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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-02-13, Page 2Barking Dog Saves MMRarrisge It was sucha trivial matter for the young newlyweds to quarrel about while on their honeymoon. He wanted to call the little fox terrier, which had been given to them as a wedding present, Spot. She insisted that Sammy was .a much nicer name. They argued, So heated did their bickering become that the little puppy seemed to sense that their silly tiff somehow in • - volved him. He curled up sadly' on the rug near the TV set, gazing at them alternately with soulful eyes. Suddenly a dog barked in the film the couple had planned to watch on TV before their argu- ment had begun. The set had been switched on and they had only been vaguely aware that the film had begun. Their little dog barked back at the film dog and then ap- proached his master and mistress in turn, wagging his tail excited- ly. Each fondled and stroked him. The film was forgotten. The eyes of the young lovers met, each smiled, and then they kiss- ed while the puppy snuggled down on the settee between them. The couple now tell their friends they are sure their clever puppy knew what they were quarrelling about and deliber- ately answered the film dog's bark to distract them and bring them together again! Every dog -lover is aware that ibis is no far-fetched_ story, that the dog has wonderful wisdom and often seems able to read the very thought of his master or mistress as well as understand their words. All the world was thinking about a dog soon after the an- nouncement that Little Lemon had been sent hurtling into space in the Russians' second satellite. Everywhere animal lovers are discussing — DOGS. Their faith- fulness and devotion. Their brav- ery and nobility. The mind and the apparent reasoning powers of dogs. While out for a walk with her springer spaniel, Mark, recently, Mrs. Irene Berryman, of Cam - borne, Cornwall, suddenly felt the ground opening under her feet and she started sliding down towards an old tin mine shaft, flooded with water hundreds of feet deep. Luckily she had Mark on a stout, four -foot lead, for he scrambled clear and held his ground, preventing his owner from falling into the chasm. "Back, Mark, back," she or- dered, and gradually the clever dog pulled his mistress to safe- ty. "He seemed to understand when I wanted him to pull," said Mrs. Berryman, Can dogs read thought? This question was asked and answer- ed by a Munich dog expert not long ago. He maintains that tele- pathic communication is possible between men and dogs, that dogs have frequently shown that they can think and that they have en undoubted sense of humour. A British dog lover tells the story of his fox terrier which was his inseparable companion when he was living at his coun- try house. But sometimes the owner would spend a week or even a fortnight in his London house without his pet. "Although my return to the country was never announced and was at irregular intervals, the terrier would go to the rail- way station one and a half miles distant and wait for me on the platform; said the owner, "No matter what the day er the hour of my arrival, he was never missing. He never went nearthe station at other times! Doesn't this suggest that dogs possess a certain sense. which man cannot quite undertand?" Dogs have, often provedthem- selves faithful unto death, Three Chinese children were ' once trapped in a fire in the heart of Liverpool's Chinatown in the top storey of a house. "Their pet _dog displayed al- most human instinct and intel- ligence," reported a neighbour.. "He barked furiously, waking the mother, then gripped the. children's clothes with his teeth, in a vain attempt to drag them from the blazing bedroom, He Was found dead beside their charred bodies, although he could easily have escaped on to. the roof." "Dogs constantly do things which seem incredible to human understanding," an expert on dogs told me. "They have very retentive memories." Those who think that dog lovers are sometimes too senti- mental about their pets have evidently not experienced the lengths to which understanding between dog and man can go. Dash, a retriever, was the hero of an amazing feat. His young master was caught by the tide under the Tors at Ilfracombe, Devon, and managed with diffi- culty to scramble up to a cliff ledge where he dropped, ex- hausted. Search for him continued vain- ly for hours when suddenly Dash rushed up to the search party and barking furiously led them to the cliff edge to a spot from which it was possible to rescue the young man. "The strange thing is that the dog had not been on the beach, with me that day," said the owner. "He had come out on his cwn account, and found me," After he had been gored by a bull on a farm, a man was saved from death by the courage of his collie dog, Prince, who attacked the beast and drove it away. Prince then dragged his injured • master back 200 yards to the farm -house and stood by whimp- ering while he received surgical treatment. Nine Year Old Non-stop Eater ' Helga Schultze is only nine years old but she has present- ed the city council of Munich with, one of its biggest problems; she can't stop eating. In order to meet her food bill her father has asked the city council for help and listed the following as a "normal" day's food supply for little Helga: two pounds of meat, six eggs, three pounds of oranges, two pounds of bananas and four pounds of potatoes. After putting this away Helga usually complains that she is still hungry. Surgeons who examin- ed the girl said her digestive tract is too long so that no mat- ter how much she eats she will remain hungry. They cannot operate until she is twelve years old. Perhaps even worse is the affliction of a woman in Muizen- berg, South Africa. She is a non - atop sneezer! Day and night this convulsive habit afflicts her, and her usual score per twenty- four hours is seldom less than 400 shattering atishoos. She has tried all sorts of remedies, in- cluding special smelling salts and putting a magic charm, such as a set of native beads or a mon- key's paw, in her pockets, but they all fail. A doctor has suggested that a change of air, some vigorous sea or mountain breezes, might work the trick. U.S.S.R. Soviet land attack to capture oil fields would follow these routes xre:;. Baghdad Pact Nations (Pakistan not shown) Airfields capable of handling largest strategic bombers THE STRATEGIC POSITION OF CYPRUS—One reason Britain Is determined to hold the Crown Colony of Cyprus is that the Island contains one of the only four air bases In the Middle east capable of accommoda ing the largest modern bombers (see Newsmap). Of the bases, two—at Wheelus Field in Libya end Dhahran in Saudi Arabia—are American. The U.S. has only transit rights' at the latter. The British' base at Mafrak, Jordan, has been evacuated. Thus Britain considers Cyprus vitally necessary to her commitments to the Baghdad Pact nations and as a deterrent to possible aggression against the world's richest oil fields. DEVIL'S SOUP KITCHEN—More than a drop in the bucket to weigh in the balance against Russia's increasing steel pro- duction will pour from this huge, new, open hearth furnace at Republic Steel's works. One of two new open hearths at the plant, it will help add some 788,000 ingot tons of steep capacity annually to the nation's steel -making potential. Dwarfed by the mammoth machine, a steelworker, circled, is about to tap a heat of steel, which will run into the 400 -ton ladle below him. Slag will pour off like hot fat on homemade soup -and glosh,into smaller bucket. 1 TABLE TALKS clanz Ar dLtews With the Lenten season upon us a few suggestions regarding fish dishes might be timely. The following have all,, been: thoroughly tested and found good. n e * Curry Dressing for Seafood Salad s cup chili sauce 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 34 teaspoon curry powder 34 cup mayonnaise Combine all ingredients and pour into serving boats. a .r o The Waldorf tuna salad served with bread and butter sandwiches and Roquefort cheese, is made with red apples used with the peeling left on to give added color. This recipe serves 6. Waldorf Tuna Salad 1 can tuna 4 small red apples 11 cups diced celery 2 tablespoons lemon juice Mayonnaise Lettuce Core and dice apples and add lemon juice and toss. Add diced celery. Pour off oil from can of tuna and dice. Add tuna to apple -celery mixture. Chill. Add mayonnaise just before serving on lettuce. * * a This salmon salad uses small, cream -colored shell macaroni as one of its ingredients. Seashore Salmon Salad 4 ounces shell macaroni Vs cup flaked salmon (a 7 -ounce can) 3^ cup diced celery 3 cup diced sweet pickle t4, cup salad dressing Salad greens Chopped parsley Cook shell macaroni in boil- ing, salted water until tender (about 10 minutes), Drain and rinse In cold water. Combine macaroni, salmon,- celery, pickle and salad dressing. Toss lightly to mix well. Arrange on salad greens; sprinkle with chopped parsley. Serves 4. * , P_ When serving salad in tomato shells, the slice which you have taken off the stem end of the tomato before removing pulp to make the shell may be reserved and used to top the salad. If you prefer, simply pile the salad high in the shell and garnish with ripe olives, slices of hard - cooked eggs or cucumber slices. Lobster Salad in Tomato Shells 2 cups diced, chilled, canned rock lobster (two G% -ounce cans) 1 cup diced celery ;/ cup mayonnaise 3 cup sour cream 2 tablespoons prepared mus- tard 8 tomatoes Salt 4 stuffed olives Lettuce Combine lobster, celery, may- onnaise, sour cream, and mus- tard and mix well. Cut a slice off the stem end of tomatoes, scoop out pulp and sprinkle salt inside, Fill with lobster salad. If .you want to use the slice of tomato to top your . salad, cut out the center of the slice and replace on salad; cut stuffed olives In half crosswise and place one in each hole, cut side up. Serve on lettuce, garnished with pickles, olives, etc. Serves 8. * @ R An unusual combination is diced. boiled p o t a toes with shrimp. If this appeals to you, this is the way to make it. Shrimp Supper Salad Vs cup ripe olives 2 hard -cooked eggs 1s cups chopped celery 2 cups diced boiled potatoes 1 cup cleaned cooked shrimp 3 2 cup mayonnaise 2 tablespoons vinegar 2 teaspoons grated onion Va teaspoon salt Lettuce Cut olives in large pieces, Dice eggs. Add celery, potatoes, and shrimp. Blend mayonnaise, vinegar, onion and salt. Add to salad mixture and mix lightly. Serve on lettuce. Serves 5-6. Small Car Sales Getting Bigger Sales of midget cars are be- lieved to be nearly 5 per cent of the diminishing total of all car sales right now. , This estimated percentage in- cludes the American- - made Rambler as well as foreign smal car imports. It's • close to the figure that presumably would interest the major domestic man- ufacturers In tooling up for small car production. Zooming small car sales at a time when big car sales are slow- ing down suggests that Ameri- can motorists are becoming econ- omy conscious at long last. Sug- gested also is a possible point of diminishing returns in gaso- line tax boosts to finance ever expanding road projects. Higher taxes won't produce more rev- enue if their only effectis to put more of these little puddle jumpers on the road. —Daily Oklahoma. The "Big oney." Moves To Cuba When the word got around re- cently that Prank 5. Hogan, dis- trict attorney of New York' County, had sent a Teletype mes- sage to every •police department in the U.S. seeking the where- abouts, of two of the country's top professional gamblers, there was nothing but amazement in every gambling joint and horse parlour from San Francisco's Barbary Coast to Manhattan's West Side. "You mean Hogan doesn't know where those guys are?" said the fast -buck boys incredu- lously. Where else would an up- and -coming U.S. gambler be nowadays except in Cuba? Sure enough, that's where the two men were, giving interviews a short while later with all the injured innocence of men who can't be subpoenaed. "I speak more in pain than in anger," said one of. them, Santo. Trafficante, a tall, calm gambler who wears glasses. "I'm not hid- ing. The next time I'm in New York, I'll be more than glad to call on Hogan." The other gambler, a husky, bright - eyed man of 61- named Joseph Silesi (but called. "Joe Rivers"), was terser: "Tell Hogan from me he can drop dead," Silesi said to re- porters. Hogan explained that he want- ed the two men only to ques- tion them about the still -un- solved gangland slaying. of Al- bert Anastasia, "Lord High Executioner" of Murder, Inc., who was murdered last October in the barbershop of a New York City hotel. The whereabouts of Traffi- cante and Silesi attested to a new way of life among those who know they can beat the odds on a roulette wheel: The big money has moved to Cuba. . The reason is simple. Ever hungry for the America dollar, dictator -President Fulgenoio Ba- tista put through a law in 1955 that legalized gambling — a law specifically designed to bring in money from the U.S. Under the law, the Cuban Government promised to match, dollar for dollar, hotel -casino construction operations costing tore than $1 million. It waived corporate taxes on such operations for a period of ten years; it waived import du ties on gambling equipment; it granted special work permits to gambling -house employees. Under this program — which will cost Cuba an estimated $600 million — Batista hopes to build the tourist trade into a $100 million -a -year industry. Batista confidently expects to drain off tourists not only from Miami, but from Las Vegas as well. With legalized gambling, Batista can offer the tourists something 'that Miami can't — and for thousands of Eastern tourists who want a little action' for their money, Havana will be a great deal easier and quicker to get to than is Las Vegas. The money ha's already begun to arrive in big bills. With it has come a flood of American gamblers, dice operators, hood- lums, and hangers-on. "You walk into one of these new gambling joints," said an experienced American reporter recently, "and it's like walk- ing- Onto the set of a Grade - II . gangster movie. Every thug you ever saw east of Las Vegas who can get up the plane fare is walking' around one Of these casinos in a white silk evening jacket acting like a head waiter." Among them: Meyer Lansky, old-time New tork gambler, one time associate of Frank Costello, Benjamin (Bugsy) Siegel, Joe Adonis, Longy Zwillman. Harry (Lefty) Clark, Detroit - based gambler who left New York' State after three months in prison and a $2,500 fine far running illegal gambling in Saratoga. Tom McGinty, Prohibition- days bootlegger from Cleveland, once half -owner of a horse -race track at which the bets were taken in the form of "contribu- tions" to get around thegaming laws. Under Batista law, these men — and hundreds of others like. them — are pillars of the Cuban gambling world. They make the rules, such as no drinking at the blackjack tables and no bet- ting unless you have the money. New casinos in the $6 million Capri Hotel and the $12 million Havana Riviera were opened under the new law. The two men Hogan wanted to question, Trafficante and Silesi, both were angling for the gambling concession in the $24 million Havana Hilton Hotel, which has not yet 'opened. (The Hilton Hotels chain has set up such stringent standards for its casino that the concession still has not been let.) The connection of the two with the Anastasia killing was impli- cit. They might well know some- thing about the rumors that Anastasia had been shot down to keep him from moving in On -. the new lush land of gambling.— From ambling:From NEWSWEEK. DRIVE WITH CARE! REALLY LOADED — In Spain, elbow -bending can be a stren- uous affair. This expert displays the proper way to drink front a "porron/' a glass wine •jug, at a roadside cafe near Barce- lona. The giant container, which weighs 30 pounds when full, must be held at arm's length. The wine is caught as it squirts from 'the slender spout: The proprietor offers free drinks to anyone strong enough to handle a full load. INDIANS ON WARPATH -Armed and angry Indians of the Lumbee tribe advance on .a 'Kgs Klux 'Klan member guarding lights just before they were shot, out by the Indians at Maxton, N.C., during an attack on a KKK rally. The ra id was believed to, have been caused by two cross-burnings last week. Four persons were -inju; ed by stray bullets.