The Brussels Post, 1962-05-03, Page 2SPRING SCENE — Mr. and Mrs, George T. Laffin enjoy the view along the Tidal Basin
in Washington where the Japanese cherry blossoms are out in all their glory, Familiar
tower of the Washington Monument is in background.
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have introduced and the union
accepted, the industry might have
lost still more of iEs market, A
royalty is. paid into the union
welfare fund, which helps the
• retired and the disabled, but little
seems to have been done to help
the displaced and unemployed
Coal miner.
To an exter t. new sourees of
energy such US natural gas and
tam people of the Southern AP- petroleum h ave decreased th e
nelachians, demand for coal, Even if the .de-
These southern mountaineers mends of the United Mine Work-
form the major part of that group .ers for increased embargoes on
of citizens whom President Ken- the importation of crude petrol-
netly has called the `autderprivil. eum were met, however, and
eged in America," High rates of even if new synthetie uses for
illiteracy and low economic op, coal are developed it is in-prob.
portunity makes this region one able that this 'would create work
of the most problematical and in the mines for all those who
challenging areas in the United l are now laid oft The "claw" has
States, replaced the man, writes John
The people of these hills live W. Dower in the Christian Sci-
a life as deceptively simple as
the direct folk names by which
they call their places, They do
not seem to move fast or push
hard; when a man wants to shoot
equirrels, he leaves what he is
doing and hunts, He has time for
conversation, and time for "jes'
settin'."
Underneath this leisurely stir-
face, however, is a many-colored
society, a complex pattern of life
which often becomes torn and
imperfectly mended when the
mountaineer moves to the city,
or when the city reaches his
home.
The area commonly referred to
as the Southern Appalachians
consists of approximately 130,000
square miles covering the moun-
tainous parts of seven states: Ala-
bama, Georgia, Kentucky, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and
West Virginia, Over 1,500,000
people have left this region in
the last ten years, following well-
worn migration paths north to
urban centers such as Chicago,
Indianapolis, and Cleveland,
In recent years their, destina-
tions are being,extended aver
longer distances. Many of, these
migrants are not equipped to
participate in the urban environ-
ment, The most soorly trained
form ghettos the cities, or
move, of necessity, to the slums.
Statistics dealing with the
mountain area itself are signifi-
cantly enough below the na-
tional norm to reflect upon the
prosperity and well-being of the
nation as a whole. In eastern
Kentucky the average wage
earner makes' $650 a year, one-
third the average annual income
in the United States. This "figure
includes -welfare -payments and
other state and federal subsidies,
Eastern Kentucky has not been
self-supporting in 30 years, and
receives some $15,000,000 a year
in direct relief, and a correspond-
ing sum in "mollygrub," free
commodities distributed to those
who qualify for welfare.
The reasons for this local de-
pression are many, and involve
the explosion of several myths
which have become the spec-
tacles through which this area is
commonly viewed. lh the past,
natural resources of coal and tim-
ber were the primary source of
income here, The mountains have
been wastefully stripped; Itreee
which cover their slopes are all
second or third growth now, -un-
suitable for lumbering on a sig-
nificant scale. But the coal is by
Eno means exhausted, and the coal
industry is not dead, Rather, it
is the mining of coal by men
which is dying.
The rapid mechanization of the
mines which began in the early
1950's has put more than 50 per
cent of the coal miners out of
work. Those fortunate •enough to
retain their jobs receive a good and education on a small but
salary under the union pay scale: growing scale.
over three dollars an hour, $125 These programs, and the unique
a week. But the companies and way of life of the mountaineer,
the union have not been able to
maintain work for over half the
soen.
Except for the technological
changes which managements
KNEADS THE DOUGH —
Singing wildly as he works,
Mickey Rooney works with a
large pile of dough. He is
rehearsing for a scene he
plays in a television show.
A Sour Note About
A Sweet Lady
Warning! This is going to be
a sour one. . . .
No one should blame Jackie
Kennedy for being good-looking.
. . Nor should anyone expect the
U.S. President's wife to ride a
bicycle in from the airport or
slop over to the Government
House reception in blue jeans.
We expect her to look like a lady.
But it seems to be no accident
that the crowds in Rome and the.
crowds in New Delhi shouted the
same thing—"America's Queen"
— only in different languages,
Jackie has certainly put on a
queenly performance, backed by
her sister, Princess Radziwill, of
London, wife of a one-time Pol-
ish prince. , . .
We are informed by leased
wire whenever Mrs. Kennedy
changes from sleek black to stun-
ning white, whenever pearls give
way to diamonds.
Worst of all, the most inconse-
quential statements of the First
Lady . are reported with ap-
parent awe. Jackie's earth-shak-
ing assertions like, "I have a
little girl about your age," or
"That's a pretty name " are
enough to send the press corps
galloping to the nearest telegraph
office.
Maybe it's the fault of the
press, Twenty reporters are free-
loediag on Jackie's junket and,
barring some tremendous devel-
opment like a cobra getting away
from a snake charmer or some
Indian official saying that they've
had about enough toreign aid,
these folks will naturally be
pressed for copy..
A lot of the world has the idea
that Americans areas=, rich [earn.
having stolen se much wealth
from the poor Latin Amerieans
and the poor Africans and the
poor Asiatics, etc. that foreign
aid doesn't hurt us a hit and the
only crying shame is that we
don't really loosen up and atone
for our materialistic sins.
Somehow, it would teteri, our
own self-interest would lie in
trying to convince these people
that we are a hard-working race
who built an empire out of a
1
wilderness by getting up early
, !and plowing straight and chop-
ping with a will, Also, that we
have the highest rate of income-
taxes on earth and the Moat mage,
aificent national debt.
This idea will never 'be sold by
a lovely lady, an aristocrat to her
fingertips, representing the tiny
arid vanishing fox-hunting set of
Virgirlia.—Tulsa Tribune
Here's an easy dessert that can
be made the day before serving.
!Serve it with scoops of ice cream
or with whipped cream.
BAKED LEMON PUDDING
Fitting;
1 cup .sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup cold water
2 eggs, beaten
1/ cup butter
, 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
Combine sugar, cornstarch, and
salt in saucepan; add water grad-
ually and cook over direct heat
until thickened. Stir about 1/2 the
hot mixture into the beaten eggs;
• stir back into pan. Cook 1 minute
longer, Remove from heat; add
butter and lemon juice. Pour into
crumb-lined baking dish.
Crumb Topping:
Mix together 11/2 cups crushed
cornflakes, 1 cup brown sugar,
1/2 cup melted butter, 1 cup flour,
1/2 teaspoon soda, and 1 cup
shredded coconut. Pour 2/3 of
mixture into a 9-inch-square
greased pan, Pour in lemon fill-
ing. Sprinkle remaining mixture
on top and bake at 350° F. 20-25
minutes. Cut in squares when
you serve it, either hot or cold.
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BANANA-APPLESAUCE
CAKE
36 graham crackers
3 cups fresh applesauce
4 medium bananas
hfe cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon sugar
la teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Sliced bananas for garnish
Ground nutmeg
Arrange 7 graham crackers in
the bottom of a 10x6x2-inch bak-
ing dish, Cover with a 1/2 -inch
layer of applesauce. Top with a
layer of bananas sliced 1/4 -inch
thick, Repeat until dish is filled
having graham crackers as top
layer. Refrigerate 11/2 to 2 hours.
Just before serving, combine
cream, sugar and pure vanilla,
extract. Whip until cream stands
in soft peaks. Spread over top of
pudding, Serve as dessert gar-
nished with sliced bananas and
a dash of ground nutmeg.
YIELD: 8 servings.
APRICOT BAVARIAN CREAM
.1 envelope plain gelatin
Iii. Cups cold canned apricot
nectar
en cup sugar
e teaspoon salt.
2 egg yolks, slightly beaten
1 tablespoon lemon juice
teaspoon vanilla
2 egg whites, stiffly beaten
1 cup heavy eream, whipped
soften gelatin in cold apricot
juice in top of double boiler. Add
sugar and salt a.nd place over
boiling water; stir until dissolv-
ed. SlowtlY pont hot mixture
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over beaten egg yolks, stirring
constantly, Return to double
boiler and cook over hot, not
boiling; water, stirring constant-
ly until mixture coats spoon. Re-
move from heat; add vanilla and
lemon juice. Chill until mixture
is a bit thicker than consistency
of unbeaten egg whites. Fold in
the stiffly beaten egg whites,
then the whipped cream. Pour
into individual molds, Chill until
firm, Decorate with sprigs of
'mint leaves,
BANANA LUNCHEON SALAD
Head lettuce
etS cup mayonnaise
1 tablespoon milk
4 medium bananas
1 cup minced dried beef or
cooked ham
Fresh parsley
Arrange:lettuce on salad plates.
Mix mayonnaise, with milk. Cut
bananas into 1-inch chunks, Dip
in mayonnaise and then rola in
minced dried beef or cooked ham.
Arrange 5 pieces bananas on
each serving. Garnish with fresh
parsley.
YIELD: 4 servings.
PEPPERMINT ANGEL
1 cup milk
16 marshmallows •
1 cup heavy cream, whipped
Few drops red food coloring
..`t cup crushed Peppermint
stick candy
Angel food s cake
Chocolate sauce
Heat milk in saucepan over
low flame; add marshmallows
and stir until melted. Chill until
thick and syrupy. Fold whipped
cream into marshmallow mix-
ture; Add food coloring to tint
a clelciate pink, then fold in
candy. Pour into freezing tray
and freeze until firm. To serve,
top engelfood, cake with the pep-
permint mixture and drizzle
chocolate saute over it. YIELD:
6-8 servings,
In Russia They
Rise and Fall Fast
Fewernen rose as rapidly in
post-Sstalin Russia as Dmitri T.
Shepilov, A Waetime associate of.
Nikita S. Khrushchev, the tall,
shaggily handsome narty theor-
etician became editor of Pravda
and later, for eight months, was
Soviet Foreign Minister. In June
of 1957, when he was Secretary
of the Communist Central ,Com-
mittee, Shepilov joined the "anti-
party" group which was seeking
to oust Khrushchev. Exactly
What happened afterward to
Shepilov was a mystery,
Last week, a letter written by
a friend' of the deposed commis-
satnfell into the hands of a U.S,
intelligence agent Rated as "re-
liable", it sheds a lot of light on
the techniques of political re-
venge in Khrushchev's Russia
jute' 1957—Shepilov was ex-
pelled f r o in the Communist
Party Presidium and the Central
Corn mi tit e
July '7 — His book 'Vet: aegis
Policy el the LI S.S.R.,1 ' which
iszIti just `been puhliehect, was
withdrawn. —
July 15 — Printing of the new
issue of the Soviet encyclopedia
was held up and Shepilove-
rephy was reinaced`
Also in Stay — His rank of
major be .era] was revoked. De-
nied treatment for ulcers in the
Kremlin clinic, he was treated
,Botkin Hospital.
November — Shot:nifty was sent
to Frunze (Kirghlz'a) as director
of the Economic, institute of the
local. Academy of Sriencss — in
effect, exile.
Stine 1958 sITC was demoted
to ai.iistant director of the
Afford To .Boy Lwivh
:Steely 44cicst thing nWut
the Insitieh ecenemy is that prac-
tically' nobody tart afford to buys
hiene if a lunch any Inure,
A housQ, a ear, a television,
elothee, a ladiday? Iros, Roe can
just affeed them.
But lunch? No.
Probably a majority jai core-
an rvial firms :Dow issue their
clerical etaffs • with luncheon
vouchers, Which is why every
other restaurant has a little
sticker "ITV" in the whitlow, With
a streasher the staff can get 3s.
(50. cents) worth of lunch at
one of the restaurants without
paying. The firm pays later and
writes the cost off its taxes.
Where there Is no luncheon
voucher there may be a canteen,
with a subsidized meal ana give-
away price,
Where there is no canteen
there may be a kitchen where
the staff can cook itself a little
meal,
Where there is no kitchen the
staffsancwhifcroebs'bly brings its own
Virtually half the people tench-
ing in the crowded restaurants
where 3s.6de would not even tip
the, porter are doing .so as guests
of the other half. And most of -
the other half are either going
to sign the bill' (on behalf of the
firm.), get the cost back out of
the petty cash( account later, or
claim an allowance against tax
glateia institute,
December — All of Shepilov's
published works were banned
. from 'Soviet libraries.
March 1959 — He was expelled
from the Academy of- Sciences of
the U,S.SR.
March 2 - Jutie 12 — He was
treated in' SolovetskieTirst Psys
chietrice Hospital, • where doctors
granted' his "invalid" status for
a year with a pension of 60 ru-
bles a month.
July 13 -- Temporarily reliev-
ed of his duties in the Frunze
institute, Shepilov returned to
his Moscow apartment, Lenin-
sky Proyesd, 13, apartment 10.
September — He was ordered
to give up his Moscow apartment
and to leave ,for Frunze.
October — The party boss of
Kirghizia, Iskhak R. Rassakov,
fired Shepiloit fione his job in the
institute and sent him to a local
collective farm. Shepiloy refused
to obey the order,
The last word about Shepilov
was that he had been "pronounc-
ed an oligophrenic," and sent
back to the psychiatric hospital,
Oligophrenic is another word for
mental defective.
From NEWSWEEK
when they send their formteed
the bill) in to the Inland Rev-
cone.
What is certain is that p•raeti-
vane, nobody will he having a
proper lunch at his or her own
ex pease.
Very few people in this coun-
try today could afford to do so.
No fooling. That's a fact.
It seems a very Odd state of
.affairs. •
it may be that the party t h at
will win the next election wilt
be the party that adopts as its
slogan the words, "Let us pay our
.own wey,"
For when people pay their own
way each gets the lunch he wants
and, deserves, writes john Allan
May in the Christian. Science
Monitor,
When others pay—or elets one
doesn't eat—not only does the
luncher usually eat a meal he
does not want but -society leees
by introducing into its system
new and random set of privileges.
•
Now the reason why • people
cannot afford to pay for lunch
is simply that taxation is too
high.
The tax on • a car has been
reduced—three .sheers for that!
— but it. still stands at 45 per
cent. On a q.sically n500
($1,400) car the toes is more than
£200 ($569).
For £200 you-could not eat et
the Savoy every day, But you
could cat aceese the street,
Or look at it e another. way.
Because people Cannot afford to
pee/ the full economic. fare on the
railways the railways are losing
more than t.E150,00Q,000 'a year,
So this 'X150,000,000: is simply
collected by the tax man instead
of the railway clerks.
Now that would buy lunch for
a week .for every man, woman,
-and child in the country. Which
means" that Oidthavarag it causes
£1.50,000,000 to be unavailable
,forlerich. •
In',Othett'Whrds, running rail-
ways at a loss means going with-
out Winch.
ThiS" is indeed en economic
fact-of-life that people seem un-
aware of and yet cannot avoid:
Nothing is free. -- • .
The state never pays for any-
tthing; the taxpayer steles,
At the present mernent in this
country "the state" ,• is said to
!spend 40 per cent of the national
nnincome; i.e., the taxpayer pays
'"out 40 per cent of the nation's
income in taxes.
etf .anation, or a man, pays 25
per cent of income for housing,
25 per cent for housekeeping, 10
- per cent on motoring, and 40 per,
cent on government, there is not
going to be much left over, for
lunch,
ISSUE 18, — 1962
A District ihq.
Doesn't" 'amp About
..Mve Ole, Medliek„ Greasey
Pork, Stinking Creek: these .are
the names Of Mountain eenamtini-
. ties located along the creek beds
here in eastern Kentucky. Here,
where paved, roads are few, lives
a eegtnent of the 10,000,000. Moon-
,s4.4
teidEtEt*Eit/IC Chbiles MtifpRje tai a' most unusual job.
He Wes an electronic stethoscope fc check the "heart beat"
f)f parking rrietere. London officials keep a close watch on
Wrung mechohisms td. Make Sure that motorists get full
Value out of their money. He inspects about 200 per day.
are the subjects of two subse-
quent articles,
ence Monitor.
Agriculture too offers no real
solution to the lack of economic
opportunity in the mountains, Al-
though local teams of agrarian
experts are working to develop
maximum utilization of the soil,
there is simply not enough culti-
vatable land to make farming a
major economic prop here, Eighty
per cent of eastern Kentucky is
too steep for habitation, In Clay
County, Kentucky, the figure
rises to 90 per cent, in Leslie
County to 991/2 per cent. And
much of the rare flatland is river
and creek bed.
Fuethermore, the area is not
attractive to most industries. A-
,gainst the lure of a cheap labor
force lie the detrimental factors
of poor transportation and power
facilities, and the lack of educa-
tional and technical skills,
Prof. Joseph Mobley, agricul-
tural economics expert of the
University of Kentucky, esti-
mates that 50,000 new jobs are
needed to meet the present de-
mands of unemployed and under-
, employed people in eastern Ken-
tucky alone. In addition to this
number over 16,000 young people
join the labor force here each 4
year. Extending these figures
over the next 10 years, it is ap-
parent that more than 150,000
new jobs must be created in
eastern Kentucky alone in order
to employ the local labor pool.
'Faced 'with the lack of rural
job opportunity on the one hand,
the lack of urban skills on the
other, the individual mountain-
eer finde. himself trapped. His
words are black and often bitter,
There, is among many a sense
of having been taken advantage
of, of hawing been used and ex-
ploited..
Underlying this situation are
conditions of environment which
provide a further set of sobering
statistics. Only 10 per cent of
the farm homes in Clay County,
for example, have running water,
less than 6 per cent have tele-
phones, and less than 5 per cent
have inside plumbing.
Of the 10,000,000 illiterates in
the United States, over 2,000,000
live in the Southern Appalach-
ians. More than 80 per cent of
the young people in eastern Ken-
tucky fail to finish high school.
This lack of education, together
with poor diet and hygiene, caus-
ed the rejection of almost half
the men called up for military
service from the mountain re-
gion during World War II.
Lacking economic opportunity
in his homeland, and ill-prepared
to move to the cities, the moun-
taineer faces a bleak future. Yet
there is a brighter side to his
situation also, for in recent years
the people of the Southern Ap-
palachians themselves have initi-
ated programs of development
We get old, too soon — and
smart too late!
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