The petroleum industry esti
mates it needs 35,000 new em
ployees in the production division
in 1945 to meet stepped-up pro
duction goals.
Attendance at graduate schools
of universities in the south has
fallen off 40 percent since the
school year of 1940-41 because of
the war.
They Roll Again
TO SERVICE
PEACE TIME INDUSTRY
All restrictions have been removed on
ALLIS-CHALMERS and allied equipment.
Our factories assure us of prompt deliv
eries on orders now being placed.
We solicit your inquiries
for price quotations and descriptive information.
Lomen Commercial
Company
Sales and Service
Phone: MAIN 111
FANCY
MATANUSKA
PRODUCE
will be available in
NOME
During the Balance of the Season
Also.
FRESH MILK
Will be available at Your Grocers
3 Times Each Week
MATANUSKA VALLEY
FARMERS COOPERATING ASSN
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SCIENCE TOMORROW . . .
ERA OF THE “BIG FREEZE”
FORECAST FOR U. S. FOOD
By CLARENCE BIRDSEYE—Pioneer of the Quick Freeze Industry
(Written For The Associated Press)
I
FOURTH OF A SERIES
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GLOUCESTER, Mass. — The I
food industry is the biggest busi- ;
ness there is. In this country, food
processing plants normally repre
sent a bigger J
i n v e s t m ent,
employ more
people, and
turn out more
products than
any other two'
industries com
b.ned
Peris h a b 1 e j
food sales were
$8,000,000, 0 0 0
C. Birdseye
in 1932, $15,
000,000,000 two
years ago and may reach $22,000,
000,000 by 1946.
In spite of its size the perish
able food industry has been a
I technological laggard. With the
exception of quick freezing and
pasteurizing, methods have not
changed fundamentally since the
turn of the century. Right now,
however, the industry is in a fer
ment; postwar changes will be as
radical, if no as spectacular, as
those in plastics, transportation or
communications.
Pasteurization will be speeded
up and used more widely in pres
i ervation of fruit and vegetable
juices of many kinds.
Freezing preservation will grow
tremendously, and the tendency
will be toward more rapid freez
ing in all branches o/ the indus
try. Quick-freezing has tremen
dous potentialities. Almost all
poultry and meats will be pack
I aged and quick-frozen. More and
j more cooked dishes will be pre
served by this means. Delicate,
exotic fruits, quick-frozen in
I many foreign lands, will appear in
our cross-roads stores.
Freezer-packer plants will mul
tiply throughout the country.
Farms will be equipped with
mechanical refrigerators. Canning
on the farm will be largely super
seded by quick-freezing.
Home refrigeration will revolu
I
PREMIE R—Joseph B. Chlf
ley (shove) Is the new prime
minister of Australia. He Is 60*
son of. a blacksmith and was I
treasurer flu the labor eablaet.ef.
late John Curtla.
tionize marketing habits by mak- :
ing daily marketing unnecessary.
Even the smallest household re- |
frigerator will supply low-temper
ature storage for a few packages
of frozen foods. Many families i
will substitute quick-freezing for
canning.
Dehydration will gradually take
its place as a principal means of
distributing fresh vegetables to
the housewife. Present methods
are, however, fundamentally un
sound and rapidly will become ob
solete. Radically new processes
will produce attractive, conveni
ent, flavorful and nutritious ready
to cook vegetables of many kinds,
! at very low per-portion costs. Re
member that one box-car-load of
dehydrated spinach may be equiv
alent of 30 refrigerator cars of the
fresh product.
Better Food Packaging
Packages and packaging mate
rials for postwar perishables will
be more attractive, more conveni
ent and give far greater protec
tion to their contents. Come of
*hese packaging materials were
jus‘ coming into use before the
war. Many other means have
been developed since Pearl Har
bor.
Our postwar diet will be more
varied, attractive and nutritious
than anything we have heretofore
thought possible. Improved pro
cesses, food products and equip
ment will annually save tens of
billions of housewife-hours.
• Next: Walter S. Adams, director
of the Mount Wilson Observatory,
discusses astronomy’s future).
GOLD FISH—Here's a tickler for postwar palates. Fish are frozen
in huge refrigerators like this, then sent to below-zero holding
rooms. Each box holds six pounds.
The NEVADA FOUNTAIN
AND SANDWICH SHOP
Open Daily from 11:00 A.M. to 1:00 A.M.
SOFT DRINKS, SANDWICHES
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PHONE BLACK 20
CLOTHES STRAIN
Just in the course of a man’s everyday activities
t
his clothes take such a beating they often become
shapeless and baggy long before they wear out.
Let us restore their original sparkle and shape
liness.
The collar always fits snugly — the lapels al
ways roll softly — the whole garment restored to
its original unbroken smartness.
MC ERN CLEANERS
(Modern Cleeninf la Clotttee KneumnooD