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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, July 19, 2000
Companies hope to bag pre-sliced apple market
The Associated Press
YAKIMA, Wash. — Too lazy to cut up your own apples? Two apple packing and marketing companies are coming to the rescue.
Working independently of one another, the companies have been selling bagged apple slices nationwide for more than two months.
Neither is ready to call presliced apples a cure for Washington state's ailing apple industry. Development costs are high and research shows consumers will pay only so much for the convenience.
But officials hope sliced apples find the same consumer acceptance as bagged salads and baby peeled carrots.
"I can tell you sliced apples have the same feeling that baby peeled carrots and consumer salad had when I was working on those products 10 years ago," said Welcome Sauer, food service director for the Washington Apple Commission.
Sauer said 84 percent of 400 consumers who tasted pre-sliced apples during a March survey said they would buy the product.
The companies offering the products are Price Cold Storage and Packing Co. of Yakima and Fresh Products Northwest — a joint venture of the Medford, Ore.-based Naumes Inc. and Dovex Fruit Co. of Wenatchee, Ore.
Price calls its product "Yo Bites,
Apples With Attitude!"
FreshProducts is marketing its apple slices under the name Crunch-Pak.
Consumer surveys indicate shoppers are likely to buy sliced apples if the price is right—somewhere below $2 a pound.
Restaurants, hotels and institutions that are high-volume food outlets favor pre-sliced apples as a ready-made garnish for salad bars and banquet menus. The state apple commission has been working for years to broaden foodservice consumption beyond whole apples.
"With sliced apples, we have a round peg for a round hole. We have a product they like," Sauer said.
Steve Fox, marketing director for Price Cold Storage, said he hoped the product would take off.
"I really do think that if we can take 5 percent to 8 percent of the excess product and turn it into a market, then I think we have made a contribution," Fox said.
Tom Hale of Yakima, marketing director for Fresh Products Northwest. is more cautious.
"I think we can't look at this as being something that is going to make a huge volume difference to the industry, at least not in the first few years," Hale said.
A key to the bagged slices is a combination of minerals and vitamins that prevents cut apples from turning brown for at least three weeks. That product, developed by a Connecticut research-and-development company, does not affect taste or quality of the fruit, according to promotional material from the manufacturer.
Sliced-apple sales won't affect the market for Red Delicious apples, which make up most of Washington's apple production. The pre-sliced apples are being made from other varieties, including Fuji, Gala, Braeburn, Granny Smith and Pink Lady.
RENTON, Wash. — A 13-year boy who caused a panic at a summer school when he fired a shot into a cafeteria ceiling was arrested yesterday after contacting sheriff's officers from his grandparents' house.
No one was injured in the incident Monday at Dimmitt Middle School. Yesterday's classes were canceled.
The Associated Press
The boy was identified by the sheriff's office as Josh Warnock.
Student gunman surrenders
His mother notified authorities that her son wanted to turn himself in, and he was arrested peacefully at his grandparents' house for investigation of assault with a firearm and reckless endangerment, said John Urquhart, King County sheriff's spokesman.
Urquhart said he did not know if a gun was recovered from the boy. He was to be taken to the county juvenile justice center in downtown Seattle following questioning.
After unsuccessfully searching the neighborhood and a wooded area near the school Monday night, officers had expressed hope the youth would give himself up.
Summer school classes were canceled yesterday at the middle school and nearby Thomson Elementary School, which had been used as a safe haven for students Monday.
The boy was shown on KIRO-TV walking out of his grandparents' home in handcuffs, wearing a Detroit Pistons T-shirt. He was described after the incident Monday as dressed in black, with blond hair dyed blue at the ends. But yesterday, his blond hair was cut short with no dyeing evident.
"They're telling me this kid was "very cooperative," said Peter Daniels, school spokesman. "They've never seen anger or violence of that type from him. By all accounts he was not a problem."
An aunt told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that the boy, the oldest of three siblings, was being raised by a single mother. But she said the boy had not done well in school the past year and was attending summer school remedial classes.
During the week, the boy stayed with grandparents who live near the school so he could arrive at class on time, police said. During weekends, he stayed with his mother. Urquhart said investigators think the boy took the gun from his grandparents' home.
Neighbors said the mother moved the family often, recently leaving a house she had bought from her parents. They said the boy would return and break in so he and his friends could use the house.
Urquhar said the boy got on a table at about 10:30 a.m. Monday and shot a round into the ceiling. He ordered the other 200 students to get on the stage in the cafeteria, but they scattered and ran.
Brittany Lamb, 14, was sitting at the same table when the youth stood up and fired. She said she was too scared to move, and he threatened her directly.
"He put the gun right up to my face and he said, 'I'm going to kill you if you don't get up on the stage.' I was frozen. I could not move at all." Lamb said.
She said he had been talking about shooting a teacher for a few days and had told other students he was going to commit suicide before the police got him.
"A lot of people knew he was talking about it, but they didn't say anything because they didn't think he would really do it," she said.
Cylas Sampson, 13, said the boy had shown him a gun and a large knife at the beginning of the school day. "I didn't think he was going to do anything," Sampson said. "I thought it was a fake gun."
Just before the shooting, Sampson said he had called the boy over to sit with them. "He said, 'You don't have to worry about school anymore. Today's your last day of school,'" he said.
State Republicans defer to Bush on V.P. nominee
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — As a group, Kansas delegates to the Republican National Convention don't have any strong feelings about who their party's vice presidential nominee should be.
A majority of the 35 delegates are deferring to the presumed presidential nominee, George W. Bush. Others have their preferred candidates but are likely to support Bush's choice without complaint.
When delegates did express a preference, the leading choice was Elizabeth Dole, wife of Bob Dole, the party's 1996 presidential nominee. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge was mentioned the next most often.
Some Republicans say the lack of a strong preference among Kansas delegates shows how little importance they place on Bush's choice of a running mate. Other say it is a sign of support for the Texas governor.
"It has to be his choice," said Senate Majority Leader Tim Emert, of Independence, who listed no preference.
Emert said having convention delegates impose their choice on Bush would be like telling someone. "I'll make you president of the company, but you can't choose any of your employees."
All Kansas delegates to the convention that will meet July 31 in Philadelphia, where delegates will ratify Bush's nomination as well as his choice for a running mate were surveyed.
Twenty-one delegates said they had no preference for a vice presidential nominee. Six of those 21 said they would support whomever Bush picks.
"It's not very important," said McGill, a delegate who listed no vice presidential preference.
than have a strong preference.
"Did you ever know of anybody who ever voted for vice president?" asked Kate McGill, who is chairman of Bush's Kansas campaign.
McGill and Kris Van Meteren, Kansas Republician Assembly executive director, said delegates were more likely to react to a vice presidential choice they didn't like, rather
For example, Van Meteren said many conservative Republicans would go ballistic if New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman were on the ticket, because of her support for abortion rights.
But McGill said. "There's no Dan Quayle out there," referring to the former vice president, whose selection in 1988 surprised many Republicans.
Van Meteren said, "Most people are pretty nonchalant about who the vice president is."
Seven Kansas delegates named Elizabeth Dole, who served as secretary of labor and secretary of transportation, as well as American Red Cross president.
"Part of it's the gender thing," said Wanda Morrison, a delegate from Hutchinson. "Just because I'm a woman, I'd like to see that role or the presidential nomine be a woman in my lifetime."
Morrison said many Kansas Republicans viewed Elizabeth Dole as part of the state's political family because of her marriage to the former Kansas senator.
"She's kind of our sister-in-law," she said.
But Burdett Loomis, a professor of political science at the University of Kansas, said the fact that Elizabeth Dole wasn't named by more delegates was a sign that she was never considered a true Kansan.
He added, "Bob Dole is pretty much yesterday's news."
Three delegates named Ridge, including Lt. Gov. Gary Sherrer who named both the Pennsylvania governor and Elizabeth Dole as choices.
Delegate Trent LeDoux, of Holton, said of Ridge: "He's a veteran of the Vietnam War. He's very diverse in his political leanings, and he's from a state we've got to have."
Individual delegates also named Whitman; retired U.S. Sen. John Danforth, of Missouri; U.S. Rep. John Kasich, of Ohio; New York Gov. George Pataki and retired Gen. Colin Powell.
Panting dogs
Health-conscious exercisers run around campus and participate in different activities during the annual Red Dog Days conditioning sessions. Photo by Aaron Lindberg/KANSAN
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