European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes june 1977 Public reaction sought Fra mulls truth in canned food Washington a Are you getting your moneys Worth from canned food the government is considering a plan to make canners Tell Consumers How much solid food goes into a can before liquids Are officials of the Good and drug adminis unit inn say they soon plan to ask for Public reaction to such a which would be the first step toward putting the plan into the Fra has been wrestling for several years with the problem of the Best Way of letting Consumers know How much real food is contained in a can of fruit or vege tables today Consumers can find the net weight printed on a but that includes the syrup or other liquid in which the food is shoppers sometimes discover too late they have plenty of but not enough Green Beans for their the method that the Fra expects to probably Early next is called it involves measuring the solid Content of a product before water is added and the item is the Canning Industry suggested this method in lieu of a proposal advanced in 1973 by the Consumers the consumer group wanted the govern ment to require canners to state their products drained weight that the amount of solid after Canning and and after the liquid is drained the Canning Industry objected that this would be expensive and requiring that Many Sample cans be opened and tested after processing and their contents Consumers Union countered that drained weight currently is required for fruit cocktail and canned mushrooms and therefore was certainly a the Fra has estimated that drained weight Labelling would Cost about Mil lion a year while the canners say fill weight would Cost Only in either the Cost will almost certainly be added to returning to show Biz Alan bes known for his six year run in televisions cd looks at a picture in Hollywood of himself and the hour in the Young is returning to show Busi and this summer hell make his debut for toe Walt Disney in the Cut from outer paper says shipbuilder overfilled on steel Washington api government investigators claim Lockheed shipbuilding and construction co built 12 War vessels for the Navy but billed the government for Albert released from Hospital Aii former House speaker Carl Albert has been released from meal Ester general plus phial after treatment for minor injuries received in a i Landrun Accident was treated for cuts and bruises and walked out sunday accompanied by his a Hospital spokesman Sampson of Mcalester was arrested several hours after the Acci Dent and booked on a complaint of leaving the scene of a personal injury police they said Benjamin apparently knocked Albert to the Street As Albert stepped off the curb near his the Price of the the canners contend fill weight Labelling will produce just As useful information As the Consumers Union some can ners already have initiated a fill weight la Beling program on a voluntary Fra officials say they will allow the Public an extended time to comment on which idea it likes officials noted that some fruits and vegetables absorb water and other substance from the liquid in which they Are packed and thus May weigh More when they come out of a can than when they went in other this is reversed As foods lose water and nutrients into the stateside wants Normal ties with Vietnam Washington up the administration wants to establish Normal relations with a number of including Iraq and a top ranking state department official Deputy Secretary of state Warren Christopher said efforts to establish ties with Vietnam should prove to Allna tons that Washington wants to overcome past in some cases it is the policy of other governments that precludes Normal rela but All governments should be aware of the message sent by president Carter to the vietnamese that we want to put the bitterness of the past behind us and look to the Christopher Christopher made his remarks in a speech at Occidental College in los an throws a Lusty party Washington a the wind was a Tittle too Gusty for the but the 102 contestants in the fourth annual smithsonian open Boomerang tournament did not seem to for 34 hours they tossed boomerangs in Graceful elongated Ellipse patterns before a crowd of 300 to 400 persons on the Polo grounds near the Lincoln the final event proved to be a Cliff it was for the most consecutive in which All the contestants were they lined up in Long rows and anyone who missed catching was Eli i finally it was Down to two contestants Richard Harrison of and Larry huh of it required almost to throws for Harrison to emerge tie enough steel to build according to the Washington the excess steel amounted to nearly 80 million pounds valued at about the Post said in its monday the Slot figures in disputed claims for sg2 million that the Lockheed aircraft subsidiary has filed against the the paper investigations of the claims were begun in april 1975 by the Fri and in june 1976 by the renegotiation which is responsible for recovering excess profits from de sense the Post said it was told by one source that Federal prosecutors have been presenting evidence in the Case to a grand jury for several the newspaper quoted a spokesman for Lockheed in Seattle As saying the ship building company has been cooperating fully with the Justice departments ongo ing we Are aware of no wrongdoing in connection with the claims and believe the departments when will Bear this he Amy and dad Best Speed Reading students Washington up Bernard who has taught people Speed says president Carter is probably the Best student he Ever had except for director of the Washington office for Evelyn Wood Reading taught a White House class for about 20 including the his daughter and first lady Rosalynn he said the actual Reading scores were but the first family fell in the top 5 per cent of those who have taken the the president was just Kelly said in an you could see him using All of the qualities that got him to the White House Hes probably the Best student Ive Ever Kelly his voice trailing off to re consider the of course its not really fair to compare the but Amy was he for a 9yearold it is amazing the discipline that she has she did an outstanding police Are gunning for Bear in suburb Falls a police held a Bear bunt in this suburb of washing after a resident saw a Black Bear climb from a tree in us toe five foot Bear vanished into a wooded Park and the Hunt was hampered because police dogs were unable to get a Good police Cpl Betty Corsage she said police were trying to borrow Hunting dogs to find the which apparently just wandered Down the Poto Mac to Falls eight Miles outside the nations a Homeowner spotted the Bear when be looked out his window to find out what Hii dog was Barking said the Bear then apparently travelled through a neighbouring knocking Over garbage and across a bal Fleu where tracks were found in route to the she its not unusual to have bean around another officer we usually have at least one sighting a Ford says Hes not ready for a rocking chair Milwaukee i up former presi Dent Gerald Ford told Wisconsin republicans he int running for but he attacked the Carter administration with All the fire of a the quiet role of elder so comfortable for some of my very Little Appeal for be in not running for but i am u the raking chair and i will not be muzzled by any Democrat n Ford told republicans at a fundraiser not