The Macon Telegraph from Macon, Georgia (2024)

April 14, 2001

Publication:

The Macon Telegraphi

Location:

Macon, Georgia

Issue Date:

Saturday, April 14, 2001

Page:

14

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Saturday April 142001 OBITUARIES TheTelegraph UGA horticulturists develop a non sweet sweet potato By Elliott Minor Hie Associated Press ALBANY Elmo Brown builds a fire in a rusty barrel on cold days He ducks under a blue canopy on rainy days He found a way to escape the spring heat so he just tolerates it Brown 83 has been peddling sweet potatoes on the same Albany street comer for 55 years and he's been eating them all his life like to bake them fry them stew them and brown and roast he said customers keep com ing back to savor their sweetness But scientists are trying to reduce that sweetness to get even more people to develop a taste for the vitamin rich vegetable University of Georgia horticul turists Stanley Kays and Wayne McLaurin hope their work will lead to designer sweet potatoes with varying degrees of sweetness or no sweetness at all great for an occasional vegetable but if going to eat them everyday you want some thing not Kays said you imagine making up 90 percent of your caloric diet with Hershey The two liave already created a non sweet sweet potato that tastes like an Irish potato They believe it could boost consumption provide a nutritious diet for developing countries and lead to a melange of new products such as sweet potato french fries not frying to get rid of what got just complement Kays said Brown said stick to his sweet sweet potatoes not going to fool with he said my customers would Sweet potatoes are more nutri tious than white potatoes They are packed with vitamins and miner als and low in fat and calories They grow well in warmer cli mates making them an ideal food for the tropics They were a staple of impover ished Southerners during the 1920s and they still are the seventh leading food crop But US per capita consumption has Tbe Associated Press "Ylf i 1 J' 1 7 Elmo Brown 83 arranges sweet potatoes that he sells at his roadside stand in Albany on riday dropixd from 29 pounds during the 1920s to a low of 39 pounds in the 1990s Per capita consumption of white potatoes which account for 31 per cent of all vegetables consumed in the United States has increased to 140 pounds largely because of the increased demand for potato chips and french fries White potatoes used in 10000 types of processed foods have become a $27 billion crop while the value of the US sweet potato crop has shrunk to $219 million North Carolina and Louisiana lead the nation in production but sweet potatoes are grown in 25 to 30 other states Kays and McLaurin said their discovery was sheer luck It hap pened while they were combining features of some of the less sweet types came up with thousands of Kays said picked this one out because used to Idaho baked potatoes It had the fla vor and textural qualities that Americans could relate Their unsweet potato is not available to farmers or consumers Instead they are releasing the plants to breeders who can incor porate its qualities into new variet ies They plan to send some to North Korea which is gripped by famine and has lost much of its white potato crop over the past four years Meanwhile they are trying to develop a scientific method for analyzing sweet potato flavors They believe this will help create a range of sweet potatoes for particular tastes goal is not to come up with new varieties but to identify the flavor types that people want in the United States and around the Kays said ATTENTION CANCER SURVIVORS Dear Cancer Survivor The American Cancer Relay or Life and hundreds of your neighbors would like to honor your victoiy in the fight against cancer Please join fellow survivors from your community at Relay or Life Survivors like yourself will lead the opening ceremonies in a Celebration of Life! We have printed a special Relay shirt for you that says American Cancer Society's RELAY OR LIE Opening Ceremonies riday May 4 6 pm Northeast High School 1654 Upper River Road Macon RELAY 71 ffl AB kJ: BMi A TEAM EVENT TO IGHT CANCER Special Event or Survivors Join other survivors for a "Celebration of Life" Date: Tuesday April 24th or Wednesday April 25th Time: 4:30 6:30 PM (Drop in) Place: Peyton Anderson Community 277 MLK Blvd West (Across from Georgia Music Hall of ame) Refreshments Door Prizes Pick up shirt Corporate Sponsors oeUSouth Telecommunications WACHOVIA SlruttfU frnrn the Hurt IM3WMAZ BellSouth The Real Yellow Pages DfillCimiL uchoohoi cKuimmunicuuuns Diamond Sponsors BELLSOUTH Cold Sponsors irst Data Resources Bank of America 'SrftCajA Relay or Life Survivor Participation orm GEORGIA CANCERSPECIALISTS Media Sponsors Coliseum Health System Coliseum Mulical enters Mauti NwUunk Hospital Middle Georgia Hnpud A A bki YES! I survived and I want to participate in Relay for Life! Your Name Address City Zip Phone Number of years as a survivor Mail form no later than Tuesday May 1 to: American Cancer Society 804 Cherry Street Macon GA 31208 Limited handicap sticker parking available or more Information call the American Cancer Society at 743 6391 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY Obituaries continued from page 3B Richard Rutledge Charlie Rister MONROE Services for Charlie Rister will be at 2 pm today in Ever green Cemetery Rister 44 died Mon day April 9 2001 A residential con tractor he was the son of the late Marvin and Azelea Rister He was a member of Brunswick irst United Methodist Church Survivors include several family members Paulk uneral Home has charge of arrangements Richard Rutledge IVEY Services for Richard Rutledge will be at 3 pm today in Macon Memorial Park uneral Home with entombment in Macon Memorial Park Rutledge 70 died Thurs day April 12 2001 Son of the late BT and Gertrude Rut ledge he was a Navy veteran of the Korean War He was a retired butch er was self employed for six years in the grocery indus try and worked part time with Republic parking He was an usher and member of Ivey Baptist Church where he was a member of the aith Sunday School Class He also was a member of the Beta Sigma Phi Envoy Club Survivors include his wife Jeanette Rutledge children Richard Steven Rutledge of Macon Deidra Howard of Macon and Lisa Brooks of Ivey six grandchildren two stepgrandchildren and five great grandchildren Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society 804 Cherry St Macon 31201 or to Hospice of Cen tral Georgia PO Box 6533 Macon 31208 Harold Sapp LYONS Services for Harold Evans Sapp will be at 3 pm Sunday 2 in Jones Stewart uneral Home with burial in Lyons City Cemetery Sapp 73 died Thursday April 12 2001 He had lived most of his life in Atlanta where he operated a small business and worked in financial collections for Case Tractor Co He worked at The Peoples Bank in Lyons An Army veteran he was a member of American Legion Vidalia Moose Lodge and New Branch Methodist Church Survivors include his sisters Loree Sapp Wilkes of Lyons Marga ret Sapp and Roderick Clifton both of Lyons and elix Sapp of New Orleans La The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 tonight in the ftineral home Evelyn Smith WAYSIDE Memorial services for Evelyn Louise Smith will be at 2 pm today in Bridges uneral Home Gray Smith 75 died riday April 13 2001 in a local hospital The daughter of the late Thomas and Eva Johnson Brewster she was a homemaker and a Baptist Survivors include her husband Noel Roger Smith children Lawrence Thomas Smith of Macon Barbara Lee Robinson of Rome and Donna Lynn Clark of Wayside grandchildren Lonnie Robinson David Smith Kevin Smith Laurie Smith Cassandra Clark Robert Clark and Adam Smith and two great grandchildren The family may be contacted at the residence on Williamson Road Annette Stabile DUBLIN Services for Annette Dycus Stabile will be at 11 am today in Adams uneral Home with burial in Dublin Memorial Gardens Stabile 64 died Thursday April 12 2001 She was a member of irst Independent Methodist Church Survivors include her sisters Lorene Howell of Ottawa Hl Magdalene Rye of Palmyra Tenn Theresa Hogan and Jeanette Din kheller of Dublin The family will receive friends at 10 am today in the funeral home Welman Walker MILAN Services for Welman Walker will be at 3 pm today in Pleasant Grove Baptist Church with burial in Pleasant Grove Cemetery Walker 74 died riday April 13 2001 A farmer he was the son of the late Eddie and Effie Walker An Army veteran of World War II he was a member and deacon at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Survivors include his wife Artie Joe Pittman Walker children Linda Bowen Billy Walker and Clint Walk er all of Rhine and Cathy Gay of Milan sisters and brothers Javene Watkins Allene Walker Thomas Walker Oscar Walker and Clara Walker all of Milan 27 grandchil dren and eight great grandchildren In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Pleasant Grove Baptist Church co Carolyn Pittman PO Box 206 Rhine 31077 The body will be in the church at 2 pm today Stokes Southerland uneral Home East man has charge of arrangements Hilda Ward VIDALIA Services for Hilda Edge Ward will be at 2 pm today in Ronnie Stewart amily uneral Service Chapel Vidalia with burial in Lakeview Memorial Gardens Ward 79 died riday April 13 2001 The widow of William Ward she was a homemaker and of the Church of God faith Survivors include her children Jan rost Churich Johnny Ward and Harris Ward all of Vidalia Eddie Edge of Jesup and Joel Ward of Char lotte NC brothers and sisters loyd Edge and Elijah Edge both of Bloom ingdale WT Edge of Kibbee Elisha Edge of Vidalia and Walteen Carter and Marion Sue Chavis of Jesup eight grandchildren and seven great grandchildren In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to United Hospice 106 Main St Swainsboro 30401 Gussie Wilder DUBLIN Services for Gussie Rogers Wilder will be at 2 pm today in Townsend Brothers uneral Home i with burial in Dublin Memorial Gar i dens Wilder 93 died riday April 13 2001 The daughter of the late Clara and Charles Rogers she was a home I maker and the widow of HW Wilder Survivors include her children Hazel Matthews and HW Wilder Jr I both of Dublin brother and sister orrest Roger and Becky Zeigler both of Dublin grandchildren Terry oster Wendy Smith and Pamela Wilder and five great grandchildren i The family may be contacted at 2378 Highway 441 North Dublin XO DOW MI NT IN I'LRt UN Hl JULY 20(1 1 Sleekly tailored with Elegant comfort Wing chair styling with LARGEST 2 at $799 2 at $859 9 $6' E3 B5 P5 BKaiaBimaaawianw Great Low Price! 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