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laved Millions
ANCA LOWS AViii yris;
Proud of his achievement, 14, 5
Hanks invited a couple of friend(
to enjoy the maiden trip ef
home-made 12, ft, dinghy,
After cruising around for *
spell off Cape Jervis, 5, AUS,
tralia, they threw the shiny, nee
7-lb., anchor overheard. A hun,
gry shark promptly towed there
for •over a mile before one of the
sailors cut the line.
'burning off prickly pear .spines,
killing rangeland brush, and
fueling machinery_,
(It ,also is serving humanity in
a number of versatile new ways.
Highly refined versions of kero-
sene are being used as dry-clean-
ing fluid, It helps fly giant jet.
airplanes over the Arctic Ciecle,
powers batteryless transistor
radio sets in the Netherlands,
and cools refrigerators in Afri,
Satellites, Sidearms Top Toy Outlook
NO, 1 IN THEIR HEARTS — The people, of Medellin and 'the
Antioguia, district of Colombia :have a soft' epot in their hearts
for this little iron horse. The diminutive 0-4-0 served Colombia's
railroads from 1875 to 1928 and has since been mounted on
a pedestal in Medellin. From its perch the tiny teakettle ,surveys
a new era in Colombia's railroading, as the country nears
completion of a modern •rail system which links all its major
cities.
BLE TALKS
eiarvtAINCIMWS.
Moyle,Villain,
Gets Recognition.
A theatrical figure , from the,
Past who is S1.440107 very Much
in the present made .his Ameri,
can television debut recently at
68, Seeette Hayakawa; 'the old-,
time Hollywood movie villain.
now reaping • great success as
Colonel Saito in. "The Beidge on
the River Kwai," came All the
way from Tokyo for a single
appearance on NBC's "Kraft
Television Theater," playing e
long role in which he scarcely
ever opened his mouth.
Hayakawa is half the cast (the
other half is Earl Holliman) of
"The Sea is. Boiling Hot," a
drama about a Japanese soldier-
and a GI stranded together on a
Pacific island, "The script inter-
ested me a great deal," said
Hayakawa between rehearsals
in New York, "It's a story that
must be told with the eyes, not,
with the mouth. It looks like the
hardest thing I have ever tried.
to do. It's a part that demande
devotion."
Hayakawa's devotion is of a
remarkable sort. An ordained
Zen Buddhist monk, he is prob-
ably the first actor to be seen.
on TV who applies its. rigorous.
disciplines to. his. acting. "Every
day I meditate for one or two
hours. In both TV and movies, I,
use these powers of coneentra-
By AILEEN SNOBBY
NEA Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK —(NEA)— Space
will be the big thing under
1958's Christmas trees, But in
winning a child's fancy ad woo-
ing a parent's purchase, it's a
toss-up between outer space and
the old - fashioned western
variety.
That's how the toy buyers,
who anticipate no recession in
their industry, see the Yuletide
picture nine months in advance.
They base their forecast on the
10-day American Toy Fair in
New York, where a highly flush-
ed young visitor neatly covered
both sides of the prediction.
Confronted with the vast crop
of new toys, this lad glued an
eye. to a $14.95 educational tele-
scope for a quick: peek at the
canals on the moon. And' while
he looked, he kept one hand
clasped on his trusty six-shooter,
It's simply that toys reflect
current events, toy-maker Al Gil-
bert Jr. says in explaining the
birth of new gadgets.
"When a new' weapon is an-
latest high fashion chemise,
Little Mother can sew it with
a portable sewing machine, •
Dolls themselves are growing
up, averaging about eight inches,
and one firm has joined hand!'
with a pattern company so the
dolls' dresses are twins of their
mistresses,
The world in miniature eve
has a new home — a $10.91
frame affair that goes togethei
12 different ways to make suck
things as a zoo, corral, radae
tower or tent.
Miniature juke boxes that light
up, pegboard play tiles, building
sets, a shooting gallery equipped
with cork bullets, robot hands
and an electric shaver for boys
will keep the kids happy— for
a while anyway.
For little girls who have every-
thing an East Coast firm has
wrapped a doll carriage in mink
for a $3,000 surprise.
And if that doesn't keep them
happy, there is a dynamiting set
that "blows up everything harm-
lessly."
But behind the sparkle in si
child's eye at getting a new toy
shredded
toes and students who touched
them.
Dr. Semmelweiss became
nuisance to Professor Klein and,
to his: colleagues and a bore to
his students,
One day, while Professor Klein
was sipping a coffee and brandy
at a cafe table, he saw Dr, Sem-
elweiss walking down t e
pavement distributing leaflets,
Somehow 9r other the saviour
of mothers had to get his Mes-
sage across, If the profession
turned from him, then perhaps
the public would understand,
When he bad finished reading
the leaflet, professor Klein hur-
ned off to the hospital. He was
furious. This was unprofessional
conduct. It was madness,
The next day he sent for Dr.
Semmelweiss and suggested to
him that it might be as well if
he sought another hospital where
he might propagate his ridicu-
lous ideas.
That night Dr. Semmelweiss
left Vienna for his native Buda-
pest and secured a staff appoint-
ment in the Pest Hospital. There
he met with the same strange op-
position, Nobody wanted the
truth.
One day, when he had been in
charge of the great maternity
ward for six years, Dr. Semmel-
weiss went to the chief physician.
"In my ward," he said, "the
mortality rate for mothers is
now 0.85 per cent. Six years ago,
it was over fifteen per cent!"
The chief physician did not
rise and shake Dr. Semmeiweiss's
hand. He simply did not believe
that this vast saving of mother's
lives had been due to so simple
a cause as clean hands in place
of dirty ones in doctors and
students.
Today the stupidity of this
failure to see the obvious seems
more 'astonishing because, since
that time, the work of Pasteur
and others has isolated germs in
decomposing matter nad shown
the part they play in spreading
disease. Not even Dr. Semmel-
weiss understood that it was
germs in the bodies of the dead
that killed the living. But he did
see plainly cause and effect —
dirt and death.
Thus, once again, Dr. Semmel-
weiss found himself written off
as a crank.
And, in fact, it was not until
after his death that his great
discovery came, to be adopted.
Gradually, the thought of the
millions of unnecessary deaths
preyed more and more on the
mind of Dr. Seriernelweiss as he
wandered about the crowded
main thoroughfares of Pest,
handng out his leaflets.
He became known as a crank.
And as though to justify those
who barred his path to progeas,
• he finally lost his reason al-
together.
EYESON THE MOON Two youngsters at the Toy Fdir line
-up ea "junior-size telescope for a look at outer space. The 40-
power Scope can track satellites.
•
tion. I completely transform
myself. Then. I don't exist. I'm
just noneness.
"Now it takes, me only twenty
seconds to lose myself before
going before the camera. All I
need to do is step behind the
set, close my eyes—not tightly,
just half-closed in a natural
way. You must submit to coin-
plete self-denial. It takes many
years of suffering."-
Hayakawa's preparatory years
of suffering extended 'into his',
age. Many members 'of his fam-
ily were executed in Tokyo by
Premier Tojo for their opposi-e
tion to the war. The actor spent
several years in occupied, France
supporting himself meagerly by
doing oil paintings on silk. Once
the war was over, he took 'up
the task of rebuilding his shat- ,
tered career as an actor. In his
youth the proprietor of one of
Hollywood's most elaborate
"castles" and, one of its most
lavish partygivers, he now lives
simply with his wife •and two
children in a small, five-room
Western-style bungalow in an
unfashionable Tokyo suburb.
His principal recreations are 27
holes of golf once a • week and
watching TV — Japanese- lan-
guage versions of "I Love Lucy,"
"Dr. Christian," "Superman,"
and "Alfred Hitchcock Pre-
sents."
NOT SO CLEAN SWEEP
After robbing a Detroit store
of beer, wine and cans of as-
sorted meats, the three thieves
responsible realized that they
would leave tracks in the snow.
Taking a broom from those on,
sale in the shop they carefully
swept away their footprints as
they went. Police called to the
scene shortly after the robbery
simply followed the broom
marks to the door of the house
where the thieves had fled with
their booty and arrested them!
Yn the maternity ward. of .4
peat Viennese hospital an
farming number of mothers
fere dying of puerperal fever.
"This is something beyond the
AAence of medicine to remedy,"
professor Johann Klein told the
edical students. "We can do
eething about it,"
It wasn't exactly a death war-
time in those days of the nine-
;tenth century for a woman to
go for her confinement into that
ward' bet it was a hazardous
'venture. For of every hundred
mothers who were confined
there, twelve never left it alive.
Professor Johann 'Klein was a
vein and jealous man. If there
were to be changes, improve-
ments or medical discoveries,
they were to come from him.
If they came from any other
puree, the professor mobilized
hospital opinion against the in-
aovator.
He did so when Dr. Ignaz
teemmelweiss one day advanced
e revolutionary theory.
Dr. Semmelweiss made a start-
ling discovery when a staff phy-
sedan, who had been working in
the dissecting room, got a cut
in his hand. The wound festered,
he ran a high temperature and
tied,
Dr. Semmelweiss pondered
this case. For the dead man's
eymptoms had been very like
Ihose of the mothers of the ma-
eernity ward who contracted
puerperal fever and almost in-
Variably died of it.
Along with him, as he did his
sounds, went the carefree tribe
of medical students. They exam-
:heed the patients, learnt some-
thing, worked their way along
the ward . . .
Dr. Semmelweiss saw the link.
His colleague had died of a
poisoned wound. He had got
that poison while dissecting dead
bodies. Something in the dead
must have poisoned him,
The students went straight
from the dissecting rooms to the
maternity ward. Some of 'them
washed their hands; some for-
tot.
"Gentlemen," he said next day,
"nobody is to enter the maternity
ward, whether he has been dis-
%eating or otherwise engaged,
emtil he has scrubbed his hands
and arms in chlorinated lime-
water."
That was in May, 1847. Dr.
Semmelweiss noted the mater-
nity mortality rate for that
month; 12.24 per cent.
At the end of the year scrupul-
eusly clean hands had saved
some scores of mothers. The
eportality rate in the ward was
down to 1.27 per cent,
Dr. Semmelweiss considered
this proof enough of his theory
as he hurried to the office of
Professor Johann Klein.
"But my good Semmelweiss,"
exploded the vain little profes-
eon "are you telling me that all
that we have to do is wash our
bands to rid the science of medi-
eine of its great scourge? Come
—this is ridiculous!"
Wherever he went, to whom-
ever he turned, Dr. Semmelweiss
eould get no hearing. It began
to prey on his mind. Women
would die by the thousand, by
the hundred thousand, by the
million in the years ahead, all
because they were poisoned by
the. contaminated hands of doe-
It often shows a fine comm'anik
of language to say nothing.
is the serious world of manu-
facturing,
'Highly - competitive, the men
and women in the toy world feel
secure in the thought that "chil-
dren always want toys to play
with,"
Even TV viewing can't cut into
playtime, according to the presit•
dent of the Toy Manufacturers
Association. TV shows have crew
ated a demand for new Ws, be
feet.
The toy manufacturers are en.
thueiastic about 1958 sales, lanke
Robert' Muessel says. As aseocia
tion president he keeps a 'finge
on •the pulse of the one and
half billion dollar industry the
employs 70,000 persons.
"We are stepping up produa,
tion in our South Bend plant,'
Muessel said indicating the in
dustry's reaction to' the curren
recession.
"I am sure other toy menufao
turers are, too."
'Jounced, it almost immediately
becomes a toy. Children were
bored with space helmets before
half their parents ever found out
what they were," hp says.
"When Sputnik went up, space
stations, flying saucers, satellites
and rockets immediately began
to orbit on the toy horizon."
Young. Galileos will .welcome
a planetarium, charts telling
them of the stare and games that
reveal worlds on other planets.
Spinning,satellites, mobile rocket
launchers and other missiles con-
tinue the trend, in 'scientific toys.
But little' girls who would
rather spin a curl for dolly than
a Sputnik aren't overlooked. They
can 'set up a beauty parlor.with
a new set that includes a running
water tap and, a hair dryer that
works.
Topping the wee lady's toff-
lure Will be millinery that the
little girls make froth a "kiteAnd
if there is 'e tear in the doll's
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LEAPING to SAFEtY—Miiit t'dotOelli.6, It shown
tiinping. WO a 'lie hot from her fourth apdrinierif during
&heal aloeth bled. 'in Scranton. She was injured when she
hit the net and taken to a hioipital. MOrnenti" totee,, itinathier
striate lea ed tO 'her death from' a third floor window. The
fife v'tti f4,4 tit* w4riii the had ever
iVit'ON. Mit 'EAR* ',.,,JUritOr can cress up like et itiechante
'Man and 'pretendlust 'arrived horn another planet
these "Men of Meer btetfite preeteWited";eit 'toy 'fa
"Coal-Oil" Does
A Come-Back
Kerosene lightedthe lamps of
wood
the ae• major prod-
uct'
thefirst
of Atherica's 'oil industry
in the late 1800's., In the early
':days the refiners threw away' a
'pesky product known as • gaso-
line.
The big boom — for heating
as well as lighting came in
kerosene, Pioneer tefineries also
supplied paraffin ,to candle mak-
ers, oils. for textile and
greases for horsecars.
Then up chugged the meter
buggy and Thomas Alva Edison
came forth with, the electric light
— and it was lights out for the
Kerosene Age. In 1911, for the
first time, refineries produced
more gasoline than kerosene.
Suddenly, in a jet age, keeo,-
sene is whooshing along in a
comeback. ' It's still the light •
colorless liquid that also answers
to such names as coal oil, Car-•
bon oil and — in Great Britain
— paraffin•Oil,
Humber Oil & Refining Com-
pany, in one of 'its Current pub-
neatens, tells of the bright new
prOspects for old-timey kerosene.
"Jets and kerosene go together
likt' race horses and oats,". re-.
taunts Humble, "Big commer-
cial airliners scheduled fOr
ery next year have an insetie
.able thirst for this early-day
illuminant, gulping up to 'e,400
gallons an hour while in flight.
Even idling on the runway; they
burn '700 gallons an hour, .
"The United States military,
biggest coneumet of aircraft
fuels, took its last big piston
plane last year. Corrimerciat air
dines will. receive their last Ones
this year. From then on, jets—
More than - kerosene
powered -- will rule the skies."'
Today, the leading jet fuel is
known as the ,IPi‘4 type. It 'eon,
tains 30 per Cent kerosene and
70 pee tent gasoline. However;
the corriniereial jets that the
Americanpublic teen' will fly
may prefer Sit all-kerosene fuel:
"Also, when supersonic plarlea
of the future arrive," notes Hum-
ble, "kerosene may be a thoide
because of its lower volatility,"
(Even :thiaSilea can kerosene"
typo itiele for theft first-stage'
Peontileicine).
In kee corners Of the earth,
meanwhile, kerosene,
heat hoinee, fuel toblittig
stoves,..and ',light of
lamps tuthbie sums t ttp,•the
Hoe ,roles Of coat OIL'
"Keteeene essential
tit ferin life in Many
tiefilee OWN/ light and heati, it
it *omit* thiekeit inettleetOtee
LiOn•Hearted
Many people take the most
hair-raising risks in cheerful In-
nocence. Their utter unaveare-
nese of peril, due to their keen
interest in What they are doing,
may be the real reason why
they come off scot free. If they
even half grasped What risks
.they ran and showed a glimmer
of fear, One "feels they would
not attempt any 61 the things
they do.
Recently, Major H. M. Tabereri,
Warden of the TSavo National
Park, South Africa, discoyeted
an Atherican tourist standing
outside his car enthusiastically
photographing a lioness and her
four cubs about four paces from
him, The American pranced
gaily in front of the dubs,. While
their Mother glowered menac-
ingly at him.
Rifle at the ready, Major Te-
beret quickly put himself be-
tween the lioness and the tourist.
e dan't you read 'the notices? " he
Asked, The Athetican looked
blank. "Don't you know enough:
to keep away feein a lioness with
cubs? We der* tell you to trey
in yethr car for fun, you khowe'
added the Mader.
"Was I in any darigerer asked
the Arrieritan
"tit five minutes, my friend;''
ekplained Tabeeer, "you would '
,itrobably have been lien Meat,"
The Arnericetee fete Went
&dere
"Yeti Mean to say those' Ilene
aren't tathel e lie gasped in her.-
tor,
M IMMM,MmilM.W•
until stiff; fold into apple sauce
mixture.
Split cream puff shells and
spoon,in the apple sauce filling.
Place on serving plate and sprin-
kle top with confectioners' sugar
• * •
Cream puffs may also be filled
with sweetened whipped cream,,
berries, or a stiff custard filling.
If you ike them iced, use choco-
late frosting on those filled with
whiped cream or custard.
e
Here's a helpful wrinkle:
when you need to wrap cake in
waxed paper, sprinkle or rub the
paper with powered sugar and
the icing on the cake is less
likely to stick.
Got some leftover ham? You
can use it wisely and well in
ham, croquettes. For four serv-
ings, you'll need about two cups
of ham to' one of .mas" potato,
plus -seasonings and a' :espoon
each of chopped onion and pale-
ley. Dip in, a- beaten egg (mixed
'with 1 tablespoon water) shape,
and fry.
Sessue Hayakawa
' • • • .7. "',4';;V•4',
A memorable dessert which
is recommended especially for
teen-age get-togethers is apple
Banbury tarts. Serve them warm
for best taste. This recipe makes
.21/2 dozen.
APPLE BANBURY TARTS
2%, cups (1 can) sliced cooked
apples
1 can (4-ounce)
coconut
% cup currants
1 cup sugar '
1 lemon, grated rind and juice
I egg
2 tablespoons butter
Flaky pastry
Thoroughly drain apples;
combine apples, coconuts, cur-
rants, sugar, lemon rind and
juice. Beat egg; add, with butter,
to apple mixture:.
Roll out pastry Vs inch thick.
Cut in 4-inch squares. Place a
little • apple mixture on each
square. Moisten edges of pastry
with water; fold to make tri-
,angle. Press edges together with
tines of fork. Make slits in top
for steam escape. Bake at 425'
F. 15-20 minutes.
,Another treat, of delectable
bites for teen-agers is 'apple
doughnuts. This makes 5-6 doz-
en. They're guaranteed to dis-
appear 'fast at a party.
APPLE DOUGHNUTS
4 tablespoone.sbortening
1% cups sugar
3 eggs
5 cups sifted flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons each, nutmeg and
cinnamon
34 cup milk
1 cup well-drained sliced
cooked apples (canned)
Confectioners' sugar or
cinnamon sugar
Cream together the shortening
and sugar; add eggs, one at a
time, beating after each. Sift to-
gether dry ingredients; add al-
ternately with milk to creamed
mixture, Cut apples in small
pieces; add. Mix well. Drop by
teaspoons into ,deep fat, heated
to' 375° F. Fry 3 minutes, turn-
ing once to brown all sides.
Drain on absorbent paper. Roll
in sugar.
I * *
There is now a cream wh
ich mixture on the Market
you may Want to try, but if you
prefer making your own, try
this recipe. It makee 8 or 9 puffs.
CREAM PUFFS
% Cup water
1/4 cup butter
% cup sifted all-purpose flour
,teaspOOn salt
Bring water to 'boiling point
in eauceparn add butter; stir
until melted. Bring to boiling
point; quickly add all of the
Remit and salt. Cook, stirring con-
stantly, about 2 minutes, Or un-
til mixture feting smooth, corn,
*pact mass, Cool slightly;, add
eggs one at a time beating after
each. Beat 5' Minutes,. or until
inixtute is thiek and shiny,
Using 'tablespoon or pastry
bag, itrunedietely' shape dough
inches apart on greased baking
sheet in mounds 2% inches in
diameter. Bake in very hot 'Wen
(450° F.) 10 Minutes: Reduce to
350° F. and bake 20-ee minutes.
Asa change erten the usual
custard-cream filling,. here IS a
recipe for an applesatiee 21114
which has been *Meted out eSbe,
daily for yeti,
APPLE NAtick EttiitINtl
marshmallows, diced
2 tablespoons chopped
niarascisino cherries
2 cups eeitheit apple! iAitce
cup 1401 detail
Stif marshmallows,. and 0104
flee Into tikele' ante, i eat orettni