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Food Costs Less Today Than
50 Years Ago, Says Kroger Rep.
Food actually costs less to- more on the job to earn in the
day than it did fifty years ago. neighborhood of $lO. to sll. a
And what’s more, the money week. Os this he spent about
saved could buy in the neigh- ! $5. or around 45 percent of
borhood of SI,OOO worth of ap- his income for food to feed his
pliances or other home fur- family.
nishings during a year. Today’s average factory wage
F. A. Williams, vice presi- in the United States, according
dent of the Atlanta Division of to the U. S. Bureau of Labor
The Kroger Company which Statistics is $95.82 for a 40-
operates some 56 supermarkets hour week. On the average,
in the Atlanta Division area, food takes 20 percent of our
makes this startling comment salary today, and if we were
and then proceeds to prove his eating the same foods as
point. Grandpa, it would take even
And he does it in the face of less. But we’re educated to
such advertised values in 1912 better things today.
as “Prime Rib of Beef. 15c a “How many chickens do you
pound’’ and “Bread, very spe- think Kroger would sell today
cial at 2 l/2c a loaf.” if we offered them live, be-
“Direct price comparisons do feathered, and cackling instead
not mean much,’’ Mr. Williams! of neatly cleaned, packaged,
declares. “They're a little like and cut up—sometimes even
the man who says he could with three legs?” asks Mr. Wil
have bought a choice building liams.
lot back in 1933 for $250, but The same principle applies to
unfortunately he didn’t even i all the other time and labor
have $2.50.” saving foods that fill store
Food puces in 1912 sound shelves and cases today. And
fabulously low when compar- i quality is considerably high
ed to 1962 prices, but the illu- |er now too, he points out.
sion fades when you compare i Americans are eating better,
, .. ... u I and liking it, he said.
the “real” cost-the number Here>s e wh ’ ere the compari .
of working hours needed to sOn r eally gets intriguing.
purchase those items. Grandpa worked 27 hours
Grandpa spent 60 hours or each week just to earn enou„.i
money to feed his family. To-
11 day we buy more and better
food for just eight hours work.
The savings on your food
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Phone 786-7077 • 19 E. Square Covington, Georgia
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and electric skillet in the kit- I
chen.
If we still spent 45 per cent
of our income just for food as
! did Grandpa back in 1912, the
, weekly food bill in 1962 would
total a whopping $43.12—50 in |
! effect we save $23.96 each '
i week.
I An amazing thought—but it I
! i adds up to more than $1250 a ■
i year—which can buy a heap ।
of pleasant living in terms of
: luxuries and appliances.
“Food today is even more
of a bargain than it appears
from this quick look," Mr.
Williams added, pointing out
the many services “built in” to
day’s foods.
Many hours of shopping and
preparation time are saved by
the prewashing, pre-trimming,
peeling, cutting and packag
ing that we take for granted
today.
Frozen foods, refrigeration,
and modern transportation in
particular have contributed to
ward changing eating habits,
Mr. Williams said.
To most of us today, many
food conveniences are taken
for granted. But it hasn’t been
too long since fresh meal was
available only at certain times
of the year. And few of us are
so young that we cannot re
member the amazement with
which we viewed the first com
mercially frozen food. Orange
juice, peas, strawberries and
other seasonal foods that had
always been luxuries over
night became year-round, bud
get priced staples.
In 1962 Mama can set the
table with an entire meal from
t-he freezer if she wishes—
everything from canapes or
soup to exotic desserts. Ameri
cans will eat more than two
billion dollars worth of frozen I
foods in 1962, and in 1946 they
were unheard of by the aver
age homemaker, the Kroger
executive pointed out.
One of the big factors in
holding down food costs has
been the development of mass
distribution to match the ben
efits of mass production. Each
year food retailers have in
creased services and conven
iences for customers and at
the same time continued to op
erate under a surprisingly
small net profit. Average net
profit for retail food chains,
for example, is just about a
penny per dollar of sales.
Americans are not only eat
ing better today at lower cost
in terms of working hours re
quired to earn the food, Mr.
Williams said, but they lead
the world in that respect. A
quart of milk, for example,
“costs” 7 minutes working
time in the U. S., 14 in Eng
land, and 33 in Russia. It
takes an American 3.2 min
utes to earn enough to buy a
pound of sugar while the Rus
sian must work an hour and a
quarter to buy this amount.
We earn a pound of
butter in 21.8 minutes while
Ivan, who needless to say
doesn’t eat much butter, must
spend three hours and 22 min
utes on the job to earn that
same pound.
A recent magazine article
reported that there were just
about 100 items in the grocery
store in which Abraham Lin
coln clerked. There weren’t
too many more when B. H.
Kroger opened his first store
in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1883.
But modern supermarkets of
I today may carry as many as
8,000 items. Two-Thirds of
■ these are new or have been
basically changed since 1946,
according to the report.
But one thing hasn’t chang
ed, or what is perhaps more
accurate, has returned to the
scene. The 1912 Kroger ad
contained such offers as “10
trading stamps extra with each
pound” on featured items. And
the redemption catalog offered
a most amazing variety of
items, large or small, for the
home —everything from cuspi
dors to chiffoniers.
Smallwood Named
To Phi Kappa
Phi Society
Phi Kappa Phi national scho
| lastic honor society has elected
■ 20 faculty members and 79 stu-
I dents to membership at the
I University of Georgia.
Faculty members are Stan-,
ley Ainsworth, James H. Bam
ping, Johnnye Cox, William A.
i Cuff, James Dickerson, Olin T.
I Fosgate, John W. Foster. John
( G. Futral, Mostafa Hamdy, Wil
। liam Porter Kellam. Jack T.
May:
John H. Owens. Jerry Pad
gett, John Reid Parker, Joseph
Paul, Alexandr; Perrodin.
Charles E. Rice, Miss Anne
Sea well, Doyne Smith, and
Noodman J. Wood.
Numbered among the n e w
students receiving the honor
was Billv Joe Smallwood of
Porterdale.
Nobody ever gets anything
for nothing, but a lot of peo
ple keep trying.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
New Chain Saw
Now on Display
At Mixon Firm
• An ultra-lightweight, radi
j cally new gasoline - powered
I chain saw for all types of
woodcutting was announced to-
I day by Mixon Marine Sales and
Service, local dealer for Mc-
Culloch chain saws. Designated
the McCulloch BP-1, the new 15
pound saw is built around an
unprecedented “balanced pis
ton” 2-cycle engine and in
corporates such revolutionary
developments as automatic
chain sharpening, automatic bar
and chain oiling, spray-injec-
Lawn and Shrub
Tips Are Given
In 2 Circulars
The coming of Spring brings
out the green thumb in all of
us. This is the time of year we
want to get done those needed
landscaping improve m e n t s
around the house.
As the face lifting begins, the
homeowner begins to wonder if
he is planting the right grass
for his section of Georgia: if
shrubbery would grow better if
it were not planted so deep; if
the mower blade is at the pro
per setting for his lawn, and
if he has chosen the right loca
tion for a shrub.
To answer these and similar
questions and to aid the home
gardener in developing h i s
yard, the landscaping and hor
ticulture departments of the
Cooperative Extension Service
of the University of Georgia
College of Agriculture have pro
duced two up-to-date publica
tions on lawns and shrubbery.
Thomas G. Williams, Jr., head
of the Extension landscaping
department and Gerald E.
Smith, Extension floriculture
and nursery specialist, combin
ed to revise and enlarge Ex
tension Circular 380, “Lawns.”
Mr. Smith authored the second
publication entitled “Planting
Shrubs.”
In “Lawns" the authors des
cribe and discuss 13 different
grasses for Georgia lawns, soil
preparation, fertilizers, weed
control, and grass substitutes.
• “Planting Shrubs” discusses
soil preparation, location of
plants, and care of shrubs be
fore and after planting.
Both publications are avail
able at Georgia county agents’
offices.
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tion carburetion and super- j
, charging.
According to G. E. Mixon, I
owner of the local dealership, ■
the engine design in the new
chain saw has never been ap-l
plied to portable power tools
j j before, except in experimental
j models. It consists of a power
piston counterbalanced by a
j second piston which does not
_ fire, but which equalizes stroke
j and thrust at the crankshaft,
- virtually eliminating engine vi
bration, and permits speeds in
excess of 10,000 RPM.
One of the most outstanding
' engineering breakthroughs in
the BP-1 does away with the
job of hand filing the chain.
The saw utilizes a new, highly
1 efficient saw chain that can be
instanteously sharpened by
the push of a button, which ac
tivates a built-in carborundum
grinding wheel.
Mr. Mixon also pointed out
that the BP-1 has improved au
tomatic chain lubrication which
s relieves the saw user of the
f । necessity for manually pump
e ing chain oil. The flow of oil
j is actuated in accordance with
s chain speed, further supple
mented by a fingertip control
P which can supply extra oil for
f cutting in hard or pitchy woods,
s if necessary. A unique channel
f that runs inside the cutter bar
f supplies oil to the bar tip where
f it is needed most.
Mr. Mixon noted that the
i BP-1 is the result of years of
. extensive engineering and
months of rugged testing. He
r said that the manufacturer, Mc
e Culloch Corporation of Los An
s geles, regards it as a major ad
. vancement in the application of
e gasoline engine power to por
a table tools, and a significant
a contribution to mechanizing
- such woodcutting chores as log
- ging, pulpcutting, construction,
tree farming, pruning, cutting
I firewood and fence posts, etc.
t Mr. Mixon reports that the
new chain saw is now on dis
e play at his store.
’ IMPORTANCE OF
VITAMIN A
* Vitamin A helps to keep skin
® smooth and soft, helps to keep
mucous membranes firm and
' resistant to infection and pro
tects against night blindness.
j Good source of vitamin A are
yellow fruits, green and yel
j low vegetables, butter, whole
f milk, cream, cheddar cheese,
■ ice cream and liver, according
to Miss Lucile Higginbotham,
head of the Extension health
department.
(Largest Coverage Any Weekly In The State)
Highway Patrol
Arrested 77,763
Autoists in '6l
The State Highway Patrol ar
. rested a total of 77.763 motor
, ists, including 59,028 Georgia
residents, on charges of vio
, lating Georgia’s traffic laws ‘
during 1961.
’ Here, according to consoli
( dated figures just comoiled for
inclusion in the Department of
Public Safety’s annual report, I
’ is what happened to these cases ■
, made by state troopers:
All convictions, 66,406: cases
I not convicted, 13,912; cases nol- '
, pressed, 3,363; cases dismissed,
3,340.
Cases in which bonds were
t forfeited totaled 34.260. In all,
the amount of fines, including
cost and bond forfeitures, was;
i $2,512,446.
i However, the Safety Depart- i
> ment received no record of the ■
. disposition of nearly ten per
I cent of the 77,763 cases made by I
i its troopers. The annual report I
. shows: “Cases — No Record,
I 7,209.”
Os the motorists arrested.
, 33,582 were charged with i
1 speeding and 9,484 with driving ;
’ under the influence of intoxi-I
: cants.
Over-all there were 54.084!
j traffic accidents recorded dur- |
I ing the year in which 1,013 per- I
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Phone 786-7077 19 E. Square Covington, Ga
sons were killed and 18,988
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