HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1959-09-03, Page 2Red carpet .For
Red Leader!
Who ever thought the day
would conte when the. U.S, go-.
ernment would be rushing to
stock up on Soviet flags!
This is typical of the extra-
ordinary situation in whin%
official Washington finds itself
in preparation for the drama -
charged visit of Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushohev.
The unusual sight of the ham-
mer and sickle displayed on the
streets of the nation's capital
will be no more striking than
the appearance of the world's
Number One Communist him-
self on American soil.
Washington officialdom is in
e dither. Plans for an official
visit usually require two or
three months. This time, it all
has to be done in six weeks!
The visit may have been in
the wind for some time, as has
been said, but it certainly caught
a lot of people by surprise. And
no one any more than Chief
of Protocol Wiley Buchanan,
happily vacationing in Monte
Carlo. Or his deputy, Clement
Conger, on the West Coast, Both
immediately headed for Wash-
ington at top speed.
While the State Department
may have to stock up on Soviet
flags, at least it has a "red"
carpet. This is kept in storage
for all official visits,
More than 1,500 in Washing-
ton alone are involved in these
preparations. This includes State
Department personnel, its Se-
curity Division, the local police,
the military, the Secret Service,
down to the soldier who fires
the 19 -gun salute.
Tremendous crowds are ex-
pected to crane their necks to
see this famous "mystery guest"
in person. Never, perhaps, has
the Security Division of the
State Departinent had a more
difficult assignment.
Plain -clothes agents will sur-
round the Soviet Premier and
infiltrate the crowds from the
time he steps on American soil
until he leaves it.
The Soviet Premier will rate
full military honors at the air-
port, with bands, troops, and
President Eisenhower present to
receive him.
But it will be an official visit
as distinguished from a state
visit. This means there will be
no parade to the relief of the
Security Division. The motor
caravan will proceed without
fanfare from the airport to its
destination — either the Blair
House or to the Soviet Embassy,
depending on which place the
wishes to make his
headquarters,
Blair House, the President's
guest house across the street
from the White House, is now
in the process of renovation,
writes Josephine Ripley in the
Christian Science Monitor,
Premier Khrushchev would
not be the first Soviet VIP to
be a guest in Blair House, how-
ever. During World War II,
Vyacheslav M. Molotov slipped
surreptiously through the door
under the pseudonym of "Mr.
Brown." His mission: secret con-
ferences with President Roose-
velt about war efforts,
The State Department is
working closely with the Soviet
Embassy in preparation for the
three-day visit here and the
longer trip to various places
across the country. If the Pre-
mier stays at Blair House, the
chef will be informed as to what
foods he prefers, what he dis-
likes. and whether there are any
theta y reslrictiOns involved.
The protocol division will
make complete and detailed
plans for the entire visit, includ-
ing a campiete mimeographed
script. with everything but the
dialogue spelled out. From the
time of arrival to the time the
Soviet Premier and his party
reach his residence, every min-
ute will he ticked off according
to schedule, every "actor" in-
volved will be cued.
There will be signals for the
firing of the 19 -gun salute, the
playing of the band, the taking
of press photographs, the move
Ment 01 officials from platform
to car,
There will be a diagram show-
ing where every official is to
stand; official cars will be num-
bered, and.pccupants designated,
This will go on from event to
event, and from day to day as
long as the visit lasts, Tinting
is so accurate it is unusual for
a schedule to be off more than
a few seconds.
But to what extent the vigor-
ous, free -wheeling Premier, with
his determination to see for him-
self what America and Ameri-
cans are like, can be held ac-
countable to a capitalistic stop-
watch remains to be seen.
Dangers Of
Overnight Parking
Most of the evening, Truck
Driver George Rutherford pac-
ed nervously around his room
in Roseburg, Ore.'s Umpqua Ho-
tel. Once he walked the three
blocks to the Gerretsen Build-
ing Supply Co. to look over the
blue 1959 Ford truck he had
parked on the street alter a
290 -mile drive from his home
plant, Pacific Powder Co. of
Temno, Wash. Cause for his
worry: his cargo consisted of two
tons of dynamite and 4% tons
of Car-Prill (a highly explo-
sive mixture — ammonium nit-
rate and oil) that he was to de-
liver to customers at dawn.
About 1 a.m., back in his ho-
tel, he heard fire engines roar
by, ran toward his truck. He
still had half a block to go and
a corner to turn when a block -
busting blast smashed hien
against the ground. Clocks all
over. Roseburg (pop. 12,000)
stopped with hands pointing at,
1:13 a.m.
The fire engines had been
headed for a minor flare-up in
some trash barrels a few feet
from where Rutherford had
parked his death -laden truck.
Assistant Fire Chief Roy Mc-
Farlane thought he had things
under control, sent one fire-
man to the hospital with burned
hands. City Patrolman Don De-
Sues, 32, took over traffic direc-
tion at the nearest corner. Sud-
denly, George Rutherford's truck
went off with a blast bigger
than a World War II blockbust-
er, dug a 50 -ft. -wide, crater 30 ft.
deep, pulverized sixblocks of
business buildings, transients'
apartments and homes, smashed
the windows and badly damag-
ed a 23 -block area, knocked peo-
i3 le out of bed for eight miles
around.
"I looked up to see the mush-
oozn cloud," said Hotelman
i'aui Ryan. Instead he saw a
300 -ft. pillar of flame. One squad
car flew 100 ft., its dome light
and driver cop left largely un-
damaged. Across the street from
the truck, the Coco -Cola Bottling
oo. fell into a level pile of rub-
ble. The Gerretson store's stock
of bolts and nuts sprayed like
fragmentation shards. One
eight - year - old boy was car-
ried to the hospital with a fin-
ger -sized piece of steel driven
into his brain. The only traces
to be found of Traffic Policeman
DeSues were his uniform but-
tons and a key -filled pants
pocket, which lay scattered al-
ong the gutter in the next block.
Minutes after the blast, Rose-
burg began to rally. From the
Bumblebees Motorcycle Club to
the National Guard, volunteer
forces backed up police and
firemen, sealed off the 23 -block
danger area. hauled the 52 in-
jury cases to hospitals, kept out
looters. Damage estimates ran to
312 million, but the count on
the dead was harder to come bv.
The coroner's deputies account-
ed for twelve bodies, then sent
off for lab tests samples of
lighter ashes that might be
eight or more transients in tran-
sient apartments. Five _ blocks
from the crater lay a bent axle,
the biggest piece of the truck
that Driver Rutherford parked
in a sleeping town. —From
TIME.
KEEPING COOL — Free air is supplied for car passengers, not
tires, by an unusual cooling service offered by a drive-in rest-
aurant. Placed in an auto window by a carhop, a flexible hose
pours in cool air drawn through underground ducts from a 30-
horsepwer air conditioning unit. A control in the house outlet
permits moforist to adjust the amount of cold air piped into the
ear.
MORE TO COME -- This Is a tantalizing glimpse of one of the
three new "compact" cars which' will appear on the market
this fall — Chevrolet Corvair. Framing it are E. N. Cole, left,
vice president of General Motors, and Walter D. Baldwin, U.S.
Rubber Co. vice president. They're looking at the 13 -inch tire
it uses. The Corvair departs from American custom by having
its, engine in the. rear (note gas tank filler cover atop front
fender), Ford's Falcon and Chrysler's Valiant will be introduced
shortly, also.
'TABLE TALLKS
oJct
One of those excellent book-
lets published by makers of pre-
serving jars will tell you how to
preserve raspberries and every-
thing else, but I'd like to tell you
about Aunt Mertie's.
Aunt Mertie's raspberries were
ambrosial. When our family
came to visit, a large crystal
bowl of.raspberries in their rich,
red syrup was placed in front
of my father — and, alongside,
a heaped-up plate of cream -of -
tartar biscuits, light as the pro-
verbial feather. The rest of us
could expect to share in the
feast, but it was perfectly clear
that Dad was the one for whom
Aunt Mertie had been saving
that jar of berries.
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Aunt Mertie's special touch
was the syrup she used. It was
sweeter, heavier with sugar,
than you will find recommended
in many cookbooks today. The
resulting raspberry sauce is rich
— a little,goes a.long way — but
it surpasses any I've eaten else-
where, especially . when it is
made with berries fresh from the
vine; writes Gertrude P. Lan -
aster in The Christian Science
Monitor. . T<
The process is easy, even for
a novice at preserving. Use firm,
rip raspberries. We never wash
ours, for.this tends to make them
soggy. Three quarts of berries.
will make 7 pints of preserves.
Fill the sterilized jars with ber-
ries, and then pour hot sugar
syrup over them, leaving t/z inch
head space.
The syrup Aunt Mertie made
of 8 cups of sugar with 3% cups
water. Cook just until sugar dis-
ISSUE 35 — 1959
solves, but do not let it boil
down. * .s • „
I use dome -cap bars,. wipe „the
tops after filling, adjust lids on
the jars, and screw the bands
tight. Put the jars in a- boiling
water bath canner, with water to,
cover, and process for 20.min-
, Utes after the boiling starts.
Take jars from canner and stand
several inches apart to cool. -
The color of the syrup deep-
ens in a few days into one of the
loveliest reds you can imagine.
Some crisp winter evening when
you set a bowlful before a
favored member of your house-
hold, all the goodness of a warm .
summer day will come back to
enjoy all over again.
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If you like a frozen fruit salad,
try this in your freezing com-
partment. Almost any combina-
tion of fruits that you or your
family likes may be used — 1
have suggested. several here.
FROZEN FRUIT SALAD
% cup heavy cream whipped
1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
T. tablespoons water '
3 -ounce package cream cheese
e/4 cup mayonnaise
3 tablespoons lemon juice
34 teaspoon salt
2 cups diced fruit
2 tablespoons diced maraschino
cherries
1 bunch water cress leaves,
coarsely cut
Soften gelatin in water for 5
minutes and dissolve over hot
water or very low heat. B1end
together the cream cheese, may-
onnaise, lemon juice and salt.
Stir dissolved gelatin into the
whipped cream, Fold in cheese
mixture. Add fruit, cherries, and
water cress. Mix lightly but
well. Place in 8 4 -oz, molds,
Freeze until firm. Unntold on
greens. a,
FRUIT COMBINATIONS FOR
SALAD
Any of the following combina-
tions will go well in frozen salad,
1 cup diced bananas
1 cup dined oranges
1 cup diced canned peaches
1 cup diced canoed pineapple
1 cup dined bananas
1 cup diced pineapple
2 cups drained fruit salad
Vs sup chopped pecans
1 cup cticedi oranges
3 cup seedless grapes
These frozen fruit salads will,
keep for several weeks if stored
at 0` F. in freezer of frozen food
locker. Remove from freezer and
unmold about 15 minutes before
serving time, Serve ona bed of
crisp greens,
*
For a special party, serve
avocado mousse, if you want
friends to say, "Oh, please give
me this recipe!" This one serves
8.
AVOCADO MOUSSE.
1 tablespoon unflavored gelatin
3 tablespoons cold water
3/4 cupboiling water
3 tablespoons lemon juice
% cup mayonnaise
1 cup sieved avocado
1 cup heavy ,cream, whipped
3A teaspoon Worcestershire
sauce
1/4 teaspoon monosodium.
glutamate
1 teaspoon onion juice
Salt and cayenne to taste
Orange and grapefruit' sections
for garnish
Soften gelatin, in the cold wa-
ter; dissolve in boiling water;
`add lemon juice and cool thor-
oughly. Blend in mayonnaise
and avocado; fold in cream; add
seasonings. Pour into oiled 1 -
quart ring mold or 8 individual
molds. Chill until firm. Unmold
on crisp lettuce leaves and gar-
nish' with orange and grapefruit
sections or use slices or wedges
of tomato. Serve with French
dressing.
Unwise Old Owl!
Science, that destroyer of
myths, old wives' tales, and
other such pleasant diversions of
mankind over the centuries, •
stripped yet another illusory veil
from an old and honored belief
recently. This time it was the
owl and his wisdom.
"He's not wise," said biologist
Roger S. Payne, "he's dumb.
He's dumber than a chicken, if
that is possible."
Payne, who has been studying
the owl for two years in quest
of his Ph.D. from Cornell, ex-
posed the owl at New 'York's
Bronx Zoo while in search of'
more to experiment on. His
tests at Cornell, Payne said,
showed that the owl doesn't have
sense enough to walk around a
box the opposite' way when his.
path _ is blocked, and he often
bites the very hand that feeds
him.
In fact, if it weren't for his
extraordinarily sensitive ears
"(his eyes are only incidental in
hunting, Payne said), the owl
:would probably starve to death.
Payne's tests indicated that an
owl going after mice in pitch
dark is guided to the quarry
purely by sound.
Space Men Have
New Perils To Face
During the night of May 11-12,
five balloons rose into the shy
from the university's airport at
Anoka, 20 miles north of Min-
neapolis, At 60,000 ft. their in-
struments began to register in-
tense blasts of radiation, Study
of the instrument packages at the
University of Minnesota showed
that the radiation was made of
speeding protons from the sun,
The radiation was about 1,000
times as intense as the cosmic
rays that normally 'come from
space, Unlike the -Van Allen
radiation, which is made of solar
protons that have been trapped
by the earth's magnetic field and
forced to zigzag around the
earth, the balloon -detected par-
ticles came directly from the
sun, crashing into the earth's
atmosphere with energies be-
tween 110 million and 120 million
"electron-volts. '
On July 14 another series of
balloon -borne instruments de-
tected an even hotter burst of
radiation, about 10,000 times
more intense than normal cosmid
rays. Both the May and July
radiation bursts, say .the. Minne-
sota scientists, came from the
same disturbed region on the
sun, whieh -has been exploding
for many months like a vast
ammunition dump. As the sun
rotates, flare afterflare has
sprayed streams of particles in
.
to space, sweeping the solar sys-
tem like streams of water from
a revolving lawn sprinkler,
When the doughnut -shaped
Van Allen radiation belts were
discovered, optimists' predicted
that unshielded space vehicles
could avoid them by taking off
on space, voyages by way of the
"holes" over the polar regions.
But the deadly, invisible streams
of the new-found radiation lash
through the polar holes, as well
as through the whole solar sys-
tem. Space vehicles making the
short run to the moon may be
able to pick quiet intervals be-
tween the flares, but voyages to
Mars or Venus will take several
months. During this consider-
able period a flare is likely to
spray the ship and fry its passen-
gers finless, they are protected
by tons of shielding material.
Best hope for unshielded space
travelers: the flares may die
away during the low points of
the eleven -year sunspot cycles,
the first of which should come
in about five years. From TIME
Obey the traffic signs — they
are placed there for Y O U R
SAFETY.
MERRY MENAGERIE
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'Who Will Tackle This?,
Here's another soaring triumph for
Russian science — , a wire shopping
basket for mother to wheel the
groceries home int Ignoring the fact
these have been used in this country
for years, the Moscow newspaper
Isvestia announces: "Now it's possi-
ble to deliver (mother) from this
{vegetable) load , . , Vegetables and
other products can be packed into
it and it can be easily rolled along
the asphalt pavement with one
hand." Then comes the joker: "To
get production of these little baskets
going would not be at all complicat-
ed." A footnote to the item "from the
editors;' says: °We are introducing
this 'Who will tackle this,'?' section in
which we shall report on gadgets for
the home and family whose prodUse
tion it would be desirable to set in
motion. The factory, the workers'
team who are first to undertake the
outpuf of new manufactured articles
will be mentioned by this news-
paper," Visits of Anastds Mikoycm
and Frol I(ozlov to our supermarkets
would seem to have stimulated Rus-
sian "inventiveness" . along similar
lines.