Convenience costs creep into meals and budgets
A reader riffs on the price of convenience foods versus cooking from scratch, noting supermarket dinners at 59 cents per serving versus 26 cents for homemade. He cites a 419 percent jump in frozen potatoes and forecasts future items like frozen lettuce, instant sandwich mixes, and square tomatoes.
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Orville Freeman
Storage from Waste Spaces workshop and home repair tips
Homemaking Notes outlines two storage workshops on April 17 at the Old Bennington School House and April 19 at the North Bennington Library Hall with topics on improving storage, using waste space, and creating storage facilities. It also reports six Bennington County residents set for a Washington Citizenship Tour on April 29 and includes a detailed home chair reupholstery account. A brief item from Windsor Locks, Connecticut notes two youths jailed for displaying a radar sign on a highway after being reported by a driver.
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TV Romper Room features Jonesville child Jennifer Dailey
Televiewers will catch four year old Jennifer Dailey daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph Dailey of Jonesville New York on the Romper Room show next week perhaps the following week Miss Lisa conducts the daily program between 9 and 10 a m over WAST Channel 13 Bennington area sponsor Fairdale Farms announces the promotion efforts extend to a wide regional audience.
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Terry Taylor Triumphs in male-dominated field as car showroom manager
New York based former actress Terry Taylor, in her early 30s, now manages a Triumph showroom and sells sports cars. She says women win trust with male and female buyers, noting wives often steer decisions while the husband defers. Taylor began as a secretary, studied theater, and shifted to sales after joining Triumph in 1959. She and two colleagues move about 300 Triumphs yearly.
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Sausage Variety Guides Breakfast Favorites
Burlington readers learn from Anna M. Wilson of the University of Vermont Extension that smoked and cooked sausages range from hot dogs to kielbasa. Most can be eaten without cooking though heating enhances flavor, with breakfast sausage offered in links and patties.
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Soft Formula Solves Safer Detergents and Sausage Varieties Listed
A Burlington report explains soft synthetic detergents reduce foam and septic problems. It notes suds vary with an ingredient amount, yet cleaning power remains, and outlines many sausage varieties with sizes and seasonings including frankfurters kielbasa knackwurst linguisa and mettwurst.
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Burlington
Kay Strassburg
University of Vermont Extension Service
Weekend Food Buys Weekend Food Buys
Washington based report from UPI notes that USDA and Interior expect a wide range of meats poultry fish and produce to reach markets this weekend. Cabbage potatoes carrots celery and onions feature among abundant vegetables while grapefruit and oranges and apples appear in good supply. Beef steaks roasts bacon and ham are plentiful in meat counters and broiler fryers and turkeys are arriving in strong numbers.
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Carpeting and Curtains Cut Kitchen Noise in Homes
Faith Prior of the University of Vermont Extension notes that kitchen carpets and heavy curtains absorb sounds and reduce nervous tension from daily tasks. More cloth and folds improve absorption, with wood cupboards and acoustic tiles aiding further. Kitchen equipment noise varies. testing before purchase helps. Insulation and strategic closet placement also lower overall noise.
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Burlington
Faith Prior
University of Vermont Extension
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