The Brussels Post, 1959-03-19, Page 6FEB 19 FEB 26 LAST MONTH - IN HISTORY
FEB 13
FEB 21 :Sritiali trims
.Minister Macmillan.
arrireS in Rinks for
talks on ,rhri crisis.
U,S-i4at boards haiku's Sating ship in
search of clues to trans-
atlantic cable breaks.
Turkey and Greece
agree on pinto
melte Cyprus an independent nation. Japae and South Korea
Neer open conflict veer pion
to repatriate Kerner: in
Jopan to North Korea,
eerie- 11;0,
EB 24 eineleeKhrusischev
rejects an for foreipe
minister's Meeting; *C1f1h
summit coeferenceof
heads of state, FEB 10 22 killed as tornado
strikes St. Louis.
FEB 5.5. bares recording
of eviit-artack on U.S. lees plan. over Armenia; Russio 4.14
calls it a fake,
65 kil led
asairliner crashes
into New York's
Gut:Rlver.
FEB 14 W. of State Pullet, In
hospital for hernia operation,
hund to hare cancer; White
House disclaims need for
successor.
Norfolk,
e. begins
peaceful Integra.
tion of schools,
U.S. launches
weather observing
satellite Vanguard
Russia
accuses Iran of
breaking off treaty
talks under U.S.
pressure .warns
against signing
military pact
with U.S.
11 FEB, 19 Pres. Eisenhower visits
Mexican President Mateo:; sign
pact to build dam on Rio Grande.
FEB. 22 Rhodesian troops
Alp.•move into can tre
orrugmlos quell African upriiing.
BOUND FOR RIO — Clare Boothe
Luce, above, at one time U.S.
ambassador to Italy, is soon to
become new U.S. ambassador
to Brazil.
basic structure of matter, the ori-
gin of the planets, the solar sys-
tem, and the universe, the secret
of the chemistry of life itself, the
nature of gravity ... these are the
questions the scientists hope to
answer through the study and
exploration of space and other
celestial bodies. The questions
run •to volumes. The new quee
tone that these answers raise will
fill even greater volumes.—From
"Rocket to the Moon," by Erik
Bregaust and Seabreok Hull,
Got Lit Up On
Electric 'Eels
So great is the demand for eels
in Britain to-day that extra •
quantities have to be imported
from abroad. To help meet the
demand, one Dutch ship' fr
om specializes in collecting eels from
various countries and delivering
them here, 4:.
Part of her hull has been peree
forated to let sea-water into the
tanks that carry', her live, wrig-
gling cargo. ' '
The firm, white flesh of eels
is the, most highly nutritious of
all our fishes. Some of the tast-
iest eels come from Scotch salm-
on waters, although irniScotland
eels have never been popular as
food for some unexplained rea-
son.
Many an athlete has -trained on
eels, firmly, believing t ha t
"there's more strength in a dish
of eels than in a pound of steak."
In Britain they have been
catching and eating freshwater
eels for centuries. In Anglo-
Saxon timee grants and charter's
were often regulated by pay-
ments made in eels.
Electric eels which have been
found in' the Amazon grow to a
lengtIn'ot six feet and can give
powerful electric shocks.
Two were shown 'at a meeting
of the New York !biological So-
ciety. Flexible metal bands, were
fixed tound the fishes and wires
attached to these bands were
connected to neon lamp§ and an
electric motor.
When the eels Were `stimulated
by tickling' thein, the lamps lit
up and the wheel of the motor
turned.
"So you weren't in the least
surprised that joint had becorrie
a doctor?"
"Not a'hit. Why, even when he
Was at , school his handwriting
Was pretty terrible."
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lie tint: I,dd iuid be eSacti
"Where Mt Yen get the.tiieW"
Said He Owned
Drake's Drum
;RUE TALKS
6aaeAndrsthis.
picks when running the gaunt-
let of the Yangtze River, a re-
ception and celebration awaited
her in the Duke of Cornwall
Hotel,
Here Drake's Drum bobbed up
again after a long absence, and
a well-known Fleet Street pho-
tographer set out to get a really
good picture of it. He had al-
ready taken twenty-four photo-
graphs of the general proceed-
ings and was about to expose his
twenty-fifth when he heard a
voice behind him. The photo-
grapher turned around and saw
a man standing there.
"You must not take that," the
latter said, and when asked why,
replied, "I am the owner "
"Why do you object?" asked
the photographer,
The other gave no direct an-
swer at first, then mentioned
solemnly that the drum was
haunted.
He turned away- and the photo-
grapher, grinning to himself, took
the picture — with eerie re-
sults. Twenty-four of the snaps
he took that day came out per-
fectly. Only one plate was a
complete blank—Drake's Drum?
WHITE ALMOND CAKE
8 tablespoons (3 ounces) butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup cake flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
14 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons milk
4 egg whites, beaten stiff but
not dry
3/4 teaspoon almond flavoring
3/2 cup blanched almonds
1/2 cup powdered sugar
Cream butter; gradually add
sugar, stirring well after each
addition. Sift flour, baking pow-
der, and salt into the butter
mixture, alternating with milk,
Add almond flavoring with the
last of the milk. Beat with
spoon after each addition of
flour and milk. 'Beat egg whites
stiff but-not dry. Fold into bat-
ter until they entirely disappear.
Pour batter into greased 9-inch
square pan. For topping, mix
together sliced almonds and
powdered' sugar and sprinkle
evenly over batter, Bake in cen-
ter of oven at 375° F, for 30
minutes.
Ever since the time of the
Spanish, Armada, and even be
/ore that, Drake's much-vaunted
them has been shrouded in mys-
tery which has puzzled. many
'people, Did it really exist and
what was the truth about it?
At 13 uckl an ci Monachoreun
(Buckland-of-the-Monks), neat'
telverton, the fifteenth-century
church of St. Andrew is of great
interest concerning this subject
/or here you will find the Drake
Chapel (built by Sir Francis
himself during the time when
be lived at Buckland Abbey, and
rebuilt later in the reign of
James I). This chapel is full of
brake history.
About a mile south of the
church is Buckland Abbey itself,
and this building is probably
without a rival in all Devon, so
lar as tradition goes, since it
was the great Sir Francis Drake's
own home.
Nobody for many years has
known the exact location of this
strange drum. It appears to have
been moving about a good deal,
although it was certainly hous-
ed in Buckland Abbey when a
disastrous fire broke out there
some years ago. The drum has
been in the Citadel at Plymouth,
among other places, and was
supposed to have resided for
some time somewhere in Somer-
set.
The drum's chief claim to
fame lies in the fact that it was
supposed to be heard beating a
warning when Britain was in
danger. It was heard by many
during the time when Napoleon
had his huge armee assembled
across the Channel with the in-
tention of invading our shores.
Bald many believed they had
beard it also in the early days
of the second world war, when
Hitler started a similar panic,
Much of the mystery seems to
be dissolving nowadays. Drake's
Drum has been 'seen more fre-
quently, and here is one of the
most extraordinary incidents,
fully vouched for by responsible
people, in connection with the
weird relic.
In 1949, when the frigate
H.M.S. Amethyst reached Ply-
mouth after . her amazing ex-
The High Push
Into Space
people ae, well as c)17 authors,
aetiets and others known to be
gifted, with vivid imagination,
Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard.
has told how he was at a. cock-
tail pally when lie heard two
'other guests saying, "Air Mar-
shal Sir Victor Goddard ought
to have been here. But he's dead.
Died last night in an air crash."
Amused, Sir Victor told them.
he was very Mitch, alive. ApolO.
gizing, the etartled guest ex,
pleined, "I must have daydeeern-
ed it. I thought it was true,
was in the evening, in a. snow-
storm, of the coast, a rocky
shore... ."
The Air Marshal was deeply
disturbed, for he was making.
such an air journey He had no
logical reason for cancelling the
trip, He went on his way — and
it all happened as foretold; the
evening flight, the snowstorm,
the crash on a rocky shore, For-
'tunately, the passengers escaped.
unscathed,
The scientists believe that the
reverie, the random wandering
of the mind when it is off its.
guard, may be closer linked than
we imagine with the trance state
of the medium or the profound.
freedom of thought, in sleep, of
the dreamer.
A classic instance was staged
sonic years ago when, in a light
trance, the medium Mrs. • Os-
borne Leonard tried to foresee
the first page of to-morrow's
newspaper. Neither the editor
nor the compositor could tell
what text would apeear in the.
various columns of that edition,
Mrs. Leonard found the head-
lines blurred. She could not, it
seems, clearly foresee to-mor-
raw'e news. But she was able to
give the approximate poaitioes
on the page of twelve names and
place names. All but two proved
correct.
On the isle of Mauritius there
was once a lighthouse keeper
who could foretell the arrival of
a ship up to three dens before
she appeared over the horizon.
It is recorded that he presew
the arrival of 575 vesselse often
from as far as 600 miles away.
'The keeper, named Bottineau.
declared that he could register
• their coming if he ceceeecd his
mind of all other thoughts.
Then there is the amazing ex-
ample of how, on the night be-
fore the great Tokyo earthquake
of 1923, the howling of dogs in
the city was so widespread and
.::persistent that many people
. were convinced it was a portent.
Minutes before the Quetta
earthquake dogs pulled their
owners from their beds, acting
with such persistence that house-
holders got up to see what was
wrong and thus save their lives,
gave.dogs a natural knoWledge
90,lee' future, a sixth sense of
coneing• events, that man has for-
'gotten:et° develop? Can we all
eqpreS66.'!the future in 'those reus-
e, ing :111I)Ments when we let our
iniAgmatioris run riot? Watch
,those,e •'daydreams — and then
„Watele4yen ts.
In Storage!
- —
Enough furniture an d other
belongings are stored away in
Britain's depositories to "furnish'
every home in at least three of
Britain's largest cities," it was
said recently.
Before the first world war, a
woman deposited a set of Victor-
ian knick-knacks which she had
inherited from her mother. The
woman lived in a small flat
which could not accommodate
them so she stored them away
at the depository, declaring that
for sentimental reasons she
would never part with them.
Only when she died a few years
ago were the-knick-knacks dis-
posed of by her executors. Jig,
saw puzzles are tame compared
with the problems' of depository
staffs who must store 'e very
article, large and small, so that'
it is readily accessible by the
owner. One well-to-do woman
took all her furniture out of
store, and put it back again four
times in eighteen months,
Before going to live on the
Riviera, a bachelor sent all the
furniture from his four-room
flat to a depository. He paid
the rent for ten months, but af-
ter that nothing more was heard
of hint.
One British depository which
has a large room full of unclaim-
ed furniture, introduced a rule
that it would retain goods for
three years and t h e n, if the
owners could not be traced, the
goods would be sold,
Depositories have stored every-
thing from trunks full of love-
letters to a couple of human
heads of dark-skinned chieftains
which belonged to an authority
on South Sea native tile and cus-
toms.
Do You Daydream
The future?
Are you one of those rare
people who. can remember their
daydreams from one day to the
next? If so, have you noticed,
that some of these momenta of
reverie seem to come true?
After nearly eighty years of
investigating telepathic dreams,
pre,visien and other psychic
phenomena, members of tbe So-
ciety for Psychical Research are
turning their attention to day-
dreams — and discovering that
this harmless but apparently
time-wasting habit may supply
the key to one of the great un-
known factors of human life,
In the year 1897 an author
named Morgan Robertson day-
dreamed of a disaster at sea, He
wrote it all down in a novel he
called "Futility," published in
1898, the story of a huge Atlantic
liner called the Titanic which,
loaded with wealthy passengers,
srtuck an iceberg and sank on
a freezing April night.
But it was not until April,
1912, that the liner Titanic sail-
ed an her maiden voyage and
met her terrible end,
In the distant year 1525 the
painter Albrecht Durer sat idly
visualizing the details of an
imaginary picture and then rea-
lized he had daydreamed some-
thing unusual . . "an enormous
waterspout in the sky," as he
said, "which came dowe and met
the trees."
He jotted it down in a water-
colour but was still so impressed
that he added the words, "May
God help us!" It is all there in
detail, the explosion Sf the first
atom-bomb at Hiroshima, seen
from a hilltop outside the town.
But the atom-bomb did not fall,
as we all know, until 1945 . .
420 yearsafter Durer's strange
vision.
Can wt put it down to coinci-
dence? Could he have foreseen
the atom-bomb by pure chance
One summer day in 1883 a
Boston newspaper reporter
named Soames chanced to hear
that earth tremors had been de-
tected from the Indian Ocean.
Unashamedly, he dreamed 'up a
fantastic tale of a great volcanic
eruption, on the island of Kra-
katoa and sold it to the news-
papers, claiming secret sources
of information.
Half the island had been blown
away, he reported, with a terri-
ble toll of thousands of lives.
Coastal villages had been de-
stroyed by tidal waves. Villagers
inland had been' killed by rocks
falling from high in the air.
When the report was published
and no 'confirmation came, edi-
tors suspected a hoax. It was a
month before the newe,,lealced,
through' of the terrible eettption*
on Krakatoa, .oceUrring Much' as •
Soames had told. it;ilew had he'
so accurately daydreamed :44S :eel
aster occurring many thousandsd
of miles away?
There is evidence thate„daye,
&earns materialize for orcitn .
Of course you know that di-
rections for cooking a pot roast
are entirely different from the
regular sort, for it is browned
and then cooked a long time in
moist heat,
A pot roast usually requires
the addition of liquid. Follow-
ing is an old-fashioned cooking
method, but it's hard to beat the
fine flavor of meat cooked this
way. It makes a superior meal
from an economical cut of beef.
SWEET-SOUR POT ROAST
5 pounds boned 'pot roast
2 tablespoons shortening
/2 cup sliced onion
1 cup vinegar
Ye cup brown sugar
IA teaspoon nutmeg
Melt shortening in heavy ket-
tle, Brown meat in melted fat.
Remove 'meat. Add onions and
cook until transparent. Return
meat to kettle. Add remaining
ingredients. Cover tightly and
simmer 3 hours or until meat is
tender, If gravy is made, thicken
broth by using. 11/2 teablespoons
flour for every cup of broth.
Serves 8-10.
* *
Here is a method of scallop-
ing potatoes on top of the stove
very handy when, you're in a
harry.
SKILLET-SCALLOPED
POTATOES
6 ,mediumeeized potatoes
4 tablespoons shortening
1 medium-'sized onion, peeled
Silted
1 teaspoon salt -
aA teaspoon pepper ,
1/4 cup thin cream
1/e cup cubed processed cheese
Pare potatoes; slide thin. Heat,
shortening' in large skillet Add
potatoes, onion, and seasonings.
Fry _ever hew heat until golden
broWn, turning frequently, Four
cream over potatOet, add cheese,
and' stir enough to 'mix. Cover
and cook slowly over low heat
fOr 10 minutes, or until potatoes
are fender, Serve piping hot.
Serves 5-6.
Would you like to serve some
potato posies for dinner next
time you have fish?
POTATO POSIES
Pare -3 medium-sized petatoes
and shred on .medium shredder.
Heat a small amount of oil or
shOrtening in a heavy skillet,
Drop in potatoes, a spoonful at
a time, like pancakes. Flatten a
little, keeping the cakes rather
thin, Turn when golden brOWri
and brown on other side. Drain.
On paper towels, sprinkle with
salt and onion or garlic salt.
Serves 4-5.
The shaggy shreds Make the
petals of the posies.
*
This is a typical old - time
p u m p k i n pie enriched with
tangy molasses and currants, We
like teaspoon cinnamon Added
to the crust mixture. For a
richer" pie, sprinkle top with a
little sugar and cinnamon and
clot with butter before baking.
PUMPKIN-CURRANT PIE
We Mlles pumpkin
1 cup milk
2 eggs'
1 egg, separated
or nA cup of currants
3 tablespoons sugar'
1 teaspoon cinnainoi
i4 teasPoott, cloves
let teaspoon ginger'
teaspoon 'salt
lea cup molasses
Grated rind, of half tendon
Datigh or pie shell
pumpkin,Milk, spices, 'salt,
teledaeeee, sugar and leitiOri
Add 2 eggs and 1 egg Wk. Mix
well, Add currants, Beat 1. egg.
white stiff and fold into tribe,
jute. Pour into unbaked
Pie Bake et 450 F.,. fat id
Reduce heat to 326°
and bake d6 hithutes longer.
0 4, 4,
"This White eliteind cake it
delielette 'setteed warm. 'as Is'.
The recipe 'Makes 1 0-'rich
square single layer Cake.
HANDY TV — A new miniatur-
ized television system for use in
missiles can be held in a girl's
hands. Jeanne Townley, holds
the camera and main control
package of the nine-pound, bat-
Iery-powered unit. With a 1,000-
mile range, the tiny TV could
be used to monitor behavior of
missile components or living
passengers in space flight. It
won't transmit pictures of space.
ISSUE 12 — 1959
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teentli Ste. New Toronto; Oittr
Many millenniums ago, the 7.
discovery of fire enabled primi-
tive man to cook his food, warm
his cave, confound primeval
beasts that would prey on him,
and ultiMately to have machines
and the stored energy of Sun and
Earth do his 'work for him. In the:
dim recesses of recorded history;'.,
the wheel evolved, and the lever
was discovered. A long time back,
the felled tree became a planked
sailing ship..The horse "was tamed,
and on land, lake, river, and sea
man was on the- move explor-
ing,. exploiting, conquering, plun-
dering, colonizing,, studying,
"building, whetting his thirst for
knowledge, power, and wealth,
Gradually, 'through the eons he
has covered, carved, up, and
parceled out this .196,940,000-
square-mile spherical bit of celes-
tial' real estate we call' Earth,
Simon Lake's submarine per-
mits us to putter around a few
hundred feet below the ocean's
surface, and the Wright brothers'
wings allow us a crude kind of
flight in the lower depths of the
sea of air that envelops the
Earth, Generally speaking, how-
ever, thtoughout all of human
history, man has lived . right
here on the surface of the Earth.
And, in a restless sort of way, he
has been content, With a few
rare ' exceptions, he has never
even contemplated the possibility
of an alterriatiee. Now, qiiietly
and in the logical course of
events, yet suddenly in the pro-
foundness of its implications, he
has another startling second
choice.
The successful launching of the
first Moon. rocket divides the
course of human history into two
parts. In the one just beginning,
the infinite reaches of endless
galaxies await 'non's arrival, and
the Moon Will be his first stop;
In the next decades there is no
aspect of human thought or ac-
tivity that will not be affected
by this incipient second phase of,
inah's chronicle, Initially, man
is pursuing this escape from
Earth for three reasons:
The first is his innate Melina,.
tion to keep pulling back known
frontiers, whether geogtaphical,
scientific, or philosophical', and
all three are involved in the push
into space. Like George Malloty
Who was asked why he wanted to
assault Mount" Everest and re'-
plied, "Becanse it's there," man is
now"moving into space because
it's there and because his sciences
provided hint with the
means Of doing it..
The second reason for seeking
escape ftern teeth comes - Of a
military tOntaittlielatie a shin/real
instinct,
The third reaeort, though pet-,
hap: not 4o currently 'compelling
as /thither two,. nevertheless of
Vital long-term. initeofteriee. This
is the quest /Or ktioWledge. The
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