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the new labeling system should help shoppers who move from
one part of the country to another, and even within cities where
names of meat cuts vary.
The new labels will feature three main parts--the name of the
animal specie from which the meat came (beef, pork, lamb,
veal), the primal or sub-primal cut (rib, shoulder, loin), and the
recommended name of the particular cut (steak, roast.)
A Porterhouse steak, for example, would be labeled "Beef
Loin Porterhouse Steak."
"Grocers and meat retailers will still have the option to include
some of the 'fancy' names of cuts on the labels if the names are
widely used and shoppers are accustomed to them. However, the
basic recommended name must appear on the price-weight
label," points out Orts.
Actually, they're all the same, and that's added to the
shoppers' confusion over the years.
In the next few months, though, consumers should find some
relief in shopping for meat, because grocers and meat markets
are joining together in adopting new Uniform Retail Meat
Identity Standards, according to Dr. Frank Orts, meats specialist
for the Texas Agricultural Extension Service.
The new standards for retail meat cuts were prepared by the
National Livestock and Meat Board, which consists of industry
representatives from throughout the country, in cooperation with
the meat industry and several government agencies.
"With this new system for labeling meat, the total names for
cuts have been dropped. In the case of the ribeye steak, the
names of 'Delmonico, fillet and beauty' will no longer by used."
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A week after I arrived in Clarendon I received a circular from
Bob Price that made it clear to me who I was not going to vote for
in the congressional election, although it still left me a choice
between Jack Hightower and Ray Ruffin. In the past few days
that field of two has narrowed considerably, and Jack Hightower
will get my vote unless he does something drastic to commit
political suicide.
In a highly metaphorical and slightly ungrammatical press
release we received the other day, Ray Ruffin assured himself of
the loss of one vote, although l'm sure the loss of my vote will not
exactly make him cry. In this release, Ruffin said that he sent a
letter.to "-major Republicaffnd, Democratic leaders in both the
Houg'and Senate" remarkin upon the fact that Nixon could no ....
longer lead the country, but impeachment would damage "the
very political glue that holds our great system together."
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k Ruffin proposed a bill (which in itself is precocious, since he is
not even past the primaries of his own party yet) that would, in
) effect, totally wreck the checks and balances system and would
P give Congress a stronghold on the nation. In short, this bill
l) requests a 28th amendment (my, he is getting ahead of himself)
that would give the House of Representatives a chance to show
its displeasure with the president by taking a "no-confidence"
p vote about the way the president is running the country. If this
), vote should be upheld in the Senate, the president about whom
the vote was taken would suddenly find himself back in his home
town at his law practice and the vice-president, or whoever is
next in the line of succession, would find himself running the
country for a while.
Each of the two major political parties will then, within 30 days
from the vote of "no-confidence," call to order a full, special
convention to nominate candidates to fill the vacated office of the
) presidency. Thirty days after the conventions, a special election
) will be held to elect a new president. The conventions will be
paid for by the respective parties, but from the time of the
nomination until the time of the election, all campaign costs are
to be federally funded.
With this bin, Ruffin has completely put an end to the
American political game of "let's see who can be more
ridiculous" by simply eliminating the possibility of competition.
I would much prefer having a slightly competent president in
office with a strong Congress to keep an eye on him than having
a puppet president and an unchecked Congress with a gleam of
power-madness in its eyes. The executive and legislative
branches of our system, although continually sparring and with
occasional intervention from the judicial branch, manage to bat
out a passable government. If one branch or the other gains the
upper hand, the nation will eventually end up on the same road
as ancient Rome.
Also, considering the cost of a political convention, this
proposed amendment would almost place the two major parties
in bankruptcy. Plus the fact that 30 days is far too short a time to
arrange a convention with any degree of competency and, as
evidenced, by the nominating conventions of the past year, four
years of planning doesn't always exactly do the trick.
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Another exception I take to this proposal is that it totally
eliminates all possibilities of a third party rising into power. This
third party threat has always managed to keep the two major
parties somewhat in check, and if my history serves me correctly,
the Republicans themselves started as a third party. If we thus
go around the possibility of a third party, we are asking for a
polarization of the two major political parties, with a large
no-man's-land in between.
The nation does not need to be saddled with another huge
debt, which the federal funding of 30 days worth of campaigning
would bring. These campaigns cost a bunch of money, and if you
don't believe me ask George Wallace, who is still trying to pay
his campaign debts although he barely made it to the national
convention.
According to an Italian lass named Juliet, a rose by any other
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impeachment by any other name would be as rank, even if
disguised as a method for Congress to give a "bold display of
leadership," as Ruffm so euphemistically puts it.
Ruffin is afraid of America's becoming a "second-class world
and economic power," hut even the serious consideration of this
bill would put the United States well on the road to becoming a
second-rate democracy. The Founding Fathers had their stuff
together when they made the Constitution, and hopefully the
people we now entrust with the management of our nation can
prove themselves worthy of the trust we placed in them upon
their election and direct this proposal immediately into the
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Bulldogs open
season Monday
The Clandon Bulldogs have nothing before them except the
season now, after their last scrimmage Thursday at
Weatherford, Oklahoma, against Southwestern State College.
"We made the improvements we needed to make, and I am
especially pleased with the defense and the rebounding. I think
we're about as ready as we can be for the season opener," Coach
Jack Hedden said.
Thursday's scrimmage was a costly one for the Bulldogs,
though, since two of the players slated to start tomorrow's
opener went down with injuries. David Graham, an Oklahoma
freshman, is out for a while with a minor knee injury and Herman
Brown, a sophomore from New York, is out with a pulled thigh
muscle. In the scrimmage with Southwestern, the two teams
played four quarters of basketball, with each team winning two
of the quarters by a small margin. Hedden said the reason the
Bulldogs had been scrimmaging against four year institutions
was because the practice against the tougher, larger schools
would better prepare the team for the season.
The game, set for tomorrow night at 7:30 in the Clarendon
gym, will be against the Panhandle State College Junior Varsity.
However, the fact that the opponent is a B team is misleading,
because Panhandle State has not opened its varsity season yet.
"They had a good recruiting year," Hedden said about
tomorrow night's opponents. "They picked up 1S or 16 good
freshmen and some junior college transfers. Many of these
players will probably end up on the varsity squad when they get
a little seasoning, so we don't really feel like we'll be playing a
junior varsity club.
Hedden continued about the coming season's prospects. "If
we play as well as we're capable of playing, we should be able to
win. We would like to win tomorrow night and then go into our
conference season undefeated."
The Bulldogs play their first conference game November 29
against Western Texas Junior College.
Hedden was openly optimistic about the upcoming season. "I
feel like we'll have a team that the city of Clarendon can be proud
of having."
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