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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-03-23, Page 2'rhe Wagon Train Gets A New Ross On the lot of Universal -inter- national in Universal City, Calif.,- gnarled Christopher Bale (play- ed by gnarled John McIntire) wandered over simulated prairies out of lr,Ls head, his family wiped out by Indians. He was found by a passing wagon train, and in the ensuing pages of the script prove ed to be kind, understanding, and, by a true -to -video coincid- ence, a former wagon master. "Why can't this man take over?" cried, the people of the wagon train, who were unhappy with their fnewly hired wagon master, mean and ruthless Ted Benedict (played by non -ruth- less Lee Marvin). And so, in this manner, will it come to pass that . a major transition in TV Western lore will be marked when NBC's high-stepping "Wagon Train"— in an episode scheduled for early spring—takes on a new perma- nent wagon master, McIntire, 53, the new wagon chief, a veteran movie actor and former star of such TV series as "Naked City," will be stepping into the big boots of the late Ward Bond, who helped propel the four -sea- son -old oater into the Top Ten. Although the rough-and-tumble Bond died of a heart attack last Nov, 5. the producers of "Wagon Train" have been carefully drib- bling out precious Bond episodes shot before his death. Last month, the late actor, playing Maj. Seth Adams, starred for the last time. Adams will not be killed off; he will simply disappear from the script, "We decided that the public already knows he's dead in real life." explained producer Howard Christie. As for McIntire, who will con- tinue with beefccakev Bob Hor- ton as his chief scout on the wafon train, he'll essay his role its different style from the two- fisted Seth Adams. "I'll be a man who loves nature, who. has a little poetry in his soul, a kind man yet capable of firmness," he explained. "It's quite a respon- ability to run a wagon train — especially one that's been run by Ward Bond for four year;' Austrian Cure For Drunk Driving Life in Vienna should always be as gay as the music for Johann Strauss's "Tales From the Vienna Woods" It isn't that way any more. In one woodside heurigen (cafe). owner Karl Hengl sur- veyed his empty pine tables last month and lamented: "Our wine is turning sour, our chickens are getting tough, and the whole place is dead as a tomb." He blamed the difficulty on the "white mice"—a name given to Vienna's motorcycle police because they trim their uniforms with white leather piping. The white mice have been cracking down on tipplers with some of tl'w toughest penalties for drunk- en driving of any city in the world. The maximum allowed fee anyone driving a ear is three small Masses of wine or two schnapps. Anyone suspected of hav'ng had more can be stopped and subezted to a tee;. If the test _hews that his blood con- tains as much as .08 per cent al- cohel—half what is allowed in New lark—he is declared to be dr i. And his fine can range frem 5200 upware to 52030 ,,:ay- eb s en the installment plan). Tettriet agenciee ccmplstn that sate re_gui a :ens ruin the teurie: tele•—but the "white mi e en-ain unperturbed. They claim the; accidents caused by dn.neen dr er n -e are new down 50 per cent. HA.IRSTAND -- Ask 5 -year-old Carolyn Emerson what she would like to do mast of all, and she would soy lust what she is doing here. The teen* is a local playground. NICE BAIT — Judy Keirn shows us .the latest in paper beach hats. The paper hats (this one is called "Flying Fish") are treated chemically to make them seaworthy. TAv:tLE AL. S QY Jane Andews. March is a good month in which to include some of those cooking tasks which are less at- tractive in warmer months. At our house for instance, we plan to make another batch of mince- meat, For many people there's nothing mare tasty than a mince- meat turnover on a picnic, and mincemeat pie always seems to strike a responsive chord with our guests. The first time I made mince- meat some years ago I was as- tonished at its relative simplicity. If you have time and inclination to cut up various foods, you can easily make mincemeat even if you do not feel you are an ex- perienced cook. The recipe I use es one of my mother's, but she in turn received it from older members of the family, and probably its origin is old. Near- ly everyone who makes mince- meat adjusts the recipe to his own liking by adding or sub- tracting spices, writes Gertrude P. Lancaster in the Christian Sci- ence .Monitor. • The baseis 2 pounds of top of the round beef cut in chunks, I always use top of the round because of its superior flavor. Cook the meat until done, and save the juice (there should be about 2 cups of liquid) • Put the cooked, cooled meat through a grinder with a42 pound suet. (My 2 pounds of meat made about 3 cups of cubed meat before I ground it.) Put the meat in a large kettle and add the following: 12 cups (about 4 pounds) of chopped apples (we peel and core the apples, then chop until they are coasely chopped): 3142 cups white sugar: 1 cup molasses:A. pound seeded raisins (wash quickly and lightly under hot water); 1 pack- age seedless raisins: 11= pound citron, slivered: 1 cup vinegar: 2 cups orange juice; juice of 2 lem- ons; I teaspoon salt: 14 pound butter; 3 n mon, cloves nuteach meg 12 teaspoon allspice, the juice left from cook- ing the beef.• - • Stir this mixture zairey and cook very, very slowly far about 11.42 or 2 hour;. It must be stirred occasionally and watched to see that it does not barn on, but it will not if the heat is low enough. Put in sterilized hutjars and seal at once. This quantity will make abaut 30 pints. possibly a bit more. It maker a rich mincemeat. not too highly spiced. • Try mixing some cans at soup for variation to serve with your later Loaf of homemade bread foe a Sunday evening supper. Here is a chowder made by cern- bining bean and vegetable soup. It is served with a quick cheese - sesame bread. The recipes follow. BEAN AND VEGETABLE CHOWDER 1 can (tl?t ounces; condensed bean with bacon. soup 1 can Mee emu:est condensed vegetable soap. 14 soup cans water Bled soups and 'Wales in saucepan. Heat, stirring occasion- ally. Makes 4 servants. CHICKEN AND GREEN F'EA SOL.."P 2 cans cream of chicken cOep 1 can green pea soup 2 soup cans eater Combine soups and water: heat, Garnish with croutons. if desired, • HIGHLAND CHOWDER I ran cream of ntushrootn soup 1 can Scotch broth Icy soup cans water or milk Blend mushroom soup with water or milk; stir in Scotch broth, tTlaie scup may aleo be made with cleans of celery soup.) QUICK CHEESE -SESAME BREAD 2 eggs, slightly beaten 1?e cups milk 3 cups biscuit mix 2 cups grated Cheddar cheese 4 tablespoons sesame seeds 1 tablespoon melted butter Mix eggs and milk; blend in biscuit mix, cheese, and 2 table- spoons sesame seeds. Spread dough in buttered loaf pan 9 x 5 x Ph -inches, Brush top with melted butter; sprinkle with re- maining sesame seeds, Bake at 400' F. for 45 minutes, Serve hot with butter, if desired. • Perhaps you'd rather make plain white bread to serve with your soup. This recipe makes 2 Loaves. WHITE BREAD 1 cup milk 3 tablespoons sugar 211 teaspoons salt 6 tablespoons shortening 1 cup very warm water 1 package or cake of yeast, active, dry or compressed 6 cups sifted flour Scald milk, Stir in sugar, salt, and shortening. Cool to luke- warm. Measure very warm water into large mixing bowl. Sprinkle or crumble in the yeast; stir until dissolved. Stir in luke- warm milk mixture. Add nalf the flour and beat till smooth. Stir in remaining flour. Turn out on lightly floured board. Knead until smooth and elastic. Place in greased bowl; brush with mar- garine or butter. Cover. Let rise in warm place, free from draft. until doubled in bulk — about 1 hour. Punch down and turn out on board. Divide dough in half and let rest 15-20 minutes. Shape into loaves and place in greased bread pans 9 x .5 x 3 inches, Cover. Let rise in warm place. free from draft, until center is slightly higher than edge of pan, about 1. hour. Bake at 400" F. about .50 minutes. Note: For faster bread, tese 2 packages or cakes of yeast; bowl -rise about 30 minutes, pan -rise about 45 minutes, STEAMED BROWN BREAD 1 cup each, white flour, gra- bens flour, and yellow corn meal 1 teaspoon salt 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 cup honey 1344 cups milk Raisins (if desired) Mix and sift dry ingredients, Mix honey and milk; add to dry ingredients; add. raisins. Mixture should be a thin pour batter, Pour into 4 greased 1 -pound bak- ing powder cans, filling 24, full. Cover. Steam 3 hours. Timber Wolf Loose In Oid London Radio bulletinswarned par- ents to keep their children in- doors. Patrolmen peered ner- vously around street corners, A pack of squad cars came howl- ing in for the kill. Their guar- re: A timber wolf loose in the streets of London, Named Devil Face, the 140 pound wolf was the mate of a she -wolf named Angel Fele, and both belonged to blond Mrs. June Ffytohe, wife of a bar- rister. Since wolves raised in captivity can become remark- ably tame, Mrs. Ffytohe hoped to train hers, or their offspring, as guides for the blind, They made "wonderful pets," she said, never howled or snapped, and played happily — and gently — with her 10 -year-old daughter, Wendy. Neighbors complained, b u t Mrs. Ffytche signed papers pledging to keep the wolves se- curely penned, so she had a legal right to own them. She kept them in a pen at the bot- tom of her garden. It was from there that Devil Face clawed his way out last month. Free for the first time in his life, Devil Face loped down the street and across a church bur- ial ground. Then he leaped a 7 - foot wall and trapped himself in a small enclosure between this and another wall. There a boy discovered' him an hour or so later and told police. They ar- ived with officials of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — and a distraught Mrs. Ffeetche. First. Mrs. Ffytche begged to be allowed to climb down into the enclosure and bring Devil Face out. Then she watched, protesting, as police and RSPCA men slipped a noose around Devil Face's throat. Next they revered hint with a net before forcing an iron bar between his teeth and taping his nose and feet. Devil Face fought convul- sively. When lifted out. he was dead. An inspector complimented the "hunter' on having done a good job. He said the wolf's death was due to "strangulation and shock." But to Mrs. ply -tele it was an amt of evil. While tr;-- ing vainly to massage the ani- mal back to life. she walled• "They didn't have to do ii this way — it was murder" An Ancient Weil in Tunisia As tae approaehee the vener• able Tunisian city of Kairouan, he sees first of all the great "shepherd' and his sheep," loom- ing on the and steppe land on which Kairouan is built, The "shepherd" is the tall square minareteof the Great Mosque of Kairouan; its "sheep" are the white houses of the town, spread out from the minaret's base. For centuries, I was told in Kairouan, Moslem architects came with their drawing hoards to the Great. Mosque, to copy down its details and reproduce them in other places of worship throughout North' Africa, One can believe it, for minarets in the western Arab world are square instead of round and slim, as in. the Arab, Turkish, and Persian east,. Founded in the ninth century AD. by the Arab Aghlabids, conquerors of Sicily, Kairouan today is a white city, its walls dazzling beneath the hot North African sun. This snakes it a comparative rarity among Arab towns, for, contrary to frequent belief, there are remarkably few white cities in the great sweep of Arab architecture from Mor- occo to Iraq. Most old Arab buildings are the color of mud, ungraced by the whitewash that would make them sparkle. Not so with Kairouan, whose dazzling impression is heighten- ed by the graceful fretwork of blue wrought -iron balconies adorning almost every house in town. To add a final note of, charm, the roof lines of the nar- row lanes and streets are not all of a height, but harmonize in unfolding vistas of high and low, broad and narrow, some stepped -in from the street, others flush to the road, with crenel- ated tops. In the center of Kairouan wo- men and girls gossiped as they filled earthenware jars from pipes alternately gushing and trickling water into troughs at the base of a square white build- ing. If the pipes squirted on one side of the building, they barely trickled on the other, and then reversed themselves in a puzzl- ing way. Beneath the low round- ed dome of this building lay the answer to this behavior. A broad worn stairway led up- ward into the heart of the build- ing, to a landing above. On the landing sat an elderly Tunisian in a brown robe and as one ap- proached him up the stairs, a peculiar, rhythmic, rushing sound assailed the ears, louder as one mounted. The man bowed and nodded toward a doorway to one side. Through that door was a scene, perhaps offensive to some, but astonishing to all, writes Harry B. Ellis in the Christian Science Monitor. Bulking huge in a small room was a blindfolded camel, pacing swiftly around a well shaft in the center of the room. A long wooden pole, like a boom on a mast. was attached at one end to the well shaft ,and at the other end to the great beast. As the camel padded around the room, wifely, silently, water was car- ried no from the writ in earthen ISSUE 11 — Ise; pitcllciu straplts'il till urtntalii tl rims t;f two hut;( wlts's'lss The. hoeing of slut Iiet stturned tire csittit't, whlcih In turd movedentral the wheels to which the pitcher eannc up front the well and poured its Water, into trough, from which the pipes leading ostitic wore fed. `Though the {iitolier's: name ttp z'itytktixti" tally, the pipes themselves must; have filled in turn, to. explain the alternating pattern seen out - fell in behind the camel and walked hurriedly in its wake. Otherwise the great beast, ignor- ant behind its blindfold, would have trod me down. Three win- dows were cut Into the room''in niches and I squeezed into each. niche in turn to let the camel by me, its huge bead and neck only itcaway. Fihesnally T left this camel, pac- ing its life out for the people of the town, and walked clown the stairway, past the• Old Arab in the brown robe, clown the very stairs which the camel itself plodded up each morning and down again at night, when its labor for the clay was clone, Outside the white town wink- ed beneath the strong sun and the square bustled with morning life. On the outskirts of Ka)re- uan red peppers hung drying on whitewashed walls. As we shrove away the town receded and soon there was nothing more distinct to be seen than the great "shep- herd" leading his sheep across the dusty plain. NOT A DIETER In New Orleans, W. J. Cobb, 28, went to the movies and simply couldn't tear himself away. The reason: Known professional- ly as "Happy Humphrey," a 754 pound wrestler, he got stuck in the theater seat, had to be re- moved by a crash truck crew. It took 30 minutes, GALLIC RESERVE — Mme. Herve Alphand, wife of the French ambassador to the United States, carries her clothing from the burning French Em- bassy in Washington. PROTECT YOUP A 4 -year-old girl, Edith Kiecorius, was assaulted and murdered in a New York City tenemen , apparently by a beer -drinking drifter. This type of crime is tragi'coily repeated again oared again because children are so helpless. These general rules for parents sketched here cart help save a child from such a fate, KNOW TIME iT TAKES YOWL CHILD TO WALK TO AND FROM SCHOOL CHECK 014 'ef DELAYS. INSTRUCT CHILD TO REPORT SUSPICIOUS PERSONS OR AT, TEMPTS OF UNKNOWN PER. SONS TO APPROACH HIM OR GET ACQUAINTED, KNOW THE SAFEST ROUTE TO SCHOOL AND IW;TP,UCT CHILD TO USE iT. VISIT " iCii o'�iL AilR'O GET a<.v+f i3JQS,tsuE:*D MTH TEACH- ERS. 'TEM Illt2t,tl i YOU OP. '<:-O ft glEiUa ?EES A SUSPI- CiOU3 1PsltS;fl!W lf)'t*Gl:NG A 'Cutts' D. TRAIN YOUR CHILD TO RE- PORT TO YOU ANYWHERE HE 15 GOINGR DON'T LET CHiLD ACCEPT RIDES OR. GIFTS UNLESS YOU KNOW THE ADULT WHO OFFERS. KNOW YOUR CHILD'S FLAY MATES. IF CHILD iS TO ARRIVE HOME AFTER DARK, ARRANGE TO MEET HIM.