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Show 1 iPoor May 21, 1980 Sun Chronicle, Sun Times, Ben Lomond Beacon, Clearfield Courier Let's hear it it too tthie seed breeders ! Approximately 200 former of Weber College who attended 40 or more years ago will be honored at the for intensive gardening. benefited greatly from the research being applied to Association executive director, said emeritus commercial vegetable varieties, especially in disease resistance and, alumni are coming from many parts of the U.S. tolerance to insect damage and weather stresses. Once breeders have identified and reinforced a specific inherited character, they can usually splice it into new home garden varieties. increasingly, in Activities session will be followed by campus tours. Principal speaker will be Stan Watts, former Brigham Young University basketball coach and director of athletics, who was an outstanding athlete at WSC when it was a junior college. In charge of activities for the banquet will be Ben Hains, Emeritus Club president. Working with him will be Lee Cain, first vice America: 1. Exceptional flavor, preferably distinct, 2. Multiple plant disease resistance, and if possible, tolerance to insect pests, 3. Heat resistance (or bolting resistance in winter types to flowering), 4. prematureof president, and Rowland vice Corry, , second President. Dr. Elray L. Pedersen, associate professor of English at Weber State College, has been named chairman of the WSC Media Board for a term, replacing Dr. Jean B. White. High yield practical sized fruits, 5. Small plants for intensive gardening, 6. Long keeping on the plant without developing fiber or 7. Nutritional value than currently available varieties, 8. Novel greater two-ye- colors or shapes. Seed breeders are quiet, The media board is the English and creative writing at Weber State of He has also written young as If a Man Die, a work on the eternal nature of man. College. gamut from Mark, a senior at Weber State College to daughter Megan, age one, said Dr Allred of this, his ninth book to be published. has books as a nationwide Kamakaze, r about a Japanese suicide pilot, and The which is Ilungiy Journey the story of one of the leaders of the Dutch underground during World War 11. The to these and other novels, Dr. Allred has In addition "It is a series of narratives about our six sons and five daughteis vs ho run the written non-ficti- author local such best-selle- had published numerous magazine articles, short stories, poetry and hundreds of newspaper articles. of the He is the medical column Only, along with Dr. Robert C. Newman. Speaking about his newest book, Dr. Allred said Some readers will no doubt think I syndicated For Women households to pay their utility bills, and new monies have been allocated to the Ogden agency to help as many . more low-incom- e families as the dollars will allow. The CSA Guidelines for the Energy Crisis Assistance Program were changed as of April 21, to reflect 1980, broader coverage and some varieties are introduced each year. Seed breeders are doing a good job. Penny Armstrong, named editor of the Signpost for 1980-8earlier this spring, has decided not to accept the position and applications for are now being received Application forms may be picked up at the Signpost office, Room 267 of the Union Building A new position, that of production manager, is being created on the Signpost staff because of plans for the staff to do most of the post Signpost office. The USC Institutional Council is taking an additional month to consider a S5B,9Do budget for the Signpost for the coming fiscal year, with the principal concern being whether production work on the paper, other than the printing Application forms mav also be obtained at the families qualify who still in could earlier may not n.iw find assistance available ,o them under the revision.1.. People g needing help in their eligibility and in completing the required application should contact the agencys ECAP CooMrs. Teresa rdinator, Padilla. Applicants must furnish verification ol income for the past tw'elve months, such as the W-- 2 form, check stubs, bank statements, unemdeter-mingin- ployment printouts, Write a letter to the editor or business staemerts from Social Security They iu isi also submit then heatnm dw, (gas, electric, prrqvr aitaoh to he wood, coal) to for assislam e The ECAP offi. e is located at 550 24th Street (.cicphone application Wa orter 90 day Knowledgeable Salespeople No Deposit Necessary Free Maintenance Free Delivery exchange Autttoried Dealers East Selection 9erf Prices Allen NfcW 19 Inch Coljr Quasar Hi J.TSA.W) Stephens Insurance NOW FOR RENT) Juynwi cam 825-379- 2 (Fee Quotes) MOTORCYCLE INSURANCE We lead the way VF? 1 Washington Blvd.. Ogden or 62 (3 I have sought to portray the challenges that arise when 13 people attempt to dwell under the same roof and sometimes on top of it,, he added. the more serious he said, I hope to have underscored the vital importance of loving, caring and belonging in a world where vast numbers of families are steadily being torn apart. side, Allen Stephens Portions of the book have been printed in The New Era, and LDS church Eif and other publication, portions have tentatively been scheduled to appear in another magazine. Hie through Cali: 825-379- (F commercial book is being 2 Quotes) HEALTH INSURANCE released Bookcraft (Family Publications. EITHER YOU GUYS KNOCKOFF THE ONIONS--OBUY YOUR OWN NEWSPAPERS ! & Group) R 1 1 S' 6IQLS GIRLS DOYS DOYS ms ms Sometfilng for Evoryona Nationii Nowtpapor Woak Oof 7 - 13. IfoFfo Paul the student paper should do its own production work or continue to contract it to commercial printers Student body officers have agreed to assume a majot share ol the cost lor the new equipment. credibility, On E. 1 . preserving some degree of the exaggerating for The Ogden Area Community Action Agency has to date assisted 2,789 individuals (293 of whom were Senior Citizens) in 943 They ridiculous side of our experience in some of the stories. But in reality I have lamed them down in hopes of am regular student publications the the student Signpost, newspaper. Dr Pedersen and his board will face immediate problems with personnel and budget. on campus, principally Assistance program dpublishes took adult novels such as Old Dori the Crackfoot, The and Mallard, Lonesome Coyote, as well number of cooks wont spoil any dish soy (from left ) Carl Taylor, Wilford Fowers and banquet scheduled for May 2 Gilgen, chairmen for the Weber State College Emeritus Energy crisis: and national health our to and prosperity balance of trade through exports. , body g policy-settin- channel vision. Far from it. Seed breeders are acutely aware of their key position at the beginning of the food chain. They are fully informed of the importance of food crop production to our know what home gardeners want and need in vegetable varieties and are responding by investing in research. heavily Worldwide, nearly one hundred improved vegetable ar .JUST THE RIGHT 1 dedicated people. Their offices are papered with advanced degrees. You might conclude that they are typical technicians with gar-den- start with will registration and a social hour at 11 a.m., followed by the banquet at 12 noon. The classes of 1934, 1935 and 1936 will have their members inducted into the WSC Emeritus Club and the after banquet photographs will be taken of each group. The photo For additional proof, consider these breeding priorities published by Selections as a guide to seed breeders entering new vegetable varieties in their voluntary network of field performance trials across North reduce Emeritus annual Banquet Wednesday (May 21) in the WSC Union Building ballroom. Alan E. Hall, WSC Alumni Home gardeners have mild-flavore- breeders, ramThe raucous, bunctious, and sometimes poignant story or rearing 11 children is the subject of My Homo Runneth Over, the latest book wt itten by Dr. Gordon T. Allred, professor 1 1 Annual Emeritus Banquet to be held garden potential in its good flavor and compact plants to keep them out of home garden seed channels. d And there are .mtibusiness bias ar.d an beans with abiding mistrust of science beautiful, long, straight have been attacking seed stringless pods but lacking using a strong beany taste. These ii representations and were developed specifically for processors to freeze or distortions of facts. 1 he trutn is, the world food can; the breeding emphasis supply would be in bad shape was on production, apand disease without the productive, pearance disease resistant vegetable resistance. Again, seed varieties developed by companies try to keep these scientific seed breeding. It commercial grower would be difficult to feed the varieties out of home garden expanding population channels. Some overlap occurs and, adequately on the produce of each old fashioned year, a few home varieties, msrcptible to plant diseases gardeners unwittingly plant and to the stresses of commercial grower varieties leave weather. that Deli actors ol vegetable something to be desired in flavor. These varieties are seed breeding have conjured up a menace where none edible, in fact good, but not exists. They warn that as delicious as the varieties because seed companies bred specifically for home drop a lew old varieties each garden use. The critics have blown this as an economy veai of varieties out of crossover measme. are they proportion and would have shrinking the gene pool, thus setting the stage for you believe that all new food shoitages due to insect vegetable varieties are being for commercial bred and disease plagues. Nonsense1 The critics growers. The facts prove haven't visited seed otherwise. Take the new award stations where breeding scientists are busily tranwinning edible podded snap for Sugar Snap, sferring disease and insect pea lesistance from wild and example. From the very foreign species into their beginning, Sugar Snap cultivated v egetable cousins. was conceived as a home Modern offer garden variety. hybrids Its vines grow 6 to 8 feet in multiple disease lesistance and superior production height, fine for home gartinder adverse conditions deners but impractical for commercial growers. Had because they are developed commercial growers been from worldwide sources of the genes that govern the seed market, Sugar inheritance. Snap, would have had short is vines that do not need flavor Vegetable of another whipping boy the trellising and which could be cntics of seed breeding mechanically harvested. Sugar Snap was a huge Ilerp again their outcries more than 700,000 of success; own lack betray their were sold to of seeds lbs. and objectivity. experience home American North They confuse varieties 1980 for spring for gardeners developed specifically planting. commercial growers with And the new Gold Rush those bred lor home s. hybrid golden zucchini To be sure, there are squash. Its fruits occasionally develop a minor tomato varieties that have skin cap of green, a flaw in the firm flesh, very tough commercial of eyes and indifferent flavor, and a touch, of But, most growers. mature of, fcfstthaL hyttn to home is immaterial green their fitfU at the same lime. of the target But these were developed for gardeners, Gold Rush breeders. The mechanical harvesting or to Gold be picked in the green stage judges who gave an Rush for ripening on the w'ay to the Selections award saw home maiket. 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