418 AMERICAN POTATO JOURNAL [Vol. 36

5. Cooking quality a. Chipping quality

6. Storage 7. Market quality

5. Availability of seed stock

O. C. Turnquist R. V. Akeley

j . c. Miller A. G. Tolaas, Chairman

R E P O R T OF E D I T O R I A L C O M M I T T E E

Since our last annual meeting, the Editorial Committee has edited and published 61 papers plus the abstracts and the list of foreign research workers and various news notes and announcements. These papers required 370 pages or an average of 37 pages of manuscripts per issue.

TILe editor greatly appreciated tile help generously given by members of the Editorial Committee. Dr. Frank Ross deserves especial credit for the large number of papers that he has carefully edited for the Journal.

We now have 31 papers on hand which is enough for the next six months.

We are desperately in need of papers of a more popular nature for the "News and Reviews" section of the Journal. It is this section that has the greatest appeal and value to the many potato grower members and other non-technically trained readers. We urge you to send in papers of this nature. It may be necessary for the Association to pay authors for such contributions as do some other publications.

I have 11 papers dealing with various types of processed potatoes, fresh potatoes, and the nutritional value of potatoes, for the 1960 Potato Handbook. These will require approximately 45 pages which, with the list of certified seed, buyers' guide, other lists and ads will probably make an 80 page publication.

Your Editorial Committee is trying continuously to improve the value of the Journal and Handbook but we occasionally publish papers of questionable merit. We welcome your criticisms as well as your con- tributions.

Respectfully Submitted,

Ar thur Hawkins Ora Smith A. Frank Ross R . E . Webb G. W. Simpson J . C . Campbell, Chairman

R E P O R T O F H O N O R A R Y L I F E M E M B E R S H I P C O M M I T T E E

A decision was made by the executive committee following the annual meeting of the Potato Association at Bloomington. Indiana, last year that "the Honorary Life Members to be selected in 1959 include technical men only: two from North America and one from Europe."

The total nominations from the technical field for Honorary Life Membership in 1959 were 18. Sixteen of these were carried over from 1958 and two were new nominees. Two further nominations were sub- mitted but unfortunately these were n'ceived after a second deadline