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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1957-01-09, Page 6Rubber Tires In Paris Subway TRAVELLING "SNOW" - HOUSE.— The Governor General wasn't wearing parka and muk-tuks when he called on pretty Eskimos Paulette Aneroudluk and :Annie Wetaituk in this igloo built by the Department of Northern ,Affairs. No melting snow dripped down to sizzle on the frying pan in this colorful northern house- keeping scene for the igloo was at the Ottawa Men's press Club Ball, 1,000 miles south of the Arctic Circle. The Northern Affairs' igloo has become the fastest-travelling snow-house in Canada. Designed by an. Eskinio ancibuilt in Ottawa of Plastic styrofopm it was displayed first at 'the Canadian NatioriCil 'Exhibition in Toronto this year where irProved one•of the hits of the big "Ex". Holy .Roguery. • A. church is just about the last place you would connect with crime. yet recently a gun And some clothing used in an at, tempt at bank robbery were found hidden in a London church, Churches themselves suffer from, the attentions of thieves, One thief never left a church he had lOoted without kneeling be, fore the altar to ask pardon for his :crime. One morning he was'. caught in the act while doipg this, for a piece of the altar fell on him, It did not do him any serious injury but pinned hiro, his knees until the police camel In Cremona, about twenty. years ago, a priest was at the al- tar when he suddenly staggered, his face convulsed, By a tremen- dous effort of will he completed the ceremony and then collapsed. Sulphuric acid had been put into the altar wine, but the sacristan who • prepared the wine denied any knowledge of it, Later is was found that a col, league of the ,sacristan had pole sorted the wine to get him into trouble, - 010 Sea Breezes By The Package blended.. Beat eggs until foamy; add sugar and. salt. Then add chocolate mixture gradually, stirring viborously, Add vanilla, Place bread in greased baking dis h; pour mixture over it and let stand 10 Minuto, Mix well before baking. Place dish in pan of hot water and bake in Mod- erate oven (354' f,) 50 minutes, or until pudding is firm, Serve warm or cold with cream. Serves 6, * * CHOCOLATE $OUPELE 2 Squares unsweetened. ehocolate 2 clips milk y2 cup sugar JA cup flour. teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoonful vanilla 4 egg yolke, beaten until thick and lemon-colored 4 egg whites, stiffly beaten Add chocolate to milk and heat in double boiler, When chocolate is melted, beat with rotary egg beater until blend- ed, Combine sugar, flour, and salt; add small amount of choco- late mixture, stirring until smooth; return to double boiler and cook until thickened, stir- ring constantly; then continue cooking 5 minutes, stirring oc- osionally. Add butter and va- nilla; cool slightly while beat- ing eggs. Add egg yolks and mix well. Fold into egg whites. Turn into greased baking dish. Place in pan until soufflé is firm. Serve immediately with Chocolate Sauce or with cream. Serves 8. The baking dish may first be buttered and dusted with granu- lated sugar to give interesting finish and texture. with two axles; thee there are eight pneOmatio tires to each teach. The first train uses two 130 h.P. motors to each driving coach, coupled in series and then in parallel, controlled by an electric camshaft eor both driv- ing and braking, As braking, begin and ends, electric braking is combined with air braking through an eleetre-valve. The, durability of tires for train work bad been tested for 24 years, the first rubber-tired railcars having been put into operation in France in 1902. These tires, however, were used directly on the steel rails: and although there were great ad- vantages from many points of view, their use has gradually dropped. The famous Paris-Strasbourg Express cin rubber tires went out • of service in 1954; and the only remaining rubber-tired ex- press in France, Paris-Basle, will stop running efore the end of 1956. Tests made so far have proved that the present tire will last 125,000 miles before it has to be retreaded, when running on the teak roadway'. With the metal gauze construction of the body of the tire, it is possible to retread four times. As an experiment, one wheel of the test car which was used for two years was locked tight and then dragged for 1,640 feet at 4.28 m.p.h. At the point of contact the rubber was burned away through the first metal gauze layer, but three layers remained. The smell of burning rubber was sufficient to warn train and station staff. MERRY MENAGERIE 'Talk about a busman's holiday on his day off he goes on a picnic!" An ingenious method of man- ufacturing sea air has been in- vented by a Yorkshire business- man. His synthetic ozone makes it possible to switch on sea breezes in the home and will also be used to help sufferers from asthma and other chest troubles who cannot travel to the seaside. This home-made ozone is manufactured from a special species of seaweed found in. Scotland. It is processed into large tablets which are then in- serted into a machine similar to a hair dryer. Air is sucked in at the back of the machine,- forced through the tablets and then blown out at the front in the form of tonic sea breezes. Anyone owning one of these machines will be able to operate a switch and have health-giving sea air blowing through the home at any time it is required. The ozone gives the user a tre- mendous appetite, says the in- ventor. He sometimes comes home after a heavy meal at a restaurant, switches on the ozone in his study and, half an hour later, feels hungry again. Beat egg whites until foamy throughout; add sugar, 2 table- spoons at a time, beating after each addition until sugar is blended. Then continue beating until mixture will •stand in peaks. Pile lightly on filling. Bake in moderate oven (350° F.) 15 minutes, or until the meringue isdelicately browned. * * CUSTARD BREAD PUDDING VA squares unsweetened chocolate 2lee cups milk 2 eggs ee. cup suger aj teapsoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 cups cubed stale bread Add chocolate to milk and heat in double boiler. When chocolate is melted, stir until Rubbish Causes Heaps of Trouble Rubbish-70,000 tons of it—is causing a stink in Mexico City, in more ways than one. For fif- teen years this rubbish has piled up in mountains on the land of three Mexican citizens. But now the city authorities want to take it away and bury it, the land- owners are appealing to the courts to stop them for they say the rubbish is rightfully theirs. It may sound like nonsense — but it's true! In the past Mexico City refuse has been unhygienically piled up in outlying districts such as Az- capetzalco. But as the city ex- pands and homes and schools are built in the area, the city fathers have decided that waste matter should be buried in pits farther out instead of being left exposed. Notice was served on the joint land-owners that these moun- tains of refuse would be remov- ed. But the landowners, highly indignant, took the case to court. They explained that the only reason they allowed the govern- ment to use their ground for dumping was that the refuse, as it decayed through the years, would become suitable for fer- tilizer. Now, after fifteen years of pa- tient waiting, the land-owners claim they have at least 70,000 tons of humus refuse. They say that the city authorities, by re- moving the dumps, would be de- priving them of their livelihood. Meanwhile, until the case is decided, residents of the area get wafts of nauseating smells every time a strong wind blows up. REBEL'S FARE in Hungary: For freedom fighters, bread crusts, A Tale Of Two Lunches The rubber tire has at last preueded Paris that all of its 000,400 daily passengers must tee carried pneumatically. The 56-year-old underground eetlwey was the last to eereene der to the rubber tire, After 13 years of argtement with the Michelin. Tire Company, it agreed en 1950 to make a. test. it 1952 to 1954 an ordinary Metro Cate , With enough extra ballast to Simulate an average load at all times, travelled 37,500 miles. The Michelin Metallic F-20 tires with corrugated tread showed only the slighest wear. (They are called metallic because four metal metal gauze layers are woven into the rubber.). The decision was then reached to change over the entire system to rubber tires, thus bringing it in line with the several million automobiles, buses, scooters, mo- torcycles, and bicycles on the streets, The Bret train came into public use on Nov. 8, 1956. There had been no doubt that the rubber-tired train had all the advantages. It could get away faster and stop more quickly; its progress, according to an engineering poet, was like that of "a swan on a lake"; and motors, controls, bolts, car bode lea, and passengers were not being continuously shaken to pieces. Work was begun on the com- plete trains, which were to in- clude other pleasant features such as more and wider completely automatic doors, psychologically praiseworthy ligthing, and softer seats. The new train carries 650 passengers, of whom only 96 can sit during rush hours., in four coaches, three being equipped with motors, and one a trailer. There is one eirst-class compart- ment in the trailer, to seat 16 people With 73 standing. While the train was being built, a new roadway had to be laid. The most difficult of the Paris, underground lines was chosen, No. 11 from the Chatelet (opposite the Island of the City, where Paris was born) to the Liles Town Hell, in order that the effect of steep grades and numerous sharp curves could be fully tested, The new track is in wood, a fact which might com- fort the Canadian street-builders of horse-and-carriage days who insisted that wood blocks were the ideal ,material. The wood used is a form of teak grown in the Cameroon, known as azobe, remarkable for Its homogeneity and durability. The azobe strip, about a foot wide, is embedded in prestressed concrete. This concrete base steps down on the inside of the track, on both sides, to take a steel rail which comes into use on only two occasions: first, if a tire goes flat, when a small steel wheel normally a couple of Inches up in the air comes down and takes the weight of that part of the car on to the steel rail; and second, when passing through switches. In going through switches, the wheel flanges take over the task of guiding the car, ordinarily the work of small pneumatic tires which stick out at the sides and bear against a guiding strip, lust above the roadway, on each side The trains are driven by elec- tricity, as are the other Metro trains, picked up from the side strip and returned through the auxiliary steel rail, Each ear is 49 feet long and 7-8 feet wide, supported by two bogies, each Keeping up with the Joneses would be easier if they didn't change directions so often. —Ken Irwin in. Corydon And again 'I remembered lunch with my rebel friend. As we stood in the molting snow at high noon he begged me to let the American public know how badly the free- dom fighters needed arms. "We have hardly any ammuni- tion left," he said pointing to a truck where a meager supply of bullets was being distributed. "What we have were taken from the Hungarian Army supply de- pots during the first days of the revolution, "What we want more than any- thing else are bazookas to stop the Russian tanks. We just have a few old cannon. "I have plenty ,of .young men and women who are ready to die, but that's about all." Between bites of apple pie in Washington the Russian replied: "The Hungarians were misled by the Fascists. Those who took up arms didn't know what they were doing. They were confused." And' I recalled the bitter re- mark blurted out by a' teen-age peaeant boy standing by the eebel leader. "We detest the Russians who rule our country. The soldiers steal our crops and rape out women." 4.116 waiter brought on the cof- fee in Washington. I • asked about the thousands of refugees who had come to Austria across the berder. "They ate scared of the Fas- • eists. Th,ey run away but Most of them Will corhe back soon When everything settles down." How about the Communist re- fusal to allow U.N. Observers In. Hungary? "They would just cause tension and make matters worse," said the Russian. Then he smile. "Now tell trie about this Middle East situation," he said. "Why did Israel, Britain arid France in, vede Egypt?" quiries in the past. Aria on social occasions at various embassies I had talked to him about every- thing from TV to Tolstoi. Once or twice after cocktails he had opened up a bit. Not this time. It was as if an Iron Curtain had slammed down on the table' between us, e"One thing I can tell you for a se," he declared waving his fork, "the rebellion in Hungary was riot spontaneous. It was ,di- meted by a small group of well organized Fascists, And Russia had eo pretect Eastern Europe from having a Bitlerite state in it midst, "I tell you it could not have been a popular uprieing," he re- peated. "They were well organ. ized. These bandits had a lot of arms and ammunition. They Must have tome from the Outside' Although he would not•eay so, he wee implying that America had-,provided the weapons. By KENNETH GILMORE NEA Staff Correspondent Washington -e (NE'A) — This is a tale of two lunches and the world's troubles, The last lunch took place .,in Weshington in a popular Italian restaurant, The swarthy man across the table shoveled a fork full of French fries in his Month; finish- ed off his martini and described the Hungarian revolution as lows: "Just a bunch of Fascists and bandits roaming the streets arid countryside, killing; looting and stirring up trouble." The ltinch before that was less leisurely, less Taney, The tebel leader intinthee on a crust of bread' and offered rile' a piece." This was ,iri'Sopron, Hungary, tow Mire before the Russians advanced. In oken English he said: "Please believe ene,. our cause is real, We're not Fascists like the ittiesiehe say, We're just people fighting egaiiiel beipteseibie" Beek in Washington I get a peond dell, the Russian etnbasey attpehe in Weehitigten asked the to meet him lot I neatly refused the oder after having Witrieseed .gthiet tyranny in Hui-tare • But a desire to laid brit how closely ,Russian embassy members' folloWed the Moscow line pre-, vatted; Furthermore, I had a hop ,that perhaPS"this bhe Atit4 glen Might brieatelY adMit tOrne of Atteeiti3e Murat:Oita' lfriis takes. He was One of the' press OttatheS had r.been, Most :Operative in aniwerint ,ivy' 1164 • Dessert is the crowning touch to any meal, Omit it, and a dis- appointed look follows 'round the table even though the luhch or dinner has been hearty. But make a hit with that last course and you score out of all propor- tion to the trouble you took. * * * CUSTARD SPONGE PUDDING 2 squares Unsweetened chocolate 2 cups milk 4 tablespoons flour 1/2 cup sugar - % teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons melted butter 3 egg yolks, slightly 'beaten 11/2 teaspoons vanilla 3 egg whites Add chocolate to milk and heat in double boiler. When chocolate is melted, beat with rotary egg beater until blended. Combine flour, suger, and salt. Add butter and mix well; then add egg yolks. Add hot choco- late mixture gradually; blend- ing thoroughly. Add vanilla. Beat egg whites until they will stand in soft peaks; then stir gently into chocolate mixture. Turn into greased 8-inch round baking dish, Place in pan of hot water and bake in moderate oven (350° F.) 45 to 50 minutes. Serve warm or cold, with cream, Serves 6 to 8. ,* * TAPIOCA CREAM 1 egg white 2 tablespoons sugar 1 egg yolk 2 cups milk 1/3 cup sugar le teaspoon salt 2 tablepsoons minute tapioca 1 square unsweetened chocolate 3/2 teaspoon vanilla. Beat egg white until foamy throughout; add 2 tablespsoons suger, 1 at a time , and con- tinuo beating with rotary egg beater until iniisture stands in very soft peaks, Set aside. Mix egg yolk with a small amount 'of the milk in sauce- pan. Add Ve cup sugar, salt, Minute t ap i o c a, remaining milk, and chocolate. Place over medium heat, Cook until mix- ture comes to 'a boil, stirring constantly 5 to 8 minutes. (Do not over-cook . mixture thiekens as it cools.) Pour small amount of hot mixturee gradu- ally on egg-white meringue; blend, Add remaining mixture; stirring constantly, Add vanilla: Cool, stirring Mite after 15 to 20 minutes. Chill. Serves 4 to 5. * * * CHefCOLATE MERINGUE PIE 1/2 cup sugar (or lee cup honey) 1.4 cup flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 21/2 cups 2 'squares unsweetened. chocolate 3 egg yolks, slightly beaten 2 teastioons hater 2 teeepoOns vanilla 1 baked 9-inch pie shell 3 egg Whites, tablespoons edger Combine Sugar, flour, and salt in top of double boiler; &este log Very thoroughly. Add milk gradually„ Stirring well. Add chocolate, Place over boiling ' water' and teak until elieetelate is melted tied mixture is thick arid Well blended, Stirring con- stantly. Theh continue cooking. Ill thitietet; .stirring beeaeionale Peek tibial amount of MIX= tete over egg 'yolks, etifrifig vigotireilielee "return to double boiler' and took 2 minutes Ioriget; Add butter and vanilla. Cool. Ttifei Thief 'pie ethell, itUttiAil Mkt in Vieere.;44i font For embassy 04esis, dejitatiegi Car Thieves arid How They Do It Tn .4zIrrIonton cently, pollee cracked a ring_ of thieves who'd beep etealing autos in Toronto, And then reselling them, le, whole-, Pie lots, in the Alberta city, tolwen chhaul frNevhatyl 1 uMp th Hud ea ArmayX, police breke up a gang of joy- riding car thieves who really Were. in an advanced state of kleptomania, There's only one mile of road in the area, and it leads right into the military camp. Your car may be one Of the estimated 10,Q00 autos worth $20 million stolen in, Canada this year, How can you outwit these tricky rascals? I spent a day recently, with the nine-man Autd squad of the Toronto Police De- partment, to find out, Car theft is a Canada-wide problem, But in Toronto, it's heightened by the fact that over 333,000 autos are registered there —more than twice the number in the whole of Metropolitan Mon- treal; more than the whole Mari- timeve Or 3,000 autos are stolen in Toronto annually. But 93% of them are recovered. For the To- ronto force, under Chief of De- tectives Archie McCathie, boasts the highest recovery record of any major police department in North America. Det-Sgt. Frank Cater, 39, is a big, powerful ex-motorcycle of- ficer, who has spent 10 of his 17 years of police service on the Squad. Cater's partner is Det. Ralph Gilbert, 28, "My specialty," says Cater, "is identification of makes. See that car down there," He suddenly pointed down a darkened side street, to the dim silhouette of a car a block away. "I can't tell you what the license number is, but I know it is a '50 Hudson— and there's one on our wanted list. " The list, carried by all police cars, contains about 300 entries. Without checking it, Gilbert ofe fortlessly spouts a six figure number. They doubled back to the car, It was a '50 Hudson; but not the wanted car. Gilbert's specialty is numbers. An the faculty for keeping whole series of them in his head means that, even off duty, he can never relax. He says: "More than once, I've been driving home from a movie or a ball game in my own car, and I've spotted a stolen vehicle in front of me. I can't remember the make or model, but. I know that license number." This spring, Det, Gilbert and Det Charlie Gordon were called out one night by a uniformed of- ficer, who had arrested two young hoodlums in a stolen car. "By the time we concluded our investigation," Gordon said, "we found they'd stolen four other cars, and were guilty of a series of summer resort break-ins." Although five cars had been stolen, this was not a ring, in which autos are stolen for re- sale, but five separate cases of the Squad's biggest headache: joy-riding. "Most of the ears stolen, any- where, are for joy rides," says Cater. `"A couple of punks will swipe a car for a few hours, when they know the owner is at a movie. He may never even know it's stolen, because they'll put it back before he looks for it. And he may not even check the mile- age or the fuel gauge. "The heaviest period for Mite theft is between 7 pin. and 9 p.m. in the summer. Many people leave their cars on the street, without locking them up. Some- times, they even leave the keys in them. A lot of them don't know there's a city by-law, Mak- ing it an offence to leave a car insecure against theft. "Naturally, if a man finds a car with the keys in it, he'll take it. BUt locked care don't stop him. He'll jimmy the no-draught Win- dow; open the door With the in- side handler jump the iehition— and, brother, he's gone!" Providing a homemade ignition is no problem. "The neatest way is With a jumper wire,, connected to the terminals at the rear of the ignition switch," says Cater. "Bu this takes time. Most thieves jest use silver paper from a peck- age of cigarets." • In an Older cat, the starter is located elsewhete than the igrii- tiori key. The thief merely jams the eileer paper aateee the tee- minals ea the rear of the ignition .switch; then he Presede the stett- er arid• delves off. But with rieWA= er cars the starter is'often eau- add ,by the key itself. "This is no problem,'{" eater says. "The thief will plug th& foUt terinihal Points, until the itertee fifee. Then he juggles the Piper across the point's, 'Until' the starter quits, Even if it doesn't qttit, the thief doesn't Ott," he acids poinedly, "Af .er, it's not his -starter that's bCing eta hied 4' Brian Stvotieriek in Liberty, Mddarine. ;lames ball, workinglits way tiirPugh:Ifege413y ,sv,4illow- fag ivecieds. Thee "youngest sword .tWallawer in the *arid" its a sophomore at Fart Hays State 'C011ege, where he *aiming in speech. and s tadia, TO pay kis yvay: he :gives ,fOrinantei and spends his summer. vacation traveling with the loyal .AtheriCan Showi, Above, Tight, he iiWailOWt the. '26,InCli Made. at tItiht ' TABLE nuts ciane Andnws 'Swallowing' His Way Through College