HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1958-10-01, Page 3Clambake
VPVe'll*ga_St Stye
What makes a clambake?
people!
Young people and old people
digging clams, catching fish,
shucking corn, and melting
butter.
Menfolk gathering seaweed,
laying the fire. Womenfolk
boiling onions, peeling 'caters,
baking pies.
Little folk hustling sizzling
food from the steaming bake to
table. And hungry folk making
•a lip-smacking New England
banquet disappear,
"Never been to a clambake!"
exploded Julius T. Smith jovial-
ly. "Where've you been all your
life!"
Bakernaster for 15 years for
Allen's Neck Friends Meeting
clambake in Dartmouth, Mass.,
lie paused a moment in the dap
:pled sunshine of an oak grove
acepse Horseneck Road from the
white frame Quaker Meeting
House
"Look at 'em crack with the
heat," he said, pointing to stones
turning white hot in a heap of
smoldering timbers, "They just
crumble apart. That's why we
cant use 'em a second time," he
explained.
But a bakemaster's got no time
for standing around gabbing
with strangers when 11:15 a.m.
has struck, stones are hot, and
it's time to rake the coals.
He hurries over to the fire,
Suddenly the place is alive with
action. Every eye is on the bake.
From all, sides men attack the
fiery mound. Wielding shovels
with handles ten feet long, they
grapple with the heat to separate
burning stones from flaming
logs.
One after another the wood
.embers• are dragged aside. As
a boy sprays them with a cool
hose smoke hisses into the air,
eyes smart, and faces grimace
at the wavy heat.
At last the blackened pit (a
shallow one this time) is cleared.
As the first fat white stone rolls
back into the hollow, someone
looks up and shouts. "The clams,
here come the clams." Timed as
if by magic, up rolls a truck
with 25 white sacks full of them.
Watching the pit fill up with
stones like an Indian mound, one
wonders if they will still be hot
enough to cook th bake. "Never
fear," someone murmurs, "they'll
still be hot tomorrow morning."
Like a well-drilled army, men
auddenly pitchfork onto the neat
bed of stones rock weed (sea-
weed) piled nearby.
Steam bursts forth with a wild
crackling that snaps and pops
like an amplified version of
children's breakfast cereal.
The race is on to get the
CATOOSE' - Caroline Walker,,
11, carries her Siamese kitten
In the hood of her coat, papoose
style. The hood serves her more•
conventionally as protection
against rain and smog in Lon-
don, England.
gether that has kept this eMegree
gation happy for 70 years,
"Soon'' they, start to drift,'
says Mr, smith aside, "we work..
ers'il head for the 'hake."
Just then a departing guest
comes up and says what ,every-
body is thinking^i, ""alt was .4
wonderful b a.k e, Mr. Smith,
certainly is a treat ,fer city folk." •
- by Emily Tavel in
The Christian .Science Monitor.
How To Silence
Church Coughers
To many an otherwise chalet-
able vicar, wheezing, hacking,
coughing worshippers (and tit-
tering tots) almost seem like in-
ventions of Satan,
London's City Temple, how-
ever, has found a way that ser-
mons can be heard and hymns
can be sung without noisy in-
terruptions, even during the
grippiest time of the year, When
Lord Mottiston and Paul Paget,
t w o distinguished architects,
were asked to restore this fam-
ous Congregational Church
which was destroyed by Nazi
bombers in 1941, they came upon
an unusued area in the building
plans. In a moment of inspira-
tion they decided to create a
"cough or chatter box". This
room is equipped with a plate-
glass window and a system of
loud-speakers so that cacophon-
ous worshippers will not disturb
their quieter fellows, yet need
not miss a syllable of prayer.
Although they modestly admit'
that it is indeed "rather novel",
members of the recently reopen-
ed church are surprised that
their sensible arrangement has
attracted attention.
SPACESTACK - No smoke-stack
this. It's an unusual view of 'one
of the satellite-launching missies
at Cape Canaveral. Army
technician on servicing ladder
is dwarfed by the huge rocket
and vapor clouds from over-
flow of liquid oxygen.
How He Writes
Those Song Hits.
Robert Allen'is a sherry-eyed,
puckish young. songwriter whose
name almost never gets in
print - except in the one .place
where it counts most: On the
best-selling lists of the enter-
tainment trade papers. 'One re-
cent week three Allen compo-
sitions - "Enchanted Island,"
"If Drearns Came True," and
"Everybody Loves a Lover" -
were listed and, even more re-
markably, for the past two
years not a week has passed
without an Allen t u n e being
present among the top sellers.
At 31, he has composed four
songs Whic it have each sold
more than a million records -
"Moments to Remember" and
"No, Not Much" in 1955, and
"Chances Are" and "Not for
Me to Say" in 1957. Since his
first hit; "My One and Only
Heart" in 1953; Allen's 'ballads
have sold approximately 18 mil-
lion records.
Allen did not begin his career
as a coniposer. He migrated to
New York City from Scotia in
Upper New York State to be
ti plenist. Then lie worked as
an arranger and met Petry
Como. "Caine eves the one who
gave the the break," Allen re-
minisced last week, "He did
'My One atid Only Heart,' and
he uses my 'You Are Never
Fee Away' as his closing theme,
He'S a gierit."
When he is composing, Allen
does riot use a piano Or put any-
thing down on paper Until he
has arranged it all in his head,
walk around anywhere," he
etnifeseee, "I've worn 'a riled
big follow in the rug at home.
eltiVe tuy wife: tratY,o
UsitallY Write Otitaide. I even
ennipose during' t &IA Cdrieedeed
thing. I don't know exactly Whet
happens, belt frieeide tell 1ne I
get it Vetetit •ttay&'
MAGIC NUMBER'S "20" - More unusual than the fact that the
women pictured, above, represent five generations is the
knowledge that they all were born 20 years apart. Stemming
from the Louis Zdoncyk family they are: Mrs. Louis Zdoncyk, 81,
seated; behind her, at left, Mrs. Frank Pasko, 61; at right, Mrs.
Fred Burdick, 41; in center, Mrs. Ralph DePonte, 21; baby is
Laura. Ann DePonte, 1.
.the gizzard .as long as the inm •
SelUbleS, Thus a greater amount
of soluble grits woult1 be
deeded,,
.Soluble or insoluble? Take
your pick.'
Both give birds .t.b.e "teeth""
they be-ed.,
Science Takes A
Look At Love
Can love be reduced to ob.,
jective analysis? If so, are the
cold, scientific facts about man-
kind's great urge left Uneeveale
ed?
These questions were raised
and answered recently by Dr,
Harry F, Harlow, a witty, 52-
year-old psychologist from the
University of Wisconsin. Speak-
ing in Washington before the
American Psychological Associa-
tion, Harlow was by turns out-
rageously comic and chilling.
ThoUgh precious little is `known
(professionally, that is) about
adolescent and adult love, the
psychologist said, even less has
been scientifically dug out about
the origin and development of
love in the infant. To fill the
lack, Haleow and his Wisconsin
associates decided to subject
mother-child love to the rigorous
conditions of a controlled labora-
tory experiment. The use of
newborn human babies was net
practical becaues of their "in-
adequate motor capabilities".
Harlow found better subjects In
more than 60 big,-eared infant
macaque monkeys, who have the
same feelings of affection as
humans.
The Wicsonsin experiment was
carried on by the construction
of artificial monkey mothers-
doll - like, sponge - rubber, and
terry-cloth models with painted
wooden faces and bicycle reflec-
tors for eyes. Some of the
"mothers" wre built to supply
milk; others were bare wire
models.
When the newborn monkys
were variously exposed to differ-
ent mothers - milk-giving cloth
ones, cloth ones without milk,
milk-giving wire ones, and wire
ones without milk - Harlow
carefully observed the reactions.
lie was startled to find strong
evidence that love is based on
togetherness: In 165 consecutive
days of testing, the macaque
monkeys persistently preferred
the soft, padded mothers to the
wire mothers, even when the
latter gave milk.
While psychologists had long
suspected that "contact comfort
was an important basic affec-
tional or love variable," Harlow
noted, "we did not expect it
to overshadow so completely the
variable of nursing."
Harlow was quick to see the
disturbing human implications of
his work. As more and more
American women go to work, he.
said, "it is cheering ... to realize
that the American male is physi-
cally endowed with all the es-
sential equipment to compete
with Amrican women . . . (in)
the rearing of infants."
- From Newsweek
Q. Is it possible to restore
paint In a can if it has become
hard and useless?
A. This can be done some-
times by pouring an inch of
turpentine on top of the paint
and letting it stand for a few
days. Then stir with a stick until
soft.
UNDAYS010.01
LESSON
By itev it. Barclay Warren
8.0
..1u4lee and Judgment
Isaiah 140-30; Amqs. 7;7.0;
M1c44 '3;144 Matthew •70.g7;
2513140,
Memory Selection: The Lord
knoweth the way of the righte-
ous; but the way of the ungodly
shall, perish. Psalm 1;6.
All men have some sense of
justice. There is even honour
among thieves, Novelists and
dramatists recognizing this uni-
versal desire for justice empha-
size the moral that the wicked
are punished and the righteous
rewarded. One story writer
failed to punish the wayward in
her conclusion. She received a
flood of protest letters,
The Gospel presents a differ-.
ent picture. Here, those who re-
pent of their sins and believe
on Jesus Christ are forgiven.
The law of Divine justice which
says, "The soul that sinneth, it
sh all die," has been satisfied
through the sufferings and
death of Jesus Christ. He had
no sin for which He must die,
for He never sinned. But He
died for our sins. Moreover,
since He Is the Son of God
against whom all sin has been
committed, He is able to bear
the penalty for man's sin. "He
was wounded for our transgres-
sions, He was bruised for our
iniquities: the chastisement of
our peace was upon Him; and.
with His stripes we are healed."
If we reject Jesus Christ and
His grace so freely offered, we
are open to the full judgment of
the law. There is no escape.
GO judges men to some extent
in this life. But at the great
white throne judgment, when
all the evidence is in, He will
deliver His ultimate judgment.
Then we shall understand more
clearly the significance of the
question, "How shall we escape,
it we neglect so great salva-
tion?"
We shall be judged for the
evil we have done and for the
good we have left undone. It
is a solemn thought. If we live
for ourselves and ignore the
needs of those about us, the
Judge shall say in that great
day, "Depart from me, ye curs-
ed, into everlasting fire, prepar-
ed for the devil and his angels."
But if we trust and obey Jesus
Christ, He will say to us, "Come,
ye blessed of my Father, inherit
the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the
world."
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
:.::, "..4,..e7-, ,,:•,.....v ,....,..: ".‘.. • ,..w.:Qm.
,800-F . NET, 180 FT. DEE
R FISH CONSERVATION 'RA
0, ..4.. 'P'' 'li 168-FT. HIGH'4,,,
'CONCRETE SPILLWAY
.
1,380-FT. EMBANKMENT
ereeeeme''Weeeeg
DAM. ORODI)dt -Elettettlfy info Patifie
Wetf teoui 8tOYettlee bdiel, Power tohleanyi t new •
hydett.project in the .ebtittiVertibl Hells Canyon
tenth: 'Cof the. Snake Above it photei.dttiotam of 'the huge
preject,...lf shows the werldes second-highest rock,
flit embankment, 400 feet high find six million
euble yards of btirth.-
111111111011 illi111141111 °
1111101111111
N11111E11 111111111111
ill1111i11111611BRI 2° 11111111111
111111111111111111111111111111=
1111111111MIIIIIIIIIIIIII"
iiIIIIIIM111111111151M11111
1111111111111111111111111111111111
MillE1111111iiiiiiii1111
ii11111111111111
111111111:01111 11111N111111
11111111011111 NE 60 In
50
leketeete on tit
e At UAL ROYALTY Meet Queen Boxcar gettyi tidbit SOthee ...„
time resident of Saltlitioed, and Kin"' Atitotid Bill, of
Cylinders lows. They're this king and queen Of. the
fraternity of the open teat!, end were elected the Kelso'
'eotiVeritioit. in Bribe.. Iowa.
CROSSWORD
' PUZZLE
AOTIOSS 2. Shed tears 1. Beard of grain 1 Famous per
4. Plower 9, ObStniet sons
12. Cdhstellri.tion 4' fabri csnliAi'il' 13. Werti1111) 14, BeVerage 6, Ancient
15. Caress sock
15 Poree 6. Soft 17 ViSh 7. Anger' Ft,.Orn
20 Blacken ed 22 Foreman 24, Trtt*eled by air 25 must • . 27, P* 29. ATneted I corn, poser, 32. Reek Contain• fog metal se.lingty 15 Crafty' areErniherit 89. Prtstrit'i
111
inure 40. Without a mate 41. Diamond ctiti, tdr's cif[ , 42 Yoti and 43 Past 44 Hntse 46*. Yarii of warp 49 rIsiti 52. Conjunettrin 55. (Tat)
56 Silenti1' un- d nrstnnd 67. hi eheiterie 51. Pipe fitting SIgn§ fb Veneration DOWN 1. h.-, 0164
100d on the lire before the stone
escapes. "Now the clams! Now
tine clams!" a worker yells,
The moment the white bags
h't the steaming seaweed, a 914*
eelent fragrance fills the air,
hinting the feast to eorne
Steam is rising 10 feet high
now, "I've got one More clam,
that's got to go," shouts one man
excitedly throwing on another
sack. "Don't need. eyeglasses for
this job," says Mr. Smith dryly
as he walks out of the cloud of
steam,
A clambake, it seems, is really
P rainbow, Under the heat, sea-
,,,e ea turns brilliant green, On
top of white clam sacks come
orange yams in bags of chicken
wire; then hundreds of little
',frown paper bags of homemade
sausage, tripe and fish (rolled
le salt and "peppah"); then
green corn husks and topping it
off are pans of dressing with
white cloth caps.
"Say when!" Comes the shout.
"We're losin' a lot of steam." At
exactly 11:45, a drenched brown
tarpaulin is, laid on top, and
steam puffs out through little
holes. Then comes a second tar-
paulin and finally a third until
every escape hatch is battened
down.
Over near the cookhouse an
open pie •rack under the trees is
filling up with 70. mouthwater-
ing pies.
"Nowhere in , dreation do they
serve homemade pies at a clam-
bake but here," says clambake
chairman Mrs. Arthur Smith of
Dartmouth.
How long has she been coming
to clambakes in this grove?
"Well," she says with a sweet
smile, "they say the first clam-
bake was held here the day I
was born, And that happens to
be 54 years ago."
But Mrs. Mary I. Gifford of
Westport can, remember back
further than that. She was a
teen-ager 7Q years ago when the
first bake was a Sunday School
party down on Horseneck Beach.
"We peeled onions by the
bushel," she reminisces. "How
cur eyes did smart! So. I say W,)
had a smart time," she quipped.
A cool breeze rustles the leaves
overhead as the sunny grove fills
up with talking, happy people.
The bake is the big affair of
the year for the Friends here
and a family reunion for many.
Always , the jokester, Bake-
master Smith picks up one of
the small stones holding down
paper plates on the rows of long
tables. "One of the biscuits my
granddaughter baked," he said,
his eyes twinkling.
Finally comes the real drama
of the year: tasting the bake.
On the dot of 12:55, a corner of
the • tarpaulin is thrown • back'', a
knife is plunged into a sack, and
the first clam is handed to Bake-
master Smith. He cracks• it open,
pops it in his mouth, looks sky-
ward a minute, and announces,
"It's done!"
But before excitement reaches
a climax a sudden hush fall3
upon the grove. On the far side
the voice of the Reverend Ernest
H. Weed, minister of the Meet-
ing; is raised in prayer:
"Our Father, we thank Thee
for this day, for the beauty of
this place and for this fel'"e -
ship . . . Amen."
"Amen• and let's go!" some-
body shouts. And the rush from
the bake to table begins, to feed
250 mouths. Everywhere a hand
is needed to do a task, it is there
without asking. "This kind of
cooperation is wonderful- for the
church," one member says.
."How many clams can I eat?"
echoes one ticket holder. "If you
don't just stand there watching,
I can put away two baskets full!"
After the clams, the pie, and
after the pie, yes, watermelon!
But with all deference to this
luscious feast, somehow even the
eating seems secondary to the
friendly spirit of working to-
8. Danger 83, Public enter-
. 9, Water thrown ' tathmen1 back from 34. Young wild
10 htpaddleyilk wheelst 3387: it,3,n1,101a ls
1n
-101sup
11. Separate 43. g Wllorodgworking I Snot.)
45. Ploaotlestitie sea-. 19. Bashful
13:11-pry on k Poet 2 Salamander
24. Deceit 47, Bortf
25. Was carried 49, 81 ....OU 26. Ireland 59, Winter peril
28, 1Trge re, Coat feeen-
30. Ball of thread tacle
al. Park in Ti',,- 53 inunecitately don 54, Irditiaie tettailt
Holstein-Friesian steer calves
can be slaughtered at 12 weeks
of age for veal, but feed tests
at the Experimental Farm have
indicated that it is more profit-
able to keep 'them for 32
weeks: The faster growth after
12 weeks and the lower cost of
feed per unit of carcass pro-
duced, results in a bigger profit.
In the sludies made all calves
received a high level -of • whole
in from birth, reaching a
maximum of 20 pound's per day
from nine to 12 weeks, plus
good quality grass-legume hay
and a balanced grain ration fed
free - choice. The calves not
slaughtered were limited to five
pounds of grain per day for the
next 12 weeks then were given
grain and beet-pulp free-choice
until they were 32 weeks old.
It was f ound that the first
group of calves gained 2.01
pounds per day and produced
a cold carcass at 12 weeks of
137 pounds. Those slaughtered
at 32 weeks gained 2.51 pounds
a day and produced a cold car-
cass of 335 pounds.
* * *
In marketing live poultry,
one factor takes on financial
importance: Long hauls mean
excessive shrinkage.
Lending weight to this con-
tention were tests made last
Summer at the Melfort, Sask.,
Experimental Farm.
Out of 1,400 broilers, one lot
of 950 were picked at random
late one afternoon, crated and
loaded. During the night they
were trucked 160 miles to a
plant, where they, were killed
the following morning.
* * *
The other 450 broilers were
not fed but were left in their
pens until morning. Then they
w e r e crated and transported
three miles to a local plant.
At the outset, average weight
of all live birds was 3.83 lb.
Average dressed weight of
broilers hauled the 160 miles
was 2.88 lb., compared to 3,2
lb. for those that were killed
ideally.
At an average price of 25.6
cents per pound, loss suffered
because of the long marketing
haul amounted to $8.32 per 100
birds.
But it didn't stop there.
Transportation charges, usu-
ally billed to the producer,
totalled $8.25 per 100 birds.
* *
Thus, the marketing of birds
locally meant an additional
$16.57 per 100 birds. Or, put-
ting it another way, an average
price of 31.3 cents would have
been needed at the distant mar-
ket to break even-an increase
of 5.7 cents over local prices.
*
Concluded Mr. McLachlan:
"A producer must look into the
matter of shrinkage seriously
before deciding to take advan-
take of higher prices offered by
central markets, and it is an
influencing factor in the locat-
ing of broiler industries."
* * *
It is generally a g r eed that
poultry should be fed grit for
efficient digestion of food.
But what is grit?
The word is, often used loose-
ly to apply to both the insoluble
and the soluble grits.
There is a difference.
Insoluble grit includes silica.
sand, quartz and granite - fed
because of the apparent need of
the birds for some hard ma-
terial to grind the feed in the
gizza'rd.
Soluble grit takes in calCium-
bearing materials such as cal-
citic limestone and oyster shells
-fed primarily for their high
calcium content.
* *
R. E. Smith, poultry nutri-
tionist at the Experimental
Farm, Nappan, Nova Scotia, con-
cluded from tests that soluble
limestone grit is just as effec-
tive as insoluble quartz grit as
a grinding agent.
* *
Nor is -there a difference in
their effect upon egg produc-
tion or egg quality, provided
the birds are given enough cal-
cium to supply their bone and
egg shell requirements.
He did find, though, that sol-
uble grits were not retained in
- • •
rr