Evening star., 1950-06-15
Report
to the
Housewife
BY Violet Foulkner

the Dill passed Dy Congress ellmi-
mating Federal taxes on marga-
r1ne. AS of July first these taxes
that have been in effect for the
past Ga years will be no more.
This means a lower price tag to
consumers where yellow marga-
rine is sold. The same bill does
away with annual license fees, too.
Retailers, wholesalers and manu-
facturers no longer will have to
pay for a license to make and
sell margarine. Fifteen States
still prohibit the sale of yellow
margarine. but the District of
Columbia is not on that list
Another piece of good news for
the week end shopper reached me
by telegram this morning. The
price of one of the most popular
brands of concentrated orange
juice is being reduced to a new
low for the year. Prices are down
anywhere from 2 to 3 cents per
can depending on the retailer. In
addition to this price reduction,
this company is making special
money back" offer to its con-
sumers. If you are not satisfied,
all you have to do is send in the
tops from the cans showing the
trade mark together with your
name and address. and your
money will be refunded.
Looking at the fresh produce
side of your marketing problems
you'll find just about anything
you want but not always at the
price you'd like to pay. Green
beans, wax beans and cabbage
seem to be the best values in the
vegetable line. The green corn
is a wonderful quality, free from
blemishes and well developed ears;
eggplant, new broccoli from
Texas, peas, yellow and white
summer squash, cowpeas, shiny
green peppers, carrots, and ex-
cellent asparagus are all plenti-
full and fairly reasonable in price.
Salad makings are more limited
at present. There is plenty of
lettuce, both iceberg and Boston,
with some romaine about, but a
noticeable scarcity of chicory and
escarole. You may run across
some home grown chicory but
the quality leaves much to be
desired. Good tomatoes are not
only scarce but worth their weight
in gold. Unless you must have
them for color accents, I'd sug-
gest you wait until local crops
start coming in.
l. The Strawberries from jersey
are beauties; they're huge, firm,
and a gorgeous color. The home
grown berries suffer by compar-
ison as far as looks are concerned.
AS you all know we've had too
much rain to produce the best
berry crop. However these berries
have an excellent flavor and are
much less expensive than their
Jersey cousins. Might be a good
idea to do that canning now. The
first blueberries of the summer
hit the stands this week, coming
In from North Carolina. But here
again you'll have to pay a fancy
price If you want to pamper your
appetite with first-o f-the-season
fruit. The first shipment of
thompson seedless grapes from
California came into Washington
this week, too. In fact, there's a
flne assortment of fruits avail
able now for summer salad plates,
1rult cups. and desserts. You may
have your choice of cantaloupe
honeydews, pineapple, oranges,
blackberries, and some grapefruit.
AS long as the weather stays COM
paratively cool you'll find the
price on lemons reasonable. but
it's funny thing about this fruit.
the price goes up with the tenn
perature!
And now I'm off for Dover
Delaware and the second annual
National Chicken Cooking Con-
test. They are looking forward to
big time with 100 contestants
from IL states competing for the
title OF "best chicken cook. ri
tell you about it next week.
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HERE AND THERE: When
white cottons or linens become
yellowed from being long In stor-
age, try soap-water-and sun. Tex
tile chemists of the United States
Department of Agriculture sue-
gest laundering the yellowed ar
t1cle carefully and hanging it in
the sun to bleach as it dries.
Grass stains from children's cloth
ing are easily removed if treated
promptly. The stains usually wash
out with hot soap and water, rub
oing well. Any faint traces left
may be bleached out by a mild
bleach like sodium perborate
which can be purchased at drug
stores. Many people think
OF iodine as brown liquid in the
medicine chest rather than as a
food essential. Yet small but
steady quantities of iodine are
needed by the body for normal
growth and development, healthy
skin and hair, alert mentality and
physical vigor as well as for pre-
venting goiter. The simplest, most
practical and least expensive way
to make sure that all people,
especially growing children, have
the iodine they need is the use
Of iodized salt. Vegetables and
fruits grown on iodine-rich soil,
seafoods and some drinking water
contain iodine. But many people
lack these sources. Iodine is nat
urally present in salt from the
ocean and in many local salt de-
positS in the earth but is lost in
refining. Returning iodine to salt
is similar to enriching -four to
make up for vitamins and min