The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-03-19
TO-DAY
A ND
Tomorrow

Frank Parker StOckridge

In a few months you may be
able to measure the healthfulness
of canned foods by their avail
ability on the market.
Some favorite canned goods
will be taken off the grocer's
shelves altogether, some will bios
som out in new clothes and some
will be available in limited
quantities.
One of the favorite canned sup
pers-canned pork and beans-is
scheduled to be eliminated en-
tirely, for in the plan to conserve
tin it has been decreed that beans
can be cooked at home as they
were by grandma.
Even Fido will be affected.
Canned dog food, which uses $40
tons of tin each year, will no
longer be sold in cans. 1t has
been found that de-hydrated dog
as food can keep a dog just as
healthy as canned food.
Baking powder, cereals, our
and spices are among the other
produces which will be cut off
entirely from their tin can sup
ply.
SALVAGE collections
There will probably soon be
major additions to the list OF
foods which can no longer be
supplied in tin cans. But this
can be postponed if we save tin
cans and turn them in when there
is a local tin can collection.
The government estimates that
it can salvage 10000 tons Of tin
and scrap steel in year if we
will all see to it that tin cans 60
to war instead of to the garbage
heap.
The tin cans turned in will be
re-processed with chemicals. To
make this as simple as possible it
has been requested that house
wives give tin cans the following
treatment before bundling them
up for collection:
l. Remove both ends of the
can and wash it.
2. Step on the can lightly so
that there is still about a quarter
inch of air room between the
walls of the can for chemicals to
flow through when it is being
reprocessed.
4. Put both ends of the can
inside the can itself. 4:
That's all there is to it.
PRICES protected
Although the utility of foods
available in tin cans will be con-
siderably reduced, this will not
mean scarcity of all the food we
need. Neither will it mean in
creased prices for canned goods.
In our new national policy of
substituting government control
for the old competitive system of
selling on which America has
thrived, both prices and proper
distribution of food will be under
the close scrutiny of Washing
ton.
Already Mr.. Henderson, who is
in charge of the gigantic problem
of handling supplies and govern
ing prices, has fixed prices on
many of the most popular lines of
canned goods. He has issued a
regulation fixing the manufac-
turer's and jobber's price on II
canned fruits and Is canned veg
etables-and severe penalties have
been set up for any violations of
his price edicts. Although he has
not yet fixed retail prices, this
will be done quickly if it is
found that retailers attempt to
raise prices on these canned
goods.
The II canned fruits which
should stay at the same price
level from now on are: apples,
apple sauce, apricots, cherries
Cred, sour pitted), cherries
(sweet), fruit cocktail, fruit salad,
peaches, peads, pineapples, and
plums.
The Is vegetables on which Mr..
Henderson has fixed prices are:
asparagus, beans Gall dry varie-
ties), beans Cima), snap beans
(green and wax), beets, carrots,
corn, peas, pumpkins, sauerkraut,
spinach, sweet potatoes, tomatoes,
tomato catsup, and tomato juice.
HEALTH capsules
1t is expected that other pack
aging materials, in addition to
tin, will soon be rationed by Mr..
Henderson. The cardboard used
in many packaged cereals and
other grocery products is becom-
ing scarce due to huge require
ments for cardboard in packag-
ing shells and other munitions.
Glass, although plentiful, will
probably become harder to get as
more manufacturers turn to glass
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