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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1957-02-20, Page 6tee Rubber Tires In .Parls. Subway Holy Roguery TRAVELLING "SNOW" - HOUSE — The Governor General wasn't Wearing parka and muk-luks when he called on pretty Eskimos Paulette Aneroudluk and Annie Wetaltuk in this igloo built by the Department of Northern Affairs. No melting snow dripped down to sizzle on the frying pan tin thii cotorful 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 Eskimo and built-in Ottawa of plastic styrofoam it was displayed first at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto this year where it proved one of the hits of the'big""Ex". 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 be was caught in the act while doing this, for a piece of the altar fell on him. It did not do him any serious injury but pinned him to his knees until the police came! In Cremona, about twenty years- ago, e. priest was at the al- tar when he suddenly staggered,. hie face convulsed. By a tremert, 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, Laterls was .foUnd that a col-' league of the sacristan had poi- soned ,the: wine to get him into' trouble.. Get Sea Breezes By The -Package TABLE TALKS 0.Jar.Andtke,ws.. blended, Beet eggs until fearer; add sugar and salt. 'Then add chocolate mixture gradually, stirring viborously, Add vanilla. Place bread in greased baking dish; pour mixture over it and let stand 10 minutes. Nix well before baking, Place dish in pan of hot water and bake in mod- erate oven (350° F.) 50 minutes, or until pudding is firm. Serve warm, or cold with cream, Serves fl. * * CHOCOLATE SOUFFLE 2 squares unsweetened chocolate 2 cups milk 3/2 cup sugar i/a cup flour 54, teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoonful vanilla 4 egg yolks, 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- casionally. Add butter and va- nilla; cool slightly while beat- ing eggs. Add egg yolks and mix well. Fold in t° 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. MERRY MENAGERIE with two axleee thus there are eight pneumatic tires. to each coach, 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 for both driv- lag and braking, As braking begin and,,ends, electric braking. Is combined with air braking through an electro-valve, The durability of tires for train work had been tested for 24 years, the first rubber-tired railcars having been put into operation in France in 1932. 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 on rubber tires went out of service in 1954; and the only remaining rubber-tired ex- press in France Paris-Basle, will stop running before 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 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. Rubbish Causes. Heaps of Trouble 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. tie4M, ALA% Ne`j V:. 4. " • 1,.10 W.I.! 'Talk about a busman's holiday A.. on his day off he goes on a picnic!" 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 is delicately browned. 1' * * CUSTARD BREAD PUDDING 11/2 squares unsweetened chocolate We cups milk 2 eggs 1/2 cup sugar 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-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- capotzalco. 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 The robber tire has at last Versuatled Paris that all of its 4000,000 daily passengers must be carried pneumatically, The 56-year-old underground railway was the last to surren, aver to the rubber tire. After 13 years of argument with the Michelin Tire Conipany, it ageeed In 1950 to make a test. groin 3952 to 1954 an, ordinary Metro car, with enough extra ballast to simulate an average load at all dines, 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 first 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 bod- ies, 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 first-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, ie -di&si in prestressed -Cori-ere . 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, just 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 car is 19 feet long and 7-8 feet wide, supported by two bogies, each FARE in" Hungary: For freedom fighters, bread crusts. A Tale Of Two Lunches And again I remembered lunch with my rebel friend. As we stood in the melting 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 peasant boy standing by the rebel leader. "We detest •the RtisSians' who rule our country. The soldiers steal our crops and rape our women." The waiter brought on the cof- fee in Washington. I asked about the thousands of refugees who had come to Austria across the border. "They are -scared Of the Fas- cists. They run 'away but most of them will come back soon when everything settles down." How about the Communist re- fusal to allow U.N. observers RI Hungary? "They' would just cause tension. mid Make matters worse," said ' the Russian. Then he smiled. "Now tell me about this Middle East situation," he said. "Why did Israel, Britain and France in- vade Egypt?" quiries in the past. And 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. "One thing I can tell you for sure," he declared waving his fork, "the rebellion in Hungary was riot spontaneous. It was di- rected by a small group of well organized FaScists. And Russia had to protect Eastern Europe from having a Hitlerite state in its midst. "I tell you it could not have been a popular uprising," he re- peated. "They were well organ- ized. These bandits had a lot of atths and ammunition. They must have' come from'the outside." Although fie Would not.say so, he was implying •that America had provided the Weapons. By KENNETH GILMORE* NEA Staff Correspondent Washington (NEA) This is a tale of two lunches and the world's troubles. The last lung took place. in Washington in a popular Italian restaurant. The swarthy man across the table Shoveled a fork full of French fries- in. his mouth, finish- ed off, his martini and described the Hungarian revolution as fol- lows: - "Just a bunch of Fascists and bandits roaming the streets and countryside, killing, looting and stirring up trouble," The lunch before that was less leisurely,: lees fancy. The rebel loader munched .on a crust of bread and offered me a piece. This was in Sopron, Hungary, a few hours before the Russians advanced. In o k en English he said: 'Please believe me, our eatiee is real, We're not Fascists like the. Ittiasians say. We're just people fighting against oppreselon." Back in Washington got a phone call. The Riiseiah embassy attache in Washington asked me to niett hitt for leech. I nearly refused the Offer after heVitig witnessed Soviet tyranny in Hungary hut a desire to find Out how eltieetY Russian einbasSy members' followed the Mika* line p'r'e= Fiirtherinore, I had 4 naive hop ,that perhaPS this one ,ROS-' Sian -might privately"' admit; to silnie of Russia's intirderbitS this takes.' was. one. et ,the' Kress Wadies Who had been, 'Meat ,OPetative iri, Dessert is the crowning touch to any meal., Omit it, and a dis- appointed look follows 'round the table even though the lunch or dinner has been hearty. But make a hit with that last course and you score out of all proper-, tion to the trouble you took. * * CUSTARD SPONGE PUDDING 2 squares unsweetened chocolate 2 cups milk 4 tablespoons flour . le cup sugar 1/4 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. )e * TAPIOCA CREAM 1 egg white 2 tablespoons sugar 1 egg yolk 2 cups milk 1/4 cup sugar 1,44 teaspoon salt 2 tablepsoons minute tapioca 1 square unsweetened chocolate 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Beat egg white until foamy throughout; add 2 tablespsoons suger, 1 at a time , and, con- tinue beating with rotary egg beater until mixture stands in very soft peaks. Set aside. Mix egg yolk with a small amount of the milk : in tatice- pan. Add 1/4 cup sugar, salt, minute tapioc 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' thickens as it cools.) Pour small amount of hot mixture gradu- ally on egg-white meringue; blend. Add remaining mixture, stireieg constantly. Add vanilla: Cool, stirring once after 15 to 20 minutes, Chill. Serves 4 to 5. * CHOCOLATE MERINGUE PIE 1/2 cup sugar (or 1/2, cup honey) I/ cup flour 1/2 teaspoon, salt 292:2 :q uitliasiresinil nknsweetened chocolate 3 egg yelke, slightly beaten teaspoons butter 2 teaspoons t I baked 9-inch, pieshell 3 egg whites 6 tablespoons sugar Combine sugar, flair, and Salt in top of double boiler, mix- ing very thoroughly. Add Milk gradually, stirring Well. Add chocolate. Place over boiling. Water and cook until 'chocolate' is Melted and Mixture is thick and well blended,. stirring eerie Wilily. Then continue cooking 10 Minutes, .Stirring oeeasional- ly. Feir small amount titre over egg yOlkse stirring Vigetirously;' return to double- belle and Cook minutes longer. Add butter CoOl. Turn into, pie' Car Thieves and How They,.1)0 It 1,4 gornpntorj recently„N police cracked a ring of tbieves who'd been stealing autos in Toronto, and then reselling them in whole- sale lots,, in the Alberta city, In Churchill, Man., the Army town halfway up Hudson Bay, police broke 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 10,000 autos worth $2Q million stolen in Canada this year, How can you outwit these tricky rascals? I spent a day 'recently, with the nine-man Alit() 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- times. Over 3,000 autos are stolen in Toronto annually. But 98% of them are recovered. For the To- ronto force, under Chief of De- tectives Archie McCathie, hoasts 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 ef- 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 cars '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, becatise 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 auto theft 'is between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. in the eummet. Many people leave their cars ,on the street, without looking them up. Setae-, tiniee, they even leave the keys in them. A lot of them don't know there's a city by-law, Make 'ing it.an offence to leave a car insecure against theft. "Naturally, if a man finds a cat with the keys in it, he'll take it. But kicked ears don't stop him. jimmy the no-draught dow;. open the door with the in= side Handle; jerrip the ignition— and, brother,, he's gene' Providing a homemade ignition le no problem. "The neatest way is With a jumper wire, ebnhected to the terminals at the rear of the ignition switch,"'says Cetee. "Bu thiS takes: time. Most thieves just use SilVer paper from a pack- age of eigatets," In ah car, the starter is ideated elsewhere then the ignie trop key, The thief merely janis the silver paper across the ter- minals in the rear of the ignition SWiteh:' then he' presses the start= er end drives off, But with beer-, er tare,. the starter" is often eettee aed by the key itself, "This. is no probleMer Cater says. "The thief will plug the fait terniiiial points; With the: eterter.fitee. Then he juggles the ;paper atteee the peitits, until the Statter quite.teen if it doesn't quit,the thief doesn't caee,""he" adds poinedly,. '`Amer all, it's not his starter that's being. ruined " by Brirtft ttitritbriald in Liberty ktijelittie Keeping up with the Joneses would be easier if they didn't change directions se often. —Ken Irwin in Corydon ... . . ,..„ , .. . .....„ ., COMO Ball; 21, is 'WOrking. his way through college by` SwalloW, trig! SWorda, l'he-itelf4tyled "yoUngest sword 'swallower' in the iiVerld" is Ct,lOphartiCire Cit- Fort Hays 'State College, Where he lit tnajdrifig In Speech, and radio. To pay hits way he giveS. per, ,fortinantei and spends his summer 'vacation traveling With the *401 American ShaWie, Above, right, be ' 'S'Wtilloi,its' the. ,16-inch 'likide- :he.th$Plays at right Oar. 4.0p. 'Swallowing' His Way Through College leetereee . . , "Wiii,44ititorit dejteacteiw,