Torsdagen den 2 sdpt' 1954
The SWEDISH PRESS
Sidan 6
Glimpses from Sweden
Home Freezing Needs Care
With the increasing popular-ity of home freezers many house wives are freezing home- grown fruits and vegetables. To obtain the best quality frozen foods it is necessary to take certain precau-tions in handling. Most vegetables and fruits are satisfactory for frozen preservation if har-vested at the peak of quality. This is usually when the vege-table or fruit would be gathered for table use.
Vegetables and fruit deterior-ate rapidly after harvesting, and so should be frozen as soon after picking as possible. Thorough washing is necesary to remo ve soil and other foreign matter. After washing, the blanching or scalding of all vegetables, exepts rhubarb is essential. This treatment he^ps preserve the colour and flavor. If vegetables are not blanched, deterioration soon occurs, making the frozen vegetables unpalatable. Blanch-ingtimes shown in most bulletins or cookbooks refer to boiling temperature conditions, and so is i t advisable to use the largest container, and relatively small amounts of materials for each batch.
After blanching the vegetables should be cooled by immediate plunging into cold or preferably ice water. This hastens freezing and reduces the load on the freezing unit. The product is drained before packaging in va-pour- proof containers. Moisture and vapour proof packages are essential especially for dry-pack-ed vegetables. The heat-seal type of plastic bags, which are read-ily available are both economical and practical.
Packaged material must be pl-aced in the freezer unit as quick-ly as possible. Many homemak-ers allow good produce to spoil by leaving it at room temperature. For example, the cobby flavour of corn is lost by insufficient cooling after blanching and unnecessary delays in freezing . It is preferable to freeze in small lots to make sure the heat is rapidly removed.
The freezing of fruits offers can be frozen with no other pre-treatment than cleaning and mixing with dry sugar or syrup. The amount of sugar or strength of syrup used depends on the tartness of the fruit and on ind-ividual taste. Some fruits like scorbic acid are dissolved in blueberries, currants, gooseber-ies, raspberries, may be satis-factorily frozen without sugar or syrup. Peaches and apricots re-tain their colour and flavour better if one and one half grams sacorbic acid are dissolved in each quart of cold syrup before packaging.
Adhering to these simple prin-ciples will soon mean high quality froden products for the win-ter menu.
Detailed instructions for home freezing of fruits and vegetables are given in Publication 892 “Freezing Foods” obtainable from Information Service, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa.
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NYLON NETS CATCH MORE FISH
STOCKHOLM - A recent issue of the FAO publication World Fisheries Abstracts reports that Swedish tests with various kinds of fish nets have borne out that nMlpin is greatly superior i) otner kinds. It appears that the fish detect the nylon nets on-ly with difficulty - catches have been largest when the ne ts were made of single thread nylon. On the average, nylon nets give twice as large catches, single-thread nets giving up to 9-10 times as big catches as conven-tional cotton nets.
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ADVANCED SWEDISH THER-APY .SAVES HEARING OF
CHILDREN
STOCKHOLM - The number of cases of defective hearing is steadily decreasing in Sweden, largely due to new and advanc-ed methods of audiological ther-opy. However, there are still probably 50,000 people whose hearing in one or both ears is entirely or partially destroyed owing to diseases in early child-hood, says Dr. Lennart Holmgren, hear of the Audiological
Laboratory of the Carolinian Hospital in Stockholm, in a recent interview.
Dr. Holmgrin, now 50, is a Pioneer in the field of mechani-cal treatment of ear cases in Sweden. His laboratory is the central institution for the care of ear patients from the entire country. Special stress is laid on detecting defective ears at an early stage , and all infants who in the course of routine medical check-ups are found to suffer from bad hearing are sent ot the laboratory for furth-er examination. In many cases it j has been possible to cure child-ren on the borderline between1 hearing and deafness by starti ng with modern training methods already at the age of one or two. Mass examination, generally pr-ovince by province, of school children is another vital link in the chain of measures in-cluded in the laboratory’s nation-wide scheme for early detection of bad hearing. Close collab-oration has also been established with ear, nose and throat prac-titioners.
Another of the tasks of the Audiological Laboratory is to make preparatory investigation and measurements for ear operations. Expedience has shown that a successful operation has beneficial effects for at least a couple of years. However the statistical material so far coll-ected in this young branch of Science is still too limited to per-mit of any general conclusions Dr. Holmgren now hopes that it will be possible further to im-prove operative therapy by ( adding ‘loose padts’ to the defective ear and thus build up what has been destroyed by disease or injury.
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1NT. YOUTH COMPETITION AT SWEDISH AGRIC. SHOW
STOCKHOLM - One of the largest agricultural shows ever organized in Sweden was held at the end of July at the Valla experimental farm just outside Linköping, in the province of Östergötland. The show had yallied over 400 exhibitors, in-clUding some |300 firms dis-playing agricultural machines to a total value of Kr. 43 milion (58,000,000.)
Organized by the provincial section of JUF, the Federation of Farm Youth, the show was inaugurated by Count Carl Jo-' han Bernadotte, youngest son of King Gustaf Adolf. In his open-ing speech he pointed to the ga|is achieved by1 ,ra^pnaljz< ation and said that agriculture in Sweden is one of the most highly mechanized in the world.'
Among the numerous visitors[ to the sih-oiw were some 400 farm youths from the neigh-bouring Sc§.ndanavian countries and from Britain, the United States, Western Germany, Holland, Switzerland and Austria, who took part in a series of international competitions in farming mechanics, needlework, etc. Public discussions on top-ical agricultural questions also formed part of the programme at the show.
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STOCKHOLM - The 100,000-V. D.C. Cable for transmitting pow-er between the Swedish main-land and the island of Gotland will soon be utilized to full 20.000 kw. capacity since the second aggregate has now been completed. This high tension dir-ect current cable is the only one in the world for which the sea water is used as a conductor.
SKEPP OHOJ!
Plage Howell är visserligen bara 13 månader gammal, men ändå har han hunnit med att resa hela två gånger över Atlanten. Och ombord på SAL:S Kungsholm stortrivdes han. När mamma skulle gå i land, hade Page alls ingen lust att
följa med. Helst hade han velat stanna ombord på fartyget ocn följa med till {morföräldrarna i Sverige igen.
Page Howells pappa är den kände trumpetaren Johnny Howell i Woody Herman’s ork.
ed at the Södertälje factory of the Swedish Tobacco monopoly.
The spripping of tobacco has long been a bottleneck in cigarette production, it is said in this article. Manufacturers wantea long- stranded tobacco, and so the threshing machine could not be used as it tore the tobacco into small pieces. The stemming machine, on the other hand, re-quired too many operators, and the factories were short of labor called for, and specialists attacked this machine problem persist-ently. Extensive research was started on both sides of the Atlantic, and new and astonishing facts were revealed.
It was fully ascertained that very few strands in cigarettes have a length of one inch, and many are not over half an incn. As for smoking characteristics it was proved that long stranas were by no means necessary, the most important points being the fact that cigarettes should cob-tain evenly stranded tobacco.
Canada
A new method of drilling teeth which is said to be painless, has been developed by the Dental Branch of the Royal Air Force. The drill is described as “a cut-ting tool with a reciprocating movement using intense mech-anical vibrations at ultrasonic frequencies”. It moves back-wards and forwards 25,000 times a second. *****
About 60 per cent of last years milk öutput was used in manu-facturing, and another 30 percent was accounted for by fluid sales. About 6 per cent was con-sumed in farm homes, and the remaining 4 per cent was fed to livestock.
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Last year Canada' ranked first in foreign trade per capita for the first time since the war. Domestic exports were valued at $278. 56 and imports at $296. for a total of over $575. per

BEHÖVER NI O
TRYCKSAKER .
SVENSKA PRESSENS TRYCKERI

eller närmaste .auktoriserade resebyrå.
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On September 2, the new Cun-ard Liner “Saxtonia” (22,000-■ tons) will make its maiden voy-i age from Liverpool to Quebec and Montreal. Launched by Lady Churchill in February of this year, the “Saxonia” will be the i larges tCunarder ever built for service on the St Lawrence. *****
Over 79 per cent of the imported crude oil received in Canada in the first quarter this year came from Venezuela as compar-ed with less than 65 per cent last year. Arabia supplied 9.1 per cent of the total in 1954 as ag-ainst 11 per cent in 1953 and the Unietd States provided 9 per cent as compared with 24 per cent. About 3 per cent of this year’s first quarter imports came from Trinidad. *:>***
Seven hundred and fifty-one thousand, four hundred and thirty-two vehicles entered Can-! ada on traveller’s vehicle per-mits in the first half of this year, 12,859 or 2 per cent less than in the first six months of 1953.
Another Arenco machine was a good thresher for cigar tobacco but for Virginia and similar tobacco it failed with regard to clean stripping as well as to capacity. The separator section had to be reconstructed. Anenco con-tracted Svenska Fläktabriken, whose aer o- technical experts in cooperation with the firm designers carried out extensive experiments.Finally they arnv-ed at a solution which, among other things, doubled the capacity. Heretofore, the threshed mixture of leaves and steams got towards a suction, channel, where the leaves were separated. Under the new system, air been mo ved on a vibrating table is passed through slots in tne moving table, with the resuir that the leaves lift from the table like flocks of birds from the ground.
The Matcho News finally reports that the operation exper-ienceof the DOJ machine is very favorable and that a first series is now being manufactured by the Swedish firm.
STOCKHOLM - The Munksund
Sulphate mill, belonging to tne Swedish Cellulose Company, wiii increase its capacity from 50,000 to 70,000 tons of unbleached sulphate pulp per annurn. The expected scheme will cost Kr. 15 million.
/NDIANASVENSKAR PÅ EUROPATRIPP
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STOCKHOLM - FLOODS IN NORTH SWEDEN caused by heavy rains have involved losses of about Kr. 10,000,000 ($2mill-ion,) to farmers along the Kalix River. The hay crop on some 100,000 acres of land is reported to be a total loss.
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NEW SWEDISH STRIPPING • MACHINE BOON TO TOB-
ACCO INDUSTRY
STOCKHOLM -A new stripping machine which solves a problem in cigarette manufacture with which technicians have long been wrestling is described in the latest issue of Matchco News the house organ of the Swedish Match Company. Designed by a well known Stockholm manufac-turer of match and tobacco ind-ustry machinery, AB Arenco, the first unit of the new ma.ch-ine, called DOJ, has been install-
FINLAND
Lyckospark.
Den 14 juni hittade en ung man i Koski en ballong, och lördagen den 7 augusti blev han lyckostrålande ägare till en , av världens bästa cyklar.. Ballongen var sänd upp den 13 juni vid Sveriges lOGT-dag på Skansen i Stockholm och den för ballongen som flög längst bort fick upphittaren en cykel. Och så fick ynglingen som hittade ballongen för andra gången i sitt liv göra en resa till Helsingfors och mottog högtidligen sin gåva i Stockmans sportavdelning.
Den första radiofyren /
vid Finlands kust i Bottenhavet reser sig som bäst utanför Kemi. Den skall vara' färdig till användning på hösten.
Nyligen anlände
två specialflygplan till Vasa från Stockholm och lastade där samma dag tre ton kräftor. I Stockholm har kräftorna god åtgång och mänga föres sjövägen till Umeå, Sundsvall och Stockholm- Kvalitén har varit god och efterfrågan större än tillgången.
Nästan hälften
av Österbottens hö är ännu obärgat. En del är uppsatt på störar och har farit illa av regnet och en en del som ännu är omejat kommer at bli av ännu sämre kvalité även om det kan bärgas torrt. Under närmare en månads tid har höbärgningsarbetet legat nere på grund avoväder.
En Jakobstadsbo
hade nyligen ett obehagligt uppvaknande i en skogsdunge i Westend utanför Helsingfors. lO.OOOmark, klockan och en bankbok med 99.000 mark inne-stående var borta och han själv var svårt misshandlad.
Det var massinvasion
av handelslagsmänniskor pä Juthbacka nyligen. Österbottens svenska handelslagsdi-strikt firade Centrallagets 50-ärsjubileum med en stort upplagd sommarfest vid vilken festtalet hölls av landshövding Ahlbäck. Åttahundra deltagare närvar från Sideby i söder till Karleby i norr. Det blev en mycket lyckad fest på älvstranden och lite regn under senare delen av programmet förmådde ej nedstämma humöret ej heller åskan som mullrade hotande nära och sekunderade Melartis hornorkester-
Mr. och Mrs. Oscar A- Ahl-gren från Whiting, Indiana reste nyligen från New York mea SAL:s Kungsholm. De skulle semesterresa i Europa och besöka sin dottersom är bosatt i j Tyskland.
Under sitt Europabesök i april i år, förlänades Mrs. Ahl-gren Vasaorden som en erkänsla för sina insatser inom General Federation of Women’s Clubs.
TVÄ FESTLIGA .JULRESOR ARRANGERADE AV SVENSKA AMERIKA LINIEN I ÅR
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ANNUAL MACHINERY INV-ESTMENTS IN SWEDISH AGRICULTURE
STOCKHOLM- At a recent farm exhibition in Sweden, compet-ition was run for farm machine suppliers, who were asked to submit estimates for equipping a medium - sized Swedish farm wth its rejuirements of imple-ments. The farm had 35 acres ot mixed land, including forest and grazing land, and was run by the owner with the aid of one hired man. The average cost ot 25 units of mechanized imple-ments was Kr. 50,000 ($10,000,) which figure gives a good con-ception of the present high st-adard of mechanization on the Swedish farms.
GLÖM EJ ATT FÖRNYA PRENUMERATIONEN!
De årliga julresorna till Sverige i Svenska Amerika Liniens regi har blivit en kär tradition för svensk-amerikanaren som
ofta föredrar att gåra sin efterlängtade resa till det gamla hemlandet vid jultid. På grund av resornas populariaet har Linien i år arrangerat två skdtk ttd i år prrangerat två julresor, framgår av ett meddelande från bolagets New York-direk-tör G- Hilmer Lundbeck, Jr.
Nya flaggskeppet Kungsholm går den 2 december från New York och M/S Stockholm går den 8 december, samt från Halifax, där den svensk-kanadensiska gruppen går ombord, den, 9 december.
Som färdledare på M/S Stockholm medföljer GeGnrge H. Helander, Svenska Amerika Linjens bagagemästare i New York.
Många förfrågningar om dessa julresor har redan kommrc passagerareavdelningen tillhan-, da, och de, som planerar att fira julen i Sverige i år, bör snarast sätta sig i förbindelse mod Svenska Amerika Linjens kontor
LANDSMÄN OCH LANDSMANINNOR:-
Under det sista året, sedan den 1 juli 1953, har en handfull av svenskar i Vancouver, övertagit och utgivit Svenska * Pressen i förhoppning att vi ännu i många år skall kunna låta tidningen utkomma och pä så sätt utgöra en förenings-länk mellan oss svenskar på västkusten och prärieprovinser-na.
När utgivandet av tidningen i fjol hade förbrukat hela det gamla aktiekapitalet och var i skuld, var det några svenskar, föreningsfolk o. d., som övertog tidningen och bildade ett nytt aktiebolag med tanke på att vid sidan av tidningen också idka tryckerirörelse och på så vis balansera affärerna. Den gamla staben, som fåfängt försökt under 12 år gav upp och nya krafter tog vid. Olyckligtvis blev den byggnad på 427 Hamilton Street, där vi hade vår verksamhet i många lår, dömd att nedtagas, så vi måste flytta och detta kostade oss en avsevärd summa. Så måste maskinerna, som var i dåligt skick, repareras och kostnaderna voro stora, men vi hoppades på framtiden och på svenskarna.
Tryckerirörelsen har gått bra, men för att få en riktigt stor och god tidning måste vi ha flera prenumeranter. När vi får flera prenumeranter kan vi också få mera annonser, vilka egentligen skulle betala tidningen.
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