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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1957-02-27, Page 6IN HARMONY AGAIN — Here are the Andrews Sisters, back together again after two and a half years of feuding which broke up their million-dollar act. Maxene, Patty and LctVerne, left to right, even'fought over their mother's estate. The girls' life story will be fainted with no punches pulled because they insisted that the movie tell the truth. They're currently beginning a long night-club and personal-appearance tour. 41'1 TABLE TAJIKS ;., I./ eiam Ancittews. ,..4vkatar:Q• Aft SALLY'S SALLIES 2.15 "You 'don't practice what you preach and, for heaven's sake, don't preach what ,you prac- flee." tzOAE8aWt,. ti Watchdogs Rout Many of the largest. banks, ;mellows, and department Ores have made themselves virtually bUrikiarproof — not by Iny newfangled electronic. alarm. rstems but by the use of pecially trained dogs, Jordan Marsh Company, New England's largest department pre, has been using dogs, to liscover prowlers for several. Mara and with marked success, Dne Philadelphia warehouse owner rates dogs ahead of arm- ed watchmen, and a number of banks have purchased them for Se as after-hour gitiards. However, perhaps nowhere leave these dogs achieved great- er success than at. Macy's sprawling Thirty-fourth Street department store in New York City, which has been using them effectively since April, 1952. Prior to that the store had been invaded regularly by thieves, who bid themselves be- hind counters, and in closets just before closing time. More often than not routine cheeks by watchmen failed to uncover all of them. Those who weren't discovered had, plenty of time in which to select choice items from coun- ters and then sneak out of the store as it became jammed with the next day's customers. In fact, sneak isn't the right word. They simply walked out. It was not only neat; it was quiet. This type of thief is extreme- Iy difficult to spot, let alone ap- prehend, and when one group (apparently working together) hauled,. away a rack of fur coats valued at $12,000, Macy's be- came highly indignant. Al- though some of these coats were later recovered it didn't make Macy's feel much more secure, It was about this time that somebody in the store's far- flung organization suggested the use of specially trained dogs as a solution. Macy's had tried something like that about 10 years before with German shepherds, but without success. The dogs appeared to lack en- durance, were difficult to hand- dle, and were abandoned after a short trial. However, Macy's was willing to try again only this time with Doberman pins- chers: It wasn't long until four sleekly beautiful Dobermans came to live at the big store. Somebody (presumably Macy's energetic advertising depart- ment) couldn't restrain itself. The hucksters had to name them: (1) Suzy (for one of the firm's best selling perfumes); (2) Red Star (for the company's old trade-mark); (3) Mom (for Macy's own merchandise); and (4) Cash (for the firm's former cash-and-carry policy). The dogs did the job. In fact, how well they did it can be realized only after a talk with Francis X. Fay, director of se- curity at Macy's. "Since we got the dogs we haven't lost a penny's worth of merchandise to intruders," Mr. Fay said," "nor has anyone dared break in and pit himself against the dog's skill in flush- ing out trespassers." This may have surprised some executives at Macy's who could Store Prowlers remember .only as far bacit when the store tried German shepherds without success. But not Mr, ray. Here was a man Who had, gained his knowledge of what dogs could do as top security Pincer for the United. States Air Force during World. War II. Prior to that he served with the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation in New York. Mr. Fay had heard, the glow- ing tales told by security officers who worked with Dobermans in the teeming jungles, of the South Pacific. The Army had found this type of dog aggressive but not vicious, with good stamina and responsiveness, and with, a natural knack for learning obe- dience. "We figured that if this dog could be effective in the trop- ics," Mr. Fay said, "he would also be effective for us after store hours, even though our air-conditioning system would be turned off. That was our main complaint against the German shepherd, which was hard to handle during the hot weather." The dogs are never worked for more than two hours at a stretch, except under stake-out conditions, when the canine isn't asked to do much more than patrol a certain area. Otherwise, they are used in teams of two which has proved highly effec- tive for store work. Macy's canine squad, as, the teams are known officially at the New York store, has paid' off handsomely. For example, one night Suzy refused to pass one 'of the company's $15,000 automatic computation mar. chines. As usual, it had been covered for the weekend, With S'uzy was Detective Steve Muller, one of six guards especially trained to handle the dogs on their rounds. Mr. Mul- ler looked the situation over but neither saw or heard any- thing unusual. Finally, he pull- ed the cover off the machine. It was only then that he discev- ered thaLit had been left run- ning. Had it continued to oper- ate through an entire weekend it probably would have done several thousand dollars' worth of damage or possibly have re- sulted in a costly fire. Back-seat Driver Gets Paid For It • Akron's • champion back-seat driver is pretty Sophie Papa- tonis. But the tall, slender 23- year-old isn't bossing a meek husband at the wheel. Back-seat driving is her regular job. Sophie, yOu see, is a tire tester —the only woman tire tester in Akron, her bosses say. In fact they don't know of any other woman on the job anywhere. Weather permitting, Sophie has been riding in the back seat of One or another kind of car al- most daily for nearly two years now. The car may be spinning around a tight circle located just outside her office at Goodyear testing grounds—that test de- signed to locate squeaks. Or it may be sliding around the "skid area" made slippery by being wet down from a series of noz- ties; in order to get the react. UP11 of tires to wet Pavernents, The car may be speeding 'along a straight, track way out in the country, somewhere, in tests' to determine stability of the tires and whether the car sways or "wanders!" or "fish tails." Sophie is surrounded mean- while by impressive looking tabulating instruments; Such as, a speedometer and odometer, which is an instrument for measuring distances. She holds a board on ber laiS, one which jots down her instrument read- ings as she rides along, The driver has no instruments in the front seat. Sophie gives him instructions on how to drive, after reading her speedometer and odometer, She actually takes parrm four different primary tire tests — "skid," "squeak," "stability" and "wander tests." Through months of experience she has somehow achieved an uncanny skill in determining just what's wrong with the tires on the car she's testing, "Sophie's got the ear for her work" is the way her boss ex- plains it. "Sophie has a gift for detecting tiny bumps and move- ments of the "car while riding in the back seat — bumps that would be unnoticed by most rid- ers," adds Jack Strange, head of Sophie's test division. "It isn'.‘t as simple as it sounds," Sophie herself explains. "After I come into the office following my test rides, I tave to analyze my notes, and make graphs. I make comparisons be- tween various types of tires and between ours and competitors' tires. "I copy the readings on the os- cillograph machine, which re- cords forward and backward motion of the car." Skids and squeaks are meas- ured and recorded, she says, by the use of a small rear wheel. The testers call it the "fifth wheel," which is fastened to the bumper of the car before they start the test. It looks like a bi- cycle wheel and every deflection it makes is recorded on a chart. Naturally Sophie's graphs have to be the acrhe of accuracy. DELICATESSEN DIVA — Music lovers can get Bach with-their baloney when opera star Lilly Windsor helps out in her mo- ther's delicatessen. She prac- tices as she works. Lilly made nationwide news a few years ago when unable to get any- where With U.S. opera com- panies, she went to Italy and received an ovation in her first role with the Rome Opera Com- pany. SAINT PATRICK MISSIONARY SUCCESS When Irishmen in various parts of the world celebrate St. Patrick's Day on March 17th they commemorate a saint who, according to the. Book of Know- ledge, was one of the most suc- cessful of the early missionaries. He landed in Ireland in the year 432, after years of study fOr his mission and Made it his policy to Win oven the chiefs before trying to convert the people from their druidic worship. He achieved this without se,r., IOUs opposition and Ireland. be.s, taint One of the Mein centres not only of the Christian religion but also of schools and scholars irho kept alive the light of civilization that had grown somewhat dint after the fall of the Roman Empire. Patrick died on March 17th, Pei-hap§ in the- year' 460. A lonely krititnitaiii in tOtinty Mayo where lie it said id have prayed is still a' Pike of pilgrimage' for visitors' front all parts of the Q. Whit, * *Pod thinettiltie for 11 lid* Mark? A: An ordinary rubber band Makes an ideal book mark.. Jult, snap it over the pages that haVe been read, length*IS6 :of tlia beak, Meat loaf has always been the budgeter's best friend, many young homemakers tell • me. One of them ,explained how she uses the perennial friend. "I sort of weave meat loaf in and out of my menu, never hav- ing a set time to serve it, such as Saturday night or the last day before pay day, as some of my friends do," she said. "I don't -have my family feeling that it's a last-resort meat. My family really likes meat loaf." Another way this young cook varies meat loaf is by serving different sauces with it, writes Eleanor Richey Johnson in The Christian Science Monitor. "You'd hardly believe how different a meat loaf tastes when it's served with mush- room sauce instead of tomato," she said. "I have even served it with cheese sauce, telling the children it was a cheese-burger loaf. That idea went over big!" * * * Here is meat loaf with toma- to sauce baked in. FAMILY MEAT LOAF 1 pound ground beef 1 cup cracker crumbs (about 12 crackers) ' 3/2 cup chopped onion 2 tablespoons chopped green pepper 1 egg, slightly beaten 1 teaspoon salt % teaspoon pepper % cup milk 1 eight-ounce can tomato sauce Combine ground beef, cracker crumbs, onion, green pepper, egg, seasonings and milk. Mix well. Press mixture together until it forms a round shape. Place in a round 2-quart cas- .serole and cover with tomato sauce. Cover and bake for 1 hour at 350° F. The tomato sauce makes a good gravy for the meat loaf. . * * * A ham loaf made snappy with spices is a good meat-stretcher for the budget minded. SPICY HAM LOAF ' 3 cups ground or finely chop- ped cook ham % cup fine bread eruinbs V4 cup finely chopped onion 2 tablespdons finely chopped green pepper teaspoon dry mustard teaspoon each allspice and ground cloves 2 eggs, slightly beaten % cup milk Combine hem, bread crumbs; Onion, green pepper, mnstard, allspice, and cloves. Add eggs and .milk and mix until com- bined. Pack into a 1-quart loaf pan. Bake at 350 ° V. for 45 min, lite& Unmold and serve hot. Makes 6 servings:. Combine cooked rice with * * meat for an unusual' loaf. Serve' it with catsup," chili sauce„ or a Stviss cheese dressing. BEEF,ItICE LOAF tablespoons butter 1 medium Onion; coarsely thOPPed 1/3 chin instant nonfat dry' milk POWder j/t CUP water' 2 cups cooked kite 2 teaspoons salt teaspoon pepper iM Pounds ground beef AM& Melt butter in Skillet; add onion a and sauté Until *deft ire tender, Remove from 'heat. Add 'nonfat milk Powder, Weiter„ ride, talt and pepper; Mix that- ' oughiy. Pout over ground meat and Stir until thoroughly corti. tined. Frets into a. .greased If x 5 X 3-inch loaf pan, Bake. at 20° T„ for 45 minutes' or until broWneci, Garnish this chicken loaf with red sliced beets and slice hard- cooked eggs and serve mush- room sauce with it for a party dish. CHICKEN LOAF 3 cups diced cooked chicken Y2 cup mushroom pieces (3- ounce can) " 2 cups cooked noodles 34 cup chicken broth or gravy 2.eggs, beaten 3/4 cup finely chopped' celery 1 teaspoon salt ' 1/4 teaspoon curry powder 1/ teaspoon pepper (optional) Combine all ingredients, Place in oiled loaf pan 9 x 5 x 3- inches. Bake at 350° F. for about 1 hour. Six to 8 servings. * * * If you want to give a fresh, new taste to salmon or other fish loaf, serve it with a lemon- By DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Correspondent Washington (NEA) -- Bring on,the official v,isitors from out- er spaCe. The protocol office of the State Department is ready for them. After arranging the visit of King. Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz Al- .Saud of . Saudi Arabia, rolling out the rug for a Martian would be a' snap. Old-time protocol experts who love recounting 'the diplomatic flap when Madame Chiang Kai- shek -demanded silk sheets at ,the White House during the Roosevelt administration are finally muted. ,› The full account of difficulties planning Saud's visit probably will never be told. Here are just a few examples which give an idea what was involved in the visit. First, the official invitation couldn't be tendered King Saud until the election determined who his host would' be, Then, preoccupation with the inaugu- ral postponed final planning un- til he was practically on the boat steaming for New York. With a shack, top State De- Pertinent and White Muse brass theri learned that Saud's official party totalled 65, incltid- ing an official barber, two cof- fee-makers, keeper of the jew- els, keeper of the curry powder, an incense-burner, a food- taster, a tailor and assorted strong-aria guards Wearing swords and carrying guns. So everybody volunteered, to help, and that's where the trouble really Started; The White House decided to take over from State protocol ex- pertS, who might have pulled the whole thirig off smoothly if left alone. Next the Saudi . Arabian 'env hasaY volunteered to arrange details. Finally the Arabian- American Oil Co. jumped into the turmoil with all kin& of sage advice. It hat a $300 mil- lion oil Centred With the •King. The More aciVied was muster- ed, the bigger' became the prOb-, lems. Because Saud didn't britt one or more of his four "wives it was decided most social. events would have to be Stag. Because King Saud doesn't drink; no alcohol could.'' he served. ThroWing it party here. With- out women or liquor presented an almott insurmountable Steele. TO cap this oft it way learned' that the King preys five titres iY day starting at dawn, .'his' Celled for elabOrate Trading 'Stamps' In The .-U.S.A. Washington economists 'study- ing the problem say that tract-. Mg: stamps may be costing you money whether- you, .save them or net,. • More and more..ttoret have been, using the stamps, The United States Bureau of Labor ,Statistics is trying to decide whether they should figure • its Consumer price Indexes as a rebate from stated retail butter sauce. The recipe follows the salmon ?loaf recipe. SALMON ,LOAF cup bread crumbs 1 egg, slightly beaten 34 cups milk g cups flaked salmon 3 tablespoon.s lemon juice 14 teaspoon salt 4 teaspoon pepper 2 tablespoons finely chopped onion 2 tablespoons melted butter Combine ingredients in order given. Pack firmly into buttered loaf pan or small individual baking dishes. Bake at 350° P. for about 40 minutes. Remove from oven and pour over it lemon-butter sauce. Serve hot. LEMON-BUTTER SAUCE V4 cup butter, melted 2 tablespoons minced parsley )4 cup fresh lemon juice teaspoon salt Mix all ingredients together well. * * * Serve the following tuna loaf with a white sauce seasoned with a small amount of mustard. TUNA LOAF 3 cups dry, toasted cereal, finely crushed 1% cups milk 2 cups tuna fish, flaked (or other cooked fish) % cup sour cream 1 tablespoon chopped parsley 1 tablespoon chopped chives or minced onion 1 tablespoon lemon juice 34 teaspoon thyme 1 teaspoon salt Dash pepper 2 eggs, well beaten Combine cereal and milk; let stand 10 minutes. Add remain- ing ingredients, except eggs, and beat thoroughly. Fold in beaten eggs. Turn into 'well greased 1-quart loaf pan. Bake at 375° F. for 1 hour. reshuffling of schedules and transportation. A check of files, meantime, re- vealed the frightening informa- tion that Saud's father, the late King Ibn Saud had brought a flock of sheep with him when he visited President 'Roosevelt aboard a cruiser during World War II. So for several days the plants included building a sheep pen in the White House back yard. Fortunately, an exchange of international cables revealed that Saud was off lamb chops and shish-kebab .temporarily. So there'd be no sheep. Then someone remembered the goats milk. The king and his party consume it in quant- ity. So eight quarts a day were scrounged hp and stored at Walter Reed Hospital. This crisis was scarcely pass- ed when the lodging troubles made the others insignficant. Blair House — now the Presi- dential Guest House — where Saud was to stay, can only handle about a dozen persons. That meant sifting out the various Coffee-makers, barbers, jewel-keepers' and guards to de- termine who would stay at Blair House. The rest Of the party had to be be housed at the Shoreham, Hay-Adams, Sheraton-Park and Statler Ho- tels. A king-size bed for the 6 foot PrieOs and if so how much, The final decision should be inform- tive. About half of all United States families save the stamps, ac,. Cording to the United States De- pertment of Agriculture, The department say$ small stores could be put out of business by "increased competition through the use of trading stamps by .some retailers and through price - cutting and through other means of sales promotion by others— designed to meet the increased competition of users of trading stamps." Food supermarkets giv- ing trading stamps increased' their sales volume in the first half of 1956 by 10,2 per cent, Those not giving them had sales gains of only 6.,7 per cent. There may be One ray of hope for the small shopkeeper, as well as for the non-saving type of housekeeper. The 40 stores in Maryland and Virginia of the Peoples Drug chain are going out of the trading stamp business on Feb. 1 because the plan "has• just not produced enough in- creased sales to justify the add- ed cost." This may be the first faint indication that the tide, if not actually turning, is at least about as high as it's going to flow, — Portland (Me.) Press Harold, BOTTLECAP FOOTSCRAPER In its section on Things to Make, the Book of Knowledge shows how a handy footscraper can be made from 22 metal bottlecaps such as are used on pop bottles, fastened open-side up to a stout board. 4 monarch had to brought up from the basement of Blair 'House. Incidental headaches were providing 45 limousines, guards. for the King's armed guards so they wouldn't get in trouble, guards for the 15 trunks of fabulous presents which the King was bringing, and of course, entertainment for the guard-guards who would not be included in the official parties. When King Saud was four days out of New York on the liner Constitution a report of final arrangements was wired him. He promptely wired back that the, whole thing was un- satisfactory. ' Apparently one thing he did, not like was the fact that Presi- dent Eisenhower would. not meet him at the airport. The fact that President Eisen- hower reversed his airport- meeting policy indicates to what extent the King's other plans were rejiggered at the last min- ute to suit him. The changes also included cancellations, of a trip to I* Texas after. leaving' Washington, for no revealed reason.• As one State Department pro- "tocol Man reports from the rest home, "if Saud's goodwill visit doesn't eventually end up with both countries severing diplo- matic relations it'll be sheer luck." Trying to tell us something. 'Definitely s pro-Western Arab.1 LAND gf THE MIDNIGHT SUN? The northern lights have seen sights and noW We have, too. These hooded and muffled -erect- tures are girls — coeds at Western Reserve University, With varied materials they fashioned distinctive and effective pro- tection against the area's cold Winter, No' nose shows in Mete rigs and male students 'Complain that they can't tell whether the girls are coniing or going. 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