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Clinton News-Record, 1971-01-07, Page 13Ghana has been home for years Gift ideas for easy sewing Easy to make bassinet cover bassinet cover. All you need is a shaped motifs. Then apply baby yard of quilted cotton gingham rick rack in another diamond with solid colour backing, jumbo pattern overlapping the first, and baby-size cotton rick rack, Or, sew one for the master and two-inch wide bias hem bedroom. Same procedure only facing. Lin the gingham side, attach larger quantities of materials will be needed. Team the quilt with pillows of the same fabric for jumbo rick rack to the quilting stitches to form diamond- that extra touch of pizazz. ENTIRE STOCK of ORMANDYS Jewellery , 1 110(11 25% OFF SHOPPE SHOPPE CLEARANCE SALE SEEING IS BELIEVING 1/3 m V2 OFF SALE Pk1328 A large group of beautiful dresses, originally priced from $20.00 to $99.00 are now priced to save you many dollars. Our entire stock including Corduroys, Suedellas, Wool and Mohair, Melton Cloth and Wet Looks of various types. SOLD THIS SEASON 35.00 TO 55.00 INCLUDES pants, skirts, sweaters, tops in 1970 Fall colors of Rebel Red, Wintergreen, Navy, Alpine Green, Flame Red, Deep Purple and Brown. Size range is broken so hurry while it is still , possible to put together a two or three-piece outfit at a bargain price. SOLO THIS SEASON 13.00 TO 30.00 SALE PRICE 10 20 Faked Furs including Borganna, Sno-Leopard, Persotta and many others. Choose also from Leather, Suede, Wild Suede, Worsteds, Tweeds, Checks, Wool Boucles, etc. Many of these coats have luxurious Fur collars of Norwegian Fox, Dyed Fox, Mink, Dyed Muskrat, Lamb and other furs. Colors and styles to suit the most discriminating buyer. Shop early while the size range is good. '40 TO 139 SOLD THIS SEASON FROM 50.00 TO 179.00 COATS OUR ENTIRE STOCK ;PANT COATS. CAR COATS V"' SPORTSWEAR '25ml° ThiS group includes Plaids, DuCcO Clots, Knits and other types. Sold This season from 35.00 to 57.00 OPEN FRIDAY NIGHTS TIL 9 GODERICH 11•P • JANUARY PANT SETS SUITS $48 TO $90 .Agioup of suits including worsteds, wool Boucles, tweeds, and double knits in 2-piece, 3-piece, dress and jacket, and costume types. Sold This Season Ern 60.00 To 109.00 Clinton News-Record, Thursday, January 7, 1971, 5A I.A.P,A. holding drive: It's a long way from Huron County to Ghana, but for one former Huron resident, Ghana is about the closest thing she has had to a home in recent years. Jean Steckle, who was based in Clinton from 1951 to 1954 as Huron County Home Economist for the Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food, has been dividing her time between Ghana and England in the last few years in her work for the United ations' Food and Agriculture rganization, She has been on eave of absence from her Rome ffice to do research. And over the holiday period •he returned to Canada where he visited her parents, Mr. and s. John Steckle of Kitchener d an aunt in Ottawa. While in ttawa she was featured in the ollowing story reprinted from he Ottawa Citizen. Jean Steckle came home to anada looking forward to aritime-style baked beans and alloped potatoes and not ooking forward to our bread — 'the worst there is." Miss Steckle, in the nutrition "vision of the United Nations' ood and Agriculture rganization, works in Rome ut recently has divided her time • tween England and Ghana. For the past two years she as been on a leave of absence ram her Rome post to devote ime to research into the effects f change upon family living, uch as during times of rnployment opportunity. The academic side of the roject is at England's University f Reading, in whose library she ones up on comparable studies one in other countries. The field work is in the Volta gion of Ghana, a depressed ea where 280 households in 14 Many household refrigerators will be `holding more than the usual amount of dairy foods during the festive season. The question as to how long they will keep quite naturally arises. This can only be answered with reservations because there are too many unknowns involved. For example, you do not know exactly when the food came to the store or how long and under what conditions it was kept there before you purchas4d it. The home economists at Canada Agriculture provide a guide to storage times for dairy foods based on actual tests carried out in their experimental kitchens, The times are based on the assumption that the foods are in good condition at time of purchase and are stored in a refrigerator about 40 degrees R If the foods are kept a little longer than the recommended times, the quality will not be as good but they will be still safe to eat. The refrigerator is not intended for long storage but as a means of keeping the food fresh until you earl use it. It is always a wise plan to cheek and be sure that refrigerator shelves are /tot by eta ow de d; thus hindering the normal circulation of ai', The communities are being thoroughly studied by Miss Steckle, two research assistants and 27 enumerators. Financial assistance comes from the University of Ghana where she taught for a while. The home economist is from Kitchener, and is a graduate of the Macdonald Institute,. Guelph, and of Cornell University. Her current study focuses on what happens to personal living style — particularly eating — when people change employment. Subjects are followed through for four seasons. Such questions as the kind of food, its quantity and the length of time taken in its preparation in each household are studied. Though not yet at the conclusive stage — the work should be finished sometime in 1971 — Miss Steckle has nevertheless sorted out a few patterns. One is that nutritional value of intake does not necessarily go hand-in-hand with increase in prosperity. ' Higher income groups, she is finding, drink more tea, and with it increase the sugar consumption too much. There is evidence of a tendency, particularly among factory and shift workers, to resort to precooked convenience foods, not all outstanding for their nutritional value. A Western innovation that occurs in the homes of Ghanaians on the way up is bread. Miss Steckle considers Ghana to have the greatest potential of any developing country in Africa at the moment and finds it an exciting place to work. Stretches of time living within communities have taught ,foods should be kept covered. or well wrapped at all times and left in their original containers. RECOMMENDED STORAGE TIMES IN REFRIGERATOR DAIRY SOUR CREAM — should be used within one week, sour cream dips within the same time. YOGURT — if the container is date-stamped, should be used by the time indicated. For freshest flavor yogurt should be used within a week. CREAM CHEESE — will keep fresh for two weeks, cream cheese dips the same. EGGNOG — should be used within a week. CHOCOLATE DRINK — should be used within a week, if dairy-made, and preferably within a day if home-made. her that "it's very important to follow the rules and customs" such as the process of gaining permission to carry out survey work in the first place. Lengthy procedures have led her through a maze of authorities — from regional executives and district officers through to 1°01 chiefs and elders of the community — explaining to each of them the, purposes and methods of the sampling. After the Christmas holidays, her first in Canada since 1963, Miss Steckle will resume work in Rome before returning at Easter to Ghana. Her FAO duties centre on welfare programs in developing countries, with an eye to raising the standards of women through adult education, community development, agricultural extension, trade unions, and public health programs, Rome is a great headquarters in which to be located, according to this Canadian. To her it truly is an "eternal city," artistically and culturally superb. Gastronomically too it's a four star town and one of the things that keeps the home economist busy is trying to avoid the delectable variety of calorie-packed pastas Rome has to offer. ' Your kitchen is the most dangerous room in the house, cautions the Industrial Accident Prevention Association, During their safety drive this month, the 53,000 member firms of the Association are emphasizing the importance of safety at home as well as on. the job. If the hazards found in the average kitchen were present in an industrial plant, the Association engineers would certainly be called in to advise management and to suggest ways to cut hazards and install protective devices and machine guards. The I.A.P.A. is concerned not only with the million workers employed by their 53,00Q member firms, but also with their families. The I.A.P,A. is holding an intensive drive during January to cut accidents in industry and in homes. They point out some of the measures that can be taken to combat danger in the kitchen: The first thing a child learning to cook should be taught is: pot handles should not extend over the side or front of the range. Young children are naturally curious and may be burned by tipping over a pot to see what it contains. It may be convenient to keep your cleaning supplies (many of them poisonous) in a cupboard under the sink. But while your children are small, keep your supplies in a locked cupboard, or on a high shelf. Knives and sharp utensils should be kept out of reach of children. A knife rack on the wall is preferable to a drawer. Paper cups beside the sink for children can help prevent accidents with broken glass. Keep your kitchen floor clean, but not too highly polished. Wipe up spilled liquids and grease immediately. Loosened tiles sheuld be recemented or they may cause someone to trip. Have a kitchen stool with steps and good balance, for your own use and for children old enough to know where the cookie jar is kept. Don't allow them to climb on chairs, table or counters. Keep matches in a safe place, away frOm children. Babies and toddlers can suffocate on such items as peanuts or popcorn, Keep them out of reach. Never put items sueh as varsol, turpentine, rat poison; into a used-food container. A soft drink bottle, for example, is tempting to a child regardless of what it contains. Don't serve any food if you are dubious about its quality, and don't feed it to your pets either. If a can bulges, a bottle leaks or a food product has an "off" odour, this is an indication of spoilage. If using any chemical product (such as cleaning agents, insect or weed killers) wash your hands thoroughly before handling food. Do not let frozen food sit at room temperature to thaw Most of the food poisoning bacteria grow rapidly at temperatures between 60 degrees F. and 120 degrees F., and freezing does not kill the bacteria in food. There are two safe ways to thaw frozen foods: slowly in the refrigerator, or quickly in an oven set at approximately 155 degrees F. When it comes to making gifts you don't have to be the most talented seamstress on the block. If you can stitch a straight seam and do simple sewing by hand or machine, you can turn out gifts that are both appealing and useful. According to the Canadian Cotton Council, the trick is to make simple items . . . then apply cotton rick rack in imaginative new ways. Gifts for a tiny baby are always fun to make, and one of the simplest is a reversible ecommended storage time or refrigerated food WORK WONDERS iiiORLDWIDE '