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Show CAN CAN MANY CANS Mi City Cannery Is Ready for Fal! Season A boon to housewives and an asset to the community, is the new cannery at Oak City, which opened Wednesday for its first day's run, with a bumper crop of apricots. The cannery is a cooperative, with most of Oak City's residents havings an interest. A temporary committee of five, Carl Anderson, Parley Roper, Ed Stewart, M. J. Roper and Milan Jacobson, have set up the organization, and Milan Jacobson is manager of the plant. The building, started a year ago, represents $8,000. built bv M. .7. Roper. After several delays, the equipment all arrived, and now includes in-cludes 2 retorts, each with a capacity capa-city of 1200 cans a day, equipment to seal No. 2, 2, 3 or 10 cans, and four cold-pack exhaust boxes. The cannery is the first in Mill-I Mill-I ard county, and among the first :in the state, and is patterned after the one in Moroni, now in its third year of operation. Produce will be trucked in from the north and south, and there will also be a large amount of fruits and vegetables available from that grown right in Oak City, especially a large tomato and corn crop. A man is on the job to do the cooking cook-ing and sealing. I Patrons have a choice of several ways to make use of the facilities offered at the cannery. They may feel free to bring their own produce pro-duce and prepare it themselves, or have the organization prepare it, or have the cannery handle the whole job, baying the produce and processing it. Groups and organiza-' tions will be welcomed at the cannery. can-nery. These possibilities open up dazzling daz-zling vistas for home canners from n,ow on. Gone are the days when canning time was the annual nightmare. night-mare. Now it may be made a family fam-ily picnic. |