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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1959-03-12, Page 2Stoirtting Off On A $outh Seca,. Voyage September same, A stream- /Med Greenland trawler, shining white like a yacht, with the bearded face of the sun-god Kan- Tiki painted in brick red on her funnel, was lying at pier C in Vent of the Oslo city hall. For- ward, on the high bow, rein- forced against ice, a curious blue emblem was painted, the mean- ing of which only the initiated knew. It showed two of the sac• red bird -men a Easter Island, half -bird and half -human, cop - led from one of the rare tablets with undeeiphered hieroglyphics. A. crew had been signed on in spite of wives' and sweethearts' alarm over a year's absence, in the romantic South Seas, and now there was heat in the fun- nel, and the ship lay full -loaded hi the fiord water right up to her blue -painted water line, There was beetle activity on board, and such a dense crowd ashore that it was almost im- possible for trucks delivering bundles and parcels at the twelfth hour to get through. , The captain was on the bridge, and the crew were running about the deck battening down hatches and hauling on ropes, while a gigantic mate stood, pencil in hand, checking off items on a long list, At all events, every- thing he had been told' about had come. Even the skipper's Christmas tree was packed away in the refrigerator, The list was in .order. The ship's bell sounded for the last time. Orders rang out from captain to first officer, and there was a fierce blast from, the fun- nel behind the sun -god's shining head, Farewells and last good wishes were exchanged over the ship's rail, Brusquely the gang- plank was rolled away, there was a splashing of cables and creaking of winches, and the en- gineers down below applied hteir magic: the ship began to move. A cheer rose from the long wall of figures on the pier.. Hands waved and. handkerchiefs flut- tered like treetops in a gale, while the captain made the siren utter a few heart-rending howls. Then the little craft slipped behind a big ocean steamer and was lost to sight, She was in a hurry, she was to go halfway round the world with detectives on the track of other seafarers who had a start of several ecu- utries — From "Aku-Aka; The Secret of Easter Island,' by Thor Heyerdahl. If a woman has a mink on her back she won't worry so much about the wolf at her door, TOO MANY KiNDS OF COMMON COLD BUGS 70 Cold -Causing Viruses Complicate Search For Vaccine By JERRY BENNETT NEA Staff Correspondent Washington — When y� u catch a cold, 'you may call a doctor. But when some 18,000 Washington residents catch a cold, they call the National In- stitutes of Health. These 18,000 persons are tak- ing part in a massive research program to find a vaccine against the common cold, This is one of medical science's most complex tasks, for doctors have discovered that colds are caused not by one virus, but by a multitude of these sub -micro- scopic disease agents. So far, they have located 70. Some of these viruses specialize instriking children, others con- centrate on adults, Many show up only in the winter, others in wanner weather. But scientists believe that these 70 viruses account for only half of the people's colds and A similar study is being con- ducted on about 60 small chil- dren in a Washington welfare institution. Doctors explain that kids are usually highly suscept- ible to respiratory infections. With information' gained from these studies, NIH doctors hope they can develop an anti -cold shot that will contain several vaccines, each one aimed at kill- ing a particular virus. They be- lieve that it might be.. possible to make separate vaccines for children, adolescents and adults. Dr. Robert J. Huebner, chief NIAD scientist, explains that an effective cold preventative might contain as many as 25 vaccines. A combination vaccine de- signed to knock out eight viruses was developed recently by Notre Dame scientist Dr. Thomas G. Ward and given to about 2,00.0 students. A smaller group was given a sterile solution called a placebo, At the end of the SCIENTIST tissue for AT the National Institutes of Health prepares e laboratory tests in cold vaccine research program. other similar respiratory 111- nesses, They blame a lot of the sneezes, coughs and sore throats on allergies. Some colas, they say, are probably caused by emo- tional troubles. Still others are thought to be caused by viruses that haven't been isolated. Last year a new group of viruses was discovered by sci- entists at the Bethesda, Md,, laboratories of the N.LH. This group turned out to be respona• ible far more respiratory disease among hospitalized Washington thildren in 1958 than influenza, In an effort to find other viruses and lea r n more about the 70 old ones, NIH's Institute of Allergy a n d Infectious' Di• leases is spending more than two million dollars on respiratory disease research. Every time ,.ne of those 18,000 Latches a cold he is supposed to notify a special research team. Swabbings are made of his throat and taken to a labora- tory to determine which virus is =ausing the damage. Doctors hope this project will establish the viruses !het most ol'ien strike grirdictear a groups and the 11'-'1e of yrar 11 ey Usually a!tater school year, the number of colds among the vaccinated students will be compared with the num- her suffered by the non -vaccin- ated group. If successful, Dr. Ward believes the vaccine may out the usual number of winter colds at Notre Dame by 60 to 70 per cent. The cost of vaccine like the one visualized by Dr. Huebner is unknown. But the scientist de- clares; "The justification for study end eventual use of an all-pur- pose virus vaccine ought not to be purely on an economic basis. "I believe that a multivalent vaccine capable of preventing as much as 25 to 30 per cent of undifferentiated respiratory disease, particularly in early childhood, would be desirable for the good and simple reason that this is an enormous mass of illness." A recent medical report shows that Americans and Canadians last year suffered more than 300 million respiratory illnesses that required medical attention, This dosn't include the millions of less severe eases that never were reported to doctors. RING WITH A DIFFERENCE — "Unique" is how Mrs. John Quincy Wolf. describes her set of singing glasses. Unlike glasses that must be filled with water to varying depths before being play- ed, her tuneful tumblers are played dry. Mrs, Wolf states that it,took her 10 years to assemble the chromatically matched set• of glass and ceramic pieces, which she plays with two small, wooden mallets. t•,.'TABLE TALKS °---tis eJa e Axedtews. Types of cookies originating in different countries often contain ingredients plentiful there — for, instance, in France," Germany, and Spain many abnonds' are used in everyday cookies be- cause these nuts grow profusely in those countries. Also, in most Mediterranean areas pistachio nuts are often an ingredient in cookies because they are grow- ing in the gardens nearby. Virgina settlers brought Eng- lish cooky recipes' with them ' when they settled there. New York and Pennsylvania adapted Dutch recipes. And in many parts of the Midwest those of Scandinavian origin became popular. Not too many years ago, how- ever, a cooky recipe which is really American was developed at the famous Toll House, Whit- man, Mass. In it are whole pieces of semisweet chocolate which stay whole in • the baking, TOLL HOUSE COOKIES 1/z cup butter or other shortening 6 tablespoons sugar 6 tablespoons brown sugar 1 egg, beaten 1/2 teaspoon soda 11,4 cups sifted flour Y2 teaspoon salt Few drops hot water 1/2 cup chopped nut meats 1 package (1 cur) semisweet chocolate morsels 1/2 teaspoon vanilla Blend together first 3 ingredi- ents; add egg; add flour, salt and soda which have been sifted together. Add hot water and mix together until well blended. Add nuts and chocolate bits, then vanilla. Drop by half teaspoon- fuls on greased cooky sheet. Bake at;375°'F. for about 10-12 minutes. Makes 50 cookies. If brownies are a favorite in your house, here is a recipe with peanut butter added. If 'you de- sire, frost these with a fudge frosting before cutting. PEANUT BUTTER BROWNIES 1/4, cup butter 1/ cup peanut butter 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 2 1 -ounce squares unsweetened chocolate, melted ih cup sifted flour 1/4 teaspoon baking powder 38 teaspoon salt 3h cup chopped nuts Cream butter and peanut but- ter together; add sugar gradually and cream until fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Add melted chocolate and blend well. Sift dry ingredients together; add with chopped nuts. Mix well. Grease and line an 8 -inch -square pan with waxed 'paper; grease again. Spread mixture in pan; bake at 350° F. for 20-25 min- ues, or until top is firm when lightly pressed with the finger. Cool 5 minutes; cut in squares or bars. * * * CRANBERRY COOKIES i/ cup shortening ih cup brown sugar 11/4 cups sifted flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 5/e teaspoon salt 1/ cup water 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup corn flakes (uncrushed) 3a cup jellied cranberry sauce, Crushed with fork Cream shortening and sugar together. Sift flour, baking pow- der and salt. Add to cream mix- ture alternately with water and vanilla. Crush corn flakes and stir in. Knead to mix, Chill dough thoroughly. Roll cart en lightly floured board to 1/2 -inch thickness, Cut with heart -shaped cutter. Place a tablespoon cran- berry sauce on half the cookies and . cover with remaining •cookies with centers ' cut out. Bake on greased cooky sheet in 425 degrees F. oven about 10 minutes. Makes 2 dozen. 5 * * TUNA. SOUFFLE 1 can (6% or 7 ounces) tuna 1/ cup butter '/ cup flour 4 teaspoon salt Dash pepper 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce • 3i cup grated cheese 6 egg yolks, beaten 6 egg whites, beaten Drain tuna, Flake. Melt but- ter; blend in flour and season- ings. Add milk gradually and cook until thick and smooth, stirring constantly. Add Worces- tershire sauce, cheese, and tuna; continue heating until cheese melts. Stir a little of the hot sauce into egg yolks; add to remaining sauce, stirring con- stantly. Fold into egg whites. Pour, into well -greased, 2 -quart casserole. Bake at 350° F. for 45 minutes or until souffle is farm- ed in center. Serves 6. * * * • • DEEP-DISH TUNA PIE 2 7 -ounce cans solid -pack tuna 3 tablespoons flour 2 cups milk 3 teaspoon salt Pepper , 6 medium-sized carrots, sliced, and cooked 12 small onins, cooked -1 cup cooked peas 1 recipe plain pastry Drain tuna and reserve 3 tablespoons oil, Heat oil over low heat; add flour and blend. Gradually add milk, salt and pepper. Cook over low heat un- til _thickened, .stirring constant- ly. Break tuna into pieces. Add tuna and vegetables to sauce; mix Lightly. Divide pastry into 2 portions, Roll each portion , to 2inch thickness On lightly floured board. Line a 1 -quart casserolewith half of pastry. Fill with tuna -vegetable mixture. Cover with remaining pastry and At ':M41!xitn o They Really Lived It Up A dashing young French pilot of the 191448 war, named Na- varre, had a mania for chasing policemen in his fast spdrts car, lie would arrive night after • night at Maxim's, the ,famous Paris restaurant, leave in the early hours, then drive at top speed round the traffic islands and over the pavements of the Place de la Concorde. The gen - dames would shin up lamp- posts, perch on fountains or stone balustrades -••• anywhere to escape his mad Pursuit. But they took no action against him. For, after all, was he net a brave airman? • Maxim's • was noted' for its ec- centric or unusual patrons. Prominent among them was Gordon Bennett, millio n air e owner of the 'New York Herald', who made his home in France. .Q,nyone who wrote asking for a job on his journal would usually be interviewed by him at his Champs - Elysees flat. Bennett Would enter the salon with two pet dogs at his heels, Other things being equal, if the does took to the applicant he got the job, Learning of this, an Irish journalist took the precaution of rubbing linseed oil into his trouser turn -ups. The dogs Went road over him and he got an excellent post which he held for years, Harry 3, Greenwall parades 65 years of Maxim's personalities, in "I'm Going to Makirn's" an engrossing history of the glitter ing social haunt immortalized by "The Merry Widow" One night after several ab- sinthes at the bar, an expensive supper with champagne, brandies and a Havana cigar, a men ordered another bottle of cham- pagne. When it was finished, he asked the head waiter to call the manager, M. Cornuche, and inquired: "What would you do of a customer owed the estab- lishment money and could not pay?" "I would kick his backside,,_ hard!" Cornuche replied, The man thereupon rose and, lifting his coat tails, said: "Now receipt my bill, Monsieur!" Another regular night - bird would sup and drink well, then invariably say: "X'.11 pay you to- morrow — I haven't a franc on me!" He enjoyed the procdure that always followed. • He was led away to a small closet where a maitre d'hotel searched his pockets for the wad of banknotes he always carried. The bill was paid, together with princely tips, One patron, known' as Eusebe, was over six feet tall and as strong as a horse, Before he'd pay he had to be picked up by his head and feet, held aloft and shaken until a stream of gold and silver ,coins fell from his pockets. A young British peer, at one seal edges. Cut slahes in top. • Bake at 425° F. for 30 minutes, or until crust is golden brown. Serves 6. * * * TUNA -VEGETABLE ?SLAW 1 7 -ounce can solid -p ek tuna, drained 1 cup shredded cabbage ' 1 cup cooked peas 3/2 cup diced celery 1." cup' finely chopped green pepper 3 cup diced carrot 1 tablespoon finely chopped onion 4 teaspoon salt 1/4 cup mayonnaise 1 tablespoon lemon juice Break tuna into large pieces. • Combine tuna, cabbage, peas, celery, green pepper, carrot, onion and salt. Mix lightly but. thoroughly. Combine mayonnaise and lemon juice;, blend well. Pour .'over- tuna mixture; toss lightly. Serves 4 to 6, time an attachd at Ctrs British Embassy, used to dine there with Elis gist -friend, and sometimes drank too much champagne. One night the girl bit his cheek e0 bard that it bled; profusely, Overcome with remorse, she went to her dentist the next day .and hacl all her teeth out! The peer wasn't seen again at Maxim's for some time. Then, one fine summer morning he rode straight into the bar on a horse, ordered a cocktail, and drank it with much dignity while still in the saddle, But when he wanted to leave the horse did not, There was a rumpus before it could be coax- ed out, Two women in a party one ,.light decided to race each other the length of the rue Royale, from Maxim's to the Madeleine Church. When one protested that she would be handicapped by her tight skirt,. the other said: "All right, then, I'll handicap myself by carrying a roan on my back." She carried, pick -a -back, a well - known airman, Jacques Faure, but was beaten, When the party returned to Maxim's to drink more champagne, they took with them two •street sweepers to `augment their group! One habitue once invited' a troupe of lied .Indians from a circus to dine wiht,him• another brought ina file of 'satdwich- board men whom he'd found tramping the boulevard gutters. He told them to park their boards under an archway near Maxim's and took them to the public washplaces below the Madeleine to "spruce up". 'Then he fed them on cold chicken, salad and champagne. A notable Maxim customer was the wealthy American, Eilzabeth Drexel, who married Harry Lehr. When she became a widow she let it be known that only a suitor with a title would be eligible to marry her Even- tually she chose Lord Decies, on condition that he would live In London, she in Paris. She entertained royally in he? mansion, Greenwall says, and proudly exhibited there a wax model of herself wearing the peeress' robes she had worn at King George VI's Coronation. The model depicted her seated, prayer book in hand, in the very] stall she had occupied in West- minster Abbey. Somehow she had contrived to purchase it! Another Maxim regular, a beautiful blonde, , removed all her clothes, sat in a centre of the table at a party for 52 guests, and sang songs, accompanied by an orchestra playing in a corner of the room. She then dressed and went barefoot round the table, collecting gold 25 -franc pieces (then worth $5) from the guests. Later she became a star of the silent films and 'married happily. Fora bachelor party given b7 a French count on the eve of his marriage, the private dining• roomwas hung with crepe, the waiters were dressed as funeral mutes, and the tables as funeral biers, Host; guests and waiters got very drunk. The host was carried home to bed, where hu stayed for three 'days, and the. wedding was postponed for a week! A champagne salesman, Maur- ice 'Bertrand, once 'arrived at Nlaidin's sobbing, and in deep mourning. With him were four funeral mutes, who dumped . a coffin on a makeshift bier two chairs — then placed lighted candles on it, ' "Gentlemen," said Bertrand to customers at the bar. "before we seal him up, would you like to look for the last time onthe face of the dear departed?" With great ceremony the ltd was lifted — to disclose bottles of Bertrand's firm's champagne, 'which were duly ' drained to everyone's delight! WIND VELOCITY (Maes Per flour) 45 E5 25 20 15 10 r 2 x 4 TEIVIPRRATURE 90° 89,5 89 82° 81 80,5 71 89,5 63° 81' 59 51° 49 ' 47 41° 39 38 30° 28 25 72° 30° 10° 00 -11° I8 7,5 *2,5 -14' 14 3 -8 -18 88,5 80 80 57 45 34 23 11 0 -12 -33 -21° -24 -35 -36 -32° -35 -40 40 1. Locate forecast wind velocity on lop line (closest number). 2. Look down coluutn to number closest to the forecast temperature. 3. Follow tine across to column et exlresne rls'ht for "true temperature." 98 79,5 67 42,5 30,5 88,75 78 •85 82 38 25 87.5 87. 76 74 80 57 44,5' 30 18 18,5 11 0 18 11 -5 -16,5 C -2` -19 -40, Be1o'vr -6 -15 -35 .40 Below -18 -29 -40 ' Below 40 -40 Below -40 86 72,5 53,5 34.5 11 -9 -40 Below -40 84,5 70 47.5 20 0 -23,5 Below -40 83 60 23 .11 -27 -38 Below -40 h h w h M h )I h AN ILL WIND — "It isn't the cold, it's the veloeijy" might web become a standard saying about' wintry weather to match that old heat -humidity cliche for summer. For, according to the 'U.S. Army Medical Service, a brisk wind can make a cold day really frigid, Table above is based on the Army's wind -temperature chart. A little practice with it will aid in making the outlook on a winter day even bleaker, For example, a forecast of 35 degrees (Fahren- heit) and 20 -mile -an -hour winds add up to the equivalent of 38 degrees below zero as far as exposed portions of the anatomy are concerned (the same as being' in a windless deep freeze at that temperature).