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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1950-01-26, Page 7FUR QUiCK RELIEF BEYOND BELIEF... I'or relief from the pain of ARTHRITIS, E1 RVMATISM, NaVRJTIS. or SCIATICA ,,,get a bottle of DOLCIN Tablets today. DOLCIN has relieved the pains of thousands of sufferers. DOLCIN '$hblets are not baccarat, easyto.tnke, seasonable in cors - 100 tablets for 02.39; the large economy -size bottle of 900 tablets, $10, If your druggist cannot supply DOLCIN write to DOLCIN LIMITED,Toronto 10, Ont. DOLCIN rASLSTS 'T moi':'^•' iatente0 11140, DOLCIN 1. the ren. Woad rrudemora of DAN mb400. 11010MIIIIMUIP*0310,AMMIonergesamieme Land Where Time Has Stood Still • Arnhen Lend, Northern Australia, is a place where time has stood still for thousands of years, and The aborigine inhabitants have not changed a custom nor advanced Their mode of life since the time Caesar invaded Britain. From this little known territory a party of explorers recently returned with twenty tons of specimens, which They will now settle down to study its an attempt to bridge the gulf of knowedge that exists between man today and his primitive an- cestors. Of the few world territories which still remain largely unex- plored, Arnhem Land holds prior place because of its exciting scien- tific possibilities. Entry Forbidden ._..Turned into a giant aboriginal reserve, by the Australian Common- wealth many years ago, it was forbidden for any to enter this country except missionaries and a Jew officials. Thus, it has remained "unknown territory" except for some brief mapping flights by air- craft. Many questions puzzed the scien- tists. Why, for instance, are The aborigines RS primitive today as their ancestors of thousands of years ago? It has been scientifically accepted that the aborigines knew how to build only the most elemen- eery kind of shelter as a home, so how can one explain the ruins of a .city observed from the air in an arid part of Arnhem Land? And was it true that the story of A thousand years of aboriginal life was contained in countless fan- __ti,stic patterns made of string? One day the natural history ex- perts of the party, keen to collect • as many specimens as possible, hit upon the ingenious idea of form- ing t a cockroach committee" of aboriginal women and children. With the aid of their native help- ers, the experts showed thein what was expected of them. The fallow- ing day they were confronted with the staggering spectacle of num- erous aboriginals holding In their bare hands hundreds of live insects —ants, etermites, beetles and the larvae of butterflies, moth's, flies, wasps and native beetles! Payment was made in sweets and tobacco, and these two induce- ments brought more handfuls of specimens each morning and after - moon, Among them was a spider known as the "St. Andrew's Cross," because it fashions its web in the shape of a erose. Snakes and liz- ards were also aMrndant. Some dangerous, but all handled with ' skill by the natives, In mid -summer 1948 the expe- dition moved to its second base, at l.irrltaa, on the mainland of northern Australia, using aboriginal natives as porters for the and jour- ney. Research work at this new biose, which was situated close to a great swamp believed to be full of giant crocodiles, yielded numer- ous species of plants, fishes, and mammals, many of the mbelieved to be hitherto .unknown. De, Robert Miller. one of the experts ou fishes, collected 350 different species in it single day off Kirrkala Reef-ee a "fishy" tale Which for once is unquestionably authentic! "'lite sten natives went turtle hunting on one occasion, but with- out success. However, turtle eggs were quite a common item in camp diet. These were eaten raw, boiled in water, or cooked in the loot sand. The women's catch varied. Often when the low tides occured early in the morning, they would go for shell -fish, stingrays, and oy- sters—these were eaten for break- fast." The women often walked six to eight mies a day in search of food. Near the camp were a few cycatl palms, the nut of which is the stain vegetable food in many parts of Arnhem Land during the latter part of the dry season. These nuts have to be soaked for three or more days in running water, and they are then cooked in paper -bark packages, or are ground to flour- like powder and cooked like damper (unleavened bread made of Flour, water, and sometimes salt). 11 was the Australian anthropolo- gist Fred McCarthy who had the. good fortune to come across some extraordinarily interesting "string - patterns". These can be compared with carved murals or bas relief drawings which—in the Mediter- ranean area as well as elsewhere —]lave revealed a great deal of the ancient history of different races. Reef Petroleums Expands Interests The rummer in which United States capital is being poured into the Alberta oil fields is clearly shown in the case of Reef Petro- leums, Limited, a Canadian com- pany which has secured title to reservations and leases totalling 183,000 acres. Standard Oil of Indiana is work- ir.g on 28,040 acres of these hold- ings, paying Reef $28,000 cash and bearing the drilling expense, with Reef retaining a 25% interest. Rio Vista Oil Co. Ltd. another large U.S. company (subsidiary of Rio Bravo Oil Co.) is working on 60,- 000 Reef acres and will share well or wells on a 75%-25% basis, with Reef retaining 25%, A.:erada Petroleum Corporation, one of the largest of the American companies, is testing 58,828 Reef - controlled acres by seismic survey and may drill an exploratory well for three-quarter interest. This com- pany has a similar agreement an a block of C.P.R. lands, reserved by Reef, totalling 8,979 acres. In addition Reef Petroleums holds 2% interest -110,000 acres— in Bear Oil Limited, formed to explore 5,500,000 acres between the pro- ducing Redwater field and the tar sands of Fort McMurray, under - direction of Dr. Theo. Link, with the following major U.S. and Cana- dian oil companies as partners: Pacific Petroleums Limited; Sun- ray Company; Oil Co an ; Pacific Petro- leums; Tower Petroleums. This is the most ambitious oil seeking pro- ject in Canada at this time. Reef Petroleums has bought - a large block of ground at Stettler, Alta, from Tower Petroleums and a well is now being drilled there. Reef has also taken an equity in the Dodds farmout of Imperial Oil, with a well going down, and in a third well on the Spedden farmout of Barnsdall Oil. Company policy is to participate fn any good looking farmouts and acreagr In the past two months $150,000 has been placed in Reef treasury. The combination of substantial working capital, the financial and tecl,nical assistance of powerful American associates and an im- mense potential oil-bearing acreage places Reef Petroleums in an ex- ceptionally good position. " 'Fifty Face" . , :From Frankenstein?—The "1950 Face," as just ordained by fashion experts, is mocked by actress Patricia Neal, left above, after a facial going-over by Hollywood makeup expert Pere Westmore. Says Westmore, "It's the same mon- strous concoction I put on Frankenstein 20 years ago." At right above, Patricia wears her "natural look"—the one Westmore thinks she should have. As for New York's "1950 Face," West - wore continues: "It's so awful it's funny. They didn't release that mannequin face. It escaped, Accused Of Starving Child— Mr. and Mrs. Guy Scielzo are booked in a New York police station, charged with homicide in the starvation death of their three-year-old son, Guy, Jr. The, child died in a hospital soon after social workers found it starv- ing. Another child, also suffering from malnutrition, is on the critical list.. The $'5 -a -week salesman offered no explanation for the neglect. Trains That Ride Just Like Velvet Is there a halfway vehicle pos- sible between airplane and train— & kind of winged centaur, as it were? The French nationalized railroads think they have developed such a creature in their rubber - tired streamliners. Hard-pressed Cana- dian and American railroads facing airplane competition may be inter- ested. The French have attacked the' problem in a very logical place, the wheels. This might seem a much too simple approach in an age when complicated technicalities hold the floor. But when you get right down to it, the body of a car and the body of an' airplane being so much the sante, about the only place for change rests on the supporting surfaces and the driving power. In an airplane, some noise is caused by the rush of air past the wings, but its often excessive noise and its vibrations conte from the pane engines. Soundproof cabins with which many airlines equip their planes have helped some, but not too mush, though the, newest British -built jet planes are said to travel at high speed with no engine drone and virtually no vibration, In a tiain being hauled by a locomotive, there is no driving noise or vibration to transmit itself into the body of the carriage. The only sound and vibration come from the support element, from the wheels running on the tracks. Ergo, said the French, let's attack the problem there. • This they did by using pneumatic rubber -tired wheels, running dir- ectly on the rails, with a metal flange to keep then on the track. An ordinary railroad car would be too heavy to put on rubber tires, so the French designed a light- weight modern type of streamline train, with carriages weighing 14 tons instead of the usual 40 tons. •Even this weight caused for wide distribution in using pneumatic tires, so there are 20 wheels to take it. These are divided into two trucks, fore and aft, of 10 wheels each, 5 on a side. A gauge indicates the pressure of each, and a failure of any one would not prevent the train from continuing to the next station, where the wheels arc always checked. To sec one of these trains pull out of a station is an uncanny ex- perience. A great silver rod sud- denly slides past without the slight- est sound. The only thing you -can liken it to is being in a motion - picture theatre where suddenly the sound track goes dead. Inside the train, the experience is the same, You are moving 'be- fore you know it and you glance quickly to be sure that it Is your train that Is starting, and not the train next to you pulling out in the opposite direction. The take- off is handled snootily by the engineer and you find yourself slipping through the rail yards and across switch joints without sound or vibration. Naturally, the level for conversa- tion is just like in your own home. It makes airplane and ordinary rail efforts to deaden sound seem feeble by comparison. So you slide along in something that is as smooth as an airplane in perfect weather but much more silent and minus vibration. On bad stretches of track, be- catiwe France has not yet restored all its main lines to good condition, you get bumps which rubber tires cannot eliminate. Otherwise, the trip exceeds. in silent comfort both ordinary air and rail travel. The work the flanges have to do to keep the car on the rails is ap- parently very slight, because you cannot trace any sound or feeiing to that source. Naturally, this easy running is translated into economy, and the cost of hauling this train is mach cheaper than with the n:dinary steel -treaded -wheel ears. r' -'r As Inc speed,Faris-Stras- bourg the a is St as- bourg trip is 3161/2 utiles and, in- cluding two stops, it has been done for months now on a regular sched- sile of five hours. Here again the airplane gets competition because eo time is lost in getting to and from airports. Considering the small time difference plus even smoother and more silent travel, there is less reason now for tak- ing to the air. The rubber -wheeled train itself is completely modern, with beauti- ful fluorescent lighting and all other appointments giving maximum comfort. SAM'S JUNIOR GARDEN TRACTOR Twelve months to per. 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(The fat should be hot enough to brown a stale bread cube in 60 sec- onds.) Fry until golden brown—this does not take long. Remove from the deep fat and drain on paper tow- eling. Season with salt and pepper and serve with spicy tomato sauce. Dip liver into the sauce and eat with fingers. h * * Mare and mare women are buy- ing pressure sauce pans, and most of them agree that they're a won- derful help, and a real time saver. Still, a recent survey shows that there are many who use theirs only occasionally, and who are not get- ting their money's Worth out of tltent. * 0 Take meat, for example. A come mon objection heard during the course of the survey was that meat cooked in a pressure pan tends to use its flavour. 'But there are things you can do to retain both flavor and texture. z * * First, sear the meat to a' good brown on all sides, Mrs, Roy Potter suggested. "I£ you don't sear it all around," she said, "you lose the juice, and then it's more like a boiling piece." She uses an iron skillet for this, al - the you can do it in the pressure pan before putting on the lid. * * * Then be sure to hold the pres- sure constant while cooking. Varia- tions in pressure tend to cause juices to escape. The pressure used makes a difference, too. Some books advise 10 pounds for meat—others 15 pounds. Probably texture is better when cooked at 10 pounds. * * * Ever try rabbit in the pressure pan? Mrs. Harold Whitley did, and liked it fine. She browned it well before pressuring it. In winter, Mrs. Whitley used a coal range to heat the kitchen, so fuel saving isn't an item then. It's in summer that her pressure pan gets a work-out, on the hot plate. * * In anotherpartof the same coun- ty, Mrs, Carl Lueder likes the pres- sure pan for cooking pork. Pork chops, when done, are put in the oven for a few minutes. This dry heat seems to harden the fat. If you have a broiler, that will give the same result. '0 * * Mrs. Potter and d her neighbor, lbor Mrs. Leroy Hen i e n g s, had given pressure pan demonstrations for their neighborhood. Meat loaf was one of the foods they prepared. Here's the way they did it. Take: 1% pounds ground beef f pound ground pork 2 teaspoons salt Pepper 2 eggs, slightly beaten 1 medium-sized onion, minced 1 stalk celery, minced 1 medium-sized carrot, grated 34 cup bran flakes 2 tablepsoons barbecue sauce 1 tablespoon lard 1 tablespoon water 4 large potatoes Combine the beef and pork; sea- son with salt and pepper. Add eggs, onion, carrots, celery, bran flakes and sauce. Stir well, and form into two small loaves. Wrap in waxed paper and chill at least one hour in the refrigerator or other cool place. (This prevents loaf from breaking apart while cooking, and helps sea- sonings penetrate the meat.) Heat potatoes and add fat, Brown each loaf well all over. Place pota- toes around loaves and add water. Place cover on cooker and allow steam to flow from vent, Cook 15 minutes at 15 pounds. k * pt Swiss steak cooks nicely in a pressure pan, says Mrs, Ralph Ol- sen, of Hamilton. She also recom- mends this recipe for other sorts meat balls: 14 pounds ground beef r/ cup rice 1 teaspoon salt ele teaspoon pepper 1 tablespoon onion, minced 1 small can tomato soup cup water Combine meat, rice, salt, pepper and onion. Shape into small belle, Heat soup and water in cooker$ drop meat balls into moms mixture$ place cover on; cook 10 minutes at 15 pounds. Let stand until pressure goes down. * * * Green beans, carrots, Irish pota- toes—these cook wonderfully well in the pressure pan, "And baked beam," said Mre. Potter; "are really out of this world. The pressure pate leaves them nice and soft and Moist." * * * Steamed puddings and breads are ideal for pressure pan cooking. Ac- cording to directions, you start by leaving the vent open. That gives the effect of a steamer. 'You need plenty of water in the pan, because evaporation is rapid. The bread is set on the "trivet," or rack. Final e.00ldng is done un. der pressure. Boston brown bread is one of Mrs. Potter's favorite re- cipes. * * 0 She recommends the pan for dum- plings, too, "They come out so fluffy and nice," she said. "Use it just as a steamer for that—don't put the weight ort." * * * Be careful in cooking foods that tend to foam, like apple sauce and cereals. The vent -hole can become plugged by food particles. filen, /after a high pressure is built up, it will spurt out with considerable force. One woman ended up with apple sauce all over the kitchen ceiling. * ' } If you are inclined to be timid, it will be best to follow the advice of one manufacturer, and not use the pressure pan for cereals. Used wisely, you needn't be afraid of your pressure pan. And it will certainly save you a lot of time and fuel. Are You A Joker? 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