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Making Marmalacie
Minus The Bumps
SEE SOAR IN TORONTO — Policeman Bill Costello seems to have come to a dead stop in
mid-a,ir while practicing for a hurdles race in Toronto, Canada. The arresting sight is made
up of hopefuls in the Miss Toronto 1.960 beauty contest. Bill was training for the city's annual
Police Field Day.
Look Out For Those
Carpenter Ants."
The carpenter ant, unlike hill
colleague, the termite, does not
eat wood. lie excavates and NC.
pets his boring as sawdust. And
unlike the termite, he can work
in daylight and is big elloPj'41
to be seen readily.
Entomologists at S. C'. ...lobe-
son & Son, wax experts, des-
cribe the carpenter ant as big,
black, or reddish-black in colour,
about a half-inch long, and tend-
ing to set up house in fringe.
areas. of house and garage, porch
and, root, window sills, and in
rotting timber„
Been trees arc targets of these
energetic borers, and they are
seen also in attics, under 'floors,
or in any place where they can
set up colonies for reproduction.
Carpenter ants, however, are
far less of a menace than ter-
mites for the reasons that they
can. be easily spotted. Sawdust
piles are a sure giveaway. Slit-
like holes in woodwork are
other signs. And the workers
make no effort to disguise their
presence, racing around the
house both indoors and outdoors
as though they owned the place.
Recommended for fighting
carpenter ants is chlordane, an
ant spray used effectively to
control the pests. Covering the
surfaces where ants might crawl
or where a colony might be lo-
cated with this spray is usually
all that is. needed. Old Churche's Come
To Life. Again
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Ora Sincerity.
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Cathertne Olivia. Philips, a
spinster getting. Along in her 40a,
gazed admiringly it po. n the
bendeoMe features • Of 56.-yeere
old Walter de la Warr., lie was
a persuasive tallser„ and by his
friends' accounts, an "unrecog-
nized genius" who had invented
rb boxlike ,,raeseele diagnostie
instrument" for curing illnesses.
7- at long distance,. Far this de-
vice, Catherine Olivia paid him
$300,
As instructed by de la Warr
(at $12 a lesson), the spinster.
placed hunks of hair and dollops
of blood collected from ailing
friends in the box's small draw-
ers, which were marked plus
(for females) and minus (for
males). Then, she twiddled .the
box's nine numbered dials,
For six months she twiddled
and waited, Miss Philips told a
British court, and fog six months
nothing happened,
slamming down the lid in dis-
illusionment, she sued de la
Warr for damages, accusing him
of fraud.
De la Warr's defense was that
he had invested $300,000 of • his
own money in the manufacture
of the instruments in his little
black box. His own experts tes-
tified that it had been success-
ful in treating a lame elephant,
a paralyzed monkey, an army
major with migraine headaches,
and • an ill-tempered Irish race.
horse that "resented its jockey."
This testimony did not con-
vince bewigged Justice Sir Wil-
liam Arthien Davies that the
box actually worked. But he
was impressed by its inventor's
sincerity. He ruled last month
that because de la Warr actually
believed in his black box, he
was not guilty.
As Miss Philips stomped out
of court, de la Warr announced
that manufacture of more black
boxes was proceeding at a re-
cord clip. "Work at the labora-
tory to probe into the mysteries
of life and death continues un-
abated," he said. "New horizons
are unfolding."
•
Early printers made opaque
sheets of paper transparent for
copying purposes by soaking the
'Fleets in naptha. When the nap-
ha dries, the sheets become
opaque again.
A Florida woman,. Mrs Ada.
Dent Vinton of fort Pierce, was
dismayed because she noticed
her husband always discarded.
the peel from her homemade
orange marmalade. Bagel' to
please him, elle decided to cook
orange peel in her pressure cook-
er, and put it through an electric
blender to pulverize, instead of
following the method of chop-
ping it and putting it through a
ricer,
She sugared .the peel; then
cooked' it until it wouldn't drop
from a spoon, et nearly 220' F.
(stirring constantly to keep from
jelling on the bottom of the pan)
and then she added honey to.
soften the sharp taste of the cit-
rus. All are cooked together to
220' F.
Mrs. Vinton's marmalades are
a great success and she offers
the following favorite far others
who also like to experiment in
cooking.
honey-Orange Butter
2 qts. of oranges, unpeeled and
cut into chunks
1 large lemon, quartered
4 pounds white sugar
1 quart water
3 cups honey — 1 cup for each 4
cups of fruit mix
Method I (Old-fashioned but de-
licious):
Wash about 8 or 10 oranges
(depending on. the size) in soda
water with a brush, rinse twice
and dry.
Cut off peel and slice into thin
slivers one-eighth inch thick.
Remove seeds and cut pulp into
small chunks,.
Place in a large bowl, cover
with 1 quart of water and let
stand overnight.
Next day, bring mixture to
boil in heavy pot, turn the heat
on low and simmer for 20 min-
utes. Let cool.
Put fruit through ricer or col-
ander and add 4 pounds of sugar
and heat until sugar is dissolved.
At this point, you may store
mixture in refrigerator until you
are ready to cook it or cook a
portion of it and store the rest
for several days, states a writer
in the Christian Science Monitor.
When cooking, use a 3-quart
container, putting in only 4 cups
of the fruit mix at a time. Cook
it fast, stirring constantly until
it will hardly drop from a spoon.
Then add 1 cup of honey and
cook slowly (to preserve the
flavor) until it. is very thick
again. Let this cool —a little and
then pour into sterilized jars
and seal. This is nice to put be-
tween layer cakes, jelly roll, on
ice cream, hot buttered biscuits
or toast.
Method 11 ''(A quickie, recom-
mended by Mrs. Vinton):
Same as Method I except that
both peel and pulp are pulver-
ized in an electric blender, 11/2
cups at a time, instead of being
chopped and forced through a
ricer; and instead of cooking
fruit in a heavy pot for 15 min-
utes, it is brought to 10 pounds
of pressure in a pressure cooker
and removed from the heat,
the sums being spent on contem-
porary church building through-
out the country, But the rural
church picture is like that, Smell,
struggling, congregations do not
lend themselves to large budgets,
Even acquisition of a furnace or
church pews can be a long-
dreamed-about luxury.
Sometimes such a handful of
parishioners has net been able
to hang on with the leadership
availeble. Throughout the Lleited
States the countryside is dotted
with small rural churches which,
for one reason or another, have
been obliged to close.
Whore there is a demonstrated
interest, however, the reopening
of one of these churches would
not be out of step with the gen-
eral Protestant trend today,
A Down - Maine spokesman,
schooled in this rural church
proving grounds for student pas-
tors and new ministers, said re-
ce141‘it. nly the past, the Protestant
church nationally has said the
struggling rural church should
close. Now the trend is to say
that new techniques should be
used to keep the congregation
alive and to strengthen the
neighborhood church,
"Often when an edifice closes,
a fundamentalist group — one
with strong emotional appeal —
comes in. Such groups always are
on the lookout for little aban-
doned churches.
"Now the stress, however, is on
the strengthening of lay leader-
ship and the sharing of profes-
sional ministerial leadership so
that churches will not have to
clovaise.'i'le
the Rev. Royce Coan of
Machias, Maine, only recently
has been a student at the Bangor
Theological Seminary, he speaks
out of maturity. Most Bangor stu-
dents are more advanced in years
before they decide to go into the
ministry, writes Betty D. Mayo in
the Christian Science Monitor.
In addition to having been en-
rolled in the Bangor plan, he also
has been involved deeply in the
Methodist Church's West Wash-
ington Group Ministry.
The latter program is a type of
sharing of ministerial leadership
especially set up to meet the
needs of the sparsely settled area
in Washington County along
coastal Route 1 from Machias to
Milbridge,
Religious leaders in Maine, es-
pecially, are mindful of the need
of lending help and guidance to
the small rural church which has
dwindled in membership and
cannot afford the services of a
full-time minister.
With the trend toward regional
high schools and large commun-
ity shopping centers, where mass-
es gather, it might seem strange
that there are not more evidences
of rural areas worshiping to-
getheralone instead of trying to go it
A Washington County clergy-
man sums up the country church
situation thus: "This community
is typical of the national scene
where people five miles away
will come to shop or to the mov-
ies but not to worship. If people
are to be served, they have to
worship where they live."
An American editor worries
his hair grey to see that no typo-
graphical mistakes appear on the
pages of his magazine. The Chi-
nese editor — at least the pre-
communist one — was wiser
than that. He left his readers
the supreme satisfaction of dis-
covering a few deliberate typo-
graphical mistakes for them-
selves.
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Willie Will Have
To Ride Harder
Racing fans well knew that
tight-lipped Willie Shoemaker
was no beggar on horseback; as
the nation's top jockey, he has
been earning upwards of $100,000
a year for the past decade. Still,
many a punter's eyes turned
green at the picture of wealth
drawn in a Los Angeles court last
week. Complaining that her husa
band stayed out nights and
wouldn't tell her where he had
been, Virginia Shoemaker — who
married Willie ten years ago,
when he was 18 and she 15 —won
a divorce. Her purse: Alimony of
$2;500 a month for one year,
$2,000 a month the second year,
and $1,900 a month thereafter;
$600 a month for the support of
two adopted children; a $70,000
home; and the couple's half-int-
erest lila cafe and service station.
Off the main route on a remote
rural road in Maine stands a
little Disciples of Christ Church
whose doors recently were open-
ed for the first time in almost 50
years.
In this day of .superhighways
and expansive church building,
it is difficult for an average sub-
urbanite to conceive of an edi-
fice so inconspicuous that even
the new minister had difficulty
locating it for the first time.
The way in which the Rev.
Herbert L. Reid, a young dedi-
cated clergyman, happened to
land in this rugged north country
at a time when no parish 'even
existed is a tale in itself.
It was Bert Hammond, a for-
mer Worcester, Mass., business-
man transplanted to Belfast,
Maine, who sought out the Rev.
Mr. Reid, a former United States
Navy Chaplain, at a turning point
in his ministerial career.
The clergyman was without a
parish when Mr. Hammond sug-
gested that perhaps he was the
one to reopen one of two Dis-
ciples churches in Maine. (The
other is located at Lubec, the
most easterly point in the United
States.)
The challenge literally was the
Rev. Mr. Reid's answer to prayer.
With a loaned automobile and a
small gift of money, the minister
set out. When he reached what
he thought was the community,
he could find no one who ever
had heard of the church. On a
second trip, with the encourage-
ment of his benefactor, he was
more successful.
Overnight he interested a
young couple in "reactivating"
South Princeton's Church of
Christ, as the Disciples of Christ
brotherhood now is called. The
church never had lost its charter
granted in 1893 even though the
last entry in its church book was
dated 1903.
In the 10 months' time that
followed there was a total of five
bona fide members placed on the
church rolls. Sunday attendance
averages about 40 individuals.
Virtually the entire community
representing various faiths has
turned out on various occasions
to remodel the church and bring
it up to its present $4,000 replace-
ment value,
Such a figure sounds like a
Mere pittance in comparison to
for an extra mattress. My only
complaint now is the distance.
A hundred and thirty-five miles
,is a long way to drive.
Last week we were c'a'ching
up on work at hoMe — and lis-
tening and watching to the Re-
publican Convention on televi-
sion. Up until now we were not
too much in favour of Richard
Nixon as a presidential candi-
date but we certainly thought
his acceptance speech was really
,outstanding. He seemed to place
politics on a distinctly higher
level. May it so continue.
One day last week we drove
to Milton and were surprised to
find the new bridge over the
"Sixteen" on the Dundas High-
way was open to traffic. A
four-lane bridge, of course. No
more holding your breath when
meeting a heavy transport won-
dering if there is really room
for two to pass, as we did so
often on the old two-lane bridge.
And yet we remember that same
bridge being opened in '1922,
and at that time it was con-
sidered one of the most modern
bridges in Ontario. It was, com-
pared with the bridge that it
replaced. The original bridge
was iron, very inadequately
spanning the ravine. It was built
in stagecoach days and was the
only means whereby the stage-
coach could cross the ravine,
known at that time as "Proud-
foot Hollow" — the site of a
once thriving village, including
a sawmill, grist mill, tannery,
houses and a large hotel to ac-
commodate the travelling pub-
lic. The Post House was situated
at Postville on the east bank of
the ravine. Two years ago it was
demolished to make way for a
gas station. The first railway
spelt ruin to Proudfoot Hallow.
Business dwindled, houses were
vacated, hotel rooms stood emp-
ty. The "Hollow" finally be-
came a ghost village. Now only
lilac bushes, remnants of an old
garden, mark the site of a once
thriving community, I have
heard that part of the old iron
laridee remains in the ravine. It
could be, as at the 'time the
bridge was replaced, it was still
as good as ever but quite inade-
quate to carry the traffic of the
20th century — with the auto-
mobile just coming into its own.
The sturdy old iron bridge was
mute testimony to its engineer,
Dr. Anson Buck, a pioneer meal,
cal doctor, practising in the
nearby village of Palermo, out-
. tending in municipal politics-
just as he was in medicine and
:surgery. Ile apeeialized in the
correction of club feet.
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Let The Wife Drive
A stocky, unassuming man in
a conservative suit, Dr. Seward
Miller surprisingly enough drives
a gleaming white Thunderbird
which, with a most careful turn
of mind, he has equipped with
seat belts. He's a social drinker.
"But when I've had more than
two drinks," he said, "I have my
wife drive me home," And that,
argues Dr, Miller, should be the
rule for every driver.
This rule of thumb by the 54-
year-old professor at the Uni-
versity of Michigan Medical
School had some heft for this
reason; He is chairman of the
American Medical Association's
Committee on. Medical Aspects of
Automobile Injuries and Deaths.
"The public must learn the basic
facts of aichol consumption," he
told the International Congress
on Occupational Health meeting
in New York last month, "One
drink may be tolerated; two
drinks put one on the level of
impairment for about two hours;
three drinks are too many,"
The National Safety Council
says that alcohol was the cause
of a shocking third of the na-
tion's 37,800 traffic fatalities last
year. To discourage drivers from
drinking, Dr. Miller urged that
the present measure of drunk-
eness ,15 per cent alcohol in
the blood stream — be lowered
to no More than .10 per cent,
Dr. Miller's recommendation
they very well be adopted. The
present drunk measure was urg-
ed by the AMA fifteen years ago
and is now in effect in many
stated. I'ar, Miller thinks that the
AMA will soon recommend that
a new .10 per cent limit be set —
and he hopes the states will fol-
low as before.
In 1930 Joseph A. Adams, a
wood engraver working for
Harper Brothers„ New York,
eonceiVed the idea of tnek'ng an
elect:Area freet a wood cut,
fd•et u mag'izitV
illuJtrat!otis lit Ii;11.,
Last week, for the first time
this year, - we were up at the
family cottage. The weather was
perfect and we had a grand
time. Sometimes we have been
inclined to wonder whether the
cottage was such a good idea —
that possibly our • grandsons
might have been just as well
at home or spending part of the
summer with us. Now we have
changed our minds. The boys
are developing an independence
they never would have done at
home, and it's wonderful to see.
They go out in their swim trunks
and life preservers and play
around on the docks and in and
out of the boats hour after hour.
They know exactly how to han-
dle the ropes to bring either of
the boats in closer to the dock
so they can step in and out
safely. They each have a little
fishing rod and "fish" when they
feel like it. That is, after Dave
has been to a nearby house for
live bait. And they often run
errands for Mummy, getting wa-
ter from the farm pump or
bread from the store half a mile
away. Dave is getting on fine
with his swimming and learn-
ing to handle one, of the boats.
That is, with oars. So we have
finally come to the conclusion
that the cottage was a wise in-
vestment after all.
Of course, there are occasion-
al uneasy moments. For instance
I was dosing in the veranda
swing-couch while the boys
were playing around on tha
dock. One time I looked up and
could see only two of them. Be-
fore I could get really alarmed
I saw a pair of legs waving iri
the air from one of the boats.
Jerry was evidently lying on his
hack in the boat, Another time
Eddie fell headfirst into the
water between a boat and the
dock — with his life jacket on,
He had scrambled out before we
could get to him.
The two boats are nothing
fancy but they are in good con-
dition and answer the purpose.
One has a small outimerd motor,
the other is a flat-bottomed.
punt. Dee operates the outboard
but I am more interested in the
punt. T looked at it longingly,
remembering the hours end:
hours I used to spend boating
n England. Could I still handle
.. boat, I wondered' "Viol a why
eot try?" said Art. So I did. He
came with me but I did most of
the rowing and. I was thrilled
to find I hadn't lost the knack,
Partner likes water navigation
as much as I do but he gets
very stiff if he sits in either of
the boats for very long, After-
weeda he gets his nitiacis loss-
cued up by splitting weed!
This week Bob, Joy and their
Iwo boys have gone up for a
‘.w. days, There sang; 110 lins4
to the number a cottage can
t mum date: It may foe bre tied
at the seams but Cleo. I; al • „
a little spare rectal oa the new
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