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by Patricia L. CookIf you look at the labels on the clothes you are wearing, at least some of your apparel is probably made from cotton. You may not realize the versatility of this plant. It is not only used as a fiber but also in food products, fertilizer, fuel and more. This week, Tidbits looks at this remarkable plant. • Cotton is a natural fiber whose history goes back thou-
sands of years. Civilizations in India, China and Egypt grew cotton as well as the Mayans in Guatemala, Yucatan and other parts of Mexico. The oldest archaeological evi-dence of clothing made from cotton comes from the Indus Valley of today’s Pakistan. Cotton “bolls” that start in a field are used to produce much of the fabric in the world.
• The first cotton grown in the United States was in Virginia and Florida in the early 17th century. By the end of the 18th century, cotton had become the biggest industry in the United States. This was helped by Eli Whitney’s cot-ton gin invention in 1793.
• Whitney’s machine provided a faster way to separate cot-ton from its seeds. It could clean the cotton about 10 times faster than doing it by hand.
• When we think of cotton, most of us think of comfortable blue jeans, flannel shirts, underwear or the 800-thread-count soft sheets that we sleep on at night. Cotton pro-vides all of that and a whole lot more.
• Cotton is used more than any fiber, natural or manmade, in the world. It is a daily part of our lives and is still today one of the leading cash crops for farmers in the United States. Every part of a cotton plant is useful.
• The most important part of the cotton plant is the fiber, or lint, which is used to make cloth. The fiber has to be sepa-rated from the seeds, which are quite sticky. This is why the cotton gin was so important. When the fiber and seeds had to be separated by hand, it took many laborious hours.
• “Linters,” the short fuzz remaining on the seeds after separation of the lint, provide cellulose for making explo-
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Page 2 For Advertising Call 251-285-4116 sives, plastics and other products. They are also incorpo-rated into high quality paper products and processed into batting for the padding used in mattresses and cushions for furniture and automobile seats.
• The cottonseeds are a valuable byproduct as well. They are crushed and separated into three products: oil, hulls and meal. Cottonseed oil is used for salad dressing, cook-ing oil and shortening. Cottonseed oil has no cholesterol has little or no trans-fats, making it a good option for healthy cooking.
• The meal and hulls are used for livestock, poultry and fish feed and also fertilizer. After all of these parts are taken away, the remaining leaves and stalks of the cotton plant are plowed under to enrich the soil.
• For years, the “Cotton Row” district of Memphis, Tennes-see, was the center of the worldwide cotton trade market. The Cotton Museum at the Cotton Exchange opened in 2006 in the building that was once the place where cotton was inspected, bought and sold, and shipped around the world. The museum has artifacts and exhibits that tell the story of cotton, its history and its impact on the region and the world.
• Another museum dedicated to cotton is The Audie Mur-phy American Cotton Museum in Greenville, Texas. This museum is dedicated to preserving the history of Amer-ica’s cotton industry. The museum includes the oldest house in Greenville and an actual cotton patch.
• The states where cotton grows are sometimes referred to as the “Cotton Belt.” These states are all across the south-ern edge of the United States. They are Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Ala-bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Kan-sas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Califor-nia. The climate and soil conditions of these areas provide a great cotton-growing environment.
• Are you curious as to what can be made from one bale of cotton? How about 4,321 socks, 3,085 diapers (yes, the old fashioned cotton kind!), 1,256 pillowcases, 690 bath towels, 409 skirts or 250 pairs of pants!
• Most people have heard of “hand-me-downs” and prob-ably have worn them. Blue jeans are especially known for this because of their durability. Hand-me-down blue jeans were taken to a new level in 2006 when Cotton Incorpo-rated created a marketing initiative to recycle denim for insulation for housing.
• The “Cotton. From Blue to Green. ®” denim drive was a student-run campaign on several college campuses to educate students on the renewable and recyclable attri-butes of denim. Blue jeans were donated and then given a “new life” as housing insulation for houses. In the spring of 2007, 30 homes were built for families by Habitat for Humanity of Greater Baton Rouge (Louisiana) who lost their homes as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Twelve of those homes were insulated with UltraTouch™ Denim Insulation.
• A campaign by National Geographic Kids Magazine in 2009 asked readers to donate their old jeans with the goal being to set a Guinness World Record™ for the “most items of clothing collected for recycling.” The record was announced in Washington, D.C. on August 12, 2009, with 33,088 pieces of denim donated. These jeans were given to the “Cotton. From Blue to Green.®” campaign for more housing insulation projects. What a terrific way to help people, recycle and keep blue jeans out of our landfills!
• Cotton has been an important part of our lives for many years and will likely continue to be. As the advertisements say, it is the “fabric of our lives.” Cotton is now grown in 70 countries, with China producing the most at about 25 percent and the Unites States producing almost 20 per-cent. China and India are the largest producers of cotton, while the United States is the world’s largest exporter of cotton.
1. ASTRONOMY: The star called Rigel is part of which con-stellation?2. MYTHOLOGY: What did the god Frey represent in Norse mythology?3. CHEMISTRY: What gas has the chemical symbol of CH4?4. MOVIES: Who directed “The Magnificent Ambersons” and “Touch of Evil”?5. HISTORY: Who was the first English king to hold the title “Prince of Wales”?6. INVENTIONS: What was the name of the first submarine commissioned by the U.S. Navy?7. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Who drew the famous image of Uncle Sam proclaiming, “I Want You”?8. GEOGRAPHY: To what island group in the Caribbean does St. Croix belong?9. LITERATURE: Which writer’s autobiography is called “Black Boy”?10. POLITICS: Who was Adlai Stevenson’s vice-presidential running mate in 1956?
Answers 1. Orion 2. Frey is the Norse god of fertility 3. Methane 4. Orson Welles 5. Edward II 6. U.S.S. Holland 7. James Montgomery Flagg 8. U.S. Virgin Islands 9. Richard Wright 10. Estes Kefauver
¥ On May 7, 1896, Dr. H.H. Holmes, one of Ameri-ca’s first well-known serial killers, is hanged to death in Philadelphia. Although not as well known as Jack the Ripper, authorities discovered the remains of more than 200 victims on Holmes’ property.
¥ On May 6, 1937, the airship Hindenburg, the largest dirigible ever built and the pride of Nazi Germany, bursts into flames upon touching its mooring mast in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36 passengers and crewmem-bers. The lighter-than-air craft was lifted by highly flammable hydrogen gas.
¥ On May 5, 1945, in Lakeview, Ore., Mrs. Elsie Mitchell and five neighborhood children are killed while attempting to drag a Japanese balloon out of the woods. Unbeknownst to Mitchell and the chil-dren, the balloon was armed, and it exploded soon after they began tampering with it.
¥ On May 3, 1952, a ski-modified U.S. Air Force C-47 piloted by Lt. Col. Joseph O. Fletcher of Okla-homa and Lt. Col. William P. Benedict of California becomes the first aircraft to land on the North Pole. A moment later, Fletcher climbed out of the plane and walked to the exact geographic North Pole, probably the first person in history to do so.
¥ On May 4, 1965, San Francisco Giants outfielder Willie Mays hits his 512th career home run to break Mel Ott’s National League record for home runs. Mays would finish his career with 660 home runs, good for third on the all-time list at the time of his retirement.
¥ On May 2, 1972, after nearly five decades as direc-tor of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover dies just as the Watergate affair is about to explode onto the national stage. An inquiry later re-vealed that the FBI had illegally protected President Richard Nixon from investigation.
¥ On May 8, 1988, Stella Nickell is convicted of mur-der by a Seattle jury. She was the first person to be found guilty of violating the Federal Anti-Tampering Act after putting cyanide in Excedrin capsules in an effort to kill her husband. She began planning his death after their 1976 honeymoon.
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1. Heat large covered saucepot of salted water to boiling on high. Fill large bowl with ice water; set aside. To saucepot, add asparagus and snap peas; cook 4 minutes. Drain veg-etables; cool in bowl of ice water. Drain vegetables well.2. Meanwhile, in 12-inch skillet, heat margarine on me-dium until melted. Add radishes, 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; cook 10 minutes or until tender-crisp. Transfer to bowl; keep warm. To same skillet, add asparagus, snap peas, 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; cook 5 minutes or until tender-crisp, stirring occasionally. Stir in 2 table-spoons chives. Transfer to serving bowl; arrange radishes around edge. Sprinkle with remaining chives. Makes 10 side-dish servings.
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good. And the gadget-packed Black Beauty is still one bad supercar.It’s a shame that Columbia couldn’t have found a better lead actor and script, because “The Green Hornet” had the potential to be a great franchise. Instead, it wound up being yet another superhero misfire relegated to the midwinter-release junk pile along with the other films that weren’t good enough for the summer or holiday-season slots.
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1. Which singer had a debut hit with “I Only Want to Be with You”?2. Name the group that released the ever-popular “Shout.”3. Who sang the 1962 hit “Party Lights”?
4. Name the group that wrote and released “Mr. Lee.” What was the song about?5. Who sang “River Deep -- Mountain High,” and when?6. Which band released “Baby, Come Back”?
Answers1. Dusty Springfield in 1963. Samantha Fox covered the song in 1988.2. The Isley Brothers in 1959. Amazingly, the song never rose higher than No. 47 on the charts, but became gold through long use. “Shout” continues to be played at athletic events and wed-dings.3. Claudine Clark, who also composed the song.4. The Bobbettes, an all-girl group from Harlem, wrote the 1957 song about a crush on a schoolteacher. The original version was negative about poor Mr. Lee and had to be rewritten.5. Ike and Tina Turner, in 1966. Except you won’t hear Ike. Legend has it he was paid $20,000 to stay out of the studio while it was recorded. 6. Player. The 1977 song has been used in films and currently is being used in a commercial for Swiffer.
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found his No. 5 Chevy collected in a crash. He wound up 36th.In the season’s first six races, Martin finished no better than 10th (twice) and no worse than 20th. That consisten-cy was good enough to rank him 10th in the point stand-ings ... until the Texas catastrophe dropped him to 15th.Martin said the difference between first and 20th isn’t as great as it seems.“There’s a little bit in speed and a little bit in track posi-tion, but the cars are relatively close nowadays,” he said. “You squeeze every ounce of time out of every single component in the whole sport. You can’t leave anything alone. You’ve got to squeeze every bit of it from pit-road speed to pit stops to restarts to handling and everything.”As such, Martin believes victory, not to mention the fin-ishes better than 10th, will come in its own sweet time.
With Elizabeth Taylor, often called the last living superstar, now gone, the new question is are there any living superstars left? The Academy of Mo-tion Pictures Arts and Sciences -- the Oscar peo-ple -- have scheduled a tribute to who they think is the last living superstar -- Sophia Loren. On May 4, the Academy will honor her body of work and her Oscar-winning performance in “Two Women” (1961). Film clips and personal remarks from her
friends and colleagues will honor Sophia, who will attend the tribute! Once when So-phia arrived at Kennedy Airport, I shot a photo of her that looks like we were alone in the TWA terminal, However, there were 200 people standing behind me ... staring at her beauty!
Look out, Disney! There’s a new Snow White in town, and she is Lily Collins, daughter of musician Phil Collins. The film has no title yet (How about “Snow White and Those 7 Little People” to be politically correct?). However, it does have Julia Roberts as the evil queen and “Social Network’s” Armie Hammer as the prince. Lily Collins was Sandra Bullock’s daughter in “The Blind Side” and will be in Taylor Lautner’s new thriller “Abduction.”***In 2009, the Farrelly Brothers cast two-time Oscar-winner Sean Penn as Larry Fine, Oscar-winner Benicio Del Toro as Moe Howard and Jim Carrey as Curly, aka The Three Stooges. Were they serious? The trio are great talents, but to do funny, physical slapstick as The Three Stooges? In 2000, Mel Gibson exec-produced a TV movie about The Three Stooges that featured “The Shield” star Michael Chiklis as Curly. Reviews were lukewarm, but Stooges fans loved it.Now the Farrelly brothers have revived the project and signed “Will and Grace” Emmy winner Sean Hayes as Larry Fine, and five-year “Mad TV” alum Will Sasso -- currently on William Shatner’s show “$#! My Father Says” -- to play Curly. Richard Jenkins, Oscar nominated as best actor in ‘08 for “The Visitor,” and a frequent collaborator with the Farrelly brothers is first listed as a cast member without a character name. He could be playing Moe Howard or famed Columbia Pictures Studio head Harry Cohn.The lives of the Three Stooges (actually there were five of them: Moe’s brother Shemp was an original Stooge and Curly Joe was replacement for Curly) were a double-edged sword. Their story is both mag-ic and tragic and very difficult to play when an audi-ence is expecting it to be hilariously funny, thus the reason serious actors were first cast. Casting Hayes and Sasso is very smart, both are very adept at play-ing comedy and pathos. How did Johnny Depp miss out on this one?
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¥ Those who study such things say that ancient Egyp-tians had bowling alleys. ¥ In 1980 a woman named Rosie Ruiz appeared to have won the Boston Marathon in the fastest time ever re-corded for a woman in that race. However, after a num-ber of suspicions surfaced (including a strange lack of fatigue at the end of the long race), it was found that she hadn’t actually run the entire race and was stripped of her medal. The tale doesn’t end there, though. Once word got out about her fraud, people came forward with information regarding her recent running of the New York Marathon. It seems that Ms. Ruiz started the race and then took the subway to a spot 2 miles from the fin-ish line. And in a further note, she didn’t come to a good end: Two years later she was arrested for embezzling $60,000 from her employer, and she was later arrested again for allegedly trying to sell two kilos of cocaine to a Miami police officer. ¥ If you’re afraid of lightning, you might want to skip over this next tidbit: At any given time around the world, there are 1,800 thunderstorms taking place. ¥ You may have heard that the air that leaves your body when you sneeze can reach speeds of up to 115 mph, but you may not know that ordinary exhalations travel at about 15 mph.***Thought for the Day: “When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn’t the slightest intention of putting it into practice.” -- Otto von Bis-marck
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Sugar cane is actually a tropical grass, like bamboo, with
some varieties growing up to 16 feet (5 m) high. Since it
is tropical, you won’t find it in the northern United States
or Canada.
• Sugar is grown in 121 countries across the globe, and
production exceeds 120 million tons (108,862,169 met-
ric tons) per year. Approximately 70 percent of the pro-
duction is from sugar cane, and the remaining 30 percent
is from sugar beets, a root crop similar in appearance to
parsnips that is mostly grown in northern temperate zones.
• Sucrose is the type of sugar referred to as “table” sugar
that comes from sugar cane or sugar beets. (It also occurs
naturally in some fruit and vegetables.) The sugar from
cane and beets is identical. After the juice is extracted
from either plant, and the impurities are removed, it is
crystallized into white sugar that is 99.95 percent sucrose.
• Numerous societies are credited with the discovery of
sugar cane and its sweet byproduct. It is said to have been
first discovered by the Polynesians, although early writ-
ings mention it in Africa, the Middle East, India, China,
Taiwan, Malaysia and the South Pacific. Darius the Great
of Persia is credited as having called sugar cane: “the reed
which gives honey without bees” when Persia invaded In-
dia in 510 BC.
• According to the World Sugar Research Organization
headquartered in England, India was the first country to
extract cane juice to make the first crude sugar at around
500 BC. From India, the technology spread to the Mid-
dle East and then to Europe via the Christian Crusaders.
Christopher Columbus is credited with taking sugar cane
to the Caribbean. It came to the southern United States in
the 15th and 16th centuries.
• When crushed, sugar cane produces cane juice and ba-
gasse, the woody leftovers. When the sugar is removed
from the juice there is a dark, thick liquid left called mo-
lasses. Molasses is used for making animal feed, alcohol,
beverages, bakery products and pharmaceuticals. The
bagasse is a valuable source of energy and is burned in
steam generators to power the sugar mills, making them
environmentally friendly.
• Asia and South and Central America produce the most
sugar cane with India and Brazil being the top countries.
Louisiana, Florida, Texas and Hawaii are the top produc-
ing U.S. states.
• The Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum in Puunene,
Maui, has a wealth of information about the importance
of sugar to Hawaii. Sugar was the No. 1 industry until the
1960s when tourism moved ahead, and it was the No. 1
agricultural crop until the 1990s when pineapple took the
top spot. The largest working sugar mill remaining is lo-
cated next to the museum. Statistics for 2005 showed that
the mill produced more than 190,000 tons of raw sugar,
accounting for 5 percent of total sugar cane production in
the United States.
• Louisiana farmers cultivate over 400,000 acres of sug-
ar cane annually. Florida and the Rio Grande Valley of
Texas are also known as prime farming areas for cane.
One byproduct that is a treat in the South is “ribbon cane”
syrup. Made from a type of sugar cane that looks like it
has ribbons around it, the syrup is rich and dark. Mostly
made in small family operations, ribbon cane is great on
biscuits or cornbread!
• A great place to try the syrup or chew a piece of raw sugar
cane is at the Louisiana Sugar Cane Festival in New Ibe-
ria, Louisiana, held every September. You’ll hear plenty
of folks saying, “Hi, Sugar!”
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