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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-02-01, Page 6This Big Money Seems To Stink Pecturia nen e-lct (money has no smell) is an ancient adage; but as the following account of the troubles in Katanga, appear ing in NEWSWEEIK would seem to show, some kinds of modern money could well stand a deo- dorizing treatment, 5 5 5 At times during the fighting in Katanga last month, it seemed that the line-up was the United Nations vs, the Union Miniere du Haut-Ks'tanga, an enormous min- ing complex that completely dominates the economy of the secessionist Congo province. Fighting swirled around the company's big Lubumbashi cop- per plant, site of what is possibly the tallest smokestack in Africa, Some of Union Miniere's orange - stucco buildings went up in flames, Its cluster of modernis- tic offices in the center of the city were occupied by U N. troops. Its electrolytic copper re- finery near Kolwezi, most mod- ern of its type in the world, was strafed and knocked out of op- eration by a Swedish jet. Air attacks on its fuel dumps and rail lines forced Union Miniere to close mining operations at Kol- wezi and Jadotville, principal pit ,areas in a complex that produces nearly a tenth of the world's copper, almost all of its radium, more than half of its cobalt, and a quarter of its germanium. The company, whose 1961 earnings are expected to pass the $50 mil- lion mark, said it didn't know when it would get back in opera- tion. While Union Miniere appeared a hapless pawn caught in the Congo turmoil, there were critics —including many U,N. officials —who charged that it was actu- ally a sinister behind -the -scenes power operating from a sedate nineteenth-century headquarters near the Palais Royal in Brussels. There, the critics said, the signals were called for Katanga Presi- dent Moise Tshombe's rebellion against the Central Congo Gov- ernment and for the pro-Katanga pressures that erupted in Bri- tain's Parliament. Union Miniere was accused of paying Katanga's white mercenaries, arming its soldiers, supplying military com- munication and transportation systems. Union Miniere categorically denied that it had anythingto da with political manipulations. It supported its arguments with impressive logic, but still some persistent questions remained, Just what has been Union Miniere's role in the Congo? Who shapes its policy? What is its future? Some of the answers are simple; others won't be forth,- corning for a long time, if ever. Financially, Union Miniere is undoubtedly Tshombe's chief bulwark (in fact, helped launch him on his political career). Through taxes, franchise charges, and dividends, it would turn over some $0 million last year to the Katanga Government. That is only slightly less than the total revenues collected by the Congo's five other provinces. It's pretty obvious where the money goes. But as the company president, Herman Robiliart, points out: "Union Miniere is subject to the laws, regulations, and taxes of the authorities in the area in which it operates. It is unfair to base criticism upon or draw in- ferences from this kind of rela- tionship which must prevail with any private company anywhere," But in Elisabethville, a com- pany official admits that "somo of our Belgian workers have sided with Katanga." And when Tshombe declared Katangan in- dependence, Union Miniere offi- cials in the Congo were enthu- siastic, at least in private. In ;tact, there seems to have been a basic split between company of- ficials in Brussels and Elisabeth- • with lisabethwith the latter encouraging e ecession. Thcse Elisabethvllie officials, however, were beginning to look with more favor on a, unified Congo last month, For one thing, some members of the Tshombe ' government were talking about nationalizing Union Miniere, For another, Tshombe seemed to be losing control over fanatical sup- porters who demanded :a scorch- ed -earth .policy. Even if. its plants and mines. were put to the torch, Union Miniere's L2 million shares of stock would still be valuable. No one will speculate on what might happen to the 18 per cent bloc. now held in escrow in Brussels for the Congolese until a stable government takes over, A con- trolling 28 per cent bloo is own- ed by the Societe Generale de Belgique directly and through holdings in the Compagnie du Katanga and Tanganyika Con- cessions, Ltd„ a British financial group. The other 54 per cent, a Societe Generale spokesman said, is owned by 120,000 small inves- tors in Belgium and France, "It's a widows and orphans stock, just like AT&T," he said. Those "widows and orphans," who will collect a 1961 dividend of about $30 a share on a stock which sells for some $220, are in good company. Societe Generale is a holding and investment com- pany which controls corporations with an estimated worth of some- where between $1 billion and $2 billion. Only about 6 per cent of. its holdings are in Katanga. Through interlocking director- ships, its interests in Union Miniere coincide with those of some of the most powerful finan- ciers in Britain and South Africa —men who turned the old Suez, Canal Co, into a successful. in- vestment and holding company after it was nationalized. If need be, similar strategy should work again. Come what may, the in- vestors underscored their faith in the future of Union Miniere last month by bidding up the price of its stock; on,the Brussels exchange. AncientBells Decal r gain ✓ "When will jou pap ane?" Sap the bells of Old Bailey "I'm sure 1 don't know," Says the great bell at Bow. The old English nursery rhyme's great bell, the one which inspired poet -preacher John Don- ne's resounding lines (". . never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee"), rang out for the first time in more than twenty years last month, The historic tones — which have sounded in London since the fif- teenth century—had been miss- ing since World War II when German bombs blitzed St. 'Mary - le -Bow, sending Bow (as the great tenor is known) crashing down with its eleven fellows. Recast from the fragments, 2 1/10 -ton Bow is now back in the belfry with (going up the scale) Cuthbert, Panora s, Timothy, John, Augustine, Faith, Mildred, Margaret, Christopher, Fabian, and Katherine. After the rededication cere- mony, at which the Anglican Bishop of London presided, Prince Philip gave Bow's bell a pull. That was the signal for twelve bell ringers to start the peal. London, and much of England, would hear Bow Bells next on New Year's Eve at a televised watch -night service in St. Mary's. "What could be better for Eng- land," says the rector, the Rev. Joseph McCulloch, "than to ring in the New Year with Bow Bells?" Q. How can I add a better flavor to baked apples? A. A delicious dish to serve with roast pork is baked cran- berry apples. Fill the cavity left in the apple after the core has . been . removed with cranberry sauce, and bake. CYRO-NOSE---Jeffery Hunter acquires an impressive Pinoc- chio-like appearance as he examines a loaf of French bread between scenes of a new picture, now shooting in France. • TABLE TALKS Raw cauliflower has become increasingly popular for salads in the last few years and you'll -find this one unusual and re- freshing, RAW CAULIFLOWER SALAD % cup ground nrit meats' ?5 cup ground raw carrots ,% cup ground raw cauliflower sup groundraw celery 2 teaspoons lemon juice ✓ cup mayonnaise Salt and pepper to taste Iceberg lettuce .cups Cauliflower, florets and shredded carrots for garnish Mix together ground nut meats, carrots, cauliflower, and celery. Add lemon juice. Combine with mayonnaise, salt, and pepper. Chill thoroughly, Spoon into let- tuce cups and garnish with flor- ets and shredded carrots. Serves 6-8. * i 5 If 'you like fresh cranberries in salad, try this recipe that combines apples, celery, and nuts with the ground cranber- ries. JEWEL SALAD 2 cups raw cranberries 3icup sugar 1 tablespoon unflavored gelatin ' 1 cup boiling water 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice cup diced raw apple 4 cup diced celery cup chopped nuts Lettuce Grind cranberries and mix with sugar. Soften gelatin in cold water; add boiling water and stir until dissolved. Add lemon juice and cool, Add cran- berry mixture; when gelatin be- gins to congeal, add apples, cel- ery, and nuts. Pour into mold. Chill. Unmold on crisp lettuce. Serves 6. * Another salad that is seasonal looking is the popular jellied tomato aspic. An easily made aspic — one given zip with a little Worcestershire sauce — follows: JELLIED TOMATO SALAD 2 cups tomato juice 1 small onion 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon sugar 1 tablespoon gelatin 34 cup cold water 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce Cook together the tomato juice, onion, salt, and sugar (boil B1['4G'S BETTER — Actor -singer Bing Crosby and his wife, Kathy, prepare to drive to the airport after Crosby left St, Joseph's Hospital in San Francosco, Bing had entered the hospital 10 hours earlier with what his doctors coiled o case of "stomaui flu." gently for 10 minutes). Mean- while, soak gelatin in cold water. for 5 minutes. Strain hot mix- ' ture, add gelatin and stir until dissolved, Add lemon juice and Worcestershire sauce. Pour into large or individual molds - and place in. refrigerator to harden. Unmold on crisp lettuce. Serve with mayonnaise, * ?VIOLDED BEET SALAD 1 package lemon -flavored gelatin 1 oup hot water Liquid from canned beets plus water to make 1 cup 1 No. 303 can diced bents 3 -tablespoons vinegar 1 tablespoon prepared horse- radish % teaspoon salt 1 cup finely shredded cabbage Dissolve gelatin in hot water; add cold water and beet Iiquid. Chill until syrupy; add remaining ingredients. Pour into individual molds and chill until firm. Un - mold on crisp lettuce leaves. Serves 6. * * PINEAPPLE COLE SLAW with WHOLE CRANBERRY SAUCE - Small Cabbage (1/ -lbs.) 8 tablespoons shredded pine- apple % cup mayonnaise 4 tablespoons whole cranberry sauce 1 stalk celery, chopped 1/2 teaspoon onion, minced ' Salt to taste. Remove outer leaves of cab- bage. Cut into quarters. Let stand in cold water 20 minutes. Cut out some of the center, shred remainder, add celery, onion, pineapple, cranberry sauce, may- onnaise, and salt. If not moist enough, add a little pineapple juice. * * * • GLAZED APPLES 6 rosy apples s/s. cup boiling water 3/a, cup sugar lie teaspoon cinnamon (op- tional) Cream, plain or whipped Wipe apples, core, and remove skin from top, one-third of way down. Place close together in saucepan, peeled side up. Add water end cover closely. Cook - slowly, testing occasionally un- til they are easily pierced with a skewer or toothpick forced in- to center. Put into a baking dish, peeled side up. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and put in a broiling oven or very hot oven (425° •F.) and baste frequently- with requentlywith water in which the apples were cooked until sugar is dis- solved and tops are crisp and delicately brown, Chill and serve with cream. v * * PEANUT BUTTER APPLES Core 1 apple for each serving, place in shallow pan on 8 -inch square of aluminum foil. Put 1 tablespoon chunk -style or creamy peanut butter in apple center. Fill hole with maple syrup, or a pitted date. Bring up foil around apple (to hold in juice and keep skin from breaking) leaving 2 -inch open- ing at top. Bake about 1. hour in 375° F. oven. Q. What can I do when a glass stopper becomes stuck fast in a bottle? A, ,in the first place, don'ttry to force it, Tap it gently with the, stopper out of another bottle, If no other stopper is unstuck for the job, pour a few drops of glycerin around the top of the Antic stopper. It may take a few minutes, hours or days to soak through, — depending upon how badly stuck the stopper is - but eventually it will enable you to Withdraw the stopper with ease, Ancient Art Of Hopi Pottery Castenada, who chronicled de Tovar's visit to the Hopi villages of northern Arizona in 1540, men- tions Hopi farmers but no Hopi arts, The first mention of this Indian tribe's great achievement in pottery making Occurred 42 years later when Espejo and Luzon arrived at Walpi, where "1,000 souls came laden with very fine earthen jars containing water," The art of Hopi pottery mak- ing has flourished and languish- ed by turn%. and the 'greatest practitioner of the art in modern times, Nampeyo, twice exhibited her . work in Chicago and twice on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon at Bright Angel; but she never, more'sthe pity, re- ceived medals from American architectural groups or the French Paimes Academiques, Hopiwomen have always been the accomplished artists of the Pueblo tribes, leaving the farm- ing and the governing, (at least in its outward aspects) to the men,. By reason of their remote- ness from the Rio Grande pueb- los, where Spain strongly influ- enced all the native arts, Hopis have worked more closely with their own ancient designs than have any of the other. Indians, and decidedly to their own bene- fit, Nampeyo's husband, a Tewa of Hano, worked with the J. Walter Fewkes Archaeological Expedi- tion of 1895, which uncovered much undamaged pottery of ex- quisite design, and Nampeyo copied these for a while. But she was too much the original artist not to depart later from the old- er designs, which her own more than equaled. Although most of the eleven Hopi villages made pottery at One time or another in the past, only women of the First Mesa work at it today. The three great Hopi Mesas begin about 100 miles northeast of the San Fran- cisco Mountains and spread along parallel with the valley of the Little Colorado beside the wash- es tributary to it, beginning with Moencopi Wash in the west and ending with Polacca Wash in the east. (The entire Hopi reserva- tion is only a small plot in the center of the vast Navajo lands of Arizona and New Mexico.) Hopis are an old people. They call a village established in 1700 a "new" village, Unlike Euro- peans, who look back on the six- teenth century as something al- most out of time, Hopis are them- selves a sixteenth century people walking about in an anachron- istic twentieth century, writes Frank Daugherty in the Chris- tian Science Monitor. ISSUE 2 — 1962 Pottery making unfortunately is still in thegrip of the core, mercial interests whish have for many years diverted it into a' get, rich -quick manufacture of cheap artieles for tourist trade along the great highway to the south; but the Museum of Northern Ari- zona is doing much to acquaint interested people with the best work of the 1-Iopi potter, They exhibit it each year in Flagstaff in early July and take orders for the potters during the rest of the year. The clay for the vessels is first soaked and kneaded and its large lumps are ' removed. Then long coils of theclay are fashioned and the vessels built up, as it were; layer by layer. Hopis never Use • the conventional potter's wheel. Afterward the vessel is shaped, thinned and the potter works the clay with bits of gourd shell or wood. When it has been polished, white, dark red, and yellow paints are ground in small mortars and applied with yucca brushes, After firing, the vessels have become a golden orange, a a fine whit% or a deep rust red, according to the clay used. De- signs are never drawn out in a preliminary, fashion, but are ap- plied as they occur to the artist, usually determined in some mea- sure by the shape of the vessel —very much as Picasso applies a design to a piece of ceramic, Archaeologists believe Hopis were making and decorating clay vessels before recorded history, but they began to make - the yet-° low clay pottery they make to- day about 1300. A good piece of Hopi pottery has walls of uni- form thinness which will ring when lightly tapped, a superb shape, and inimitable design. How Well Do You Know SOUTH AMERICA? Buzz The Baby More Sleep For Into Dreamland Papa And Mama By ARTHUR AMAN Newspaper Enterprise Association ST, PAUL, Minn. —From the back seat of au automobile and a kitchen workshop comes a story of hope forparents accus- tomed to pacing the floor with a• crying infant. Dr. Robert Horton's electrical invention is about the size of a hamburger bun. With it he hopes to send agitated babies back to the psychological peace of their placed beside his daughter in the crib, the buzzer induced a deep sleep. Horton, an obstetrician and gynecologist, notes that "fussing" in babies usually begins about two weeks after birth. The buz- zer achieves its success because it duplicates the sounds that the baby senses while in its mother's body. Turn on the buzzer and security returns. A battery -powered refinement of the invention (marketed as BABY AND BUZZER: Back to security. pre-birdrk environment. In so do- ing he would give countless ad- ditional hours of sleep time to harried mothers and fathers, The doctor's idea was born in the family auto, He noticed that his youngest daughter usually dropped off to sleep in the back seat. A combination of noise and vibration, he reasoned, promoted her slumber. On the kitchen table he fash- ioned a buzzer device to dupli- cate the auto vibration. "It so(inded awful," the doctor admits, "but it worked." When Slumbertone) is encased in a light plastic case. Its sound - (B flat below middle C) is similar to a telephone dial tone. Tests on 1,000 babies in hospital nurs- eries showed 90 per cent effi- ciency, All of which makes the old story of the sleepless parents even more archaic: Father: I thought you'd never get the baby quiet, How did you do it? Mother:.I rocked him to sleep. Father: What size rock did you use?