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The Brussels Post, 1954-8-11, Page 3THIFA2M FRONT Oyer iu the States the Am- erican Cattlemen's Association is out t4 double the amount Of beef eaten Within the next tan years, which, front this Angle, sounds like a goon trick - if they do it. However here is something of what they're planning in order to reach their goe1, Some western state livestock associations are getting set to vote 10 to 15 cents a head, volun- tary collections at point of sale, tO prOmote beef. . 4 * At Miles City, the Montana Stock Growers. Association voted 5 cents -a head on animals mar- keted by metnber's through auc- tion,. rings, which are to match funds. Washington and other States are working on 'a similar "check -Oft." • r. a A Wyoming Stockgrowers As- sociation resolution 'calls for a 15 -cent voluntary deduction on each sale. California is polling both beef raisers and dairymen ' on a voluntary 10 -cent collection. The first 3,000 returns show 80% to favor, . . . Two cents would go to the National Livestock and Meat Board, the rest to be used by the California Beef Industry Council for advertising and merchan- dising research. California may collect through state brand in- spectors, Meanwhile,. Colorado is lead- ing the parade with a co-opera- tive billboard campaign, tied in with traffic safety -"Watch Your Curves - Eat Beet" Colorado Cattlemen's Asociation raised $9,000 in 30 minutes at a ban- quet * * s The American National Cattle- men's Association In Denver is putting out another sign, "Enjoy Beef for Health." This sign costs $2, and stockmen in 20 states are already putting it up. Idea is to get up- something on your own "beef factory" to help sell your product. California is distributing more than six xmillion recipe cards through retail outlets. Already, in the first five months of the year, Californians are eating beef at the rate of 125 pounds per per ren -- double their 50 -year av- erage. "The Tune -Up King" - Although he won't concede an inch to his rivals on the C.N.E. track, Len Hurley is the one they all flock to when mechanical trouble creeps in as he is a marvel at diagnos- ing, and curing, the diseases that beset the speedy stock cars. Utah's association is continuing its efgtfeetive arrangement with retailers wlio feature produoer- sponsored posters, banners, and newspaper beef sections, Must be working, too: beef consumption is up 40%. Florida cattlemen have hired an advertising agency to provide restaurants and retailerswith merchandising aids, Stockmen in North Dakota, Ala- bama, and several other states, have printed thousands of auto window and bumper strips, and small stickers for menus, Iowa cattlemen sponsored Iowa Beef Month, which, brought in more than 30 organizations to sponsor and distribute thousands Of posters, recipes, window stick ers, restaurant"table tents." • * 6 Maryland, Virginia, New York, Ohio, and other eastern states are in early stages of beef promotion. programs, • * . The National Cow Belles are collecting favorite beef recipes, and are making final arrange- ments for national publication of an all -beef cook book, featuring thrifty cuts. Hundreds of cattle- men are helping finance the book (their brands are featured as dec- oration). * u * "Other commodity groups are working hard for peoples' food dollar," observes Jay Taylor. "Only way out for us is to pro- mote beef harder." Idleness -- Not So Hot ! Recently one of the unions al. Kitimat had a long sessionwith the management discussing a 35 - cent -an -hour pay increase and a 40 -hour work. The comment of one of the workers on these discussions is noteworthy. He said; "An increase in pay is just what I need but my complaint has not been the rate of pay per hour but the few hours only which I am allow- ed to work at that rate. On a rough calculation df 1GB hours to a week I find I sleep 70 hours, line up for food 3% hours, eat food 7 hours, lie on my bed or have nothing to do for 40 hours and work 48 hours. It will, there- fore, be easily understood why I do not wish to find myself working for 40 hours and flopping around unproductively f o r 48 hours per week. The only major commercial disadvantage of Kiti- mat to me is that the hours of work are not long enough and thereby' follows that the conse- quent pay cheque on an hourly basis is also insufficient." Enforced idleness as a result of the 40 -hour week must be par- ticularly unwelcome on projects like Kitimat and others in the remote places in Canada. Nor is enforced Idleness really welcome in more populated centres - but in these places the workers can do something about it. In fact, the 40 -hour week has created a new class of workers known as "moonlighters." These are men and women who have two jobs, They do one job during the short workday of the 40 -hour week and have another job to occupy their evening hours. The fact seems to be that many workers do not really like idle- ness_ - Winnipeg Tribune. CROSSWORD puzDJ AC.R(1SS 1. Pluce 4. Thins hind, 7, Unet en 14. Death (7tit1., 10..Ta0A4t08e , 5158511ro 10 S"nd out 17. wise 71,5n 19, nubber tree 20, (14'0nnland settlement 22. Not many 23=101titngelhar 25. apfrlted how* 27. Orbit( sloth' 20. Ronan brans:n 31. 1671 n' 33. Nut any 34, httttakes 37. Oilfield 29, Altq tinting eurrenl. 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At Fareham, Hampshire, a man walked, barefoot for four miles on .a read covered with sharp granite chippings, yet he felt nothing;,' When he arrived. at his destination, an uncle's home, he was awakened and did not remember walking en inch, In Eastbourne a nine-year-old girl walked from her room one night and was found by her parents and pollee sitting on a bench at the waterfront - still fast, asleep, ' To prove that sleep -walkers bear charmed lives there is the case of a three-year-old Coven- try boy who, while asleep, climbed out of his first -floor bed- room- window, slid down a roof outside and 'dropped nine feet to the ground, after which he crawled and walked more than a mile in bitterly' cold wea- ther along a1 towpath 'before turning around and comingli0me -quite . unharmed. In Canada, a sleepwalker with a long history of rambling about while • asleep awoke one morning in a, cold fear. Dur- ing the night he had ' dreamed that he walked to his sweet- heart's home and stabbed her to death with a butcher's knife, Yet outside snow lay three feet deep. Feeling the legs of his pyjamas, the man discovered to his hor- ror that they were wet through! Hurrying to the window of his bedroom, he saw his footprints leading to and from the house. Hastily he telephoned the girl . but a police sergeant answered the phone., The girl had been found •stabbed to death! She lived fifteen miles from the youth's home. At his trial abundant evidence forthcoming about his sleep- walking and a jury returned a verdict that he had killed the girl in his sleep - and was, therefore, not guilty. Another notable case came be- fore the Melbourne courts in 1950, when a mother was charged with murdering her nineteen - year -old daughter. The fifty- year -old woman was described in court as an habitual sleep- walker. leepwalker. One night she dreamed that she took an axe and killed her daughter. When she awoke the next morning she found her daughter dead and a bloodstained axe next to the body_ Medical evidence was given that she was subject to vivid dreams during sleep -walking and that such a person could .actually perform a horrible crime without knowing anything about it. A jury acquitted her in less than five minutes. Not long ago in Plymouth an almost identical case :came be- fore the courts when a Royal Navy lieutenant was charged with attempting to murder his. wife. The couple had beefs happily married evidence disclosed, and there was no reason why he should have tried to kill the wo- man to whom he had been mar- ried for ten years. "Next thing," he stated,- 'LI found myself kneeling on my wife with my hands around her throat. I noticed blood on the pillow and I saw an axe and I realized that I must have hit her with it, I telephoned the police," A psychiatrist gave evidence that the occurrence had taken place while the man had been in a somnambulistic fit and that within the space of some two years he had had two identical cases of husbands attacking their Wives while asleep. The lieu- tenant was found not guilty. A few months ago an eleven - year -old girl, travelling with her parents on the Melbourne -Ade- laide express in Australia, walk- ed off the train in her sleep while it was speeding through the night at fifty-five utiles an hour. She was found sitting up where she had fallen - on a grassy embankment, bruised, but otherwise unhurt. In the Middle Ages sleep- walking was thought to be some form of insanity and at various times sleepwalkers were either condemned and killed as agents of the devil or revered as saints. Sleep -walking, eourts were told et various trials, is, in fact, no more than enacting a dream, in Niagara Palls, New York, a sleep -walker crossed the clan- gorous falls in a dug -out canoe; another swam a hundred yards before awaking. Perhaps the .most amazing case on record comes from the e h Channel Islands, where a man was found strangled sisal led t1-. death - g his own fingers still around his throat, At the inquest 11 was proved that he Was subject to sleep- walking and the court found that he had strangled himself while asleep, He's A 21st -Century Gulliver -*William H. 'Cullem steps gently into the next century as he maintains the "City of the Future" in the Ford Rotunda. At right is a 24 -story "Communications Building," and between "Gulliver's" legs in a monorail train right-of-way (top level), and beneath it a two-level auto high- way, Building to left of the communications center is an auto. matic garage for "Jetmobilel." Footsteps To Follow - Setting the pace for a blood donor drive, Gloria Frazer, left, and Gertrude Gilhooley paint blood - red footsteps that lead pedest- rians to their Red Cross Blood- mobile. How It Feels To Nine Feet Tall Albert Kinberg, the, San who burst into the Soviet Embassy in Berlin recently and demanded to talk peace with Molotov, is a seven -foot tall Swede. His extra inches proved useful, for he knociced out four of the twelve Russian guards who surrounded, and finally, overpowered,' him. Seven toot is tall, even for` a Scandinavian, and certainly in comparison with the average height of an Englishman 5 feet 71/:1 inches; and of a Scot, 5 feet, 816 inches. But even up there, head and shbuldeas above the rest of us, Mr. Kinberg is not by any means alone. He could look Adi Berber, who plays the circus strong man in the film; "Carnival Story," right in the eye without even bending his his head, Adi is a seven -foot, 350 - pound tower of muscle who earns his living as a professional wrest ler and has two sons, the elder of whom is as big as he. The commanding *stature . of Queen Salote of Tonga was no- ticeable at the Coronation. But back home in her native land where men and women are among the tallest in the world, she looks quite average. But then to the Polynesians a tall Ameri- can like Hal Baker, New York lawyer and squash rackets cham- pion. who stands 6 feet 7 inches, wouldn't merit a second glance. Baker finds his height a great ad- vantage, because he can reach the ball anywhere fn'the court. The tallest man its the world? Czechoslovakia boasts of au 8 - foot -3 -inch giant. There is a man in Austria only one inch shorter. And Ted Evans of Englefield Green, Surrey, at the last meas- uring; went just over 9 Peet, 4 inches. When Ted was way down in the 7 foot 6 inch mark, his doe- for warned him that he, might expect ,to grow to eight feet, but he didn't stop there and medical science can neither account for the way he went on growing, nor could it put on the brakes. What's life like up there? Pret- ty difficult. You can't live in e prefab or a bungalow without cracking your head several thnee a day; your clothes have 10 be specially made for you, which le an expensive luxury; you suffer from cold feet at night because they stick out of th'e bed; travel- ling 'is a nightmare in buses and trains, which you'll find are all built low, Ted Evans had to have a' spec- ial allocation of wartime cloth- ing coupons, his shoes cost $60,00 a pair and $5.00 to sole and heel - and when he took up cycling, a special machine had to be made to accommodate those long legs and his weight, But worst of all, he laments, are the endless jokes about his height. It's still worse for a girl when she goes on growing and grow- ing, because there are so few men tall enough to dance with her - or lead her to the altar, But extra inches quite often go with feminine charm, Victor Mc- Laglen's bewitching niece, Den- ise McLaglen, is 8 feet 1 inch in her nylons and one of London's tallest showgirls. She recently went to the United States - to see how America felt about a -girl of that height in show bus- iness. Another six-foot lovely is Ter- ry Morley, who toured South Africa recently with the Folies Bergere company and there met and married a Southern Rhodes- ian 6 foot 31,4 inches tall, Is there any advantage in be- ing taller than everybody else? Well, the world's great brains are sometimes to be found at the top of tall, thin people, When sci- entific tests were made, it was found that, on average, a hund- red distinguished scientists stood 21'2 inches taller than the aver- age - while a hundred convicted criminals averaged nearly two inches below the normal. And it's a great help being tall when you want to paint the ceiling. Get The Best From Your Home -Freezer With the increasing popular- ity of home freezers many house- wives are freezing home-grown fruits and vegetables. To obtain the best quality frozen foods it is necessary to take certain pre- cautions in handling. Most vege- tables and fruits are satisfactory for frozen preservation if har- vested at the peak of quality. This is usually when the vege- table or fruit would be gathered for table use.' Vegetables and fruit deterior- ate rapidly after harvesting, and so should be frozen as soon after picking as possible Thorough washing is necessary to remove soil and other foreign matter. After washing the blanching and scalding of all vegetables, ex- cept rhubarb, is essential. This treatment helps preserve the color and flavour. If vegetables Bre not blanched, deterioration soon occurs, making the frozen vegetable unpalatable, Blanching times shown in most bulletins or cookbooks refer to boiling tem- perature conditions, and so it Is advisable to use the largest avail- able container; and relatively small amount of materials for each batch. After blanching the vegetables should be cooled by immediate plunging into cold or preferably ley water. 'This hastens freezing and reduces the load on the frees, - in unit. The product is drained before packaging in vapour -proof containers. Moisture vapour -proof packages are essential, especially for dry -packed vegetables. The heat -seal type of plastic bags which are readily available are both ecenemi a e 1 and r practical. Packaged material must be placed in the freezer unit as quickly as possible. Many heine- makers allow good produce to spoil by leaving it at room tem- perature. Per example, the cob - by flavour in coati le hastened byy insetllctant cooling altar blaurhtng and unnecessary lays in freezing, It is preierable to freeze in small lots to snake sure the heat is removed rapidly. The freezing of fruits .otters fear difficulties and most fruits can be frozen with no other pre. treatment than cleaning end mix- ing with dry sugar or syrup. The amount of sugar or strength of syrup used depends upon the tartness of the fruit and on in- dividual taste. Some fruits like blueberries, currants, gooseber- ries, raspberries, may be satisfac- torily trent' without sugar or spacyrukp,agingPeaches, and apricots re- . tain their colour and Barna bet- ter 'it one and One-half grams of asctirbie 'acid' are dissolved in each quart Of cold syrup before Adhering to these simple prin- ciples will mean high quality frozen products for the winter menu Took Seventh Wife When 113 Years Old An old, *leather-bound volume recently discovered in a Bedford library reveals the case histories of eighteenth -century Britons who cheated old age. There ' was Thomas Wishart, who died at Annandale, Drum- friesshire, aged 124. He'd been chewing tobacco steadily from the age of seven, John Riva, a broker from London, lived to be 116. All his life he chewed cit- ron bark. His wife bore him a child when he was 100. Mrs, Sarah Taylor was the wife of a Norfolk farmer. To earn her keep when she was a widow, she worked on the farm till her death - at 107. Perhaps it was also work that killed John Hart, of Haltem, Sussex. He was a blacksmith, aged 105. Who would have wanted to kill Mrs, Elizabeth Hodson, of Scamp - sten, near York? Someone hacked her to death when she was 110. Mrs. Hilton, of Liverpool, hang- ed herself at 121 - maybe she thought she was going on for ever. . Mrs, Jane Gray, of Artrep-Ru- den, in Essex, loved to travel. Shortly before her death she crossed Europe, only to come and die - aged 109. Near Cork -there lived a sol- dier named Ames M'Donald who lived to be 117 and was seven' feet six inches tall. One poor lady was not so for- tunate. Her house was consumed by Ere when she was only ninety- six, At the time of her death she was mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother of 104 chil- dren. And that is by no means the largest family. An epitaph could once be seen in the church- yard at Heydon, Yorkshire. with the following words: Here lies William Sturton, aged 104, of Patrington, who died in 1726. He had by his first wife 27 children, by his second 17. He was the father of 44, grandfath- er of 56, and great-grandfather of 51. In all 151 children, These, then, are some of Brit- ain's centenarians, Records have been carefully kept showing that, while the southern climates have encouraged longevity, there have been amazingly active cen- tenarians in all parts of England. Take, for example, Laurence Es- • mond, who went out riding a few days before his death, at 106, and Mrs. Stillian, of Battersea, who was still an active school- teacher when she died at 104, Perhaps Patrick O'Neil, who was married in 1760 at Clonmell, aged 113, to his seventh wife, was the most remarkable of all. He never drank anything stronger than plain ale, never ate meat (except when he gave his fam- ily a feast), would "rise and go to bed with the sun," walked without crutches, went to church every Sunday, and never had an NM SCHOOL ESSO N Or Rev. tt, t6ar'elay Warren, B.A,. 6.1». Christiai Worship and iFel#Owolsi Acts 2;46.17; Colossians 304k Hebrews 10;23-25, Memory Selection; Let us NM- older oourider one another to provoke nuw to love and to good works:, net forsaking the assembling. of , OUR. selves together, as the manner of some is. Hebrews 10:24-25.; The unique fellowship of Chris- tians is one 01 the most attrac- tive features of the Christian re- ligion. A group of born-again men and woman have a• oneness in Christ which is unmarred by differences of race or language. At tate same time it is not snob- bish or excclusive. Christiana want to share their joy with others. They say with the Psalm. ist, "0 taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him." 34:8. When this spirit prevails as it did in, the early church the Lord wilt add daily to the church such as are saved. The church today may well examine herself and ask, "Are we like the early Christ- ians?" We, too often, take people into the chureih before they aro saved. The church today is not al- ways composed of those who are of "the general assembly and church of the firstborn which are written in heaven." Heb. 10:23, Christians have a forgiving spirit. They cannot hold a grudge. GOd's love in their hearts gives them a love for their fellowmen. Christians love to sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, Some gospel songs are frothy like so many popular secular, songs. They lose their appeal in a sea- son. But the psalms and so many spiritual hymns live on. The exhortation not to forsake ' the assembling of ourselves to- gether is especially timely at this holiday season. Many trek to the cottage every weekend and com- pletely forget the assembly for worship. This is tragic. It is well to care for the body but we must remember that we are immortal spirits soon to give an account of ourselves before Al- mighty God. If we starve the soul we are acting foolishly. hour's illness in all his life. Ho lived to be 127. From the ancient Greek alchem-• fists to Voronoff, who experiment- ed with glands, scientists and doctors through the ages have sought the elixir of longevity, Perhaps the new atomic age will extend man's' usual spell of three- score -years -and -ten. HOLD -YOUR -BREATH! In some houses of refreshment in Doula: French '-Cameroon, wine is sold by the minute. A rubber tube is inserted in the cask and handed to the customer, who is entitled to as much as he can get through in the time he has paid'Oor. Upsidedown to, 3LI 8 ti event Peeking IV S.1. W 3 Id V D V 1V 3 In 3 V HS31�1 H 3 7; 3 l n N O l O Sl: -L I W3'?I B 31.1101/4 t', 31\1110/X3 3S0233 l �_3S Lifesavingg "Doughnuts" Resembling. blip � huge da hnutsr with the holes le ' ft In theseou r nd rubber lifesaving rafts are undergoing tests in harbor waters Haar London, England, as researchers aboard a conventional raft, top left, check their performance. Quickly inflatable, they have a shallow draft, high degree of seaworthiness, small storage volume, and eon be propelled by oars, sails or an auxiliary motor. The smaller one conies ten passengers, the larger one 20 and is designed to do a maximum 24 knot* under, power.