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' Page 14 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981 Features MANOR EAST 3 Machine patented for quick manufacture WELCOME BACK AGGIES. THIS YEAR FOR THE THIRD STRAIGHT YEAH, THE MANOR EAST 3 WILL GIVE YOU A DOLLAR OFF THE REGULAR ADMISSION PRICE WITH PRESENTATION OF CURRENT TAMU STUDENT I D. WE HOPE YOU WILL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS DISCOUNT TO VISIT THE ONLY THEATRE IN BRYAN COLLEGE STATION WITH DOLBY STEREO VALID TILL SEPT. 30. 1981 Spud skins billed ‘skincredible’ snacks DOLBY STEREO ROGER MOORE- JAMES BOND 007r FOR YOUR EYES ONLY [PCI United Aitists I X If DOLBY STEREO | United Press International NEW YORK — The potato skin, long one of the most cursed and blessed of culinary items, is coming into its own as a snack food. Many generations of scullery maids, soldiers and housewives have fretted over the labor of peel ing spuds by hand so they could be fried, boiled or mashed. Simultaneously, some physi cians and many mothers con tended the potato baked in its skin contains more nutriment than any other — and the mothers insisted that youngsters not leave the table until they had eaten the last bit of skin along with the buttered meat of the baked spud. But the nutritiousness of the potato skin really is only a minor factor in its rise to popularity as a snack food, says Bill Daniels, mar keting director of J. R. Simplot Co. of Caldwell, Idaho, the world’s biggest marketer of pota toes. The company recently has put on the wholesale and institutional food market two shapes of potato skin called Skincredibles. One is a strip for use as a cocktail hors d’oeuvre, the other a shell for making canapes filled with saus age, other meats, cheese and gar nish vegetables or for dipping. Daniels said Simplot got the idea from restaurants that were making the potato skin snacks by hand. Simplot proceeded to de velop and patent a cutting machine to make them in large quantities. The skin strips and shells have from a quarter to half an inch of potato meat on them. The shells are about one-third of a whole potato in area. They are par-fried then frozen and packed in fairly large contain ers for the restaurant trade. “Sim plot doesn’t pack anything for the retail market,” Daniels said. “A few of our customers are repacking Skincredibles for the retail trade under their private brand names and we have had in quiries from other retail packers. Such packers either would have to pay Simplot for the right to use its cutting machines or develop their own machines,” he said. Daniels said Simplot de veloped the potato skin snacks just because they’re good and because the market for snack foods of all kinds is growing rapidly. People who like snack foods clearly like variety. The Skincredibles have to be thawed and re-cooked either by frying briefly in deep fat or baking in a normal or microwave oven before serving. Daniels said Simplot was not looking for a by-product in de veloping the potato skin snacks. If anything, it’s the other way around; potato meat scooped out when the shells and strips are formed is the by-product and goes into flour or other processed pota to products. “Potato skins taste good,” he says. “The only thing that’s kept them off the commercial market up to now is the time and trouble it takes to prepare them properly.’ And how about the mattefl the nutritiousness of potato pei; ings? Daniels says Simplot’sownB rition experts never have tee convinced that potatoes bakelt! the skin contain significantly*;- nutriment or vitamins thanpeetf boiled potatoes or even propel fried potatoes. “But I know some millions! women are convinced the spe baked in its skin is muchbetterlij their children’s health and wet not about to try to change tf® minds, he added. \ A GIANT comedy - don't sell it shortf pgi OPEN TODAY 8:0B TmcApeMW BO DEREK-RICHARD HARR R -ffS- MGM *£5 TODAY 5:15 7:25 9:45 RIS Oete.iwi irwn United Artists CORNER OF UNIV / COLLEGE AVE ADULT $2.00 FIRST 30 MIN FROM OPENING DuOey Moore LizaMnneS Arthur PG 4TH BIG WEEK! TODAY 5:30 7:35 9:35 Singer regains her voice after 7 yeari United Press International HOLLYWOOD — Singer Con nie Francis calls it a miracle — the way she finally snapped out of a 7-year trauma she suffered after being raped. In November 1974 the dark haired singer was raped in her motel room on Long Island after a performance at the Westbury Music Fair. The assault was to have a far-reaching and devastat ing effect on Francis. She went into deep depression that eventually led to a divorce from her husband, Joe Garizzi, and became paranoid about appearing in public. She was also Thurs., Sept. 17 7:30 & 9:45 Rudder Theatre MSC Cepheid Variable HI H BMBlAABR STAB flAAF B9B AMW4E SCHEFFLERAS WEEPING FIGS CLOSET PLANTS CORN PLANTS DRACENAS AND MORE! IO" POTS® I Reg. $28.00 SO Jt POTS Reg. $8.00 NICE, FULL PLANTS! 4*UIB5 , BBBB 4* JRk B OS 2 5% OFF! S-Pound Bulb Food Reg. $2.75 OUR FALL BULBS HAVE ARRIVED! TULIPS. . . HYACINTHS. . . DAFFODILLS. . . AND MORE brazos valley nursery Prices Good Sept* 17-30 Carson 1800 S. College Ave. 812-1501 Villa Maria University physically incapable of singing be fore an audience. There followed a lengthy, pub licly humiliating court battle. Francis sued the Howard Johnson motel chain for damages and even tually collected $2.6 million. “I was physically and emotion ally unable to go on with my career,” Francis said. other rape and crime victims. She associated herself with the Crime Victims’ Compensation Board in New Jersey. She appeared on public service television spots for rape victims and spoke to indi viduals who had survived similar “I suffered from a morbid fear of audiences. Every time I looked into a crowd I saw the face of the man who raped me. And I hated the feeling that when people thought of me it was in terms of the girl who was raped. experiences. “Three and a half years after the rape I tried to get my career going again," Francis said. “I went to England and did an awful live show. I didn’t sound like myself. And I cut a couple of albums. It took me 20 takes per song whereas I used to click them right off. The albums were just fair. “All of my life before the rape, the fun and enjoyment was ne gated. The rape became an obses sion. I couldn’t think of anything else.” “One of my problems was a nasal condition caused by air- conditioned clubs and theaters. It destroyed my resonance and vib rato. Francis soon became a recluse, seeing only close friends. She would take to her bed for two or three months at a time. Even the adoption of an infant son a month after the rape failed to change the downward course of the singer’s life. Yet, she began working to help “So in January of 1977 I under went an operation. It made my condition worse. I couldn’t sing at all. The only thing I’d been sure of all my life was my voice. And now I’d lost that. “My world fell apart. Ifit hadn’t been for my son, Joey, and my parents, I’d have committed suicide. “I was in complete depression. And I had to live with the memory of the trial which became a carniv al. It was a terrible ordeal. They asked horrible questions about my marital sex life. “It contributed to the breakup of our marriage. My husband — we are friends now—just couldn’t handle all of that invasion of pri vacy.” After the operation, Francis could barely sing. She said she spent thousands of dollars on specialists, most of whom told her she would never sing again because of the damange incurred during the nasal opera tion. She abandoned hope of ever resurrecting her career. “I didn’t know what I was going to do,” Francis continued. “Then eight days ago I was talking to a man I date about the whole ordeal of the rape and operation and I began to cry. I just broke down and the floodgates opened. “It was the first time I’d ever cried about the rape, really let my feelings go. I also wept about the trial, the operation and the mur der of my brother, George, last May. The man I was with was very empathetic. “The next day I was walking down a New York street andllJ gan to sing quietly to myself,Til song was ‘What I Did For Love,! song I hadn’t had the range:; even attempt after the operafcj, “I was with the same ml stopped walking and toldhimi can sing!’ “Then I got into my ear turned on the stereo taped; album I’d recorded lOyearsaj And I sang along with it. Myvoi was as good or better than wit I’d done the recording. “It wasn’t a gradual improJ ment. It was instant. Itwasma® al. I swear it was a miracle. AMI sudden my voice was back. In a religious girl, but I believel God now. I “I stopped the car and lei phoned my father and my maal ger. I told my manager to boolnl hack in the Westbury MusicFal And he did. I’ll be opening N f 12. It’s my way of overcoming ti fear of the rape. “I know it’s paranoid, buli| have two bodyguards with ntj And I’ll drive home twohoursf| cry night rather than stay Ie motel. But I’m really happy elated. I can sing again. 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