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The Brussels Post, 1960-09-29, Page 2SP:iAK TO. ME, DAD — "Down-Wing," the pet heron of a barracks at Ft. Hood seems to hear the call of the wild via George Mulch's trombone. The bird's big asset is his appetite for crickets, His keepers have the only cricket-free barracks on post, Stomachs! Get Set— Big Times Ahead. Once a year there is an un- sual coronation in New York, They crown a "Sandwich King" Or "Queen," as the case May be,. *nd then pack him or her, with appose, off to Europe to have tine time sampling gotirmet foods and being guests of honor et food fairs. This colorful little ceremony always climaxes a soup 'n' sand- wich luncheon (an American menu favorite, we are assured) In an elegant New York hotel dining room, and kicks off Na- tional sandwich Month, which is August. This year it was a queen they erowned, She. was Mrs, Helen IVIillward of Fallon, Nevada, who operates, with her husband and another, a dandy little sandwich shop way out there in the West. It all started when Helen Mill- ward's mother began a small retsaurant—the Spudnut Shop— several years ago on her Atlasta Ranch near Fallon. Helen and her husband, Bill, joined the en- terprise• in 1952 and Helen has been busy dreaming up new menu concoctions ever since. When she devised the dredg- ing of thinly sliced roast beef in seasoned sour cream before layering it on rye bread, she little reckoned her invention - -would bring her to New York, and take her whirling around England, France, Italy and Ger- many. Mrs. Millward's prize-winning "'Mesta Good Beef" sandwich recipe is a new version of "roast beef on rye." This annual sandwich contest is sponsored by the Wheat Flour Institute and the National Res- taurant Association. It is, frank- ly, a campaign to help spur con: sumption of bread products. It's no secret that waistline-con- scious Americans have, for some reason, found it much easier to shake their heads "no" to bread than to many other foods. But since our citizens eat more than 260 billion sandwich meals per year, any way, it seemed easy enough to coax them to eat a few more, writes Marilyn Hoff- man in the Christian Science Monitor. The contest aims, as far as we can see, to make the sandsVich just plain irresistible, (el itn- ehanting in name and character that we couldn't bear not mak- ing acquaintance: Just liateg to - some of the enticing name's'dam the top ten winners — "Bayou Queen,' "Humdinger," "Pacific Paragon," and "Killarney Spe- cial" (corned beef, no less). bon't they sound delectable? Well, anyway, in the search for the grand champion sand- wich - of - the-year, 800 entries were taste-tested and judged on the basis of flavor, originality, practically, a n d appearance. The ten judged best got them- selves printed in a booklet, and the top three winners got their Inventors trips to New York and cash prizes. SECOND PRIZE of $1,000 went to Theodore Poumirou for his turkey - ham combination topped with a cream sauce, fla- vored with mushrooms and Par- mesan cheese. At the luncheon, "Theodore's Sandwich" w a s ;served to us steaming hot, broiled brown and bubbly, and 'represented, we were told, the kind of fare chef Poumirou (of San Francisco's El Prado Res- taurant) has been serving Cali- fornians for the past 35 years. "Creamy Nutty Tuna" is an unlikely concoction which won third prize for chef Paul 3. (loede of Mader's German Res- taurant in Milwaukee. This tri- asle-layered sandwich is made With a spread consisting of Cream cheese, lemon juice, iehopped ripe olives, sand tuna fish, Edges of the three-cornered tiarldWiche8 ate spread with the ISSUE 35 —1960 filling,. too, and then dipped in Salted pecan titbits, It's a. crunchy innovation and mighty. tasty, Chef.ciOecie says he first served this sandwich at a Mil, waukee celebration observing the opening of the St, Lawrence Seaway in 1059, He knew, thengh,, when it became a top, favorite with his own four youngsters that it was a winner., It won him, besicles,,accolades„ of praise, a trip to New York and 000. So We sat and ate our way through three prize - winning sandwiches, And that sly old Wheat Flour Inetitnte had us happily consuming bread, bread, bread. And even the Earl of Sandwich, who started it all, couldn't have been happier! Atlasta. Good Beef (1st Prize Sandwich) cup dairy sour cream 1 tablespoon onion soup mix 1 teaspoon prepared horse- radish, well drained 1/4 teaspoon salt Dash of pepper 12 slices cold roast prime rib of beef, sliced thin (8 ounces) 8 slices Russian rye bread Butter 4 lettuce leaves 4 slices garlic dill pickle. Mix sour cream, onion soup mix, horseradish, salt, and pep- per together. Lightly toss half of cream mixture with thinly sliced bee. Spread bread with butter. Lay three slices of beef on each of 4 buttered bread slices. Top with crisp lettuce leaf and table- spoonful of sour cream dressing, then cover with second slice of buttered bread. Cut diagonally; place on plate and garnish with slice of garlic dill pickle. Makes , 4 sandwiches. One Canadian View Of U.S. Elections Our neighbours down below the 49th parallel are launched on what is going to be the tough- est, loudest, nastiest American election campaign of the cen- tury. Both Kennedy and Nixon are past masters at the art of political infighting. The last- two times out, we've watched a cou- ple of political cream puffs, Eisenhower and Stevenson, po- litely punch away at each other. But, as the saying goes, we "ain't seen nuthin' yet" as Kennedy and Nixon start whacking away at each other both above and below the belt. "Tricky Dick" and "Little Boy Blue," as the two combatants already have been nicknamed, will leave nothing sacred. Ken- nedy's Catholicism will be subtly but effectively pinpoint- ed by Nixon, and his hirelings can be expected to warn off im- pending dictatorship from Rome. And Kennedy, no slouch at this same sort of thing, will be harping on Nixon as "McCarthy in a white collar" and will in- evitably dredge up the Nixon "expense" fund. Both will be running scared because at this writing the elec- tion is a toss-up. The Las Vegas bookmakers are offering 6-to-5 and take your pick. And worst of all, it is now cer- tain that how to handle the Rus- sians will be the major issue of the campaign. Nixon is clearly going to campaign on a "talk tough" to the Russians line. Re- publican speakers already have made it clear anybody who does not talk tough is unpatriotic, un- American and probably a lot worse. Nixon's running mate Lodge has built his career on roughing up the Russians. Altogether, the next three months will not be one of the more enlightening periods in history as our uncertain world is led by even more uncertain Americans. We can only shut fur eyes, hang on tight and pray that when it's all over good sense will descend over Wash- ingto n. — THE FINANCIAL POST. RURAL OFFICE — Joon Crisham, employe of Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, plays fa.rmerette al- ongside the company's central' office building. The company harvests an alfalfa crop three times a year on 35 adjacent acres. Some Screwball Non-Stop Records After 24-year-old Rory Black- well had broken the world non- stop drumbeat record at South.; ampton, England, 'recently he collapsed and had to be -reviv- ed by oxygen. He kept up his jazz drumming for 84 hours, 1 minute, 42 seconds, which was one and a half minutes better than the previous record set up by Cliff Rodgers• in the United States. Blackwell, who was born in Blattersea, kept it up for most of the time on glucose and wa- ter. This was just another of the amazing endurance records that are being reported from all over the world these days, Not long ago, a 51-year-old hunger striker became so weak after six days on nothing but water and cigarettes that he had to enter hospital. He began his fast because he claimed he was victimized by the Irish Repub- lic's post office, which had dis- missed him. His unintentional record was later smashed by a twenty-year- old Hindu holy man who sealed himself up in a pit on the banks of the River Jumna at New Delhi without food, air or water. After ten days the police dug him out — alive but unconscious. Why did he do it? "I wanted to mediate and pray for world peace," he said, The American . Senate is fa- Mous for its filibustering, or talking marathons. But the Eng- lish High Court in London had one not long ago, He was barrister Ian Warren, who spoke almost non-stop for two and a half days during a court action, There's a record for staying silent, too. It belongs to a mars ried couple, long since dead. ,1 George Downing and his wife, Mary, were married for sixty years and during that time they neither spoke nor kissed, This was because George took an instant dislike to Mary when they first met, and their parent,: forced them to go through. with the marriage. Soon after the wedding George went abroad and Mary went back to her mo- ther. Later his wife tried to speak to him but he curtly shook his head and walked away. The judge refused to give them a divorce. But dig this for an amazing marathon!' Blonde Miss Hiritri Rudman bopped for four hours barefoot in Pert Elizabeth, South Africa's "bop till drop" competition. She finished with huge bits- ters, as well as the first Prize. If you want to get your bathe in the papers, just dream 'up a new record to' set. But it'll take some doing' — there aren't many new Ones left Monosodium glutamate, a by- product of the beet sugar and cereal - milling industries, was developed originally as a food flavour enhancer in the Orient. It is now sold under various trade names for both home and commercial use: Since foods vary in the amount of natural glutamate they con- tain, there is a wide variation in the amount which may need to be added to enhance natural flavour, Chicken' broth and pork sausage, for .example, are great- ly benefited by adding monoso- dium glutamate, and the im- provement in natural flavour is easily noticeable. Peas and to- matoes, however, show no ap- preciable change, for they na- turally contain large amounts of natural glutamate. * If you've never used this pro- duct, the best explanation of its effect is that 'it makes chicken taste more "chickeny": a chicken broth, for instance, which you have made .by stewing young chicken, will appear to have the rich flavour of broth made from more -tasty fowl if you will add a judicious sprinkling of mono- sodium glutamate. Add it to meat balls or meat loaf, too, for a genuine improvement in the flavour of these popular dishes, * * - A reader of the "Pantry Pat- ter" column in 1,he Christian Science Monitor has written in to give her method of making cream sauce, for she says her metho el produces a perfect, lumpless sauce every time. She prefers a saucepan with a cop- per bottom, but this is not es- sential. She melts the butter, adds flour and seasonings and stirs — as do most of us. But here's her trick: she then re- moves the butter-flour mixture from the heat and stirs in about one-third of the milk, and stirs well. Then she adds the rest of the milk all at once, returns the mixture to the heat and stirs constantly until the sauce is thick and smooth. If you don't want to make a fire — or if there is no `place suitable for it — when you pic- nic, it is easy to take hot soup in a Thermos jug, With sand- wiches and salad and apple turnovers that can be eaten from your hand, you have a meal that will satisfy the hun- griest member of your party. POTATO - EGG SALAD 4 cups diced or sliced conked potatoes 1. cup sliced celery - 1 tablespoon finely sliced green onion 1 teaspoon salt MI teaspoon pepper % cup sour cream % cup mayonnaise 3 hard-cooked eggs, quartered Paprika Lightly toss potatoes, celery, Pnien, salt, and pepper together. our sour cream into mayors- liaise. Add to potatoes; mix gently. Put salad in bowl; ar- range eggs on top; sprinkle with paprika. Serves 4-6. * APPLE - CHERRY TURNOVERS 1 package piecrust mix can apple We filling lat. cup cherry pieesereies 1 tablespoon lemon Pike teaspoon grated lemon rind 1 4 teaspoon nutmeg 2 tablespoons Mittel Prepare piecrust according to package directions. Boll out dough, using one-half each time, into rectangles, Vs4rich thick. Cut into 4-inch squares. Corn- bine pie filling with preserves; lemon juice and rind, and Mite ineg, Place spoonful of pie fill- ing in center Of each pastry square;. dot With butter, Moisten edges• With cold Water, told into triangles and Seal well, Cut slits in top. Bake at 475 degrees Eg for i540 minutes, or Until ly browned. Makes ab'ou't inrn- by . HERB - CHEESE CROUTONS 4 slices white bread 2 tablespoons butter 1/2 teaspoon poultry seasoning 1-2 teaspoon grated Parmesan cheese Cut bread into %-inch cubes. Mix' into' hot butter in a heavy skillet. Sprinkle 'with poultry seasoning and cheese. Cook, stirring often for about 5 min- utes, or until bread cubes are golden brown., * CREAM PEA AND MUSHROOM SOUP 1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup 1. can condensed green pea soup ' 1 soup can each, milk and, water In saucepan, stir mushroom soup until smooth. Gradually blend in remaining ingredients. Heat, but do not boil; stir sev- eral times. Serves 4-6. * * * Here's an unusual soup, good., when there's a chill in the air. ASPARAGUS - CHEESE ' SOUP 1 can condensed cream of asparagus soup 1 soup can water 1 cup shredded •mild process cheese Dash of pepper In saucepan, combine all in- by Ward Cannel Newspaper Enterprise Assn, New York' — Maybe it's a good idea that so many Americans buy good luck charms for their car, A profile of us as a nation of s motorists, drawn in' detail from expert testimony, reveals: • We're a little resentful of the cars we buy. •We're more than a little re- sentful of service stations (and of buying gasoline, for that mat- ter), •So we operate our cars by a number of myths — some of them dangerous, all of them cost- ly. Now, our resentment is quite' understandable. According to- Charles Boyd managing edi- tor of the Super Service Station Magazine which has been study- ing this situation for some time: "The average motorist does not want to be in the service station at all. He paid a lot of money for that car and he doesn't want to spend another nickel on it, "He's buying gasoline reluct- antly. How is he going to view a repair bill that itemizes, for example, $1.50 for parts and $30 for labor?" The answer 'to Boyd's question is supplied in part by Boyd, by major oil companies, by the Automotive News by manufac- turing chemists and. by psycholo- gists. The American driver, they say, has convinced himself that much of auto maintenance is a fraud, even though poor upkeep on cars can be tied directly to traffic jams and highway deaths. The following is a lost of the most cornnion, costly, dangerous mis- conceptions to he found in the Aineridarli garage today: I.. There's a "niireele carbure- tor" which will give many more miles to the gallon. But they're hiding it from us at the factory, Well; no patent exists' such a carburetor, But studies do sheW that you're losing six or More Mile's per gallon by tile way you thiseiSe the gas 'pedal, 2, Preiniurie gasoline gives bet- ter operation and there mileage'. But if you want the benefit you.' haVe to pay the premium. No, the automotive engineers say. Hales your cat is designed for PretnitiM gas or is tuned to it, you'll wage money buying it,. 3,• Anti-freeZe lasts several years, anyway, YOttire a sucker tot tePlatiiit it yearly. gredients, Heat, stirring often, until cheese is melted; do not Serves 3. II414 TURKEY % cup minced 040 ham P/4, cup minced cooked turkey 2 tablespoons chopped green pepper 1 teaspoon grated onion ?„"i cup mayonnaise 1 tablespoon Igimcm juice Salt and pepper White 0.10,1 whole wheat breads, sliced. Combine ham, turkey, green pepper, and onion, Mix mayon- naise with lemon juice: add to meat mixture; toss lightly; sea- son to taste. Spread on slices of white breed; top with slices of whole wheat bread, Makes 6 sandwiches. * If there are children on your picnic, they may want their pea- nut butter; here it is in a new form combined with sliced ham, PEANUT BUTTER - HAM SANDWICH cup crunch-style peanut butter cup crushed pineapple, drained 1 tablespoon honey Butter, softened 6 slices baked ham 12 slices white bread Lettuce Blend peanut butter, pineap- ple and honey. Spread bread with butter. Spread 6 slices with peanut butter mixture. Place ham slice over peanut butter mixture; top with lettuce; cover with remaining bread slices. Makes 6. ODD CROSSES How far can science go in crossing different animal spe- cies? Already a Bulgarian gen- eticist, Professor N. Bra tanov, has succeeded -in crossing sheep and goats. He calls the offspring "ovids" (goat sire, sheep mother) and "caproids" (ram sire, goat mother).a Both kinds bear a closer re- semblance to sheep than to goats, but manage to retain much of a goat's physical power. Ovids, for instance, bleat, stand on their hind legs, and can clear a fence at a bound. But their wool grows magnificently thick and strong. Odder still, the Chinese have mated a cross-bred Yorkshire sow with a Holstein Friesian bull. Ever been in a. traffic jam, automotive chemists ask? That's how the anti-freeze myth works. In many of these formulas, the rust inhibtors are shot after one season. Scale forms. The com- bustion chambers don't cool off. Operating temperatures go up, Even the manufacturer now , trying to put a guaranteed-for- life anti-freeze on the 'market says it's guaranteed only in large cars with perfectly functioning cooling systems. Ignorance on the anti-freeze and rust situation is so wide- spread, exasperating and jam- creating that a National Cooling System Maintenance Week has been started to educate drivers everywhere. 4. All brake fluids are alike. That could be lethal counsel, Today's brake drums can get hot enough to turn low-boiling-point Some 1.4-) 4t4. C(111 This How far can modern. man sin* in his qnest for blood sports? No. depths are tco low fOr same it would appear, Moved by an outerpdrom .mal lovers, the Indian . Qovern, meat, has just banned the at* of ageing hurThioes as lion bait, Until recently, parties of tourists. were being flown to the Mr rorest, in Western India, to "en- joy" the spectacle of savage lions tearing their "kin" apart, Old male buffaloes; considered, too inform for drawing ploughs; were tied up to trees beside a well-frequented drinking pool. When a pride of lions arrived to tear the helpless live bait to shreds and satiate themselves, the visitors were able to get some excellent camera shots of the law of the jungle at, work. After the government's decree, dead meat alone may be used for lion enticing., But no one is interested, apparently, now that the .bait is Eyeless, For fear an epidemic might wipe out the entire lion popula- tion, two lionesses and a lion have been introduced for breed-, ing purposes here. Thus the In- dian, Government should be as- sured of keeping alive the lion symbol on its banknotes, offi- cial publications and Army crests. As protected animals, the Cir. Forest lions are becoming almost indifferent to man. During the monsoon season, several desert their flooded quarters to go prowling in local towns, Another lion found a lioness to his liking in a local zoo. He began courting her. But like many bachelors he had to sacri- fice liberty for love, He now lies with his girl friend behind bars! TRICENTENNIAL — Three-penny, English stamp marks the 300th anniversary of the Charles II act establishing the "general letter office." The young man with a horn is British version of pony express, fluids to gas, leaving your car with no stopping power. Similar- ly transmission fluids differ from one another. 5. Fast turnpike driving is hard on a car. On the contrary, the experts say, it's a lot easier on the car than in-city, stop-and-go driving. 6. If you drive long distances, you have to change your oil more often. No again. Short trips don't let the engine get hot enough to eva- porate the moisture out of the oil, Sludge forms. The rule: change your oil every month or every 1,000 miles in cool weath-' er. 7, If you ration your use of the car, it will stay new longer. No. Rust takes a greater toll of a seldom-used car. 8. Annual changes in auto de- sign generally improves cars. It is inhuman, psychologists say, to destroy all of man's myths, It is un-American to des- troy this one. SLICE OF LIFE A big part of the kitchen and. dining' eddied Of the C. G, Colhins family felt victim to a new highway right- tif-way in Men' phis, their' daub fifer, :loan lie, tont d lutesp the anew salt box ditnteertire of their Old hone*, "TABLE TAL S bane Anciti!ms-, Misconceptions About Your Car Can Cost You Even Your Life ! EVER BEEN IN A TRAFFIC JAM? freeze myth which claims the years . until Ike• rust inhibit bustioii chambers overheat` and This can be caused by the anti - protective IS good for Several ors are Shot, Scale forms, Col*, a car stalls.