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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1960-11-17, Page 2• eat • • MISS WINGS - ChariereCii ger was named Miss Wings of 1961 out the...,22nd annual Wings Over the World oirshow end hostess beauty contest. Backward Look A: A Boy Killer • His fellow school lei& wed to tall him eBantam Red Hid' when he longed to be "Dead Eye Charlie.' He walked with a. twaveca that icave his short. `vowed kgs an <,,.aggeri,ted curve, His head Ming low; he 'kept his eyes on the ground. }Ie Lad no money. feriends, no gecalar job. 04 De,..% 1. 1P57. ,h,s 1 ti-year- eqd boy, Charles Starkweather of Lincoln. Neb.. killed Robert Col - veil, a g.is-station attendant. Fifty <lays later, Starkweather sand his 1 4 -year-old girl frie.nd. Caril Ann Fugate, set out on a murc;erons trail from Lincoln to -Douglas, Wyo.. that lasted sista daye and ten etlxr persons dead, For his shoehring Starkweath,..r was executed on June 25. 114511, Fugate was Aent<necd to life in the Nebraska Wcw,t•i.'s rkformatory. In the past ycars, alatrists and crime ettperts has tricd tct plebe the Pe erCt.F b01Cath StM'kW eathere bC•ha vi- cr. The latest is Dr. ;Mame Reinhardt, en imirology pro- fessor at the University of Nchr- aska, who si.a.nt 30. hours iflL-r- iin4 in the penitentiary before and after his triai. becl., published last month. "The ;:klur,:1,1',11S, Tr r.11 of Charles .Starkweather," is the ptre<ptive report t the qtrn)I11 - 01 this young "Charles Starkw(ather was no ordinary criminal," varites Dr. Reinhardt_ "He did not inherit the murderous pattern that cast horrible shadow over his own family, and those of his innocent victims. He belonged to no hood- lum cangi,:hr Neral not a sex maniac. he had no court record. Vet ht fore he was 20, he had murdered el<ven people," • The youth's trouble began en his. first day at school. the crim- inologist re -porta. In S ark - weather's own words: "The kide picked on me .., they made fun of my howed.legs and my speech (In starnmeredl This brought on a bad mood, I would just sit motionk 'a, in one place, in gloomy manner. I built ,Jp hatred is hard as iron." When Starkweather • twit ;lc hoc.] eh finishing the ninth grade, "his sickening discontent bad spread," writes Dr, Rein- hardt. "His ttge was defeated and empty: he imegined himself re 2ected by .a•ieie1 y Life tx•Ns VJOrt App4reinly 1 nuttu occurred to the forlorn lad "he might attain position and power by honest hail." He showed artistic talent. Reinhardt writes. "But only while awaiting exceution, did he went on his drawings" young Starkweather had one real talent, the erieninologist points out. He could use a gun. Here was his ego's klitSWIA' to his gnawing sense of failure. "I love guns," he told Reinhardt "They give me a feeling of power that nothing Nee ran match." When he first began to play with a gun, Charles seid, he had no intention of becoming 8 mass killer. Nevertheless, he spent hours re -entitling in his imagina- tion kiIHng. he hail RCM in tonvios and on TV: he drew the gun against the reflection of him- self in the mirror. 'All the time. Charles' ituag. Mahon was moving- him into a posit ioneof eeeala murder. Imagin- ary penpee were proeteete at his feet to his intense satisfaction," KW:: Dr. Reinhardt. "The time eame when his inner ego de- mands could no longer be con- teined in a world of Earada3„•," Then Caril Ann Fugate, a pert teenager, came into his life. "I felt better after being with Caril; I belonged to someone. I never met a 14 -year-old girl who knowed so much; she could talk like a grown-up woman. "We had to be together,'" the young killer told Dr. Reinhardt. "I wanted to take her far away." The need for money for the trip drove Starkweather to his first murder. The 50 days between the filling -station killing and the first day of the chain -murders was a restless, impatient inter- lude. "Everything was closing in on Caril.and met she was having toruble at home. Everyone was against us: so we had In shoot our wey out." In the next week, driving a succession of stolen care, the youthful murderer killed Caril's mother, stepfather, and baby half-sister. along with a farmer, a Lincoln businessman, his wife and their maid, a teen-age eouple, and a salesman, When.his gun Wa5 empty, and Wyoming police officers held Starkweather fast, he could only say: "These people got in our way. So I had to kill them all." Phsychologists called Charles Starkweather legally and men- tally sane. In this opinion, Dr. Reinhardt does not wholly agree. "His consuming hatred and mor- bid suspicions were. not faked," he said. Much of his habitual be- havior in sessions with me, was definitely paranoiac." - During the interviews Rein- hardt saw not a single sign of re- morse in the young killer. '"Why. did this happen to me?" he de- manded. "Why couldn't I find the life I heard people talk about? I haven't eaten in a high-class • restaurant; I never seen the New York Yankees play; I've never been to Los Angeles." He shrug- ged: "It doesn't matter . . guess I never knowed ;about hap- piness no how." When arrested in Wyoming, Charles Starkweather wrote to his father: "Dad, I am not sorry tor what I did, cause for the first time me and Cern had more fun ... All we wanted to do was to tel away together ..." -From NEWSWEEK. THEM GRAMMAR! • ••• Did Shakespeare, asked So- cialist Norman Thonms recently, ever write a play entitled "Like You Like It"? The elder states- man of the Socialist Party offered this example to a sales execu- deft meeting in New York as he crticiied advertising men for ruining the English language with superlatives and poor gram- mar. Citing the "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should" rommercial, Thomas said it made him wish he smoked so he could quit smoking. ""'. "reitalegereareeeeeetese•-eeeeta LIFE ElY THE POOL - iruc tc the tradition of spartan living, Lynn Keireing usei. two pillows 10 cushion her elbows while abf,t,:bhq't 115 column sun. LESS THAN A PING PONE BALL - Engineers at the NASA Research Center gather vital in- formation concerning the effect of heat on the Prolect Mercury Satellite by testing this scale model which weighs less than a ping pong ball. The model is shown being readied for shock tunnel tests. Although the air blast lasts only 1/250th of a second, simulated temperatures of 10,000 degrees F. are reached. This is about the heat that would be encountered by a spacecraft re-entering earth's atmosphere at 20 times the speed of sound, /173i:111E TAL S oicavz Ambekv5. "A squeeze of lemon juice" is one of the world's oldest season- ing secrets. It's as good on red meats and fowl as on fish and seafood. Fruits, leafy greens, green beans, asparagus, toma- toes and a great variety of soups often need just a sprinkling of lemon to spark a bright new fla- vor, At the same time, lemon contributes lots of the ever-es- orential vitamin C. Lemon juice has lots of other kitchen uses, too. Well-known, of course, is the use of lemon juice to prevent the browning of peeled, uncooked peaches, apples, bananas, pears or avocados. Lem- on is also useful for keeping white vegetables - potatoes or cauliflower - from turning col- or. A half teaspoon el lemon to a pint of cooking water is about right for this. MARINATED LAMB ROAST 1 teaspoon salt IA teaspoon rosemary leave* teaspoon ground thyme teaspoon ground black pepper 1 teaspoon whole cloves Ile teaspoons whole allspice 1 bay leaf, crumbled 1 teaspoon slivered lemon rind 2 slices lemon 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 2 beef bouillon cubes 2 cups hot water '5 pound boned and rolled leg of lamb 1 eup sliced fresh onion cup sliced carrots 1ae. tablespoons flour 2 tablespoons cold water Heat first 12 ingredients to boiling point, Pour over lamb, Cool. Marinate in refrigerator 24 hours turning several times. Add vegetables, cover and bake in a preheated slow over (325`1?) 2 hours or until lamb is almost tender, basting from time to time with the marinade. Remove cov- er and bake lla hours or until brown. Remove meat from pan. Strain gravy and thicken with flour mixed to a smooth paste with 2 tablespoons water. Cook until slightly thickened. *filet pound leg of lamb with bone may be used. Cooking time 4 hours. 'YIELD: 12 servings, BARBECUED CHICKEN ee cup butter Ile teaspoons salt Ile teaspoons ground thyme 11:2 teaspoons powdered mustard 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 4.; teaspoon grated lemon rind 3 broiler chickens 1' 2 teaspoons salt I, teaspoon ermine] Mace pepper -In a small ,,;nucepan 3): :1 but- ter, salt, thymi, rouat a I'd mui lemon juice, Stir and vt,(41 OVe) IOW heat until butter is malice,. Add grated 1,1)1.1) rind, split thickens, ory anti run all !,ide:, with th,: i•.:anaining 11 teasi,00n, sa:t IniXtd 411 blaeit Pittccchwitcris on a ova): -knv hurtling thtirt..oal Ade up, 2 151111 1fion, !he you*. Stit•it ht:It of 1 emon o(i a lout, ball tid u.at:: it 13881)1. Iasto with the: t,- oftc-n L4 chick.: -H,, look dry. Cook mittchicken, ate tender and evenly browned. 15 to 20 !ere - :Jae.. Serve hoe YIELD: fi ia•ry lugs • .11ITICIIHRES 4 artirthokes articheeea, era 'L, -as and any outer leaves that appear tough. Lay artichokes on sides and cut just the very tips where they are prickly. Boil in 1 inch of water for 30 minutes. DraM. STUFFING 3 cups dry bread crumbs 4-5 sprigs of fresh parsley, chopped Dash of pepper Salt to taste 1 clove garlic, chopped cup olive oil Mix all ingredients together (except olive oil) in a bowl. Spread artichoke leaves and stuff in each row as much of the stuff - Ing as it will hold. Place stuffed artichokes upright in a shallow pan. Adel cup water to pan, Pour the olive oil over the tops of all the artichokes. Bake at 375°F. for 1 hour. Serve either hot or cold. "This season when fall applee are on the market is a good time to put up applesauce for winter use. This is the way I make it," writes Mrs. Edith Leavitt, to the Christian Science Monitor. * * SUPERIOR APPLE SAUCE Wash, peel and core apples (number depends on quantity of sauce you want to make). Slice apples into bowl; cover with cold water. Put peels and cores into deep kettle; cover with cold wa- ter; bring to boil and cook until soft. Put through a coarse sieve. Drain apple slices Pour sieved apple juice over apple slices, using i juice to 311 apples. Cook gently until mushy. Add about as much sugar as you have apple pulp and juice; return to slow heat; mash as it cooks, un- til n100th. Pal in hot, sterile jar.. lack -Eyed Beauty Really Priceless — - One anima' sure to draw the crowds at any zoo is the giant panda., the fantastic bear -like animal with two beautiful black eyes and black knee -boots which make it look irresistibly comic and cuddly. $35,000 is the price tag the London Zoo pule on its giant panda, Chi -Chi. But Chi -Chi is really priceless, Not because af box-office appeal and rarity, hut because the Zoo relay never gct another. Giant pandas live in a small iiita,.•ti of China and can be raptured only by permission r-111. Pekin, government, who are rciuctant to license the i:xpoi 1 rarity. For tuiterii vistiort, to Linea to lit.tieve in the5)11)1 pandaTh y n' picitires of (lie • hi b biar.- but its colouring ,,eenied Tht-y thought 141,1 1111i Chine, tortist5 had wa,3 10,,endary 7711, 131, phoenix or griffon, ram, nately yearsago, a French e,reaernece telkine to 13Chita:ate :ereriete in ,taithk.rn China about this blactk Dild white bear, 541,3, p1,21,,,.;:,,(3(1 11 41ie a real a1lin4; I 111117 1(1 ere and 1141 Eu rope and America ,11 41)1 1. find OW animal alive. Pelt one. exer c1,lern a MT <tiler rid hal le tu. I even a glim- pse of 11 1354 year,- pasraqi without 1.106. • not Iwo Aro,: Heim huntg_, ,tattleoly 1,•4111, Oil (MC of the t111,5i 131e3 Silo1 it. They celled it panda lino r. core ruption of the native name Ny- Ala Ponga, meaning bamboo - eating bear, In the early nine- teen -thirties, two more were shot. Could a giant pande be caught alive? An American collector set out to try, but while waiting in Shanghai for permission from the government, he died. His widow, in New York, Ruth Harlcness, determined to use the money he left in realizing hie great ambition. She went out to China in 1935 and set out with a young Chinese explorer, Quen- tin Young. For months they searched the bamboo 'forests between 7,000 and 17,000 feet high which are the panda's home, They saw nothing. Then one day they surprised a female giant panda in a tree. She made off, In the hollowed tree trunk, they found a baby panda. The mother did not return and Mrs. Harkness picked up the baby and nursed it. To make the baby feel it was being cuddled by its mother, Mrs. Harkness put on a fur coat when holding it. All the other clothes they had were sacrificed to keep the baby dry as they Worked their way through rain- storms, for the baby's fur was not yet thick enough to keep out the wet. On the wayto the lint t e d States, Mrs. Harkness devoted herself entirely to the baby. When it was exhibited in Chi- cago, it made a fantastic hit. Apart from the crowds trying to get a glimpse, shop windows were crammed with panda toys and its amusing markings made it a natural for cootie strip artists. Unfortunately the baby died from over -eating in 1938, but Mrs. Harkness went to China again and caught another which settled down. Giant pandas are not aggres- dye. but when full grown they may weigh 300 lbs. - the size of a small lion - and have tr. be treated with great respect. Plant Detects Earthquakes Earthquake whose job is the detection and. recording of hig and littla earthquakes and. tremors wher- ever they occur in the world now believe that at least ono million earth tremors of varying Intensity take place every year. Fewer than 2,000 of these shocks have been detected 411. nually up to now, however. So new detection equipment of higher -than -ever sensitivity has had to be evolved for the use of seismologists. It is so good that they believe it will help them not only to record all the World's emelt- quakes but also to predict them and perhaps indicate their cause. This new hunt for earthquakes will be well under way title autumn. Three hundred stations all round the world are alreedar recording -a n d interpec ling earthquake data in a network that includes all the 'roe CtIr- taixt countries every emiliei- ent, in facteit has just been dis- covered that about 1,000 earth- quakes occurred in Chile in Mey, but seismologists have been lift- able to identify more than fifty of them. It is now known that -earth movements precede as well as follow earthquakes Professor A. C. Lawson, of the University. ot California, has proved that the earth ha the Hennas regien, .California, Moved as much ate twenty-four feet before the big earthquakes of 1858 and 1908 and that the movement was per- ceptible over a large area. The world's two bad earth- quake spots today are; An 111,1 lying between the eastern Medi- terranean and the Western Himalayas; and an area lying around Japan and running through the mountain chains of South America, Some people in these areas 1)14 their faith not to the sensitive instruments of seismologists Mit to what is known as the eateh- quake plant. the wild abrue. This- plant is so sensitive that it changes colour when an earth- quake is imminent. . First man to study the abrus was an Austrian baron teamed Nowack who also claimed that it could predict thunderstorms. King Edward V was so -inter- ested that he invited the baron to Britain to display the _plant - with what result history bee left unrecorded, Mr. Frank V. Jeffries reported in 1927 that his body recorded distant earthquake tremo•rs. He, said: "At certain periods durug the past five years when earth- quakes have occurred I have felt tremblings, as it were, running• through my whole body. The first experience I imagined n be a heart attack but I found my heart Nees beating quite nor- mally, which increased my won- der. "It was a curious shaking if someone were rocking my bed from side to side yet out- wardly my body seemed free from any movement." Later, he added, he found that these tremblings always coincid- ed with earth tremors in JR - pan and elsewhere. "Very few men leave. their footprints in the sands of time," says. a leacher. Most of them are too busy covering up their tracks. ISSUE 46 - 1960 THE YAM WHAT AM - Two-year.old Joseph Arthur Comstock IV displays a giant yam in the Dallas suburb of Arlington. Joe's mem piontecl Ihe yam in her greenhouse last January. She reploniccl it outside in June: and watched 11 grow to 13 pounds.