HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-12-11, Page 2Budgeting
Really Pays Off
The secret of keeping a•budget
lies in one word, "desire". With-
out a sincere desire to learn holy
to handle money in a planned
way and spend it with confi-
dence, your budget will never
really work. To start, you need
a purpose, a reason for beginning
your budget and continuing it;
a list of things you think you
can't afford out of the paychecks.
Without a goal, budge: keeping.
becomes an aimless attempt to
control spending and is likely to
result in frustration and argu-
ment.
Like radar, a bus et scope.
.enables yo.i to see where yea
have been, where you are going,
and whet to expert in between.
With your Finan e:a: pi 'are
c'_earl before you, you can week
sere et:Sane:wily toward handling
your = :lily's .pending.
However. you must under-
stand
stand a budget is no esesewe
worker. It is not a mime' word.
whien opens the doers to flea:t-
eta: servesses.
A budget serves a definite
purpose, provided. you do not let
it become your master. Ln other
words, dor-'t let the tail wag the
dog:
Analysis is one .t the key
words in the function of a budg-
et, for you have to ewes:der Bare-
fully alI its a i'ert ; then de-
cide which direction is best for
you to take. But, once your de-
cision is made, sick tie your
course through `squalls a n d
storms. Of ceurs.e there will be
times when pruderee • should
prevail and it wil be better to
alter your emerse slightly be-
cause
e-
ca r e of • unfo_ eseen eircum-
stancee. Any good plan should
be flexible enough to provide fur
changes.
Assuming you do have the
desire, plus the determination
to see it through, here are the
steps to take in launching your
budget. First, list your goals.
These can be grouped into three
categories. (1) Things you need
Loon: a new dress, a.dining-room
set, a •washing machine. (2)
T'^'^gs you will need next year:
paying off old bills, a vacation'
trip, dental care. (3) Things
you want in the future: a new
ear, children's education, your
own home.
Next, disregard "averages".
There is no such thing as an
average family, and for you to
pattern your budget on averages
reegested eyndicated budget-
g•Miles weeid be to pattern your
living after a mythical house-
hci Sr' to "averages" over,
beard and base the budget on
ec .. awn experiences This
n: a review of your
pew. spending es necessatT. then
ec ., with yr goals and
make the erg -;mems necessary
fa- '` a realthese goals, in
Ct erw:•rd: your heizet should
be- to fitrami 's
needs and desires. w_..__ Jatnes
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L. Barker in The Christian
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The accurate way is to keep
a running account of your ex-
penses until you have a clear
picture of where your money is
going. It is the hardest step to
take along the road to a success
ful beget. It will be time con-
sinning and unrewarding at first,
but before you know it you'll
soon be buying the things you
want without worrying where
the money will come front to
meet future bills, Allow enough
time to know for certain how
you are spending your money.
Even three months isn't too
lone
Once you have set down your
• probable future expenses, your
bucieet is ready to be launched.
Sart with your income. 'This
obvious rale is often overlooked
by :hose in a hurry. Yet if you
don't list alt salaries, rents, al-
lowenees, dividends which your
family will receive during the
wearing year. your scale will. be
.sac•urate ;end your budget Will
eventually collapse. •
Second, list your fixed ex-
pseses, Thee 'nolude such items
us mortgage payment. or rent,
utilities, taxes, insurance pre-
miums, car paytnents, or any
other "permanent" charges
which have to be met at pre-
rranged times. •
Next, your future expenses,
This will he harder, and is the
tensor) for keeping a record of
your expenses before starting
your budget, In this. category lie
these snares which can defeat
the best of budget plans. Thee
disbursements a:e the bulk of
your daily living expenses, and
it Jude food clothing, hem e
furnithings, household - equip -
m est t, repairs, contributions,
subseripticns, gifts, travel, rec-
reation, car expenses. These
items are the ones which allow
you to make necessary adjust-
ments in order to meet unex-
pected needs.
Now for those hush - hush
swords hariging over many per
sons' heads, unpaid bills. If
nothing else could be accom-
plished with a budget, being
able to wipe the slate clean
would make keeping a budget
worth while, So among all your
other expected expenses set
aside an amount each month
which will make it possible for
you to bring those pesky things
up-to-date.
Last, and most important, is
future spending. Here is the re-
ward for a gob well done—the
gifts which otherwise would re-
main purchases to talk about
and hope for without getting
close to :hent. Now you have
reached the purpose of your
budge- aehleving your impor-
tant oat Dad's workshop,
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ehread, Brother's eolleee edt.ca-
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wed:: ere ty your earned 'drea:rs
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of a heart attack in Madrid, is leaving a hospital there after
viewing his body. The man with her is unidentified,
TABLE raixs am
Perhaps it may seem a bit
early to talk about Christmas
turkey and all the trimmings
but, the way the weeks seem
to fly past, possibly it would be
just as well not to put it off too
long!
In case you have mislaid the
recipe for roasting turkey from.
previous columns, here is the
rule again—with a zesty bread
stuffing.
ROAST TURKEY WITH ZESTY
BREAD STCFFLNG
7 pound ready -to -cook turkey
ee cup butter
3:t cup chopped giblets
=a cup chopped onion
2 quarts (te inch) soft bread
cubes
1 teaspoon salt
Dash pepper
teaspoon poultry seasoning
i. cup oily French dressing
Rinse turkey in cold water
and pat dry, Refrigerate while
preparing stuffing. Melt butter
In
skillet; add giblets and anion
and saute until tender. Combine
bread crumbs, salt, pepper and
poultry seasoning. Add butter
•n atut:e and French dressing to
bread and :nix well. Rub neck.
and body cavities with salt.
St stuff:me:, into neck cavity.
u sing enceeth to 1111 the ekinto
..at turke-, will look plump
when sued. Fold neck skin
cover reel eltewer it :0 baric.
Twist wingtips and fasten
. yle, bringing tips
c_.., lisek. Pu: ren a'' 'g stuf-
f. :he bed;.
t": se body cavity by skeesee-
in,
c _ee._.tr and la'dnr:
clewed with heavy rd T:e
deurestielts to :ail Br :_ ._.
thertethly with melted b; _ set
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.ark :n a .,.anew roan
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TURKEY TETRAZZINI
$ ounces spaghetti
2 tablespoons olive or salad oil
1 cup sliced mushrooms
tablespoons finely chopped
onion
1 clips chopped, cooked turkey.
1 cup turkey stock :or thicken
bouillon!
1 cup light cream
tablespoons grated cheese
♦Salt and pepper to taste
1
.•id . .espoen sae to 1
out ns repcdly boning water:
raduailydd pagh ti so that
water :::toes to boilcook
uncovered,irrring occasionally
until :ender. Drain in colander.
Meanwhile, heat oil in skillet;
add mushrooms and onion and
sante until lightly browned.
Add turkey, stock, eream, salt.
and pepper; mix well. Arrange
half of spaghetti in bottom of
greased Se -quart casserole;' top
with half of turkey mixture:
Repeat layers; sprinkle with
cheese, Bake at 350 degrees F.
fer 50 minutes, or until lightly
browned. Serves 4, •
- a
CURRIED TURKEY OVER
RICE MOUNDS
4 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons flour
S teaspoon curry powder
teaspoon salt
Pinch paprika
Few grains cayenne
-1 cup turkey stock
1 cup milk
] or more cups cut up turkey
Sliced ripe olives
1 pimento, cut in small pieces
Mix butter, flour and season-
ing into soft paste; heat stook
and add to paste in saucepan;
heat and smooth out all lumps;
add warm milk, stirring con-
stantly; cook, gently until sauce
is thick. Add sliced olives and
pimiento. Add turkey. Serve
over mounds of hot cooked rice,
—or if you prefer the tradi-
tional way, serve over toast
paints. Serves 4.
For some weeks now plump
red cranberries have been in the
markets, and be ore the season
is finished. there will be an esti-
mated one million barrels or
Inore-16 per tient above aver-
-e 'Cranberries new appear in
c foe& — pies. puddings,
cakes, salads, to :.ante but a
few. But cranberry sauce still
comes firet with many people.
Ir, case you haven't made it
siege lest year and wan: to re
"lt.. egee it's as easy s clan
he. The _ s. ary rs ;eats
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cep: of ., a.__. I. yore're in
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eee —..et much__
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t:test then eeeneez.rtes aed
r:., . ,:.e skires pop open, an-
o ther 5 reenu_e5 alp,exime`.c:y
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Deem T:..,.,e ee—icy. the
Arteteeltheal Matketine Servs:e
offers se : . they ca:'. Cran-
berry Veste: for
ho e.ay des: -
sews, To a peered• f whole
._;a... `• y _ , add a sup ,•f
meshed pineapple. 2 tablespoons
of lernon j -cel a sprinkle of Salt.
• gnawer peeled of marshmal-
lows wet small p:- res and a
step of heavy cream. earl:. weipped
C-__ ., e
re:;'igen
eter tray ;until you're ready t0
eel e It. Its really _ineeth!
french Cameramen
Take Real Chances
SpleadG rot= two pa<es of its re,:.`' . ionthea n:yF"cary issue
lest rnenth.:he French picture
eves cry Paris -Match offered its
readers still another eyebugging
photograph: A close-up 20.000
feet high over Algeria of hus-
band and wife French para-
chutists smiling at the camera
as they hurtled arm -in -arm.
parachutes still unopened, to-
ward the earth.
To make the striking shot,
Match photographer D an e, l
Carries strapped on a parachute
and crawled far out on the wine,
of the plane from which the
couple jumped. Then, as soon
e.s he had snapped his picture,
Camas himself parachuted clown
The feat was all part of the
day's work for Camus, who has
hit the silk over embattled Dien-
bienphu, the Sahara desert, and
15,781 -foot -high Mount Blanc.
It was a fair sample of the
shoot -to -suit journalism which,
in an eventful decade, has earn-
ed Paris -Match unique prestige
among the world's news -picture
magazines.
Second among all picture
weeklies with a circulation of
nearly 2 million scattered to the
far corners, :klatch is often
studied by rival editors, who re-
spect the speed andthorough-
ness of its news coverage and
the imaginative flair with which
it plays its pictures.
On major stories Match .esu-
ally overwhelms the opposition
by force of numbers, When Eng-
land's Queen Elizabeth paid a
state visit to France last year,
Match deployed 30 photographers
and every available free-lance
in Paris. During the Hungarian
revolt, Match men became so
well known at border check
points that refugees soon were
going allthe way to their hotel
rooms in Vienna to offer then,
candid pictures of the revolt,
"Match men move in on a story
like locusts," one rival complain-
ed, `After they are through,
there's nothing left for anyone
else to reap."
For fast -breaking stories, Match
keeps part of its 91 -man staff
poised for instant action, Man-
aging editor Roger Therond
compares the system to com-
mando raids. "instead of being
bogged down by specialized de-
partments," he says, "we let the
news give the orders,"
When the Algerian crisis came
to a head last May, Match char-
tered three planes to rush staf-
fers to the scene; it soon had
photographers hovering over Al-
giers' forum in helicopters while
they snapped shots of the seeth-
ing crowds.
Much of the staff's superb
morale can be traced to the
sympathetic treatment it receives
from the magazine's top boss, 71 -
year -old textile and publishing
tycoon Jean Prouvost, who be-
lieves in spending Money to
make money — and now reaps
51 million a year in profits from
Match,
'Avoiding cheap cheesecake as
well as the philosophical wrang-
ling beloved of many French
newspapers a n d periodicals,
Match steers a middle road po-
litically, runs no editorials, de-
votes itself instead to securing
stories with maximum middle-
brow appeal.
Irked by its devil -take -the -
hindmost approach to most
stories, critics contend the maga-
zine violates newspooling agree-
ments and employs extraordin-
ary tricks. To get an exclusive
Interview with a Folies Bergere
star who had slashed her wrists,
Marie -Charlotte Pedrazzini (sis-
ter of the dead photographer)
wrangled her way into the star's
hospital as a blood donor. To
obtain exclusive shots in the
Vatican, chief photographer Wal-
ter Carone dressed in the uni-
form of a papal officer. Carone
:threes a shoulder at critics. For
Match. he says, "imagination
and nerve are absolute requi-
sites::
Drove With Care
Ballet Packs For
Tour Of 58 Cities
Packing hundreds of costumes
fora 20,000-rnile trip is a normal
event in the life of the ward-
robe department of the National
Ballet of Canada. Last year the
Ballet visited three countries,
including 1k/toxin, on its eight-
month tour, This year the com-
pany visits 18 cities in Canada
before performing in some 40,
cities in the united States.
Th e wardrobe department
packs about 15 wicker baskets
and an equal number of huge
wooden wardrobes to go on tour.
Each box Ls well identified as
to oontean thu
the periorntmancundnJamees Ronalnghtdof-
son, head of the department,
simply unpacks the boxes need-
ed for that particular night. This
season the company will be us-
ing two 20 -ton tractor trailer
trucks to carry costumes and
scenery from one engagement to
another.
Preparations for this annual
tour keep the wardrobe depart-
ment busy all summer. As soon
as the repertoire of the forth-
coming season is announced, it is
up to Mr. Ronaldson and his
staff to check every costume tor
each ballet. Worn out outfits
must be replaced, every seam
and hook checked, every costume
cleanedandpressed, every ac-
cessory checked and renewed if
necessary, Then comes the task
of new costumes for the new
ballets, This year, for instance,
the ballet will feature a three -
act production of "Coppelia" and
the new Canadian ballet "Bal-
lad."
About 95 new costumes are
needed for "Coppclia" alone,
These are designed by Key Am-
brose, resident designer for the
National Ballet, F r o in ser
sketches, James Roneldson and
his assistant select metcrtals and,
with the aid of a half-dozen
seamstresses, set to work cutting
and seeeing the new designs.
This season the wardrobe do-
partment is also making 25 new
tutus for the ballerinas. This
classic short costume is the pub-
lic's most popular conception of
a ballerina as she glides grace-
fully over the stage. Tire art.
of making a tutu is carefully
guarded by each ballet wardrobe
director. Mr. Ronaldson learned
from the previous wardrobe
supervisor and now he and hie
assistant, Cynthia MacLennan,
make all the tutus themselves
It takes one person approximate-
ly one week to complete a tutu.
Each is individually fitted •o
the dancer and is made of 20
yards of nylon net attached to
a nylon bodice. The bodice is
then embroidered or decorated
to fit the designer's sketch if
necessary.
When the ballet goes on tour
the tutus are packed .n large
wicker baskets which are made
by the Canadian National Insti-
tute for the Blind in Toronto nto In
the National Ballet's specifica-
tions, These baskets have a
wooden post imbedded in the
centre and the tutus are stacked
on this post one on top of the
other. On arrival at their des-
tination, a quick shake is all that
is need for the tutu to be ready;
The many yards of layered nylon
net hold their shape even on
song trips.
FIRGEON Dr. Reginald Delta completes removal of a cataract
from the eye of aware. Celestial -Eyed Veiltail m his fish surgery
in London, England Stimulant supplied in minute quantity by
an assistant with a hypodermic needle is giver to the fish just
before it's returned to its tank Known formally as an "aquarist
veterino,y surgeon," the doctor operates on patients sent to
himby fish fanciers in many countries.
It