Miss Cruz, s of "Miss Santo Bort of 1953. Sure Hard experience did Ceci Riggs and his son, Dennis tared the same bed after and aspirin was the oi . The "team," fe ■ ordeal. Double These Homes Are for the Birds Most birds nest i are liable to fi hen seen from places. At least they are ordinary for birds. But in i dividualists with the urge to try something differei perhaps thesepeculiar pla< These robins nest in secure safety A blue jay proudly displays a Tn',s |< as long as no one kicks the union label. Poppa is a work-bucket, ing man. idy robi