New Ulm Enterprise (New Ulm, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 1993 Page: 4 of 6
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, Potatoes
A-Peel
To All
Are Federal Regulations Too Expensive?
“The federal government is regulat-
ing small businesses out of the mar-
ket and people out of jobs. Regulation
hardens the arteries of free enterprise,
eventually killing the patient.”
So said Vice President Dan Quayle
at a recent conference on government
regulation sponsored by Citizens for
a Sound Economy, a Washington,
D.C.-based advocacy and research
group. The seminar, “Making Sense of
Regulation: A Blueprint for Change,”
was held in Columbus, Ohio.
According to Quayle, federal regu-
lations place a burden of an estimated
$400 billion on the U.S. economy —
that's $4,200 per American household.
While some regulations are needed,
others are “unnecessary, and even
harmful, wasting money and killing
jobs," the vice president said.
Citizens for a Sound Economy
(CSE), a 250,000-member grass-roots
organization dedicated to promoting
market-based solutions to public
policy problems, has focused on the
need to bring burgeoning government
regulation under control. According
to CSE, the regulatory burden is
so large that more than 1.3 billion
man-hours per year — approximate!)
150 million 8-hour workdays — are
spent just complying with government
paperwork requirements. Examples
of excessive regulations cited by CSE
include:
• New York City’s Small Business
Growth Fund has made only one loan
in its two years of existence. The rea-
son: While a bank requires a business
to fill out two to three pages of forms,
the paperwork required by the fund is
2 to 3 inches thick. The owner of
Glantz Iron & Metals spent months of
time and $20,000 preparing the appli-
cation for a $400,000 loan.
• Bernhardt Furniture Company of
Lenoir, N.C., put all the government
"If we have learned anything
from the abysmal failure of
planned economies, it is that
we can’t make an economy
competitive by having the
government call the tune. ”
— James C. Miller 111,
chairman, and Phillip Mink,
general counsel, Citizens
for a Sound Economy
forms dealing with disposal of dirty
cleaning rags, the company's princi-
pal hazardous waste, in a pile and
stood an employee by it for a photo-
graph The stack was slightly taller
than the employee, who was 6 feet 2
inches tall.
The CSE seminar also featured
panel discussions by experts in the ar-
eas of economics, local government
and the regulatory process. Rochester
Institute of Technology Professor Tho-
mas Hopkins highlighted the escala-
tion of national regulatory costs. “The
cost of regulation is neither well-mea-
sured, nor well-controlled." said
Hopkins, an economics professor and
author of a study on the hidden costs
of regulation at the national level.
"The general trend has been toward
adoption of regulations whose costs
exceed their benefits."
Hopkins pointed out that the cost of
regulation — unlike that of a tax in-
crease — is paid for by businesses or
local governments that must comply
and, in turn, is passed on to consum-
ers. “Regulation looks beguilingly in-
expensive to the federal government,
which explains why we have so many
of them," Hopkins said.
At a time when politicians are de-
bating how to bring the United States
out of economic decline and improve
our nation's competitiveness in the
world marketplace, examining the bur-
den of government regulation is a
good place to start, according to CSE.
As the organization's chairman, James
C. Miller III, and CSE general coun-
sel, Phillip Mink, wrote in a recent ar-
ticle for Policy Review, a quarterly
political journal: "If we have learned
anything from the abysmal failure of
planned economies, it is that we can't
make an economy competitive by hav-
ing the government call the tune. We
shouldn't hesitate to apply that
lesson’s corollary: We make our
economy competitive by getting the
government out." 1.1
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other members of the
Environmental Educational
Committee of the Colorado Soil and
Water Conservation District in
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January 15 is the final day to submit
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complicates the inheritance of
important traits.
“We may look at 300,000
seedlings to find one that could
become a new variety,” Miller
says.
But Miller is getting a jump on
the numbers by using such modern
techniques as tissue culture to
quickly grow plants for
experimental use. Instead of
getting four tubers from a parent
potato, tissue culture may provide
Miller with 4,000 mini-tubers to
plant and evaluate in a shorter
time. "It takes about one year to do
whet we used to do in five or six
years,” he notes.
The super spud of Texas will be
one with vines that can withstand
hailstorms and hot, desiccating
winds in the state’s main producing
area northwest of Lubbock.
Miller is selecting plants in the
breeding program that will mature
eariy-for the late-July to
eariy-August market-and that are
resistant to disease and
environmental stresses. He said
researchers have used wild
potatoes from around the world to
find these resistances, as well as to
Colorado potato beetles and frost.
Varieties with these last two
qualities are almost ready for
release to growers.
In addition to withstanding
cultural and climatic conditions,
Miller adds, the breeding program
is developing UJS. potato varieties
with yellow and orange flesh.
(DM)—The fall-winter season
brings us a bountiful supply of
apples along with plentiful de-
mands on our time. At the end of a
busy day. you can use the time-sav-
ing advantages of the microwave
oven and reward your family with a
delicious dessert.
Oat-Nut Cranberry-Apple Crum-
ble is microcooked in just 15 min-
utes, according to Whirlpool Corpo-
ration home economists. A touch of
cranberry accents the flavor and gives
this dessert a rosy blush of color. The
crumble topping combines rolled
oats and crunchy sunflower seeds.
This recipe makes a good weeknight
dessert, but would also be a nice
menu addition for a casual party.
OAT-NUT
■ CRAW^PPU!
(10 servings)
7 cups sliced, pared tart apples
*4 cup apple juice
% cup whole berry cranberry
sauce
*4 cup firmly packed brown
sugar
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
Vi teaspoon ground cinnamon
' • • •
Vi cup margarine or butter
% cup quick-cooking rolled oats
% cup dry roasted sunflower
seeds
Vi cup all-purpose flour
Vi cup firmly packed brown
sugar
1. In large bowl, stir together
apples, apple juice and cranberry
3. Microwave at HIGH (100%) for
15 minutes or until apples are ten-
der, giving dish a half turn once.
Serve warm with ice cream or
whipped cream.
sauce. Stir together the 1/3 cup
sugar, the 3 tablespoons flour and
the cinnamon. Sprinkle over apple
mixture, stirring to combine.
Spread evenly in 11% x 7Vi x 1%-
inch glass baking dish. Set aside.
2. For topping, microwave marga-
rine in small glass bowl at LOW
(20%) for 45 seconds or until melted.
Add remaining ingredients, stirring
until well-combined. Sprinkle even-
ly over apples.
More than 300 parents and 50,000
children are participating in a
Texas program to find the cream of
the crop, and that’s no small
potatoes.
“It’s all a numbers game,” says
I> Creighton Miller. “The more we
pun the slot machine, the greater
our chance of getting cherry,
cherry, cherry.”
O spud, spud, spud.
Miller, a Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station horticulturist,
nurtures tens of thousands of potato
plants each year searching for the
ultimate tuber. So much time is
spent with the individual plants that
Miller refers to them in familial
terms. “We plant all the kids of a
family in a row,” he says. One gets
the idea that Mr. Potatohead could
be a cousin.
“There will never be a perfect
person, or variety,” Miller says.
“What we’re trying to do is like
crossing an all-American football
player with a National Merit
Scholar to get a really smart
athlete.”
With an 118,000 grant from
Fanning Technology, Inc., a
Houston- based packing company,
Miller is developing new Texas
varieties that can be harvested to
fill a void in the market when
potatoes from other states are not
available.
But potato matchmaking is
tricky. For one thing, seeds
produced in a tomato-like fruit on
the vine above ground will not
necessarily yield a potato like the
tuber below ground.
“There may be 200 seeds in a
fruit. Each is totally different and
could be a new variety,” Miller
explains. “If this seed is planted, it
might produce a short or tall plant,
a white or a russet potato.”
Thus, researchers try to cross
similar parents to narrow the
variation in the “children," he
notes. New plants are grown from
pieces that come from a potato cut
into two-ounce sections, each
including one or more “eyes” that
will grow into a plant
Also, potatoes are tetrapioids,
which means they have 48
chromosomes, or double what most"
plant species have. That
Tobias
Funeral
Services
Funeral Services for Otillie
Tobias of Ellinger were held
Monday, January 11,1993 at 10 a.m.
from St. Mary’s Catholic Church in
Ellinger with Msgr. Ben
Mazurkiewicz officiating.
Burial was in the church
cemetery.
Mrs. Tobias passed away
January 8 in a Columbus nursing
home. She was 93 years of age.
Born in Czechoslovakia
December 28, 1899, she was the
daughter of Paul and Maria
(Foltyn) Kopecky. She married
Joseph F. Tobias in September of
1920 and became a housewife. She
was a member of St. Mary’s
Catholic Church of Ellinger and St.
Mary’s Altar Society.
Her husband preceded her in
death on April 15,1941.
Survivors include a daughter,
Mary Ann Juries of Glidden; son
and daughter- in- law, Lee Roy and
Gladys Tobias of Houston; sister,
Frances Marusik of Fayetteville;
brother, Frank J. Kopecky of
Temple; seven grandchildren and
seven great - grandchildren.
In addition to her husband, she
was also preceded in death by one
son, Alvin.
Pallbearers were Paul Jurica
Jr., James Allen Jurica, Larry
Tobias, Harvey Lee Tobias, Jacobo
(Jake) Sanchez and Jerry Marusik.
Services were under the
direction of Henneke Funeral Home
of Columbus.
Colorado
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Nutrition Information
(per serving)
Calories
309
Protein
4g
Fat
12 g
Cholesterol
0
Carbohydrates
51 K
Sodium
128 mg
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2,550
15
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cooking
the microwave way
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