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The Brussels Post, 1962-02-01, Page 6,TABLE T (iv d'013,Yz AiAdvevs, FESTIVE SEAFOOD CASSEROLES, such as this Company Tuna Bake, are favourite dishes far holiday supper parties. Bank. Robbery With A Strange Prelude foal'-yearsold Bobby Welke was sound asleep that night last Month, and in the living room of their yellow-brick ranch house in a Wooded suburb of Gary, incie his parents relaxed, watching television. Robert Welke, 43, a graying, 225'-pound 6-rooter, and his brown-haired wife, 31, were enjoying a casual night at home, an increasingly rare treat in re- cent years, since he had become assistant vice president of the Gary Toast and Savings Bank, maneger of its new Glen Park branch, and an officer of the Optimist Club and the 'Emmen- uel Lutheran Church. The tele- vision set was tuned to "Bonan- za," a rip-snorting Old West amalgam of gun-powder and gold dust. It was just about 8:30 when the Welkes' doorbell rang. Welke answered the bell to find three men standing outside, two of them handcuffed together, the third flashing an official- looking badge and identifying himself as a deputy sheriff. For a moment, Welke could imagine that he still was watching tele- Sion. The spokesman with the shiny badge said he and his fellow officer had picked up their pri- soner loitering around Welke's branch bank (twice robbed in the past eleven months for a total of $106,000). Could Welke iden- tify the loiterer, as the man claimed? No. Then, might the deputy use the telephone to call the sheriff? Certainly. It was after the "deputy" dial- ed only five numbers for an ex- change requiring seven, and Mrs. Welke asked sharply what was going on, that the intruders snap- ped off their handcuffs and drew their pistols. "I guess you kOow.what we're here for," said the man with: the , badge. "I sumrised as ,much," isaid. Welke—now aware of what. was happening. Thus began one of the stran- gest preludes to bank robbery on record, The time-locked safe, in Welke's bank, as. the robbers well knew (they knew every move Welke had merle for a week) wouldn't open until 8 a.m. —nearly twelve hours. off—and the uninvited guests,made them- selves comfortable for, the night. "They were very polite, and didn't abuse us or get violent," Welke later recalled about the trio. "When my wife started to crack a little, they offered her a drink and she took a shot of whisky," The only time the guns were concealed was when Bobby, awakened by the voices, came out to see what was happening. Then the robbers joked with him, and asked about his toys, until he went drowsily back to bed. About midnight, all lights were extinguished, and the Welk- es were reminded that they wouldn't be.harmed as long as they cooperated. "I told them I would cooperate if they didn't hurt my wife and son," Welke said, At 7 a,m., the bandit leader went into the bathroom and shaved, cleaning up meticulously after himself, Then Welke was ordered to shave and dress for work, and when he was ready two of the robbers got into his Buick sedan with him, while the other stood guard over Mrs. Welke and the sleeping Bobby. The actual robbery was an anticlimax, As the sate-clock bands repelled 8 and the tum- blers clicked, the, bandits opened the door and scooped some $68,000 into a small gray satchel. Then, with the handcuffs, they secured Wsetke!s left wrist to a basement gas pipe end fled, Welke reached a stepladder with his free right hand, smash- eo, it against the Hoot' until a rung broke loose, and used it to pry the handcuff loose. He called the police and the FBI, and tried to cull his home. But there, the bandit on guard had ripped out the phone before his aeeeelates picked him up. Mrs. Welke and • Bobby were found unharmed. • As police and the FBI set about hunting three polite bank rob- bers, Welke—with some irony— recalled hat the Gary bank had hired him away from his. native Burlington, Wis., "to help put a bank on the map," "I guess," he said ruefully, "we put the bank on the map, • all right."—From NEWSWEEK False Claims In Health-Food Circles ens_ Hollywood's Robert Cummings and radio's Carlton Fredericks have a lot in common. Both are busy promoters of health food, both have written big-selling books on the subject, and both ran into trouble last month with the Food and Drug Administra- tion. Actor Cummings, who doubles as vice president of the Nutri- Bio Corp. of Los Angeles, was named when the FDA seized a batch of the company's vitamin and mineral tables in Washing- ton on charges that they were being promoted by false and mis- leading claims (e.g., that they help prevent impotency, heart trouble, tuberctelosis, and some 30 other rnaladieSepromote beau- ty, athletic. ',ability,. and radiant living). Some of,the claims, said • the l`DAfalter *noting that: any literatUre 'used to promote a food-. product is considered part of the product's label:--were contairied.,. in Cummings' book, "Stay Young and Vital." Fredericks' book, "Eat, Liye, and Be Merry," was seized on the same charges in Varna, 111., along with about $1,000 worth of vita- min and mineral supplements (Toddler's Vitamin and Mineral Supplement for Children, Vita- Glo Food Supplement). Freder- icks, who has been pushing his controversial nutrition beliefs on radio for more than twenty years, promptly accused the FDA of carrying out a "personal vendet- te," He admitted that one reason for his anger Was the agency's contention that he had no right to bill himself as "America's leading nutritionist," For his part, Cummings was only too happy to cooperate with the FDA, promised to fire Nutri- Bio's Washington distributor. Speaking through his wife, who heads up Nutri-Bia's home-plan- ning division, Cummings said the company strictly forbids the use by its distributors of the type of literature seized by the FDA. That goes for his hook, "Not that there is anything wrong with the book," Mrs. Cummings pointed out, "but it has no connection with Nutri-Bio." EXPENSIVE POSTAGE The highest denomination stamp ever issued was the King George V 100 pounds red and black Kenya stamp of 1925-27. During the holiday season, cas- seroles will be featured at many a supper party—and' with good reason. These easygoing dishes can be prepared in advance, don't require watching in the oven, and stay hot, in their handsome containers until guests are ready for seconds. Seafoods can be counted on to make elegant party casseroles. How would you like one contain- ing husky chunks of tuna and cooked, frozen asparagus, baked together in a creamy, toasted almond sauce? Or perhaps ten- der morsels of crab meat baked in a sherry-flavoured sauce at- . tractively flecked with bits of red .; pimiento and green pepper? -Re- cipes for both of these delicacies ' ,have been supplied by the home economists of Canada's ,Depart-. kthent of Fisheries. ' COMPANY TUNA BAKE 2 cans (I ounces each) tuna 2 packages (10 ounces each) frozen asparagus ije cup chopped, blanched almonds yi cup butter, melted V. cup flour 'A teaspoon salt "4/8' teaspoon pepper Few grains nutmeg 2 cups milk Paprika Drain tuna and break into large pieces. Cover asparagus with boiling salted water. Heat until water returns ty. point; drain. tut asparagus into 1-inch pieces. Place in a greased 1-quart casserole. Top with the tuna, Fry almonds in butter until golden 'brown. Blend in flour and seasonings. Add milk gradually and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Pour over tuna and asparagus. Sprinkle with paprika. Bake in a mode- rate oven (350°F.) for 25 to 30 minutes. Make 6 servings. CRAB CHARLOTTE • CASSEROLE 3 cups cooked crab meat OR 3 cans (63,.O, ounces each) crab 14, cup butter 14 cup flour 2; cups milk 2 tablespoons minced onion teaspoon celery salt 14.• teaspoon grated oraege rind 1 tablespoon chopped parsley 1 tablespoon minced green - pepper 1 pimiento, finely chopped 2 drops Tabasco sauce 1 eggO. beaten 3/2 cup fresh bread eietinbs cup grated cheddar cheese , Pimiento or tomato for' garnish Remove any shell or cartilage from crab meat. If using canned crab., drain. Break meat into pieces. Melt butter; blend in flour. Add milk gradually and cook until thick and smooth, stir- ring constantly. Add onion, eel- cry salt, orange rind, parsley, green pepper, pimiento,. Tabasco sauces Stir a little of hot sauce into egg; add to remaining sauce, stirring constantly. Add crab meat. Turn into a greased 11/2 - quart casserole, Mix bread crumbe and cheese. Sprinkle around top edge of casserole, Bake in a moderate oven (350° F,) for 15 minutes, Remove from oven and garnish top with pi- miento cut in shape of a poin- settia flower, or a whirl of thinly cut tomato wedges. Place under broiler and broil for about 2 min- utes to lightly brown the crumbs. Makes 6 servings. The home-baked-food table is always one of the most popular at church bazaars and usually sells out first. "We could have sold twice as much," is often the plaint of the committee chair- /slate }towever, the food must not only be good:, it must look good. Here are a few item's that have passed both tests and be- COTfie best Sellers. Moreover, their preparation won't keep ,koti too long in the kitchen., FRUIT AND NUT DROPS lee cup shortening 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed le teaspoon lemon extract 2 egg yolks 2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted lea teaspoon baking powder .1/2 teaspoon salt 1.1 cup chopped nuts—walnuts or pecans M cup chopped raisins 14 cup chopped dates let cup chopped candied pine. aPPle Candied cherries Cream shortening, gradually adding the brown sugar, and beat well. Add lemon extract and beat in the egg yolks, one at a time. Add sifted dry ingredients, then fruits and nuts. Shape into small -balls and place on greased cooky sheet at least two inches apart. Top each cooky with half a candied cherry. Bake at 350° F, about 12 minutes. Makes 'about four dozen cookies. COCONUT' MOUNDS 1 cup sugar 3/2 cup white corn syrup 1 tablespoon butter ik cup water Grated rind two oranges 2 cups shredded coconut Combine sugar, water, corn syrup, and butter in saucepan. Cook until a little syrup dropped into cold water forms a firm ball. Remove from heat• add orange d rind and coconut, of bine thor- oughly and drop onto greased cooky sheet. Bake at 350° F. for about 12 minutes or until cookies are slightly brown on tap. Makes one and one-half dozen cookies. ORANGE MARMALADE COFFEE CAKE 2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted cup sugar 3,Se cup shortening In cup chopped walnut meats cup orange marmalade 2 teaspoons baking 'powder 1. teaspoon nutmeg e teaspoon salt 1 egg-, well beaten le cup milk 1.12 teaspoon vanilla flavoring Sift one cup of the flour with sugar and cut in shortening until mixture is crumbly, Blend in nuts. Combine one-half cup of this mixture with marmalade and reserve for topping, Sift to- gether remaining flour, baking powder, nutmeg, and salt. Add to first mixture and blend thor- oughly, Combine egg, flavbring, and milk; blend with flour mix- ture, The dough will be quite stiff, Spread in an 8x8x2-inch pan and drop marmalade topping over the top. Bake at 350° F. for about 40 minutes. a SPICED APPLE CUTOUTS 3 cups thick tinsweeteiled apple sauce Z mpg sugar pouhd red eh-amen candies Powdered sugar Ceok apple sauce, sugar, arid candies in heavy saucepan for about one hour or until very thiek, stirring frequently. Al- kw to cool. Spread on waxed paper and pat to 1/4 -inch thick- ness. Let stand overnight to dry out. Cut into desired shapes with small cooky cutters. t4ift each piece from paper with 'broad spa- tula and dip into powdered sugar, Spread on sugared paper and let stand overnight before using, 1tAISIN MUFFINS 1 pint seelded' milk )4 (hip butter JA. cup sugar V/ teaspoon Salt 1 compressed Yeast cake Flour to make a thin batter 2 eggs Add butter, sugar, and salt to. the scalded milk. When tooled to lukewarm, add the yeas crumbled, and stir until dissolved; Add enough flour to Make a thin Sourld Rays That Can Kilt— Or Vurel sound can kill. A death ray is now in the making! .The "bias- ter," that weapon beloved of sot- once-fiction writers for the rapid slaughter of bug-eyed monsters, May soon become a fact; ft is a horrible thought, but soon armies may be marching against each other with silent kilkas in their bands. Not long ago. an American .sci- elitist, picked up a small metal ,tube. He pointed it at a caged rat at the other end of the room and squeezed a 'tiny button. No- thing appeared to happen. There was neither flash nor sound. Butt the rat jerked, stiffened and toppled over dead! It had been killed by sound waves travelling at more than 20,000 cycles a second—far high- er than the human ear can detect. They were 'absorbed so quickly by the rats fur that ultrasonic energy was converted into heat, and the rodent died instantly of an intense fever all over the body. A similar sort of sound gun has been used in Great Britain to set fire, from a distance, to wool and other hairy materials. Mys- teriously, they started to smoke —then burst into flames. Had the rat been shaved, it would have lived. But such pro- tective measures Will not be ef- fective much longer. The intensity of the ray is be- ing stepped up so that the nerve centres •and. the brain itself can be destroyed. And the range is being increased . . - As with all kinds of sound, the waves radiate outwards from a central source. An early example was the • "silent dog whistle, pitched' so high that only ani- mals would hear it. There are many ways of pro- ducing inaudible waves of sound, but only comparatively' recently has it been possible to concen- trate them and pin-point them in a given direction, • •i Although there has been very little publicity to date, the ultra- sonics race between Russian and American scientists is nearly as fierce as that to produce bigger bombs and guided missiles. Indeed, ultrasonics are playing an important part in perfecting -long-range- weapons of death and also as a source of power for space craft! It has been found that an ultrasonic "whistle increases or decreases the rate at which solid fuel burns, and also controls its thrust. Sound waves shot through a material speed up many chemical reactions—including burning and .oxidization. They have been made to boil water in less than a minute. " How ultrasound works is still much of a mystery. In their ef- forts to solve the problem, sci- entists the world over have been studying the bat—because these nocturnal creatures use ultra- sonic waves to catch insects on the wing and to avoid obstacles. Watch the. flight of a bat when dusk falls and note the fantastic speed with which it darts and turns through the air. It sees not with its eyes, but by sound waves. emanating from the larynx in some species, and from the MS- trils .in others, writes Basil Bailey in "Tit-Bits", • The way the signals are bounced back tells the bat of 'food or danger in the Vicinity, Its ears have a much higher fre-• quency response than those of a human. A bat which has been blinded will ,fly as well as ever, and this research has led to hopes that a model of the bat's amazing echo- locating system may one day be manufactured to assist blind peo- ple, For, while ultrasound can kill, it can also cure, It has al- ready been used with success in surgery, on the brain. particttl:rly for - opera- tions The technique is proving most valuable in curing Parkinson's disease, a nervous disability com- ing from a section of the brain smaller than the head of a matchstick. In London a complicated ni.eas- teritig machine locates the exact petition of the minute nerve den, Ire so that a needle CAA be driven Through to• reach and kill it. In. the United States, however, the same result has been achiev- ed by directing ultrasonic waves at the spot. When the diseased brain sec- tion is at point of focus, the rays destroy it within seconds. Th.ere have been promising ex- batter, Let stand in warm place until light and full of bubbles. Add eggs, beaten, and more flair to make a thick spoen. batter. Cover and let rise until light and double in bulk, Butter muffin pan well and halt fill With the batter. Lot rise in a warm plate until double hi site, then bake at 400° F. for 15 to' 20 minutes. Makes about two' dozen delicious UN(BEAR)ABLE — The prob- lems of the world seem to be too much for Mrs, Bruin as she sits in her enclosure at Regents Park Zoo, London, periments in cancer treatment, and in the disintegration of such internal ills as gall-stones and tumours. But this is by no means all the science of ultrasonics has to offer the human race. "Echo- fishing," it is also called, looks like developing into a major in- dustry of enormous economic importance. Commercial applications in- clude the machining of hard, brittle materials, like precious stones; the cleaning of small me- tal components in watches and other precision instruments by penetrating to previously inac- cessible parts, the soldering of light metals, and the fatigue- testing of highly stressed metals. In Britain they have develop- ed an ultrasonic drill which can punch holes of any shape to ac- curacies of one half-thousandth of an inch. Ultrasonic vibrators have also been invented to prevent barna- cles adhering to the hulls of ships! For the uses of ultrasound are legion. In America they are ex- perimenting with it as a means of cleaning clothes, of making meat tenderer and of ageing wine. And there is yet another func- tion of very special interest to Londoners. High frequency "whistles" have been used to dis- perse fog and smog in small areas, The sound waves make parti- cles of dust, soot or fog collide so violently that they stick to- gether and become heavy enough to fall to the ground. Like so many wonderful dis- coveries, ultrasound can be of huge benefit to mankind—or kill him. This incredible new form of power is as easy, to control as electricity. But can man control his own nature so that the full fury is never unleased, in the cause of war? A Toronto man's cellar is so. damp that when he laid a mouse- trap he caught a herring. Poper Clothes Are.. A .,Great idea Of all Ow ingenious inventions either on the market or drawing hoard the ono that appeals to me most is paper clothes that can wear turd then throw away, I'd say the perfret %%iv to make and circulate these paper suits would he for a laehion maeutpee turer and a newspeeer—prefere ably a 'pair that best lived up. to the ideals set forth by slos.(:ph Pulitzer -and Hart. Schaffner & Marx —lo merge and turn out a newspaper that would unroll into a suit,. My paper-suit boy would then toss my latest clothes on the porch each morning about six, instead of reading the contents, I would put them on and let my wife scan me quickly at the breakfast table • while I bolted down my coffee. Later, on the bus, if enough of my fellow com- muters wore wearing, their news- paper suits, I could catch up on the headlines by reading the nearest paperbacks, I certainly subscribe to this idea of taking a daily paper that can be put on and worn to work and thown away the same day. (Of course, to be competitive, the evening papers would probably have to come in paper pajamas.) And just think of all the prestige you would have if your evanes- cent wardrobe was fashioned from one of the ten great Ameri- can newspapers for superior cov- erage, styling, and public service. What's more, you'd always be wearing the very latest in a suit that was made expressly for you and a few Million other readers. And found only at better news- stands. Who knows, maybe the most famous size 36-46 daily paper- clothes slogan that people will wake up to in the exciting years ahead will be "All the News That Fits."—Jack Pope in Saturday Review Eskimos Break An Ancient Monopoly To break the , Hudson's Bay Co.'s 291-year-old monopoly on retail trade in the Arctic, Can- ada's 12,000 Eskimos two years ago acquired the legal right to establish their own cooperatives, Recently, at Cape Dorset' on Baffin Island, they opened the fourth of a new chain of stores. The man behind the new co- ops is a 31-year-old Eskimo artist named Kananginak whose soap- stone carvings and Eskimo prints are used on U.N. Christmas cards. When the Hudson's Bay Co. mar- keted Kananginak's prints, his share was $5; by marketing thetas himself, he earns $17 a print, That set Kananginak to wonder- ing whether the HBC was mak- ing similar profits on the fire- arms, radios, and tobacco it sells to the Eskimos. Establishing a cooperative among the 300 Es- kimo of Cape Dorset, Kanan- ginak expects to gross $125,000 a year. UBC, which. grosses $246 mil- lion a year, shrugged off the threat of an Arctic price war. "Eskimo trade," said an official, "is a minor part of our business." And from Robert Louis Ste-, venson 's writings comes this timely line: "The man who for- gets to be thaokfid has fallen asleep in. life." ISSUE 51 — 1961 TURNTABLE DINING--La Ronde( Honolulu's newest res. taurant, perChes atop the 23rd floor of the Ala Mocha build- ing, the city's newest and tallest office building. The dining room,. seating 162 persons, makes one complete revolution every Mitt, providing diners with a panoramic vitta., ALL EYES—the eyes haVe it as Jarilid Walker, 3 0 facet the CaMerd with an armful of wide-eyed kittens.