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AT 40* A tJOSHtl, IT >AYJ GQie ^Btbeze Vol. 57 James Madison University Friday, October 5,1979 No. 11 Anthony coin strikes out Confusion with quarter causes trouble By VANCE According to Erving "Merchants are RICHARDSON Long, head teller at afraid of giving the Dubbed the "Edsel of Virginia National Bank, dollar coin away in several customers change as a quarter," the monetary system" Dorothea Schroeder by Rep. Joseph G. asked for the coins when A.fytcZ- Minish (D-N.J.), the they were first issued, said. Susan B. Anthony dollar but few of the coins Not all area mer- came back to the bank. chants have rejected coin is barely being the new dollar coin. circulated in He thinks that Harrisonburg, a ran- customers saved the Krogers supermarket coins as souvenirs. on Route 33 east of dom survey of area Harrisonburg uses both Apples merchants and banks the Anthony dollar and reveals. the |2 bill. Lpcal fruif enjoys "We can't get rid of *We don't give The dollar coin is them," said Norman given in change to all Dean, head cashier at the coin back customers unless they international fame Valley National Bank. request that their Customers reject the By CINDY ELMORE in change.' change be in dollar bills, coin, he said, and said Kroger's general Each year, the Shenandoah Valley produces what en- merchants who receive cyclopedias call "the world's most important fruit;" the apple. "CUSTOMERS don't manager, Lewis Jarvis. the coin in business "Most customers ac- Representing more than five percent of the total Rockingham transactions "send particularly care for the County agricultural income, apples and their products here are coin," Long chuckled. cept it (the Anthony them back the very next dollar) all right, but sent as far as Venezuela, the Middle East, Europe, and up and day." "Unless they ask for down the eastern coast of the United States. them, they're not going some do reject it," be Since the dollar coin said. Although some 35 species of apples exist, this area receives its was first issued in July, to get them," he said, fame for Red delicious, Golden delicious, York, Stayman, Rome, because "we're not Unas been as unpopular JARVIS noted that and Winesap apples, said county extention agent E. B. Craun. with the general public going to push them on The topography, soil and climate of the Shenandoah Valley are our customers." "the dollar coin is less as the $2 bill has been popular with customers ideal for apples, he added. "You have to have land that's rolling since it was rein- The biggest problem and well drained." with the Anthony dollar, than is the $2 bill, troduced in 1976. 670 probably due to its site million of the coins have according to an ad- CLIMATES any colder would kill the spring apple blossoms, and ministrative assistant and weight." been minted, but most The Safeway climates warmer yield badly-colored fruit, said Ira Boyers of Tip are still sitting in banks at United Virginia Top Fruit Farm in Timberville. Bank, is that people supermarket on Gay all over the country, Street also uses the Although significant competition exists between apple orchards waiting for public ac- confuse it with the and packaging plants here, it is a friendly rivalry, Marvin ceptance. quarter. (Continued on Page 8) Williams, of Byrd and Frederickson orchards, said. But com- petition out of state is fierce, he added, especially from Washington apples. "These are not as good\and cost more to buy." / Competition for apple sales does not end\when the picking season is over. If kept in cold storage plants\ the fruit can last many months,.Boyers added. ' ^ Also apples processed into juice, sauce, rings, and vinegar products can last for years. The State Apple Commission in Staunton promotes sales of Virginia apples wherever they are shipped. APPLE growers abound throughout Rockingham County, and the best yearly picking season is now. Apple picking season lasts until from the first to the middle of November, depending upon the time of the first frost. Although mechanized pickers are faster and more efficient, apples are less likely to be bruised when hand-picked. Tip Top Fruit Farm paysany temporary or part-time pickers 40 cents a bushel to pick their apples, Boyers said. "We've found that this doesn't work," Marvin Williams of Byrd and Frederickson orchards, added. "They have to be willing to pick through the entire season." Byrd and Frederickson or- chards produce the largest number of apples in Virginia. In fact, most orchards will only hire workers willing to remain throughout a working season, which begins in July. For many cases, such as National Fruit. Riger, and Byrd and Frederickson orchards, all in Timberville, this means hiring migratory workers. Most are Mexican, Jamaican, or Puerto Rican, Craun said. Before each season. National Fruit is assigned a migratory picking crew by a Winchester, Va. organization. Workers are supposed to be U.S. citizens. Last week, more than 60 migratory workers, all illegal aliens, and most of them from Byrd and Frederickson and Bowman Apple Products in Mount Jackson, were arrested by immigration authorities and will be deported out of the country at the height of WARM 1<ATE (summer days on the quad are . weather. Today's weather forecast rails for . the apple-picking season. Virginia law prosecutes employees' coming to an -khd as October brings cooler . cloudy, skies with a high in ihe 6»'s. aiding illegal alien workers. / • Page 2, THE BREEZE, Friday, October 5, 1979 Student Government Association Monetary requests head meeting's agenda "This is a privilege for us," distributed to students within regulation changes. Undergraduate Studies, By CINDY ELMORE Commission on Student stressed SGA Administrative two or three weeks to evaluate A proposal for an 1840 Vice President Chuck Cun- dining hall entree selections. ADDITIONAL proposals Services, Commission on allocation to send two Planning and Development, ningham. Results will be tabulated by Chrysalis representatives to presented were: a request for Cunningham also reported the SGA food services ad- a $175 SQA allocation to the and Commission on Faculty the Associated Collegiate Affairs. that food surveys will be visory committee. Press Association convention Inter-hall Council to sponsor a in San Francisco Oct. 25-27 "Homecoming dorm display was presented at Tuesday's contest;" construction of a Student Government crosswalk and flashing light Association senate meeting. between campus and the Student organizations alloted The proposal was referred student parking lot located on to the finance committee for Port Republic Road; and, a consideration and will be request to ask recognized voted on by the senate at next religious groups on campus week's meeting. for representatives to deliver funding for travel, conventions By CINDY ELMORE MARTIN and SGA Ad- year,) we gained more The James Madison ministrative Vice President national recognition at this Chrysalis applies for University Student Govern- Chuck Cunningham attended conference than all the other ment Association plans to a "Peaks of Otter" conference conferences we've been to," convention budgeting attend at least four con- Oct. 3 at Washington and Lee Martin said. ferences or conventions this University, concerning semester, according to SGA student legislative and other EACH CONVENTION or organizational issues- conference attended by "We were discouraged by prayers before senate president Dave Martin. meetings begin. particularly those involving student government the (SGA) executive council A travel and convention campus honor councils, representatives here is last year not to apply for front- In other business, the senate fund is included in SGA publications and en- end budgeting," Chrysalis went into executive session to budgeting each year to pay for tertainment, Martin said. considered very carefully, he representative Dean elect Charles Bond as transportation, registration Other upcoming meetings added. Its platform is Honeycutt said. Therefore, chairman pro tempore. Bond and meals, he added. Funding include the Virginia Student evaluated by SGA officers and funding was not initially and Martin selected finance for SGA conventions from Association (VASA) con- by either Dean of Students Dr. requested in the SGA committee members. student activities is $2000 for vention at William and Mary Lacy Daniel, or by Vice budgeting process for this All other committee this academic year. College on Oct. 7, which President of Student Affairs, academic year. memberships were selected Other student several SGA representatives Dr. William Hall. Other proposals referred to Oct. 3 by Bond and SGA organizations, including The will attend; a National In addition, letters are SGA committee consideration legislative vice president Breeze and University Leadership convention in written for additional in- included expansion of student Robin Lawrence. Program Board, have similar Kansas City Oct. 6 and 7, to be formation to the convention meal cards to include meal The finance committee held convention allocations, attended by SGA Legislative sponsor or to other univer- transfers to Duke's Grill on its first meeting Oct. 4 and Martin said. The Breeze Vice President Robin sities that have attended the weekends, creation of a "first other committees will begin receives $1500 and UPB Lawrence, secretary Debbie convention. Final decision is response team" on campus meetings next week. All SGA receives $2500 for this Smith, and Honor Council made by the SGA executive for emergency first-aid committee meetings are open academic year. President Kevin Rack; and a council. treatment, re-establishment to the public. "We put this money in the Nov. 3 and 4 National Con- Martin added that any of discount student buying- In addition, senators signed travel account to learn from ference on Student Services in group will argue for the power cards, and an in- up for membership on the their organizations.

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