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Page 4 College Station, Texas Wednesday, July 18, 1973 THE BATTALK Tomatoes Lead All Other Vegetables In Consumptio BAHAI Tomatoes led all other veg etables in consumption during the past decade. Why? The growth of fast food stands and pizza emporiums provide a good share of the answer. For it’s here that the processed to mato in the form of catsup is a popular item, points out Tom Longbrake of Weslaco, area veg etable specialist for A&M’s Tex as Agricultural Extension Serv ice. In a recent completed study of the trends of vegetable produc tion and consumption during the 1960’s, per capita annual con sumption of processed tomatoes grew the fastest of all, rising 18 per cent during the decade to 50 pounds per person. “The burgeoning fast food bus iness featuring seasoned ham burgers and french fries is re sponsible for almost all the in crease,” Longbrake says. Add to this the rapidly expanding pizza market and it’s easy to see how both changing taste and life style — largely among the young — have made tomatoes the volume Officials ViewMethods Of Firemen City, county and state officials will evaluate methods of instruc tion and training at the Texas Firemen’s Training School dur ing a special Visitor’s Day at A&M. All fire school classes will be in normal session during the pro gram scheduled for July 25, en abling visitors to see how repre sentatives from their locations train in effective firefighting methods. Attendance at this year’s train ing school is anticipated to be more than 1,800 firemen, accord ing to school chief Henry D. Smith. The firemen will repre sent 550 Texas cities. A reception honoring all offi cials and visitors is scheduled by the State Firemen’s and Fire Marshals’ Association of Texas, sponsoring organization for the Visitor’s Day. The reception will be held in the 1 ballroom of the Ramada Inn in College Sta tion beginning at 4:30 p.m. Visitors will also be invited to attend the annual school banquet, one of the highlights of the an nual fire school. Special guests and officials will be recognized for their interest in the program. A special program of firefight ing evolutions following the ban quet will be conducted at the fire training grounds near Easterwood Airport. The program at 8 p.m. will offer demonstrations in fire fighting techniques taught at the fire school. Geophysicist Awarded Grant Dr. James Shapiro of A&M’s Geophysics Department has been awarded a $2,700 grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will be used to im prove and update the under graduate geophysics program. The award was made under NSF’s Instructional Scientific Equipment Program. Dr. Shapiro plans to buy a plotter and cassette tape memory for the department’s program mable calculator. He said this use of grant monies will give students the opportunity “to look at meaningful geophysical prob lems which involve a large amount of data.” The tape cassette can store both programs and data. The complete facility will allow stu dents to program problems and automatically plot results. Dr. Shapiro is an assistant professor, with degrees in geo physics from MIT and UCLA. FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED PAWN LOANS Money Loaned On Anything Of Value. Quick Cash For Any Emergency. See Us For Ready Cash Today. Texas State Credit Pawn Shop 1014 Texas Ave., Bryan Weingarten Center gainer of the 1960’s.” Processed tomato products rep resent more than half the total canned vegetable usage and nearly a fourth of all vegetables consumed. Although vegetable production generally is up 19 per cent over the 1957-59 average, not all have prospered alike. There has also been a strong shift to processed vegetables as compared with fresh as the canned and frozen products demonstrated their abil ity to compete on terms of qual ity and price. The convenience of processed products plus a moi’e affluent population able to afford them has stimulated added business for the processing sector, Longbrake explains. Another factor has been the faster rise in fresh vegetable prices stemming from the inability of the fresh market industry to streamline its oper ations to the same extent as the processors. In 1964, for the first time, per capita use of processed vegeta bles equalled that of fresh, about 100 pounds each. By 1969, can ned and frozen foods had raised their market share to 54 per cent, continuing a movement tracing back to the late 1930’s. “This trend seems likely to continue, although probably at a reduced pace,” says the vegeta ble specialist. Consumption of fresh salad vegetables — lettuce, cucumbers, peppers — has risen substan tially in the last decade. How ever, use has declined for those often used in raw form, notably cabbage, carrots and celery. Peas, limas and snap beans have suffered dips in fresh use as have some of the cole crops — broccoli, brussels sprouts and cauliflower. No early end to the trend is expected by Longbrake. Even sweet corn, a perennial favorite with the young, shows a modest decline and more of the same is anticipated. There has also been “a sharp reduction” in cabbage use since 1950. The rising market for proces- essed food has been gained at the expense of fresh. During the 1960’s, while use of canned and frozen foods was rising rapidly, U.S. consumption of fresl etables and melons fell cent from 132 pounds per> An A&M poultrj at the start of the decade! p ssor sa '^ we | pounds at its end. fin*-’ 3 60-day With 280,000 acres in» jrice freeze is hies and an annual product P me chan ^ es in “ $145,000,000 Texas ranks p industr y that behind California and Floij porter food suppl vegetable crops. |i mer8 ' Vegetables are produced! P ou Texas counties, led by Hi! Deaf Smith, Zavala and Cai Qa[SKAGGS ALBERTSONS DRUGS & FOODS ASK ABOUT SKAGGS SENIOR CITIZEN PRESCRIPTION PLAN AND SAVE $$$ C' kodak $1 POCKET instamatic 10 CAMERA OUTFIT MYMIEC WMMHS AND MINERALS $ 130 tablet S/m/uf/tn NO. GT1 NO. R199T REG. LOW 89.95 REG. LOW 19.95 > CORDLESS GRASS SHEAR CHAMP LAWN LAWN MOWER § COMBINATION PRICE LAWN MOWER AND! 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