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Show ISHOPPER'Sl CORNER By DOROTHY BARCLAY . I VEGETABLE PROBLEM QTUCK for ideas for fresh vege-tables vege-tables to serve that hungry family of yours? Want to give them that special treat, as a variant vari-ant from those far-sighted canned and frozen products you either processed yourself or bought at your favorite market, and put away for a rainy day? Save 'em, lady, for you'll find ' j some excellent buys in fresh vege- HAW ta""- t Just look around, Ji'fCf and take counsel FEATURE with your 6rocer-I 6rocer-I ' You'll find onions, to taste up any meal. You'll find celery, so delicious deli-cious in soups, or stews, or cooked alongside your Saturday night pot roast. You'll find carrots galore, for creaming, for sticks, for that savory "sweep-the-kitchen" stew. You'D find turnips and rutabagas for whatever purpose you use 'em. You'll find Brussels sprouts and cauliflower, and beets and snap beans, and some peas. You'll even find sweet potatoes and their cousin, cou-sin, winter squash. So don't be downhearted you can have your vegetables. Those carrots will keep, too, if you store them properly. For that hardy root can be left in the ground and survive several hard frosts without harming, and then dug and moved into a cave or storage room. For the best results, authorities tell us, remove the tops to within an inch of the fruit, and choose for storage only those carrots ,that are free of blemish and disease, and in good condition. Eat the others immediately. im-mediately. Moist sand is recommended recom-mended as the best preservative for storing carrots, as it prevents shrinkage. So there you are, for plentiful suddIv for now and then. Sweet potatoes, on the other hand, need dry, tepid storage. Don't leave them anywhere damp or cold, and don't bruise the skins. Your own home-grown ones can be left exposed ex-posed to wind and sun long enough to dry, before you bring them inside. in-side. But whether grown or bought at your store, treat 'em gently, for the skin is of a baby-like delicacy. Sort the dried potatoes and store them in slatted crates that allow free circulation of air. The best storage place for sweets is your furnace room, which normally maintains the ideal temper.-ture of about 55 degrees. SOLVE WITH SQUASH Top solution of your fresh vegetable vege-table problem is winter squash, a favorite with the average American appetite. It's plentiful and economical, economi-cal, and lends itself to everything from a main course, an accompanying accompany-ing vegetable, or a pie for desert. You'll find all varieties at your grocer's, from the Acorn, ideal for the small family in a rush, to the larger Hubbard, Buttercup and Butternut, and the generous Mar-blehead, Mar-blehead, for the large family dinner din-ner or company. Squash abounds in vitamin A, that essential builder of growth and good eyesight. Bake it, or mash it, or glaze it, to suit your family's preference, and you'll get cheers from the well-fed, at very little cost. Influx of Atomic Plant Workers Crowds Town LIVERMORE, Calif. Livermore boasted a 51.3 per cent population increase in 1950 over the 1940 census, cen-sus, but village officials report a steady influx until now the population popula-tion numbers about 5,000. The 1940 census was 2,885 and the 1950 count 4,364. Chamber of Commerce officials report the recent population growth is due to an influx of workers at the California Research and Development De-velopment Company's atomic-energy plant and because of the reactivation re-activation of Parks Air Force base which will employ a permanent staff of 4,000. Two other communities In the area have shojn great population increases in recent years. Pleasan-ton's Pleasan-ton's count increased 75.6 per cent and Hayward showed a population rise of 111.9 per cent. Arkadelphio Livestock Market Sets New Record ARKADELPHIA, Ark. The Clark county livestock market, located at Arkadelphia. recently auctioned S:"4,000 in livestock in one day's sale, the first such record in the history of the market. The market is the sale center for Clark and surrounding sur-rounding counties A total of 870 cattle, 75 hogs, and 35 mules and horses changed hands during the day. One buyer purchased $39,623.00 worth of cattle. |