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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-05-10, Page 2-ss'w ICE JAM ABOVE THE FALLS — At Niagara Falls, N,Y., large ice floes from the spring break-up in Lake Erie jam Niagara River channels above the falls, cutting off the flow of water and, for a short time, making an ice island at the brink of Horseshoe Falls, Jazz Ancitte,ws. Fashion Hint FOR WARMER WEATHER Americqn.:View of Jobless Retraining, No eneeessn, fault the objeettee Of the manpower training aot just signed by ,president Ken- nedy. It is to provide new skills and new jobs--for the. unems. played who have been displaced by automation and other iseo- eemie change. Retaining of the displaced is a • Must if out' country is to continue to prosper and to hold its place of leadership. in the free \weld. Au- tomation and changing trade pat- terns will create opportunity which can be met only by a bet- ter educated, higher skilled, more productive working force,. But there is 'nose to the prob- lem than simply sending the un- employed back to school at gov- ernment expense, • That- could turn out to: be a costly boondog- gle and-eif improperly handled --just another, and potentially scandalous, version of a federal dole. • The „program now being laun- ched is expected to spend. $600 • million (including state matching funds) to train 570,000 unemploy- ed workers,i'n three years, It figs tires to more than $1,000 per raieeee-well worth it if most of them get jabs, but, money clown a rathole if they' don't. -Past experience has shown there is no point in training peo- ple unless you • know there will be a demand for their new skills once they're trained. And there equally is no point in training jobless workers — however de- serving otherwise—who lack the education and ability to profit by what they learn. It -Will take a real effort by private industry, local and state agencies and• the federal govern- ment to make this program a suc- cess, We wish them well. — Memphis (Tenn.) Press-Scimitar s SURVIVOR -- Malika Driss, 6, peers sadly through her crutch while awaiting therapy in El Mers, Morocco, She was one of some 10,000 Arab Moroccans who were victims of mass pois- oning when unscrupulous merchants sold the Arabs cooking oil that had been adul- terated with poisonous lubri- cating oil. Hundreds suffered paralysis Meow? Meow! Old Tom is a tomcat through and through—a scarred veteran of uncertain years, unchronicled amours and unnmbered fights. One ear is split, one foot has a sagged scar, and underneath the thick black hair are healed wounds turned white. 7n his sunset clays, Old Tom lazed about a small ranch near Yucaipa, a hamlet off the,bighe way between Los Angeles and Palm Springs. He'd either bask in the sun or mosey out now and then to flush a field mouse. But he was a cantankerous sort, slim on affection toward the ranch owners, the Coleman Feld- man family. He would glare with snobbish aloofness at Mrs. Feld- Man and he would ,refuse to ga, ler the house until. Mr%'Feldman • came home in the evening. • When the Feldmans, with their 2-year-old daughter, Patricia, and their dog, candy, moved to Los Angeles last April 14, they des tided the kindest thing to do for • an old cat set in his ways was to leave him on the ranch with his field mice and his sun. The new ranch owners, the George .Am- b.10 family, premised to care for hem and see him to his grave, Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Old Toni brooded. Then one day last summer' he disappeared. The Ambeells told the Felt-linens. Everyone shrugged and forgot about. Old Tom. Last month the Feldmans re- turned from shopping to their house in midtown Los -Angeles anti noticed a black cat pacing on the roof of the house next door. "It looked like Old. Tom,' says Feldman, "and when I talked to .him, he crooned back, At the ranch I used to talk to him and he'd meow in return. I examined him carefully, and it was him, all right. The coloring was the same, the scars—the oar nicked in the fight , ." • The •Feldmans discount the idea that anyone brOnght Old Tom to their city home. The evidence seems to prove that somehow Old Tom, in months of wander- ing, crossed better than 90 miles of wilderness, farms, suburbs, and freeways and through hun- dreds of square miles of houses to the new Feldman home in Los Angeles. "It's utterly fantastic," says Mrs. Feldman, "But it is Old Tom. Candy won't allow another cat in the yard, but he just ignores Old Tom as he used to back at the ranch." And Old Tom is back to his old aloof ways, He won't go into the house until Mr.. Feldman comes, home. Would you like to make a real Hungarian goulash? Mrs. Char- lotte Miller, sent in this recipe, writing, "Hungarian goulash is a fragrant one-dish meal . . , it is not a potted meat with gravy. It is a choice bit of meat and po- tatoes in its own soup to -be serv- ed in deep bowls with spoon and fork." This is how it is made: HUNGARIAN GOULASH 3 pounds fresh, lean beef cut into 1-inch cubes, ".e cup bacon fat 'A cup yellow onions cut into bits 1 tablespoon salt I/2 teaspoon ground pepper (you may like less) 1 raw tomato (or 2 tablespoons tomato sauce) Mix all ingredients; cover tightly; cook over low flame on top of stove for 2 hours. (Ed. note; beef is usually first brown- ed for a stew like this.) Then add: 4 • 1 quart stock or water , 1 pound potatoes, peeled and cut into eis-in: cubes eal cup homemade noodle squares Cook slowly 15 minutes longer, then garnish with 1/4 cup fresh Italian parsley, 1 tablespoon sweet paprika. Serve in deep bowls, HOMEMADE NOODLES 1 egg Flour Mix with a fork, using all the flour the egg takes up. Mix about 1 minute, When it dries, roll to lei-inch thickness and cut into 1/4 -inch squares. (These will keep in glass jar indefinitely). * Another one-dish meal was sent by Mrs. Rikki Kerns. "I have made this dish for some time with success; it is original and I am sure Christian Science Monitor readers have not had it before," she says, although she uses beef rather than lamb for her "Shep- herd's Pie." "This is very tasty served with garlic bread and a green salad. It can be made the day before and left in the refrig- erator unbaked, until needed," DE LUXE SHEPHERD'S NE 1 pound ground chuck or round of beef 2 large onions, sliced Pepper and salt Pinch of rosemary or thyme (optional) 2 teaspoons Worcestershire, sauce I tablespoon catchup I bouillon cube We tablespoons flour Mushrooms, fresh or canned (optional) 2 medium potatoes 2 parsnips (or similar amount of turnips) 2 large carrots Butter and sharp cheese Fry ground meat and onions until done; add seasonings and bouillon cube cut into pieces, Mix in flour and enough water (or juice from mushrooms) to make into thick sauce, Cook together with salt, the root vege- tables, cutting carrots (and tur- nips, if used) into thin strips; Mash; add butter and cheese, grated or cut into small pieces. Pour meat sauce in bottom of large casserole, Spoon mashed vegetables carefully on top, smoothing with a fork, Add more grated cheese. Cover; bake at 350 ° P. 45-60 minutes, removing lid during last 15 minutes of baking, 1 medium onion, chopped 1 clove garlic, chopped 1/2 cup tomato sauce 2 tablespoons catchup 1 bay leaf 4 allspice berries 1/2 teaspoon paprika Pinch sweet basil 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce 14-1 cup hot water % green pepper, cut up (op- tional) -Cooked rice Parsley for garnish Brown meat in hot fat; add onion and garlic and brown slightly (do not burn). Add bay leaf, allspice, and Worcestershire sauce; cover and let simmer 1 hour. As liquid cooks away, add hot water -.— 1/2 to 1 cup, Add tomato sauce, catchup, paprika, sweet basil, and green 'pepper. Continue simmering: until meat is tender — about 1 more. hour, Add salt to taste. DOUBLE-BOILER STEAMED RICE 1,4•4 cup washed raw rice cup water Salt to' taste Put ingredients in top of double boiler and cook with water in bottom of boiler; boiling , slowly for 3/4 of an hour, This rice will be fluffy with each grain separate. Serve with spicy beef — with a parsley garnish over all. This rice recipe -is for 2 serv- ings. * Do you have a great many leftovers in -your refrigerator? Marjorie Keith Stackhouee, has the very dish for you. It is mock chop suey, which she says brings "Ohs" and "Ahs" from guests. MOCK CHOP SUEY 2 large stalks celery 1 medium onion 2 teaspoons green pepper 6—or less — medium tomatoes 1 chicken breast and 1 chicken leg (cooked) 2 cups cooked rice cup green beans 1 cup lima. beans 1 cup chicken gravy 1 can. chicken chow mein Canned cooked noodles, if desired Soy sauce Chop first 5 ingredients; add beans, gravy, rice; boil 2 minutes,- then add chow mein; heat through; season. Serve with noodles and 'settee. Q. now call I snake a mush- room chowder? A. Combine condensed cream mushrpom soup with one can of light cream, e cup of sauteed sliced mushrooms, a few tablespoons' of lightly sauteed onion, and sieved hard - boiled egg. Ilea and serve. It's good! With land prices rising every' day now in the real estate world It may not be too long befog. it will Ire sold by the pound. HOW. Well Do YOU knit* NORTHEAST ASIA? Battered Children On The Increase -She burned her legs on a hot- water faucet," the parents ex- plained when they brought their 8-month-old daughter to Chil- dren's Hospital in Los Angeles. Doctors f o u red second-degree burns on the infant's left foot and entire lower right leg — but X rays also .showed a fracture of the left leg. Questioned, the father said he sometimes tossed the baby "around in play. Five months later, the mother brought the infant in, again. This time, the child had a fractured right elbow, skull, and left leg, and a seared back, This, the Los Angeles doctors decided, was an- other case of "The Battered Child Syndrome," They' notified, the authorities, "Since 1959, we've been receiv- ing an increasing number of re- ports from pediatricians and hos- pitals about physical abuse of children by their parents," says Katherine Oettinger, chief of the U.S, Children's Bureau, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last month. "We're now giving the problem of the battered 'child top priority," Mrs. Oettinger said. "Among the things we want to know; How big is the problem on a national scale? How can we- get doctors to recognize and report cases of child abuse?" So far, the most significant statistics on battered children are those gathered by Dr. Henry C. Kempc, a pediatrician at the Uni- versity of Colorado School of Medicine, He wrote to 71 large hospitals around the nation and received reports of 302 maltreat- ment ad-missions during a year. Of these, 33 died and 85 suffered permanent 'brain damage. Most commonly, Dr. Kempe said, the infants suffer fractures of the arms and legs, but much more serious injuries are not in- frequent, "One day last Novem- ber, we had four battered chil- dren in' our pediatrics ward," Dr. Kempe remarked. "Two died in the hospital and one died at home four weeks later. For every child who enters the hospital this bad- ly beaten, there must be hun- dreds treated by unsuspecting doctors. The battered child syn- drome isn't a reportable disease, but it damn well ought to be." Dr. Kempe and other observs errs believe that returning the battered child to his parent: is dangerous; in fact, there's a 50 per cent chance he'll be beaten again. The definitive psychiatric profile of these abusive parents has yet' to be drawn (University of Colorado psychiatrists are now working on this), but one Los Angeles social worker suggested that "when they're angry, they act like children who break their dol Is," Yet without tangible evidence that a child was deliberately hurt by his parents, no doctor, ob- viously, cares to become involved in a court action, That's why pe- diatricians and the Children's Bureau are hopefully watching the reaction of California judges to some X rays recently develop- ed by Dr. John. CI-wino, a redi- ologiet at Los Angeles Children's Hospital, Using the X rays -of known battered _children, Dr. Gwinn has developed an index which lets him identify how and even when — a young child's bones were fractured. The children, Dr. Gwinn plained, are usually .infants too young to climb , trees , or ride bicycles, They are also too young to talk — arid, of course, the parents are usually the only wits nesses; Dr. OVinti pointed out, "But if the X rays elieW a history. Of repeated injuries to the child, We tan be pretty sure that the inost, recent cletnege was no tees eident'." Eteem NEWSWEEK DANE: WITI-t CARE 1 Church ,Sunday AnIgng Amish Church Sunday in Amishland comes every •other week, in strict observance with tradition, and it makes .for a busy day indeed,. Services, bold in the homes of members, begin at eight-thirty and this means that families must rise at four to get chores out of the way if they are to • be there on time. On any chosen Sunday morning the yellow glow of lamplight may he observed in all the Amish hoaxes in our valley at this early hour, And inside the homes the work progresses with assembly- line precision. At the Zaugg's, Hilda and Amos feed the live- stock and milk the cows while Emmeline does the housework and prepares breakfast, The milk must be strained and put to cool, all pails and strain- ers are washed and scalded, and put to air out at the milk house, where a laundry stove is fired up to provide boiling water each morning, summer and winter. And a warm mash for the hens and cows simmers there on bitter mornings as well,. Stables are not cleaned on the Sabbath, but mangers are filled with hay and cribs • are provided with corn, If snow has fallen dur- ingh the night, paths must be shovelled, No wonder the family is ready . for the substantial breakfast which they presently sit to eat by lamplight! After the meal, all dishes are washed and put away, dairy pro- ducts are taken to the spring- house, and Emmeline and Hilda find time to sandwich in two chores that are a "must" on this days the peeparation of a pot of soup (usually noodle) to be eaten when the family gets home, and .the packing of a basket to take to church for the traditional noon lunch thete. This never varies; it is as traditional as an Amish- woman's bonnet or an.: Amish- man's broadfall pants. It is moon pies (dried apple fried pies made the day before) pickles, most often the red-beet variety; cheese and bread,. A hot drink to accompany the meal is brewed in the home where church is held in shiny zinc tubs , or lard cans which are never used for any other pur- pose. And the steam from boil- ing water on the kitchen range is a • never-failing accompaniment to any morning service. People not familiar with this region might wonder, as they view the scene from cars flash- ing along our stretch of highway, what is going on. A little after eight the grassy shoulder of the road which has been con•Artieted• for horse traffic is lirra with hooded carriages mind baclu,10/0$ runabouts, all headed in the same direction, writes Mabel Sleek Shelton in 11w Christian Science Monitor, In the designated barn lot, rigs are parked in rows, their shafts lowered to the ground, anti horses are tethered in long rows, by young hostelers, who ere, us. ti ally the sons of the house, plus a friend 0.• two. If the weather is firna lunch baskets are left on the •letielt screened porch, but in freezing weather space must be fOund for them in the kitchen, Mon and women sit apart for the services, Sometimes they occupy. .different sides of the long room made by folding or removing partitions fashioned for this purpose. Often the men sit in front. The women's side presmts sea of white mesh caps. with .esee,), the tiniest girls donning- n for the ocsee.oe. Tho men weer •Vieir broadbrims until the first hymn• is antsouncedelbeh sweep them from their heads and de- posit them under the .backless benches on which they sit for the. three-hour service. If there is only one preacher. present, several deacons and lay- men may be heard from during the morning, It is strictly a man's world — except for the.. singing. They conduct the business of the church, make the reports and do the speaking. The women have a vote in the choosing of names when a new pastor is needed, yet in the end he is "chosen by God" when he selects the Holy Bible which contains a written prayer from the pile of them on, a table, This is a simple and almost primitive ritual • observed every other Sunday, It produces people who are devout and peaceful, and who find life "wonderful good." "How come youn're sleeping on the job?" — asked the foreman, "Goodness, can't a man close hho eyes for a minute of prayer?" ISSUE 19 — 1962 Flower 'As Cure For Leukaemia A drug obtained from the spring-flowering, blue - coloured periwinkle is now being used by some physicians in the United States in the war against leu- kaemia, a disease in which there is an excess of white corpuscles. When the drug, known as leu- rocristine; was tested recently, scientists and doctors reported that it showed "great promise." The tests took place in Indian- apolis, where natives are believ- ed to have once used this attrac- tive little plant in. their folk cures. It is too early yet to say how effective the new drug"will prove. One snag is that great quantities of periwinkle plants are needed to make even one gramme (about 0.035 oz.) leurocristine. Other drugs have been made by scientists from the periwinkle and these are now undergoing tests to see if they are effective in the treatment of various com- plaints, Old-time herbalists believed that the way periwinkles cling to the soil Was a sign that the blue flowers and glossy evergreen leaves could bind husbands and wives who ate them "with indis- soluble bonds of affection." Herbs from the periwinkle were pre- ecribed as a cure for unhappy marriages. The flower that the English poet Chaucer — with his quaint spelling — called "fresh Peri- vinke rich of hew" •was also used as an amulet against witch- es under the name of Sorcerer's Violet. In Britain, periwinkles usually ' flower in. April and May, and in southern Europe by mid-Febru- ary, One naturalist visiting the Canary Islands early in the year found them blooming in such profusion, he rep or ted, that "hedges and grass pints were dyed blue with them for many hundreds of yards." ABY-FACED GUARD — Youthful face of this East Berlir Order i udrd Suggests that Comm unist leaders May be tap- irig their firidi reservoir of manpower among 16 and ear.olds foe border patrol duty along the dividing * • • While *ere oil the subject of One-dish meals, a "different" one was- sent by Mrs. Arthur t ggirt. son, Here it is: .SPiCk Wall W1TIE MU. I pound beef 0111.1014 cut intti 2sineh cubes' 2 tables:riot's shortening o' 'bacon fot