The Brussels Post, 1959-02-12, Page 2kee
DENIES RIFT' WITH' CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN — President Eisen-
hower purses his lips during his news conference in Washington
where he branded as irresponsible a report of a rift with Chief
Justice. Earl Warren.
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TOTEM IN THE CAFirroi. - Alatka's Sen. E., L. 'ID Bo ' Bartlett
04,„,t, _
alusti aneirtie Otanipie of the totem Makers art as he sets up
Ilioniekeening In the Capital offices in Washington..
Growing Pearls
I* Big Business
Right now millions Of Jape
*nese oysters are agitating them-
calves into the production of as
many cultured pearls. By the
end of this year Japan expects
well over 01,900 poends of the
spherical beauties, will have
reached foreign markets,
American WO1th are finding
the pearls to their liking. Hide-
take Kato, New Yak represen-
tative of the Japan Pearl Ex-
eeer t er,s Association, believes
That by the end of 1959 the
'United States will have bought
1111,000,000 worth.
This not only pets this coun-
try well in the lead of pearl pur-
chases, hilt the amount will be
about 15 per cent more than last
, year,
And the beginning of the
Japanese cultured pearl starts
in America, for it is the irritat-
ing corners of tiny bits of Mis-
sissippi oyster shell that do the
trick, The bits are inserted into
oysters by the Japanese. The
sters don't like the irritation
slid., build up their very attrac-
tive resistance in the form of
attractive pearls. It seems the
Mississippi bits are the. most
Wonderfully irritating in the
world.
Of course, oysters have been
getting irritated since the begin-
ning of oceans over bits of sand
or shell or something, and their
jearls have been cherished as
ewels since prehistoric times.
But the oyster hasn't always
been cooperative about produc-
ing the "perfect" or round
pearl. Afso the oyster, on its
own, has not been consistent
about the color of its jewel.
The new epoch of pearl cul-
ture and finding the ways and
habits of the oyster got under
way about a half century ago
through the experiments of pearl
king Kokichi Mikimoto and his
eon-in-law, Dr. Tokichi Nishi-
kawa.
They not only found the way
to coax the oyster into produc-
ing round pearls, but they in-
vestigated the effects of the
Ocean and changing tides upon
the color of the pearl.
Their "inventions" and/or dis-
eoveries have been patented in
Many countries. around the
world. Among other things they
found out is that, regardless of
how far science may advance,
man probably can never create
Pearls equal to the quality of
Mother nature. But with ingen-
uity and care beautiful jewels
can be produced, controlled, and
marketed for the pleasure of the
Today the cultured pearl is as
Japanese as the cherry blossom
br Fujiyama. Japan produces
over 90 per cent of the world's
natural and cultured pearls.
Others have tried the Japanese
techniques in Burma, Australia,
Hong Kong, and Okinawa, but
so far the best results have been
some only semirtund shells.
The Japanese cultured pearls
are produced mostly in the
southern area of the Shima
peninsula on the main island of
Honshu. The very active produc-
ing areas are near Toba, al-
though considerable production
is going on in southern Shikoku.
Japanese girls do much of the
pearl-producing work. They
dive for the oysters*, which are
then taken to the laboratories
for treatment. They handle- the
delicate operation: of inserting
the pearl nucleus, and they pre-
pare them for the return to the
"beds."
The more exciting time comes
after the period of cultivation
when the oysters are taken out
for extracting the pearl. There
are always the questions: How
beautiful is the jewel? Is it per-
fectly round? Does it have the
luster? Is its color attractive?
Is it the right size?
The Japanese are particular
about this, for they are trying
to make sure that the pear) in-
dustry is properly controlled
and that only high-quality jaw-
ISSUE 7 --- 1959
els each the public. They are
/Se intense about this that re • -
cently the white motorship Tea
chibana Maru sailed out of
Tokyo Bay 40 miles into the
Pacific with 2,500 pounds of
pearls ceremoniously packed in
white boxes, These were dump-
ecninte the blue waters.
This dumping opeeation is net
an easy emotional task, for many
a sigh goes up front the men and
women aboard the ship as the
glistening beautie s, disappear,
For it requires three to five
years of patient, careful cultiva-
tion to produce a cultured jewel,
And there are dangers, toe,
The "red tide" is constantly a
threat to the oysters. This is a
violent attack by minute marine
Creatures which destroy shell-
fish.
Then often a tide will bring
in waters too cold or with too
much salt content, and a whole
"oyster plantation" has, to be
moved out of the area.
But Japan is fortunate, too,
for scientists have not yet found
out why pearl oysters prefer Jap-
anese waters to all the others. It
just seems that the oysters are
perfectly content to live off the
isles of Japan. They become
disturbed only when man irri-
tates them with a goad, and they
just surround that with a jewel.
Gave The King
A Dog's Eyebrows
Layers of dirt nearly an inch
thick are being removed from
some parts of Westminster Ab-
bey, London, in a great cleaning
operation which will not end
until early in 1965, when the
Abbey's 900th anniversary cele-
brations are due to take place.
As a result of the "spring
clean" — the biggest ever known
at Westminster — this will be
the first time for 600 years that
the magnificent Abbey will be
seen as its builders intended.
In some places the cleaners
have laid bare hitherto unknown
repairs carried out by Sir Chris-
topher Wren 300 years ago. All
England has been combed for
oak trees big enough to supply
the 37 foot beams needed to
support the roof following the
destruction of much of the
original timber by death-watch
beetles.
For more than three centuries
kings, queens, poets, priests and
statesmen have been buried at
the Abbey. Displayed there to-
day are a number of life - size
wax effigies of three queens, two
kings, three duchesses, a mar-
quess, an earl and the great Lord
Nelson, Britain's sea hero.
Nelson's was the last effigy
to be made for the Abbey. The
story goes that when Lady Ham-
ilton went to inspect it she re-
marked: "The likeness would be
perfect if this lock of hair were
disposed in the way his lordship
always wore it." And reaching
out her fingers, she put it prop-
erly into place.
How did these effigies ever
come into being? It used to be
the custom to show the embalm-
ed bodies of kings and queens
at their funerals. Later wax
effigies were shown instead,
dressed in the dead monarch's
clothes. The custom spread to
the funerals of other great per-
sons.
It was decided a few years ago
to restore the effigies which had
became battered and darkened
by the dirt of centuries The ex-
perts doing the work discovered
that the heads of the effigies of
Edward III and Henry VU are
genuine death-masks.
That of Edward is consequent-
ly the oldest European death-
mask in existence
The cleaning revealed the
original facial color of the ef-
figies, sometimes fairly brightly
It was also found that all the
remnants of hair on them were
human, except the eyebrows of
Edward. III, which wore from a
dog.
Dr. H. S. Hoiden who, at the
time of this restoration was di-
rector of Scotland Yard's for-
ensic laboratory, was called in
to help in analysing the effigies
hair.
Prize Package
..^77.7777,77,”
Of all the deliEfhte of child.
hoed, few compare with the
pleasure of digging the finger-,
nails into the, wax, tearing open
a hex of Cracker Jack, and rum-
maging about for the hidden
prize. In the mind of is, child,
the simple rectangular box is ..a
repository of hidden, treasure,
And to the Cracker Jack Co, of
chimp, it is no less a gold mine.
By selling 'I million boxes a day,
plus countless Campfire marsh-
mallow; (which account for, half
the company's dollar volume),
Cracker Jack grossed an estim-
ated $20 million last year, 25
per cent morelhan in 1957,• And
in 1959, said president Paul D.
Allman last month, "we look for-
ward to a 15 per cent increase."
Another official offered a simple
explanation; "There just seem to
be more children."
Cracker Jack has. been delight-
ing children since 1896, when
Louis Rueckheim, partner in a
popcorn and candy firm, got the
idea of coating peanuts and pop-
corn with molasses and corn
syrup. A salesman tasted the
concoction a n d exclaimed:
"That's a cracker jack!" -- giv-
ing the product its name and'the
world a bit of Americana that
was later (1908) toasted by lyri-
cist Jack Northworth when he
begged to be taken out to the ball
game and fed some peanuts and
Cracker Jack, Eventually, the
popcorn and candy firm, Rueck-
helm Bros. and Eckstein, also
adopted the. name of its most
famous product. (Family-owned
and run by descendants of the
TROUBADOR n y crooner
Basil Goulandris, son of a
Greek shipping executive, holds
the microphone tightly as he
renders a ballad during a chil-
dren's party in London. His
number was "Bunny Bunny".
founder, it has 800 employees
today.)
Prizes were introduced in 1908,
with tiny china cups, crude
whistles, and tin shovels first. To-
day, the firm uses more than 500
different items, ranging from
Presidential coins to baseball-
player figurines. Most recent ad-
ditions, in keeping with the kid-
dies' taste for the very old and
the very new: Prehistoric mon-
sters and spacemen. Some prizes
endure for years (noise-makers,
whistles, magnifying glasses), but
most are dropped after a year.
In all, the company buys some
300 million prizes a year, and,
the man responsible (over the
past 25 years) for what goes into
the box is small, bespectacled
Paul Hubert Howey, Not surpris-
ingly, Howey is inundated with
suggestions for prizes: he buys
by "feel," trying to select items
that appeal to both boys and
girls. Similarly, when he "feels"
the youngsters are tiring of a
prize, he drops it. About the only
requirements for a prize: It must
be large enough so that it won't
be swallowed easily, yet not too
big (so that candy 'content meets
the advertised weight); also, it
mustn't cost more than half a
cent.
Youngsters naturally regard
Cracker Jack as a company that
will listen to them frequently
writing to ask for replacement of
a cherished prize that has been
lost. Requests, are promptly filled.
Though the company owes
much of its prosperity to tradi-
tion (the molasses and syrup
coating hasn't varied a jot since
it was introduced) and to tech-
tiology (the yield from a quart
of kernels has been boosted from
18 quarts of popcorn to 35), the
real source of success at the
Cracker jack Co. remains a mys-
tery -- tucked away in a waxy
box,
Appraising a woman's figure
these deys is like filling out eel
income' tax form — you're not
sine what to deduct,
Drive With Care
Perhaps the smell and the
taste of an apple strudel will
be the things your family or
friends will remember about
your cooking. Here is one for
you to try.
APPLE STRUDEL
11/2 cups sifted flour
Ye teaspoon salt ,
1 egg white
3 tablespoons salad oil
% cup lukewarm water
2 teaspoons vinegar
Y4 cup melted butter
filling
1 cup greund walnuts
g apples, peered and sliced
2/4 cup. seedlessraisins
Ya cup 'chopped candied fruit
Sift flour and salt onto a bread
board. Make a well in center.
Place in this weal the egg white,
1, tablespoon of 'salad oil, the
water and' vinegar; Work. in the
flour, kneading until a dough is
formed. Knead" until' dough 'is
elastic. Brush with remaining'
oil. Cover -with a warm bowl
and let stand for 30 minutes.
Cover table with a cloth and
dust it with flour. Roll out dough
as thin as possiblak ;Brush with
melted shortening; aprinkle with
nuts. Spread apple filling over
dough and roll .carefully by
gently lifting. one side of the
cloth; roll like a jelly roll. Bake
40 minutes at ,425 degrees F., or
until strudel is crisp and brown.
If you have no sour cream
when you want to .make a raisin
sour ecream 'pie, substitute sour
milk and a .few tablespoons of
butter for a delicious dessert.
RAISIN SOUR MILK PIE
1 cup seedless raisins (light or
dark)
2 eggs
3/4 cup brown suger
aes cup sour milk
'4 teaspoon salt
"X teaspoon cinnamon -
5 tablespoons melted butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
Pastry for 2-crust 8-inch pie
Rinse raisins; cover with 14r
cup water and bring to boil
and let simmer 5 leinutes, stir-
ring occasionally Beat eggs, add
sugar, salt and cinnamon Add
melted butter to miik and mix
with raisins and vanilla Com-
bine Mixtures. Pour into pastry
lined pie pan and cover with top
:rust.' Bake at 425 degrfes F Zot
10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350
eegrees F and bake 20-25 mine
ales longer, or until canter is
barely set.
This is a favorite cake with
re:my, especially those of Central
European ancestry II keeps very
well, and there is enough of it
for even a large family
MORAVIAN SUGAR CAKE
1 cup hot mashed potatoes
2 yeast cakes (dissolved in
1 cup lukewarm. Water)
I cup sugar
7. eggs
/ tablespoon salt
1 cup butter
I pound betewii sugar'
Clintarnen
Flour
Nuts, if you like
Mix top six ingredients. Add
enough flour to make a dough
stiff enough to pet froin spoon.
Cover bowl with damp, cloth arid
place fir' Warm spot and let stand
overnight. Next Morning, scrape
dough from boWl and pull OVet
a flat Pae—ii cooky sheet is flee)
Alohrg. the edge§ press thietrib
prints end fill with next ,t*o ing
grediente, Add nUte, If youf
Allow to rise about 20 minutes.
Bake at 400 degrees F. for 25
minutes.
* *
APPLE NUT BREAD
% cup shortening
;ti cup sugar
2 eggs, well beaten
2 cups finely chopped apples
2 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon salt
1. teaspoon each, baking •
powder and soda
1/2 cup broken nut meats
teaspoon.- lemon extract
Cream shortening and sugar;
add beaten eggs and chopped
apples and mix well, Sift dry
ingredients:-;together and add to
apple mixture; add nut meats
and lemon extract. Pour .into
greased loaf pan and bake at
350 degrees F. fbr 35-40'minutes
or until done.
Engineer of the animal'world,
the-beaver was doing a good job
of water controljong before the
first bureau was set up for 'that
purpose in Ottawa or Washing-
ton. The beaver is the largest of
all American 'rodents. Its fur was
one of the incentives for pioneer-
ing the 'West. At one time its
hide was standard currency;
later, rough -coins stamped with
the beaver's likeness were in
common use. This large, aqua-
tic' rodent is softly ',furred with •
a rich, brown coat.
By Tom A. Cullen
NE/I Staff COrrespoiident
London — A $7,500 Super Bed'
which does everything from
making tea to takirig dietetion,
has been unveiled in London,
This Cadillac of the bedroom
is made by Slumberland Ltd. of
Birmingham, and, it is designed
not so much to induce sleep as
to revolutionize the living habits
of those who can afford it.
The notion that a bed is mere-
ly furniture for sleeping is
hopelessly out-dated, according
to JIM Serdebtribe,, director of
Slumberland.
"Most people spend one-third
Of their lives in bed," Seedoilibe
declares. "So why' hot be Werth,.
:comfortable and '
Seedetnbe Objeeta StrefitionSlY
to,. the Word' !'beth'oohi." "Why
rio:t call it the sanctuary .rooraI°
be
, As it§ contribution to finer
him. the Super Bed offers:
Twin' threee feet itiettteeeett
.which Can be raised and adjUSted
Woman's Yawn
Causes Crisis
The woman hospital patient
stood at the open window and
yewned.
And when she did so the pa-
tient dropped both sets of her
false -teeth into a wilderness of
weeds in the no-man's-land,
which was guarded by Israeli
and Arab sentries,
The woman needed solid food
to help recover from a stomach
operation, so the ward sister
reported, the matter to the hos-
pital goveenor, he Ito the border
Police, they to the UN, Truce
Supervision Organization, which
then sent its representative to
inform the heads of the Israeli
and Jordan Mixed Armistice
Commission of the, happening.
An international crisis had de-
veloped,
The two officers then arrang-
ed a joint meeting, together with
shorthand writers, and the form.
alities went on for days.
A hospital maid could have
sneaked out in the dark and
searched the undergrowth for
the dentures, but she might have
been shot as a suspected infil-
trator, So the patient was put
back to bed on milk while the
mighty U.N. machine started to
go laboriously into action.
Finally, several officers from
each side, dressed for an official
occasion, proceeded to the spot
beneath the window, a nurse
above relayed directions to the
party from the patient, and soon
the dentures were found.
But they had to be the sub-
ject of more minutes and resolu-
tions before they could be offi-
cially handed over and signed
for, so it was still some time
before the patient could resume
normal eating! This farcical sit-
uation is one of many that Col.
W. Byford-Jones records in
"Forbidden Frontiers", a graphic
account of his travels on both
sides of the Jew-Arab borders.
Mount. Scopus, north of the
Mount of Olives, was a United
Nations "island" within. Jordan
containing both Arab village and
Jewish institutions.
One road only linked it with
Israel, and over this—periodi-
eally and under strict supervi-
sion — went an Israeli convoy
'carrying supplies and change of
'personnel.
One day, at St U.N. frontier
post, a sharp-eyed guard drop-
ped a test rod into a barrel of
oil bound for the Mt. Scopus
Israelis and struck an obstacle
about halfway down.
At once the. Arabs suspected
something sinister,
The U.N. guard's officer order-
ed the barrel to be taken from
the truck, 'and within a few
hours serious tension had mount-
ed between Arabs and Jews.
War loomed; 'scores of cables
went to London an& Washing-
ton.
It later transpired, however,
that the obstruction was oonly a
large floating metal cap!'
Smuggling, Col, Byford-Jones
says, still continues over this
frontier; the tension and danger
only serve to intensify the
smugglers' cunning. One night a
to any position by the touch at
a • button, They are also heated,
with therreostat controls,
Coverl ets of "champagne"
mink — there Ate enough skins
to make a full-length fur coat,
Separate radios and book
shelves for the "His" and "Her''
sides. -
A telephone, electric shaver
and a tape recorder tot his busi,
riess dictation on the "Ille" side,
A velvet. lined' jewel box i.
vibro massager,' tutehiatie tee,-
maket atid silver' tea, set on the
television a toe's length' away
at the feet of the bed,
A push button debt-eel panel
that will open or close bedroom
t.tirtains, switch off the bedroom
lights, tottithurrieete with eve'r'y
room in the 110Use. via ihter Cont.
As the leading exponent' of the
prone life, 'Secteenhe is fond di
peinting modern Mae as the
hollow-eyed Victilti Of Ms- uleees„
nitinching ,nep pills and tratiqUit,
mitteeitert around 'the
convoy was caught with:a...carav-
an ef twelve .donkeys: cargyilv,
six sacks. 0 drugs, six huge'
bales of eeetly cigarette lighters,„
end- ..thousands -of silk stockings,.
Among other things
An old smuggling family
boasted that it smuggled every-
thing for which there was a,
market, and once bed smuggled.
two cows which had been. sold
by one small-holder .to. another.
Meek) cows led to the emeggl,
ere' undoing. Pref'err'ing , thie
green pastures of their original
master, a Jew, they strayed tee,
the frontier in search of him and
the whole affair was revealed..
This was the first time Israel
and Jordan co-operated to try
an infiltrator in a joint court set
UP in the ruins of 'no-man's-land e
The Arab mayor° of Barta'at
had a wife each side of the'
frontier line running through his
village; Fatima, art Israeli Arab,
who lived with him, and Felicia,
e Jordanian Arab, living on the-
other side..
Some nights each week het
sneaked across the border into'
Jordan to fulfil his connubial
duties to the latter, and return-
ing one morning in the early
hours, fell in with a real infil-
trat nor, A
argument started which,
developed into a fight. Jordan
guards, hearing the noise, sailed!
in, arrested both, and thing them
into tho on Only
combined operations initiated by
the mayor's iwo wives eventual-
ly freed him,
Be was very peeved at being
treated like /that just for doing,
his duty as a loving • husband.
Nowadays, he still goes to see-
Farida but takes care to steer
clear of stray infiltrators!
"Johnson says he wears the'
trousers in his house."
"Perhaps so, but every night
after supper he wears an apron
over them,"
FENCED IN—Meshed veiling at-
tached to a Icrown of 'cuffed
white *Bali straw fences in the
"mystery woman" look in this.
spring hat design.
:4,8, TA ma, Tmis
.4 • a dam Andoews.
Super Bed Can Do Almost Everything
house when he could be relaxing
in bed.
"Why not go to bed after dui;i*
net with everything yOti need—
televielon," books, knitting, tele-
phone — at your finger .tips?"
the Slumberland 'director asks
"After all, Sir Winston Church-
ill has done some of his best
work lying on his back."
Seccombe,• who recently visit-
ed Chicago to inspect American
beds,• said Slumberland is cone
sidering, a cheaper version of the
Super -Bed, priced at $3,000 But
he is convinced there is a mar-
ket for the Super Bed among'
American millionaires and the
oil "sheiks of the Persian Gull.
TO one reporter, the Super
8ed, when uhveiled to the Prees
conjured up the nightmare of a
man being eheved-jitnioluotarilee
scalded With hot tea and Foided
Up in the mattrees while hie
scteaths were Poem-tied er wee.
but Sluteiberland
itSSLIPOCI' hith "itle euite
able, for ibis hod On mad."
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