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wet e as mu. h a I'1. .!..m 1.1 -me
tavern lt..cpvr as tilt wt.1 to
the tavern keeper's t ,:ghl!curs.
But tvt tt if we had intcrpreted
the inter pe a eritieism of the
tavern keeper. we do ant believe
that we would nut have been
justified in refusing to print it.
Tavern keepers cannot claim to
be exempt from criticism any
more than editors of newspapers
or corporation officials, or the
President of the United &bits,
The criticism may be fair or un-
fair, but the method of resolving
that question is to answer the
criticism with whatever facts
seem relevant.
Several tavern operators whose
places of business are nowhere
near Blue Jay's residence enter-
ed the fray immediately. The
ink was hardly dry on that issue
of The Warrensburg News when
our telephone began jingling.
One after another they protested
our publication of the letter.
We informed the tavern opera-
tors that our columns- are open
to any answer they may wish to
make to Blue Jay's aspersions on
the customers of one of their
number, or to any implied criti-
cism of their institutions. At this
writing they have made no move
to accept our offer.
For the record, if it needs to
be said, we intend to contieue
to give space to the serious opin-
ions of cur readers, whether or
not we agree with them — if
they concern matters affecting
the welfare of. the community;
if they are legible, intelligible,
and not too long or libelous;
and if they are signed by the
writer (although the name of
the writer may be withheld from
publication in certain cases).
We hope that we shall never
be guilty of barring a letter
which is otherwise worthy of
publication because its appear-
ance might annoy a group of
advertisers. — Warrensburg
(N.Y. News.
Both Sides Have
A Right To Ue Hezrd
The editorial platform of The
Warrensburg News does not em-
brace teetotalism or prohibition,
From that fact, however, it dews
not follow that teetotalers or
prohibitionists are barred from
using our letter column. We have
never seen it argued seriously
that the freedoms of speech and
press do not apply, to that sub-
stantial section of our citizens
who disapprove of the consump-
tion by human beings of spiritu-
ous liquors.
Therefore, we were consider-
ably Airprised when several ta-
vern keepers in Warrensburg vi-
gorously and emphatically pro-
tested our printing last week the
letter of a citizen who signed
himself, "Blue Jay."
Blue Jay's points were simple
and they were concisely express-
ed. Living near one of our local
bars, he said, he has the oppor-
tunity to observe conduct which
he regards as unseemly. Especi-
ally he protested a habit of cer-
tain parents of leaving small
children in a parked automobile
while they imbibed within the
tavern. Aside from the moral
question involved, Blue Jay said,
there was the annoyance of be-
ing awakened at .1 a.m. by the
screams of one of these neglect-
ed, unhappy, and apparently
hungry children.
Blue Jay additionally made
claims of having seen customers
fighting on the streets after hav-
ing departed (editor's note: or
having been ejected by the pro-
prietor) from a tavern.
The writer of the letter was
known to us as a'serious-minded,
responsible citizen. He satisfied
us that his reasons for not want-
ing his name appended to the
letter were valid. The letter, our
lawyer said, was not in any way
a violation of the libel law.
Moreover, we checked insofar as
we could and found indepenaent
evidence to corroborate at least
one instance of a child crying
lustily at 1 a.m. in a • parked
automobile while its parents re-
freshed themselves in the nearby
tavern. We concluded that Blue
Jay had a right to have his let-
ter published and the readers of
The Warreshblerg News had a
right to read it.
Save did not, in fact, construe
the letter so much a criticism of
the tavern keeper as a criticism
of the morals of certain indivi-
" TABLE TALKS
Gaits ?Weave
Frances Bohm. in. the Christian
Science Monitor.
Returning to the fifth floor,
we found the proper officer and
started to relate our Story. Miss
Dingas, sixtyish, short and stout
with curly gray hair and the
kindest and merriest blue eyes
explained that I was an Ameri-
can teacher employed at the
American Community School.
She said that he leotards were
a gift from a friend who sent
them because I had complained
of . the cold.
He replied that he didn't be-
lieve it for a minute and that
I undoubtedly intended to give
them to one of my pupils.
She aseured him quietly and
courteously that 1 intended to
wear them.
el don't believe it," he roared.
"Don't tell the such a thing. I
won't believe it if I see IL"
Then he suddenly quieted
down and looked me over very
slowly from my head to my feet
and said firmly, "She's no bal-
lerina." Finally he shouted,
"rat going to give them to her,
but stop talking. Don't say an-
other word:" Miss Dingas had
scarcely said a word.
So we took them and after
signing my name several times,
we started to leave. He asked
for my passport again. Then on
the back page, underneath the
space where descriptions and
serial numbers of my camera
and typewriter are listed, he
wrote a statement that the leo-
tards were admitted duty free
and must be presented at the
Customs along with my type-
writer and camera when i left
Greece.
And so it was, nearly a year
later, I carefully stowed the two
pairs of leotards in the top of
my typewriter and they were
duly ticked off by another Cus-
toms' officer guarding the gate
to the S.S. Atlantic at her pier
in Piraeus.
Poachers Hunt For
Crocodile Skins
CREAMED ONIONS
12 medium-Sized onions
Boiling salted water
2 cups milk and onion liquid
4 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons butter
Salt and pepper
Toasted unblancbed almonds
Peel onions, pierce with darn-
ing needle from one end to the
other, to prevent centre from
boiling out. Place in saucepan,
cook in boiling salted water (1
inch in depth), covered, for 30-35
minutes, or until tender. Remove
onions to heated serving dish
and keep warm.
Measure onion liquid. Mix
flour with enough milk to make
a paste, add onion liquid and
enough milk to make two cups.
Cook over medium heat until
thickened, stir in butter, add salt
and pepper to taste. Pour over
onions and serve, with a few
toasted unblanched almonds
sprinkled on top.
Q. Is it proper to cat while
carrying on a conversation with
another person who is doing
most of the talking, yet talking
more or less to you?
A. Give-and-take there must.
be in dinner-table conversation
—but since there must also be
eating, you can only strive to
combine the two in pleasantly
alternating intervals.
MOMENT OF TRUTH — Luiz
Campos, Madrid, Spain, sculp-
tor, immortalizes Manolete, the
great matador who died 14
years ago in the bull ring in
Linares, with the bronze statue,
"His Last Afternoon."
perature to 350 degrees and
bake 10 to 15 minutes longer or
until top springs back when
touched lightly in centre.
Invert on funnel or neck of
a small bottle to cool.
SAVORY TURNIPS
1 large turnip, peeled and cut
in 1/4 -inch cubes
Boiling water
1 tsp. salt
tsp, caraway seeds'
34 cup butter
1 medium onion, sliced very
thin
la cup chopped parsley
1 tsp. lemon juice
salt and pepper
Cover turnip cubes with boil-
ing water in sauecpan. Add salt
and caraway seeds, cover and
cook about 20 minutes or until
almost tender. Drain.
Melt butter in heavy skillet,
add onions, cover and cook over
low heat until onion is yellow
but not browned. Stir occasion-
ally.
Add parsley, lemon juice and
cooked turnip. Cook, stirring
gently, until turnip is coated
with butter and lightly browned.
Sprinkle lightly with salt and
pepper. (Serves 6.)
s
Crocodile poachers have• bag-
ged hundreds of precious skins
in the Murchison Falls National
Park, Uganda Gangs armed with
rifles oreep along river banks
until they can see the red eyes
of crocodiles shining in the
reeds.
Other parties go out at night
and Rash torches on lurking
crocs, blinding them. Then, it's
easy to drive home a fatal spear
thrust.
But in, recent weeks, to the
astonishment of Uganda's game
rangers, this illegal activity has
suddenly ceased.
The reason, say the Rangers,
springs from an, alarming in-
orease in the number of still
births and births of blind chil-
dren among local tribes-people.
Such calamities may be mere
coincidence but the natives don't
think so.
A witch-doctor has told them
that these misfortunes are their
punishment for having killed a
huge mother crocodile, a sacred
creature.
The spirit of this croc demands
that a blind child be sacrificed
to it at the Falls.
Believing this, a party of
poachers invaded a village re-
cently, and tried to snatch a
blind baby boy, But the child's
father and kinsmen greeted the
kidnappers with a hail of spears
and severely injured two.
For the moment, crocodile
poachers are too frightened of
reprisals from their fellow
tribesmen to think of resuming
their trade.
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CRANBERRY-APPLE PIE
Pastry for 9-inch 2-crust pie
1 can whole cranberry sauce
1 cup seeded raisins, out in
halves
cups tart diced apples
cup sugar
cup honey
Heat oven to 425 degrees.
Line pie pan with pastry.
Combine cranberry sauce, rai-
sins, apples and sugar. Put in
pastry-lined pan. Drizzle honey
over top and dot with butter.
Roll, out remaining crust and
use to cover pie. Seal and crimp
edges.
Bake about 40 minutes or until,
apples are tender. Cover crimp-
ed edge of crust with a narrow
strip of aluminum foil to keep it
from getting. too brown.
ISSUE 42 — 1961
Beware Those Phony
Fallout Shelters
With the Russians continuing
their atmospheric atomic tests
and a consequent increase in
radioactivity — not dangerous
•as yet in the Northern Heani-
sphere, but ever more ominous
— the interest of U.S. citizens
in bomb shelters 'kept jumping
like a Geiger counter.
But the aspect of the program
which has appealed most strong-
ly to the average sense of self-
preservation — t h e individual
family shelter — was given a
caution signal by an authorita-
tive body. The House Committee
on Government Operations, in a
substantial report on the Ken-
nedy Administration's Cdvil De-
fense prdkram, issued this sol-
emn and informative "warning
note to the American people."
"Avoid fly-by-night operators
with shelter-building schemes
and would-be sellers of expen-
sive or useless gadgets under the
label of civil defense.
"Do not sign a contract for
construction of a home shelter
until you have consulted civil-
defense officials in your city, or
other government unit, and have
received reliable information on
requirements and cost estimates.
"Be sure that what you buy
for individual or family civil-
defense needs is really essential
and meets the necessary stan-
dards of performance."
They had issued their caveat,
committee members said, after
receiving complaints like that of
a Mount Vernon, N.Y., woman
who said a contractor wanted
$850 for a. simple basement shel-
ter. which civil-defense officials
told her should cost no more
than $180. And there was the
case of a California firm that
charged $5,000 for an elaborate
brick shelter which inspectors
labeled a potential tomb.
Nor 'was that the only cold
water thrown on family shelters
by the committee, whose report
was based on hearings conducted
by Rep. Chet Holifield of Cali-
fornia, who is also chairman of
the Joint Atomic Energy Com-
mittee. Proposing' "an optimum
shelter plan" — which inferenti-
ally criticized the Administration
program as too limited — the
report said:
"Group shelters are much
more effective for survival and
recovery than individual family
shelters. We do not demean nor
intend to' discourage family and
individual measures for shelter
protection. Many millions of fa-
milies, however, will have nei-
ther the economic means nor the
physical facilities for building
their own shelters. Then we must
always keep in mind that emer-
gency operations after a (ther-
monuclear) attack do not stop
with survival . . . As `staging
areas' for recovery, group shel-
ters make a great deal more
sense than family shelters." —
From NEWSWEEK.
GLAZED CRABAPPLES
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
2 tablespoons lemon juice
4 tablespoons orange juice
1 teaspoon grated orange rind
12 crabapples
Combine sugar, water, lemon
juice, orange juice, orange rind
in saucepan. Bring to boil and
cook, briskly, until it reaches
225 degrees on candy thermome-
ter, or spins a light thread. Wash,
dry crabapples, remove blos-
som ends, place in single layer
in shallow baking dish. Pour
syrup over, bake in 350-degree
oven. Baste frequently with
syrup in dish, and bake until
fruit is tender but not mushy,
about t5 minutes. Serve hot or
cold, as a garnish.
Have you noticed how impor-
tant news events in other parts
of the world have pushed Cuba
into the classified section?
Lettings Leotards
Through Customs
"I am sending you two pairs
of leotards by airmail," wrote
my friend, Marcella. "It is the
only way to keep warm." This
was in reply to a letter of mine
complaining that Athens was
cold and rainy and the central
heat would probably not be
turned on until December first
in my elegant little apartment
off Kolonaki Square. I soon
received a Customs' notice that
the leotards had arrived and
would I please call for them and
'the duty would be 200 draelunas
(about $7). This was probably
100 per cent duty and I intended
to try to talk them out of it.
The Customs' business is big
business in Greece. Most con-
sumer goods are imported and
a high duty is levied. The Greek
Government derives a consider-
able portion of its revenue from
import duties. Miss Merope
Dingas, the kindergarten teacher
in our school volunteered to go
with ate the following Saturday
morning to help me cope with
this implacable organization.
We met in front of the Parlia-
ment building on the Syntagma
and took a bus down Stadiou
Street through Omonia Square
and on to the railroad station.
This particular Customs' ware-
house was just opposite. it was
warm and sunny. We sat down
at one of the tables outside the
station restaurant and ordered
coffee. Miss Dingas had bought
some hulurias while waiting for
me. They are 'second cousins
once removed from doughnuts
and pretzels.
Greeks customarily take their
own food when going on excur-
sions and the proprietor of the
tavern usually seems happy to
supply tables and chairs, knives
and forks just for the sake of
selling something to drink.
Greeks are sun-loving people.
When the sun comes out after a
week or more of winter rain
older peeple are often heard to
say",' "flare Theou! Hara Theou!
Joy of God, Joy of God." That's
the way we felt as we sat in the
warm sunshine and watched
people coming and going with
their wicker baskets with cloths
sewed over the tops. I sensed
that Miss Dingas was gathering
momentum for our assault on
the Customs.
It was obvious from where we
eat that repairs were under way
in the Customs' building. When
ive entered, we found that a new
eoncrete stairway was being M-
etalled. Old plaster, boards and
rubble were everywhere. There
was no railing as yet on the new
stairs and we precariously clung
to the inside wall as we wound
our way up the long flights to
the fourth floor.
Polite inquiries revealed that
the office we wanted was on
the fifth floor. There we were
told positively that we should go
to the third floor. We must see
the chief inspector and he had
riot come in.
Now, in every office building
in Greece, there is a cubbyhole
on each floor where a man
makes Turkish coffee. He races
from desk to desk and from of-
fice to office dispensing these
tiny cups of coffee with glasses
of cold water for one drachma.
We sat down at a long table in
the center of a huge room where
many others were waiting and
sipped coffee and ate more
hulurias and chatted about the
surrounding scene. We were in
no hurry.
A salient fact must be stated
here, namely that Greek women
of the middle and upper classes
follow the latest French styles
and dress very fashionably. That
one would ever wear a leotard
is simply preposterous. writes
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ORANGE-CHIFFON CAKE
2aO cups sifted cake flour
1% cups sugar
3 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 2 cup cooking (salad) oil
5 egg yolks
i cup cold water
3 tbsp. grated orange rind
I cup egg whites el or 8)
la tsp. cream of tartar
Heat oven to 325 degrees.
Sift flour, sugar, baking pow-
der and salt together into a
bowl. Make a well in the cen-
tre of the dry ingredients and
add the oil, egg yolks, water and
orange rind In order. Beat with
a spoon until smooth.
Put egg whites and cream of
tartar in a large mixing bowl.
Beat until. whites form very stiff
peaks.
Pour egg-yolk mixture grad-
ually over beaten whites, fold-
ing gently all the time with a
rubber scraper. Fold just until
blended.
Pour Into 10-inch ungreased
tube pan. Bake at 325 degrees
55 Minutes. Uterease oven tem-
STING IN TueTAIL
A young American boy, mad
about philately and inspired in
faith, wrote an impassioned plea
' to God for a hundred dollars in
order to make up his stamp col-
lection. The Postal Authorities,
amused at the address, re-direct-
ed It to the White House. The
Public Relations team there were
also amused. and, on the Presi-
dent's instruction, sent the young
philatelist a cheque for five
dollars.
Now in the possession of the
Celestial address, the boy men-
tioned the matter to his father
Who, also tickled, undertook to
reply on his son's behalf and to
express gratitude. As a post-
script he added: 'I am interested
to note that the White House has
been asked to deal with the mat-
ter but I should like to draw
attention to- the fact that, as usu-
el, the so-and-so's have deducted
ninety-five percent;'
HAPPY REtURtIS — The letters have begun to melt, but they
still spelt "Sophie' The take was far actress Sophia Laren's
27th birthday, celebrated in Rome. The hand is Sophia's, and
the ring it ad Cliental sapphire given as a birthday present
by her husband, producer Carlo Ponti,
HOPEFUL — Although there is no
snow and probably will: not be
any for some time, 5-year-old
Laurie Norvas says that it's a
goad time tO learn how to ski.
Actually, rushing the season Is
not as odd as it seems. Experts
say that if is better to learn to
ski on Straw than On retil,StiOV‘P•
So, when the time comes for the
real thing, one young 01 wilt
have lots of skiing experience.
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