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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-04-27, Page 2Stress And Strain May Be The Culprits Ever since scientists voiced a suspicion that menus with, quan- tities of cholesterol -rich butter, eggs, and fatty ra eats might be a major factor in causing heart attacks and strokes, millions of Asnerioans have eased these staples from their diets. Mean- while, other scientists have won- dered if the fatty thickening of t'he artery walls known as erteroscierosis might not be caused by physical and emotion - el stress. Some evidence to support this latter theory was offered regent- ly by a team of University of Nebraska scientists. Subjecting chickens to overcrowding and . uncomfortably warm tempera tures, they then extracted blood serum from the birds and added fragments cf a type of mouse cell that resembles those in hu- man arteries. The fregment= de- veloped cholesterol particles be- fore the blood serum did. Serum from chickens not subjected to stress did not lead to fat tor - me Lion, "This could mean that stress is a contributing factor in coro- nary artery disease," Dr. Ken- neth D. Rose, research chief of the university's heatlh service, commented, ."At this stage we just can't say how important it is. We know the fat is formed inside the cells. What we don't know is why." Queen Shows Them Some High Style In the royal family, Elizabeth may be the Queen in fact—but Princess Margaret has long been considered the queen in fashion. But with her 35th birthday ap- proaching, Queen Elizabeth turn- ed up for a dinner party at the home of Indian High Commis- sioner Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit in a glamourous, tight- fitting, sari -like gown and daz- zling white fur stole, an outfit as far removed from her nor- mally subdued attire as any- thing she has ever worn. British newspapers were properly de- lighted. Equally impressed — it not so properly — was the Asso- ciated Press: "She's a knockout. A wow. A doll who can generate wolf whistles." "A woman has a legal right to change her mind," rules a fudge. A gracious and chivalrous bow to the inevitable. • ISSUE 16 — 1961 RAINS CAME — April showers in Stockholm, Sweden, give lovely Karin Munch-Nisted, 19, a chance to show off her new umbrella. She's daughter of Hans Munch-Nisted, the Swe- dish artist. PRETTY AS A FLOWER Reba Wilsin, a secretary, lends additional beauty to, the cherry trees in Washington. TABLE TALKS Date Andews. No one has to be introduced to maple syrup, but did you know that it takes over 35 quarts of sap to produce 1 quart of syrup? That explains a bit about its cost. For family use, quarts, or pos- sibly half gallons, are recom- mended, for maple syrup isper- ishable, and sometimes becomes stale before the average family can use a gallon. However, if you want a dependable backlog or perhaps the advantageous price of buying in large quantity, you can do this, Remove the syrup from the can, heat it to the boil- ing point, and seal it hot in or- dinary glass fruit jars, using new rubber or covers. It may be kept thus indefinitely. It is helpful to know, too, that slightly moldy or fermented maple syrup is not spoiled as in the case of canned fruit but may be restored to near- ly its normal flavor by reheating it to the boiling point and skim- ming. Cheese has been known as a food for over five thousand years. It is mentioned in the Old Testa- ment; the Romans fed it to their armies, and the Greek wrestlers ate it supposing it made for greater endurance. It takes eight pints of creamy milk to make a pound of cheese. A small amount of lactic acid is put with the milk, causing it to turn sour. Then, in an hour or so, rennet is added to clot it, After about 45 minutes, the curd is like solid' junket, and this is put through various complicated pro- cedures which result in the dif- ferent kinds of cheese. There are four or five hundred names for cheeses, but only about eighteen distinct varieties. The well - known Roquefort cheese, blue -veined and crum- bly, is made from ewes' milk in the French province of Langue- doc, and stored for ripening in caves in the hillside. The Romans founded the in- dustry of cheese -making in Eng- land, and used to export Cheshire cheese to Italy, Ever since that time the British have been great cheese -eaters, and cheese -makers, too, writes Dorothy Ereaut in the Christian Science Monitor. Cheese keeps well when it is wrapped in polythene and stored in a cool place, or kept in the re- frigerator, but not in the freezer. It is almost a meal in itself and can be eaten at any time of the LITTLE lARGE While not perfect fit, this hardtop headgear delir!nta 14-monih:old Mike.. Cahill, The handle,makesthings eaoy when a lady passes by. day, as the following recipes prove: * p. CHEESE POPOVERS 4 ounces plain flour ?'a teaspoon salt 2 eggs ?A pint milk 2 ounces grated Cheddar cheese Pinch cayenne pepper Cooking fat To make the batter: sieve the flour and salt into a mixing basin, Beat the eggs well and add the milk. Stir the liquid in- gredients into the sieved ingredi- ents and beat well until thor- oughly blended. Use bun trays to bake, Put a knob of cooking fat in the center of each little tin and place in a hot oven (450° F.) for 10 minutes, until the fat is thoroughly hot. Pour one scant tablespoon of the batter into each tin, put a teaspoon of grated Cheddar cheese in the center of each and cover with a teaspoon- ful of batter. Bake in a hot oven (450° F.) for approximately 15-20 minutes, until well -risen, crisp, and golden -brown. Makes 20 pop- overs. , ' „ BAKED APPLE AND OHEESE FLAN: CHEESE PASTRY: 4 ounces flour Pinch salt, cayenne pepper, and baking powder 1' 4 ounces butter 2 ounces finely grated Cheddar cheese Cold water to bind FILLING: 1 pound cooking apples 1 ounce granulated sugar la ounces diced Cheddar cheese Little egg white or milk 1 teaspoon finely grated Ched- dar cheese (to glaze) Sieve the flour, salt, cayenne pepper, and baking powder. Rub in the butter. Add the grated cheese and, sufficient cold water' to bind. Let stand in a cool place. Peel, core, quarter, and slice the apples, and mix with the diced cheese, sugar, and nutmeg. Roll out the pastry to approxi- mately an eight -inch square. Cut six half-inch strips off one side, with which to form the latticing. Spread the filling over the center of the strip and fold over three- quarters of an inch of pastry on each edge. Place diagonal strips of pastry half an inch apart down the length of the flan. Glaze the pastry strips with egg white or milk and sprinkle with finely grated cheese. Bake in a moderately hot oven (375° F.) for 25-30 minutes, Serve hot or cold. a a k GNOCCHI 2 ounces fine semolina 4 ounces grated Cheddar cheese la pint milk 1 level teaspoon salt Pinch cayenne pepper and nutmeg ',t pint tomato sauce Bring the milk to the boil and toss in the semolina all at once. Cook for several minutes, stir- ring vigorously all the time. Re- move from heat and stir. in 2 ounces grated cheese, and sea- soning, Turn 'the mixture onto a large buttered and Poured plate and spread evenly about 1 inch thick. Allow to become quite cold, Cut into neat tubes and place in a buttered ovenware dish. Sprinkle with the remain- ing 2 ounces of grated cheese and brown under a hot grill or in the top of a hot oven (45.0° F.) for 15- 20 minutes. Serve hot with to- mato sauce passed separately. Makes 3 to 4 servings, • • Nearly everyone likes tuna fish. Here's a good salad for spring and summer menus — something you can make ahead, too, Drain and flake two 7 -ounce cans of tuna. Combine with- 2 chopped hard -cooked eggs, Vs cup chopped ripe olives, r/2 cup sliv- ered almonds. Soak 1 tablespoon unflavored gelatin in '14 cup cold water for 5 minutes and dissolve over hot water. Stir this into 1 cup mayonnaise and add 1 cup sour cream, 1 tablespoon grated onion, 3/4 teaspoon salt, 2 table- spoons lemon juice, and r/z cup chopped parsley. Combine this mixture with fish mixture and place in a 1 -quart mold and chill entil firm. Unmold on lettuce. This will serve 6. A pretty way to serve this salad is to fill the center hollow with a mixture of 3 tomatoes, quartered, r/S cup chopped green pepper, and 2 tablespoons chop- ped onion', DRIVE WITH CARE ! 'U.S. Military Waste Rd4'l'is Into >BE N -Oils Chore is -a naw twist to that old maxim; "A pcnny saved is a penny earned," The twister is that member of Congress, econ- omist- professor, Senator Paul Douglas (0) of Illinois, who has come up with the modern ver- sion: "A billion dcllors saved is a billion dollars earned. There are two to three- billion ,dollars to be saved each year,. insists the senator, by squeezing "scsndalous and appalling" mili- tary waste out of the Pentagon. And the senator is not alone in this conviction: A joint emigres - alone' committee last year, chair- maned by the senator, reached the same conclusion. It spelled out in some detail examples of what is called "mismanagement, waste, duplication." Here, for example, are a few instances of this waste, duplica- tion, mismanagement—which he says could be duplicated ad in- finitum: Inventory showed the Depart- ment of Defense with 1,082,740 yards of cotton cluck cloth 'above its needs. The Post Office De- partment (which wanted cotton duck cloth for patching its mail bags) asked for some. It offered to take the total amount off the Defense Departments hands, but it refused to pay .the Pentagon the market value for the cloth. As a result the Defense was Muck with this yardage, and the Post Office went out and had a. new lot made up! The Air Force contracted for a shipment of four -foot cables with ,a plug at each end, It paid $10.67 for each one, The identi- cal article meanwhile was selling in retail supply stores in the Washington area for $1.50, which means the Air Force was charged at least six times the value of the item. The Navy contracted for a - small socket for a lamp, at $21.10 each. A box of 500 acquired by the Navy came to $10,550, Iden- tical items were located in a Maryland electronics retail store selling at 25 cents apiece, or $125 for a box of 500. The Army's inventory listed 5,739 small wrenches priced at $1.84 apiece, or $10,559.76 for them all. Similar wrenches were available at not more than 25 cents each in D.C.' h-de:ore, stores, The Marine:Peals su'al ay e:u- tot' ci Albany, (la., rt,pertod 40,014 feet of 3 -inch i:oe t P-' lit n'ew condition and excess to its needs, Ft. Jackson, S.C. said it could use 10,000 feet, but Use offer was refused, Ft Jac!cson then bought what it wanted new. Estimates indicate that there are some $14,000,000,000 worth of supplies in stock that are surplus to the armed services. Defense Department surplus sales run to about .$10,000,000,000 annually. But it gets' only a return of about 2 per cent on -the original coati So the argument goes,: why riot let other branches of the govern- ment use surplus items, even for nothing, . instead of having to buy them new? Many girls of to -day aren't im- pressed by the lines in new cars. They've heard them all before. 1995$ 14404 OF IeAFRic PEOPLE PER CAR — Raise in liv- ing, standards of 11 nations from 1950 to 19'58 — as meas. used by number of people for each passenger car in the country -- is shown in sketches above. DISCRIMINATION IN U.S. CUTS TWO WAYS By GABE KAIMOWITZ Newspaper Enterprise Assn. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. — U.N. representatives and jour- nalists from African and Asian nations are finding out that -there is no diplomatic immunity from prejudice. Paradoxically, some Ameri- cans, who bend over backwards to give these diplomats as much protection as possible and an un- derstanding of the U.S. system, find that they cannot bend over far enough to please a few of the foreign delegates no matter how hard -they try. And they are trying. A New York mayor's committee has written to the New York Real Estate Board, asking the 3,000 apartment house owners and agents to take steps to make available suitable housing for diplomats, Some 200 pastors have also been contacted to "take every possible measure to correct dis- criminatory practices" within their jurisdictions. And the New York Hotel Assn, has written to managers encouraging them to show diplomats every considera- tion. The American Assn, for the United Nations has enlisted the aid of businesses and organiza- tions to create a welcoming atmosphere for the delegates to the current U.N. General Assem- bly meeting. Thus far, 22 firuns and organi- zations have accepted the chal- lenge and will invite the dele- gates into their homes, factories schools and offices to show that most Americans are unlike the one or ones who wrote to the various U.N. delegations from African and Asian nations the following: "Sweaty blacks , go home the Ku Klux Klan will be after you," This example of "hate mail" was read into the U.N. record by the Nigerian delegate last December. But the AAUN, a national non-profit organization with lo- cal chapters in eVery state ex- cept Mississippi and Alabama, admits it is difficult to show the that such, mail is not necessarily typical of the U,S& Both sides may share the blame in fostering discrimina- tion et times because: • The Africans and Asians here often "te,t" discrimination to report adverse findings back to their native land;, • Inefclenfa at a housing de- velopment, a restaurant near the U.N. or In Atlanta, Gay receiving scant attention here, are inter- tionally blown up in the foreign press and often bordered in black, • The Africans and Asians see Communist, but white, delegates finding housing with relatively little trouble while they them- selves are barred, obviously be- cause of the color of their skins. A member of the Nationalist Chinese, delegation to the U.N. was turned down cold in his re- quest for housing in apartment buildings where vacancies were listed, despite the fact that his occupation and title were clearly listed on the application blanks. • Real estate agents duck be- hind excuses. Refusals are made, allegedly not on the basis of pre- judice, but because foreign di- plomats are likely to vacate apartments at a moment's notice. "I have yet to see this reason- ing applied to a white delegate, however," says' an AAUN spokes- man who previously worked in real estate. The AAUN hopes to change a New York state ruling against anyone other than an individual owning an apartment in a coop- erative housing development, so that such an apartment can be used by a nation no matter who its delegate is at the moment. • Publicity exposing actual discrimination ,is ignored by of- fenders. The AAUN reports that res- taurants near the U.N. cited for discriminating a g afoot non - whits, including the foreign di- plomats, have continued to dis- criminate. • The presence of U.N. head- quarters here puts the U.S." un- der far more pressure to prove itself free of prejudice than other countries. The AAUN spokesman says: "When I was in Indonesia, it seemed as if all the laws were aimed at restricting me because I was white," yet little publicity was given to such "legalized" discrimination, • Africans and Asians occa- sionally find "discrimination" where none exists. One such diplomat, holding a dog on._ a leash, was asked to enter through the side of the building because animals were not permitted through the front door. Heprotested and refused to accept the explanation which, in this case, happened to be 'true. • • Language barriers, parti- cularly among many of the Frenchspeaking newly admitted Africian nations, have hampered progress toward better under- standing, Among the aids which the AAUN hopes will reconcile such misunderstandings ' eventually are: U.N. school clubs and as- semblies, invitations to - dele- gates to speak, visit and ex- change everything from philos- ophies to recipes. But even this attempt at un- derstanding has resulted in occa- sional further misunderstand- ings. "People who request speak- ers invariably ask for the head of a delegation and: are disap- pointed and hurt when he is un- available and a lesser known,. though competent, person is sent;" the spokesman said. GETTING TO KNOW THEM: Ghana delegate in nafive dr•ae meet at the U.N. in New York City.