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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1961-11-30, Page 6;),i4 TABLE TALKS eigIr..77Nili Jaue Andrews. SANTA FE • • ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO UNDERGROUND TEST BLAST SITE CARLSBAD • 'EL PASO MEXICO 1E2 TEXAS MILES 0 30 Vnite4 .states. .11a )0+1'.0".4110.7:0.r: .p)"..;ttroV:4 • =Dalags Of .00g4. ftorn Near And :Pa„r TRIBAL CHIEFS, AND THE QUEE,14, Queert ,lii2Obrgth, followed by her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, shakes hands with some of the 48 tribal chiefs in Kumasi, Ghana, ot celebrations in the couple's honor during their 11-day visit to the African state. It's Very Rough Work But Pays Off Well. How scared should you be? Should you run, not walk, to )!ettr nearest builder and order fallout Shelter? 'Should you build it yourself—on the 0,—so that your neighbor' won't knew you have one? Should you stock it with a gun against unwelcome guests? Should you stop giving -1-111.k to the children? Should you boil water before drinking it? Should you scrub vegetables in vinegar before you cook them? Or should yott just head for the hills, find a-cave and pull it in after you? The answer to these questions, of course, is no., It is not surprising, however, that the American public is con- fused, For Soviet nuclear tests are widely deplored and denounced, as they should be. Each heavily seeded cloud is traced in its omi- nous course around the globe, Officials warn of heavy fallout when the spring rains come, Fallout from lower altitude explosions has already been de- posited en streams and fields. There is little wonder that peo- ples around the world are un- easy. When is it going to stop? Has it reached the danger point, they ask. United States public health of- ficials are reassuring. They say: "Fallout levels resulting . . from the new series of. Soviet nu- clear tests do not .warrant undue public concern, nor initiation of 'public health action designed to limit intake of radioactive ma- terials by individuals or large population groups in any part of the country. "However, present levels do warrant continuous,. intensive surveillance by federal, state and local governments and consider- ation of protective measures which might be taken if they should be found necessary." Despite these statements public misconceptions .continue. Fallout shelteeS: are an' example. They When e Man bites a dog — that's news, says an old news- paper adage; but the world's canine population has been Working •overtime recently to prove that it can get WO the headlines without undergoing: such painful treatment, Except, that is, for the poOr collie which recently bit the leg of Mr. Lloyd Allen of Mani- towoc, Wisconsin, The leg was artificial, and the dog lost sev- eral teeth in the effort. Distressed for a different rea- son was a mongrel dog in Gene- va, Switzerland. The animal went on hunger strike when its master was jailed, recently, for a minor offence. The dog became so weak that it was unable to stand, and neighbours feared that it would die. Understanding authorities solv- ed the problem, Daily a van is sent to fetch the dog from its home to the Marissi prison, where it is allowed to spend one hour with its master.. Already the scheme is work- ing. The dog eats a meal with the prisoner, takes exercise with him and then goes home happy. Another dog, happily re-unit- ed with its owner,, is the pet of the King of Sweden. Recently the animal went as- tray, and a Stockholm court, fin- ing its keeper for not having the owner's name and address on the dog's collar, ruled that the words "Gustav Adolf,, His Ma- jesty the King" must be engrav- ed on a disc on the animal's collar. Another dog in. the news re- cently was the two-year-old Al- satian owned by President Nkrumah of Ghana, When the pet was taken ill, a special serum was ordered from London, but before the aircraft carrying it arrived in Ghana, the dog died. Denmark's contribution to the "dogs in the news" series con- cerns the report, by a Mr. Jacob Pederson, that he has discover- ed the world's cheapest short- range radar system. Jacob, who operates a small ferry service across the Lim Fjord near Aalborg, was fre- quently bothered by heavy fogs that make his job diffidult and hazardous. All that is a thing of the past, however. For t his dog has now been brained to sit on the wharf edge when it. is Jeggy — bark- ing continuously. Its owner merely steers his craft towards the direction of the barking. From nearer home comes the news report of a dog that has are not designed, 'AS some b0,. La qr, ff,„41, 91.0Cet1011 Art.1111 lest ex- plosion fallolt, hut for refuge fill case of a nuclear attack, They have been publicized to the extreme—mostly by word of niouth. And the words are net always very sensible, One line of conversation is that every fallout shelter should be equipped with a gun---to keep out the neighbor who hasn't built his own, In ease of enemy attack, that is. Then the debate is on, Should one really use a gun or should one let the neighbor in? One fa- mily is enough in a shelter; two is a crowd. After all, there is only so much air, so much food, This debate has gone on so long that many are taking their own arguments seriously. They won't build any shelter, they say, rath- er than have one from which they would have to bar a neigh- bor, Meanwhile, builders with an eye to the new product are :fea- turing shelters of all types, shapes and sizes, The govern- ment is encouraging people to build their own, and even fur- nishes plans, write Josephine Ripley in the Christian Science Monitor, But builders say let us do it. Shelter plans are getting more and more elaborate all the time. One feels that soon it's going to be more fun to live in the shelter than in the house. The thing has been carried so far in some cases that the federal trade 'commission is keeping a careful watch on advertising' claims, many of which it ob- viously feels are exaggerated. As for foods, water, milk—the government has stepped up its fallout monitoring service . to keep a close check on contamin- ation from fallout. Federal state and local public health authori- ties from all over the country were recently called to Wash- ington for a close,d-door discus- sion /0,f radioactivity in the atmo- sphere. Plans are under consideration for food protection in case of a. heavy fallout in a 'particular area, For instance, changes will be made in cattle feeding to avoid consumption o f contaminated grain. Milk found, to contain a. high level of contamination will be Stored until radioactivity sub- sides to non-harmful levels. Other foods that have been, exposed to questionable amounts of felleuf 'Will be withheld from distributiori until safe for human consumption. But right now what the pub- lic needs most of all is protec- tion from 'ignorance and confu- sion. This "next step" has been taken here in the Washington area where more than 130 sci- ence teachers are taking a special course in radiology, sponsored by the Washington Academy of Sci- ences arid Joint Board on Science Education, By the time the course is fi- nished, at least one teacher in every high school in the area will be trained in practical and defense aspecte.of radiation, This may well be the beginning of a nationwide program of education in the hygiene of a nuclear age, If Benny Reynolds worked in TV Westerns, he would be a bad guy because he wears a black 5-gallon hat and f a d e d blue jeans instead of a white hat and fresh chaparajos. But Reynolds, a real, cowboy; works in rodeos, where he is a good , guy — so good that this year he has earn- ed $28,604. Within a few weeks, he seems certain to clinch the 196]. all-around national rodeo championship. In a sporte of specialists, lea- thery Benny Reynolds, 25, from Melrose, Mont., is a maverick. "Benny works and wins in four events (Steer wrestling, saddle bronc, bareback, and bull rid- .ing)," explains form e r all- around champion Jim. Shoulders, who concentrates on only two events., "That's, tough to beat. He's a hard-knocking kind of guy " "Benny Paul Hornung of the Green Bay Packers," says Lex Connelly, managing director of the Rodeo Cowboys Associa- tion. "He isn't No. 1 in any of his events, but he's so good in all of them that he's the best over-all." A povverful 6 feet 3 and 200 pounds, Reynolds has broken an arm, a leg, a vertebra, and some ribs, and has been gored by a bull. After four years as a rodeo regular, he accepts these opcu- pational h a z a r d s stoically. There's danger in anything you do," he said after winning 8792 at San Francisco's Cow Palace recently. "You might say I'm scared of all the animals---espe,. cially the bulls. You not only have to ride 'em. You have to get off, too." survived a tall over the Niagara It was just over a year ago that the mishap occurred, and the animal, a German shepherd dog named Tosha, belonging to a Mr. Charles Tiler, received' a terrible battering front roeks as it hurtled 160 feet to the water below. A caretaker et th e nearby Maid-of-theMist docks took the dog from the swirling waters, and nursed it back to health. After twelve months it vanish- ed — but turned up at its owner's farm — thirty seven. miles distant — three days later. An unusual memorial for their dog, a pedigree boxer, is purchased annually by its own- ers, Mr. and Mrs. Gold, of Dulwich, London. Vaeh year they buy trees for Israel, in their dog's name of Major Buffles, Thirteen trees were recently received by the Jewish State from the Golds, to celebrate Israel's thirteenth birthday, Another boxer dog in the news is Cleo, owned by a Mrs. Jane Rose, of Levittown, Long Island, New York. For years, claims Mrs. Rose, the animal was annoyed and baited by the milkman, with a glass door between them. Fin- ally, its patience exhausted, the dog leapt through the glass, in- juring itself. Now the milkman is being sued for $150 damages. The saddest dog topic of the day comes from Austria, Lassie, that country's best- known mountain rescue dog, has been killed by a sixty-foot fall into a glacier crevice - on the Stubai Alps. Its owners, members of the Austrian Mountain Rescue Ser- vice, abandoned attempts to re- cover the body of the Alsatian only when their own lives were endangered. Lassie was not a bitch, des- pite his name, and had at least twelve rescues to his credit. He had been trained to jump from planes by parachute and to find people buried by avalanches: In the end, ironically enough, he died not on a rescue bid, but on a pleasure outing with his owners. Now he lies in the crevice 8,100 feet up the Fernier Glacier in the mountains that were 11s second home. The most humourous news snippet concerning dogs comes frOm 'Hamburg, Gaimany, A prominent West German Statesman was entertaining' a I visiting British VP,. id ,an, ultra-fashionable restaurant. The dignity of the occasion was suddenly wrecked by a loud barking, and half a dozen wai- ters joined in the task of chas- ing a large terrier from the dining hall. Disaster ruined the important lunch when the dog knocked a wine steward down. A bottle of wine toppled from its basket- holder, struck the Briton and knocked him out. There was consternation all round, profuse apologies extend- ed to the injured men, and the threat of dismissal hurled at the waiters who had failed to keep the dog, from the vicinity of the important guests. There was a lighter footnote, however. When the Englishman left the restaurant, the dog turn- ed up again and, barking furi- ousl y, chased the man's car down the road, JUST HANGING AROUND— This swing chair is cuddly cute as Mrs. Patricia •Calfee so prettily demonstrates. Shown at the American Furniture Mart, it's touted as being the height of relaxation. • Alistair Cooke, British-born U.S. reporter: The American wo- man's ambitions are too high In Europe a woman decides early what type she will be — mother, cook or siren. Women here want to be all of these and also rim Wall Street, SQUIRREL HAT — Maureen Murphy, 14, of Sunnyvale, prefers her pet as a headpiece far more than a coonskin cap, In any weather. ALL-PURPOSE FEMALE Project Gnome Will be World's First Nuclear Blast for Peaceful Research NewS•rnap, right, spats the location of. Project Gnome, the, world's first nuclear explosion designed to learn how to harness the atom for peaceful purposes. Rep- resentatives from all notions have been invited to observe •the test in December, which will take place 1,200 feet underground about 25 miles southeast of Carlsbad, N,M. Below, (.1workman trolleys along the 1,116-foot-long tunnel leading from the "zero cham- ber" where the blast will occur. Behind him is a mas- sive steel and concrete blast door intended to confine the explosion, which 'will be equal to five kilotons (5,000 tons) of T.N.T. Scientists htipe to learn Ways to tap the trapped heat of the explosion, among Other things, The experiment will be the first in this nation's "Plowshare" program to develop' peaceful uses for nuclear explosions. Combine nuts and fruit in a large bawl. Sift 14 cup flour over and blend until fruit is well coated with flour. Cream butter, add sugar grad- ually and cream well after each addition. Continue beating and creaming until fluffy. Sift in 11/2 cups flour and baking powder and blend. Stir in milk. Add fruit-and-nut mixture and blend thoroughly, Beat egg white until they form stiff peaks. Fold into previous mixture until well blended. Spoon into prepared pans and bake about 1% hours or until a toothpick stuck into centres of cakes comes out clean. * * GOLDEN CHRISTMAS CAKE .1/2 lb. candied orange peel, sliirered % lb. candied cherries, halved 1/2 lb. candied cut mixed peel' lb.candie4 pineapple, cut up 34 lb. seedless raisins Grata rind of .;1 orange , Grated ,rind of 1 lemon % cup well-drained crushed pineapple 41/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 1 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. salt 1 tsp. nutmeg 1 lb. butter. 21/ cups sugar 8 eggs - 1 tsp. vanilla 1 tsp. almond extract 1 tsp. lemon extract 3/4. cup pineapple juice Heat oven to 250 degrees. Line a' 10-inch tube pan with well- greased brown paper. Mix candied fruit, raisins or- ange, and lemon rind and, crush- ed pineapple in large bowl. Sift flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg together over fruit mixture. Mix lightly so all fruit is coated with flour,. Cream butter. Add sugar grad- ually, creaming well after each addition, and continuing cream- ing until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at'a time, beating well after each addition, Beat in flavorings and pineapple juice. Add creamed mixture to pre- pared fruit and stir until thor- oughly blended. Spoon into pre- pared pan. Bake about 31/2 hours Or until a toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean, Store wrapped in heavy-duty aluminum foil. S ALMOND PUDDING SAUCE 1/2 till) sugar 1/2 tsp. salt tbsp, cornstarch 2 cups milk 2 egg yolks, slightly beaten 2 tsp.• butter 1 tsp. vanilla '1:2 tsp. almond extract 1 cup whipping cream Mix sugar, salt and cornstarch I thoroughly in a saucepan, Grad- ually stir in milk, blending until smooth. Set over Moderate heat until boiling, Boil I minute. Remove from heat, Gradually add at least half of hot mixture to egg yolks, stirring constantly. Blend 'heel* into het Mieture in saucepan. Boil 1 minute more, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and blend in butter, vanilla arid almond ex- tract. Cool, Whit cream until stiff and fold Into cooled mixture, Serve on hot Duckting. Q I've always thought thatthe breaking of bread Or crackers *to soup was had but, dOne quite' Often. How about'this? A. Although once frOWited upon,. this CciriSidered quite all right. CHRISTMAS PUDDING 4 cups seedless raisins 1L11-oz. pkg. currants % lb. candied mixed peel chopped 1/2 lb. almonds, blanched and % lb. suet 1 13%-oz. pkg. graham wafers, crushed to very fine crumbs 2 medium carrots, grated fine 5 medium apples, chopped fine 2 cups brown sugar, packed % cup dark molasses 234 cups sifted all-purpose flour 2 tsp, cloves 2 tsp. cinnamon 2 tsp. allspice 2 tsp. nutmeg 5 ,eggs, beaten Mix raisins, currants, peel, al:* m o n d s, suet, graham - wafer crumbs, grated carrots, chopped apples, brown sugar and moles- ses.together thoroughly in a very large bowl. Sift flour and spices together over fruit and blend. Add eggs and blend thoroughly.` " ' Spoon into 2' well-greaseel'2'4 qt.. moulds, Tie waxed paper overe top of each and steam 4 to 5 hours or until centres of pud-- dings are set. Stearn 'again 1 to 2 hours before serving. DARK CHRISTMAS CAKE 2 cups seedless raisins 1 cup currants 1.1h cups seeded raisins 11/2 cups candied cherries, halved 1 cup cut-up dates 11/2 cups cut-up mixed candied fruit cup cut-up candied pineapple 1 cup pecans 1 tbsp. finely-chopped.candied ginger 3 cups sifted all-purpose flour 11/2 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. salt 11/2 tsp. cinnamon 1/2 tsp. nutmeg .1/2 tsp, ginger % tsp. mace 14 tsp. cloves 1 cup butter 1% cups brown sugar, packed 6 eggs % cup. molasses Va cup cold strong coffee Heat oven to 300 degrees. Line a 10-inch tube pan with greased heavy brown paper. Mix fruit, nuts and ginger in a large bowl. Sift flour, baking powder, salt and spices together over fruit mixture, mixing well so that all the fruit is well coat ed with flour. Cream butter, add sugar and. cream until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in Mo- lasses. Add fruit-and-flour mixture to creamed batter alternately with coffee, beginning aria ending with fruit-and-flour mixture and Mixing thoroughly after each addition, Pour into prepared pan and bake 3 to 314 hours. tIGHT"CIIIRISTIVIAS CAKE blanclicil aithotids, eitt in Halves' 1/2 lb. WaiiiutS,. broken 1/2 Th. Pecans,. biliked 1 cup coconut 1/2 lb, candied cherries,, halved % lli. candied pineapple, eta up VI Cupsifted all-purpose flour butter' 2 cups sugar 13/4 CUPS sifted all-purpose Melt tsp. baking powder 1/2-: cup milk 8 bg'-g. whites Meat oven to :300 degrees. 1, loaf Pena, 9 x 5 x 2 inche'S, With Avell,,greaSed heavy brown pater, SOUND METHOD—Suspended in raid-air on ci wire net, work, 'pr. M. R. Schroeder listens to Music cart irig from loudspeakers in Bell Laboratories' onedhoic chamber. This tx -.- is a free-space room which doeS not produce echoes or reverberations, The music Wit first processed through a Computer which was prograrnfried fa Oct On it just as the floor, Walls and ceiling of an imaginary auditorium would. be, Schroeder, can tell how Music, will sound in an auditor riUni before it is built—but it looks like a hi-fi nightmare., igi)tft !l8 19eI