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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-04-06, Page 2"Gone About As Fur. As Folks Can Go" The Swiss deer -sea explorer Jacques Piccard, a tall, lanky, handsome man, of 38, shares a special problem with a special group of men. Like Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Everest, like Don Larsen, pitcher of a perfect game, Piecarcl has reach_ ed the top in his field, the abso- lute pinnacle of achievement -- or more precisely, in Placard's field, Ithe absolute bottom. When he and U.S, Navy Lt, Don Walsh descended 35,800 feet to the floor of the Pacific Ocean's Challenger Deep one year ago, they not only reached the ocean's deepest deep but the earth's remotest spot. There was no place farther •to go. Happily, the question of what to do for an encore no longer_; bothers Placard. Last month, he was back in the U.S. full of plias for the mesoscaph (from the Greek "meso" or middle and "sletiphe" or boat), a new diving ship to explore the ocean mid - depths. Like the record-setting bathyscaph (f r o m "bathys," deep), it was desinged by Jac- ques Piccard's famous, still ac- tive father, 77 -year-old Prof. Auguste Placard. • "The bathyscaph," Jacques Picoard explained to a visitor, "is for the hadal (from 'Hades') depths below 20,000 feet. The mesoscaph will operate at about 5,000 feet, We will have room for four people. There will be several viewing ports, search- lights, and robot arms to gather fish or plant life. Vertical and horizontal propellers will enable it to maneuver up, down, and sideways, or hover, like a heli- copter. "1 don't think of the bathy- scaph and the mesoscaph as be- ing in competition or as duplica- tion, It is like going on a trip, One can go by bicycle, or sports car, or train, or plane — depend- ing upon what one's purpose is." "We hope to build it in Lau- sanne, I only live a few min- utes' walk from my father's house. We don't have a real workshop since we don't have the money for one. Money is the problem. The mesoscaph would be about 10 feet in diameter and cost about $500,000 to build, "If we had the money tomor- row we could have the meso- scaph ready in one year. The U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Re- search is interested. They bought the bathyscaph and they say they'll buy the mesoscaph once it is built. But right now they say they can't give us the money to build it — the gold outflow, you know." Placard is moderately optimis- tic about the financing, since President Kennedy himself spe- cifically suggested that nations together "tap the ocean depths" in his Inaugural Address. What about the Russians—how good is their oceanographic pro- gram? "I can tell you this story about the Russians," Piccard replied. "When Walsh and I surfaced af- ter the Challenger Deep dive, our instruments indicated we had reached 37,800 feet. That fig- ure was announced. A week la- ter the Russians announced that they were building a diving ship to go 37,800 feet. Then, when our instruments were recalibrated, it turned out that the actual depth, the farthest one can go was 35,- 800. They had spoken too eager- ly." — From NEWSWEEK. Q. Do salad bowls and iced - tea glasses require service plates beneath them? A. A salad bowl does not re- quire a service plate beneath it, nor does an iced -tea glass — al- though in the latter case, if you wish, you may have one, and then spoons may be placed unon it rather than left in the glass while one is drinking. 1 HE MADE IT — Covered with 'bandages, but very much o live, Lewis Stevens, 37, lies in a bed at Zanesville, Ohio, hospital. He was burned when an o r e furnace exploded whore he works. l'ESUl: 13 — 1061 BOARDING HOUSE REACH — The grass is always greener, etc.; even for swans. This fellow brace, against a log while reaching. for food at a dam, ' x.24- t 47 Itti4�e t LE iY Jam ,Andtlews Popovers, old-fashioned and delectable, are conning back into style. I say this because I've had them served to me several times recently at, parties. I'm glad to see this trend because many home cooks seem to have built up a sort of mental hazard on the subject before they have even tried making them. Actually, they are easy to make and may be baked in either glass custard cups, regular weight muffin tins, pottery cups, or the heavy cast-iron muffin' pans that are usually known as popover pans. C * ° "I bake popovers in glass custard cups and I never have a failure," one friend told me as she served them high, hot, and handsome for dinner. "I have several secrets. I use about 3 tablespoons less milk than most recipes call for, and I grease the cups thoroughly and then flour them just as thoroughly. Also, where most recipes say to cook them at a very high temperature for 15 minutes, then lower it, I cook them all the time at 400° F. Using separate cups, I place them all on a cooky sheet before for easier handling." There are a couple of other popover secrets you may want to know: you can turn off the oven heat and leave the. "sec- onds" in the oven to keep hot. Also, you can mix the batter hours before baking, even the day before, cover it, and place in the refrigerator. Mix it with a spoon before baking. Fill your popover cups only about 'h full —and if you like them crisp, cook a little longer than most recipes say. x e Here is a recipe that one of my popover -loving friends gave me, writes Eleanor Richey John- ston in the Christian Science Monitor, POPOVERS 1 cup sifted flour s/ teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon shortening (optional) 2 eggs, slightly beaten 1 cup milk Place flour and salt in mixing bowl If shortening is used (it isn't usually used), cut it into flour and salt mixture until mix- ture resembles corn meal. Blend eggs and milk and add to dry ingredients. Beat with rotary beater until smooth. Fill cups t/a lull (grease the cups well). Bake at 375° F. until well browned— about 50 minutes. If desired, re- move popovers from. oven and cut a little slit in side of each to let steam out; return to oven for a few minutes. Remove prompt- ly from cups so bottoms do not steam or soften, This recipe makes 12 medium or 8 large popovers. Note: An additional egg may • be added for a crisper, and 'even larger, popover. a * BAKED' CARROTS 2 cups cooked, diced carrots 1 tablespoon chopped onion 2 tablespoons butter 3 table,poons flour 1 teaspoon salt L•i. teaspoon paprika 1'$ cups milk le cup diced cheese yb can cracker crumbs mixed with 1 tablespoon melted hotter. Melt butter in saucepan; add flour, salt, and paprika, mix well, Add milk and cook, stir- ring until creamy. Add carrots, onions, and cheese, Pour into buttered baking dish and spread crumb and melted butter mix- ture evenly over top, Bake at 350° F. for 25 minutes. Serve tram casserole in which it is baked. Note: cabbage may be used in this recipe instead of carrots, * Here are two dessert recipes made with erg whites and said l.0 be well worth trying. ass BUTTERMILK SHERBET 2 cups buttermilk h� cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 egg whites (large size eggs), beaten stiff 1 cup mashed canned apricots (or crushed pineapple). Combine, buttermilk, sugar, and vanilla; pour into freezing tray and freeze until mixture becomes icy; remove and beat until smooth. Add egg whites which have been beaten until stiff and the fruit. Put mixture back into tray and freeze solid. Remove and beat until smooth. Again put the mixture back and freeze for about 2 hours — then it is ready to serve. Serves 4. ,, * ✓I The second dessert sent by reader is, she says, "A quick cooky, delicious:and crunchy. These should be left in the oven not over 5 minutes," GRAHAM CRACKER CRTINCHIES 2 cups graham cracker crumbs cup sugar 2 egg whites (from large eggs), stiffly beaten 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar le cup toasted. pecans A few flakes toasted coconut (optional) Combine cracker crumbs and sugar; fold in stiffly beaten egg whites and cream of tartar, Add nuts and coconut. Drop by tea- spoon onto greased cooky sheet. Bake at 350° F. for 5 minutes. a a CHOCOLATE SPONGE 11/2 tablespoons plain gelatin Vs cup cold water i cup bdiling water 4 eggs, separated 1 cup sugar (scant) 4 squares chocolate, melted 1 teaspoon vanilla Dash salt. Dissolve gelatin fn cold water t o r 10 minutes. Meanwhile, cream the egg yolks and sugar together well. Add melted choco- late mitt stir; add vanilla and salt anti stir again. Add 'the boiling water to the gelatin mixture and stir; add about i/a of this gelatin, mixture to the chocolate mixture and stn', scraping the sides of the bowlwith a spoon, Grad- ually add remaining gelatin, stirring until well -blended Chill to consistency of unbeaten egg whites. Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into first mixture. Chill an hour or more until firm. SODA CRA'CKEER PIE 3 egg whites tfs teaspoon cream of tartar 1 cup sugar ?�s cup walnuts (chopped) 1 teaspoon vanilla 12 soda' crackers, crumbled. Beat egg whites until fopmy; add cream of tartar and con- tinue beating until sttif. Stir the sugar into the egg whites. Add vanilla, nuts, and cracker crumbs, Bake in heavily greased 8 -inch pie pan at 350° F. for 1 hour, Serve with • strawberries, peaches, or bananas and whipped cream. Sweeten the fruit before • using. SHE TOLD THEM! Over the giggles of two teen- age girls in the audience at a concert in Hapkineviile, Ky., Met Opera soprano Rise Stevens could hardly hear herself sing. She thumped a white -gloved hand an the piano, stopped the music ("The Gypsy Song" from "Carmen"), and told the crowd she couldn't put up with the gigglers; "I'll have to ask them to stop — or leave." That ended the disturbance, and Miss Ste- vens finished her concert and took two encores. Afterward, the singer noted that her own 16 - year -old son Nicolas — a student at Choate School — is a jazz buff who has no fondness for classical music. Miss Stevens added pointedly: "But at least he doesn't go to concerts." The dime isn't entirely worth- less these days. It still makes a pretty good screwdriver, Brutish Advice For Fclthers4To*Re Wheee should father be when mother's giving birth? London physician D. W. 1-Iill 'started this sort of babytalk in Britain 're- cently when he wrote in the British Medical Journal that the father should be present at a birth. Among the replies was one from Irish doctor Joseph Patterson, "The proper place for father, if not at work," Patter- son contradicted, "is in the 'Local CpubJ, whither instinct will usu- ally guide him," Another reply was from Harley Street surgeon Albert Davis. Once there was a father with him et a birth, Davie recalled, and "I had to use the sutures prepared for the mother to repair an extensive scat laceration on the father, He ha fainted and fallen at the sight the `happy' event." POOR RICHARD — Orson Welles I -s re-created to the image of Ben Franklin for a role in the mpv'ie "Lafayette," being film- ed in Nice, France, A GOOD RUSSIAN SPY LOOKS LIKE ANY AVERAGE EXECUTIVE By TOM A. CULLEN Newspaper. Enterprise Assn. LONDON — What does the well-dressed Soviet spy wear in 1961, or rather, how is he dis- guised? How does he operate? What is he like? Have Russian spies kept pace with the sputniks? Those who think that the So- viets are exporting ham-fisted operators are due for a nasty shock when the naval secrets spy trial unfolds at the Old Bailey court beginning March 13. Ivan the Spyman has acquired the outer trappings and sophis- tication of a gentleman. He speaks English fluently without a strange accent, Chances are that he travels on a British Commonwealth pass- port. He is equally at home in Paris, Budapest'or New York. In the game of espionage, it does not pay to linger in one place. If he is a really top operator, Ivan's chances of being assigned to Britain are good, because im- portant American bases are lo- cated here and the Soviets ap- parently find British security easier to penetrate than that in the U.S. In Britain, Ivan is likely to pose as a Commonwealth busi- nessman investing in a small firm as a cover. He looks like an executive. His suits bear the mark of Saville Row. He also may have a nagging wife who complains of his con- tinued absence. The above is a fair description of Gordon Arnold Lonsdale, 38, the Russian who claims to be Canadian, who Scotland Yard says was. the • brains- behind a spy network' here. Lansdale is one of five accused of transmitting secrets of Brit- ain's underwater weapons, in- cluding details of Britain's first nuclear submarine, to Russia. There was nothing to arouse suspicion about Lonsdale when he arrived in London a few months back, His Canadian passport was in. order, And his name had the right ring: Gordon Arnold Lans- dale sounds as though it came out of a British drawingroom comedy. He joined the Overseas League, Mecca of Common- wealth visitors. To give his visit purpose, he invested in Alio Security Prod- ucts, a small firm sharing offices with a real estate agent, in the heart of London, Allo markets a remote -control locking mechan- ism, There was only one wrong note in Lonsdale's disguise Which a purist might find fault with, He chewed gum. In Britain, company directors simply do not chew gum, not even if they,come . from Commonwealth countries. According to Scotland Yard detectives, Lonsdale made con- tact with Henry Houghton, 55, an ex -Royal Navy petty officer employed at the anti-submarine base at Portland. He then in- duced Houghton to hand over to him secret Admiralty drawings and charts. Houghton, in turn, enlisted the help of his fiancee, Miss Ethel Gee, 46, who also worked at the naval base. These two civil Lonsdale, in his choice of Waterloo railway station and environsas the scene of his rendezvous with Houghton and Gee, showed a fine understand- ing of British character. For Waterloo is just the spot that a couple of middle-aged British civil servants would choose as the starting point for an illicit weekend in London, away from the prying eyes of their neighbors. LON5DALE and Houghton met Vic theatre. servants were the primary sources of naval secrets, accord- ing to police. Once having obtained the Ad- miralty papers, Lansdale alleg- edly turned them over to a mys- terious couple, Peter and Helen Kroger, to be photographed or coded for radio transmission to Moscow. These are the five who will stand trial, and who face maxi- mum prison sentences of 14. years if convicted. frequently in front of the Old Lonsdale met Houghton and Gee. several times, either, in front of Waterloo or it front of the Old Vic theater on the opposite side of the street, Sometimes the three of them -sat on a park bench outside the Old Vie. On each of these occasions, Scotland Yard detectives saw either Houghton or Gee hand a parcel to Lonsdale, Once, on Aug. 6, 1960, Lens - dale met Houghton alone at nearby Stove's Restaurant, and their conversation was over- heard by a detective in the next booth. "You seem to have plenty in your brief case," Lonsdale re- marked. "Yes," replied Hough- ton, "I have more than my sleep- ing and shaving kit." Lonsdale went, on to comment that "it looks like a lot of work for me tonight." But Lonsdale had other prob- lems to keep him awake nights, domestic problems, as it turns out. At the forthcoming trial, an exchange of letters between Lonsdale and the woman whom. police claim is his Russian wife will be introduced. Most marriages are studded with little anniversaries, mean- ingless to outsiders — the first date, the first kiss. This Russian couple seems to have dated their romance by the number of cele- brations they witnessed together in Moscow's Red Square. Thus, the woman who police say is Lansdale's wife writes to complain that they have been apart for "seven October Revo- lution celebrations." "How unjust life is," she sighs. "I fully understand you love your work and try to do all this very conscientiously, Neverthe- less, my reasoning is somehow narrow-minded in a female fash- ion and I suffer dreadfully." "My beloved Galyusha," begins the reply, which police say is -in Lonsdales handwriting. "Y o u wrote that seven October anni- versaries were celebrated with- out me. This is so, of course, but T have celebrated them without you and without the children and my people. "I am not complaining," the letter adds, "but even you can- not imagine how sad I feel in general and especially at this moment." "I will be 39 shortly," the letter concludes. "Is there much left?" If convicted, Lonsdale may have to celebrate 14 more Oc- tober 'Revolutions in a prison cell. THE SPIES were overheard at Sieve's Restaurant near their favorite meeting grounds,