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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1960-07-28, Page 2Greater Safety kn the Horne In well -kept homes, odes es and tactories, there the no loose ob- jec'ts on stairs, floors and land- ings; no articles that can fall from overhead; no wet or greasy floors; no proies'ting objects in hallways or aisles; no exposed • nails or sharp pieces of metal; and no sharp utensils or tools lying where they may be in- advertently touched. Here are some. facts gathered from the records of many thous- ands of home accidents. • About foto' out of five home fatalities occur inside the house, and more than half -of these hap- pen -in a bedroom. While more men are hurt on stairs and steps, more women are injured in bed- rooms..Ceuses of bedroom acci- dents include: loose rut's: smok- ing in bed; leaving clothes, dressing stools, chairs and other (111)1ct:s where they may be trip- ped over careless handling of electric: plug •; leaving doors part- ly open. Having a handrail on every stairway is a safety "must". When someone leaves an object on the steps, or there Is a brok- en or odd -sized step, • or if the carpet is torn, or when some- one slips, many accidents on stairways could be prevented if there were, something to grab quickly. The lighting of stair- ways should be good. Rugs shotald be well anchored. Electrical hazards must be guarded c.gainst. Don't break through or saw through a wall without turning off the electri- city at the main switch; you may strike a wire cable with fatal re- sults. Don't leave a fan; a radio, or a heater where it may fall into the tub when you are bath- ing; don't forget that even with the plug pulled out your tele- vision set is dangerous, because the rectifier tube stores up and holds high electrical energy; don't leave bare wires, empty light sockets or defective appli- ances where they can be touched by chance. Among danger spots in the kitchen are the stove, of what- ever sort; knives; electrical ap- pliances carelessly used; lye, am- monia, and cleaning fluids; open cupboard doors; slick waxed lino- leum; careless climbing to .reach high shelves; and pots left on the stove with their handles pointed outward. In the safe home the bathroom is kept clear of loose razor blades and safety pins, Medicines are in a high latched cabinet. More than six hundred deaths due to accidental poisoning of children are recorded in the United States every year. It was said in the CIBA Clinical Symposia in mid- summer 1951: "The number of children who have been acci- dentally poisoned as a result of parental carelessness is truly tragic." In Canada, more than 3.000- persons died in ten years as a result of accidental pnison- ine. • Herr': is a programme of action. The home in which it is follow- - ed will he by a big percentage less likely than othere to suffer deaths and pain and the cost of accidents, It requires only a little time. The action can made a game, with everyone taking part. It tines not demand money expedi- ture, but it does need leadership and the overcoming of paries inertia. Let's .tart by making a job study in the home. - What does who do where? Is the enriron- ment safe? Are the tools as safe as they can be made — properly sharpened, properly set up, prop- erly guarded? Is the worker well -instructed in safety proc•ed- eree and conscious of the danrrr element:' Some factories has,,'e -:alai,: committees r - why mould not every home have ane:' What is n,eded in both factory Snit home is co-operation. The o111y c'teethe way to bring a fee - tory or a home through g year , without serious accident is to have everyone become part of a co-otdlnated effort to apply thinking, experience and ability to tlu: problem. Such a committee in the home could be fun. First of all, brain- storm the project: gather the family together and throw an the table the problem: how can we €void accidents? If you're lucky enough to have a daughter who is a stenogra- pher, persuade her to take notes of all the dangers mentioned, and get her to add her own suggestions. If , you have 110 stenographer, do the best you can to put down in writing all the ideas that are proffered by your family. Do not leave out any, however trivial they may seem to you: these are danger spots perceived by Mlle i:s. Then, when everyone has ex- hausted his stock of thoughts ranging from the menace of that rotting tree branch in the gar- den to the danger of parking a mop on the cellar stairs; from the hazard encountered in walk- ing across a newly -waxed floor to that of using a makeshift lad- der to put up storm windows — then turn everybody loose on the constructive correction of all un- safe conditions. Give everyone a sense of personal responsibility for the safety of everyone else. Give everyone something worth- while to do. — From the Royal Bank of Canada Monthly Letter Summer That Lasts Twenty-one Years Astronomers are planning to make a special study of the green planet Uranus which is sixty-four times as large as the earth and has 85,000 days in ite year. They want to know more about its strange greenish tinge. This may be due, they think, to a very light and attenuated gaseous element in the upper regions of the planet's dense at- mosphere, the presence of which has been confirmed by spectrum analysis. But there may be an- other reason for this greenish tinge. Nobody really knows for certain — yet. You're lucky if you can get even a glimpse of Uranus --- the most distant world that it is possible to see with the naked eve. You need a dark and clear moonless night and very keen eyesight to see Uranus, although it is 430 times the size oe Mare. "Suppose London were 011 Uranus and in the same latitude as on earth, we should have a summer twenty-one years long with continuous daylight for about 23ae years." one astrono- mer explains. "During that time the sun would never set but go round and round in the sky once in every ten - and - three - quarter hours. In spring and autumn the days of daylight would be reduced to between five and six hours only, which would be -till further seduced as the ter- rible winter approached. For during a period of over twenty- three years the sun would never be seen and only the dim light of four ghostly moons would be added occasionally to the star- light." Il was rot the Main of Monis 13th. 1731. that Sir William Herschel, afterwards Astrono- mer Royal, was at Bath examin- 'ng small stars with a seven - ascii reflecting telescope which he had made himself, when he are) one that tea: larger than the resi, A 'few more oughts 0f obseri'a- aierl revealed that his discovery was moving among the stars. rte thought it was a comet but tater calculations showed it was s planet twice as far from the un as Saturn and travelling in s nearly circular orbit. MARRIAGE ON THEIR MINDS - This drawing won a notion wide contest for students in West Germany's schools, bone by Hans Dieter Muesch, it shows East and West Germany hr,', ;, bound tcpether. The contest was sponsored by the Committee for c United Garrnony, MANNA BY THE BAG — These hungry honkers in a Memphis park pay close attention to Sally Goldsmith, 3, as she doles out bread crumbs to appreciative geese. TABLE TALKS er kale Ar dt ews, Let's give es great big hand (as they say on TV) to Jahn Mon- tague, the fourth Earl of Sand- wich, who liked to eat infor- mally and is reputed to have put the first slice of meat be- tween two slices of bread. Within the wide variety of popular sandwiches today there are infinite types: pinwheel, open - face, double or three - decker, rolled. toasted, square, long or round. For bread, we have white, whole wheat, cara- way rye, Swedish rye, pumper- nickel, French or Italian, crack- ed wheat, cinnamon. Boston brown or raisin. To add savour to softened but- ter, work in a little mayonnaise. If you plan a sweet filling, sub- atitute a little whipped cream, Add drained crushed pine- apple, brown sugar and cloves to ground ham; add cream aheese and horse -radish to sliced tongue; add chopped pimiento and salad dressing to shredded nippy cheese; add dried crisp bacon to peanut butter; add slic- ed sweet onion to sliced roast beef; add American cheese to frankfurters sliced lengthwise; add green olives, nuts and may- onnaise to chopped chicken; add grated orange rind and orange juice to peanut butter; or mix softened cream cheese with chapped dried apricots and chop- ped prunes, writes Eleanor Ri- chey Johnston in the Christian Science Monitor. Here is an open-faced sand- wich with deviled ham far its chief ingredient. Served on rya bread with a cold drink, it makes s light meal for hot days. OPEN-FACED HAM SANDWICH 1 can deviled ham (4, •e ounces) 4 slices rye bread 1 cucumber, sliced Lettuce Mayonnaise Spread deviled ham on bread slice, Place on bed of lettuce leaves, Top each spread sand- wich with a row of cucumber slices, overll pping. Serve may- onnaise on side on lettuce loaf. Makes 4 sandwiches. Another open -laced sandwich: ASPARAGUS -EGG SANDWICH 6 slices white bread 2 tablespoons soft batter 3 hard -cooked eggs, slieed 24 rooked green asparagus spears Salt and pepper to taste st cup tomato paste 2 tablespoons slivered almonds Toast bread and spread with butter: Arrange egg slices on buttered toast, Top with aspara- gus ,.pears. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Pour tomato 511100 over asparagus. Scatter almonds on top, Plast-: on cooky sheet and broil until nuts 111'0 brown- , -r1 :old sauce is :hot (1)1(11 2 minute;, S e t v e ilrutio lia,le:_ 11 your taentily 1t a shorty,. rete eating group, want 11. mak0 several [111111 1 ,thtald end keep them in the leare;eratei for quirk I;.on•hrs. :Mail -und- vvir'tr,.<. may be sande early, :nipperl carefully and kept in Ins • refrigerator o'er. a gine% hunch, Here arc=ul;_„c.;dioos for some intrlrestin„ ;dein s, [h:c any h0 41 you like fur them CHEESE -OLIVE FILLING cite Treem cheese 1.; cup cottage cheese laltle.speens softened hotter '.t teaspoon grated 0111011 '.i teaspoon salt Few drops Worcester same eup shopped ripe olives, stuffed olives or olive butter 1' .:,e1 rhe 1 sc, butter, onion, salt and Worcestershire sauce. Add olive and stir just enough to blend. Chill, AVOCADO - CREAM CHEESE FILLING 1a cup mashed avocado 1 package (8 -oz,) cream cheese 0 teaspoons lemon juice Dash Worcestershire sauce 2 tablespoons finely chopped onion tt teaspoon salt Gradually add avocado to the cheese, blending until smooth. Add lemon juice, sauce, onion and salt. Blend thoroughly. Fill- ing for 8 sandwiches, SHRIMP - DILL - CUCUMBER FILLING 1 package (3 -oz.) cream cheese l3 cup chopped, cooked shrimp to cup diced cucumber V$ teaspoon dill seed } teasptfon lemon juice Soften cheese, add shrimp, au- eumber, dill seeds, and lemon juice, Filling for 4 sandwiches. '1 0 t TONGUE FILLING 11a cups ground tongue tablespoons chopped celery 1 tablespoon prepared horse- radish 1 teaspoon prepared mustard 1 tablespoon maynnaise or salad dressing Combine all ingredient. Fill- ing for 8 sandwiches, e PINEAPPLE - EGG SALAD FILLING Tt eup chopped, hard -cooked eggs 14 cup well -drained crushed pineapple 3 tablespoons chopped green pepper I teaspoon prepared mustard Dash of pepper to teaspoon salt Combine all ingredients. Fill- ing for 5 sandwiches. Fierce Gangster Was ideal Father "They seek him here, they seek him there, those l"renchies seek him everywhere," But it was no intrepid eigh- teenth - century Englishman, snatolting aristocrats from the jaws of the guillotine, wham the police sought. It was one of their own countrymen. Charles Ilivelo was a bad lot. A gangster, a thief, a jailbreaker, he had been "wanted” for months but the police couldn't catch him. Until the evening in 1960 when a gendarme cycling clown a lonely lane ten miles from Bordeaux, met a lean pushing a bahv's pram, rhe man was a tramp, No doubt the pram con- tained odds and ends such then managed to scrounge and hoard. As be cycled past, the police- man looked mote closely' - and got the surprise of his Iiia In the pram was a baby and, though elle pram -pusher wast dirty and unkempt, the chubby, healthy -looking child was a pic- ture. Spotlessly clean, he show- ed two white teeth as he nrm- ned happily at the policeman, "Hey, your" he called. "What are you doing with that infant?" "He is my son," the mart an• swered gruffly and made to push on. But the policeman was still i utpiciaus. "You'll have to came to the station with me," he said, Shrugging resignedly, the tramp pushed the pram to the nearest police station. There, cross-examination lash. ed for several hours until a was finally established that 11e was Charles Rivelo; but he stoutly maintained that the child was hie. It seemed so fantastic to the police that they examined the baby, looking for bruises which would reveal ill-treatment. But they found none. Little Jean- Claude was as well cared for as if he'd been looked after by the best of mothers, They decided Charles Rivelo must be locked in a cell for the night and taken to Paris next day. Rivelo made no protest p until they tried to take his clrllfl from him, "Let me keep m,y baby," h pleaded. "Ile knows me, lovott ane, and he needs attention. Sets, 1 have his bottle," So father and $on were allow- ed to share a cell, Jean-Claude got bis bottle and from laminas hands, Then Itivclo told his story, 13e.• fora 1110 tear he had becoliia the father- of two illegitilnnto' children, Their mother had re- fused to get 10 div011'0 and. marry hunt, Instead, she had gone away, taking the children with her, When he had enol another woman willing to throw in her hot with ]tint, although she also was married, Charles had tried, to forget, Once more 110 had be- come a father, but very soon the couple quarrelled. This time, however, Riveto decided he would keep his child, lie had waited (until the baby' was weaned, then he kidnapped him, at the same time helping himself to clothes, diapers and a feeding bottle, These he had Packed in a pram and for three months he had roamed about the roads of France, never fall- ing in his care of little Jean- Claude. In the light of a summer dawn early travellers at the Gare d'Austerlitz, Paris, saw a Avenge sight. Down the plat- t0rm strode a policeman carry- ing a bundle of baby linen in. a huge pillow -ease, Behind hint walked a man hedged in by' other police — a man under ar- rest, obviously heading for ,rail --- tenderly holding a Irby in his arms, Most birds are voracious eat- ers, Young crows are accustomed. to consuming at least half of their own weight a day, and they have been known to eat their full weight in a day A. young robin, shortly after leav- ing its nest, is known to have eaten 14 feet of earthworm ia one day. ISSUE 30 — 1960 EATON GETS LENIN PEACE AWARD — Canadian industrialist Cyrus Eaton, left, is pinned with the Lenin Peace Prize medal set Pvgwash, Nova Scotia. Making the award is Mrs. A. Arou- tuniam, wife of the Soviets' ambassador to Canacla. LADY IN DISTRESS: With the great increase i several federal government regulations have b One of these requires that pleasure croft 26 f pyrclechnic distress signals for summoning h lady demonstrates the new distress flare re tense, bright red Horne for five minutes and c flares are eisa highly recommended for small water. n boating in Canada during the past few years, sen laid down to make boating a safe sport. ret to 40 feet long must be equipped with alp when a boat is in trouble. Here, the young cently introduced. The flare burns with an in- on n-en be scan 10 the horizon an a dark night. Such er boots which might venture out into open _ _volow11111111.111