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The Seaforth News, 1960-04-14, Page 2Tragedy in An Illinois Canyon The Illinois River sett its tributaries have swirled away at the sandstone until canyons 150 feet deep gash the thick forests. their cliffs rising sheer and eav• ernous. The park lodge that com- mands 1,475 acres of Illinois's finest unspoiled scenery - only 92 miles southwest of Chicago — precisely suits the serenity of the wilderness, Sprawled atop a bluff overlooking the river, it is built of roughhewen logs and shingles, and its rules are as rus- tic as its yawning stone heerth. — no liquor served; meals eaten promptly or not at all; lights out in the public rooms at 11 p,m, Starved Rock State Park is the kind of quiet resort that many people as ehildren savor, visit on honeymoons, and return to on anniversaries; and from the time its rugged site was discov- ered by Joliet and Marquette in 1673, it had known only one ie - stance of violence, That was, in legend, when warring Ottawa Indians gave it its name by be- sieging a band of Illinois atop a cropping of sandstone until they starved to death. ...,Among those for whom the park long had been a favorite. retreat were two matrons from Riverside, a pleasant, well-to-do suburb of 10,000 just west of Chicago, Nearly every year"they drove down for a few days of rest from their busy activities as social and civic leaders. Fre- quently their husbands accom- panied them, but this year the men were too busy, and they took along a woman friend who share their interests. The three were Mrs. Mildred Lindquist, 50, wife of Robert Lindquist, vice president of the Harris Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago; Mrs. Frances Mur- phy, 47, wife of Robert W. Mur- phy, vice president and general counsel of the Borg - Warner Corp., and Mrs. Lillian Oetting, 50, wife of George Getting, gen- eral supervisor of internal audits for the Illinois Bell Telephone Co. Among them, they had nine children. One pleasant clay last month, the three friends drove to the park, arriving at the lodge just in time for lunch. After eating, they changed to warm hiking clothes, donned boots against a few inches of slow -thawing snow, and set out on the marked trail toward St. Louis Canyon, a blind ehasm about a mile and a half away, where a frozen waterfall glittered multicolored in the bright sunlight, It was the last time anyone reported seeing them alive. That night the women's hus- bands tried vainly to reach them by phone. The next morning, trying again, they learned that none of their beds had been slept All that day, they tried inter- mittently without success. Early the next day they called the po- lice. Search parties were organized. Shortly after noon, a group of boys from a nearby correctional camp plowed through a foot of fresh snow in a lonely canyon and made a grim discovery: The bodies of the three women. They lay on their backs in a cavern near the waterfall. The wrists of the two were bound with light cord. The heads of all three had been beaten almost beyond recognition. The clothing was disarranged and scattered, end there was evidence of rape. At once, a horrified state mobilized all its detection forces, but the clues were scant. A blood -smeared length of tree limb found at the scene was be - hewed to be the fetal bludgeon, but there ware al:e' some Graces of blood ea a slut: -like ir•ie1e. A partially ceett ed Jilin in -Mrs, Oi'ttinees camera shew'td • only Mrs. Lindquist and Mr;, Murphy, - • smiling gaily during a waysiop along the trail, not far from the watcrfell.. Exactly what happened after that was $till uncertain as this is written, as polies questioned a whole parade of possible sus- -peas. All that was certain was the tragic horror of the' situa- tion. One Illinois police official seid; "This Is one of the most hideous crimes on record." Getting Water Mn The African Bush In the cool of the evening they and Xhooxham, "Lips of Finest Fat," led us some miles away to the deepest part of the olcl water- course between dunes yellow in the sun. There we found several shallow excavations dug for water in ampler seasons, but the supply which never failed them was hidden, deep beneath the sand. Near the deepest excavation Bauxhau knelt down and dug in- to the sand to arm's length. To- ward the end some moist sand but no water appeared. Then he tool; a tube almost five feet long made out of the stem of a bush with a soft core, wound about four inches of dry grass lightly around one end presumably to act as a kind of filter against the fine drift sand, inserted it into the hole and packed the sand back into it, stamping it down with his feet. He then took some empty ostrich -egg shells from Xhooxham and wedged them up- right into the sand beside the tube, produced a little stick, one end of which he inserted into the opening in the shell •and the other into the corner of his mouth. Then he put his lips to the tube. For about two minutes he suck- ed mightily without any result. His broad shoulders heaved with the immense effort and sweat began to run like water down his back. But at last the miracle ,happened and so suddenly that Jeremiah gasped and I had an impulse loudly to cheer. A bub- ble of pure bright water came out of the comer of Bauxhau's mouth, clung to the little stick and ran straight down its side into the shell without spilling one precious drop! So it continued, faster and faster until shell after shell was filled, Bauxhau's whole being end strength joined in the single function of drawing water out of the sand and pumping it up into the light of day... . We named that place, where we saw one of the oldest legends about the Bushman become a miraculous twentieth - century fact, "the Sip -wells." Were it not for the water we extracted we could not have stayed there in the central desert but would have had continually to go labor- iously back and forth between it and our own remote water - points. And of course without the sip-we71s Nxou and his people could not have survived there at all between the rains. — From "The Lost World of the Kala- hari," by Laurens van der Post. A former salesman had joined the police force, Returning from his first beat, the sergeant asked him how he liked his new job. "Oh, it's great," the ex -sales- man replied. "The hours are good, the pay is all right, and the customer is always wrong." LOSING FACE — Broad -brimmed straw hat doesn't protect this 6"^resat Falls snowman from the early spring sun. His sagging face suggests an end to the frigid weather. MADE FOR EACH OTHER — Tommy Smrekar, 10, gets an af- fectionate kiss from his new palHe found the dog wandering the highway near his home. His parents wrote the owner, whose name was on the dog's collar, asking if Tommy could keep the animal. He could. STA BLE TAIIKS 3' Qicaai Ancixws. Finish off the winter with a dish of braised cabbage — this recipe serves 6. BRAISED CABBAGE 3 tablespoons butter 3 cups shredded fresh cabbage 1 cup shredded raw carrots x/z cup stock (beef or chicken) r/x teaspoon salt x/s teaspoon pepper Melt butter in skillet with a tight -fitting cover. Add cabbage, carrots, stock, salt and pepper. Cover closely and simmer over low heat for 15 minutes or until vegetables are tender. Top with grated cheese when serving, if desired, * * * Bread crumbs, chopped ham or other cooked meats, or mush- rooms may be added to the stuffing of this squash, if you like. STUFFED SUMMER SQUASH 4 summer squash 14 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce i teaspoon minced garlic or onion 14 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon butter 34, cup grated cheese 14 teaspoon curry powder or dry mustard Few grains cayenne Wash squash and cut off stems. Steam or boil until tender, Drain and cool. Scoop out centres of squash, leaving a rind about 1/2 - inch thick. Chop removed pulp and add other ingredients to it. Mix well. Refill shells with the mixture. Place filled squash shells in a pan in very little water. Bake at 400° F, about 10 minutes, or until done. Serves 4, • * * Perhaps you will enjoy pre- paring turnips in a new way — glazed In a maple -sugar -butter mixture. Here is the way to fix a serving for lice or six. _ GLAZED TURNIPS 3 medium white turnips, diced (about 3 cups) 5 tablespoons butter 6 tablespoons maple syrup Salt and pepper. Place turnips in enough boil- ing salted water to cover. Cook 15-20 minutes, -or until tender, Drain. Heat butter and maple syrup in a skillet until butter is melted. Add turnips and saute until 'turnips are glazed, turning occasionally. Season to taste with salt and pepper. * * * Want a new way to serve canned beets? Try honey sauce with them; BEETS IN HONEY SAUCE 2 cups diced or sliced beets (No. 2 can) 1 tablespoon cornstarch 34 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon beet juice or water 2 tablespoons vinegar '/4 cup honey 1 tablespoon butter Mix cornstarch and salt and blend in the beet juice or water. Add vinegar, honey, and butter. Cook slowly, stirring constantly until thickened, Add sauce to beets; let stand at least 10 min- utes to blend flavors. Reheat. Serves 4, 5 * * Use either fresh or frozen green beans and either fresh or canned mushrooms for this dish. GREEN BEANS AND MUSHROOMS 1 package frozen green beans (10 oz.) a eup water 1 chicken bouillon cube ? pound fresh mushrooms, slic- ed (or 3-4 oz. can sliced) 2 tablespoons butter Salt and pepper Cook green beans in water seasoned with bouillon cube 8.12 minutes (or use liquid from mushrooms for cooking beans). Drain. If you use fresh mush- rooms, saute in butter; stir into beans and season with salt and pepper. * Like any other dish, you can find as many methods as you find cooks. This is our family's way of baking beans, It produces moist, brown beans, delicately flavored, writes Gertrude P. Lancaster in t h e Christian Science Monitor. Wash about two pounds of pea beans and discard imperfect ones. Cover with water, about 8 cups, and bring to boil. Boil two or three minutes, then re- move from heat, and let soak an hour or more. In the same water, cook again for a few minutes until, when you take a few beans on a spoon arid blow en them, the skins burst, Drain, reserving the cooking liquid. Cut half a pound of salt pork into two hunks, and score with gashes every half inch without cutting through the rind, Put beans into a bean pot, putting one piece of pork midway and the other piece on top. Mix the following in a dish: 2 teaspoons salt, 1 cup molasses, 1 teaspoon dry mustard, 2 table- spoons white sugar, 1 cup of the reserved water. Pour over the beans and add enough more of water to cover the beans. Cover the bean pot and bake at 325°F. about 5-6 hours, turning heat down somewhat toward end of cooking. You will have to add water about once an hour; acid just enough so that it shows through the top layer of beans, There will be enough beans to serve 10-12. Mother used to soak her beans overnight, but 1 have found that the above method eliminates this process and produces the same results. Hungry lays A shot rang out in a Dublin street recently, a policeman stag- gered . . , and some vivid mem- ories were brought back to Mr. Henry Austin, a sixty -eight-year- old Yorkshireman now living in the Irish capital. He was watching the opening sequences shot on location in Dublin for the film, "The Siege of Sidney Street" And because he witnessed the real thing back in 1911, the famous gun battle in London's East End, he was able to vouch for the realism of the scene. When the dramatic day -long raid took place on No, 100, Sid- ney Street, Henry Austin, then only nineteen, was living at No. 106. His family, Including his young sister who was ill, were confined to their house during the seige. And their larder was completely empty. "There was a steady crossfire from the gunmen and the police on the other side," he says. "But we eventually got hold of a loaf of bread from a house fourteen doors ,away, by neighbours tos- sing it over fences from one back door to the next. "It was pretty black by the time we got it," he recalls. "But we were very hungry." When watering houseplants add enough water to wet the soil to the bottom of the pot, and do not water again until the soil shows signs of needing it. It the plant is growing rapidly and is in a warm, sunny place, watering may be required daily. ISSUE 15 — 1960 FACING UP TO THINGS — Dwarfed by his creation, sculptor Assen Peikov, in Pistoia, Italy, works on a giant head of Re- naissance genius Leonardo da Vinci, The clay head when fin- ished will be cast in bronze for Rome's new airport. Gals And Gulls --- What would the ladies sus- taining the exotic headgear have in common with a farmer plowing his field? They are both important chapters in Nature's annual publication entitled Spring. The geometric and over- turned wastebasket -type hats from Italy would stand out in any Easter parade. While in Surrey, England, sea gulls feast on thousands of worms dispossessed as a tractor churns the awakening earth.